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12See 19 CFR 351.309; see also 19 CFR 351.303 

(for general filing requirements). 

1See Certain Quartz Surface Products from the 

People’s Republic of China: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigation, 83 FR 22618 

(May 16, 2018). 

interested parties in this preliminary 

determination within five days of its 

public announcement, or if there is no 

public announcement, within five days 

of the date of publication the notice of 

preliminary determination in the 

Federal Register, in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.224(b). 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, Commerce intends to verify the 

information relied upon in making its 

final determination. 

Public Comment 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the last 

verification report is issued in this 

investigation. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the deadline date for case briefs.12

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 

(d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this investigation 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. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, limited to issues raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs, must submit a 

written request to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, U.S. Department of 

Commerce within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice. Requests 

should contain the party’s name, 

address, and telephone number, the 

number of participants, whether any 

participant is a foreign national, and a 

list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, Commerce 

intends to hold the hearing at the U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230, at a time and date to be 

determined. Parties should confirm by 

telephone the date, time, and location of 

the hearing two days before the 

scheduled date. 

International Trade Commission 

Notification 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, Commerce will notify the 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

its preliminary determination. Pursuant 

to section 705(b)(2) of the Act, if the 

final determination is affirmative, the 

ITC will make its final injury 

determination before the later of 120 

days after the date of this preliminary 

determination or 45 days after the final 

determination. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(c). 

Dated: June 19, 2018. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is welded carbon and alloy steel 

pipe (including stainless steel pipe), more 

than 406.4 mm (16 inches) in nominal 

outside diameter (large diameter welded 

pipe), regardless of wall thickness, length, 

surface finish, grade, end finish, or 

stenciling. Large diameter welded pipe may 

be used to transport oil, gas, slurry, steam, or 

other fluids, liquids, or gases. It may also be 

used for structural purposes, including, but 

not limited to, piling. Specifically, not 

included is large diameter welded pipe 

produced only to specifications of the 

American Water Works Association (AWWA) 

for water and sewage pipe. 

Large diameter welded pipe used to 

transport oil, gas, or natural gas liquids is 

normally produced to the American 

Petroleum Institute (API) specification 5L. 

Large diameter welded pipe may also be 

produced to American Society for Testing 

and Materials (ASTM) standards A500, A252, 

or A53, or other relevant domestic 

specifications, grades and/or standards. Large 

diameter welded pipe can be produced to 

comparable foreign specifications, grades 

and/or standards or to proprietary 

specifications, grades and/or standards, or 

can be non-graded material. All pipe meeting 

the physical description set forth above is 

covered by the scope of this investigation, 

whether or not produced according to a 

particular standard. 

Subject merchandise also includes large 

diameter welded pipe that has been further 

processed in a third country, including but 

not limited to coating, painting, notching, 

beveling, cutting, punching, welding, or any 

other processing that would not otherwise 

remove the merchandise from the scope of 

the investigation if performed in the country 

of manufacture of the in-scope large diameter 

welded pipe. 

Excluded from the scope are any products 

covered by the existing countervailing duty 

order on welded line pipe from the Republic 

of Turkey. See Welded Line Pipe from the 

Republic of Turkey: Countervailing Duty 

Order, 80 FR 75054 (December 1, 2015). 

The large diameter welded pipe that is 

subject to this investigation is currently 

classifiable in the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) under 

subheadings 7305.11.1030, 7305.11.1060, 

7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 7305.12.1060, 

7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.1060, 

7305.19.5000, 7305.31.4000, 7305.31.6010, 

7305.31.6090, 7305.39.1000 and 

7305.39.5000. While the HTSUS subheadings 

are provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Injury Test 

IV. Subsidies Valuation 

V. Analysis of Programs 

VI. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–085] 

Certain Quartz Surface Products From 

the People’s Republic of China: 

Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination in the Countervailing 

Duty Investigation 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Applicable June 29, 2018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Darla Brown or Terre Keaton Stefanova, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office II, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–1791, or 

(202) 482–1280, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On May 7, 2018, the Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) initiated a 

countervailing duty (CVD) investigation 

on certain quartz surface products from 

the People’s Republic of China.1

Currently, the preliminary 

determination is due no later than July 

11, 2018. 

