34848 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 123 / Friday, June 26, 1998 / Notices

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 8,

1998, the Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled published notice (63 F.R.

25445) of proposed additions to the

Procurement List. After consideration of

the material presented to it concerning

capability of qualified nonprofit

agencies to provide the services and

impact of the additions on the current

or most recent contractors, the

Committee has determined that the

services listed below are suitable for

procurement by the Federal Government

under 41 U.S.C. 46–48c and 41 CFR 51–

2.4. I certify that the following action

will not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities other than the small

organizations that will furnish the

services to the Government.

2. The action will not have a severe

economic impact on current contractors

for the services.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

services to the Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the services proposed

for addition to the Procurement List.

Accordingly, the following services

are hereby added to the Procurement

List:

Base Supply Center, Dyess Air Force Base,

Texas

Base Supply Center, Bangor Submarine Base,

Bangor, Washington

Base Supply Center, Naval Air Station,

Whidbey Island, Washington

Operation of Individual Equipment Element,

Dyess Air Force Base, Texas

This action does not affect current

contracts awarded prior to the effective

date of this addition or options that may

be exercised under those contracts.

Beverly L. Milkman,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 98–17105 Filed 6–25–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR

SEVERELY DISABLED

Procurement List Proposed Additions

and Deletions

AGENCY: Committee for Purchase From

People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled.

ACTION: Proposed Additions to and

Deletions from Procurement List.

SUMMARY: The Committee has received

proposal(s) to add to the Procurement

List services to be furnished by

nonprofit agencies employing persons

who are blind or have other severe

disabilities, and to delete commodities

previously furnished by such agencies.

COMMENTS MUST BE RECEIVED ON OR

BEFORE: July 27, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase

From People Who Are Blind or Severely

Disabled, Crystal Gateway 3, Suite 310,

1215 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Arlington, Virginia 22202–4302.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Beverly Milkman (703) 603–7740.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice is published pursuant to 41

U.S.C. 47(a) (2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its

purpose is to provide interested persons

an opportunity to submit comments on

the possible impact of the proposed

actions.

Additions

If the Committee approves the

proposed addition, all entities of the

Federal Government (except as

otherwise indicated) will be required to

procure the services listed below from

nonprofit agencies employing persons

who are blind or have other severe

disabilities.

I certify that the following action will

not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities other than the small

organizations that will furnish the

services to the Government.

2. The action does not appear to have

a severe economic impact on current

contractors for the services.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

services to the Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the services proposed

for addition to the Procurement List.

Comments on this certification are

invited. Commenters should identify the

statement(s) underlying the certification

on which they are providing additional

information.

The following services have been

proposed for addition to Procurement

List for production by the nonprofit

agencies listed:

Administrative Services

General Services Administration, Federal

Protective Services, 255 East Temple,

Los Angeles, California

NPA: Goodwill Industries of Southern

California, Los Angeles, California

Administrative Services

Department of Veterans Affairs Medical

Center, 4100 West Third Street,

Buildings 315 and 330, Dayton, Ohio

NPA: The Clovernook Center, Opportunities

for the Blind, Cincinnati, Ohio

Base Supply Center, Malmstrom Air Force

Base, Montana,

NPA: Industries for the Blind, Inc.,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Base Supply Center, U.S. Naval Station,

Roosevelt Roads, Building 1207, Ceiba,

Puerto Rico

NPA: Winston-Salem Industries for the

Blind, Winston-Salem, North Carolina

Food Service Attendant, Holloman Air Force

Base, New Mexico

NPA: Tresco, Inc., Las Cruces, New Mexico

Grounds Maintenance, Franklin D. Roosevelt

Library, Hyde Park, New York

NPA: Dutchess County Chapter, NYSARC,

Inc., Poughkeepsie, New York

Janitorial/Custodial, United States Geological

Survey Building, Colorado School of

Mines, 1711 Illinois Street, Golden,

Colorado

NPA: Bayaud Industries, Inc., Denver,

Colorado

Janitorial/Custodial, Pentagon Building, 3rd

and 4th Floor, Arlington, Virginia

NPA: Ability Unlimited, Inc., Washington,

DC

Switchboard Operation, Davis-Monthan Air

Force Base, Arizona

NPA: Tucson Association for the Blind and

Visually Impaired, Tucson, Arizona

Deletions

I certify that the following action will

not have a significant impact on a

substantial number of small entities.

The major factors considered for this

certification were:

1. The action will not result in any

additional reporting, recordkeeping or

other compliance requirements for small

entities.

2. The action does not appear to have

a severe economic impact on future

contractors for the commodities.

3. The action will result in

authorizing small entities to furnish the

commodities to the Government.

4. There are no known regulatory

alternatives which would accomplish

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in

connection with the commodities

proposed for deletion from the

Procurement List.

