Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 96 / Wednesday, May 17, 2000 / Notices 31301

Assessment announced herein will

cover only the initial 153 MW simple

cycle plant and related electric

transmission line as only the 153 MW

unit is being considered for RUS

financial assistance.

The alternative to be considered by

RUS to providing financial assistance to

Arkansas Electric Cooperative

Corporation for the construction of the

153 MW plant would be to take no

action and, therefore, not provide

financial assistance.

Upon completion of the

Environmental Assessment, the

document will be made available for

public review for 30 days. Should RUS

determine that the overall impacts of the

construction and operation of the plant

will not have a significant impact on the

quality of the human environment, it

will prepare and publish a finding of no

significant impact (FONSI).

Availability of the Environmental

Assessment and notification of a FONSI

will be published in the Federal

Register and in newspapers with a

general circulation in the project area.

Any final action by RUS related to the

proposed project will be subject to, and

contingent upon, compliance with

environmental review requirements

prescribed by CEQ and RUS regulations.

Dated: May 11, 2000.

Mark Plank,

Acting Director, Engineering and

Environmental Staff.

[FR Doc. 00–12440 Filed 5–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zone Board

[Docket 19–2000]

Foreign-Trade Zone 165—Midland, TX;

Application for Subzone, Phillips

Petroleum Company (Oil Refinery

Complex), Borger, TX

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the

Board) by the City of Midland, grantee

of FTZ 165, requesting special-purpose

subzone status for the oil refinery

complex of Phillips Petroleum

Company, located in Borger, Texas. The

application was submitted pursuant to

the provisions of the Foreign-Trade

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–

81u), and the regulations of the Board

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed

on May 3, 2000.

The refinery complex (130,000 BPD

capacity, 246 storage tanks with 10.3

million barrel capacity) is located at two

sites in Borger, Texas: Site 1 (6,045

acres)—main refinery complex, located

at Spur 119 North, Borger; Site 2 (585

acres)—crude oil tank farm, located on

Highway 136, Borger, 5 miles north of

the main refinery complex. The refinery

is used to produce fuels, liquid

petroleum gases, and refinery byproducts including gasoline, jet fuel,

aviation gas, distillates, residual fuels,

naphthas, motor fuel blendstocks,

butane, isobutane, butadiene, propane,

benzene, toluene, xylene, acyclic and

cyclic hydrocarbons, hydrogen sulfide,

carbon black oil, petroleum coke,

asphalt and sulfur. Some 10 percent of

the crude oil (60 percent of inputs) is

sourced from abroad. The application

also indicates that the company may in

the future import under FTZ procedures

some naphthas, virgin gas oil, natural

gas condensate and motor fuel

blendstocks.

Zone procedures would exempt the

refinery from Customs duty payments

on the foreign products used in its

exports. On domestic sales, the

company would be able to choose the

Customs duty rates that apply to certain

petrochemical feedstocks and refinery

by-products (duty-free) by admitting

incoming foreign crude in nonprivileged foreign status. The duty rates

on inputs range from 5.25 cents/barrel

to 10.5 cents/barrel. The application

indicates that the savings from zone

procedures would help improve the

refinery’s international competitiveness.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment is invited from

interested parties. Submissions (original

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the

Board’s Executive Secretary at the

address below. The closing period for

their receipt is July 17, 2000. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing may be

submitted during the subsequent 15-day

period to July 31, 2000.

A copy of the application and the

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs

Service, 10801 Airport Blvd.,

Amarillo, TX 79111

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zone Board, Room

4008, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: May 7, 2000.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–12327 Filed 5–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–570–506]

Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware From

the People’s Republic of China:

Rescission of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

SUMMARY: On January 26, 2000, the

Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) initiated an

administrative review of the

antidumping duty order on porcelainon-steel cooking ware from the People’s

Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) for one

manufacturer/exporter of the subject

merchandise, Clover Enamelware

Enterprise, Ltd. of China (‘‘Clover’’), and

its Hong Kong affiliated reseller, Lucky

Enamelware Factory Ltd. (‘‘Lucky’’),

collectively referred to as Clover/Lucky,

for the period December 1, 1998 through

November 30, 1999. The Department is

rescinding this review after receiving a

timely withdrawal from the Petitioner,

Columbian Home Products, of its

request for review.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 17, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Russell Morris, Group II, Office 6,

Import Administration, International

Trade Administration, U.S. Department

of Commerce, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230; telephone (202) 482–1775.

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (‘‘the Act’’), are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (‘‘URAA’’). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department’s regulations are to

the regulations at 19 CFR Part 351

(1999).

Background

On December 30, 1999, Petitioner

requested that the Department conduct

an administrative review of Clover/

Lucky, manufacturer and/or reseller of

the subject merchandise in the PRC for

the period December 1, 1998 through

November 30, 1999. On January 26,

2000, the Department published in the

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Federal Register a notice of initiation of

administrative review with respect to

Clover/Lucky for the period December

1, 1998 through November 30, 1999.

