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Forged Stainless Steel Flanges from India, 71 FR 

327, 327 (January 4, 2006). 

12See, e.g., Fresh and Chilled Atlantic Salmon 

From Norway; Final Results of Changed 

Circumstances Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review, 64 FR 9979, 9980 (March 1, 1999). 

Thus, if the record demonstrates that, 

with respect to the production and sale 

of the subject merchandise, the new 

company operates as the same business 

entity as the predecessor company, the 

Department may assign the new 

company the cash deposit rate of its 

predecessor.12 For a full description of 

the methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. A list of topics 

discussed in the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is included as Appendix 

I of this notice. 

Initiation and Preliminary Results of 

the Changed Circumstances Review 

Pursuant to section 751(b)(1) of the 

Act and 19 CFR 351.216(d), the 

Department will conduct a CCR upon 

receipt of a request from an interested 

party or receipt of information 

concerning an antidumping duty order 

which shows changed circumstances 

sufficient to warrant a review of the 

order. Section 351.221(c)(3)(ii) of the 

Department’s regulations permits the 

Department to combine the initiation 

and preliminary results of a CCR if the 

Department concludes that expedited 

action is warranted. In this instance, we 

have information on the record 

necessary to reach the preliminary 

results of CCR. As such, we find that 

expedited action is warranted. 

Accordingly, we have combined the 

preliminary results with the initiation. 

We preliminarily determine that 

Beijing Dixon, under its new business 

license, (i.e., Beijing Dixon is now 

registered as an exporter, and it exports 

pencils produced by Kunshan Dixon), is 

the successor-in-interest to Beijing 

Dixon for the purposes of administering 

the Order and it revocation with respect 

to Beijing Dixon. The Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum provides a full 

description of the analysis underlying 

our conclusions. 

Public Comment 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on these preliminary results in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.309(c)(1)(ii). Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.310(c), any interested party may 

request a hearing within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. Parties will be 

notified of the time and date of any 

hearing, if requested. Pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.309(c)(1)(ii), interested parties 

may submit case briefs and/or written 

comments not later than 30 days after 

the publication of this notice. Rebuttal 

briefs, and rebuttals to written 

comments, which must be limited to 

issues raised in such briefs or 

comments, may be filed not later than 

5 days after the date of publication of 

this notice. Parties who submit case 

briefs or rebuttal briefs in this CCR are 

requested to submit with each 

argument: (1) A statement of the issue; 

and (2) a brief summary of the 

argument; and (3) a table of authorities. 

Interested parties who wish to comment 

on the preliminary results must file 

briefs electronically using ACCESS. An 

electronically-filed document must be 

received successfully in its entirety by 

the Department’s electronic records 

system, ACCESS, by 5 p.m. Eastern 

Time on the date the document is due. 

In accordance with 19 CFR 

351.216(e), the Department intends to 

issue the final results of this changed 

circumstance review not later than 270 

days after the date on which the review 

is initiated, or within 45 days if all 

parties agree to our preliminary finding. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(b) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 351.216 

and 351.221(c)(3)(ii). 

Dated: February 18, 2015. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

1. Summary 

2. Background 

3. Scope of the Order 

4. Successor-in-Interest Analysis 

a. Analytical Framework 

b. Relevant Facts 

i. Management 

ii. Production Facilities 

iii. Customer Base 

iv. Suppliers 

c. Analysis 

i. Time Period 

ii. Successorship Analysis 

1. Management 

2. Production Facilities 

3. Customer Base 

Suppliers 

5. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD784 

Fisheries of the Northeastern United 

States; Atlantic Herring Fishery; Notice 

of Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement; Scoping Process; 

Request for Comments 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement and 

initiate scoping process; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council announces its 

intention to prepare, in cooperation 

with NMFS, an environmental impact 

statement in accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act. An 

environmental impact statement may be 

necessary to provide analytical support 

for Amendment 8 to the Atlantic 

Herring Fishery Management Plan. 

Amendment 8 would specify a longterm acceptable biological catch control 

rule for the herring fishery and consider 

acceptable biological catch control rule 

alternatives that account for herring’s 

role in the ecosystem. This notice is to 

alert the interested public of the scoping 

process and potential development of a 

draft environmental impact statement 

and to outline opportunity for public 

participation in that process. 

