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and to select samples for the Census

Bureau’s demographic surveys.

Policymakers, planners, businessmen/

women, and others use the detailed

geographic data collected from state and

local officials on new residential

construction authorized by building

permits to monitor growth and plan for

local services, and to develop

production and marketing plans. This

survey is the only source of statistics on

residential construction for states and

smaller geographic areas.

The most significant revision we are

making in this submission is that we

plan to no longer collect any data on

publicly-owned construction projects

because we no longer need these data.

Additionally, some other items have

been either combined or dropped

because of changing data needs.

We are seeking an agreement with

outside sources to provide funding for

the collection of much of the private

construction projects data we now

collect (all projects except new

residential housekeeping buildings

which we will continue to collect,

regardless). We plan to discontinue

collecting these data if no

reimbursement agreement is made, as

we can no longer fund their collection.

This would reduce considerably the

scope of the information collection. This

request provides for the contingent

collection of these data.

Affected Public: State, local, or tribal

government.

Frequency: Monthly and annually.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

Legal Authority: Title 13 USC,

Sections 8(b), 9(b), 161, and 182; and

Title 15 USC, Section 1525.

OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall,

(202) 395–7313.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Linda Engelmeier,

DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202)

482–3272, Department of Commerce,

room 5327, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to Nancy Kirkendall, OMB Desk

Officer, room 10201, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 23, 1997.

Madeleine Clayton,

Management Analyst, Office of Management

and Organization.

[FR Doc. 97–33998 Filed 12–30–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Submission For OMB Review;

Comment Request

DOC has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance the following proposal for

collection of information under the

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).

Agency: Bureau of the Census.

Title: Survey of Building and Zoning

Permit Systems.

Form Number(s): C–411.

Agency Approval Number: 0607–

0350.

Type of Request: Reinstatement, with

change, of an expired collection.

Burden: 500 hours.

Number of Respondents: 2,000.

Avg Hours Per Response: 15 minutes.

Needs and Uses: The Census Bureau

conducts the Survey of Building and

Zoning Permit Systems to gather data

from State and local building permit

officials on the existence of new permit

issuing systems or changes to existing

systems. The survey is sent to building

permit officials when we have reason to

believe that a new permit-issuing

system has been established or changes

have been made to an existing system.

The questionnaire asks for such items as

geographic coverage and types of

construction for which permits are

issued. We use data gathered in this

survey to update the universe of

building permit-issuing places, the

sampling frame for the Building Permits

Survey (BPS) and the Survey of

Construction (SOC). These two sample

surveys provide widely used measures

of construction activity, including the

economic indicators Housing Units

Authorized by Building Permits and

Housing Starts.

In this submission we are dropping

two questions and adding two others

because of changing data needs. There

will be no net change in respondents’

time burden in completing the form.

Additionally, we are seeking an

agreement with outside sources to

provide funding for the collection of

much of the information we now collect

about types of construction for which

permits are issued (all construction

except new residential housekeeping

buildings which we will continue to

collect, regardless). We plan to

discontinue collecting these data if no

reimbursement agreement is made, as

we can no longer fund their collection.

This would reduce considerably the

scope of the information collection. This

request provides for the contingent

collection of these data.

Affected Public: State, local, or tribal

government.

Frequency: On occasion.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

Legal Authority: Title 13 USC,

Sections 8(b), 9(b), 161, and 182; and

Title 15 USC, Section 1525.

OMB Desk Officer: Nancy Kirkendall,

(202) 395–7313.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Linda Engelmeier,

DOC Forms Clearance Officer, (202)

482–3272, Department of Commerce,

room 5327, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230.

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to Nancy Kirkendall, OMB Desk

Officer, room 10201, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: December 23, 1997.

Madeleine Clayton,

Management Analyst, Office of Management

and Organization.

[FR Doc. 97–33999 Filed 12–30–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–008]

Color Television Receivers From the

Republic of Korea; Notice of

Termination of Anticircumvention

Inquiry

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of termination of

anticircumvention inquiry.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 31, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim

Terpstra or Holly Kuga, Office of AD/

CVD Enforcement, Office 4, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

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

telephone (202) 482–3965, and 4737

respectively.

Termination of Inquiry

On August 11, 1995, the International

Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, the

International Union of Electronic,

Electrical, Salaried, Machine &

Furniture Workers, and the Industrial

Union Department (collectively the

petitioners), filed an application

requesting that the Department conduct

an anti-circumvention inquiry of the

antidumping duty order on color

television receivers from the Republic of
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Korea. Pursuant to that application, the

Department initiated an anticircumvention inquiry on January 19,

1996 (61 FR 1339, January 19, 1996). On

December 19, 1997, petitioner submitted

a letter requesting that the Department

terminate the anticircumvention

inquiry. Accordingly, we are

terminating the inquiry.

Dated: December 19, 1997.

Robert S. LaRussa,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 97–33980 Filed 12–30–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–580–008]

Color Television Receivers From

Korea; Preliminary Results of Changed

Circumstances Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of affirmative

preliminary determination of changed

circumstances antidumping duty

administrative review and intent to

revoke.

