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Security has determined that foreign 

availability exists for anisotropic plasma 

dry etching equipment controlled for 

national security reasons under Export 

Control Classification Number (ECCN) 

3B001.c on the Commerce Control List. 

This foreign availability determination 

is in response to a submission from the 

Semiconductor Equipment and 

Materials International (SEMI) industry 

association. The Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS) has provided a proposal 

to the Department of State to submit to 

the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export 

Controls for Conventional Arms and 

Dual-Use Goods and Technologies to 

remove the 3.B.1.c control from the 

Arrangement’s Dual-Use List. This 

determination was made pursuant to 

Section 5(f) of the Export 

Administration Act of 1979, as 

amended, and Part 768 of the EAR. 

ADDRESSES: BIS welcomes comments on 

this foreign availability determination 

on an ongoing basis. You may submit 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

• Email: EtchComments@bis.doc.gov. 

Include the phrase ‘‘Anisotropic Plasma 

Dry Etching Equipment Determination’’ 

in the subject line; 

• Mail: Orestes Theocharides, Office 

of Technology Evaluation, Bureau of 

Industry and Security, U.S. Department 

of Commerce, Room 1093, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20230; or 

• Fax to (202) 482–5361. Include the 

phrase ‘‘Anisotropic Plasma Dry Etching 

Equipment Determination’’ in the 

subject line. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gerard J. Horner, Office of Technology 

Evaluation, Department of Commerce, 

Room 1093, 1401 Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230, 

Telephone: (202) 482–2078; email: 

gerard.horner@bis.doc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 5(f) of the Export 

Administration Act of 1979, as amended 

(EAA), authorizes the Secretary of 

Commerce to conduct foreign 

availability assessments to examine and 

evaluate the effectiveness of U.S. export 

controls on certain items that are 

controlled for national security reasons 

under the Export Administration 

Regulations (EAR) (15 CFR parts 730– 

774). The Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS) has been delegated from 

the Secretary of Commerce the 

responsibility for conducting these 

assessments and issuing a final foreign 

availability determination. Part 768 of 

the EAR sets forth the procedures 

related to foreign availability 

assessments. 

On July 16, 2014, BIS received a 

foreign availability submission from the 

Semiconductor Equipment and 

Materials International (SEMI) industry 

association, a group of companies that 

does business all over the world and 

that serve the manufacturing supply 

chain for the micro- and nanoelectronics industries. SEMI’s July 16, 

2014 submission asserts the foreign 

availability of anisotropic plasma dry 

etching equipment in China. This type 

of semiconductor etching equipment is 

controlled for national security reasons 

under Export Control Classification 

Number (ECCN) 3B001.c on the 

Commerce Control List (CCL). It is used 

in the process for producing dual-use 

semiconductor devices such as flash 

memories, microwave monolithic 

integrated circuits, transistors, and 

analog-to-digital-converters. These 

devices are used in civil and military 

applications such as radars, point-topoint radio communications, 

microprocessors, cellular infrastructure, 

and satellite communications. The 

national security control BIS has 

applied to anisotropic plasma dry 

etching equipment implements the 

Wassenaar Arrangement’s Dual-Use List 

3.B.1.c control. SEMI’s submission 

asserts that anisotropic plasma dry etch 

equipment of comparable quality to that 

subject to control under ECCN 3B001.c 

is available-in-fact from China in 

sufficient quantities to render the U.S. 

export control of the equipment 

ineffective. 

After reviewing SEMI’s submission, 

on September 8, 2014, BIS published in 

the Federal Register a Notice of Foreign 

Availability Assessment: Anisotropic 

Plasma Dry Etching Equipment (79 FR 

53166), which formally initiated a 

foreign availability assessment. To carry 

out the assessment, BIS conducted 

interagency meetings with stakeholders, 

obtained input from the exporting 

community, and visited, in China, a 

producer of anisotropic plasma dry 

etching equipment meeting the 3B001.c 

control parameters, and a foundry using 

a Chinese-produced anisotropic plasma 

dry etching tool. As a result of BIS’s 

analysis of the data collected through 

the assessment, BIS recommended that 

I determine that the etching equipment 

of ECCN 3B001.c capability is availablein-fact to China, from a non-U.S. 

(Chinese) source, in sufficient quantity, 

and of comparable quality so that 

continuation of the existing national 

security export control would be 

ineffective in achieving its purpose. 

After reviewing the assessment and 

recommendation, I determined that 

anisotropic plasma dry etching 

equipment controlled for national 

security reasons under ECCN 3B001.c 

on the CCL is foreign available to China. 