DATES: Written and electronic scoping 

comments must be received on or before 

5 p.m., local time, April 30, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written scoping comments 

on Amendment 8 may be sent by any of 

the following methods: 

• Email to the following address: 

comments@nefmc.org; 

• Mail to Thomas A. Nies, Executive 

Director, New England Fishery 

Management Council, 50 Water Street, 

Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950; or 

• Fax to (978) 465–3116. 

Requests for copies of the 

Amendment 8 scoping document and 

other information should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, 

Newburyport, MA 01950, telephone 

(978) 465–0492. The scoping document 

is accessible electronically via the 

Internet at http://www.nefmc.org. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Nies, Executive Director, 

New England Fishery Management 

Council, (978) 465–0492. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The New England Fishery 

Management Council (Council), working 

through its public participatory 

committee and meeting processes, 

anticipates the development of an 

amendment that may be analyzed 

through an environmental impact 

statement (EIS), dependent on 

addressing applicable criteria in the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations and guidance for 

implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). 

Amendment 8 to the Atlantic Herring 

Fishery Management Plan (Herring 

FMP) is anticipated to consider longterm harvest strategies for herring, 

including an acceptable biological catch 

(ABC) control rule, that address the 

biological needs of the herring resource 

and the role of herring in the ecosystem. 

The herring fishery is managed as one 

stock complex along the east coast from 

Maine to Cape Hatteras, NC, although 

evidence suggests that separate 

spawning components exist within the 

stock complex. The Council and the 

Atlantic States Marine Fisheries 

Commission adopted management 

measures for the herring fishery in state 

and Federal waters in 1999 and the 

Federal Herring FMP became effective 

on January 10, 2001. 

Following the re-authorization of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Conservation and 

Fishery Management Act (MSA) in 

2007, the Council developed 

Amendment 4 to the Herring FMP and 

implemented a process for establishing 

annual catch limits and accountability 

measures in the herring fishery. 

Amendment 4 also defined the herring 

ABC control rule as the specified 

approach to setting the ABC for a stock 

or stock complex as a function of 

scientific uncertainty in the estimate of 

the overfishing limit (OFL) and any 

other scientific uncertainty. The ABC 

control rule provides guidance to the 

Council’s Scientific and Statistical 

Committee (SSC) regarding how to 

specify an annual ABC for herring based 

on scientific uncertainty, stock status, 

and the Council’s risk tolerance. The 

ABC control rule specifies a buffer 

between the OFL and ABC to account 

for scientific uncertainty, such that 

there is a low risk in any given year that 

the OFL for herring will be exceeded. 

Establishing an ABC control is 

consistent with National Standard 1 

Guidelines for implementing the 

provisions of the MSA. 

During the development of 

Amendment 4, there was considerable 

uncertainty surrounding the 2009 

herring stock assessment. As part of the 

2010–2012 herring fishery specifications 

process, the SSC recommended that the 

Council specify an ABC based on recent 

catch until a new benchmark stock 

assessment for herring could be 

completed. Consistent with the SSC 

advice, the Council specified the herring 

ABC for 2010–2012 as a three-year 

average catch level (2006–2008). This 

specification was adopted as the interim 

ABC control rule in Amendment 4, to 

serve as a placeholder until a 

benchmark stock assessment could be 

completed and a more appropriate longterm ABC control rule for herring could 

be developed. 

Following a benchmark stock 

assessment for herring in 2012, the 

Council and its SSC considered several 

alternatives for establishing an ABC 

control rule for herring, including two 

ABC control rules that explicitly adjust 

for the role of a forage fish in the 

ecosystem, during the 2013–2015 

fishery specifications process. At that 

time, the SSC recognized the herring 

stock assessment’s accounting for 

herring’s role in the ecosystem. The SSC 

recommended that using reference 

points and projections associated with 

explicit forage fish ABC control rules 

receive further evaluation prior to 

implementation in a long-term harvest 

strategy for managing the herring 

fishery. Ultimately, based on SSC 

advice, the Council adopted an ABC 

control rule that specified a constant 

ABC for 2013–2015. The ABC control 

rule was based on the annual catch 

projected to produce a less than or equal 

to 50 percent probability of exceeding 

the fishing mortality rate to support 

maximum sustainable yield in 2015. At 

the conclusion of the 2013–2015 

specifications process, the Council 

recommended a further consideration of 

long-term harvest strategies for herring 

either during the next specifications 

process and/or through an amendment 

to the Herring FMP. 

