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ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Architectural and

Transportation Barriers Compliance

Board (Access Board) established a

Public Rights-of-Way Access Advisory

Committee (committee) to assist the

Board in developing a proposed rule on

accessibility guidelines for newly

constructed and altered public rights-ofway covered by the Americans with

Disabilities Act of 1990 and the

Architectural Barriers Act of 1968. This

document announces the next meeting

of the committee, which will be open to

the public.

DATES: The next meeting of the

committee is scheduled for December

19, 2000, beginning at 3:00 p.m. and

ending at 4:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Architectural and Transportation

Barriers Compliance Board, 1331 F

Street, NW., suite 1000, Washington,

DC, 20004–1111.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Scott Windley, Office of Technical and

Information Services, Architectural and

Transportation Barriers Compliance

Board, 1331 F Street, NW., suite 1000,

Washington, DC, 20004–1111.

Telephone number (202) 272–5434

extension 125 (Voice); (202) 272–5449

(TTY). E-mail windley@accessboard.gov. This document is available in

alternate formats (cassette tape, Braille,

large print, or ASCII disk) upon request.

This document is also available on the

Board’s Internet Site (http://

www.access-board.gov/news/

prowmtg.htm).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

October 20, 1999, the Architectural and

Transportation Barriers Compliance

Board (Access Board) published a notice

appointing members to a Public Rightsof-Way Access Advisory Committee

(committee) to provide

recommendations for developing a

proposed rule addressing accessibility

guidelines for newly constructed and

altered public rights-of-way covered by

the Americans with Disabilities Act of

1990 and the Architectural Barriers Act

of 1968. 64 FR 56482 (October 20, 1999).

Committee meetings will be open to

the public and interested persons can

attend the meetings. All interested

persons will have the opportunity to

comment when the proposed

accessibility guidelines for public

rights-of-way are issued in the Federal

Register by the Access Board.

Individuals who require sign language

interpreters or real-time captioning

systems should contact Scott Windley

by December 13, 2000.

Lawrence W. Roffee,

Executive Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of the Census

[Docket No. 001115321–0321–01]

Revisions to Shipper’s Export

Declaration, Commerce Form 7525–V

AGENCY: Bureau of the Census,

Commerce.

ACTION: Program notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that on

September 28, 2000, the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB)

approved use of the revised Shipper’s

Export Declaration (SED), Commerce

Form 7525–V, and the Automated

Export System (AES) for export

reporting purposes. Under the OMB

clearance, the Commerce Form 7525–V–

Alternate (Intermodal) is eliminated as a

shipper’s export reporting form, and the

sponsorship of the Commerce Form

7513, ‘‘Shipper’s Export Declaration for

In-Transit Goods,’’ is transferred to the

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The

effective date for use of the new form is

October 1, 2000. However the Census

Bureau is allowing a 180 day grace

period to April 1, 2001, to allow the

trade community to deplete current

stocks of the old forms. During the grace

period, the Census Bureau will allow

use of both the old and revised

Commerce Form 7525–V and Commerce

Form 7525–V–Alternate (Intermodal).

As of April 1, 2001, only the Commerce

Form 7525–V and the AES record will

be accepted by the Census Bureau and

the Customs Service as a means of

reporting shipper’s export declaration

information.

DATES: The effective date for use of the

revised SED form is October 1, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

instructions for completion of the new

form should be addressed to Jerome

Greenwell, Foreign Trade Division, U.S.

Census Bureau, Room 3125, FOB–3,

Washington, DC 20233–0001, (301) 457–

2238.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Shipper’s Export Declaration (SED)

Commerce Form 7525–V and the

Automated Export System (AES)

reporting methods were approved under

OMB clearance number 0607–0152. The

SED is a Department of Commerce Form

used by the Bureau of the Census

(Census Bureau) for statistical reporting

purposes and the Bureau of Export

Administration (BXA) for export control

purposes. It also is used by the U.S.

