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typically held in Washington, DC or by 

telephone or video conference. 

Committee meetings may be closed if 

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committee will be discussing issues that 

justify closing a meeting or portions of 

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2155(f). Throughout the year, members 

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policy information and provide 

comments regarding trade negotiations. 

In addition to their other advisory 

responsibilities, at the conclusion of 

negotiations of any trade agreement, all 

committees are required to provide a 

report on each agreement to the 

President, Congress, USTR and USDA. 

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Secretary and Trade Representative. 

Committee appointments are typically 

for a period of four years but may be 

renewed for an additional term. Each 

committee member must be a U.S. 

citizen and must represent a U.S. entity 

with an interest in agricultural trade and 

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investigation. Committee members serve 

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person may serve on more than one 

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ensure that the recommendations of the 

Committee reflect the needs of the 

diverse groups served by USDA, 

membership shall include to the extent 

possible, individuals with demonstrated 

ability to represent minorities, women, 

and persons with disabilities. Members 

should have expertise and knowledge of 

agricultural trade as it relates to policy 

and commodity specific issues. 

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specific provisions of the ethics laws, 

including disclosure of financial 

interests, if they are appointed because 

of their personal knowledge, 

background, or expertise. USDA will 

assist SGEs in disclosing their financial 

interest and will provide ethics training 

on an annual basis. 

Appointments are made of 

individuals only and are not 

transferrable. No person, company, 

producer, farm organization, trade 

association, or other entity has a right to 

membership on a committee. In making 

appointments, every effort will be made 

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the committees with representation 

from producers, farm and commodity 

organizations, processors, traders, and 

consumers. Geographical diversity on 

each committee will also be sought. 

Nominations: Nominating a person to 

serve on any of the committees requires 

submission of a current resume for the 

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be submitted indicating the specific 

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being nominated, why the nominee 

wants to be a committee member, and 

his or her qualifications for 

membership, and how the submitter 

learned about this call for nominations. 

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statements required below related to 

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application should include a sponsor 

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entity letterhead containing a brief 

description of the manner in which 

international trade affects the entity and 

why the applicant should be considered 

for membership. Forms may also be 

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ATACs@usda.gov, or by phone at (202) 

868–7059. 

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Appointment of Lobbyists to Federal 

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Commissions, published by the Office of 

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lobbyists are no longer prohibited from 

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representative capacity.’’ OMB’s revised 

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committee members who are 

specifically appointed to represent the 

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recognizable group of persons or 

nongovernmental entities (an industry 

sector, labor unions, environmental 

groups, etc.), or state or local 

governments. The lobbyist prohibition 

continues to apply to persons serving on 

advisory committees in their individual 

capacity (e.g., SGEs). 

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represent an entity or corporation with 

ten percent or greater non-U.S. 

ownership, the nominee must state the 

extent to which the organization or 

interest to be represented by the 

nominee is owned by non-U.S. citizens, 

organizations, or interests and 

demonstrate at the time of nomination 

that this ownership interest does not 

constitute control and will not adversely 

affect his or her ability to serve as an 

advisor on the U.S. agriculture advisory 

committee for trade. 

Dated: December 18, 2023. 

Cikena Reid, 

USDA Committee Management Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Ouachita National Forest, Scott and 

Sebastian Counties, Arkansas; 

Heavener Coal Leasing Project; 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The USDA Forest Service (FS) 

is preparing an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) as the lead Federal 

agency with support from Federal 

cooperating agencies, the U.S. 

Department of Interior (DOI) Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) and Office of 

Surface Mining Reclamation and 

Enforcement (OSMRE). The purpose of 

the analysis is to respond to a Federal 

coal Lease by Application (LBA) 

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Corporation on behalf of Ouro Mining 

Inc. The application seeks approval to 

access and recover Federal metallurgical 

coal resources from approximately 3,077 

acres that underly lands on the Ouachita 

National Forest (ONF). No surface 

mining is proposed on National Forest 

System (NFS) lands. The FS and BLM 

have consent and leasing 

determinations to be made based in 

association with this EIS. The OSMRE 

does not have a decision to be made at 

this time but may tier to this analysis in 

the future. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis for the EIS must be 

received by January 25, 2024. The draft 

environmental impact statement (DEIS) 

is expected in July 2024. The final EIS 

is expected to be available for review in 

June 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Documents pertinent to this 

proposal are available for review on the 

project website at: https://

www.fs.usda.gov/project/ 

?project=64897. 

