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approved final record of the CSB 

investigation of this incident. 

Additional Information 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. If you require a translator or 

interpreter, please notify the individual 

listed below as the ‘‘Contact Person for 

Further Information,’’ at least five 

business days prior to the meeting. 

The CSB is an independent federal 

agency charged with investigating 

accidents and hazards that result, or 

may result, in the catastrophic release of 

extremely hazardous substances. The 

agency’s Board Members are appointed 

by the President and confirmed by the 

Senate. CSB investigations look into all 

aspects of chemical accidents and 

hazards, including physical causes such 

as equipment failure as well as 

inadequacies in regulations, industry 

standards, and safety management 

systems. 

Public Comment 

Members of the public are invited to 

make brief statements to the Board at 

the conclusion of the staff presentation. 

The time provided for public statements 

will depend upon the number of people 

who wish to speak. Speakers should 

assume that their presentations will be 

limited to five minutes or less, and may 

submit written statements for the 

record. 

Contact Person for Further Information 

Hillary J. Cohen, Communications 

Manager, hillary.cohen@csb.gov or (202) 

446–8094. General information about 

the CSB can be found on the agency 

Web site at: www.csb.gov. 

Dated: December 23, 2013. 

Rafael Moure-Eraso, 

Chairperson. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31111 Filed 12–24–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6350–01–P 

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: January 15, 2014, 6:30 

p.m.–8:30 p.m. PST. 

PLACE: City Council Chambers, Civic 

Center Campus, 440 Civic Center Plaza, 

Richmond, CA 94804. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED The 

Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board (CSB) will convene 

a public meeting on January 15, 2014, 

starting at 6:30 p.m. at the City Council 

Chambers, Civic Center Campus, 440 

Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA 

94804. At the public meeting, the Board 

will consider and vote on the draft 

regulatory report of the August 6, 2012, 

fire at the Chevron refinery that 

endangered 19 workers and sent more 

than 15,000 residents to the hospital for 

medical attention. 

At the meeting, CSB staff will present 

to the Board the results of the second of 

three reports in the CSB’s investigation 

of this incident. Subject to a vote by the 

board at the January 15 public meeting, 

the draft regulatory report would 

recommend that California ‘‘Develop 

and implement a step-by-step plan to 

establish a more rigorous safety 

management regulatory framework for 

petroleum refineries in the state of 

California based on the principles of the 

‘safety case’ framework in use in 

regulatory regimes such as those in the 

UK, Australia, and Norway.’’ The 

recommendation urges specific steps to 

accomplish this, including ensuring that 

workers are formally involved in the 

development of a safety case report for 

each covered facility. The report also 

urges California to work with industry 

in gathering refinery safety indicator 

data to be shared with the public. 

As detailed in the CSB draft report, a 

safety case regime which would require 

companies to demonstrate to refinery 

industry regulators—through a written 

‘‘safety case report’’—how major 

hazards are to be controlled and risks 

reduced to ‘‘as low as reasonably 

practicable,’’ or ALARP. The CSB report 

notes that the safety case is more than 

a written document; rather, it represents 

a fundamental change by shifting the 

responsibility for continuous reductions 

in major accident risks from regulators 

to the company. 

To ensure that a facility’s safety goals 

and programs are accomplished, a safety 

case report generated by the company is 

rigorously reviewed, audited, and 

enforced by highly trained regulatory 

inspectors, whose technical training and 

experience are on par with the 

personnel employed by the companies 

they oversee, the draft report says. 

The CSB’s first interim report—which 

was voted on and approved by the board 

at a public meeting in Richmond, CA, 

on April 19, 2013—found that Chevron 

repeatedly failed over a ten-year period 

to apply inherently safer design 

principles and upgrade piping in its 

crude oil processing unit, which was 

extremely corroded and ultimately 

ruptured on August 6, 2012. The CSB’s 

investigation identified missed 

opportunities on the part of Chevron to 

apply inherently safer piping design 

through the use of more corrosionresistant metal alloys. The first interim 

report also found a failure by Chevron 

to identify and evaluate damage 

mechanism hazards, which if acted 

upon, would likely have identified the 

possibility of a catastrophic sulfidation 

corrosion-related piping failure. There 

are currently no federal or state 

regulatory requirements to apply these 

important preventative measures. The 

investigation team concluded that 

enhanced regulatory oversight with 

greater worker involvement and public 

participation are needed to improve 

petroleum refinery safety. 

Following the staff presentation on 

proposed findings and safety 

recommendations, the Board will hear 

comments from the public. 

Following the conclusion of the 

public comment period, the Board will 

consider whether to approve the final 

report and recommendations. All staff 

presentations are preliminary and are 

intended solely to allow the Board to 

consider in a public forum the issues 

and factors involved in this case. No 

factual analyses, conclusions, or 

findings presented by staff should be 

considered final. 

Only after the Board has considered 

the staff presentations, listened to 

public comments, and adopted a final 

investigation report and 

recommendations will there be an 

approved final record of the CSB 

investigation of this incident. 

