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Dated: March 12, 2012. 

Mark E. Brown, 

Chief Financial Officer\Chief Administrative 

Officer, Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Research, National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6485 Filed 3–16–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XB083 

Endangered Species; File No. 15672 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Issuance of permit. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

Molly Lutcavage, Ph.D., University of 

Massachusetts, Amherst, 108 Main 

Street, Gloucester MA 01930 has been 

issued a permit to take leatherback sea 

turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) for 

purposes of scientific research. 

ADDRESSES: The permit and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following offices: 

Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 

1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; 

phone (301) 427–8401; fax (301) 713– 

0376; and 

Northeast Region, NMFS, 55 Great 

Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 

01930; phone (978) 281–9328; fax 

(978) 281–9394. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Cairns or Amy Hapeman, (301) 

427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

26, 2011, notice was published in the 

Federal Register (76 FR 23305) that a 

request for a scientific research permit 

to take leatherback sea turtles had been 

submitted by the above-named 

individual. The requested permit has 

been issued under the authority of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 

and the regulations governing the 

taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR parts 222–226). 

The five year permit authorizes Dr. 

Lutcavage to conduct research to 

characterize the distribution, 

movements and dive behavior of 

leatherback sea turtles in the waters of 

New England. Researchers may take up 

to 25 leatherback sea turtles annually 

that have been disentangled from 

fishing gear by a stranding network or 

captured with a breakaway hoopnet. 

Turtles would be measured, weighed, 

photographed and videotaped, flipper 

and passive integrated transponder 

tagged, blood, tissue, and fecal sampled, 

cloacal, oral, and nasal swabbed, tagged 

with an electronic transmitter, and 

released. 

Issuance of this permit, as required by 

the ESA, was based on a finding that 

such permit (1) was applied for in good 

faith, (2) will not operate to the 

disadvantage of such endangered or 

threatened species, and (3) is consistent 

with the purposes and policies set forth 

in section 2 of the ESA. 

Dated: March 13, 2012. 

Tammy C. Adams, 

Acting Chief, Permits and Conservation 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

United States Patent and Trademark 

Office 

[Docket No. PTO–C–2012–0011] 

National Medal of Technology and 

Innovation Nomination Evaluation 

Committee Charter Renewal 

AGENCY: United States Patent and 

Trademark Office, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Chief Financial Officer 

and Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 

Administration, with the concurrence of 

the General Services Administration, 

renewed the Charter for the National 

Medal of Technology and Innovation 

Nomination Evaluation Committee on 

March 1, 2012. 

DATES: The Charter for the National 

Medal of Technology and Innovation 

Nomination Evaluation Committee was 

renewed on March 1, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Maulsby, Program Manager, 

National Medal of Technology and 

Innovation Program, United States 

Patent and Trademark Office, 600 

Dulany Street, Alexandria, VA 22314; 

telephone (571) 272–8333 or by 

electronic mail: nmti@uspto.gov. 

Information is also available on the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.uspto.gov/about/nmti/index.jsp. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Chief 

Financial Officer and Assistant 

Secretary of Commerce for 

Administration, with the concurrence of 

the General Services Administration, 

renewed the Charter for the National 

Medal of Technology and Innovation 

Nomination Evaluation Committee 

(NMTI Committee) on March 1, 2012. 

This Notice is published in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act (FACA) (Title 5, United States Code, 

Appendix 2, § 9). It has been determined 

that the Committee is necessary and in 

the public interest. The Committee was 

established in accordance with the 

FACA and provides advice to the 

Secretary on the implementation of 

Public Law 96–480 (15 U.S.C. 3711), as 

amended August 9, 2007, specifically 

with regard to recommendations of 

nominees for the Medal. The duties of 

the NMTI Committee are solely advisory 

in nature. Nominations for this Medal 

are solicited through an open, 

competitive, nationwide call for 

nominations and the NMTI Committee 

members are responsible for reviewing 

the nominations received. The NMTI 

Committee members are distinguished 

experts in the private and public sectors 

with experience in, or an understanding 

of, the development and utilization of 

technological innovations or 

technological manpower. The NMTI 

Committee evaluates the nominees and 

forwards its recommendations, through 

the Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Intellectual Property, to the Secretary 

who, in turn, forwards his 

recommendations for the Medal to the 

President. 