Customs Service for verifying export

shipments, the Department of State, and

other federal government agencies for

export control purposes. The SED was

revised to delete unused or outdated

data fields, to make it consistent with

the regulation provisions contained in

the final rule published in the Federal

Register on July 10, 2000 (65 FR 42556),

and to make the data elements on the

paper SED consistent with the data

elements on the AES record.

The OMB clearance for the SED,

Commerce Form 7525–V, and

Commerce Form 7525–V–Alternate

(Intermodal), the Automated Export

Reporting Program (AERP), the AES,

and Commerce Form 7513, ‘‘Shipper’s

Export Declaration for In-Transit

Goods’’ expired on September 30, 2000.

On April 28, 2000, the Census Bureau

published a presubmission notice in the

Federal Register (65 FR 24912)

announcing its intent to submit a forms

clearance proposal to OMB to renew its

clearance for the reporting of export

data using: (1) the two types of paper

SEDs, Form 7525–V, and Form 7525–V–

Alternate (Intermodal); and (2) the AES.

In that notice the Census Bureau also

announced that it was not renewing

clearance for the AERP and the

Commerce Form 7513, ‘‘Shipper’s

Export Declaration for In-Transit

Goods.’’ With the rapid growth of the

AES, the Census Bureau discontinued

the AERP program as of December 31,

1999. Filers using the AERP program,

which was an electronic reporting

system that was strictly used for Census

Bureau statistical collection purposes,

are now filing their export data through

the AES or are in the process of

converting to the AES.

The authority for clearance of the

‘‘Shipper’s Export Declaration for InTransit Goods,’’ Commerce Form 7513,

which serves as the source document

from which the official U.S. statistics on

outbound in-transit waterborne

shipments is collected and compiled,

has been transferred to the U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers. This program was

transferred to the Corps, as they are the

primary users of the in-transit data.

In that notice the Census Bureau also

identified the revisions that were being

made to the SED to bring it up to date

with current regulatory and policy

provisions and to make it consistent

with the AES record format.

On August 21, 2000, the Census

Bureau published a second notice in the

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announcing its submission of the Forms

Clearance proposal to OMB requesting

clearance only for the Commerce Form

7525-V, ‘‘Shipper’s Export Declaration,’’

and the AES. Subsequent to issuing the

April 28, 2000, Federal Register notice,

the Census Bureau determined that

making the changes required to make

the paper SEDs compatible with the

AES record format would make the

Form 7525-V-Alternate (Intermodal)

incompatible with the ocean bill of

lading, with which it was intended to

align, thereby negating its utility to the

vessel exporting community. Therefore,

the Census Bureau did not request

clearance for the Form 7525-V-Alternate

(Intermodal). There was no objection to

the elimination of the Form 7525-VAlternate (Intermodal) as provided in

comments to the August 21 Federal

Register notice.

Program Change

Effective October 1, 2000, the only

methods by which filers can report

export information to the Census Bureau

is by using the paper SED, Commerce

Form 7525-V, or filing the export

information electronically through the

AES. In order to allow filers to deplete

existing stocks of the old paper SED

forms, the Census Bureau is allowing a

180-day grace period to April 1, 2001,

during which time filers will be allowed

to use either the revised SED or the old

versions of the Form 7525-V or Form

7525-V-Alternate (Intermodal).

However, when using either the old or

new version of the SED, filers must

follow the provisions contained in the

revised Foreign Trade Statistics

Regulations (FTSR), published as a final

rule in the Federal Register on July 10,

2000 (65 FR 42556). These regulations

contain revised provisions for reporting

the name of the U.S. principal party in

interest (USPPI) on the SED or AES

record, specifically clarify the reporting

responsibilities of the USPPI and

forwarding or other agents involved in

the export transaction, and clarify the

power of attorney provisions whenever

a principal party interest authorizes a

U.S. forwarding or other agent to act on

its behalf to facilitate the export of items

from the United States.

The revised SED is available for

downloading on the Census Bureau’s

Foreign Trade Division (FTD) Web site

at www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www.

