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Requirement 

Average 

number of 

annual 

respondents 

Average 

number of 

responses 

each 

Average 

number of 

annual 

responses 

Average 

completion 

time per 

response 

(hours) 

Estimated 

annual 

burden 

hours * 

Approval to Sell/Transfer A Concession Operation ............. 1 1 1 8 8 

General Concessionaire Information—Inspection Form ...... 80 1 80 8 640 

Proposal for Concessions Opportunities—Large Concessions ................................................................................. 3 2 6 40 240 

Proposal for Concessions Opportunities—Small Concessions ................................................................................. 3 1 3 16 48 

Recordkeeping Requirements—Large Concession ............. 5 1 5 40 200 

Recordkeeping Requirements—Small Concession ............. 5 1 5 20 100 

Reporting Requirements—Annual Financial Report ............ 10 1 10 16 160 

Reporting Requirements—Annual Progress Report ............ 10 1 10 16 160 

Reporting Requirements—Quarterly Progress Report ........ 3 4 12 4 48 

Totals ............................................................................ 120 ........................ 132 ........................ 1,604 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Madonna Baucum, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28829 Filed 12–29–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4333–15–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–684 and 731– 

TA–1597 (Final)] 

Gas Powered Pressure Washers From 

China; Supplemental Schedule for 

Final Phase of Countervailing Duty and 

Antidumping Duty Investigations 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

DATES: December 21, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nitin Joshi ((202) 708–1669), Office of 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (https://

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

these investigations may be viewed on 

the Commission’s electronic docket 

(EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective 

June 8, 2023, the Commission 

established a general schedule for the 

conduct of the final phase of its 

countervailing duty and antidumping 

duty investigations on gas powered 

pressure washers from China and 

Vietnam (88 FR 40865, June 22, 2023), 

following preliminary determinations 

by the U.S. Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Commerce’’) that imports of gas 

powered pressure washers from China 

were being subsidized by the 

government of China (88 FR 36531, June 

5, 2023) and that imports of gas 

powered pressure washers from 

Vietnam are being sold in the United 

States at less than fair value (88 FR 

39221, June 15, 2023). Subsequently, on 

August 3, 2023, Commerce issued a 

preliminary affirmative antidumping 

duty determination with respect to gas 

powered pressure washers from China 

(88 FR 51279). Notice of the scheduling 

of the final phase of the Commission’s 

investigations and of a public hearing 

held in connection therewith was given 

by posting copies of the notice in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 

Washington, DC, and by publishing the 

notice in the Federal Register on June 

22, 2023 (88 FR 40865). All persons who 

requested the opportunity were 

permitted to participate. 

Commerce issued a final affirmative 

antidumping duty determination with 

respect to gas powered pressure washers 

from Vietnam (88 FR 59503, August 29, 

2023). The Commission subsequently 

issued its final determination that an 

industry in the United States was 

materially injured by reason of imports 

of gas powered pressure washers from 

Vietnam provided for in subheadings 

8424.30.90 and 8424.90.90 of the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (‘‘HTSUS’’) that have been 

found by Commerce to be sold in the 

United States at less than fair value (88 

FR 71885, October 18, 2023). 

Commerce has issued a final 

affirmative antidumping duty 

determination (88 FR 88365, December 

21, 2023) and a final affirmative 

countervailing duty determination (88 

FR 88578, December 22, 2023) with 

respect to gas powered pressure washers 

from China. Accordingly, the 

Commission currently is issuing a 

supplemental schedule for its 

countervailing duty and antidumping 

duty investigations on imports of gas 

powered pressure washers from China. 

This supplemental schedule is as 

follows: the deadline for filing 

supplemental party comments on 

Commerce’s final countervailing duty 

and antidumping duty determinations is 

5:15 p.m. on January 5, 2024. 

Supplemental party comments may 

address only Commerce’s final 

countervailing duty and antidumping 

duty determinations regarding imports 

of gas powered pressure washers from 

China. These supplemental final 

comments may not contain new factual 

information and may not exceed five (5) 

pages in length. The supplemental staff 

report in the final phase of the current 

investigations will be placed in the 

nonpublic record on January 17, 2024, 

and a public version will be issued 

thereafter. 

For further information concerning 

this proceeding see the Commission’s 

notice cited above and the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A and B 

(19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A and C (19 CFR part 207). 

Additional written submissions to the 

Commission, including requests 

pursuant to section 201.12 of the 

Commission’s rules, shall not be 

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accepting such submissions, or unless 

the submission is pursuant to a specific 

request by a Commissioner or 

Commission staff. 

In accordance with sections 201.16(c) 

and 207.3 of the Commission’s rules, 

each document filed by a party to the 

investigations must be served on all 

other parties to the investigations (as 

identified by either the public or BPI 

service list), and a certificate of service 

must be timely filed. The Secretary will 

not accept a document for filing without 

a certificate of service. 