Send electronic comments to: https:// 

cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public//

CommentInput?Project=64897. 

Send written comments to: Forest 

Supervisor, Heavener Project, P.O. Box 

1270, Hot Springs, AR 71902. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact FS Project Manager Michelle 

Davalos via email at 

SM.FS.HeavCoalProj@usda.gov or by 

phone at 276–220–1670. For the BLM, 

contact Robert Swithers, District 

Manager via email at 

SM.FS.HeavCoalProj@usda.gov or by 

phone at 601–919–4650. Individuals 

who use telecommunication devices for 

the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 

800–877–8339, 24 hours a day, every 

day of the year, including holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 21, 2012, a Federal coal LBA 

was submitted to the BLM Eastern 

States Office by Emera Corporation on 

behalf of Ouro Mining, Inc. On March 

7, 2014, the BLM accepted the lease 

application. The application requests 

access to extract Federal metallurgical 

coal resources under lands managed by 

the ONF on the Poteau-Cold Springs 

Ranger District in Arkansas. The 

proposed lease area is in T3N, R32W, 

Sections 8–11, 14, 15, 17–19 and T3N, 

R33W, Section 13 in Scott and Sebastian 

Counties, Arkansas. The proposed 

Federal lease area is located adjacent 

and directly to the north of current coal 

leases held by Ouro Mining on private 

lands near Bates, Arkansas. The Emera 

Corporation’s application involves a 

mix of reserved public domain lands 

and acquired lands on the ONF. 

BLM is responsible for considering 

whether a coal lease would be offered 

through the competitive bid process and 

what stipulations would be required for 

surface resource protection. Because the 

lease would involve minerals 

underlying the ONF, the FS 

administrative unit with jurisdiction for 

managing surface resources, the BLM 

must have FS consent prior to deciding 

whether to offer the lease for sale. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose of the project is to 

respond to the Federal coal LBA 

submitted to the BLM Eastern States 

Office by Emera Corporation on behalf 

of Ouro Mining Inc. to extract 

metallurgical coal from 3,077 acres 

beneath the ONF. Under the Mineral 

Leasing Act of 1920 (MLA), as amended, 

30 U.S.C. 181 et seq., and the Mineral 

Leasing Act for Acquired Lands of 1947 

(MLAAL), as amended, 30 U.S.C. 351 et 

seq. The BLM is responsible for leasing 

Federal coal and regulation of the 

development of that coal on 

approximately 570 million acres of the 

700 million acres of mineral estate that 

is owned by the Federal Government. 

This responsibility encompasses Federal 

mineral rights on Federal lands and 

Federal mineral rights located under 

surface lands with non-Federal 

ownership. Under the authority of the 

MLA and MLAAL, the BLM administers 

leasing and monitors coal production. 

Under the MLA, the BLM has 

responsibility for reviewing the Emera 

Corporation application and 

determining if it will approve the 

application and offer the lease for sale 

through a competitive bid process. The 

BLM takes into consideration whether 

leasing the applied for lands would be 

in the public interest (30 U.S.C. 181– 

287, 351–359; 43 CFR 3425.1 and 

3472.1). The BLM regulations state the 

BLM must reject an application if 

‘‘leasing of the land covered by the 

application, environmental or other 

sufficient reasons, would be contrary to 

the public interest’’ (43 CFR 3425.1– 

8(a)(3)). Many, often competing, 

interests must be considered in arriving 

at a public interest determination, 

including, but not limited to, the 

applicant’s request; the environmental 

impacts; the economic benefit to the 

local, state, and national economy; 

rights of qualified surface owners; 

ensuring a fair return for the use of the 

public resources; and conservation of 

the public resource (BLM Manual 3435). 

Further, because the lease would 

involve minerals underlying the ONF, 

the BLM must have FS consent prior to 

deciding whether to offer the lease for 

sale (43 CFR 3461.5). The ONF is an 

administrative unit of the FS and as 

such FS has the jurisdiction for 

managing surface resources. FS will 

determine whether to provide consent 

to the BLM under the applicable 

statutory standards. 

