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1See Certain Epoxy Resins from the People’s 

Republic of China, India, the Republic of Korea, 

Taiwan, and Thailand: Initiation of Less-Than-FairValue Investigations, 89 FR 33324 (April 29, 2024). 

2See Certain Epoxy Resins from the People’s 

Republic of China: Preliminary Affirmative 

Determination of Sales at Less Than Fair Value and 

Preliminary Affirmative Determination of Critical 

Circumstances, 89 FR 89594 (November 13, 2024) 

(Preliminary Determination). 

3See Huntsman’s Letter, ‘‘Request to Postpone 

Final Determination,’’ dated November 18, 2024. 

Background 

On April 23, 2024, Commerce 

initiated an LTFV investigation of 

imports of epoxy resins from China.1

The period of investigation is October 1, 

2023, through March 31, 2024. On 

November 13, 2024, Commerce 

published its Preliminary Determination 

of sales at LTFV of epoxy resins from 

China.2

Postponement of Final Determination 

Section 735(a)(2) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(2) provide that a final 

determination may be postponed until 

not later than 135 days after the date of 

the publication of the preliminary 

determination if, in the event of an 

affirmative preliminary determination, a 

request for such postponement is made 

by the exporters or producers who 

account for a significant proportion of 

exports of the subject merchandise, or in 

the event of a negative preliminary 

determination, a request for such 

postponement is made by the 

petitioners. Further, 19 CFR 

351.210(e)(2) requires that such 

postponement requests by exporters be 

accompanied by a request for extension 

of provisional measures from a fourmonth period to a period of not more 

than six months, in accordance with 

section 733(d) of the Act. 

On November 18, 2024, Huntsman 

Advanced Materials (Guangdong) 

Company Ltd. (Huntsman), the 

mandatory respondent in this 

investigation, requested that Commerce 

postpone the deadline for the final 

determination until no later than 135 

days from the publication of the 

Preliminary Determination, and extend 

the application of the provisional 

measures from a four-month period to a 

period of not more than six months.3

In accordance with section 

735(a)(2)(A) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.210(b)(2)(ii), because: (1) the 

Preliminary Determination was 

affirmative; (2) the request was made by 

an exporter or producer who accounts 

for a significant proportion of exports of 

the subject merchandise; and (3) no 

compelling reasons for denial exist, 

Commerce is postponing the final 

determination until no later than 135 

days after the date of the publication of 

the Preliminary Determination, and 

extending the provisional measures 

from a four-month period to a period of 

not more than six months. Accordingly, 

Commerce will issue its final 

determination no later than March 28, 

2025. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to section 735(a)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.210(g). 

Dated: November 22, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE494] 

Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic 

Zone Off Alaska; Bering Sea and 

Aleutian Islands Management Area; 

Cost Recovery Fee Notice for the 

Western Alaska Community 

Development Quota and Trawl Limited 

Access Privilege Programs 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of standard prices and 

fee percentage. 

SUMMARY: NMFS publishes standard 

prices and fee percentages for cost 

recovery for the Amendment 80 

Program, the American Fisheries Act 

(AFA) Program, the Aleutian Islands 

Pollock (AIP) Program, and the Western 

Alaska Community Development Quota 

(CDQ) Program in the Bering Sea 

Aleutian Islands (BSAI) management 

area. The fee percentages for 2024 are 

1.86 percent for the Amendment 80 

Program, 0.24 percent for the AFA 

inshore cooperatives, 0 percent for the 

AIP program, and 1.38 percent for the 

CDQ Program. This notice is intended to 

provide the 2024 standard prices and 

fee percentages to calculate the required 

payment for cost recovery fees due by 

December 31, 2024. 

DATES: The standard prices and fee 

percentages are valid on November 29, 

2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charmaine Weeks, Fee Coordinator, 

907–586–7231. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 304(d) of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens 

Act) authorizes and requires that NMFS 

collect cost recovery fees for limited 

access privilege programs and the CDQ 

Program. Cost recovery fees include 

NMFS’ actual costs directly related to its 

management, data collection, and 

enforcement of the programs. Section 

304(d) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act 

mandates that cost recovery fees not 

exceed 3 percent of the annual ex-vessel 

value of fish harvested under any 

program subject to a cost recovery fee 

and that the fee be collected either at the 

time of landing, filing of a landing 

report, or sale of such fish during a 

fishing season or in the last quarter of 

the calendar year in which the fish is 

harvested. 