Dated: March 13, 2012. 

Teresa Stanek Rea, 

Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for 

Intellectual Property and Acting Director of 

the United States Patent and Trademark 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6527 Filed 3–16–12; 8:45 am] 

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COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

Interim Procedures for Considering 

Requests From the Public for Textile 

and Apparel Safeguard Actions on 

Imports From Korea and Estimate of 

Burden for Collection of Information 

AGENCY: The Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements. 

ACTION: Notice of interim procedures 

and request for comments; estimate of 

information collection burden. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

procedures the Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(‘‘CITA’’ or ‘‘the Committee’’) will 


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follow in considering requests from the 

public for textile and apparel safeguard 

actions as provided for in the United 

States-Korea Free Trade Agreement 

Implementation Act (‘‘the Act’’). The 

President has directed CITA to establish 

procedures that govern the submission 

of a request and provide the opportunity 

for interested entities to submit 

comments and supporting evidence in 

any such determination pursuant to the 

Act. CITA hereby gives notice to 

interested entities of the procedure 

CITA will follow in considering such 

requests and solicits public written 

comments on these interim procedures. 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, this notice further 

provides an estimate of the burden to 

the public to collect and submit 

information as for requesting such 

safeguard measures, for making its 

determinations under Section 332(a) of 

the Act, and for providing relief under 

Section 332(b) of the Act. 

DATES: As of March 19, 2012, CITA 

intends to use these interim procedures 

to process requests from the public. 

CITA solicits public written comments 

on the interim procedures. Comments 

must be received no later than April 18, 

2012 in either hard copy or 

electronically. 

ADDRESSES: If submitting comments in 

hard copy, an original, signed document 

must be submitted to the Chairman, 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements, Room 3100, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. If submitting 

comments electronically, an electronic 

copy, via electronic mail (‘‘email’’) must 

be submitted to 

OTEXA.KOREA@trade.gov. All 

submitted comments will be posted for 

public review on the Web site dedicated 

to U.S.-Korea FTA textile and apparel 

safeguard proceedings. The Web site is 

located on the U.S. Department of 

Commerce’s Office of Textile and 

Apparel Web site 

(www.otexa.ita.doc.gov), under ‘‘Korea 

FTA’’/‘‘Safeguards’’ Additional 

instructions regarding the submission of 

comments may be found at the end of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maria D’Andrea, Office of Textiles and 

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

(202) 482–1550. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title III, 

Subtitle C, Section 331 through Section 

338 of the United States-Korea Free 

Trade Agreement Implementation Act 

(the ‘‘Act’’) [Public Law 112–41] 

implements the textile and apparel 

safeguard provision, provided for in 

Article 4.1 of the United States-Korea 

Free Trade Agreement (the 

‘‘Agreement’’). The safeguard 

mechanism applies when, as a result of 

the reduction or elimination of a 

customs duty under the Agreement, a 

Korean textile or apparel article is being 

imported into the United States in such 

increased quantities, in absolute terms 

or relative to the domestic market for 

that article, and under such conditions 

as to cause serious damage or actual 

threat thereof to a U.S. industry 

producing a like or directly competitive 

article. In these circumstances, Article 

4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a) 

suspend any further reduction in the 

rate of duty provided for under Annex 

2–B of the Agreement in the duty 

imposed on the article; or (b) increase 

duties on the imported article from 

Korea to a level that does not exceed the 

lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal 

trade relations (‘‘NTR’’)/most-favorednation (‘‘MFN’’) duty rate for the article 

or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect 

on the day before the Agreement enters 

into force. In Presidential Proclamation 

8783 (77 FR 14265, March 9, 2012), the 

President delegated to the Committee 

certain functions under Subtitle C of 

Title III of the Act. 