The SED can be prepared and

downloaded from this website or it can

be downloaded from the Web site on

yellow or goldenrod paper and privately

printed, or it can be ordered from the

Government Printing Office by calling

the Publication Order and Information

Office at (202) 512–1800. The FTD also

will provide a software package, free of

charge, that will allow respondents to

input SED information on their own

computer and transmit it electronically

through AESDirect. The FTD will

inform the public through its FTD Web

site and the AES newsletter as to when

this software will be available. A copy

of the revised SED also is published as

part of this notice.

The Census Bureau strongly

encourages all filers of export data to

report their export information

electronically using the AES. The

Census Bureau offers a free Internetbased filing service on its Web site

through which filers can transmit export

information. This system is known as

AESDirect, and detailed information on

using this system can be obtained from

the Census Bureau, FTD Web site at

www.aesdirect.gov. General information

about the AES and AESDirect can be

obtained from the Census Bureau’s FTD

Web site at www.census.gov/foreigntrade/www and on the U.S. Customs

Service Web site at

www.customs.gov.aes.

The new instructions for completing

the SED, ‘‘The Correct Way To Complete

The SED,’’ are also available for

downloading on the FTD Web site at

www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www.

These instructions include detailed data

element descriptions for completing the

revised SED. These data element

descriptions should be used as a general

reference for completing the SED. All

filers are strongly encouraged to

reference the detailed provisions for

completing the SED and AES records

contained in the FTSR, title 15, Code of

Federal Regulations, part 30. Filers

should be familiar with these

regulations prior to completing the SED

or AES record.

Dated: November 27, 2000.

Kenneth Prewitt,

Director, Bureau of the Census.

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BILLING CODE 3510–07–C

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–583–830]

Preliminary Rescission of Antidumping

Duty Administrative Review: Stainless

Steel Plate in Coils From Taiwan

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of preliminary rescission

in the antidumping duty administrative

review of stainless steel plate in coils

from Taiwan.

SUMMARY: On July 7, 2000, the

Department of Commerce

(‘‘Department’’) published a notice of

initiation of an antidumping duty

administrative review on stainless steel

plate in coils from Taiwan. This review

covers two manufacturers/exporters of

the subject merchandise. The period of

review (‘‘POR’’) is November 4, 1998

through April 30, 2000. The Department

is now preliminarily rescinding this

review based on record evidence

indicating that there were no entries

into the United States of subject

merchandise during the POR.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 4, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Juanita H. Chen or Rick Johnson,

Enforcement Group III, Office 9, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20230, telephone

202–482–0409 (Chen) or 202–482–3818

(Johnson), fax 202–482–1388.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930

(‘‘Act’’) are references to the provisions

effective January 1, 1995, the effective

date of the amendments made to the Act

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(‘‘URAA’’). In addition, unless

otherwise indicated, all citations to the

Department’s regulations are to the

regulations at 19 CFR part 351 (2000).

Background

On May 21, 1999, the Department

published the antidumping duty order

on stainless steel plate in coils from

Taiwan. See Antidumping Duty Orders;

Certain Stainless Steel Plate in Coils

From Belgium, Canada, Italy, the

Republic of Korea, South Africa, and

Taiwan, 64 FR 27756 (May 21, 1999).

On May 16, 2000, the Department

published a notice of opportunity to

request an administrative review of this

order for the period November 4, 1998

through April 30, 2000. See

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty

Order, Finding, or Suspended

Investigation; Opportunity to Request

Administrative Review, 65 FR 31141

(May 16, 2000). Petitioners Allegheny

Ludlum, AK Steel Corporation, Butler

Armco Independent Union, J&L

Specialty Steel, Inc., North American

Stainless, United Steelworkers of

America, AFL–CIO/CLC, and Zanesville

Armco Independent Organization

(collectively ‘‘petitioners’’) timely

requested that the Department conduct

an administrative review of sales by

Yieh United Steel Corporation

(‘‘YUSCO’’), a Taiwan producer and

exporter of subject merchandise, and Ta

Chen Stainless Pipe Co., Ltd. (‘‘Ta

Chen’’), a Taiwan exporter of subject

merchandise. YUSCO also timely

requested that the Department conduct

an administrative review of YUSCO’s

sales. YUSCO withdrew its request for

review on July 19, 2000. On July 7,

2000, in accordance with section 751(a)