The following commodities have been

proposed for deletion from the

Procurement List:

Tray, Fiberboard, Three-Sided

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Tag, Cattle, Ear

9905–00–NSH–0027

9905–00–NSH–0028

9905–00–NSH–0029

(60% of the Government’s requirement for

the Department of Agriculture, Minneapolis,

Minnesota)

Beverly L. Milkman,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 98–17106 Filed 6–25–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6353–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

North American Free Trade Agreement,

Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United

States Section, International Trade

Administration, Department of

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of decision of binational

panel and notice of completion of panel

review.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the third panel

decision issued on April 13, 1998 that

affirmed SECOFI’s second

Determination on Remand, the

binational panel review in Secretariat

File No. MEX–94–1904–01 was

completed on May 25, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James R. Holbein, United States

Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite

2061, 14th and Constitution Avenue,

Washington, D.C. 20230, (202) 482–

5438.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter

19 of the North American Free Trade

Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’) establishes a

mechanism to replace domestic judicial

review of final determinations in

antidumping and countervailing duty

cases involving imports from a NAFTA

country with review by independent

binational panels. When a Request for

Panel Review is filed, a panel is

established to act in place of national

courts to review expeditiously the final

determination to determine whether it

conforms with the antidumping or

countervailing duty law of the country

that made the determination.

Under Article 1904 of the Agreement,

which came into force on January 1,

1994, the Government of the United

States, the Government of Canada and

the Government of Mexico established

Rules of Procedure for Article 1904

Binational Panel Reviews (‘‘Rules’’).

These Rules were published in the

Federal Register on February 23, 1994

(59 FR 8686). The binational panel

review in this matter was conducted in

accordance with these Rules.

Background and Final Decision

The panel in Secretariat File No. 94–

1904–01 was convened to review the

final antidumping duty determination

made by the Secretaria de Comercio y

Fomento Industrial (SECOFI) with

respect to Imports of Cut-to-Length

Plate, Covered by Customs Tariff

Classifications 7208.32.01, 7208.33.01

7208.42.01 and 7208.43.01 of the Tariff

Schedule of the General Tax Import

Law, Originating in and Exported from

the United States of America.

On September 15, 1997 the Panel

issued a decision affirming in part and

remanding in part the first Remand

Determination of SECOFI for further

action. On January 13, 1998 SECOFI

submitted its second Remand

Determination, which was challenged

on February 2, 1998 under the Rules by

New Process Steel Corporation. On

April 13, 1998 after review of all

documents filed in this action on

remand, the Panel denied New Process’s

challenge to SECOFI’s second Remand

Determination dated January 13, 1998

and affirmed the second Remand

Determination in all its parts.

The Secretariat was instructed to

issue a Notice of Completion of Panel

Review on the 31st day following the

issuance of the Notice of Final Panel

Action, if no Request for an

Extraordinary Challenge was filed. No

such request was filed. Therefore, on the

basis of the Panel Order and Rule 80 of

the Article 1904 Panel Rules, the Panel

Review was completed and the panelists

discharged from their duties effective on

May 25, 1998.

Dated: June 4, 1998.

James R. Holbein,

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.

[FR Doc. 98–17110 Filed 6–25–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–GT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Minority Business Development

Agency

Phoenix (Formerly Automated

Business Enterprise Locator System

(ABELS)) and Opportunity Databases

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites other

Federal agencies and the general public

to take this opportunity to comment on

proposed or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Pub.L. 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before August 25, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Linda Engelmeier, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 5327, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument and instructions should be

directed to Juanita Berry, Minority

Business Development Agency (MBDA),

Room 5084, Washington, D.C. 20230, or

call (202) 482–0404.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

The Phoenix database constitutes the

Minority Business Development

Agency’s (MBDA) listing of ethnic

minority-owned businesses doing

business in the United States. Phoenix

information is gathered on-line via the

Internet’s World Wide Web (WWW).

The information entered in the Phoenix

database will be used to assist minority

enterprises with marketing of goods and

services. The Opportunity database is a

listing of contract and other business

opportunities posted on the MBDA

Website (www.mbda.gov) by public and

private entities. Using a database engine

and special software, the system will

match contract opportunities with

eligible minority companies listed in the

Phoenix database. The purpose for

collecting this information will be to

enable entities with an interest in

contracting with a minority firm to

identify and qualify potential minority

contractors according to various criteria.

MBDA will use the Phoenix database in

conjunction with the Opportunity

database to refer listed minority

companies contract and other business

opportunities via email and fax. Specific

information on the Opportunity form,

such as ‘‘key words’’ and NAICS (North

American Industrial Code Standards)

codes, will be compared with like

information contained in the Phoenix

database of minority companies. When

a match is made, the eligible minority

companies will be notified of any

contract opportunity and the offeror of

the opportunity will be notified of any

eligible minority companies.

II. Method of Collection

The system resides on Y2K (year

2000) compliant platform connected to

the service-provider network via the

Internet and virtual private network.