Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 79 / Tuesday, April 24, 2012 / Notices 24465 

published in the Federal Register a 

notice of initiation of an administrative 

review of the antidumping duty order 

on oil country tubular goods from the 

People’s Republic of China covering 53 

companies for the period November 17, 

2009, through April 30, 2011. See 

Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Reviews and Request for Revocation in 

Part, 76 FR 37781 (June 28, 2011). The 

POR was corrected to May 19, 2010, 

through April 30, 2011 in Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews and Requests 

for Revocation in Part, 76 FR 53404 

(August 26, 2011) at footnote four. The 

preliminary results of review are 

currently due no later than April 30, 

2012. 

Extension of Time Limit of Preliminary 

Results 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the 

Act’’), the Department shall make a 

preliminary determination in an 

administrative review of an 

antidumping duty order within 245 

days after the last day of the anniversary 

month of the date of publication of the 

order. The Act further provides, 

however, that the Department may 

extend that 245-day period to 365 days 

if it determines it is not practicable to 

complete the review within the 

foregoing time period. We determined 

that completion of the preliminary 

results of this review within the 245-day 

period is not practicable because the 

Department requires additional time to 

analyze information pertaining to the 

respondents’ sales practices, factors of 

production, and affiliations, and to issue 

supplemental questionnaires and review 

the responses. Therefore, on January 19, 

2012, the Department extended the time 

period for completion of the preliminary 

results of this review by 90 days until 

April 30, 2012. See Oil Country Tubular 

Goods From the People’s Republic of 

China: Extension of Time for the 

Preliminary Results of the Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review, 77 FR 2700 

(January 19, 2012). We have 

subsequently determined that we 

require additional time to complete 

these preliminary results. As a result, in 

accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 

the Act, the Department is extending the 

time period for completion of the 

preliminary results of this review by an 

additional 30 days until May 30, 2012. 

This notice is published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 

and 777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: April 13, 2012. 

Christian Marsh, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XC005 

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 Assistant Regional 

Administrator for Sustainable Fisheries, 

Northeast Region, NMFS (Assistant 

Regional Administrator), has made a 

preliminary determination that an 

Exempted Fishing Permit (EFP) 

application contains all of the required 

information and warrants further 

consideration. This EFP would allow 

commercial fishing vessels to 

temporarily possess and scientifically 

sample fish caught during normal 

commercial fishing operations that 

would otherwise be required to be 

immediately discarded for the purpose 

of characterizing the bycatch of the 

Southern New England sea scallop 

fishery. 

Regulations under the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act require publication of 

this notification to provide interested 

parties the opportunity to comment on 

applications for proposed EFPs. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 9, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email: nero.efp@noaa.gov. Include 

in the subject line ‘‘Comments on 

Fisheries Specialists 2012 Scallop RSA 

EFP.’’ 

• Mail: Daniel S. Morris, Acting 

Regional Administrator, NMFS, NE 

Regional Office, 55 Great Republic 

Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930. Mark the 

outside of the envelope ‘‘Comments on 

Fisheries Specialists EFP.’’ 

• Fax: (978) 281–9135. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher Biegel, Fishery 

Management Specialist, 978–281–9112, 

Christopher.Biegel@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Fisheries 

Specialists, a fisheries research 

company, submitted a complete 

application for an EFP on March 5, 

2012, to conduct commercial fishing 

activities that the regulations would 

otherwise restrict. The EFP would 

authorize four vessels to temporarily 

possess and scientifically sample fish 

caught during commercial fishing 

operations that would otherwise be 

required to be immediately discarded. 

The requested exemptions from size 

and possession limits are in support of 

a project that proposes to characterize 

bycatch in the Southern New England 

scallop fishery. This project is titled 

‘‘Bycatch Characterization in the 

Southern New England Sea Scallop 

Fishery,’’ and has been selected to be 

funded under the 2012 scallop research 

set-aside (RSA) program. Because catch 

sampling of bycatch will occur during 

commercial fishing operations, Fisheries 

Specialists requested temporary 

exemptions from size and possession 

limits of potential bycatch species. 

Aside from these exemptions, fishing 

activity would be conducted under 

normal commercial fishing practices 

and the associated Federal regulations. 

The exemptions would not include 

species protected under the Endangered 

Species Act. Limited Access General 

Category (LAGC) vessels will land catch 

in accordance with the conditions of the 

Federal permits held by the individual 

vessel and any prohibited catch will be 

discarded after sampling. 

Fisheries Specialists will be placing 

trained scientific observers aboard 

LAGC vessels to collect bycatch data 

during the course of normal commercial 

fishing operations. The observers will 

conduct four days of sampling each 

month for 12 months for a total of 48 

sampling days between April 2012 and 

May 2012, in open areas offshore of 

Massachusetts and Rhode Island in the 

Southern New England/Mid-Atlantic 

(SNE/MA) management area, with a 

focus on statistical area 539. 

If approved, the applicant may 

request minor modifications and 

extensions to the EFP throughout the 

year. EFP modifications and extensions 

may be granted without further notice if 

they are deemed essential to facilitate 

completion of the proposed research 

and have minimal impacts that do not 

change the scope or impact of the 

initially approved EFP request. Any 

fishing activity conducted outside the 

scope of the exempted fishing activity 

would be prohibited. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

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24466 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 79 / Tuesday, April 24, 2012 / Notices 

Dated: April 19, 2012. 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9816 Filed 4–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XB169 

Endangered and Threatened Species; 

Take of Anadromous Fish 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Applications for eight new 

scientific research permits, four research 

permit renewals, and three permit 

modifications. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

NMFS has received 15 scientific 

research permit application requests 

relating to Pacific salmon, the southern 

distinct population segment of pacific 

green sturgeon, and three species of 

rockfish from the Puget Sound/Georgia 

Basin. The proposed research is 

intended to increase knowledge of 

species listed under the Endangered 

Species Act (ESA) and to help guide 

management and conservation efforts. 

