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resources to carry out the submitted 

plan. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 3 hours per 

response. 

Description of Respondents: 

Businesses or other for profit 

individuals. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

75. 

Frequency of Responses: One time per 

invention. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 225 hours. 

This data will be collected under the 

authority of 44 U.S.C.3506(c)(2)(A). 

Copies of this information collection 

and related instructions can be obtained 

without charge from June Blalock, 

USDA, ARS, Office of Technology 

Transfer by calling 301–504–5989. 

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, 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, such as 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques. Comments may be sent to 

USDA, ARS, Office of Technology 

Transfer, 5601 Sunnyside Avenue, 

Room 4–1174, Beltsville, Maryland 

20705–5131. All responses to this notice 

will be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will also become a matter of 

public record. 

Richard J. Brenner, 

Assistant Administrator. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. 01–009–9] 

Wildlife Services; Availability of a 

Supplemental Decision/Finding of No 

Significant Impact for Oral Rabies 

Vaccine Program 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we have prepared a proposed 

decision/finding of no significant 

impact relative to oral rabies 

vaccination programs in several States. 

Since the publication of our original 

environmental assessment and decision/ 

finding of no significant impact in 2001, 

we have prepared, and made available 

to the public for comment, several 

supplemental environmental 

assessments and decisions/findings of 

no significant impact in order to reflect 

changes in the program. The decision/ 

finding of no significant impact made 

available by this notice clarifies the term 

‘‘contingency actions,’’ which was used 

in a supplemental environmental 

assessment we prepared in 2004, and 

analyzes a type of contingency action 

called trap-vaccinate-release that was 

not analyzed as part of the proposed 

action in the 2004 supplemental 

environmental assessment. The new 

decision/finding of no significant 

impact is intended to facilitate planning 

and interagency coordination in the 

event of rabies outbreaks and to clearly 

communicate to the public the actions 

involved in the oral rabies vaccination 

program. 

DATES: We will consider all comments 

that we receive on or before May 29, 

2007. Unless we determine that new 

substantial issues bearing on the 

conduct of the oral rabies vaccine 

programs have been raised by public 

comments on this notice, the proposed 

decision/finding of no significant 

impact will become final and take effect 

upon the close of the comment period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, select 

‘‘Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service’’ from the agency drop-down 

menu, then click ‘‘Submit.’’ In the 

Docket ID column, select APHIS–2007–

0055 to submit or view public 

comments and to view supporting and 

related materials available 

electronically. After the close of the 

comment period, the docket can be 

viewed using the ‘‘Advanced Search’’

function in Regulations.gov. 

• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: 

Please send four copies of your 

comment (an original and three copies) 

to Docket No. 01–009–9, Regulatory 

Analysis and Development, PPD, 

APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 River 

Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–

1238. Please state that your comment 

refers to Docket No. 01–009–9. 

Reading Room: You may read any 

comments that we receive on this 

docket in our reading room. The reading 

room is located in room 1141 of the 

USDA South Building, 14th Street and 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC. Normal reading room 

hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. To be 

sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 690–2817 before 

coming. 

Other Information: Additional 

information about APHIS and its 

programs is available on the Internet at 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Dennis Slate, Rabies Program 

Coordinator, Wildlife Services, APHIS, 

59 Chenell Drive, Suite 2, Concord, NH 

03301; (603) 223–9623. To obtain copies 

of the documents discussed in this 

notice, contact Tara Wilcox, Operational 

Support Staff, WS, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road Unit 87, Riverdale, MD 20737–

1234; phone (301) 734–7921, fax 

(301)734–5157, or e-mail: 

Tara.C.Wilcox@aphis.usda.gov. This 

notice and the proposed decision/ 

finding of no significant impact are also 

posted on the APHIS Web site at 

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ 

wildlife_damage/nepa.shtml. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Wildlife Services (WS) program 

in the Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service (APHIS) cooperates 

with Federal agencies, State and local 

governments, and private individuals to 

research and implement the best 

methods of managing conflicts between 

wildlife and human health and safety, 

agriculture, property, and natural 

resources. Wildlife-borne diseases that 

can affect domestic animals and humans 

are among the types of conflicts that 

APHIS–WS addresses. Wildlife is the 

dominant reservoir of rabies in the 

United States. 

