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1See Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Korea and the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 79 FR 67419 

(November 13, 2014) (Initiation Notice). See also 

Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of Korea and 

the Republic of Turkey: Initiation of Less-Than-FairValue Investigations, 79 FR 68213 (November 14, 

2014). 

2The petitioners in this investigation are 

American Cast Iron Pipe Company, Energex (a 

division of JMC Steel Group), Maverick Tube 

Corporation, Northwest Pipe Company, Stupp 

Corporation (a division of Stupp Bros., Inc.), TexTube Company, TMK IPSCO, and Welspun Tubular 

LLC USA. 3See Memorandum from Christian Marsh, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary for Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations, to Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, regarding ‘‘Decision Memorandum for 

the Affirmative Preliminary Determination in the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Welded Line 

Pipe from the Republic of Turkey,’’ dated 

concurrently with this notice (Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum). 

4See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act 

regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E) 

of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of 

the Act regarding specificity. 

5On November 24, 2014, Enforcement and 

Compliance changed the name of Enforcement and 

Compliance’s AD and CVD Centralized Electronic 

Service System (IA ACCESS) to AD and CVD 

Centralized Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 

The Web site location was changed from http://

iaaccess.trade.gov to http://access.trade.gov. The 

Final Rule changing the references to the 

Regulations can be found at 79 FR 69046 

(November 20, 2014).’’ 

technology, e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they will also become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: March 13, 2015. 

Marcie Lovett, 

Records Management Division Director, 

USPTO, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–489–823] 

Welded Line Pipe From the Republic of 

Turkey: Preliminary Affirmative 

Countervailing Duty Determination and 

Alignment of Final Determination With 

Final Antidumping Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) preliminarily 

determines that countervailable 

subsidies are being provided to 

producers and exporters of welded line 

pipe from the Republic of Turkey 

(Turkey). The period of investigation is 

January 1, 2013, through December 31, 

2013. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Effective March 20, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Eastwood or Dennis McClure, 

AD/CVD Operations, Enforcement and 

Compliance, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–3874 or (202) 482– 

5973, respectively. 

Alignment of Final Countervailing Duty 

(CVD) Determination With Final 

Antidumping Duty (AD) Determination 

On the same day the Department 

initiated this CVD investigation, the 

Department also initiated a CVD 

investigation of welded line pipe from 

the Republic of Korea (Korea) and AD 

investigations of welded line pipe from 

Korea and Turkey.1 The CVD and AD 

investigations cover the same 

merchandise. On February 27, 2015, in 

accordance with section 705(a)(1) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (Act), the 

petitioners 2 requested alignment of the 

final CVD determination with the final 

AD determination of welded line pipe 

from Turkey. Therefore, in accordance 

with section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(b)(4), we are aligning the 

final CVD determination with the final 

AD determination. Consequently, the 

final CVD determination will be issued 

on the same date as the final AD 

determination, which is currently 

scheduled to be issued no later than July 

28, 2015, unless postponed. 

Scope of the Investigation 

The scope of the investigation covers 

welded line pipe, which is carbon and 

alloy steel pipe of a kind used for oil or 

gas pipelines, not more than 24 inches 

in nominal outside diameter. For a 

complete description of the scope of the 

investigation, see Appendix I. 

Scope Comments 

Certain interested parties commented 

on the scope of the investigation as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice. For 

discussion of those comments, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum.3

Methodology 

The Department is conducting this 

CVD investigation in accordance with 

section 701 of the Act. For each of the 

subsidy programs found 

countervailable, we preliminarily 

determine that there is a subsidy (i.e., a 

financial contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ 

that gives rise to a benefit to the 

recipient) and that the subsidy is 

specific.4 For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

preliminary conclusions, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

The Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum is a public document and 

is on file electronically via Enforcement 

and Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS).5

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at http://access.trade.gov, and is 

available to all parties in the Central 

Records Unit, room 7046 of the main 

Department of Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 

be accessed directly at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum and 

the electronic versions of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 

identical in content. 

Preliminary Determination and 

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 

703(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, we calculated 

a CVD rate for each individuallyinvestigated producer/exporter of the 

subject merchandise. For companies not 

individually investigated, we have 

calculated an ‘‘all others’’ rate as 

described below. We preliminarily 

determine the countervailable subsidy 

rates to be: 

Company Subsidy rate 

(percent) 

Borusan Istikbal Ticaret, Borusan Mannesmann Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Borusan Mannesmann Boru Yatirim Holding A.S., 

and Borusan Holding A.S ................................................................................................................................................................ 8.85 

Tosc ̧elik Profil ve Sac Endustrisi A.S., Tosyali Demir Celik Sanayi A.S., Tosyali Dis Ticaret A.S., Tosyali Elektrik Enerjisi Toptan

Satis Ith. Ihr. A.S., and Tosyali Holding A.S.6 ................................................................................................................................. 3.76 

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6 In its December 15, 2014, response, Toscelik 

stated that Toscelik Profil ve Sac Endustrisi A.S. 

merged with its cross-owned affiliate, Tosyali Metal 

Ambalaj Sanayi A.S. (Tosyali Metal). Because 

Tosyali Metal no longer exists as a separate entity, 

we have not included it in the list of companies 

above. 