See, Initiation of Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews, 65 FR 4228 (January 26, 2000).

On April 25, 2000, Petitioner requested

that it be allowed to withdraw its

request for a review and that the review

be terminated.

Rescission of Review

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the

Department will rescind an

administrative review if a party that

requested the review withdraws the

request within 90 days of the date of

publication of the notice of initiation of

the requested review. Because the

Petitioner’s request for termination was

submitted within the 90-day time limit,

and there were no requests for review

from other interested parties, we are

rescinding this review. We will issue

appropriate appraisement instructions

directly to the U.S. Customs Service.

This notice is in accordance with

section 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR

351.213(d)(4).

Dated: May 8, 2000.

Holly A. Kuga,

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import

Administration, Group II.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–533–808]

Stainless Steel Wire Rod From India;

Final Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

antidumping duty administrative review

of stainless steel wire rod from India.

SUMMARY: On January 11, 2000, the

Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) published in the Federal

Register the preliminary results and

partial rescission of its administrative

review of the antidumping duty order

on stainless steel wire rod from India

(65 FR 1597). This review covers Viraj

Group Ltd., (‘‘Viraj’’), a manufacturer

and exporter of subject merchandise to

the United States. The period of review

is December 1, 1997 through November

30, 1998.

Based on our analysis of the

comments received, we have changed

our results from the preliminary results

of review. The final weighted-average

dumping margin for the reviewed firm

is listed below in the section entitled

‘‘Final Results of the Review.’’

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 17, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Stephen Bailey, Laurel LaCivita or Rick

Johnson, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone:

(202) 482–0414, (202) 482–4243 or (202)

482–3818, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (‘‘the Act’’), are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of the amendments

made to the Act by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (‘‘URAA’’). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department’s regulations are to 19

CFR Part 351 (1998).

Background

On January 11, 2000, the Department

published in the Federal Register (65

FR 1597) the preliminary results and

partial rescission of its administrative

review of the antidumping duty order

on stainless steel wire rod from India

(‘‘Preliminary Results’’). As we stated in

that notice, this review was rescinded

with respect to Mukand, Ltd. and

Panchmahal Steel Ltd., pursuant to

timely requests for withdrawal of their

review requests. We invited parties to

comment on our preliminary results of

review.

We have now completed the

administrative review in accordance

with section 751 of the Act.

Scope of the Review

The product covered by this review is

stainless steel wire rod from India. This

merchandise is classifiable under

Harmonized Tariff Schedule (‘‘HTS’’)

subheadings 7221.00.0005,

7221.00.0015, 7221.00.0020,

7221.00.0030, 7221.00.0040,

7221.00.045, 7221.00.0060,

7221.00.0075, and 7221.00.0080.

Although the HTS subheadings are

provided for convenience and for U.S.

Customs purposes, the written

description of the scope of this finding

remains dispositive.

Analysis of Comments Received

All issues raised in the case and

rebuttal briefs by parties to this

administrative review are addressed in

the ‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum’’

(‘‘Decision Memorandum’’) from Joseph

A. Spetrini, Deputy Assistant Secretary,

Import Administration, to Troy H.

Cribb, Acting Assistant Secretary for

Import Administration, dated May, 10,

2000, which is hereby adopted in this

notice. A list of the issues which parties

have raised and to which we have

responded, all of which are in the

Decision Memorandum, is attached to

this notice as an Appendix. Parties can

find a complete discussion of all issues

raised in this review and the

corresponding recommendations in this

public memorandum which is on file in

the Central Records Unit, Room B–099

of the main Department building. In

addition, a complete version of the

Decision Memorandum can be accessed

directly on the Web at www.ita.doc.gov/

import—admin/records/frn. The paper

copy and electronic version of the

Decision Memorandum are identical in

content.

Changes Since the Preliminary Results

Based on our analysis of comments

received, we have changed our results

from the preliminary results of review.

For the final results of review, Viraj’s

duty drawback claims have not been

allowed.

Final Results of Review

We determine that the following

percentage margin exists for the period

December 1, 1997, through November

30, 1998:

Manufacturer/exporter/reseller Margin

(percent)

Viraj Impoexpo, Ltd .................. 11.88

The Department shall determine, and

Customs shall assess, antidumping

duties on all appropriate entries. The

Department will issue appraisement

instructions directly to the Customs

Service. In accordance with 19 CFR

351.212(b), we have calculated exporter/

importer-specific assessment rates. We

divided the total dumping margins for

the reviewed sales by the entered

quantity of those reviewed sales for

Viraj. We will direct Customs to assess

the resulting unit margins against the

entered quantity for the subject

merchandise on each of Viraj’s entries

during the review period.

Cash Deposit Requirements

The following deposit requirements

will be effective upon publication of

this notice of final results of

administrative review for all shipments

of stainless steel wire rod from India

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse,

for consumption on or after the date of