The import tariff relief is effective 

beginning on the date that the 

Committee determines that a Korean 

textile or apparel article as defined in 

section 301(3) of the Act, is being 

imported into the United States in such 

increased quantities, in absolute terms 

or relative to the domestic market for 

that article, and under such conditions 

as to cause serious damage, or actual 

threat thereof, to a U.S. industry 

producing an article that is like, or 

directly competitive with, the imported 

article. Consistent with Section 333(a) of 

the Act, the initial period of import 

tariff relief, as set forth in section 3 of 

this notice, shall be two years. The 

Committee may extend the period of 

import relief for a period not more than 

two years if the Committee determines 

that the continuation is necessary to 

remedy or prevent serious damage or 

actual threat thereof and to facilitate 

adjustment by the domestic industry to 

import competition, and that the 

domestic industry is, in fact, making a 

positive adjustment to import 

competition. Import tariff relief may not 

be applied to the same article under 

these procedures if (1) relief previously 

has been granted with respect to that 

article under these provisions, or (2) the 

article is subject to relief under (a) 

Subtitle A of Title III of the Act (Chapter 

Ten (Trade Remedies of the Agreement), 

or (B) Chapter 1 of Title III of the Trade 

Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2133). 

Authority to provide import tariff 

relief with respect to a Korean textile or 

apparel article will expire ten years after 

duties on the article are eliminated 

pursuant to the Agreement. 

Under Article 4.1.6 of the Agreement, 

if the United States provides relief to a 

domestic industry under the textile and 

apparel safeguard, it must provide Korea 

‘‘mutually agreed trade liberalizing 

compensation in the form of 

concessions having substantially 

equivalent trade effects or equivalent to 

the value of the additional duties 

expected to result from the emergency 

action.’’ Such concessions shall be 

limited to textile and apparel products, 

unless the United States and Korea 

agree otherwise. If the United States and 

Korea are unable to agree on trade 

liberalizing compensation, Korea may 

increase customs duties equivalently on 

U.S. products. The obligation to provide 

compensation terminates upon 

termination of the safeguard relief. 

Section 337 of the Act extends the 

President’s authority to provide 

compensation under Section 123 of the 

Trade Act of 1974, as amended, to 

measures taken pursuant to the 

Agreement’s textile and apparel 

safeguard provision. 

Procedures for Requesting Textile and 

Apparel Safeguard Actions 

1. Requirements for Requests. 

Pursuant to Section 331(a) of the Act 

and Section 7 of Presidential 

Proclamation 8783, an interested party 

may file a request for a textile and 

apparel safeguard action with the 

Committee. The Committee will review 

requests from the interested party sent 

to the Chairman, Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements, 

Room 3100, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

Ten copies of any such request must be 

provided. As provided in Section 338 of 

the Act, the Committee will protect from 

disclosure any business confidential 

information that is marked ‘‘business 

confidential’’ to the full extent 

permitted by law. To the extent that 

business confidential information is 

provided, two copies of a nonconfidential version must also be 

provided, in which business 

confidential information is summarized 

or, if necessary, deleted. At the 

conclusion of the request, an interested 

party must attest that ‘‘all information 

contained in the request is complete and 

accurate and no false claims, statements, 

or representations have been made.’’ 

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Act, the Committee will review a 

request initially to determine whether to 

commence consideration of the request 

on its merits. Within 15 business days 

of receipt of a request, the Committee 

will determine whether the request 

provides the information necessary for 

the Committee to consider the request in 

light of the considerations set forth 

below. If the request does not, the 

Committee will promptly notify the 

requester of the reasons for this 

determination and the request will not 

be considered. However, the Committee 

will reevaluate any request that is 

resubmitted with additional 

information. 

Consistent with longstanding 

Committee practice in considering 

textile and apparel safeguard actions, 

the Committee will consider an 

interested party to be an entity (which 

may be a trade association, firm, 

certified or recognized union, or group 

of workers) that is representative of 

either: (A) A domestic producer or 

producers of an article that is like or 

directly competitive with the subject 

Korean textile or apparel article; or (B) 

a domestic producer or producers of a 

component used in the production of an 

article that is like or directly 

competitive with the subject Korean 

textile or apparel article. See 

‘‘Procedures for Considering Requests 

from the Public for Textile and Apparel 

Safeguard Actions on Imports from 

Peru’’, 76 FR 9556 (February 18, 2011). 

