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conduct a reinterview of a small portion

of respondents during nonresponse

follow-up to ensure the quality of work

in this operation.

The Census Bureau plans to take the

following additional steps to improve

response to the census:

• Build partnerships with state, local,

and tribal governments and with

community groups to alert the Census

Bureau to problems and advise the

Bureau of opportunities to publicize

Census 2000 and the best ways to

communicate the message.

• Motivate individuals to respond (by

explaining the benefits and mandatory

nature of the census) and make Census

2000 forms attractive, easy to

understand, and simple to fill out.

Private sector designers have worked

with the Census Bureau to simplify the

forms and implement the user-friendly

features shown to increase response

during testing and research conducted

by the Census Bureau.

• Placing unaddressed Be Counted

forms or language assistance guides in

locations, such as community centers

and Walk-In Questionnaire Assistance

Centers, for use by people who believe

they have not been counted in the

census. The Census Bureau intends to

make these forms available in a broad

range of non-English languages, but the

number of languages has not yet been

finalized.

• Employing new methods to find

and enumerate people, such as

enumerating persons who use services

at shelters, soup kitchens, and other

facilities and placing unaddressed Be

Counted forms in publicly accessible

locations for pick up and completion by

people who believe that they have not

been counted in the census.

• Providing telephone questionnaire

assistance.

The Census Bureau intends to employ

statistical sampling to check the quality

of the work. An independent quality

check—called the Integrated Coverage

Measurement survey—will use the

information gathered from a second,

independent operation to improve the

accuracy of the census. The Integrated

Coverage Measurement survey will be

submitted separately for OMB review, as

will the forms for the census

enumeration in Puerto Rico, the U.S.

Virgin Islands, and the Pacific Island

Areas.

III. Data

OMB Number: Not available.

Form Numbers:

Short Form: D–1, D–1(S) and possibly

other languages

Long Form: D–2, D–2(S) and possibly

other languages

Update/Leave: D–1(UL), D–2(UL), D–

1A(UL), D–2A(UL)

Enumerator Forms: D–1E, D–2E, D–

1(E)SUPP, D–2(E)SUPP

Household Follow-up: D–1(HF), D–

2(HF), D–1(HF)(S), D–2(HF)(S)

Be Counted Forms: D–10, D–10(S) and

possibly other languages

Advance Census Report: D–13

Individual Census Questionnaires: D–

15A, D–15B

Individual Census Reports: D–20A, D–

20A(S), D–20B, D–20B(S)

Military Census Report: D–21

Shipboard Census Report: D–23

Letters/Cards/Notices: D–5(L), D–

5(L)(UL), D–9, D–9(UL), D–11, D–

1E(S), D–2E(S), D–1(F), D–16A(L), D–

16B(L) and possibly other languages,

D–16A(L)(UL), D–16B(L)UL, D–

19A(L), D–19B(L), D–19C(L), D–

19A(L)(S), D–19B(L)(S), D–19C(L)(S),

D–26, D–27, D–28, D–31, D–31(P), D–

3309

Reinterview: D–806

Type of Review: Regular Submission.

Affected Public: Individuals or

Households.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

106,200,000 households (approx.) (Short

Form: 83%; Long form: 17%)

Reinterview: 1,200,000 households.

Estimated Time Per Response: Short

Form: 10 minutes, Long Form: 38

minutes, Reinterview: 5 minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

Short Form: 14,691,000 hours, Long

Form: 11,434,200 hours, Reinterview:

100,000 hours, Total: 26,225,200 hours.

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The

only cost to respondent is that of their

time.

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.

Sections 141 and 193.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information; and (d) ways

to minimize the burden of the collection

of information on respondents,

including through the use of automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

the comments will become a matter of

public record.

Dated: April 27, 1998.

Linda Engelmeier,

Departmental Forms Clearance Officer, Office

of Management and Organization.

[FR Doc. 98–11624 Filed 4–30–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 23–98]

Foreign-Trade Zone 87—Lake Charles,

LA; Application for Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board

(the Board), by the Lake Charles Harbor

& Terminal District (a.k.a. the Port of

Lake Charles), grantee of Foreign-Trade

Zone 87, requesting authority to expand

its zone in Lake Charles, Louisiana,

within the Lake Charles Customs port of

entry. The application was submitted

pursuant to the provisions of the

Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as amended

(19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the regulations

of the Board (15 CFR Part 400). It was

formally filed on April 22, 1998.

FTZ 87 was approved on July 22,

1983 (Board Order 217, 48 FR 35478, 8/

4/83). The zone project currently

consists of four sites along the Calcasieu

River and Ship Channel and the

Industrial Canal: Site 1 (463 acres)—

general cargo area of the Port of Lake

Charles, Lake Charles; Site 2 (360

acres)—industrial area on both sides of

the Industrial Canal, some 12 miles

south of the general cargo area, Lake

Charles; Site 3 (11 acres)—warehouse

facility at Fournet and Ford Streets,

Lake Charles; and, Site 4 (3 acres)—

warehouse facility at 3001 Industrial

Avenue, Lake Charles.

The applicant is now requesting

authority to expand the general-purpose

zone to include two new sites (924

acres) in Calcasieu Parish (Proposed

Sites 5 and 6): Proposed Site 5 (391

acres)—Lake Charles Harbor & Terminal

District’s Industrial Park East, Highway

397, Lake Charles; and, Proposed Site 6

(533 acres, 3 parcels at the Chennault

Airpark)—Parcel 1 (523 acres)—3650 J.

