Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 10, 2000 / Notices 60167

Comments should reference OMB No.

0581–0067 and the Peanut Marketing

Agreement No. 146, and be mailed to

Docket Clerk, Fruit and Vegetable

Programs, AMS, USDA, P.O. Box 96456,

Room 2525–S, Washington, DC 20090–

6456; Fax (202) 720–5698; or E-mail:

moab.docketclerk@usda.gov. Comments

should reference the docket number and

the date and page number of this issue

of the Federal Register. All comments

received will be available for public

inspection in the Office of the Docket

Clerk during regular USDA business

hours at 14th and Independence Ave.,

SW, Washington, DC, room 2525–S, or

can be viewed at: http://

www.ams.usda.gov/fv/moab.html.

All responses to this notice will be

summarized and included in the request

for OMB approval. All comments will

also become a matter of public record.

Dated: October 3, 2000.

Robert C. Keeney,

Deputy Administrator, Fruit and Vegetable

Programs.

[FR Doc. 00–25948 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–02–U

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation

Sunshine Act Meeting: CCC Board

Meeting; Correction

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation,

USDA.

ACTION: Sunshine Act meeting

correction.

SUMMARY: In Federal Register document

65–FR–192 beginning on page 58983–

58984 in the issue of Tuesday, October

3, 2000, make the following correction:

The CCC Board Meeting scheduled for

October 10, 2000, at 2 p.m., in Room

104–A, Jamie L. Whitten Building has

been canceled. The meeting will be

rescheduled at a later date.

Dated: October 4, 2000.

Juanita B. Daniels,

Acting Secretary, Commodity Credit

Corporation.

[FR Doc. 00–26037 Filed 10–5–00; 12:52 pm]

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Farm Service Agency

Release of Georgia Tobacco Farmers’

Social Security Numbers to the State

of Georgia

AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Release

Records and Opportunity to Opt Out of

the Release.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

intention of the Secretary of Agriculture

to release the social security numbers of

those Georgia tobacco farmers who

receive Tobacco Loss Assistance

Program 2000 (TLAP) payments; and

provides notice of the method in which

interested parties can opt out of that

release. The release will be to the State

of Georgia which will distribute an

identical sum of State funds to each

TLAP 2000 Georgia farmer.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 6, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Notices should be mailed to

Charles Hatcher, Farm Service Agency

(FSA), Tobacco and Peanuts Division,

STOP 0514, 1400 Independence

Avenue, SW, Washington, DC 20250–

0514.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Misty L. Jones, telephone (202) 720–

0200.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The TLAP

2000 Program is provided for in Section

204(b) of the Agricultural Risk

Protection Act of 2000 (ARPA), Public

Law 106–224, and is a program in

which Federal payments are made to

tobacco farmers and other parties with

an interest in certain kinds of tobacco

which have had reduced quotas.

Tobacco farmers who applied for TLAP

2000 payments were required to provide

to the Farm Service Agency their social

security numbers. The ARPA of 2000,

which provided funds for TLAP 2000,

contains the following restriction as to

the State of Georgia:

The Secretary shall use the amount

allocated to the State of Georgia under

paragraph (3) to make payments to eligible

persons in Georgia only if the State of

Georgia agrees to use an equal amount (not

to exceed $13,000,000) to make payments at

the same time, or subsequently, to the same

eligible persons in the same manner as

provided for the Federal payment under

paragraphs (4) and (5).

In order to efficiently and

expeditiously make the matching

payments to Georgia tobacco producers,

the State of Georgia has requested that

the Farm Service Agency provide the

names, addresses, social security

numbers, and the amount of money to

be paid to each farmer. However, there

may be some Georgia tobacco farmers

who would rather not have their social

security numbers released to the State.

Because these matching State payments

can provide much needed help to

Georgia producers, the Secretary intends

to provide the social security numbers

to the State of Georgia, except in the

case of those parties who wish to opt

out of the release. Those who wish to

opt out of the release should send notice

in writing of their election to Charles

Hatcher, Farm Service Agency, Tobacco

and Peanuts Division, STOP 0514, 1400

Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, D.C. 20250–0514. Such

notice must be received by October 25,

2000.

Parties should understand that a

request for an exemption from the

disclosure could result in a delay in

receiving a distribution from the State of

Georgia or ineligibility for such a

distribution. It is not expected that there

will be many exemption requests filed.

Accordingly, it appears that the record

collections can be made at one location

for re-routing to the national record

center for processing.

Signed at Washington, D.C., on October 3,

2000.

Keith Kelly,

Administrator, Farm Service Agency.

[FR Doc. 00–25949 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–05–U

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Transportation and Related Equipment

Technical Advisory Committee; Notice

of Open Meeting

The Transportation and Related

Equipment Technical Advisory

Committee will meet on October 25,

2000, 9 a.m., at the Herbert C. Hoover

Building, Room 3884, 14th Street

between Pennsylvania & Constitution

Avenues, NW., Washington, DC. The

Committee advises the Office of the

Assistant Secretary for Export

Administration with respect to technical

question that affect the level of export

controls applicable to transportation

and related equipment or technology.

Agenda

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Consultation with Committee on

renewal of charter.

3. Review of pending regulatory

revisions.

4. Update on missile technology

issues.

5. Update on Wassenaar Arrangement

negotiations.

6. Presentation of papers or comments

by the public.

7. Review of status of actions items

from previous meeting.

8. Member assignments for Wassenaar

Arrangement proposals.

The meeting will be open to the

public and a limited number of seats

60168 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 196 / Tuesday, October 10, 2000 / Notices

1 In its substantive response the domestic

interested parties note that Strategic Minerals

Corporation sells domestically-produced

ferrovanadium in the United States through its

wholly-owned subsidiary, U.S. Vanadium

Corporation.

will be available. Reservations are not

accepted. To the extent time permits,

members of the public may present oral

statements to the Committee. Written

statements may be submitted at any

time before or after the meeting.

