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14See Welded Line Pipe from the Republic of 

Korea and the Republic of Turkey: Antidumping 

Duty Orders, 80 FR 75056, 75057 (December 1, 

2015). 

this administrative review, as provided 

by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) 

The cash deposit rate for each specific 

company listed above will be that 

established in the final results of this 

review, except if the rate is less than 

0.50 percent and, therefore, de minimis 

within the meaning of 19 CFR 

351.106(c)(1), in which case the cash 

deposit rate will be zero; (2) for 

previously investigated companies not 

participating in this review, the cash 

deposit will continue to be the 

company-specific rate published for the 

most recently completed segment of this 

proceeding in which the company 

participated; (3) if the exporter is not a 

firm covered in this review, or the 

original less-than-fair-value (LTFV) 

investigation, but the manufacturer is, 

the cash deposit rate will be the rate 

established for the most recent segment 

for the manufacturer of the 

merchandise; and (4) the cash deposit 

rate for all other manufacturers or 

exporters will continue to be 4.38 

percent, the all-others rate established 

in the LTFV investigation.14 These 

deposit requirements, when imposed, 

shall remain in effect until further 

notice. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping duties prior to 

liquidation of the relevant entries 

during this review period. Failure to 

comply with this requirement could 

result in the Secretary’s presumption 

that reimbursement of antidumping 

duties occurred and the subsequent 

assessment of double antidumping 

duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3), which 

continues to govern business 

proprietary information in this segment 

of the proceeding. Timely written 

notification of return/destruction of 

APO materials or conversion to judicial 

protective order is hereby requested. 

Failure to comply with the regulations 

and the terms of an APO is a 

sanctionable violation. 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with section 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: July 11, 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 

List of Topics Discussed in the IDM 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Margin Calculations 

IV. Discussion of the Issues 

General Issues: 

Comment 1: Existence of a Particular 

Market Situation (PMS) 

Comment 2: Additional PMS Adjustments 

Comment 3: Allegations of Improper 

Political Influence in Determining the 

PMS 

Comment 4: Differential Pricing 

Comment 5: Reimbursement of 

Antidumping Duties 

Hyundai Steel-Specific Issues: 

Comment 6: Collapsing Hyundai RB with 

Hyundai Steel 

Comment 7: Date of Sale for Hyundai 

Steel’s U.S. Sales 

Comment 8: Reporting of Hyundai Steel’s 

Downstream Sales 

Comment 9: Assignment of Costs for 

Hyundai Steel’s Non-Prime Pipe 

Comment 10: Hyundai Steel’s Foreign 

Inland Freight Expenses 

Comment 11: Calculation Error for 

Hyundai Steel in the Preliminary Results 

SeAH-Specific Issues: 

Comment 12: SeAH’s Third Country 

Comparison Market Viability 

Comment 13: Constructed Export Price 

(CEP) Offset for SeAH 

V. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

[Docket No. 171003965–7965–01] 

Hollings Manufacturing Extension 

Partnership Program; Knowledge 

Sharing Strategies. 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; request for information. 

SUMMARY: The Hollings Manufacturing 

Extension Partnership (MEP) Program 

includes a network of centers located in 

all 50 States and Puerto Rico, and is a 

source of trusted advice about new 

technologies, production techniques 

and business management practices. In 

order for the MEP System to grow, 

improve and have a greater impact on 

the growth and competitiveness of U.S. 

manufacturers in the global 

marketplace, the MEP System needs to 

transform to an organizationally and 

operationally integrated MEP National 

Network. This transformation will 

require a learning and knowledge 

sharing infrastructure, which NIST MEP 

envisions will be stood up as ‘‘The MEP 

Network Learning and Knowledge 

Sharing System’’ (MEP NLKSS). NIST is 

requesting information from interested 

vendors and others on possible designs 

and implementation of networked 

learning and knowledge sharing. The 

responses will inform NIST’s planning 

of the MEP NLKSS, including assisting 

NIST MEP with the development of the 

final Statement of Work for a 

performance-based contract. 