A request will only be considered if 

the request includes the specific 

information set forth below in support 

of a claim that a textile or apparel article 

from Korea is being imported into the 

United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage or actual threat thereof, 

to a U.S. industry producing an article 

that is like, or directly competitive with, 

the imported article. 

A. Product description. Name and 

description of the imported article 

concerned, including the Harmonized 

Tariff Schedule of the United States 

subheading(s) (HTSUS) (http:// 

www.usitc.gov/tata/hts) under which 

such article is classified, and the name 

and description of the like or directly 

competitive domestic article concerned. 

B. Import data. The following data, in 

quantity by HTSUS, on total imports of 

the subject article into the United States 

and imports from Korea into the United 

States: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) of the previous year 

(e.g., January–March 2011, April–June 

2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

The data should demonstrate that 

imports of a Korean origin textile or 

apparel article that are like or directly 

competitive with the articles produced 

by the domestic industry concerned are 

increasing in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article. 

C. Production data. The following 

data, in quantity, on U.S. domestic 

production of the like or directly 

competitive articles of U.S. origin 

indicating the nature and extent of the 

serious damage or actual threat thereof: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) of the previous year (e.g. 

January–March 2011, April–June 2011 

and January–March 2010, April–June 

2010). 

The requester must provide a 

complete listing of all sources from 

which the data were obtained and an 

affirmation that to the best of the 

requester’s knowledge, the data 

represent substantially all of the 

domestic production of the like or 

directly competitive article(s) of U.S. 

origin. In such cases, data should be 

reported in the first unit of quantity in 

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (http://www.usitc.gov/ 

tata/hts ) for the Korean origin textile 

and/or apparel articles and the like or 

directly competitive articles of U.S. 

origin. 

D. Market Share Data. The following 

data, in quantity, on imports from Korea 

as a percentage of the domestic market 

(defined as the sum of domestic 

production of the like or directly 

competitive article and total imports of 

the subject article); on total imports as 

a percentage of the domestic market; 

and on domestic production of like or 

directly competitive articles as a 

percentage of the domestic market: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) for the previous year 

(e.g. January–March 2011, April–June 

2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

E. Additional data showing serious 

damage or actual threat thereof. All 

data available to the requester showing 

changes in productivity, utilization of 

capacity, inventories, exports, wages, 

employment, domestic prices, profits, 

and investment, and any other 

information, relating to the existence of 

serious damage or actual threat thereof 

caused by imports from Korea to the 

industry producing the like or directly 

competitive article that is the subject of 

the request. To the extent that such 

information is not available, the 

requester should provide best estimates 

and the basis therefore: 

* Annual data for the most recent 

three full calendar years for which such 

data are available; 

* Quarterly data for the most recent 

year for which such data are partially 

available, and quarterly data for the 

same quarter(s) for the previous year 

(e.g. January–March 2011, April–June 

2011 and January–March 2010, April– 

June 2010). 

2. Consideration of Requests. 

Consistent with Section 331(b) of the 

Act, if the Committee determines that 

the request provides the information 

necessary for it to be considered, the 

Committee will cause to be published in 

the Federal Register a notice seeking 

public comments regarding the request, 

which will include a summary of the 

request and the date by which 

comments must be received. The 

Federal Register notice and the request, 

with the exception of information 

marked ‘‘business confidential’’, will be 

posted by the Department of 

Commerce’s Office of Textiles and 

Apparel (‘‘OTEXA’’) on the Internet 

(http://otexa.ita.doc.gov). The comment 

period shall be 30 calendar days. 

