13164 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 53 / Wednesday, March 19, 1997 / Notices

Bureau of Land Management

[AZ–930–07–1020–00]

Notice of Availability of a Proposed

Plan Amendment of Land Use Plans in

Arizona for Implementation of Arizona

Standards for Rangeland Health and

Guidelines for Grazing Administration,

Finding of No Significant Impact, and

Environmental Assessment Summary

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability,

amendment to time frames for protest

period.

SUMMARY: On March 11, 1997, the

Bureau of Land Management published

a notice of availability of the proposed

plan amendment of land use plans in

Arizona for implementation of Arizona

Standards for Rangeland Health and

Guidelines for Grazing Administration.

The publication of the Notice of

Availability initiated a 30-day protest

period of the proposed plan

amendment. This notice serves to

announce an amendment to the time

frames for the protest period. Due to a

delay in publishing the original Federal

Register Notice of Availability, the

protest period will not close until April

9, 1997.

DATES: Protests on the proposed

decisions in the Proposed Plan

Amendment for Implementation of

Arizona Standards and Guidelines must

be postmarked by April 9, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Protests must be sent to the

Director (210); Bureau of Land

Management; 1849 C Street, NW; MS–

1000LS; Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ken Mahoney, Team Leader, Arizona

State Office, 222 North Central Avenue,

Phoenix, AZ 85004, Telephone: (602)

417–9238.

Phillip D. Moreland,

Acting Deputy State Director, Arizona.

[FR Doc. 97–6890 Filed 3–18–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

COMMISSION

Summary of Commission Practice

Relating to Administrative Protective

Orders

AGENCY: United States International

Trade Commission.

ACTION: Summary of Commission

practice relating to administrative

protective orders.

SUMMARY: The Conference Report to the

Customs and Trade Act of 1990

provided for the International Trade

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) to issue

periodic reports, at least annually, on

the status of its practice with respect to

violations of its administrative

protective orders (‘‘APOs’’) in

investigations under Title VII of the

Tariff Act of 1930. This notice provides

a summary of investigations of breaches

for the period ending in 1996. The

Commission intends that this notice

will educate representatives of parties to

Commission proceedings as to some

specific types of APO breaches

encountered by the Commission and the

corresponding types of actions the

Commission has taken.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gail

S. Usher, Esq., Office of the General

Counsel, U.S. International Trade

Commission, tel. (202) 205–3152.

Hearing impaired individuals are

advised that information on this matter

can be obtained by contacting the

Commission’s TDD terminal at (202)

205–1810.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Representatives of parties to

investigations conducted under Title VII

of the Tariff Act of 1930 may enter into

administrative protective orders that

permit them, under strict conditions, to

obtain access to business proprietary

information (‘‘BPI’’) of other parties. See

19 U.S.C. 1677f; 19 CFR 207.7. The

discussion below describes APO breach

investigations that the Commission has

completed including a description of

actions taken in response to breaches.

The discussion covers breach

investigations completed during the

period ending in 1996, generally with

respect to antidumping and

countervailing duty cases.

In past years, the notice has contained

also a summary of the Commission’s

investigations involving violations of

the ‘‘24-hour’’ rule, which provides that

during the 24-hour period after a

Commission deadline for a party

submission in an antidumping or

countervailing duty proceeding, the

only changes to the proprietary version

permitted are changes to the bracketing

of BPI. See 19 CFR 207.3(c). In 1996,

however, no investigations of 24-hour

rule violations were completed.

In recent years, the Commission has

expanded the notice to include APO

breaches in other types of proceedings

as well. In 1996, only one APO

investigation was completed in a

proceeding conducted under Section

201 of the Trade Act of 1974, and no

APO investigations were completed in

proceedings conducted under Section

337 of the Tariff Act of 1930.

Since 1991, the Commission has

published annually a summary of its

actions in response to violations of

Commission APOs and the ‘‘24 hour’’

rule. See 56 FR 4846 (Feb. 6, 1991); 57

FR 12,335 (Apr. 9, 1992); 58 FR 21,991

(Apr. 26, 1993); 59 FR 16,834 (Apr. 8,

1994); 60 FR 24,880 (May 10, 1995); and

61 FR 21,203 (May 9, 1996). This notice

does not provide an exclusive list of

conduct that will be deemed to be a

breach of the Commission’s APOs, and

does not bind the Commission in its

future rulings.

As part of the effort to educate

practitioners about the Commission’s

current APO practice, the Secretary of

the Commission issued in April 1996 a

revised edition of An Introduction to

Administrative Protective Order Practice

in Antidumping and Countervailing

Duty Investigations (Pub. No. 2961).

This document is available upon request

from the Office of the Secretary, U.S.

International Trade Commission, 500 E

Street, SW, Washington, DC 20436, tel.

(202) 205–2000.

I. In General

The current APO form for

antidumping and countervailing duty

investigations, which the Commission

has used since March 1995, requires the

applicant to swear that he or she will:

(1) Not divulge any of the BPI

obtained under this APO and not

otherwise available to him, to any

person other than

(i) Personnel of the Commission

concerned with the investigation,

(ii) The person or agency from whom

the BPI was obtained,

(iii) A person whose application for

disclosure of BPI under this APO has

been granted by the Secretary, and

(iv) Other persons, such as paralegals

and clerical staff, who (a) are employed

or supervised by and under the

direction and control of the authorized

applicant or another authorized

applicant in the same firm whose

application has been granted; (b) have a

need thereof in connection with the

investigation; (c) are not involved in

competitive decision making for an

interested party which is a party to the

investigation; and (d) have submitted to

the Secretary a signed Acknowledgment

for Clerical Personnel in the form

attached hereto (the authorized

applicant shall also sign such

acknowledgment and will be deemed

responsible for such persons’

compliance with this APO);

(2) Use such BPI solely for the

purposes of the above-captioned

Commission investigation or for judicial

or binational panel review of such

Commission investigation;