The 2005 Ouachita National Forest 

Revised Land and Resource 

Management Plan (ONF Revised Forest 

Plan) does not address metallurgical 

coal leasing. For this reason, the FS will 

determine whether the proposed lease 

area on NFS lands is suitable for coal 

leasing. A forest plan amendment that 

provides additional direction for 

managing coal may be needed. If 

needed, the scope of the plan 

amendment would be limited to the 

3,077 acres proposed for Federal 

metallurgical coal leasing. However, it 

would be programmatic in nature and 

plan direction would apply to future 

projects (36 CFR 219.13(b)). As part of 

its consent analysis, the Forest Service 

will consider, but not limit it to, the 

unsuitability criteria that the BLM 

applies on its own lands as outlined in 

43 CFR 3461.5. 

In association with the Federal coal 

lease application, the Forest Service will 

respond to a special use permit 

application received from Arkansas 

Valley Electric Cooperative to construct 

and operate approximately 3.0 miles 

(out of 9 total miles) of 161kV 

transmission powerline and 2.0 miles of 

associated new powerline access roads 

across NFS lands on the ONF for the 

purpose of providing electricity to the 

coal operation. The approximately 6.0 

miles of powerline not on NFS lands 

would be addressed in the EIS 

cumulative effects analysis. 

Proposed Action 

The FS will assess whether the 

proposed lease area on NFS lands is 

suitable for coal leasing and if so, 

whether to consent to leasing 3,077 

acres of Federal coal underlying the 

Ouachita National Forest as described in 

the Emera Corporation application. As 

part of assessing consent, the FS will 

develop lease stipulations that protect 

surface resources. The stipulations will 

be included with any FS consent 

decision to lease. The BLM would 

include these stipulations in the coal 

lease. 

Additionally, connected actions 

associated with the lease include the: 

• Construction, operation, and 

maintenance of a 161kV powerline on 

3.0 miles of NFS lands and the 

construction of approximately 2.0 miles 

of powerline access roads. 

• Issuance of a special use permit that 

authorizes a 100-foot right of way 

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Issuance of the permit would be 

contingent on the metallurgical coal 

lease being sold, and the mining plan 

approved and permitted. 

• If needed, a forest plan amendment 

that may add management direction for 

the leasing of metallurgical coal on 

3,077 acres. 

Expected Impacts 

Disclosure of potential adverse 

impacts to NFS lands includes 

subsidence, which means the land 

surface is lowered as a result of mining 

activities. Resources potentially affected 

include, but are not limited to, 

vegetation, soil, and water. The EIS will 

address the potential for impacts from 

increased carbon emissions. Whether 

greenhouse gas emissions could 

approach significance over the life of 

the project is unknown at this time. 

Construction and maintenance of the 

electrical powerline and its associated 

roads would be designed to comply 

with the ONF Revised Forest Plan; 

significant impacts to vegetation, water, 

and soil resources are not expected. 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

The FS is the lead agency for the 

preparation and development of the EIS. 

The BLM and OSMRE are cooperating 

agencies. The FS will coordinate with 

BLM and OSMRE as cooperating 

agencies during preparation of the EIS, 

during the public review process, and 

throughout the decision-making 

process. The FS and BLM will be 

making separate decisions. The OSMRE 

does not have a decision to be made at 

time but may tier to this analysis for 

future decisions. 

Responsible Officials 

The official responsible for the Forest 

Service consent determination is the 

Ouachita Forest Supervisor. This 

authority was delegated by the Southern 

Region Regional Forester on October 16, 

2023. The official responsible for the 

BLM leasing decision is the BLM 

Eastern States State Director. 

Scoping Comments and the Objection 

Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the EIS. In this process 

the FS and BLM are requesting 

comments on the plan amendment, 

potential alternatives and impacts, and 

identification of any relevant 

information, studies or analyses of any 

kind concerning impacts affecting the 

quality of the human environment. 

Additional opportunities for public 

comment will be provided when the 

draft EIS is available. Whether virtual or 

in-person meetings will be hosted 

during the scoping period is to be 

determined. It is important that 

reviewers provide their comments at 

such times and in such manner that 

they are useful to the agency’s 

preparation of the final EIS; therefore, 

comments should be provided prior to 

the close of the comment period and 

should clearly articulate the reviewer’s 

concerns and contentions. Commenting 

during the opportunity to comment 

provided by the FS Responsible Official 

as prescribed by the applicable 

regulations will also govern eligibility to 

object once the final EIS and Draft 

Record of Decision has been published. 

Comments received in response to this 

solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered; however, they will not be 

used to establish eligibility for the 

objection process. 