If business confidential information is 

submitted, a non-confidential version 

must also be provided, in which 

business confidential information is 

summarized or, if necessary, deleted. At 

the conclusion of all such comments, an 

interested party must attest that ‘‘all 

information contained in the request is 

complete and accurate and no false 

claims, statements, or representations 

have been made.’’ Comments received, 

with the exception of information 

marked ‘‘business confidential’’, will 

also be on the Internet (http:// 

otexa.ita.doc.gov) for review by the 

public. If a comment alleges that there 

is no serious damage or actual threat 

thereof, or that the subject imports are 

not the cause of the serious damage or 

actual threat thereof, the Committee will 

closely review any supporting 

information and documentation, such as 

information about domestic production 

or prices of like or directly competitive 

articles. The Committee will fully 

consider all requests, including those 


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submitted by entities that are not the 

actual producers of a like or directly 

competitive article, however the 

Committee will give particular 

consideration to comments representing 

the views of actual producers in the 

United States of a like or directly 

competitive article. 

Any interested party may submit 

information to rebut, clarify, or correct 

public comments submitted by any 

other interested party at any time prior 

to the deadline provided in this section 

for submission of such public 

comments. If public comments are 

submitted less than 10 days before, or 

on, the applicable deadline for 

submission of such public comments, 

an interested party may submit 

information to rebut, clarify, or correct 

the public comments no later than 10 

days after the applicable deadline for 

submission of public comments. 

With respect to any request 

considered by the Committee, the 

Committee will make a determination 

within 60 calendar days of the close of 

the comment period. If the Committee is 

unable to make a determination within 

60 calendar days, it will cause to be 

published in a notice in the Federal 

Register, including the date by which it 

will make a determination. If the 

Committee makes a negative 

determination, it will cause this 

determination and the reasons therefore 

to be published in the Federal Register. 

3. Determination and Provision of 

Relief. The Committee shall determine 

whether, as a result of the reduction or 

elimination of a duty under the 

Agreement, a Korean textile or apparel 

article is being imported into the United 

States in such increased quantities, in 

absolute terms or relative to the 

domestic market for that article, and 

under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage, or actual threat thereof, 

to a domestic industry producing an 

article that is like, or directly 

competitive with, the imported article. 

In making a determination, the 

Committee: (1) Shall examine the effect 

of increased imports on the domestic 

industry as reflected in such relevant 

economic factors as output, 

productivity, market share, exports, 

wages, employment, domestic prices, 

profits, and investment, none of which 

is necessarily decisive; and (2) shall not 

consider changes in technology or 

consumer preferences as factors 

supporting a determination of serious 

damage or actual threat thereof. The 

Committee, without delay, will provide 

written notice of its decision to the 

Government of Korea and will consult 

with said party upon its request. 

If a determination under this section 

is affirmative, the Committee may 

provide import tariff relief to a U.S. 

industry to the extent necessary to 

remedy or prevent the serious damage 

or actual threat thereof and to facilitate 

adjustment by the domestic industry to 

import competition. Such relief may 

consist of (a) suspension of any further 

reduction in the rate of duty provided 

for under Annex 2–B of the Agreement 

in the duty imposed on the article; or (b) 

an increase in duties to the lower of: (1) 

The NTR/MFN duty rate in place for the 

textile or apparel article at the time the 

relief is granted; or (2) the NTR/MFN 

duty rate for that article on the day 

before the Agreement enters into force. 

The import tariff relief is effective 

beginning on the date that the 

Committee’s affirmative determination 

is published in the Federal Register. 

The maximum period of import tariff 

relief shall not exceed two years. 

However, the Committee may extend 

the period of import relief to the 

maximum four years if the Committee 

determines that the continuation is 

necessary to remedy or prevent serious 

damage or actual threat thereof and to 

facilitate adjustment by the domestic 

industry to import competition, and that 

the domestic industry is, in fact, making 

a positive adjustment to import 

competition. Import tariff relief may not 

be imposed for an aggregate period 

greater than four years. Import tariff 

relief may not be applied to the same 

article under these procedures if (1) 

relief previously has been granted with 

respect to that article under these 

provisions, or (2) the article is subject to 

relief under (A) Subtitle A of Title III of 

the Act, or (B) Chapter 1 of Title III of 

the Trade Act of 1974. 