Additional Information 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. If you require a translator or 

interpreter, please notify the individual 

listed below as the ‘‘Contact Person for 

Further Information,’’ at least five 

business days prior to the meeting. 

The CSB is an independent federal 

agency charged with investigating 

accidents and hazards that result, or 

may result, in the catastrophic release of 

extremely hazardous substances. The 

agency’s Board Members are appointed 

by the President and confirmed by the 

Senate. CSB investigations look into all 

aspects of chemical accidents and 

hazards, including physical causes such 

as equipment failure as well as 

inadequacies in regulations, industry 

standards, and safety management 

systems. 

Public Comment 

Members of the public are invited to 

make brief statements to the Board at 

the conclusion of the staff presentation. 

The time provided for public statements 

will depend upon the number of people 

who wish to speak. Speakers should 

assume that their presentations will be 

limited to five minutes or less, and may 

submit written statements for the 

record. 


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1See Purified Carboxymethylcellulose From the 

Netherlands: Preliminary Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review and Preliminary No 

Shipment Determination; 2011–2012, 78 FR 48649 

(August 9, 2013) (Preliminary Results). 

Contact Person for Further Information 

Hillary J. Cohen, Communications 

Manager, hillary.cohen@csb.gov or (202) 

446–8094. General information about 

the CSB can be found on the agency 

Web site at: www.csb.gov. 

Dated: December 23, 2013. 

Rafael Moure-Eraso, 

Chairperson. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31156 Filed 12–24–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6350–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economic Development Administration 

Notice of Petitions by Firms for 

Determination of Eligibility to Apply for 

Trade Adjustment Assistance 

AGENCY: Economic Development 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and Opportunity for 

Public Comment. 

Pursuant to Section 251 of the Trade 

Act 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2341 

et seq.), the Economic Development 

Administration (EDA) has received 

petitions for certification of eligibility to 

apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance 

from the firms listed below. 

Accordingly, EDA has initiated 

investigations to determine whether 

increased imports into the United States 

of articles like or directly competitive 

with those produced by each of these 

firms contributed importantly to the 

total or partial separation of the firm’s 

workers, or threat thereof, and to a 

decrease in sales or production of each 

petitioning firm. 

LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE

[12/19/2013 through 12/19/2013] 

Firm name Firm address 

Date accepted 

for investigation Product(s) 

The Line Group, Inc. ...................... 539 W. Algonquin Road, Arlington 

Heights, IL 60005.

12/18/2013 The firm manufactures metal stampings and assemblies. 

Nordic Tugs Incorporated .............. 11367 Higgins Airport Way, Burlington, WA 98233.12/19/2013 The firm manufactures recreational trawlers/yachts. 

CPAC Equipment, Inc. ................... 2364 Leicester Road, Leicester, 

NY 14481.

........................ The firm manufactures dry heat sterilizers and dental evacuation equipment. 

S3 Manufacturing, Inc. ................... 29690 SE Orient Dr, Gresham, OR 

97080.

12/19/2013 The firm manufactures parts for bicycle, motorcycle 

industry; custom job shop for other aluminum, 

steel and plastics. 

Seating, Inc. ................................... 60 North Street, Nunda, NY 14517 12/19/2013 The firm manufactures upholstered seats with metal 

frames. 

Any party having a substantial 

interest in these proceedings may 

request a public hearing on the matter. 

A written request for a hearing must be 

submitted to the Trade Adjustment 

Assistance for Firms Division, Room 

71030, Economic Development 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, no 

later than ten (10) calendar days 

following publication of this notice. 

Please follow the requirements set 

forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR 

315.9 for procedures to request a public 

hearing. The Catalog of Federal 

Domestic Assistance official number 

and title for the program under which 

these petitions are submitted is 11.313, 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

Michael DeVillo, 

Eligibility Examiner. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31006 Filed 12–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–421–811] 

Purified Carboxymethylcellulose From 

the Netherlands: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review and Final No Shipment 

Determination; 2011–2012 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

formerly Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On August 9, 2013, the 

Department of Commerce (the 

Department) published the preliminary 

results of the administrative review and 

preliminary no shipment determination 

of the antidumping duty (AD) order on 

purified carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) 

from the Netherlands. For the final 

results, we continue to find that sales of 

subject merchandise by Akzo Nobel 

Functional Chemicals, B.V. (Akzo 

Nobel) were made at less than normal 

value, and that CP Kelco, B.V. (CP 

Kelco) had no shipments of subject 

merchandise during the POR. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 27, 

2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Drury or Angelica Mendoza, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office VI, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–0195, and (202) 

482–3019, respectively. 

Background 

On August 9, 2013, the Department 

published the preliminary results of the 

administrative review of the AD order 

on purified CMC from the Netherlands.1

We invited interested parties to 

comment on the Preliminary Results. 

We received no comments. The 

Department has conducted this 

administrative review in accordance 

with section 751(a) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act). 

Tolling of Deadlines 

As explained in the memorandum 

from the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, the 

Department has exercised its discretion 

to toll deadlines for the duration of the 


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