NMFS manages the Amendment 80 

Program, AFA Program, and AIP 

Program as limited access privilege 

programs. On January 5, 2016, NMFS 

published a final rule to implement cost 

recovery for these three limited access 

privilege programs and the CDQ 

program (81 FR 150). The designated 

representative (for the purposes of cost 

recovery) for each program is 

responsible for submitting the fee 

payment to NMFS on or before 

December 31 of the year in which the 

landings were made. The total dollar 

amount of the fee due is determined by 

multiplying the NMFS published fee 

percentage by the ex-vessel value of all 

landings under the program made 

during the fishing year. NMFS publishes 

this notice of the fee percentages for the 

Amendment 80, AFA, AIP, and CDQ 

programs in the Federal Register by 

December 1 each year. 

Standard Prices 

The fee liability is based on the exvessel value of fish harvested in each 

program. For purposes of calculating 

cost recovery fees, NMFS uses a 

standard ex-vessel price (standard price) 

for each species. A standard price is 

determined using information on 

landings purchased (volume) and exvessel value paid (value). For most 

groundfish species, NMFS annually 

summarizes volume and value 

information for landings of all fishery 

species subject to cost recovery to 

estimate a standard price for each 

species. The standard prices are 

described in U.S. dollars per pound for 

landings made during the year. The 

standard prices for all species in the 

Amendment 80, AFA, AIP, and CDQ 

programs are provided in Table 1. Each 


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landing made under each program is 

multiplied by the appropriate standard 

price to arrive at an ex-vessel value for 

each landing. These values are summed 

together to arrive at the ex-vessel value 

of each program (fishery value). 

TABLE 1—STANDARD EX-VESSEL PRICES BY SPECIES FOR THE 2024 FISHING YEAR

Species Gear type Reporting period 

Standard 

ex-vessel price 

per pound 

($) 

Arrowtooth flounder ................................ All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.26 

Atka mackerel ........................................ All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.24 

Flathead sole .......................................... All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.18 

Greenland turbot .................................... All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.59 

CDQ halibut ............................................ Fixed gear ............................................. January to December ............................ 4.15 

Pacific cod .............................................. Fixed gear ............................................. January to December ............................ 0.30 

Trawl gear ............................................. January to December ............................ 0.25 

Pacific ocean perch ................................ All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.18 

Pollock .................................................... All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.18 

Rock sole ............................................... All .......................................................... January to March .................................. 0.18 

All .......................................................... April to December ................................. 0.17 

Sablefish ................................................. Fixed gear ............................................. January to December ............................ 1.22 

Trawl gear ............................................. January to December ............................ 0.69 

Yellowfin sole ......................................... All .......................................................... January to December ............................ 0.16 

Fee Percentage 

Annually, NMFS calculates the 

applicable fee percentage for each of the 

four programs according to the factors 

and methods described at 50 CFR 679 

under §§ 679.33(c)(2) for CDQ, 

679.66(c)(2) for AFA, 679.67(c)(2) for 

AIP, and 679.95(c)(2) for Amendment 

80. NMFS determines the fee percentage 

that applies to landings made during the 

year by dividing the total costs directly 

related to the management, data 

collection, and enforcement of each 

program (direct program costs) during 

the year by the fishery value. NMFS 

captures direct program costs through 

an established accounting system that 

allows staff to track labor, travel, 

contracts, rent, and procurement costs. 

For 2024, the direct program costs for 

each program were tracked from 

October 1, 2023 to September 30, 2024 

(the end of the fiscal year). The decline 

in fishery values caused an increase 

from the 2023 fee percentage for 

Amendment 80 Program and CDQ. A 

decline in both fishery values and direct 

costs caused a slight decline from the 

2023 fee percentage for AFA. The 2024 

percentage for the AIP Program is zero 

because there was no AIP fishery in 

2024, thus no associated harvest. 

NMFS will provide an annual report 

that summarizes direct program costs 

for each of the programs in early 2025. 

NMFS calculates the values for each 

fishery as described earlier under the 

Standard Prices section of this notice. 