On December 7, 2000, a notice was 

published in the Federal Register (65 

FR 76606–76607, Docket No. 00–045–1) 

in which the Secretary of Agriculture 

declared an emergency and transferred 

funds from the Commodity Credit 

Corporation to APHIS–WS for the 

continuation and expansion of oral 

rabies vaccination (ORV) programs to 

address rabies in the States of Ohio, 

New York, Vermont, Texas, and West 

Virginia. 

On March 7, 2001, we published a 

notice in the Federal Register (66 FR 

13697–13700, Docket No. 01–009–1) to 

solicit public involvement in the 

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program to stop the spread of rabies in 

the States of New York, Ohio, Texas, 

Vermont, and West Virginia. The notice 

also stated that a small portion of 

northeastern New Hampshire and the 

western counties in Pennsylvania that 

border Ohio could also be included in 

these control efforts, and discussed the 

possibility of APHIS–WS cooperating in 

smaller-scale ORV projects in the States 

of Florida, Massachusetts, Maryland, 

New Jersey, Virginia, and Alabama. The 

March 2001 notice contained detailed 

information about the history of the 

problems with raccoon rabies in eastern 

States and with gray fox and coyote 

rabies in Texas, along with information 

about previous and ongoing efforts 

using ORV baits in programs to prevent 

the spread of the rabies variants or 

‘‘strains’’ of concern. 

Subsequently, on May 17, 2001, we 

published in the Federal Register (66 

FR 27489, Docket No. 01–009–2) a 

notice in which we announced the 

availability, for public review and 

comment, of an environmental 

assessment (EA) that examined the 

potential environmental effects of the 

ORV programs described in our March 

2001 notice. We solicited comments on 

the EA for 30 days ending on June 18, 

2001. We received one comment by that 

date. The comment was from an animal 

protection organization and supported 

APHIS’ efforts toward limiting or 

eradicating rabies in wildlife 

populations. The commenter did not, 

however, support the use of lethal 

monitoring methods or local 

depopulation as part of an ORV 

program. 

On August 30, 2001, we published a 

notice in the Federal Register (66 FR 

45835–45836, Docket No. 01–009–3) in 

which we advised the public of APHIS’

decision and finding of no significant 

impact (FONSI) regarding the use of oral 

vaccination to control specific rabies 

virus strains in raccoons, gray foxes, and 

coyotes in the United States. That 

decision allows APHIS–WS to purchase 

and distribute ORV baits, monitor the 

effectiveness of the ORV programs, and 

participate in implementing 

contingency plans that may involve the 

reduction of a limited number of local 

target species populations through 

lethal means (i.e., the preferred 

alternative identified in the EA). The 

decision was based upon the final EA, 

which reflected our review and 

consideration of the comments received 

from the public in response to our 

March 2001 and May 2001 notices and 

information gathered during planning/ 

scoping meetings with State health 

departments, other State and local 

agencies, the Ontario Ministry of 

Natural Resources, and the Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention. 

Following the August 2001 

publication of our original decision/ 

FONSI, we determined there was a need 

to expand the ORV programs to include 

the States of Kentucky and Tennessee to 

effectively stop the westward spread of 

raccoon rabies. Accordingly, we 

prepared a supplemental decision/ 

FONSI to document the potential effects 

of expanding the programs. We 

published a notice announcing the 

availability of the supplemental 

decision/FONSI in the Federal Register 

on July 5, 2002 (67 FR 44797–44798, 

Docket No. 01–009–4). 