DATES: NIST will accept responses to 

this request for information until 11:59 

p.m. Eastern Time on August 17, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Responses will be accepted 

by email only. Responses must be sent 

to meprfi@nist.gov with the subject line 

‘‘MEP Network Learning and 

Knowledge Sharing System RFI 

Response.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Simpson, 100 Bureau Drive, 

Mail Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, MD 

20899–4800, 301–975–5020, meprfi@

nist.gov; or Mary Ann Pacelli, 100 

Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 4800, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–4800, 301– 

975–5020, meprfi@nist.gov. Please 

direct media inquiries to NIST’s Office 

of Public Affairs at 301–975–NIST 

(6478). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NIST will 

consider the information obtained in 

response to this request for information 

in the development of a Scope of Work 

for a competitively awarded contract to 

develop and/or implement any or all 

parts of the MEP NLKSS. 

Background—The MEP System 

The MEP System consists of NIST 

MEP and its MEP Centers located in all 

50 States and Puerto Rico. For almost 30 

years the MEP Centers have served as 

trusted advisors focused largely on the 

continuous improvement of U.S. 

manufacturers for the purpose of 

achieving improved productivity. MEP 

Centers are a diverse system of state, 

university-based, and other non-profit 

organizations, comprising more than 

1,300 technical experts offering 

products, technical expertise and 

services that address the critical needs 

of their local manufacturers. MEP 

Centers are funded through cooperative 

agreements issued by NIST. 


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Each MEP Center works directly with 

manufacturers in their area to provide 

expertise and services tailored to their 

most critical needs, ranging from 

process improvement and workforce 

development to business practices and 

technology transfer. Additionally, MEP 

Centers connect manufacturers with 

government and trade associations, 

universities and research laboratories, 

and a host of other public and private 

resources to help manufacturers realize 

individual business goals. 

Through the efforts of its existing 

MEP Centers to provide services to 

small and medium-sized U.S. 

manufacturers, the MEP System 

addresses many of the needs of small 

and medium-sized U.S. manufacturers. 

However, to continue to effectively 

enhance the productivity and 

technological performance of U.S. 

manufacturing, and assist manufacturers 

with competing in the global economy, 

MEP Centers require access to expertise 

specific to a given technology, supply 

chain and/or sector which any one 

specific MEP Center may not possess. 

Since its creation in 1988, the MEP 

System has become a source of trusted 

advice about new technologies, 

production techniques, and business 

management practices for a significant 

number of firms (about 8,000 to 10,000 

per year). The MEP System engages 

another 20,000 to 22,000 firms each year 

in training and outreach events. 

However, NIST recognizes that past 

events do not predict the future, and the 

MEP program must continue to add new 

capabilities to all its MEP Centers to 

improve its support of small and 

medium-sized U.S. manufacturers in the 

United States. 

While successful in serving U.S. 

manufacturers locally, there is much 

more work to be done to support U.S. 

manufacturing supply chains. In 

general, the MEP System can do a better 

job in leveraging its diverse capabilities 

and regional and national strengths to 

reach more companies. NIST recognizes 

a need to provide more services to more 

manufacturers. The MEP Program 

understands the need to assist more 

manufacturers to establish a resilient, 

dependable, productive, and highlytrained supplier base to meet national 

manufacturing needs to support a wide 

array of U.S. industrial sectors, for 

example, the defense, transportation, 

and physical infrastructure sectors. 

Transformation to a National Network 

To address the challenges facing the 

MEP Program and its customers, the 

system needs to transform from its 

current state to one organized and 

operated as an integrated MEP National 

Network. The integrated MEP National 

Network is envisioned as an 

organization of MEP Centers which 

collectively act on a regional and 

national basis to provide solutions to 

the current and future needs of small 

and medium-sized manufacturers across 

the United States. 

The transformation of the MEP 

System to an integrated MEP National 

Network will require a learning and 

knowledge sharing infrastructure to 

assist MEP Centers with obtaining 

access to integrated solutions for serving 

U.S. manufacturers. NIST MEP 

envisions the learning and knowledge 

sharing infrastructure will be stood up 

as ‘‘The MEP Network Learning and 

Knowledge Sharing System’’ (MEP 

NLKSS). The MEP NLKSS is expected to 

include both the human and digital 

networks necessary to support access to 

and the sharing of expertise, best 

practices, community resources, and 

training and professional development 

within the integrated MEP National 

Network, thus allowing the MEP Centers 

to access and impart relevant technical 

and strategic knowledge to small and 

medium-sized manufacturers locally, 

regionally, and nationally. 