Amendment 80 Program Standard 

Prices and Fee Percentage 

The Amendment 80 Program allocates 

total allowable catches (TACs) of 

groundfish species, other than Bering 

Sea pollock, to identified trawl catcher/ 

processors fishing in the BSAI. The 

Amendment 80 Program allocates a 

portion of the BSAI TACs of six species: 

Atka mackerel, Pacific cod, flathead 

sole, rock sole, yellowfin sole, and 

Aleutian Islands Pacific ocean perch. In 

recent years, participants in the 

Amendment 80 sector have established 

a cooperative to harvest these 

allocations. Each Amendment 80 

cooperative is responsible for payment 

of the cost recovery fee for fish landed 

under the Amendment 80 Program. Cost 

recovery requirements for the 

Amendment 80 Program are at § 679.95. 

For Amendment 80 species other than 

rock sole, NMFS annually summarizes 

volume and value information for 

landings of all fishery species subject to 

cost recovery in order to estimate a 

standard price for each fishery species. 

Regulations specify that for rock sole, 

NMFS shall calculate a separate 

standard price for two periods, January 

1 through March 31 and April 1 through 

October 31, which has historically 

accounted for a substantial difference in 

estimated rock sole prices during the 

first quarter of the year relative to the 

remainder of the year. The volume and 

value information are obtained from the 

First Wholesale Volume and Value 

Report submitted by catcher/processors 

that harvested Amendment 80 or CDQ 

species, and the Pacific Cod Ex-Vessel 

Volume and Value Report submitted by 

shoreside processors and motherships 

that processed landings of BSAI or CDQ 

Pacific cod. 

Using the fee percentage formula 

described generally above, the estimated 

percentage of direct program costs to 

fishery value for the 2024 calendar year 

is 1.86 percent for the Amendment 80 

Program. For 2024, NMFS applied the 

fee percentage to each Amendment 80 

species landing that was debited from 

an Amendment 80 cooperative quota 

allocation between January 1 and 

December 31 to calculate the 

Amendment 80 fee liability for each 

Amendment 80 cooperative. The 2024 

fee payments must be submitted to 

NMFS on or before December 31, 2024. 

Payment must be made in accordance 

with the payment methods set forth in 

§ 679.95(a)(3)(iv). 

AFA Standard Price and Fee 

Percentages 

The AFA Program allocates the Bering 

Sea directed pollock fishery TAC to 

three sectors: catcher/processor, 

mothership, and inshore. Each sector 

has established cooperatives to harvest 

the sector’s exclusive allocation. In 

2024, each cooperative for the inshore 

sector is responsible for paying the fee 

for Bering Sea pollock landed under the 

AFA Program. Cost recovery 

requirements for the AFA sectors are 

found at § 679.66. 

NMFS calculates the standard price 

for pollock using the most recent annual 

value information reported to the Alaska 

Department of Fish and Game for the 

Commercial Operator’s Annual Report 

and compiled in the Alaska Commercial 

Fisheries Entry Commission Gross 

Earnings data. Due to the time required 

to compile the data, there is a 1-year 

delay between the gross earnings data 

year and the fishing year to which it is 

applied. For example, NMFS used 2023 

gross earnings data to calculate the 

standard price for 2024 pollock 

landings. 


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Under the fee percentage formula 

described above, the estimated 

percentage of direct program costs to 

fishery value for the 2024 calendar year 

is 0.24 percent for the AFA inshore 

sector. To calculate the 2024 fee 

liabilities, NMFS applied the respective 

fee percentages to the landings of Bering 

Sea pollock debited from each 

cooperative’s fishery allocation that 

occurred between January 1 and 

December 31. The 2024 fee payments 

must be submitted to NMFS on or before 

December 31, 2024. Payment must be 

made in accordance with the payment 

methods set forth in § 679.66(a)(4)(iv). 

AIP Program Standard Price and Fee 

Percentage 

The AIP Program allocates the 

Aleutian Islands directed pollock 

fishery TAC to the Aleut Corporation, 

consistent with the Consolidated 

Appropriations Act of 2004 (Pub. L. 

108–109) and implementing regulations. 

Annually, prior to the start of the 

pollock season, the Aleut Corporation 

provides NMFS with the identity of its 

designated representative for harvesting 

the Aleutian Islands directed pollock 

fishery TAC. The same individual is 

responsible for the submission of all 

cost recovery fees for pollock landed 

under the AIP Program. Cost recovery 

requirements for the AIP Program are at 

§ 679.67. 