The site-specific FS decisions 

(consent and the powerline) will be 

subject to the FS’s predecisional 

administrative review procedures 

established in 36 CFR part 218. Those 

wishing to object to the site-specific 

decisions must meet the requirements at 

36 CFR part 218, subparts A and B, for 

the project. 

If a forest plan amendment is needed, 

that decision will be subject to the planlevel administrative review procedures 

established in 36 CFR part 219. Those 

wishing to object to the forest plan 

amendment must meet the requirements 

at 36 CFR part 219, subpart B (per 36 

CFR 219.54). (See 36 CFR 219.59(b).) It 

is possible that the 36 CFR parts 218 

and 219 objection process would run 

concurrently. 

Permits, Licenses or Other 

Authorizations Required 

Should the BLM decide to sell the 

Federal metallurgical coal lease through 

the competitive bid process, OSMRE 

will be the permitting authority for the 

3,077 acres of Federal land for coal 

leasing. OSMRE would approve and 

enforce the operator’s subsidence 

control plan and ensure that miningrelated impacts on the hydrological 

balance or acid mine discharge would 

be minimized. The Federal lease holder 

would be required to provide OSMRE 

with a final mine plan that provides 

details on how the underground mine 

and any surface infrastructure would be 

constructed, operated, and maintained. 

OSMRE would prepare a mine plan 

decision document and make a 

recommendation to the DOI Assistant 

Secretary of the Interior for Land and 

Minerals Management (ASLM) whether 

to approve, approve with conditions, or 

disapprove the mine plan. OSMRE 

would request FS consent on the terms 

and conditions of the mine plan 

approval prior to submitting its 

recommendation to ASLM. 

An additional finding is required by 

the Secretary of the Interior on whether 

Federal lands within the national forest 

have significant recreational, timber, 

economic, or other values that may be 

incompatible with coal mining 

operations. That finding, as required by 

section 522(e)(2) of the Surface Mining 

Control and Reclamation Act (30 CFR 

761.11(b)), would rely on a 

recommendation of compatibility and 

determination of compliance (1990 

OSMRE and FS memorandum of 

understanding (MOU)) from the FS, and 

a subsequent compatibility 

determination from OSMRE. Operation 

and reclamation of the metallurgical 

coal mine would be under the 

permitting jurisdiction of OSMRE. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

Among other considerations, the 

responsible officials will review the 

proposed action, other alternatives, 

environmental consequences, in order 

to make the following decisions: 

For the BLM the decisions to be made 

are whether: 

(1) The proposed metallurgical coal 

lease area is acceptable for coal leasing 

(43 CFR part 3461). 

(2) Areas unsuitable for surface 

mining of coal have been identified as 

required by 43 CFR 3461.5. 

(3) There are special conditions 

designed to protect resources that would 

be required for a future coal lease. 

(4) The amount of coal recoverable 

has been identified and is acceptable for 

a future consideration of leasing. 

(5) The screening process has been 

completed in accordance with 43 CFR 

3420.1–4(e). If the BLM determines the 

proposed lease area is suitable and can 

made available for a Federal coal lease, 

the lease would be offered for sale 

through the competitive bid process. 

The BLM decision for a lease to utilize 

Federal lands would be documented in 

a record of decision (ROD) issued by the 

BLM. 

For the FS the decisions to be made 

are whether: 

(1) The lands underlying the ONF are 

suitable for coal leasing; 

(2) To provide consent, with 

appropriate lease stipulations to protect 

surface resources, to the BLM 

concerning a Federal coal Lease by 

Application (LBA) submitted to the 

BLM from the Emera Corporation on 

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1See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 88 FR 

7060 (February 2, 2023) (Initiation Notice). 

2See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Preliminary Results of Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review: Multilayered Wood 

Flooring from the People’s Republic of China; 

2021–2022,’’ dated concurrently with, and hereby 

adopted by, this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

3See Multilayered Wood Flooring from the 

People’s Republic of China: Notice of Amended 

Final Affirmative Determination of Sales at Less 

than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty Order, 76 

FR 76690 (December 8, 2011), as amended in 

Multilayered Wood Flooring from the People’s 

Republic of China, 77 FR 5484 (February 3, 2012) 

(collectively, Order). 