The integrated MEP National Network 

is being built on the MEP Centers’ 

ability to serve as trusted advisors for 

their clients. By strengthening the MEP 

footprint with the connected MEP 

NLKSS, both manufacturers and MEP 

Centers can benefit. For example, 

manufacturers can take advantage of 

expertise, delivery credibility, and 

services that are not offered by their 

local MEP Center or that need to be 

delivered across regions. More 

specifically, using the NKLSS, 

manufacturers will be able to benefit 

from the following: 

• Access to resources and capabilities 

from the MEP National Network to 

address their unique, complex, critical 

business and technology challenges 

quickly, even if their local MEP Center 

does not possess such solutions; 

• In those situations where a 

manufacturer has multiple locations in 

multiple states the MEP National 

Network, and the NKLSS will allow the 

creation and sharing of new processes, 

technologies, and capabilities for all 

locations, consistently and seamlessly 

from multiple MEP Centers. 

Similarly, through the NLKSS, MEP 

Centers will be able to share resources 

and expertise, communicate frequently 

and widely on market and 

manufacturing trends, and assist each 

other across the U.S. Moreover, MEP 

Centers will be able to take advantage of 

the broad base of expertise the 

integrated MEP National Network will 

offer and can bring the right resources 

to bear regardless of their location. More 

specifically, the NLKSS will provide 

MEP Centers opportunities to: 

• Serve more manufacturers; 

• Partner with other MEP Centers to 

provide services locally, regionally, or 

nationally; 

• Deliver services that have been 

developed at other MEP Centers; 

• Increase capacity and capabilities 

for project activities with existing and 

new manufacturers; 

• Assist manufacturers to bring new 

products to market quickly and 

effectively; 

• Share timely intelligence about 

manufacturing trends as a repeatable 

process; 

• Train MEP Center personnel on 

new services, approaches, and tools 

used at other MEP Centers; 

• Share and deploy the unique 

strengths inherent to the three types of 

MEP Center host organizations: states, 

universities, and non-profit 

organizations. 

No Confidential Proprietary, Business 

or Personally Identifiable Information 

No confidential proprietary 

information, business identifiable 

information, or personally identifiable 

information should be included in the 

written responses to this request for 

information. Reponses received by the 

deadline may be made publicly 

available without change at: 

www.nist.gov/mep. 

Request for Information 

Considering the description of the 

MEP NLKSS above, NIST MEP is 

seeking input and information regarding 

how other organizations and vendors 

have modeled and addressed 

organization learning and knowledge 

sharing, especially in a manufacturing 

services environment. The responses are 

intended to inform NIST’s planning of 

the MEP NLKSS, including assisting 

NIST MEP with the development of the 

final Statement of Work for a 

performance-based contract. Through 

this notice, NIST requests information 

from interested vendors and others on 

possible designs and implementation of 

networked learning and knowledge 

sharing, particularly with respect to the 

following issues: 

(1) Key problems and issues NIST 

MEP and the network will face related 

to knowledge management in the nearterm (1 to 2 years), mid-term (3 to 5 

years) and/or long-term (more than 5 

years); 

(2) Solutions (technical and nontechnical) available to address the 

problems/issues identified in question 1 


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in the near-term (1 to 2 years), mid-term 

(3 to 5 years) and/or long-term (more 

than 5 years). More specifically, 

a. Specific solutions available to 

address the needs of working groups/ 

communities of practice; 

b. Specific solutions available to 

address the more immediate needs of 

individual practitioners and 

management; 

c. How information is best 

disseminated to the leadership and staff 

of organizations within a network, and 

whether this would be applicable for the 

integrated MEP National Network; 

(3) Cultural and technical barriers that 

need to be addressed by any system(s) 

of knowledge management; 

(4) Complementary services, 

including information services, that are 

and/or will be needed by NIST MEP and 

the MEP Centers to take full advantage 

of any knowledge management system 

and culture; 

(5) Any other critical issues that NIST 

MEP should consider in its strategic 

planning for investments in this area 

that are not covered by the first four 

issues. Further information on the MEP 

program is available at: https://

www.nist.gov/mep. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 278k. 

