Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 99 / Monday, May 22, 2000 / Notices 32075

Dated: May 16, 2000.

Michael D. Hupp,

Acting Designated Federal Official.

[FR Doc. 00–12738 Filed 5–19–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation

Service

Notice of Proposed Change to Section

IV of the Field Office Technical Guide

(FOTG) of the Natural Resources

Conservation Service in Tennessee

AGENCY: Natural Resources

Conservation Service (NRCS) in

Tennessee, U.S. Department of

Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of

proposed changes in Section IV of the

FOTG of the NRCS in Tennessee for

review and comment.

SUMMARY: It is the intention of NRCS in

Tennessee to issue a revised

conservation practice standard, Filter

Strip (Code 393), in Section IV of the

FOTG.

DATES: Comments will be received on or

before June 21, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Inquire in writing to James W. Ford,

State Conservationist, Natural Resources

Conservation Service (NRCS), 675 U.S.

Courthouse, 801 Broadway, Nashville,

Tennessee 37203. Copies of the practice

standards will be made available upon

written request.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

343 of the Federal Agriculture

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

states that revisions made after

enactment of the law to NRCS state

technical guides used to perform highly

erodible land and wetland provisions of

the law shall be made available for

public review and comment. For the

next 30 days, the NRCS in Tennessee

will receive comments relative to the

proposed changes. Following that

period, a determination will be made by

the NRCS in Tennessee regarding

disposition of those comments and a

final determination of change will be

made.

Dated: May 10, 2000.

James W. Ford,

State Conservationist, Natural Resources

Conservation Service, Nashville, Tennessee.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

North American Free-Trade

Agreement, Article 1904 NAFTA Panel

Reviews; Request for Panel Review

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United

States Section, International Trade

Administration, Department of

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of first request for panel

review.

SUMMARY: On May 12, 2000, Nycomed

Amersham Canada Limited filed a First

Request for Panel Review with the

Canadian Section of the NAFTA

Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of

the North American Free Trade

Agreement. A second request was filed

by Bracco Diagnostics Inc. and Bracco

Diagnostics Canada Inc. Panel review

was requested of the final determination

made by the Canada Customs and

Revenue Agency, respecting Certain

Contrast Media Used for Radiographic

Imaging, Originating in or Exported

from the United States of America

(Including Puerto Rico). This

determination was published in the

Canada Gazette, Part I, (Vol. 134, No.

16) on April 15, 2000. The NAFTA

Secretariat has assigned Case Number

CDA-USA-00–1904–01 to this request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Caratina L. Alston, United States

Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite

2061, 14th and Constitution Avenue

NW, Washington, DC 20230, (202) 482–

5438.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter

19 of the North American Free-Trade

Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’) establishes a

mechanism to replace domestic judicial

review of final determinations in

antidumping and countervailing duty

cases involving imports from a NAFTA

country with review by independent

binational panels. When a Request for

Panel Review is filed, a panel is

established to act in place of national

courts to review expeditiously the final

determination to determine whether it

conforms with the antidumping or

countervailing duty law of the country

that made the determination.

Under Article 1904 of the Agreement,

which came into force on January 1,

1994, the Government of the United

States, the Government of Canada and

the Government of Mexico established

Rules of Procedure for Article 1904

Binational Panel Reviews (‘‘Rules’’).

These Rules were published in the

Federal Register on February 23, 1994

(59 FR 8686).

A first Request for Panel Review was

filed with the Canadian Section of the

NAFTA Secretariat, pursuant to Article

1904 of the Agreement, on May 12,

2000, requesting panel review of the

final determination described above.

The Rules provide that:

(a) A Party or interested person may

challenge the final determination in

whole or in part by filing a Complaint

in accordance with Rule 39 within 30

days after the filing of the first Request

for Panel Review (the deadline for filing

a Complaint is June 12, 2000);

(b) A Party, investigating authority or

interested person that does not file a

Complaint but that intends to appear in

support of any reviewable portion of the

final determination may participate in

the panel review by filing a Notice of

Appearance in accordance with Rule 40

within 45 days after the filing of the first

Request for Panel Review (the deadline

for filing a Notice of Appearance is June

26, 2000); and

(c) The panel review shall be limited

to the allegations of error of fact or law,

including the jurisdiction of the

investigating authority, that are set out

in the Complaints filed in the panel

review and the procedural and

substantive defenses raised in the panel

review.

Dated: May 15, 2000.

Caratina L. Alston,

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

North American Free-Trade

Agreement, Article 1904, NAFTA Panel

Reviews; Request for Panel Review

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United

States Section, International Trade

Administration, Department of

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of First Request for Panel

Review.

SUMMARY: On May 4, 2000, Agromex

Fertilizantes, S.A. de C.V. filed a First

Request for Panel Review with the

Mexican Section of the NAFTA

Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of

the North American Free Trade

Agreement. Panel review was requested

of the final antidumping investigation

determination made by the Secretaria de

Comercio y Fomento Induustrial,

respecting Urea, Originating in the

United States of America and the

Russian Federation. This determination

was published in the Diario Official, on