Bennett Johnston Avenue, Lake Charles;

Parcel 2 (9 acres)—East Broad Street,

Lake Charles; and, Parcel 3 (1 acre )—

Avenue C, Lake Charles. Proposed Site

5 was recently acquired by the Port.

Proposed Site 6 is adjacent to Proposed

Site 5 and is owned by area

governmental entities and is leased to

the Chennault International Airport

Authority. Both sites are designated

state enterprise zones. No specific

manufacturing requests are being made

at this time. Such requests would be
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made to the Board on a case-by-case

basis.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment on the application is

invited from interested parties.

Submissions (original and 3 copies)

shall be addressed to the Board’s

Executive Secretary at the address

below. The closing period for their

receipt is June 30, 1998. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period (to July 15, 1998).

A copy of the application and

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

Office of the Port Director, U.S. Customs

Service, 150 Marine Street, Lake

Charles, LA 70601

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

3716, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: April 23, 1998.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Acting Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 98–11667 Filed 4–30–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–412–810; C–412–811; A–428–811; C–

428–812]

Hot-Rolled Lead and Bismuth Carbon

Steel Products From Germany and the

United Kingdom; Negative Preliminary

Determinations of Circumvention of

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty

Orders

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of negative preliminary

determinations of circumvention of

antidumping and countervailing duty

orders.

SUMMARY: On April 14, 1997, the

Department of Commerce received an

application requesting circumvention

inquiries of the antidumping and

countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled

lead and bismuth carbon steel products

from Germany and the United Kingdom.

The application alleged that the

principal German and British producers

of hot-rolled lead and bismuth carbon

steel products are circumventing the

respective orders by shipping leaded

steel billets to the United States, where

they are easily and inexpensively

converted into the hot-rolled lead and

bismuth carbon steel products covered

by the orders. Pursuant to the

application, the Department of

Commerce initiated anticircumvention

inquiries on June 25, 1997.

We preliminarily determine that

imports into the United States of leaded

steel billets that were exported from

Germany and the United Kingdom do

not constitute circumvention of the

antidumping and countervailing duty

orders on hot-rolled lead and bismuth

carbon steel products from Germany

and the United Kingdom, within the

meaning of section 781(a) of the Tariff

Act of 1930, as amended. Interested

parties are invited to comment on these

preliminary determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 1, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anne D’Alauro, Russell Morris, or

Richard Herring, Office of CVD/AD

Enforcement VI, Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230; telephone

(202) 482–2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930,

as amended, by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (URAA), effective

January 1, 1995 (the Act). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all

references to the Department’s

regulations are to 19 CFR Parts 353 and

355 (1997).

Background

On March 22, 1993, the Department of

Commerce (the Department) published

in the Federal Register the antidumping

duty orders (58 FR 15334) and

countervailing duty orders (58 FR

15325, 15327) on hot-rolled lead and

bismuth carbon steel products (hotrolled lead bar) from Germany and the

United Kingdom. On April 14, 1997, the

Department received an application

(amended on May 14, 1997) filed by

Inland Steel Bar Company and USS/

KOBE Steel Company (the petitioners),

requesting that the Department conduct

anticircumvention inquiries of the

antidumping and countervailing duty

orders on hot-rolled lead bar from

Germany and the United Kingdom

pursuant to section 781(a) of the Tariff

Act. The petitioners alleged that the

principal German (Saarstahl A.G. i.K.

and Thyssen Stahl A.G.) and British

(British Steel plc) producers of hotrolled lead bar are circumventing the

respective orders by shipping leadedsteel billets (lead billets) to the United

States, where they are easily and

inexpensively converted into the hotrolled lead bar products covered by the

orders.

The Department received written

comments opposing the request to

initiate the inquiries from Thyssen on

May 12, 1997, from Saarstahl A.G. i.K.

on May 16, 1997, from British Steel plc

on May 23, 1997, and from the

European Community (EC) on May 27,

1997. We also received written

comments in opposition to the initiation

of the inquiries from Bar Technologies,

Inc. (Bar Tech) on May 19, 1997,

Sheffield Steel Corporation on June 2,

1997, Birmingham Steel Corporation on

June 3, 1997, and Nucor Steel

Corporation on June 5, 1997.

Pursuant to the petitioners’

application and in accordance with 19

CFR 353.29(e) and 355.29(e), the

Department initiated circumvention

inquiries of the antidumping and

countervailing duty orders on hot-rolled

lead bar from Germany and the United

Kingdom (62 FR 34213; June 25, 1997).

We sent initial questionnaires to the

foreign respondents on June 25, 1997,

and received responses on July 21, 1997.

On September 10, 1997, the Department

again issued questionnaires to all

foreign respondents. Also on this date,

the Department issued questionnaires to

those U.S. steel companies which were

identified in the foreign respondents’

July 21, 1997 questionnaire responses as

lead billet customers. The U.S. steel

companies which responded to the

Department’s questionnaires on October

29, 1997 and November 3, 1997,

purchased virtually all of the foreign

respondents’ exports of lead billets to

the United States in 1995 and 1996, and

rolled them into hot-rolled lead bar

(hereafter referred to as U.S. re-rollers).

The Department issued supplemental

questionnaires to both the U.S. re-rollers

and foreign respondents.

In conducting the inquiries, we

requested and received detailed

information on a range of topics, such

as processing, pricing information, and

conversion costs. We also collected data

on patterns of trade, sourcing patterns,

and other trend data for the period

January 1, 1991, through June 30, 1997.

Scope of Antidumping and

Countervailing Duty Orders

Imports covered by these orders

include hot-rolled bars and rod of nonalloy or other alloy steel, whether or not