Postponement of the Preliminary 

Determination 

Section 703(b)(1) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), requires 

Commerce to issue the preliminary 


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2See Letter from the petitioner, ‘‘Certain Quartz 

Surface Products from the People’s Republic of 

China: Request to Postpone Preliminary 

Determination,’’ dated June 11, 2018. 

determination in a countervailing duty 

investigation within 65 days after the 

date on which Commerce initiated the 

investigation. However, section 

703(c)(1) of the Act permits Commerce 

to postpone the preliminary 

determination until no later than 130 

days after the date on which Commerce 

initiated the investigation if: (A) The 

petitioner makes a timely request for a 

postponement; or (B) Commerce 

concludes that the parties concerned are 

cooperating, that the investigation is 

extraordinarily complicated, and that 

additional time is necessary to make a 

preliminary determination. Under 19 

CFR 351.205(e), the petitioner must 

submit a request for postponement 25 

days or more before the scheduled date 

of the preliminary determination and 

must state the reasons for the request. 

Commerce will grant the request unless 

it finds compelling reasons to deny the 

request. 

On June 11, 2018, the petitioner, 

Cambria Company LLC, submitted a 

timely request that we postpone the 

preliminary CVD determination 

because: (1) Commerce was not able to 

issue its respondent selection 

memorandum until June 8, 2018; and (2) 

as a result, responses to the CVD 

questionnaire are not due until July 16, 

2018 (i.e., after the statutory deadline for 

the preliminary determination). 

Moreover, the petitioner noted that, 

because Commerce just identified the 

mandatory respondents, it has only now 

begun its research to identify any 

additional subsidy benefits not 

addressed in the Petition. Accordingly, 

the petitioner maintains that, because 

this investigation is likely to be more 

complicated than usual, additional time 

is necessary to ensure that Commerce 

can conduct a full investigation 

regarding the subsidy benefits received 

by Chinese producers and exporters of 

quartz surface products.2

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.205(e), the petitioner has stated the 

reasons for requesting a postponement 

of the preliminary determination, and 

Commerce finds no compelling reason 

to deny the request. Therefore, pursuant 

to section 703(c)(1)(A) of the Act, we are 

extending the due date for the 

preliminary determination to no later 

than 130 days after the date on which 

this investigation was initiated, i.e., to 

September 14, 2018. Pursuant to section 

705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(1), the deadline for the final 

determination will continue to be 75 

days after the date of the preliminary 

determination. 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to section 703(c)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.205(f)(l). 

Dated: June 20, 2018. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Analysis of 

Exoskeleton-Use for Enhancing 

Human Performance Data Collection 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before August 28, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

1401 Constitution Avenue NW, 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

internet at PRAcomments@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument and instructions should be 

directed to Elizabeth Reinhart, NIST 

Management and Organization Office, 

100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, MD 

20899; 301–975–8707; 

elizabeth.reinhart@nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

Exoskeletons—sometimes called 

wearable robots—are a very rapidly 

expanding domain with a range of 

applications and a broad diversity of 

designs. NIST’s Engineering Laboratory 

will be developing methods to evaluate 

performance of exoskeletons in two key 

areas (1) The fit and motion of the 

exoskeleton device with respect to the 

users’ body and (2) The impact that 

using an exoskeleton has on the 

performance of users executing tasks 

that are representative of activities in 

industrial settings. The results of these 

experiments will inform future test 

method development at NIST, other 

organizations, and under the purview of 

the new American Society for Testing 

Materials (ASTM) Committee F48 on 

Exoskeletons and Exosuits. 

For the first research topic, NIST will 

evaluate the usefulness of a NIST 

prototype apparatus for measuring the 

difference in performance of a person 

wearing an exoskeleton versus the 

person’s baseline without the 

exoskeleton while positioning loads and 

tools. The NIST Position and Load Test 

Apparatus for Exoskelons (PoLoTAE), 

which presents abstractions of 

industrial task challenges, will be 

evaluated in this research. 

For the second research topic, NIST 

will evaluate a method for measuring 

the alignment of an exoskeleton to 

human joint (knee) and any relative 

movement between the exoskeleton and 

user. Measurement methods prototyped 

by NIST for evaluating exoskeleton on 

mannequin position and motion will be 

applied to human subjects to verify the 

usefulness of optical tracking system 

and designed artifacts worn by users as 

measurement methods. 

Participants will be chosen from 

volunteers within NIST and adult NIST 

visitors to participate in the study. 

Gender and size diversity will be sought 

in the population of participants. No 

personally identifiable information (PII) 

will be recorded unless subject consent 

for PII disclosure is received. NIST 

intends to publish information on the 

analysis and results. 

II. Method of Collection 

Participants will give informed 

consent prior to participating in the 

research. Information may be collected 

via a paper background questionnaire 

which may include disclosure of health 

information which may be relevant for 

safety and research reasons. Data will be 

collected using a combination of heart 

rate monitor, and video and still 

cameras to collect time and subject 

activity to correlate heart rate with 

activity and an optical tracking system 

which detects markers. Participants will 

be asked to complete a paper survey 

once data is collected for the research. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0693–XXXX. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Review: New information 

collection. 


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