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TABLE TO § 165.171—Continued 

• Sponsor: Christopher Lizzaraque 

• Date: A one day event in September 

• Time (Approximate): 9:00 am to 3 pm 

• Location: Essex Beggs Point Park, Essex, NY, to Charlotte Beach, 

Charlotte, VT. 

44°18′32′′ N, 073°20′52′′ W. 

44°20′03′′ N, 073°16′53′′ W. 

* Date subject to change. Exact date will be posted in Notice of Enforcement and Local Notice to Mariners. 

Dated: January 29, 2015. 

B. S. Gilda, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the 

Port, Sector Northern New England. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND 

SPACE ADMINISTRATION 

48 CFR Part 25 

[FAR Case 2015–001; Docket No. 2015– 

0001; Sequence No. 1] 

RIN 9000–AM88 

Federal Acquisition Regulation; List of 

Domestically Nonavailable Articles 

AGENCIES: Department of Defense (DoD), 

General Services Administration (GSA), 

and National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA). 

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed 

rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: DoD, GSA, and NASA are 

considering amending the Federal 

Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to update 

the list of domestically nonavailable 

articles under the Buy American Act. 

DoD, GSA, and NASA are seeking 

information that will assist in 

identifying domestic capabilities and for 

evaluating whether some articles on the 

list of domestically nonavailable articles 

are now mined, produced, or 

manufactured in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

commercial quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality. 

DATES: Interested parties should submit 

written comments to the Regulatory 

Secretariat at one of the addressees 

shown below on or before May 26, 2015 

to be considered in the formulation of 

a proposed rule. 

ADDRESSES: Submit comments in 

response to FAR Case 2015–001 by any 

of the following methods: 

• Regulations.gov: http://

www.regulations.gov. Submit comments 

via the Federal eRulemaking portal by 

searching for ‘‘FAR Case 2015–001’’. 

Select the link ‘‘Comment Now’’ that 

corresponds with ‘‘FAR Case 2015– 

001’’. Follow the instructions provided 

at the ‘‘Comment Now’’ screen. Please 

include your name, company name (if 

any), and ‘‘FAR Case 2015–001’’ on your 

attached document. 

• Fax: 202–501–4067. 

• Mail: General Services 

Administration, Regulatory Secretariat 

(MVCB), ATTN: Ms. Flowers, 1800 F 

Street NW., 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 

20405–0001. 

Instructions: Please submit comments 

only and cite FAR Case 2015–001 in all 

correspondence related to this case. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal and/or business confidential 

information provided. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Cecelia L. Davis, Procurement Analyst, 

at 202–219–0202, for clarification of 

content. For information pertaining to 

status or publication schedules, contact 

the Regulatory Secretariat at 202–501– 

4755. Please cite FAR Case 2015–001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

A. The Buy American statute (41 

U.S.C. chapter 83) generally requires 

that only domestically mined, 

produced, or manufactured articles be 

procured for public use in the United 

States. The Buy American statute 

provides an exception for articles not 

mined, produced, or manufactured in 

the United States in sufficient and 

reasonably available commercial 

quantities and of a satisfactory quality. 

FAR 25.103(b)(1) provides a 

determination that articles listed at FAR 

25.104(a) meet the conditions of this 

exception. This determination does not 

necessarily mean that there is no 

domestic source for the listed items, but 

that domestic sources can only meet 50 

percent or less of total U.S. Government 

and nongovernment demand. 

The established list of articles 

identified in FAR 25.104(a) is a 

comprehensive and wide-ranging mix of 

natural resources, compounds, 

materials, and other items of supply. 

Although some articles on the list have 

no known domestic production sources 

(e.g., vanilla beans), many of the articles 

are known to have some domestic 

production sources, but those sources 

have been determined in the past to be 

inadequate to meet U.S. demand. 

Examples of such articles range from 

goat and kidskins (negligible domestic 

production), to crude iodine (5 percent 

of U.S. Government and nongovernment 

demand), to bismuth (not in excess of 50 

percent of U.S. Government and 

nongovernment demand). 

The list is reviewed every five years, 

as required by FAR 25.104(b). DoD, 

GSA, and NASA last published in the 

Federal Register a request for public 

comment on the list on August 7, 2009 

(74 FR 39597). 

The Councils are seeking information 

to determine whether some articles 

should be removed from the list because 

they are now mined, produced, or 

manufactured in the United States in 

sufficient and reasonably available 

commercial quantities and of a 

satisfactory quality. Specific 

information with regard to domestic 

production capacity in relation to U.S. 

Government and nongovernment 

demand and the quality of domestically 

produced items would be most helpful 

in determining whether articles should 

remain on or be removed from the list. 

A sources-sought notice will be 

published in FedBizOpps in an effort to 

increase the awareness of this request 

and to receive greater responses from 

interested parties on the nonavailable 

articles listing. 

B. The current domestically 

nonavailable listing at FAR 25.104 is as 

follow: 

• Acetylene, black. 

• Agar, bulk. 

• Anise. 

• Antimony, as metal or oxide. 

• Asbestos, amosite, chrysotile, and 

crocidolite. 

• Bamboo shoots. 

• Bananas. 

• Bauxite. 

• Beef, corned, canned. 

• Beef extract. 

• Bephenium hydroxynapthoate. 


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• Bismuth. 

• Books, trade, text, technical, or 

scientific; newspapers; pamphlets; 

magazines; periodicals; printed briefs 

and films; not printed in the United 

States and for which domestic editions 

are not available. 