Authority to provide import tariff 

relief for a textile or apparel article from 

Korea that is being imported into the 

United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage or actual threat thereof 

to a U.S. industry producing a like or 

directly competitive article, will expire 

ten years after duties on the article are 

eliminated pursuant to this Agreement. 

4. Self Initiation. The Committee may, 

on its own initiative, consider whether 

imports of a textile or apparel article 

from Korea are being imported into the 

United States in such increased 

quantities, in absolute terms or relative 

to the domestic market for that article, 

and under such conditions as to cause 

serious damage or actual threat thereof 

to a U.S. industry producing a like or 

directly competitive article. In such 

considerations, the Committee will 

follow procedures consistent with those 

set forth in section 2 of this notice, 

including causing to be published in the 

Federal Register a notice seeking public 

comment regarding the action it is 

considering. 

5. Record Keeping and Business 

Confidential Information. OTEXA will 

maintain an official record for each 

request on behalf of the Committee. The 

official record will include all factual 

information, written argument, or other 

material developed by, presented to, or 

obtained by OTEXA regarding the 

request as well as other material 

provided to the Department of 

Commerce by other government 

agencies for inclusion in the official 

record. The official record will include 

Committee memoranda pertaining to the 

request, memoranda of Committee 

meetings, meetings between OTEXA 

staff and the public, determinations, and 

notices published in the Federal 

Register. The official record will contain 

material which is public, business 

confidential, privileged, and classified, 

but will not include pre-decisional 

inter-agency or intra-agency 

communications. If the Committee 

decides it is appropriate to consider 

materials submitted in an untimely 

manner, such materials will be 

maintained in the official record. 

Otherwise, such material will be 

returned to the submitter and will not 

be maintained as part of the official 

record. OTEXA will make the official 

record public except for business 

confidential information, privileged 

information, classified information, and 

other information the disclosure of 

which is prohibited by U.S. law. The 

public record will be made available for 

public inspection at the Office of 

Textiles and Apparel, Room 3100, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC, between the hours of 8:30 a.m. and 

5 p.m. on business days. 

Information designated by the 

submitter as business confidential will 

normally be considered to be business 

confidential unless it is publicly 

available. The Committee will protect 

from disclosure any business 

confidential information that is marked 

‘‘business confidential’’ to the full 

extent permitted by law. To the extent 

that business confidential information is 

provided, two copies of a nonconfidential version must also be 

provided, in which business 

confidential information is summarized 

or, if necessary, deleted. The Committee 

will make available to the public nonconfidential versions of the request that 

is being considered, non-confidential 

versions of any public comments 


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received with respect to a request, and 

in the event consultations are requested, 

the statement of the reasons and 

justifications for the determination 

subsequent to the delivery of the 

statement to Korea. 

Request for Comment on the Interim 

Procedures 

Comments must be received no later 

than April 18, 2012 and in the following 

format: 

(1) Comments must be in English. 

(2) Comments must be submitted 

electronically or in hard copy, with 

original signatures. 

(3) Comments submitted 

electronically, via email, must be either 

in PDF or Word format, and sent to the 

following email address: 

OTEXA.KOREA@trade.gov. The email 

version of the comments must include 

an original electronic signature. Further, 

the comments must have a bolded 

heading stating ‘‘Public Version’’, and 

no business confidential information 

may be included. The email version of 

the comments will be posted for public 

review on the KOREA FTA Safeguard 

Web site. 

(4) Comments submitted in hard copy 

must include original signatures and 

must be mailed to the Chairman, 

Committee for the Implementation of 

Textile Agreements, Room 3100, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street 

and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. All comments 

submitted in hard copy will be made 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of Textiles and Apparel, Room 

3100, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

14th Street and Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC, between the 

hours of 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. on 

business days. In addition, comments 

submitted in hard copy will also be 

posted for public review on the KOREA 

FTA Safeguard Web site. 