7See Memorandum from Elizabeth Eastwood to 

the File, ‘‘Calculation of the ‘‘All Others’’ Rate in 

the Preliminary Determination of the 

Countervailing Duty Investigation of Welded Line 

Pipe from the Republic of Turkey,’’ dated March 16, 

2015, for the details of this calculation. We 

calculated a weighted average of the rates of 

Borusan Istikbal Ticaret, Borusan Mannesmann 

Boru Sanayi ve Ticaret A.S., Borusan Mannesmann 

Boru Yatirim Holding A.S., and Borusan Holding 

A.S (collectively, Borusan) and Toscelik Profil ve 

Sac Endustrisi A.S., Tosyali Demir Celik Sanayi 

A.S., Tosyali Dis Ticaret A.S,, Tosyali Elektrik 

Enerjisi Toptan Satis Ith. Ihr. A.S., and Tosyali 

Holding A.S. (collectively, Toscelik) using publiclyranged data so as not to disclose the respondents’ 

business proprietary information. 

8See 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

9See 19 CFR 351.309(c)–(d), 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

Company Subsidy rate 

(percent) 

All Others ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 4.36 

In accordance with sections 

703(d)(1)(B) and (2) of the Act, we are 

directing U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection to suspend liquidation of all 

entries of welded line pipe from Turkey 

that are entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption on or after 

the date of the publication of this notice 

in the Federal Register, and to require 

a cash deposit for such entries of 

merchandise in the amounts indicated 

above. 

In accordance with sections 703(d) 

and 705(c)(5)(A) of the Act, for 

companies not investigated, we apply 

an ‘‘all others’’ rate, which is normally 

calculated by weighting the subsidy 

rates of the individual companies 

selected as respondents by those 

companies’ exports of the subject 

merchandise to the United States.7 The 

‘‘all-others’’ rate does not include zero 

and de minimis rates or any rates based 

solely on the facts available. 

Verification 

As provided in section 782(i)(1) of the 

Act, we intend to verify the information 

submitted by the respondents prior to 

making our final determination. 

U.S. International Trade Commission 

In accordance with section 703(f) of 

the Act, we will notify the U.S. 

International Trade Commission (ITC) of 

our determination. In addition, we are 

making available to the ITC all nonprivileged and non-proprietary 

information relating to this 

investigation. We will allow the ITC 

access to all privileged and business 

proprietary information in our files, 

provided the ITC confirms that it will 

not disclose such information, either 

publicly or under an administrative 

protective order, without the written 

consent of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

In accordance with section 705(b)(2) 

of the Act, if our final determination is 

affirmative, the ITC will make its final 

determination within 45 days after the 

Department makes its final 

determination. 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

The Department intends to disclose to 

interested parties the calculations 

performed in connection with this 

preliminary determination within five 

days of its public announcement.8

Interested parties may submit case 

briefs, rebuttal briefs, and hearing 

requests.9 For a schedule of the 

deadlines for filing case briefs, rebuttal 

briefs, and hearing requests, see the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum. 

This determination is issued and 

published pursuant to sections 703(f) 

and 777(i) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.205(c). 

Dated: March 16, 2015. 

Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance. 

Appendix I 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is circular welded carbon and 

alloy steel (other than stainless steel) pipe of 

a kind used for oil or gas pipelines (welded 

line pipe), not more than 24 inches in 

nominal outside diameter, regardless of wall 

thickness, length, surface finish, end finish, 

or stenciling. Welded line pipe is normally 

produced to the American Petroleum 

Institute (API) specification 5L, but can be 

produced to comparable foreign 

specifications, to proprietary grades, or can 

be non-graded material. All pipe meeting the 

physical description set forth above, 

including multiple-stenciled pipe with an 

API or comparable foreign specification line 

pipe stencil is covered by the scope of this 

investigation. 

The welded line pipe that is subject to this 

investigation is currently classifiable in the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United 

States (HTSUS) under subheadings 

7305.11.1030, 7305.11.5000, 7305.12.1030, 

7305.12.5000, 7305.19.1030, 7305.19.5000, 

7306.19.1010, 7306.19.1050, 7306.19.5110, 

and 7306.19.5150. The subject merchandise 

may also enter in HTSUS 7305.11.1060 and 

7305.12.1060. While the HTSUS subheadings 

are provided for convenience and customs 

purposes, the written description of the 

scope of this investigation is dispositive. 

Appendix II 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope Comments 

IV. Scope of the Investigation 

V. Injury Test 

VI. Subsidies Valuation 

VII. Analysis of Programs 

VIII. ITC Notification 

IX. Disclosure and Public Comment 

X. Verification 

XI. Conclusion 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No. 150224177–5177–01] 

RIN 0648–XD798 

Availability of Draft NOAA Education 

Strategic Plan 

AGENCY: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) 

publishes this notice to solicit 

comments on the draft NOAA Education 

Strategic Plan (Plan). NOAA received 

broad legislative authority from 

Congress through the America 

COMPETES Act (2007, 2010) to 

conduct, develop, support, promote, 

and coordinate formal and informal 

education activities at all levels to 

enhance public awareness and 

understanding of ocean, coastal, Great 

Lakes, and atmospheric science and 

stewardship by the general public and 

other coastal stakeholders, including 

underrepresented groups in ocean and 

atmospheric science and policy careers. 

The revision of the Plan establishes the 

goals for NOAA education programs for 

the next twenty years with revisions to 

the Plan every five years. NOAA is 

seeking broad public review of the 

NOAA Education Strategic Plan, and 

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