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OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 

395–5167 or via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.eop.gov. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6624 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce has 

submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the emergency 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

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

Agency: International Trade 

Administration (ITA). 

Title: Interim Procedures for 

Considering Requests from the Public 

under the Textile and Apparel 

Safeguard Provision of the United 

States-Korea Free Trade Agreement. 

OMB Control Number: None. 

Type of Request: Emergency 

submission (new information 

collection). 

Burden Hours: 56. 

Number of Respondents: 14. 

Average Hours per Response: 4 hours 

for a Textile and Apparel Safeguard 

Request; and 4 hours for a Comment. 

Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle C, 

Section 331 through Section 338 of the 

United States-Korea Free Trade 

Agreement Implementation Act (the 

‘‘Act’’) implements the textile and 

apparel safeguard provisions, provided 

for in Article 4.1 of the United StatesKorea Free Trade Agreement (the 

‘‘Agreement’’), which entered into force 

on March 15, 2012. This safeguard 

mechanism applies when, as a result of 

the reduction or elimination of a 

customs duty under the Agreement, a 

Korean textile or apparel article is being 

imported into the United States in such 

increased quantities, in absolute terms 

or relative to the domestic market for 

that article, and under such conditions 

as to cause serious damage or actual 

threat thereof to a U.S. industry 

producing a like or directly competitive 

article. In these circumstances, Article 

4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a) 

suspend any further reduction in the 

rate of duty provided for under Annex 

2–B of the Agreement in the duty 

imposed on the article; or (b) increase 

duties on the imported article from 

Korea to a level that does not exceed the 

lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal 

trade relations (‘‘NTR’’)/most-favorednation (‘‘MFN’’) duty rate for the article 

or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect 

on the day before the Agreement enters 

into force. 

The Statement of Administrative 

Action accompanying the Act provides 

that the Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA) will issue procedures for 

requesting such safeguard measures, for 

making its determinations under 

Section 332(a) of the Act, and for 

providing relief under Section 332(b) of 

the Act. CITA was unable to publish 

these procedures earlier and is 

requesting an emergency review of the 

information collection and procedures 

from the Office of Management and 

Budget. 

CITA must collect information in 

order to determine whether a domestic 

textile or apparel industry is being 

adversely impacted by imports of these 

products from Korean, thereby allowing 

CITA to take corrective action to protect 

the viability of the domestic textile or 

apparel industry, subject to section 

332(b) of the Act. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

OMB Desk Officer: Wendy Liberante. 

(202) 395–3647. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of 

Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230 or via email at 

JJessup@doc.gov. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent by 

April 16, 2012 to Wendy Liberante, 

OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 

395–5167 or via the Internet at 

Wendy_L._Liberante@omb.gov. 

Dated: March 14, 2012. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6625 Filed 3–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

[Docket No. 120309175–2178–01] 

National Defense Stockpile Market 

Impact Committee Request for Public 

Comments on the Potential Market 

Impact of Proposed Supplement to the 

Fiscal Year 2012 Annual Materials Plan 

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and 

Security, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of inquiry. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to advise the public that the National 

Defense Stockpile Market Impact 

Committee, co-chaired by the 

Departments of Commerce and State, is 

seeking public comments on the 

potential market impact of the proposed 

supplement to the Fiscal Year 2012 

Annual Materials Plan related to 

establishing three new material research 

and development projects. The research 

and development projects involve three 

materials—cadmium zinc tellurium 

(CZT) substrates, trichlorobenzene 

(TCB), and rhenium alloy. The role of 

the Market Impact Committee is to 

advise the National Defense Stockpile 

Manager on the projected domestic and 

foreign economic effects of all 

acquisitions and disposals involving the 

stockpile and related material research 

and development projects. Public 

comments are an important element of 

the Committee’s market impact review 

process. 

DATES: To be considered, written 

comments must be received by April 19, 

2012. 

ADDRESSES: Address all comments 

concerning this notice to Michael 

Vaccaro, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

Bureau of Industry and Security, Office 

of Strategic Industries and Economic 

Security, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Room 3876, Washington, DC 

20230, fax: (202) 482–5650 (Attn: 

Michael Vaccaro), email: 

MIC@bis.doc.gov; and Douglas Kramer, 

U.S. Department of State, Bureau of 

Energy Resources, Office of Europe, 

Middle East, and Africa, 2201 C Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20520, fax: (202) 

647–4037 (Attn: Douglas Kramer), or 

email: KramerDR@state.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Liam McMenamin, Office of Strategic 

Industries and Economic Security, 

Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, Telephone: 

(202) 482–2233. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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