65652 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 184 / Monday, September 25, 2023 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

Notice of Intent To Reinstate a 

Previously Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the intention of the 

National Agricultural Statistics Service 

(NASS) to request the reinstatement, 

with changes, to a previously approved 

information collection, the Conservation 

Effects Assessment Project (CEAP) 

Survey. Revision to burden hours will 

be needed due to changes in the size of 

the target, sampling design, and/or 

questionnaire length. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by November 24, 2023 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number 0535–0245, 

Conservation Effects Assessment Project 

(CEAP) Survey, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email: ombofficer@nass.usda.gov. 

Include docket number above in the 

subject line of the message. 

• Fax: (855) 838–6382. 

• Mail: Mail any paper, disk, or CD– 

ROM submissions to: Richard Hopper, 

NASS Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Room 5336 

South Building, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250– 

2024. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand 

deliver to: Richard Hopper, NASS 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Room 5336 South Building, 

1400 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20250–2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin L. Barnes, Associate 

Administrator, National Agricultural 

Statistics Service, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, (202) 720–4333. Copies of 

this information collection and related 

instructions can be obtained without 

charge from Richard Hopper, NASS 

Clearance Officer, at (202) 720–2206. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Conservation Effects 

Assessment Project (CEAP) Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0535–0245. 

Type of Request: Statement to seek 

reinstatement of an information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Conservation Effects 

Assessment Project (CEAP) was initiated 

by the United States Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) in 2003 as a multiagency effort to quantify the 

environmental effects of conservation 

practices on agricultural lands. As part 

of this assessment, the National 

Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) 

conducted on-site interviews with 

farmers during 2003–2006 to document 

tillage and irrigation practices, 

application of fertilizer, manure, and 

pesticides, and use of conservation 

practices at sample points drawn from 

the Natural Resources Inventory (NRI) 

sampling frame. These data were linked 

through the NRI frame to the Natural 

Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) 

soil, climate, and historical survey 

databases. The combined information 

was used to model the impact on soil 

and water resources and to estimate the 

benefits of conservation practices, 

including nutrient, sediment, and 

pesticide losses from farm fields, 

reductions of in-stream nutrient and 

sediment concentrations, and impacts 

on soil quality and erosion. 

USDA needs updated scientifically 

credible data on residue and tillage 

management, nutrient management, and 

conservation practices in order to 

quantify and assess current impacts of 

farming practices and to document 

changes. A pilot survey focused in the 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed was 

conducted for the 2011 crop year. In 

2012 the target area was the Western 

Lake Erie Basin and the Des Moines 

River Watershed. In 2013 the target area 

was the Sacramento River, San Joaquin 

and Tulare Lake basin watersheds. This 

group of surveys is referred to as the 

‘‘NRI Conservation Tillage and Nutrient 

Management Survey’’ (NRI–CTNMS). 

The survey questionnaires are modeled 

after the 2003–2006 CEAP surveys and 

were administered through personal 

interviews of farm operators by trained 

National Association of State 

Departments of Agriculture (NASDA) 

enumerators. Under the current 

approval the sample sizes averaged less 

than 2,500 operators per year. In 2014 

NASS was conducting the survey in the 

St. Francis River Basin (Arkansas, 

Missouri and Mississippi). In 2015 and 

2016 the CEAP program was expanded 

to the US level. The target sample size 

for this approval will be approximately 

20,000 farm operators each year. 

The data that is collected by the CEAP 

surveys, provide conservation tillage 

estimates and is used to model impacts 

of conservation practices on the larger 

environment. The summarized results of 

the survey are available in a web-based 

format to agricultural producers and 

professionals, government officials, and 

the general public. 

Authority: The Natural Resources 

Conservation Service’s (NRCS’s) 

participation in this agreement is 

authorized under the Soil and Water 

Resources Conservation Act of 1977, 16 

U.S.C. 2001–2009, as amended, 

Economy Act U.S.C. 1535. NRCS 

contracted with NASS to collect and 

compile this data for them. These data 

will be collected under the authority of 

7 U.S.C. 2204(a). Individually 

identifiable data collected under this 

authority are governed by section 1770 

of the Food Security Act of 1985 as 

amended, 7 U.S.C. 2276, which requires 

USDA to afford strict confidentiality to 

non-aggregated data provided by 

respondents. This notice is submitted in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 

13 (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) and Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

regulations at 5 CFR part 1320. 

All NASS employees and NASS 

contractors must also fully comply with 

all provisions of the Confidential 

Information Protection and Statistical 

Efficiency Act (CIPSEA) of 2018, title III 

of Public Law 115–435, codified in 44 

U.S.C. ch. 35. CIPSEA supports NASS’s 

pledge of confidentiality to all 

respondents and facilitates the agency’s 

efforts to reduce burden by supporting 

statistical activities of collaborative 

agencies through designation of NASS 

agents, subject to the limitations and 

penalties described in CIPSEA. NASS 

uses the information only for statistical 

purposes and publishes only tabulated 

total data. 