(3) To approve the powerline and 

associated access roads and issue a 

special use permit with terms and 

conditions; and 

(4) If needed, to approve a forest plan 

amendment that may provide 

management direction for coal leasing 

on 3,077 acres within the ONF. 

The FS decision on suitability, 

consent with surface leasing 

stipulations, the powerline and access 

roads special use permit, and a forest 

plan amendment (if needed) would be 

documented in a Record of Decision 

issued by the FS. Consent to the BLM 

would be issued through 

correspondence. 

Substantive Provisions 

The FS’s Land Management Planning 

Rule at 36 CFR 219.13(b)(2) requires the 

responsible official to provide notice of 

which substantive requirements of 36 

CFR 219.8 through 219.11 are likely to 

be directly related to the amendment. 

Whether a rule provision is directly 

related to an amendment is determined 

by the purpose for the amendment and 

the effects (beneficial or adverse) of the 

amendment, and is informed by the best 

available scientific information, 

scoping, effects analysis, monitoring 

data or other rationale (36 CFR 

219.13(b)(5)). Based on those criteria, 

the Planning Rule provision likely to be 

directly related to the forest plan 

amendment (if needed) is: § 219.10(a)(2) 

(multiple use). 

Additional Information 

The EIS will identify, analyze, and 

consider mitigation to address the 

reasonably foreseeable impacts to 

surface resources from the LBA, the 

electrical powerline, and the associated 

access roads. In accordance with 40 CFR 

1502.14(e), the agencies will evaluate 

appropriate mitigation measures not 

already included in the LBA. Mitigation 

may include avoidance, minimization, 

rectification, reduction or elimination 

over time, and compensation; and may 

be considered at multiple scales, 

including the landscape scale. The 

agencies will utilize and coordinate the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) and land use planning processes 

to help support compliance with 

applicable procedural requirements 

under the Endangered Species Act (16 

U.S.C. 1536) and section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act (54 

U.S.C. 306108) as provided in 36 CFR 

800.2(d)(3), including public 

involvement requirements of section 

106. The information about historic and 

cultural resources and threatened and 

endangered species within the area 

potentially affected by the LBA and 

proposed plan amendment will assist 

the agencies in identifying and 

evaluating impacts to such resources. 

Indian Tribal Nations will be 

consulted on a government-togovernment basis in accordance with 

Executive Order 13175, BLM MS 1780, 

and other Departmental policies. Tribal 

concerns, including impacts on Indian 

trust assets and potential impacts to 

cultural resources, will be given due 

consideration. Federal, state, and local 

agencies, along with Indian Tribal 

Nations and other stakeholders that may 

be interested in or affected by the 

proposed Federal coal LBA for the 

Heavener project, the amendment to the 

ONF Revised Forest Plan, and 

powerline-associated actions. They are 

invited to participate in the scoping 

process and, if eligible, may request or 

be requested by the agencies to 

participate in the development of the 

EIS as a cooperating agency. 

Additional opportunities for 

government-to-government consultation 

will be provided during the NEPA 

process. 

Dated: December 19, 2023. 

Gregory Smith, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

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BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–970] 

Multilayered Wood Flooring From the 

People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results of the 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, Preliminary Determination of 

No Shipments, and Rescission of 

Review, in Part; 2021–2022 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily 

determines that Jiangsu Senmao 

Bamboo and Wood Industry Co., Ltd. 

(Senmao) did not make sales of subject 

merchandise at less than normal value 

(NV), and that certain companies had no 

shipments of subject merchandise 

during the period of review (POR) 

December 1, 2021, through November 

30, 2022. In addition, we are rescinding 

the review with respect to one company. 

We invite interested parties to comment 

on these preliminary results. 

DATES: Applicable December 26, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rebecca Trainor, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office VIII, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20230; phone: 

(202) 482–4007. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Commerce is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on multilayered 

wood flooring (MLWF) from the 

People’s Republic of China (China).1

The review covers 48 companies, 

including mandatory respondent, 

Senmao. 

For events that occurred since the 

Initiation Notice and the analysis 

behind our preliminary results herein, 

see the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.2 The Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

via Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. A list of 

topics discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum is included as 

Appendix I to this notice. 

Scope of the Order 3

The product covered by the Order is 

MLWF from China. For a complete 

description of the scope of this 

administrative review, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

Partial Rescission of Review 

On May 1, 2023, Kahrs International 

Inc. (Kahrs) timely withdrew its request 

for review of the Fusong Jinlong Group 


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