Consequently, BIS has submitted a 

proposal to the Department of State to 

remove the Wassenaar Arrangement’s 

Dual-Use List 3.B.1.c control. 

Dated: February 4, 2015. 

Eric L. Hirschhorn, 

Under Secretary of Industry and Security. 

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Administration 

RIN 0648–XD753 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council (MAFMC); Public Meetings 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council’s (Council) 

Tilefish Advisory Panel will hold a 

public meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015, from 9 a.m. 

until noon. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

via Webinar with a telephone-only 

connection option. 

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 800 N. State St., 

Suite 201, Dover, DE 19901; telephone: 

(302) 674–2331. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Christopher M. Moore, Ph.D., Executive 

Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council; telephone: (302) 

526–5255. The Council’s Web site, 

www.mafmc.org also has details on the 

proposed agenda, Webinar listen-in 

access, and briefing materials. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the meeting is to create a 

fishery performance report by the 

Council’s Golden Tilefish Advisory 

Panel (AP). The intent of this report is 

to facilitate a venue for structured input 

from the Advisory Panel members for 

the Golden Tilefish specifications 

process, including recommendations by 

the Council and its Scientific and 

Statistical Committee (SSC). 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, in 

accordance with the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

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Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Actions will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

identified in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

Section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

The meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aid should be directed to M. 

Jan Saunders, (302) 526–5251, at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: February 3, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council) is 

scheduling a public meeting of its 

Habitat Committee to consider actions 

affecting New England fisheries in the 

exclusive economic zone (EEZ). 

Recommendations from this group will 

be brought to the full Council for formal 

consideration and action, if appropriate. 

DATES: This meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, February 24, 2015 at 9 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Meeting address: The 

meetings will be held at the Holiday 

Inn, 31 Hampshire Street, Mansfield, 

MA 02048; telephone: (508) 339–2200; 

fax: (508) 339–1040. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

committee will discuss comments on 

Omnibus Essential Fish Habitat 

Amendment 2. Written public 

comments were submitted between 

October 10, 2014 and January 8, 2015 

and in-person comments were provided 

at twelve public hearings held during 

November, December, and January. 

They will also begin the process of 

developing final preferred alternative 

recommendations for the full Council. 

They will discuss other business as 

necessary. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before these groups for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

listed in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, at 

(978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to 

the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: February 3, 2015. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council (Council); Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery 

Management Council will hold a 

meeting of the Ecosystem Scientific and 

Statistical Committee. 

DATES: The meeting will be held from 

9 a.m. until 5 p.m. on Wednesday, 

February 25, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council Office, 2203 North Lois 

Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, FL 33607. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Morgan Kilgour, Fishery Biologist, Gulf 

of Mexico Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (813) 348–1630; fax: (813) 

348–1711; email: morgan.kilgour@

gulfcouncil.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The items 

of discussion on the agenda are as 

follows: 

Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical 

Committee Agenda, Tuesday, February 

25, 2015, 9 a.m. Until 5 p.m. 

1. Introductions and Adoption of 

Agenda 

2. Approval of Ecosystem portion of 

June 3–5, 2014 Standing, Special 

Reef Fish, and Ecosystem SSC 

summary minutes 

3. Scope of Work 

4. Selection of SSC representative at 

March 30–April 3, 2015 Council 

meeting (Biloxi, MS) 

5. Madison-Swanson and Steamboat 

Lumps Marine Reserves Reports 

a. Protection of grouper and red 

snapper spawning in shelf-edge 

marine reserves of the northeastern 

Gulf of Mexico: Demographics, 

movements, survival and spillover 

effects (2011) 

b. NMFS monitoring report and work 

from Coral Reef Conservation 

Program 

c. Grouper and spawning aggregations 

and reserves 

6. Report of the Ecosystem Based 

Fisheries Management Plan 

Working Group 

a. Goals and Objectives 

b. Ecosystem and Socioeconomic 

Information Needs 

c. Next Steps 

7. Other Ecosystem SSC Business 

a. Summary on Lenfest Task Force 

Meeting 

—Adjourn— 

For meeting materials see folder 

‘‘Ecosystem Scientific and Statistical 

Committee meeting—2015–02’’ on Gulf 

Council file server. To access the file 

server, the URL is https://public.gulf

council.org:5001/webman/index.cgi, or 

go to the Council’s Web site and click 

on the FTP link in the lower left of the 

Council Web site 

(http://www.gulfcouncil.org). The 

username and password are both 

‘‘gulfguest’’. The Agenda is subject to 

change. 

The meeting will be Webcast over the 

Internet. A link to the Webcast will be 

available on the Council’s Web site, 

http://www.gulfcouncil.org. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

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