of the Act, the Department published in

the Federal Register a notice of

initiation of this antidumping duty

administrative review of sales by

YUSCO and Ta Chen for the period

November 4, 1998 through April 30,

2000. See Initiation of Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews and Requests for Revocations

in Part, 65 FR 41942 (July 7, 2000).

On July 10, 2000, the Department

issued its antidumping duty

questionnaire to YUSCO and Ta Chen.

On July 19, 2000, along with

withdrawing its request for an

administrative review, YUSCO

requested that the Department rescind

this review, claiming it made no entries

of subject merchandise into the United

States during the POR. On July 27, 2000,

the Department solicited comments on

YUSCO’s request for rescission. See

Memo to the File from Juanita H. Chen

(July 27, 2000). On August 8, 2000,

YUSCO submitted its Section A

response to the Department’s

questionnaire. YUSCO reiterated its

request for rescission on August 16,

2000. Also on that date, petitioners filed

comments opposing YUSCO’s request

for rescission, which included

references to the original investigation

indicating that Ta Chen’s U.S. affiliate,

Ta Chen International (CA) Corp.

(‘‘TCI’’) made sales of YUSCO’s

merchandise during the POR and had

additional inventory not yet sold.

On July 31, 2000, Ta Chen stated that

it did not have any U.S. sales,

shipments or entries of subject

merchandise during the POR, and

requested that it not be required to

answer the Department’s questionnaire.

On August 1, 2000, the Department

asked Ta Chen a supplemental question

regarding shipments in the POR falling

under a certain Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (‘‘HTS’’)

number, and gave Ta Chen an extension

of time in which to respond to the

antidumping duty questionnaire. On

August 9, 2000, Ta Chen repeated its

statement that it did not have any U.S.

sales, shipments or entries during the

POR, stated that imports under the HTS

number were cut-to-length stainless

steel plate and not subject merchandise,

and repeated its request not to have to

answer the Department’s questionnaire.

On August 24, 2000, the Department

denied Ta Chen’s request that it not be

required to answer the questionnaire,

and issued supplemental questions to

Ta Chen. On August 31 and September

5, 2000, Ta Chen responded to the

Department’s supplemental questions,

stating that of TCI’s sales of YUSCO’s

merchandise from TCI’s U.S. warehouse

inventory during the POR, all

merchandise entered before the POR. Ta

Chen also stated that while there was a

sale of subject merchandise from

YUSCO to TCI during the POR, such

subject merchandise entered the United

States and was resold after the POR. Ta

Chen also stated that, for these reasons,

it did not intend on answering the

Department’s questionnaire. On

September 12, 2000, petitioners

submitted comments on Ta Chen’s

response to the Department’s

supplemental questions, arguing that

the Department should review TCI’s

resales of YUSCO’s merchandise as

constructed export price (‘‘CEP’’) sales,

citing to Silicon Metal from Brazil; Final

Results of Antidumping Duty

Administrative Review, 59 FR 42806

(August 19, 1994). Petitioners

emphasized that they requested the

review not only to liquidate entries

during the review period but also to set

a new cash deposit rate on future

entries. On September 26, 2000, the

Department informed Ta Chen of its

intention to conduct a review of TCI’s

sales, and asked that Ta Chen submit its

response no later than October 10, 2000.

Ta Chen failed to submit a response.

On September 19, 2000, the

Department conducted an inspection of

Customs documentation at the U.S.

Customs Service (‘‘Customs’’) in Long

Beach, California. A review of a random

sampling of entries during the POR

revealed that none of the entries were of

subject merchandise. See Memo to the