SUMMARY: In response to a request from

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

(Samsung), the Department of

Commerce (the Department) is

conducting a changed circumstances

review of the antidumping duty order

on color television receivers (CTVs)

from the Republic of Korea (Korea) (49

FR 18336, April 30, 1984).

We have preliminarily determined

that it is appropriate to partially revoke

this AD order with respect to Samsung.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 31, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim

Terpstra or Holly Kuga, Antidumping

and Countervailing Duty Enforcement,

Group II, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202)

482–3965, or 482–4737, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions effective January 1, 1995,

the effective date of amendments made

to the Tariff Act of 1930 (the Act) by the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(URAA). In addition, unless otherwise

indicated, all references to the

Department’s regulations are to 19 CFR

Part 353 (1997).

Background

On April 30, 1984, the Department

published in the Federal Register (49

FR 18336) the antidumping duty order

on CTVs from the Republic of Korea (the

order). On July 20, 1995, the Department

received a request by Samsung for a

changed circumstances administrative

review to consider revocation of the

antidumping duty order, as it applies to

Samsung. In their request, Samsung

cited three reasons why the Department

should revoke the antidumping duty

order. First, the timing of certain court

decisions on previous administrative

reviews of this order prevented

Samsung from filing in a timely manner

for revocation under Section 751 (a) of

the Act. Second, Samsung was found

not to be dumping CTVs in the United

States during the last six years that

shipments from Korea had occurred.

Third, Samsung has not shipped CTVs

to the United States since early 1991.

Zenith Electronics Corporation, a

domestic interested party, and other

petitioners filed objections to Samsung’s

request on August 4, 1995 and August

11, 1995, respectively.

Pursuant to Samsung’s request, the

Department published an initiation of

changed circumstance review in the

Federal Register on June 24, 1996 (61

FR 32426). On December 6, 1996, the

Department issued the changed

circumstance questionnaire to Samsung,

who filed its response on February 24,

1997. Petitioners submitted their

comments on Samsung’s questionnaire

response on June 17, 1997.

Subsequently, both petitioners and

Samsung have submitted additional

comments.

On December 19, 1997, Petitioners

requested that the anticircumvention

inquiry on Korean CTVs be terminated.

Accordingly, on December 19, 1997, we

terminated that inquiry.

Scope of Review

Imports covered by this review

include Samsung CTVs, complete and

incomplete, from the Republic of Korea.

This merchandise is classifiable under

the 1996 Harmonized Tariff Schedule

(HTS) as item 8528.12.04, 8528.12.08,

8528.12.12, 8528.12.16, 8528.12.20,

8528.12.24, 8528.12.28, 8528.12.32,

8528.12.36, 8528.12.40, 8528.12.44,

8528.12.48, 8528.12.52, 8528.12.56,

8528.12.62, 8528.12.64, 8528.12.68,

8528.12.72, 8528.12.76, 8528.12.80,

8528.12.84, and 8528.12.88. The order

covers all CTVs regardless of HTS

classification. The HTS subheadings are

provided for convenience and for

customs purposes. The written

description of the scope of the order

remains dispositive.

Analysis

Based upon our analysis, we

preliminarily determine that changed

circumstances exist sufficient to warrant

partial revocation of the antidumping

duty order on CTVs with respect to

Samsung. Therefore, we intend to

partially revoke the order with respect

to Samsung. The Department may grant

a partial revocation of an antidumping

duty order under 19 CFR 353.25(b). To

do so it must find that producers or

resellers have sold the subject

merchandise at not less than foreign

market value for a period of not less

than three consecutive years and that it

is not likely that the producers or

resellers will in the future sell the

merchandise at not less than foreign

market value. 19 CFR 353.25(a)(2)(i) and

(ii). Further, the producers or resellers

must agree in writing to immediate

reinstatement in the order if the

Department concludes that the producer

or reseller, subsequent to revocation,

sold the merchandise at less than

foreign market value. 19 CFR

353.25(a)(2)(iii).

In the present case, Samsung has met

the eligibility requirement of three

consecutive years of de minimis

margins, and the Department has found

that it is not likely that Samsung will

sell the merchandise at not less than

foreign market value in the future.

Samsung sold subject merchandise at

not less than foreign market value for a

period of six consecutive years.

Samsung has also argued that because

it has not shipped CTVs from Korea to

the United States, it is not likely that

dumping will resume. We do not

consider this argument relevant because

the Department explicitly excluded the

lack of shipments as a basis for

revocation. See Antidumping Duties,

Final Rule, 54 FR 12742; March 28,

1989.

Nonetheless, if Samsung were to

resume shipping CTVs from Korea, we

do not find it likely that such imports

would be sold in the United States at

prices less than foreign market value.

Samsung has established a significant

history of selling Korean CTVs in the

United States at prices that are not less

than foreign market value. Absent

evidence that conditions in the United

States or Korean CTV markets have

changed, or that Samsung’s pricing

methods have changed after its six years

of de minimis margins, the Department

preliminarily finds that Samsung is not

likely to resume dumping of CTVs in