Amendment 8 is proposed to further 

consider long-term harvest strategies for 

herring, including an ABC control rule 

that addresses the biological needs of 

the herring resource and explicitly 

accounts for herring’s role in the 

ecosystem, consistent with the 

requirements and intent of the MSA. 

The importance of herring as a forage 

species is underscored by the Council’s 

specified intent to consider a wide range 

of alternatives for ABC control rules in 

this amendment, including those that 

explicitly account for herring’s role in 

the ecosystem. 

The Council’s Herring Oversight 

Committee and the Council will be 

identifying the goals and objectives for 

Amendment 8 following the scoping 

period and will then develop 

alternatives to meet the purpose and 

need of the action. Additionally, the 

Council’s Ecosystem-Based Fisheries 

Management (EBFM) Plan Development 

Team and EBFM Committee will be 

developing guidance for managing 

forage fish within an ecosystem context 

and will be participating in the 

development of an ABC control rule and 

reference points for herring during this 

amendment. Following input from these 

Council bodies and the public, the 

Council will select a range of 

alternatives to consider long-term 

harvest strategies and ABC control rules 

for herring. 

Public Comment 

All persons affected by or otherwise 

interested in herring management are 

invited to participate in determining the 

scope and significance of issues to be 

analyzed by submitting written 

comments (see ADDRESSES) or by 

attending one of the four scoping 

meetings for this amendment. Scoping 

consists of identifying the range of 

actions, alternatives, and impacts to be 

considered. At this time in the process, 

the Council believes that the 

alternatives considered in Amendment 

8 would consider long-term harvest 

strategies and ABC control rules for 

herring that explicitly account for 

herring’s role in the ecosystem. After the 

scoping process is completed, the 

Council will begin development of 

Amendment 8 and will prepare an EIS 

to analyze the impacts of the range of 

alternatives under consideration. 

Impacts may be direct, individual, or 

cumulative. The Council will hold 

public hearings to receive comments on 

the draft amendment and on the 

analysis of its impacts presented in the 

Draft EIS. 

In addition to soliciting comment on 

this notice, the public will have the 

opportunity to comment on the 

measures and alternatives being 

considered by the Council through 

public meetings and public comment 

periods consistent with NEPA, the 

MSA, and the Administrative Procedure 

Act. The following scoping meetings 

have been scheduled. The Council will 

take and discuss scoping comments on 

this amendment at the following public 

meetings: 

1. Friday, March 6, 2015; 10:30 a.m.; 

Samoset Resort, Rockland Room, 220 

Warrenton Street, Rockport, ME 04856; 

(207) 594–2511. 

2. Thursday, March 26, 2015; 6 p.m.; 

DoubleTree by Hilton, 50 Ferncroft 

Road, Danvers, MA 01923; (978) 777– 

2500. 


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3. Monday, April 6, 2015; 6 p.m.; 

Webinar; Register to participate: https:// 

attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/

700212250002809602; call-in (631) 992– 

3221; Access Code 541–819–750. 

4. Monday, April 20, 2015; 6 p.m.; 

Hilton Hotel, 20 Coogan Boulevard, 

Mystic, CT 06355; (860) 572–0731. 

Special Accommodations 

The meetings are accessible to people 

with physical disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Thomas A. Nies (see ADDRESSES) at least 

five days prior to this meeting date. 

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

Dated: February 23, 2015 . 

Emily H. Menashes, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XD704 

Whaling Provisions; Aboriginal 

Subsistence Whaling Quotas 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; notification of quota for 

bowhead whales. 

SUMMARY: NMFS notifies the public of 

the aboriginal subsistence whaling 

quota for bowhead whales that it has 

assigned to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling 

Commission (AEWC), and of limitations 

on the use of the quota deriving from 

regulations of the International Whaling 

Commission (IWC). For 2015, the quota 

is 75 bowhead whales struck. This quota 

and other applicable limitations govern 

the harvest of bowhead whales by 

members of the AEWC. 

DATES: Effective February 26, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Office for International 

Affairs and Seafood Inspection, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Melissa Garcia, (301) 427–8385. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Aboriginal 

subsistence whaling in the United States 

is governed by the Whaling Convention 

Act (WCA) (16 U.S.C. 916 et seq.). 

