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(g) For the purposes of the above

Export Trade Activities and Methods of

Operation, all references to ‘‘years of

operation’’ shall mean years beginning

on the date the first tranche opens, and

ending on the day before the

anniversary of that date.

Definitions

‘‘Member’’ means a member of RMA

who has been certified as a ‘‘Member’’

within the meaning of Section 325.1(l)

of the Regulations and as listed in

Attachment I. Members must sign the

Operating Agreement of the RMA/ETCR

in order to participate in the certified

activities. Any U.S. company that has

been actively engaged in the exportation

of rice from the United States in each of

the past two calendar years, and that

wishes to participate in the activities

covered by this certificate, may join

RMA’s membership by executing the

Operating Agreement, paying a nonrefundable membership fee of $3,000

per calendar year, and requesting that

RMA file for an amending certificate.

Membership will remain open until

December 31, 1997, and thereafter, shall

be open to qualified companies during

specified months in the year. Any RMA

member that is not a listed Member may

join RMA’s export trade certificate of

review by requesting that RMA file for

an amended certificate. All of the rights

of Members would become effective as

of the date of approval of their

Membership by the Department of

Commerce. A Member may withdraw

from coverage under this certificate at

any time by giving written notice to

RMA, a copy of which RMA will

promptly transmit to the Secretary of

Commerce and the Attorney General.

Dated: August 4, 1997.

W. Dawn Busby,

Director, Office of Export Trading Company

Affairs.

[FR Doc. 97–20929 Filed 8–7–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–F

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration,

Commerce

Export Trade Certificate of Review

ACTION: Notice of Issuance of an

Amended Export Trade Certificate of

Review, Application No. 89–3A010.

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce

has issued an amendment to the Export

Trade Certificate of Review granted to

the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration

Institute (‘‘ARI’’) on May 10, 1991.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: W.

Dawn Busby, Director, Office of Export

Trading Company Affairs, International

Trade Administration, (202) 482–5131.

This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III of

the Export Trading Company Act of

1982 (15 U.S.C. Sections 4001–21)

authorizes the Secretary of Commerce to

issue Export Trade Certificates of

Review. The regulations implementing

Title III are found at 15 CFR Part 325

(1997).

The Office of Export Trading

Company Affairs (‘‘OETCA’’) is issuing

this notice pursuant to 15 CFR 325.6(b),

which requires the Secretary of

Commerce to publish a summary of a

Certificate in the Federal Register.

Under Section 305(a) of the Act and 15

CFR 325.11(a), any person aggrieved by

the Secretary’s determination may,

within 30 days of the date of this notice,

bring an action in any appropriate

district court of the United States to set

aside the determination on the ground

that the determination is erroneous.

Description of Amended Certificate

Export Trade Certificate of Review

No. 89–00010, was issued to ARI on

May 10, 1991 (56 FR 23284, May 21,

1991), and previously amended on July

6, 1992 (57 FR 30956, July 13, 1992);

and February 9, 1995 (60 FR 9011,

February 16, 1995).

ARI’s Export Trade Certificate of

Review has been amended to:

1. Add each of the following

companies as new ‘‘Members’’ of the

Certificate within the meaning of

section 325.2(1) of the Regulations (15

CFR 325.2(1)): Calmac Manufacturing

Corporation, Englewood, New Jersey;

Des Champs Laboratories, Inc., Natural

Bridge Station, Virginia; Elkhart Product

Corporation, Geneva, Indiana; IMI

Cornelius, Inc., Anoka, Minnesota;

Inter-City Products Corporation, USA,

Lewisburg, Tennessee; Mainstream

Engineering Corporation, Rockledge,

Florida; Metal Industries, Inc.,

Clearwater, Florida; National Comfort

Products, Bensalem, Pennsylvania; New

Thermal Technologies, Inc., Clearwater,

Florida; Refrigerant Recovery

Technologies, Inc., Garrett, Indiana;

Refron, Inc., Long Island City, New

York; SPX Corporation, for the activities

of its Robinair Division—HVAC/R

Group, Montpelier, Ohio; Russell, Brea,

California; Semco, Incorporated,

Columbia, Missouri; The Whalen

Company, Easton, Maryland; and two

subsidiaries of AAF/McQuay Inc.: AAF

International, Louisville, Kentucky and

McQuay International, Minneapolis,

Minnesota;

2. Delete the following companies as

‘‘Members’’ of the Certificate: American

ThermaFlo, Springfield, Massachusetts;

AAF/McQuay, Inc., Dallas, Texas;

Brookside Group, Inc., McCordsville,

Indiana; Eaton Corporation, for the

activities of its Automotive & Appliance

Control Operations, Carol Stream,

Illinois; Heat Exchangers, Inc., Skokie,

Illinois; New Thermal Technologies,

Inc., Clearwater, Florida; and Tomkins

Industries, Inc., Dayton, Ohio;