However, to facilitate distribution of

public presentation materials to

Committee members, the Committee

suggests that you forward your public

presentation materials two weeks prior

to the meeting to the following address:

Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA

Ms: 3876, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th & Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230.

For more information or copies of the

minutes, please call Lee Ann Carpenter

on (202) 482–2583.

Dated: October 4, 2000.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–25937 Filed 10–6–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–JT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–821–807]

Final Results of Expedited Sunset

Review: Ferrovanadium and Nitrided

Vanadium From Russia

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final results of

expedited sunset review:

Ferrovanadium and Nitrided Vanadium

from Russia.

SUMMARY: On June 5, 2000, the

Department of Commerce (‘‘the

Department’’) initiated a sunset review

of the antidumping duty order on

ferrovanadium and nitrided vanadium

from Russia (65 FR 35604) pursuant to

section 751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended (‘‘the Act’’). On the basis of

a notice of intent to participate and

substantive comments filed on behalf of

the domestic interested parties and

inadequate response from respondent

interested parties, Department

determined to conduct an expedited

sunset review. As a result of this review,

the Department finds that revocation of

the antidumping order would likely

lead to continuation or recurrence of

dumping at the levels indicated in the

Final Results of Review section of this

notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 10, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Martha V. Douthit or James P. Maeder,

Office of Policy for Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, D.C. 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–5050 or (202) 482–

3330, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

This review was conducted pursuant

to sections 751(c) and 752 of the Act.

The Department’s procedures for the

conduct of sunset reviews are set forth

in Procedures for Conducting Five-Year

(‘‘Sunset’’) Reviews of Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Orders, 63 FR

13516 (March 20, 1998) (‘‘Sunset

Regulations’’) and in 19 CFR Part 351

(2000) in general. Guidance on

methodological or analytical issues

relevant to the Department’s conduct of

sunset reviews is set forth in the

Department’s Policy Bulletin 98:3—

Policies Regarding the Conduct of FiveYear (‘‘Sunset’’) Reviews of

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty

Orders; Policy Bulletin, 63 FR 18871

(April 16, 1998) (‘‘Sunset Policy

Bulletin’’).

Background

On June 5, 2000, the Department

initiated a sunset review of the

antidumping order on ferrovanadium

and nitrided vanadium from Russia (65

FR 35604), pursuant to section 751(c) of

the Act. On June 20, 2000, the

Department received a Notice of Intent

to Participate within the deadline

specified in section 351.218(d)(1)(i) of

the Sunset Regulations on behalf of the

Ferroalloys Association Vanadium

Committee ( the ‘‘TFA Vanadium

Committee’’) and its members; Bear

Metallurgical Corporation, Shieldalloy

Metallurgical Corporation

(‘‘Shieldalloy’’), Gulf Chemical and

Metallurgical, Strategic Minerals

Corporation, and CS Metals of

Louisiana, ( collectively ‘‘the domestic

interested parties’’). On July 5, 2000, the

Department received a complete

substantive response from the domestic

interested parties within the 30-day

deadline specified in the Sunset

Regulations under section

351.218(d)(3)(i).

The TFA Vanadium Committee

claimed interested party status under 19

USC 1677(9)(E) as a trade or business

association of a majority of whose

members manufacture, produce, or

wholesale a domestic like product in the

United States. As domestic interested

parties, the following members of the

TFA Vanadium Committee claimed

interested party status under 19 USC

1677(9)(C); Bear Metallurgical

Corporation, Shieldalloy Metallurgical

Corporation, Gulf Chemical and

Metallurgical and Strategic Minerals

Corporation.1 In addition, they

identified another member, CS Metals of

Louisiana, as an interested party in this

sunset review. See Domestic Interested

Parties, July 5, 2000, Substantive

Response at 2–3.

Bear Metallurgical Corporation and

Shieldalloy Metallurgical Corporation

assert that they are the only U.S.

manufacturers or producers of

ferrovanadium. Id. at 2. Gulf Chemical

and Metallurgical, and Strategic

Minerals Corporation assert that they

are wholesalers in the United States of

domestically-produced ferrovanadium.

Id. at 2.

With respect to historical

participation of this order, the domestic

interested parties assert that in 1994,

Shieldalloy filed the petition that lead

to the issuance of the antidumping duty

order on ferrovanadium and nitrided

vanadium from Russia. In addition,

Shieldalloy actively participated in the

Department’s first administrative review

covering the period January 4, 1995,

through June 30, 1996. Id. at 4–5.

Although Shieldalloy requested an

administrative review for one exporter,

Galt Alloys, during the period July 1,

1996, through June 30, 1997, the review

was terminated because Galt Alloys did

not make sales of the subject

merchandise between July 1, 1996 and

June 30, 1997. Id. at 4. The domestic

interested parties further assert that

Shieldalloy has actively participated in

all judicial appeals and remand

proceedings related to this order. Id. at

5.

On July 5, 2000, the Department

received a complete substantive

response to the notice on initiation from

respondent interested parties;

Vanadium Tulachermet

(‘‘Tulachermet’’) and Chusovskoy

Metallurgical Works Joint Stock

Company (‘‘Chusovskoy’’) (collectively

‘‘the respondent interested parties’’)

within the 30-day deadline specified in

the Sunset Regulations under section

351.218(d)(3)(i). The respondent

interested parties claimed interested

party status under 19 USC 1677(9)(A) as

foreign manufacturers of the subject

merchandise. With respect to

respondent interested parties’ historical

participation of the order, they assert

that they participated in the original

investigation by providing factors of

production to the Department, although