Estimate of Burden: Burden will be 

approximately 10 minutes for a first 

visit to verify the operator of the NRI 

point. The operators who did not screen 

out during the initial visit will be 

contacted at a later time to complete the 

survey. The second visit will take an 

estimated 60 minutes to complete the 

interview. (It may be possible to 

complete both during the same visit). 

Respondents: Farmers and ranchers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

20,000 annually. 

Frequency of Responses: Potentially, 2 

times for each respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

13,080 hours (based on an overall 

response rate of approximately 80%). 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(a) whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 


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1See Forged Steel Fittings from India and the 

Republic of Korea: Antidumping Duty Orders, 85 FR 

80014 (December 11, 2020) (Order); see also Forged 

Steel Fittings from India and the Republic of Korea: 

Notice of Correction to the Antidumping Duty and 

Countervailing Duty Orders, 85 FR 81876 

(December 17 2020). 

2See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

7060 (February 2, 2023) (Initiation Notice). 

3See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of the Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review; 2021–2022: Forged Steel 

Fittings from the Republic of Korea,’’ dated 

concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this 

notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). 

4See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

5See 19 CFR 351.309(c). 

6See 19 CFR 351.309(c); see also Temporary Rule 

Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due to 

COVID–19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 

41363 (July 10, 2020) (Temporary Rule). 

7See 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and (d)(2). 

8See 19 CFR 351.303. 

9See Temporary Rule. 

10See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

11See 19 CFR 351.310(d). 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, through 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, technological or 

other forms of information technology 

collection methods. 

All responses to this notice will 

become a matter of public record and be 

summarized in the request for OMB 

approval. 

Signed at Washington, DC, September 7, 

2023. 

Kevin L. Barnes, 

Associate Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20578 Filed 9–22–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–20–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–580–904] 

Forged Steel Fittings From the 

Republic of Korea: Preliminary Results 

of Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that the sole producer/ 

exporter subject to this administrative 

review made sales of subject 

merchandise at less than normal value 

(NV) during the period of review (POR) 

December 1, 2021, through November 

30, 2022. Interested parties are invited 

to comment on these preliminary 

results. 

DATES: Applicable September 25, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel Alexander, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–4313. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 11, 2020, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

antidumping duty order on forged steel 

fittings from the Republic of Korea 

(Korea).1 On February 2, 2023, based on 

a timely request for review, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i), we initiated an 

administrative review of the Order.2

This review covers one producer/ 

exporter of the subject merchandise, 

Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd. (Samyoung). 

For a detailed description of the events 

that followed the initiation of this 

review, see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.3

Scope of the Order 

The product covered by the Order is 

carbon and alloy forged steel fittings, 

whether unfinished (commonly known 

as blanks or rough forgings) or finished. 

Such fittings are made in a variety of 

shapes including, but not limited to, 

elbows, tees, crosses, laterals, couplings, 

reducers, caps, plugs, bushings, unions 

(including hammer unions), and outlets. 

Forged steel fittings are covered 

regardless of end finish, whether 

threaded, socket-weld or other end 

connections. For a complete description 

of the scope of the Order, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Methodology 

Commerce is conducting this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). Export 

price and constructed export price are 

calculated in accordance with section 

772 of the Act. NV is calculated in 

accordance with section 773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is attached as an 

appendix to this notice. The Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

via Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Preliminary Results of Review 

As a result of this review, we 

preliminarily determine that the 

following estimated weighted average 

dumping margin exists for Samyoung 

for the POR: 

Exporter/producer 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Samyoung Fitting Co., Ltd .... 2.67 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

Commerce intends to disclose the 

calculations performed in connection 

with these preliminary results to 

interested parties within five days after 

the date of publication of this notice.4

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to Commerce no later 

than 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.5 Rebuttal 

briefs, limited to issues raised in the 

case briefs, may be filed no later than 

seven days after the time limit for filing 

case briefs.6 Parties who submit case 

briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding are encouraged to submit 

with each argument: (1) a statement of 

the issue; (2) a brief summary of the 

argument; and (3) a table of authorities.7

Case and rebuttal briefs should be filed 

using ACCESS.8 Note that Commerce 

has temporarily modified certain of its 

requirements for serving documents 

containing business proprietary 

information, until further notice.9

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing must submit a written request to 

the Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, filed electronically via 

ACCESS within 30 days after the date of 

publication of this notice.10 Hearing 

requests should contain: (1) the party’s 

name, address, and telephone number; 

(2) the number of participants; and (3) 

a list of issues to be discussed. Issues 

raised in the hearing will be limited to 

issues raised in the briefs. If a request 

for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at a date and 

time to be determined.11 Parties should 

confirm by telephone the date and time 

of the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. An electronically filed 

document must be received successfully 

in its entirety by ACCESS by 5:00 p.m. 


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