NMFS calculates the standard price 

for pollock using the most recent annual 

value information reported to the Alaska 

Department of Fish and Game for the 

Commercial Operator’s Annual Report 

and compiled in the Alaska Commercial 

Fisheries Entry Commission Gross 

Earnings data for Aleutian Islands 

pollock. As explained above, due to the 

time required to compile the data, there 

is a 1-year delay between the gross 

earnings data year and the fishing year 

to which it is applied. 

For the 2024 fishing year, the Aleut 

Corporation did not select any 

participants to harvest or process the 

Aleutian Islands directed pollock 

fishery TAC, and most of that TAC was 

reallocated to the Bering Sea directed 

pollock fishery TAC. Since there was no 

fishery for the AIP Program in 2024, the 

fee percentage is zero. 

CDQ Standard Price and Fee Percentage 

The CDQ Program was implemented 

in 1992 to provide access to BSAI 

fishery resources to villages located in 

Western Alaska. Section 305(i) of the 

Magnuson-Stevens Act identifies 65 

villages eligible to participate in the 

CDQ Program and the six CDQ groups 

to represent these villages. CDQ groups 

receive exclusive harvesting privileges 

of the TACs for a broad range of crab 

species, groundfish species, and halibut. 

NMFS implemented a CDQ cost 

recovery program for the BSAI crab 

fisheries in 2005 (70 FR 10174, March 

2, 2005) and published the cost recovery 

fee percentage for the 2023/2024 crab 

fishing year on July 2, 2024 (89 FR 

54785). This notice provides the cost 

recovery fee percentage for the CDQ 

Program with respect to groundfish and 

halibut. Each CDQ group is subject to 

cost recovery fee requirements and the 

designated representative of each CDQ 

group is responsible for submitting 

payment for their CDQ group. Cost 

recovery requirements for the CDQ 

Program are at § 679.33. 

For most CDQ groundfish species, 

NMFS annually summarizes volume 

and value information for landings of all 

fishery species subject to cost recovery 

in order to estimate a standard price for 

each fishery species. The volume and 

value information are obtained from the 

First Wholesale Volume and Value 

Report and the Pacific Cod Ex-Vessel 

Volume and Value Report. For CDQ 

halibut and fixed-gear sablefish, NMFS 

calculates the standard prices using 

information from the Individual Fishing 

Quota (IFQ) Ex-Vessel Volume and 

Value Report, which collects 

information on both IFQ and CDQ 

volume and value. 

Using the fee percentage formula 

described above, the estimated 

percentage of direct program costs to 

fishery value for the 2024 calendar year 

is 1.38 percent for the CDQ Program. For 

2024, NMFS applied the calculated CDQ 

fee percentage to all CDQ groundfish 

and halibut landings made between 

January 1 and December 31 to calculate 

the CDQ fee liability for each CDQ 

group. The 2024 fee payments must be 

submitted to NMFS on or before 

December 31, 2024. Payment must be 

made in accordance with the payment 

methods set forth in § 679.33(a)(3)(iv). 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: November 26, 2024. 

Karen H. Abrams, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

Review and Approval; Comment 

Request; Report of Whaling 

Operations 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, on or after the date of publication 

of this notice. We invite the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

comment on proposed, and continuing 

information collections, which helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. Public 

comments were previously requested 

via the Federal Register on July 17, 

2024 during a 60-day comment period. 

This notice allows for an additional 30 

days for public comments. 

Agency: National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, 

Commerce. 

Title: Report of Whaling Operations. 

OMB Control Number: 0648–0311. 

Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Regular submission 

[extension of a current information]. 

Number of Respondents: 95 (There are 

approx.165 whaling captains, but many 

of them do not strike or land a whale in 

any given year). 

Average Hours per Response: 30 

minutes for reports on whales struck or 

on recovery of dead whales, including 

providing the information to the Native 

American whaling organization; 1 hour 

for the Native American whaling 

organization to type in each report; and 

21⁄2 hours for the Native American 

whaling organization to consolidate and 

submit reports. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 61. 

Needs and Uses: This request is for 

extension of a current information 

collection. Native Americans may 

conduct certain aboriginal subsistence 

whaling under the Whaling Convention 

Act in accordance with the provisions of 

the International Whaling Commission 

(IWC). In order to respond to obligations 

under the International Convention for 

the Regulation of Whaling, the IWC, and 

the Whaling Convention Act, whaling 

captains participating in these 

operations must submit certain 

information to the Native American 

whaling organization about strikes and 


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