• Brazil nuts, unroasted. 

• Cadmium, ores and flue dust. 

• Calcium cyanamide. 

• Capers. 

• Cashew nuts. 

• Castor beans and castor oil. 

• Chalk, English. 

• Chestnuts. 

• Chicle. 

• Chrome ore or chromite. 

• Cinchona bark. 

• Cobalt, in cathodes, rondelles, or 

other primary ore and metal forms. 

• Cocoa beans. 

• Coconut and coconut meat, 

unsweetened, in shredded, desiccated, 

or similarly prepared form. 

• Coffee, raw or green bean. 

• Colchicine alkaloid, raw. 

• Copra. 

• Cork, wood or bark and waste. 

• Cover glass, microscope slide. 

• Crane rail (85-pound per foot). 

• Cryolite, natural. 

• Dammar gum. 

• Diamonds, industrial, stones and 

abrasives. 

• Emetine, bulk. 

• Ergot, crude. 

• Erythrityl tetranitrate. 

• Fair linen, altar. 

• Fibers of the following types: abaca, 

abace, agave, coir, flax, jute, jute 

burlaps, palmyra, and sisal. 

• Goat and kidskins. 

• Goat hair canvas. 

• Grapefruit sections, canned. 

• Graphite, natural, crystalline, 

crucible grade. 

• Hand file sets (Swiss pattern). 

• Handsewing needles. 

• Hemp yarn. 

• Hog bristles for brushes. 

• Hyoscine, bulk. 

• Ipecac, root. 

• Iodine, crude. 

• Kaurigum. 

• Lac. 

• Leather, sheepskin, hair type. 

• Lavender oil. 

• Manganese. 

• Menthol, natural bulk. 

• Mica. 

• Microprocessor chips (brought onto 

a Government construction site as 

separate units for incorporation into 

building systems during construction or 

repair and alteration of real property). 

• Modacrylic fiber. 

• Nickel, primary, in ingots, pigs, 

shots, cathodes, or similar forms; nickel 

oxide and nickel salts. 

• Nitroguanidine (also known as 

picrite). 

• Nux vomica, crude. 

• Oiticica oil. 

• Olive oil. 

• Olives (green), pitted or unpitted, or 

stuffed, in bulk. 

• Opium, crude. 

• Oranges, mandarin, canned. 

• Petroleum, crude oil, unfinished 

oils, and finished products. 

• Pine needle oil. 

• Pineapple, canned. 

• Platinum and related group metals, 

refined, as sponge, powder, ingots, or 

cast bars. 

• Pyrethrum flowers. 

• Quartz crystals. 

• Quebracho. 

• Quinidine. 

• Quinine. 

• Rabbit fur felt. 

• Radium salts, source and special 

nuclear materials. 

• Rosettes. 

• Rubber, crude and latex. 

• Rutile. 

• Santonin, crude. 

• Secretin. 

• Shellac. 

• Silk, raw and unmanufactured. 

• Spare and replacement parts for 

equipment of foreign manufacture, and 

for which domestic parts are not 

available. 

• Spices and herbs, in bulk. 

• Sugars, raw. 

• Swords and scabbards. 

• Talc, block, steatite. 

• Tantalum. 

• Tapioca flour and cassava. 

• Tartar, crude; tartaric acid and 

cream of tartar in bulk. 

• Tea in bulk. 

• Thread, metallic (gold). 

• Thyme oil. 

• Tin in bars, blocks, and pigs. 

• Triprolidine hydrochloride. 

• Tungsten. 

• Vanilla beans. 

• Venom, cobra. 

• Water chestnuts. 

• Wax, carnauba. 

• Wire glass. 

• Woods; logs, veneer, and lumber of 

the following species: Alaskan yellow 

cedar, angelique, balsa, ekki, greenheart, 

lignum vitae, mahogany, and teak. 

• Yarn, 50 Denier rayon. 

• Yeast, active dry and instant active 

dry. 

B. Executive Order 12866 and 13563 

Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and 

13563 direct agencies to assess all costs 

and benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, distributive impacts, and 

equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the 

importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, of reducing costs, of 

harmonizing rules, and of promoting 

flexibility. This is not a significant 

regulatory action and, therefore, was not 

subject to review under Section 6(b) of 

E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and 

Review, dated September 30, 1993. This 

rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C. 

804. 

List of Subject in 48 CFR Part 25 

Government procurement. 

Dated: March 19, 2015. 

William Clark, 

Director, Office of Government-wide 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition 

Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06735 Filed 3–23–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097: 

FXES11130900000C2–156–FF09E32000] 

RIN 1018–AZ74 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Proposed Rule To Amend 

the Listing of the Southern Selkirk 

Mountains Population of Woodland 

Caribou 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

reopening of the public comment period 

on our May 8, 2014, proposed rule to 

amend the listing of the southern 

Selkirk Mountains population of 

woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus 

caribou) to the Southern Mountain 

caribou distinct population segment 

(DPS). The southern Selkirk Mountains 

population of woodland caribou is 

currently listed as endangered under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). On May 8, 2014, we 

proposed to list the Southern Mountain 

caribou DPS as threatened under the 

Act. This reopening of comment period 

will provide all interested parties with 

an opportunity to review additional 

scientific information and provide 

comment on the status of the Southern 

Mountain caribou DPS. Information 


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