3. Change the listing of the company

name of the following current

‘‘Members’’ as follows: change Mestek,

Inc., for the activities of its Sterling

Radiator Division, to Mestek, Inc., for

the activities of its KOLDWAVE

Division and its Sterling HVAC

Equipment Division; Lau to LAU

Industries; MDI Major Diversities, Inc.

to Pinnacle Products, Inc.; MillerPicking Corporation to Miller-Picking

International Corporation; NIBCO, Inc.,

for the activities of its OEM Division to

NIBCO, Inc.; and NORDYNE Inc. to

NORDYNE, INC.; and

4. Add as new products to be covered

as Export Trade under the Certificate

within the meaning of section 325.2(j) of

the Regulations (15 CFR 325.2(j)): (1)

Unit ventilators, (2) air-to-air energy

recovery ventilation equipment, (3)

desiccant cooling and dehumidification

equipment, and (4) refrigerant

reclaimers.

A copy of the amended certificate will

be kept in the International Trade

Administration’s Freedom of

Information Records Inspection Facility,

Room 4102, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: August 4, 1997.

W. Dawn Busby,

Director, Office of Export Trading Company

Affairs.

[FR Doc. 97–20976 Filed 8–7–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P

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 July 21, 1997 Custom

Building Products, Inc. filed a First

Request for Panel Review with the
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Canadian Section of the NAFTA

Secretariat pursuant to Article 1904 of

the North American Free-Trade

Agreement. Panel review was requested

of the final injury determination made

by the Canadian International Trade

Tribunal, in the material injury

investigation respecting Concrete

Panels, reinforced with fiberglass mesh,

originating in or exported from the

United States of America. This

determination was published in the

Canada Gazette, Part I, Vol. 13, No. 28,

page 1957–58 on July 12, 1997. The

NAFTA Secretariat has assigned Case

Number CDA–97–1904–01 to this

request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James R. Holbein, United States

Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite

2061, 14th and Constitution Avenue,

Washington, D.C. 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 July 21, 1997,

requesting panel review of the final

material injury investigation 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 August 20, 1997);

(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

September 4, 1997); 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: August 4, 1997.

James R. Holbein,

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.

[FR Doc. 97–20961 Filed 8–7–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–GT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

(I.D. 072297C)

Food and Agriculture Organization

(FAO) Committee on Fisheries

Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of process; developing

U.S. positions on FAO fisheries issues.

SUMMARY: Important events occurred at

the United Nations Food and

Agriculture Organization’s (FAO’s)

meeting of the Committee on Fisheries

(COFI) in March 1997. The United

States highlighted several fisheries

issues for FAO and member countries to

take action on in the near future:

Managing fishing capacity, seabird

bycatch and mortality in longline

fisheries, and shark conservation and

management.

The United States is working with

FAO on preparations designed to lead to

an FAO Consultation, with all FAO

member countries invited, to consider

action plans for all three issues in late

1998. Preparations will include

meetings of expert Technical Working

Groups (TWGs) with the result that FAO

will provide background information

and draft plans of action well in

advance of the FAO Consultation.

NMFS is involved directly in each of

these initiatives and believes that

keeping affected industries and

interested groups informed is important.

The public is invited to contact the

individuals identified in supplementary

information to declare interest and

receive further information, including

the terms of reference for the TWGs

when these become available. Public

meetings that may be required in the

planning for the FAO COFI Consultation

will be announced in the Federal

Register.

ADDRESSES: Questions about this

document may be directed to Dean

Swanson, Chief, International Fisheries

Division, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, NMFS, 1315 East-West

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dean Swanson, 301–713–2276.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Management of Fishing Capacity

It is widely recognized that excess

fishing effort exerted by unnecessarily

large fishing fleets is often a

contributing factor to the depletion of

fish stocks. Excess fishing capacity can

be a major impediment to effective

management and a major source of

economic waste. Although an

international consensus appears to be

emerging on the need for improved

control of fishing capacity, its

implementation at the national,

regional, and global levels is proving to

be difficult. In order to provide the type

of information needed by fisheries

managers, policymakers, the fishing

sector, and other concerned parties,

NMFS has agreed to sponsor or cosponsor one or more international

meetings, with the ultimate aim of

producing (i) technical guidelines on

how to define, measure and control

fishing capacity, and on the causes,

consequences, and cures for

overcapacity, and (ii) a draft plan of

action for consideration at the FAO

Consultation. The exact objectives and

terms of reference for the capacity TWG

are still under discussion with FAO and

Japan.

The United States is the principal

sponsor of a proposed TWG on Fishing

Capacity, with FAO and Japan also

contributing some funds. The TWG is

tentatively scheduled to be held in La

Jolla, CA, in early 1998. Followup

meetings leading to a plan of action are

likely to be co-sponsored by the United

States and Japan.

NMFS Contact: regarding the TWG,

Pamela Mace

Ocean Fishery Resources Division

National Marine Fisheries Service

166 Water Street

Woods Hole, MA 02543

508–495–2357

regarding the FAO Consultation,

Matteo Milazzo

International Fisheries Division