Kevin A. Kimball, 

Chief of Staff. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15265 Filed 7–17–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Marine Protected Areas Federal 

Advisory Committee; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries (ONMS), National Ocean 

Service (NOS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce (DOC). 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a 

virtual meeting of the Marine Protected 

Areas Federal Advisory Committee 

(MPA FAC) via teleconference. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, September 19, 2018, from 

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time 

(2:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time). 

These times and the agenda topics 

described below are subject to change. 

Please refer to the Committee’s webpage 

for the most up-to-date meeting agenda. 

http://marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/ 

fac. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually via teleconference. Register by 

contacting Nicole Capps at 

Nicole.Capps@noaa.gov or 831–647– 

6451 at least one working day in 

advance of the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charles M. Wahle, Ph.D., Designated 

Federal Officer, MPA FAC, National 

Marine Protected Areas Center, 99 

Pacific St., Suite 100–F, Monterey, CA 

93940. (Phone: 831–647–6460; Fax: 

831–647–1732; email: charles.wahle@

noaa.gov; or visit the National MPA 

Center website at http://

marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/fac). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee, composed of external, 

knowledgeable representatives of 

stakeholder groups, was established by 

the Department of Commerce (DOC) to 

provide advice to the Secretaries of 

Commerce and the Interior on 

implementation of Section 4 of 

Executive Order 13158, on marine 

protected areas (MPAs). The MPA FAC 

was continued via Presidential 

Executive Order on September 29, 2017. 

The meeting is open to the public, and 

public comment will be accepted from 

12:15 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Pacific Time on 

Wednesday, September 19, 2018. In 

general, each individual or group will 

be limited to a total time of three (3) 

minutes. If members of the public wish 

to submit written statements, they 

should be submitted to the Designated 

Federal Officer by Friday, September 14, 

2018. 

Matters to be Considered: This 

meeting will focus on: (i) Approving the 

Committee’s final findings and 

recommendations on Sustaining MPA 

Benefits in a Changing Ocean; and, (ii) 

approving updates to the Cultural 

Resources Toolkit developed previously 

by the Committee and published on the 

MPA Center website (https://

marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/toolkit/ 

). The agenda is subject to change. The 

latest version will be posted at http://

marineprotectedareas.noaa.gov/fac. 

Dated: June 14, 2018. 

John A. Armor, 

Director, Office of National Marine 

Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–NK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XG257 

Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; 

General Provisions for Domestic 

Fisheries; Application for Exempted 

Fishing Permits 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator, 

West Coast Region, NMFS, has made a 

preliminary determination that an 

application for an Exempted Fishing 

Permit warrants further consideration. 

The application, submitted by the 

California Wetfish Producers 

Association, requests an exemption 

from the prohibition of primary directed 

fishing for Pacific sardine for the 2018– 

2019 fishing year to collect Pacific 

sardine as part of an industry-based 

scientific survey. NMFS requests public 

comment on the application. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

August 2, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this document, identified by NOAA– 

NMFS–2018–0072, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to 

www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;

D=NOAA-NMFS-2018-0072, click the 

‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, complete the 

required fields, and enter or attach your 

comments. The EFP application will be 

available under Relevant Documents 

through the same link. 

• Mail: Submit written comments to 

Joshua Lindsay, West Coast Region, 

NMFS, 501 W. Ocean Blvd., Ste. 4200, 

Long Beach, CA 90802–4250. 

• Instructions: Comments must be 

submitted by one of the above methods 

to ensure that the comments are 

received, documented, and considered 

by NMFS. Comments sent by any other 

method, to any other address or 

individual, or received after the end of 

the comment period, may not be 

considered. All comments received are 

a part of the public record and will 

generally be posted for public viewing 

on www.regulations.gov without change. 

All personal identifying information 

(e.g., name, address, etc.) submitted 

voluntarily by the sender will be 

publicly accessible. Do not submit 

confidential business information, or 


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