The applications may be viewed online 

at: https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov/preview/ 

preview_open_for_comment.cfm. 

DATES: Comments or requests for a 

public hearing on the applications must 

be received at the appropriate address or 

fax number (see ADDRESSES) no later 

than 5 p.m. Pacific standard time on 

May 24, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 

applications should be sent to the 

Protected Resources Division, NMFS, 

1201 NE Lloyd Blvd., Suite 1100, 

Portland, OR 97232–1274. Comments 

may also be sent via fax to 503–230– 

5441 or by email to 

nmfs.nwr.apps@noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rob 

Clapp, Portland, OR (ph.: 503–231– 

2314), Fax: 503–230–5441, email: 

Robert.Clapp@noaa.gov). Permit 

application instructions are available 

from the address above, or online at 

https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Species Covered in This Notice 

The following listed species are 

covered in this notice: 

Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus 

tshawytscha): threatened Puget Sound 

(PS); threatened lower Columbia River 

(LCR); endangered upper Columbia 

River (UCR); threatened Snake River 

(SR) spring/sum (spr/sum); threatened 

SR fall; 

Steelhead (O. mykiss): threatened PS; 

threatened LCR; threatened UCR; 

threatened SR; threatened middle 

Columbia River (MCR). 

Chum salmon (O. keta): Threatened 

Hood Canal (HC) summer-run, 

threatened Columbia River (CR). 

Coho salmon (O. kisutch): Threatened 

LCR, threatened Oregon Coast (OC). 

Sockeye salmon (O. nerka): 

Threatened Ozette Lake (OL); 

endangered SR. 

Rockfish: Puget Sound/Georgia Basin 

(PS/GB) bocaccio (Sebastes 

paucispinis); PS/GB canary rockfish 

(Sebastes pinniger), and PS/GB 

yelloweye rockfish (Sebastes 

ruberrimus). 

Pacific green sturgeon (Acipenser 

medirostris): Threatened SDPS. 

Authority 

Scientific research permits are issued 

in accordance with section 10(a)(1)(A) 

of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and 

regulations governing listed fish and 

wildlife permits (50 CFR 222–226). 

NMFS issues permits based on findings 

that such permits: (1) Are applied for in 

good faith; (2) if granted and exercised, 

would not operate to the disadvantage 

of the listed species that are the subject 

of the permit; and (3) are consistent 

with the purposes and policy of section 

2 of the ESA. The authority to take 

listed species is subject to conditions set 

forth in the permits. 

Anyone requesting a hearing on an 

application listed in this notice should 

set out the specific reasons why a 

hearing on that application would be 

appropriate (see ADDRESSES). Such 

hearings are held at the discretion of the 

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, 

NMFS. 

Applications Received 

Permit 1386—6R 

The Washington Department of 

Ecology (WDOE) is seeking to renew for 

five years a research permit that 

currently allows them to take juvenile 

and adult LCR Chinook salmon, PS 

Chinook salmon, SR spring/summer-run 

Chinook salmon, SR fall-run Chinook 

salmon, UCR spring-run Chinook 

salmon, CR chum salmon, HC summerrun chum salmon, LCR coho salmon, OL 

sockeye salmon, LCR steelhead, MCR 

steelhead, PS steelhead, SR steelhead, 

and UCR steelhead. The WDOE 

conducts various research projects to 

characterize toxic contaminants in 

resident freshwater fish across the state 

of Washington. The purpose of the 

research is to investigate the occurrence 

and concentrations of toxic 

contaminants in non-anadromous 

freshwater fish tissue, sediment, and 

water from sites throughout 

Washington. WDOE conducts this 

research in order to meet Federal and 

state regulations. The Federal Clean 

Water Act requires that all waters in the 

state be assessed in this manner. This 

research would benefit listed species by 

identifying toxic contaminants present 

in fish and thereby help inform 

pollution control actions such as 

removing and reducing toxic 

contaminant sources. The WDOE 

proposes to capture fish using backpack 

and boat electrofishing, beach seines, 

block, fyke, and gill nets, and angling. 

All captured salmon and steelhead 

would be either released immediately or 

held temporarily in an aerated live well 

to help them recover before being 

released. The researchers do not 

propose to kill any of the listed fish 

being captured, but a small number may 

die as an unintended result of the 

activities. 

Permit 1465—2R 

The Idaho Department of 

Environmental Quality (IDEQ) is 

seeking to renew their permit to 

annually take juvenile threatened SR 

steelhead, threatened SR fall Chinook 

salmon, threatened SR spr/sum Chinook 

salmon, and endangered SR sockeye 

salmon during the course of two 

research projects designed to ascertain 

the condition of many Idaho streams. 

The purposes of the research are to (a) 

determine whether aquatic life is being 

properly supported in Idaho’s rivers, 

streams, and lakes, and (b) assess the 

overall condition of Idaho’s surface 

waters. The fish would benefit from the 

research because the data it produces 

would be used to inform decisions 

about how and where to protect and 

improve water quality in the state. The 

researchers would use backpack- and 

boat-electrofishing equipment to capture 

the fish. They would then be weighed 

and measured (some may be 

anesthetized to limit stress) and 

released. The IDEQ does not intend to 

kill any of the fish being captured, but 

a small percentage may die as an 

unintended result of the research 

activities. 

Permit 13381—2R 

The Northwest Fisheries Science 

Center (NWFSC) is seeking to renew 

their permit to annually take natural 

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