Under the WCA, IWC regulations shall 

generally become effective with respect 

to all persons and vessels subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States, within 

90 days of notification from the IWC 

Secretariat of an amendment to the IWC 

Schedule (16 U.S.C. 916k). Regulations 

that implement the WCA, found at 50 

CFR 230.6, require the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) to publish, at 

least annually, aboriginal subsistence 

whaling quotas and any other 

limitations on aboriginal subsistence 

whaling deriving from regulations of the 

IWC. 

At the 64th Annual Meeting of the 

IWC, the Commission set catch limits 

for aboriginal subsistence use of 

bowhead whales from the BeringChukchi-Beaufort Seas stock. The 

bowhead catch limits were based on a 

joint request by the United States and 

the Russian Federation, accompanied by 

documentation concerning the needs of 

two Native groups: Alaska Eskimos and 

Chukotka Natives in the Russian Far 

East. 

The IWC set a 6-year block catch limit 

of 336 bowhead whales landed. For 

each of the years 2013 through 2018, the 

number of bowhead whales struck may 

not exceed 67, except that any unused 

portion of a strike quota from any prior 

year may be carried forward. No more 

than 15 strikes may be added to the 

strike quota for any one year. At the end 

of the 2014 harvest, there were 15 

unused strikes available for carryforward, so the combined strike quota 

set by the IWC for 2015 is 82 (67 + 15). 

An arrangement between the United 

States and the Russian Federation 

ensures that the total quota of bowhead 

whales landed and struck in 2015 will 

not exceed the limits set by the IWC. 

Under this arrangement, the Russian 

natives may use no more than seven 

strikes, and the Alaska Eskimos may use 

no more than 75 strikes. 

Through its cooperative agreement 

with the AEWC, NOAA has assigned 75 

strikes to the Alaska Eskimos. The 

AEWC will in turn allocate these strikes 

among the 11 villages whose cultural 

and subsistence needs have been 

documented, and will ensure that its 

hunters use no more than 75 strikes. 

Other Limitations 

The IWC regulations, as well as the 

NOAA regulation at 50 CFR 230.4(c), 

forbid the taking of calves or any whale 

accompanied by a calf. 

NOAA regulations (at 50 CFR 230.4) 

contain a number of other prohibitions 

relating to aboriginal subsistence 

whaling, some of which are summarized 

here: 

• Only licensed whaling captains or 

crew under the control of those captains 

may engage in whaling. 

• Captains and crew must follow the 

provisions of the relevant cooperative 

agreement between NOAA and a Native 

American whaling organization. 

• The aboriginal hunters must have 

adequate crew, supplies, and equipment 

to engage in an efficient operation. 

• Crew may not receive money for 

participating in the hunt. 

• No person may sell or offer for sale 

whale products from whales taken in 

the hunt, except for authentic articles of 

Native American handicrafts. 

• Captains may not continue to whale 

after the relevant quota is taken, after 

the season has been closed, or if their 

licenses have been suspended. They 

may not engage in whaling in a wasteful 

manner. 

Dated: February 19, 2015. 

Paul N. Doremus, 

Acting Director, Office for International 

Affairs and Seafood Inspection, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Renewal of Department of Defense 

Federal Advisory Committees 

AGENCY: DoD. 

ACTION: Renewal of Federal Advisory 

Committee. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) is publishing this notice to 

announce that it is renewing the charter 

for the Missouri River (South Dakota) 

Task Force (‘‘the Task Force’’). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Freeman, Advisory Committee 

Management Officer for the Department 

of Defense, 703–692–5952. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

committee’s charter is being renewed 

pursuant to section 905(a) of the 

Missouri River Restoration Act of 2000 

(‘‘the Missouri River Restoration Act’’) 

(Title IX of Pub. L. 106–541, the Water 

Resources Development Act of 2000) 

and in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 

1972 (5 U.S.C., Appendix, as amended) 

and 41 CFR 102–3.50(a). 

The Task Force is a non-discretionary 

Federal advisory committee that shall 

provide independent advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary of the 

Army on plans and projects to reduce 

siltation of the Missouri River in the 

State of South Dakota and to meet the 

objectives of the Pick-Sloan Missouri 

River Basin Program authorized by 


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