Following the publication of the 

supplemental decision/FONSI in July 

2002, we determined the need to further 

expand the ORV program to include the 

States of Georgia and Maine to 

effectively prevent the westward and 

northward spread of the rabies virus 

across the United States and into 

Canada. To facilitate planning, 

interagency coordination, and program 

management and to provide the public 

with our analysis of potential individual 

and cumulative impacts of the 

expanded ORV programs, we prepared a 

supplemental EA that addresses the 

inclusion of Georgia and Maine, as well 

as the 2002 inclusion of Kentucky and 

Tennessee, in the ORV program. In 

addition, we prepared a new decision/ 

FONSI based on the supplemental EA 

that was published in the Federal 

Register on June 30, 2003 (68 FR 38669–

38670, Docket No. 01–009–5). 

Following publication of the 2003 

supplemental EA and decision/FONSI, 

we determined the need to further 

expand the ORV program to include 

portions of National Forest System 

lands, excluding Wilderness Areas, 

within several eastern States. The 

National Forest System lands where 

APHIS–WS involvement could be 

expanded included the States of Maine, 

New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, 

Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, West 

Virginia, Tennessee, Kentucky, 

Alabama, Georgia, Florida, North 

Carolina, South Carolina, 

Massachusetts, Maryland, and New 

Jersey. Cooperative rabies surveillance 

activities and/or baiting programs were 

already being conducted on various 

land classes, with the exception of 

National Forest System lands, in many 

of the aforementioned States. The 

programs’ primary goals were to stop 

the spread of a specific raccoon rabies 

variant or ‘‘strain’’ of the rabies virus. If 

not stopped, this strain could 

potentially spread to much broader 

areas of the United States and Canada 

and cause substantial increases in 

public and domestic animal health costs 

because of increased rabies exposures. 

As numerous National Forest System 

lands are located within current and 

potential ORV barrier zones, it became 

increasingly important to bait these 

large land masses to effectively combat 

this strain of the rabies virus. In 

addition, we prepared a new decision/ 

FONSI based on the supplemental EA 

that was published in the Federal 

Register on February 20, 2004 (69 FR 

7904–7905, Docket No. 01–009–6). 

Following the 2004 supplemental EA 

and decision/FONSI for expansion of 

the ORV program to include portions of 

National Forest System lands, we 

determined the need to further expand 

the ORV program to include 25 eastern 

States (Maine, New York, Vermont, New 

Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, 

Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, 

Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, 

North Carolina, South Carolina, 

Massachusetts, Maryland, Connecticut, 

Rhode Island, Delaware, Indiana, 

Michigan, Mississippi, Louisiana and 

New Jersey), the District of Columbia, 

and Texas to effectively prevent the 

westward and northward spread of the 

rabies virus across the United States and 

into Canada. In addition, we prepared a 

new decision/FONSI based on the 

supplemental EA that was published in 

the Federal Register on September 23, 

2004 (69 FR 56992–56993, Docket No. 

01–009–7). 

Following the 2004 supplemental EA 

and decision/FONSI, we determined the 

need to expand the ORV program to 

include portions of National Forest 

System lands, excluding Wilderness 

Areas, within the same 25 eastern States 

and the District of Columbia. As 

numerous National Forest System lands 

are located within current and potential 

ORV barrier zones, it had become 

increasingly important to bait these 

large land masses to effectively combat 

this strain of the rabies virus. 

Accordingly, we prepared a 

supplemental EA and decision/FONSI 

that served to update program needs 

and evaluate current data. Those 

documents were made available through 

a notice published in the Federal 

Register on December 8, 2005 (70 FR 

72977–72978, Docket No. 01–009–8). 

The purpose of the new 2007 

decision/FONSI that we are making 

available through this notice is to clarify 

the term ‘‘contingency actions,’’ which 

is used in the 2004 supplemental EA. 

Clarification should facilitate planning 

and interagency coordination in the 

event of rabies outbreaks and clearly 

communicate to the public the actions 

involved in the ORV program. In 

addition, a type of contingency action 


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called trap-vaccinate-release (TVR) is 

analyzed in the 2007 decision 

document, as it was not analyzed as part 

of the proposed action in the 2004 

supplemental EA. Analysis of TVR in 

the 2007 decision document does not 

involve any substantially new 

information and does not raise or create 

any new substantive issues or 

circumstances, thus APHIS–WS has 

determined that there is no need to 

supplement the 2004 EA with that 

analysis. The new 2007 decision/FONSI 

will serve to update and replace the 

previous decision/FONSI, dated 

September 9, 2004, for the 2004 

supplemental EA. 

