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indirect selling expenses incurred in the 

comparison market. If commissions 

were granted in the comparison market 

but not in the U.S. market, we made an 

upward adjustment to NV following the 

same methodology. We did not make 

further adjustments to Venus’ home 

market data. 

Currency Conversion 

We made currency conversions into 

U.S. dollars in accordance with section 

773A(a) of the Act based on the 

exchange rates in effect on the dates of 

the U.S. sales as reported by the Federal 

Reserve Bank. 

Preliminary Results of the Review 

For the firms listed below, we find 

that the following weighted-average 

percentage margin exists for the period 

February 1, 2007, through January 31, 

2008: 

Exporter/manufacturer Margin 

(percent) 

Venus Wire Industries Pvt. Ltd./ 

Precision Metals .................... 0.51 

Public Comment 

The Department will disclose the 

calculations performed within five days 

of publication of this notice in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), any 

interested party may request a hearing 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice. Any hearing, if requested, will 

be held 42 days after the publication of 

this notice, or the first workday 

thereafter. Issues raised in the hearing 

will be limited to those raised in the 

case and rebuttal briefs. Pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.309(c), interested parties may 

submit case briefs within 30 days of the 

date of publication of this notice. 

Rebuttal briefs, which must be limited 

to issues raised in the case briefs, may 

be filed not later than 35 days after the 

date of publication of this notice. See 19 

CFR 351.309(d). Parties who submit 

case briefs or rebuttal briefs in this 

proceeding are requested to submit with 

each argument: (1) A statement of the 

issue, and (2) a brief summary of the 

argument with an electronic version 

included. The Department will publish 

the final results of this administrative 

review, including the results of our 

analysis of issues raised in the briefs, no 

later than 120 days after publication of 

these preliminary results. 

Assessment Rates 

If these preliminary results are 

adopted in the final results, we will 

instruct U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (‘‘CBP’’) to assess 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries. The Department will issue 

appropriate assessment instructions 

directly to CBP 15 days after publication 

of the final results of review in the 

Federal Register. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1), for 

all sales made by the respondent for 

which it has reported the importer of 

record and the entered value of the U.S. 

sales, we have calculated importerspecific assessment rates based on the 

ratio of the total amount of antidumping 

duties calculated for the examined sales 

to the total entered value of those sales. 

Where the respondent did not report the 

entered value for U.S. sales, we have 

calculated importer-specific assessment 

rates for the merchandise in question by 

aggregating the dumping margins 

calculated for all U.S. sales to each 

importer and dividing this amount by 

the total quantity of those sales. 

To determine whether the duty 

assessment rates were de minimis (i.e., 

less than 0.50 percent) in accordance 

with the requirement set forth in 19 CFR 

351.106(c)(2), we calculated importerspecific ad valorem rates based on the 

estimated entered value. Where the 

assessment rate is above de minimis, we 

will instruct CBP to assess duties on all 

entries of subject merchandise by that 

importer. Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.106(c)(2), we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate without regard to antidumping 

duties any entries for which the 

assessment rate is de minimis. 

The Department clarified its 

‘‘automatic assessment’’ regulation on 

May 6, 2003. See Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 

FR 23954 (May 6, 2003). This 

clarification will apply to entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR 

produced by the respondent for which 

it did not know its merchandise was 

destined for the United States. In such 

instances, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate unreviewed entries at the allothers rate if there is no rate for the 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction. For a full discussion of 

this clarification, see id. 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

completion of the final results of this 

administrative review for all shipments 

of SSB from India entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the publication 

date of the final results of this 

administrative review, as provided by 

section 751(a)(1) of the Act: (1) The cash 

deposit rate for the reviewed companies 

will be the rate established in the final 

results of this administrative review 

(except no cash deposit will be required 

if its weighted-average margin is de 

minimis); (2) if the exporter is not a firm 

covered in this review, but was covered 

in a previous review or the original less 

than fair value (‘‘LTFV’’) investigation, 

the cash deposit rate will continue to be 

the company-specific rate published for 

the most recent period; and (3) if neither 

the exporter nor the manufacturer is a 

firm covered in this or any previous 

reviews, or the original LTFV 

investigation, the cash deposit rate will 

be the rate established for the most 

recent period for the manufacturer of 

the merchandise; and (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other manufacturers 

and/or exporters of this merchandise, 

shall be 12.45 percent, the all-others rate 

established in the LTFV investigation. 

See Notice of Final Determination of 

Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Stainless 

Steel Bar from India, 59 FR 66915 

(December 28, 1994). 

Notification to Importers 

This notice also serves as a 

preliminary reminder to importers of 

their responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during this 

review period. Failure to comply with 

this requirement could result in the 

Secretary’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping duties 

occurred and the subsequent assessment 

of double antidumping duties. 

We are issuing and publishing these 

preliminary results of review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: March 2, 2009. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN: 0648–XN79 

Gulf of Mexico Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

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SUMMARY: The Gulf of Mexico Fishery 

Management Council (Council) will 

convene its Socioeconomic Panel (SEP). 

DATES: The meeting will be convene at 

8:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 26, 2009 

and conclude no later than 1:30 p.m. on 

Friday, March 27, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Quorum Hotel, 700 N. Westshore 

Blvd., Tampa, FL 33609; telephone: 

(813) 289–8200. 