(5) Any business confidential 

information upon which an interested 

person wishes to rely may only be 

included in a hard copy version of the 

comments. Brackets must be placed 

around all business confidential 

information. Comments containing 

business confidential information must 

have a bolded heading stating 

‘‘Confidential Version.’’ Attachments 

considered business confidential 

information must have a heading stating 

‘‘Business Confidential Information’’. 

The Committee will protect from 

disclosure any business confidential 

information that is marked ‘‘Business 

Confidential Information’’ to the full 

extent permitted by law. 

Estimate of Burden to the Public for 

Collection of Information and Request 

for Public Comment 

CITA must collect information in 

order to determine whether a domestic 

textile or apparel industry is being 

adversely impacted by imports of these 

products from Korean, thereby allowing 

CITA to take corrective action to protect 

the viability of the domestic textile or 

apparel industry, subject to section 

332(b) of the Act. This information 

collection is subject to review and 

approval by the Office of Management 

and Budget’s (‘‘OMB’’) OMB under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

OMB has approved under Control 

Number 0625–0269 the interim 

procedures requiring the collection of 

information under the emergency 

provisions of the PRA. In accordance 

with the PRA, CITA has estimated the 

‘‘burden’’ (in number of hours) on the 

public to submit information required 

by CITA under its interim procedures. 

CITA hereby provides the public the 

opportunity to provide comment on its 

estimates of the burden on the public to 

submit information to CITA under the 

U.S.-Korea FTA textile and apparel 

safeguard mechanism. 

Estimate of Burden as a Result of 

Information Collection: Based on the 

number of Requests and Comments filed 

per year, and the average amount of 

time required to submit a Request and 

Response, CITA estimates that a total 

annual burden to the public is 56 hours 

per year. A further breakdown of its 

estimates of the number of hours to 

collect and provide information to CITA 

for Requests and Comments is provided 

in detail below. 

Requests: CITA estimates that 4 

Requests will be filed per year under the 

U.S.-Korea FTA textile and apparel 

safeguard mechanism. Based on the 

following activities required to submit a 

request, CITA estimates that the total 

time to collect and present information 

in a Request is 4 hours, for a total of 16 

hours per year. 

Activity 

Time 

required 

(hours) 

Preparing Request ........................ 3 

Preparing Supporting Documentation ............................................ 1 

Total Time per Request ........ 4 

Times 4 Request per Year .... 16 

Comments: CITA estimates that 10 

Comments will be filed per year in 

response to the Request under the U.S.- 

Korea FTA textile and apparel safeguard 

mechanism. Based on the following 

activities required to submit a comment, 

CITA estimates that the total time to 

collect and present information in a 

Comment is 4 hours, for a total of 40 

hours per year. 

Activity 

Time 

required 

(hours) 

Preparing Comments .................... 3 

Preparing Supporting Documentation ............................................ 1 

Total Time per Comment ...... 4 

Times 10 Comments per 

Year ................................... 40 

Combined, these three information 

collections represent an annual burden 

of 56 hours. Copies of the above 

estimate can be obtained by calling or 

writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, (202) 482– 

0336, Department of Commerce, Room 

6616, 14th & Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 or via email at 

JJessup@doc.gov. 

Notwithstanding any other provision 

of the law, no person is required to 

respond to, nor shall any person be 

subject to a penalty for failure to comply 

with, a collection of information subject 

to the requirements of the PRA, unless 

that collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB Control Number. 

Kimberly Glas, 

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation 

of Textile Agreements. 

[FR Doc. 2012–6715 Filed 3–15–12; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

COMMITTEE FOR THE 

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE 

AGREEMENTS 

Interim Procedures for Considering 

Requests Under the Commercial 

Availability Provision of the United 

States-Korea Free Trade Agreement 

and Estimate of Burden for Collection 

of Information 

AGENCY: Committee for the 

Implementation of Textile Agreements 

(CITA). 

ACTION: Notice of interim procedures 

and request for comments; estimate of 

information collection burden. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

interim procedures the Committee for 

the Implementation of Textile 

Agreements (‘‘CITA’’) will follow in 

implementing certain provisions of the 

United States-Korea Free Trade 

Agreement Implementation Act (the 


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