The proposed decision/FONSI that is 

the subject of this notice, as well as the 

documents cited above that preceded it, 

have been prepared in accordance with: 

(1) The National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

for implementing the procedural 

provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–

1508), (3) USDA regulations 

implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1), and 

(4) APHIS’s NEPA Implementing 

Procedures (7 CFR part 372). 

The decision/FONSI may be viewed 

on the Regulations.gov Web site or in 

our reading room. (Instructions for 

accessing Regulations.gov and 

information on the location and hours of 

the reading room are provided under the 

heading ADDRESSES at the beginning of 

this notice.) In addition, copies may be 

obtained by calling or writing to the 

individual listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 23rd day of 

April 2007. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–8091 Filed 4–26–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Reviews 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) has received requests 

to conduct administrative reviews of 

various antidumping and countervailing 

duty orders and findings with March 

anniversary dates. In accordance with 

the Department’s regulations, we are 

initiating those administrative reviews. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 27, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sheila E. Forbes, Office of AD/CVD 

Operations, Customs Unit, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20230, 

telephone: (202) 482–4697. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department has received timely 

requests, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(b)(2004), for administrative 

reviews of various antidumping and 

countervailing duty orders and findings 

with March anniversary dates. 

Initiation of Reviews: 

In accordance with section 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i), we are initiating 

administrative reviews of the following 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

orders and findings. We intend to issue 

the final results of these reviews not 

later than March 31, 2008. 

Antidumping Duty Proceedings Period to be Reviewed 

BRAZIL: Certain Hot–Rolled Carbon Steel Flat Products.

A–351–828 ................................................................................................................................................................. 3/1/06 - 2/28/07 

Companhia Siderurgica Nacional.

Companhia Siderurgica de Tubarao.

BRAZIL: Certain Orange Juice.

A–351–840 ................................................................................................................................................................. 8/24/05 - 2/28/07 

Coinbra–Frutesp S.A..

Fischer S/A Agroindustria.

Sucocitrico Cutrale Ltda..

FRANCE: Stainless Steel Bar.

A–427–820 ................................................................................................................................................................. 3/1/06 - 2/28/07 

Ascometal S.A..

UGITECH S.A..

GERMANY: Stainless Steel Bar.

A–428–830 ................................................................................................................................................................. 3/1/06 - 2/28/07 

BGH Edelstahl Freital.

GmbH/BGH Edelstahl Lippendorf GmbH/BGH Edelstahl Lugau GmbH/BGH Edelstahl Siegen 

GmbH.

Schmiedewerke Groditz GmbH.

ITALY: Stainless Steel Bar.

A–475–829 ................................................................................................................................................................. 3/1/06 - 2/28/07 

Acciaierie Valbruna S.p.A..

REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Certain Cut–to-Length Carbon Steel Plate1.

A–580–836 ................................................................................................................................................................. 2/1/06 - 1/31/07 

TC Steel.

DSEC, a subsidiary of Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering.

THAILAND: Circular Welded Carbon Steel Pipes and Tubes.

A–549–502 ................................................................................................................................................................. 3/1/06 - 2/28/07 

Saha Thai Steel Pipe Company, Ltd..

THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: Certain Tissue Paper Products2.

A–570–894 ................................................................................................................................................................. 3/1/06 - 2/28/07 

Foshan Sansico Co., Ltd..

Guangzhou Baxi Printing Products Limited.

Guilin Qifeng Paper Co., Ltd..

Guilin Samsam Paper Products Ltd..

Max Fortune Industrial Limited/Max Fortune (FETDE) Paper Products Co., Ltd..

PT Grafitecindo Ciptaprima.


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