Please note the Secretary’s Office will 

accept only electronic filings during this 

time. Filings must be made through the 

Commission’s Electronic Document 

Information System (EDIS, https://

edis.usitc.gov.) No in-person paperbased filings or paper copies of any 

electronic filings will be accepted until 

further notice. 

Authority: This proceeding is being 

conducted under authority of title VII of 

the Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is 

published pursuant to section 207.21 of 

the Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 27, 2023. 

Katherine Hiner, 

Supervisory Attorney. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28856 Filed 12–29–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–598 and 731– 

TA–1408 and 1410 (Review)] 

Rubber Bands From China and 

Thailand; Institution of Five-Year 

Reviews 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commission hereby gives 

notice that it has instituted reviews 

pursuant to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the 

Act’’), as amended, to determine 

whether revocation of the 

countervailing duty order on rubber 

bands from China and the antidumping 

duty orders on rubber bands from China 

and Thailand would be likely to lead to 

continuation or recurrence of material 

injury. Pursuant to the Act, interested 

parties are requested to respond to this 

notice by submitting the information 

specified below to the Commission. 

DATES: Instituted January 2, 2024. To be 

assured of consideration, the deadline 

for responses is February 1, 2024. 

Comments on the adequacy of responses 

may be filed with the Commission by 

March 11, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alec 

Resch (202–708–1448), Office of 

Investigations, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (https://

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

this proceeding may be viewed on the 

Commission’s electronic docket (EDIS) 

at https://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background.—On February 19, 2019, 

the Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Commerce’’) issued antidumping and 

countervailing duty orders on imports of 

rubber bands from China (84 FR 4774). 

On April 26, 2019, Commerce issued an 

antidumping duty order on imports of 

rubber bands from Thailand (84 FR 

17779). The Commission is conducting 

reviews pursuant to section 751(c) of the 

Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)), to 

determine whether revocation of the 

orders would be likely to lead to 

continuation or recurrence of material 

injury to the domestic industry within 

a reasonably foreseeable time. 

Provisions concerning the conduct of 

this proceeding may be found in the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure at 19 CFR part 201, subparts 

A and B, and 19 CFR part 207, subparts 

A and F. The Commission will assess 

the adequacy of interested party 

responses to this notice of institution to 

determine whether to conduct full or 

expedited reviews. The Commission’s 

determinations in any expedited 

reviews will be based on the facts 

available, which may include 

information provided in response to this 

notice. 

Definitions.—The following 

definitions apply to these reviews: 

(1) Subject Merchandise is the class or 

kind of merchandise that is within the 

scope of the five-year reviews, as 

defined by Commerce. 

(2) The Subject Countries in these 

reviews are China and Thailand. 

(3) The Domestic Like Product is the 

domestically produced product or 

products which are like, or in the 

absence of like, most similar in 

characteristics and uses with, the 

Subject Merchandise. In its original 

determinations, the Commission 

defined a single Domestic Like Product 

consisting of rubber bands, coextensive 

with Commerce’s scope. 

(4) The Domestic Industry is the U.S. 

producers as a whole of the Domestic 

Like Product, or those producers whose 

collective output of the Domestic Like 

Product constitutes a major proportion 

of the total domestic production of the 

product. In its original determinations, 

the Commission defined the Domestic 

Industry as all U.S. producers of the 

domestic like product. 

(5) The Order Dates are the dates that 

the antidumping and countervailing 

duty orders under review became 

effective. In these reviews, the Order 

Date with respect to China is February 

19, 2019, and the Order Date with 

respect to Thailand is April 26, 2019. 

(6) An Importer is any person or firm 

engaged, either directly or through a 

parent company or subsidiary, in 

importing the Subject Merchandise into 

the United States from a foreign 

manufacturer or through its selling 

agent. 

Participation in the proceeding and 

public service list.—Persons, including 

industrial users of the Subject 

Merchandise and, if the merchandise is 

sold at the retail level, representative 

consumer organizations, wishing to 

participate in the proceeding as parties 

must file an entry of appearance with 

the Secretary to the Commission, as 

provided in § 201.11(b)(4) of the 

Commission’s rules, no later than 21 

days after publication of this notice in 

the Federal Register. The Secretary will 

maintain a public service list containing 

the names and addresses of all persons, 

or their representatives, who are parties 

to the proceeding. 

Former Commission employees who 

are seeking to appear in Commission 

five-year reviews are advised that they 

may appear in a review even if they 

participated personally and 

substantially in the corresponding 

underlying original investigation or an 

earlier review of the same underlying 

investigation. The Commission’s 

designated agency ethics official has 

advised that a five-year review is not the 

same particular matter as the underlying 

original investigation, and a five-year 

review is not the same particular matter 

as an earlier review of the same 

underlying investigation for purposes of 

18 U.S.C. 207, the post-employment 

statute for Federal employees, and 

Commission rule 201.15(b) (19 CFR 

201.15(b)), 79 FR 3246 (Jan. 17, 2014), 

73 FR 24609 (May 5, 2008). 

Consequently, former employees are not 

required to seek Commission approval 

to appear in a review under Commission 


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