Council address: Gulf of Mexico 

Fishery Management Council, 2203 

North Lois Avenue, Suite 1100, Tampa, 

FL 33607. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Assane Diagne, Economist, Gulf of 

Mexico Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (813) 348–1630. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Gulf 

of Mexico Fishery Management Council 

will convene its SEP to discuss fisheries 

economics statistics of the Gulf of 

Mexico and United States and fishery 

resource allocation issues, including 

allocation methods and data 

availability. 

A copy of the agenda and related 

materials can be obtained by calling the 

Council office at (813) 348–1630. 

Although other non-emergency issues 

not on the agendas may come before the 

SEP for discussion, in accordance with 

the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery 

Conservation and Management Act 

(Magnuson-Stevens Act), those issues 

may not be the subject of formal action 

during this meeting. Actions of the SEP 

will be restricted to those issues 

specifically identified in the agendas 

and any issues arising after publication 

of this notice that require emergency 

action under Section 305(c) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the 

public has been notified of the Council’s 

intent to take action to address the 

emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Tina 

O’Hern at the Council (see ADDRESSES) 

at least 5 working days prior to the 

meeting. 

Dated: March 3, 2009. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[Docket No. 090219207–9212–01] 

RIN 0648–ZC05 

NOAA Coastal and Marine Habitat 

Restoration Project Grants 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of funding availability 

under the American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act. 

SUMMARY: NOAA delivers funding and 

technical expertise to restore coastal and 

marine habitats. These habitats support 

valuable fisheries and protected 

resources, improve the quality of our 

water, provide recreational 

opportunities for the public’s use and 

enjoyment, and buffer our coastal 

communities from the impacts of storms 

and sea level rise. Projects funded 

through NOAA have strong on–the– 

ground habitat restoration components 

that provide social and economic 

benefits for people and their 

communities in addition to long–term 

ecological habitat improvements. 

Through this solicitation, NOAA seeks 

to openly compete funding available for 

habitat restoration under the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. 

Applications should be submitted for 

any project that is to be considered for 

this funding, even for those projects put 

forth to the Federal Government as 

examples by internal and external 

restoration partners or submitted as 

applications to other NOAA 

competitions. Competition will ensure 

that the most beneficial restoration 

projects are selected to realize 

significant ecological gains (with 

emphasis on projects that are regionally 

or nationally significant species and 

ecosystems), fuel America’s near–term 

economy, and ensure that projects are 

truly ‘‘shovel–ready.’’ Proposals 

selected for funding through this 

solicitation will be implemented 

through a grant or cooperative 

agreement, with awards dependent 

upon the amount of funds made 

available to NOAA for this purpose by 

Congress. NOAA anticipates that up to 

$170 million may be available for 

coastal and marine habitat restoration; 

typical awards are expected to range 

between $1.5 million to $10 million. 

Funds will be administered by NOAA’s 

Office of Habitat Conservation. 

DATES: Applications must be 

postmarked, provided to a delivery 

service, or received by www.grants.gov 

by 11:59 PM EDT on April 6, 2009. Use 

of U.S. mail or another delivery service 

must be documented with a receipt. No 

facsimile or electronic mail applications 

will be accepted. 

ADDRESSES: Electronic applications are 

strongly encouraged and are available at 

http://www.grants.gov. Grants.gov 

requires applicants to register with the 

system prior to submitting an 

application for the first time. This 

registration process can take over a 

week and involves multiple steps. In 

order to allow sufficient time for this 

process, prospective applicants should 

register as soon as they decide to apply, 

even if not yet ready to submit an 

application. If an applicant is having 

difficulty downloading the application 

forms from Grants.gov, contact 

Grants.gov customer support at 1–800– 

518–4726 or support@grants.gov. If an 

applicant is having difficulty with 

Grants.gov, the applicant should contact 

Craig Woolcott at 

Craig.Woolcott@noaa.gov, or by phone 

at 301–713–0174, or by mail at NOAA 

Fisheries, Office of Habitat Conservation 

(F/HC3), 1315 East West Highway, 

Silver Spring, MD 20910. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Craig Woolcott or Melanie Gange at 

(301) 713–0174, or by e–mail at 

Craig.Woolcott@noaa.gov or 

Melanie.Gange@noaa.gov. Prospective 

applicants are invited to contact NOAA 

staff before submitting an application to 

discuss whether their project ideas are 

within the scope of the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s 

objectives and NOAA’s mission and 

goals. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

principal objective of these NOAA 

Coastal and Marine Habitat Restoration 

Project Grants is to provide Federal 

financial and technical assistance to 

‘‘ready-to-go’’ (shovel–ready) projects 

that meet NOAA’s mission to restore 

marine and coastal habitats and that 

will result in near–immediate 

stimulation of local United States (U.S.) 

economies through the creation or 

retention of restoration–related jobs for 

work in U.S. jurisdictions. 

NOAA seeks to support projects that 

will result in on–the–ground restoration 

of marine and coastal habitat (including 

Great Lakes habitat) that are aligned 

with the objectives of the American 

Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

Restoration for the purposes of this 

solicitation will be broadly inclusive. 

Restoration includes, but is not limited 

to, activities that contribute to the return 

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