Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 238 / Wednesday, December 11, 2024 / Notices 99833 

9 Id. 

1See Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod from the 

Republic of South Africa and Ukraine: 

Antidumping Duty Orders, 83 FR 11175 (March 14, 

2018) (Order). 

2See Antidumping or Countervailing Duty Order, 

Finding, or Suspended Investigation; Opportunity 

To Request Administrative Review and Join Annual 

Inquiry Service List, 89 FR 15157 (March 1, 2024). 

3See Petitioners’ Letter, ‘‘Request for 

Administrative Review,’’ dated April 1, 2024. 

4See Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 89 FR 

38867 (May 8, 2024) (Initiation Notice). 

5 Id., 89 FR 38871. 

6See Memorandum, ‘‘Notice of Intent to Rescind 

Review,’’ dated November 6, 2024. 

7See, e.g., Dioctyl Terephthalate from the 

Republic of Korea: Rescission of Antidumping 

Administrative Review; 2021–2022, 88 FR 24758 

(April 24, 2023); see also Certain Carbon and Alloy 

Steel Cut-to-Length Plate from the Federal Republic 

of Germany: Recission of Antidumping 

Administrative Review; 2020–2021, 88 FR 4154 

(January 24, 2023). 

8See 19 CFR 351.212(b)(1). 

Analysis of Comments Received 

A complete discussion of all issues 

raised in this sunset review is contained 

in the accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum.9 A list of topics 

discussed in the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum is included as an 

appendix to this notice. The Issues and 

Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file electronically 

via Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to 

registered users at https://

access.trade.gov. In addition, a complete 

version of the Issues and Decision 

Memorandum can be directly accessed 

at https://access.trade.gov/public/ 

FRNoticesListLayout.aspx. 

Final Results of Sunset Review 

Pursuant to sections 751(c)(1) and 

752(c)(1) and (3) of the Act, Commerce 

determines that revocation of the Order 

would likely lead to continuation or 

recurrence of dumping, and that the 

magnitude of the dumping margins 

likely to prevail are weighted-average 

margins up to a weighted-average 

margin of up to 292.61 percent. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to an 

administrative protective order (APO) of 

their responsibility concerning the 

return or destruction of proprietary 

information disclosed under APO in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.305(a). 

Timely notification of the return or 

destruction of APO materials or 

conversion to judicial protective order, 

is hereby requested. Failure to comply 

with the regulations and terms of an 

APO is a violation which is subject to 

sanction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

We are issuing and publishing these 

final results of sunset review in 

accordance with sections 751(c), 752(c), 

and 777(i)(1) of the Act, and 19 CFR 

351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2) and 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(5)(ii). 

Dated: September 5, 2024. 

Abdelali Elouaradia, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Editorial Note: This document was 

received for publication by the Office of the 

Federal Register on December 6, 2024. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Issues and 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Scope of the Order 

IV. History of the Order 

V. Legal Framework 

VI. Discussion of the Issues 

1. Likelihood of Continuation or 

Recurrence of Dumping 

2. Magnitude of the Margins of Dumping 

Likely to Prevail 

VII. Final Results of Sunset Review 

VIII. Recommendation 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–823–816] 

Carbon and Alloy Steel Wire Rod From 

Ukraine: Rescission of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review; 2023– 

2024 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Commerce (Commerce) is rescinding the 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty (AD) order on carbon 

and alloy steel wire rod (wire rod) from 

Ukraine for the period of review (POR) 

March 1, 2023 through February 29, 

2024. 

DATES: Applicable December 11, 2024. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brittany Bauer, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office V, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–3860. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On March 14, 2018, Commerce 

published in the Federal Register the 

AD order on wire rod from Ukraine.1 On 

March 1, 2024, Commerce published in 

the Federal Register a notice of 

opportunity to request an administrative 

review of the Order.2 On April 1, 2024, 

Commercial Metals Company and Nucor 

Corporation (collectively, the 

petitioners) submitted a timely request 

that Commerce conduct an 

administrative review of the Order.3 On 

May 8, 2024, Commerce published in 

the Federal Register its notice of 

initiation of an administrative review of 

the Order, in accordance with section 

751(a) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act), and 19 CFR 

351.221(c)(1)(i).4

This review covers subject 

merchandise exported and/or produced 

by the following six companies: (1) 

ArcelorMittal Steel Kryvyi Rih; (2) 

Public Joint Stock Company Yenakiieve 

Iron and Steel Works; (3) PrJSC 

Electrometallurgical Works 

Dneprospetsstal; (4) PJSC Dneprovsky 

Iron & Steel Integrated Works; (5) 

Metinvest Holding LLC; and (6) Variant 

Agro Build Ltd.5 On May 10, 2024, we 

placed on the record U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (CBP) data for entries 

of wire rod from Ukraine during the 

POR, showing no reviewable POR 

entries for any company listed in the 

Initiation Notice. 

On November 6, 2024, Commerce 

notified all interested parties of its 

intent to rescind the instant review 

because there were no reviewable, 

suspended entries of subject 

merchandise by any of the companies 

subject to this review during the POR, 

and we invited interested partes to 

comment.6 We did not receive any 

comments. 

Rescission of Review 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3), it is 

Commerce’s practice to rescind an 

administrative review of an AD order 

when there are no reviewable entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR for 

which liquidation is suspended.7

Normally, upon completion of an 

administrative review, the suspended 

entries are liquidated at the AD 

assessment rate calculated for the 

review period.8 Therefore, for an 

administrative review to be conducted, 

there must be a reviewable, suspended 

entry that Commerce can instruct CBP 

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9See 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). 

calculated for the review period.9 As 

noted above, there were no entries of 

subject merchandise for the companies 

subject to this review during the POR. 

Accordingly, in the absence of 

suspended entries of subject 

merchandise during the POR, we are 

hereby rescinding this administrative 

review, in its entirety, in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.213(d)(3). 

Assessment 

Commerce will instruct CBP to assess 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries of wire rod from Ukraine. 

Antidumping duties shall be assessed at 

rates equal to the cash deposit rate of 

estimated antidumping duties required 

at the time of entry, or withdrawal from 

warehouse, for consumption, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 

351.212(c)(1)(i). Commerce intends to 

issue appropriate assessment 

instructions to CBP no earlier than 35 

days after the date of publication of this 

rescission notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Administrative Protective Order (APO) 

This notice also serves as the only 

reminder to parties subject to APO of 

their responsibility concerning the 

disposition of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO, in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely 

written notification of the return or 

destruction of APO materials or 

conversion to judicial protective order is 

hereby requested. Failure to comply 

with the regulations and terms of an 

APO is a sanctionable violation. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: December 5, 2024. 

Scot Fullerton, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Environmental Policy Act; 

Proposed Implementing Procedures 

and Categorical Exclusions 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: Federal agencies are required 

to develop procedures to implement the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) and the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

regulations implementing NEPA. 

Consistent with these requirements, the 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST) is proposing new 

NEPA implementing procedures (NEPA 

Procedures), including the 

establishment of new categorical 

exclusions (CEs) as part of its NEPA 

Procedures. CEs are categories of actions 

that an agency has determined normally 

do not have a significant effect on the 

human environment, individually or in 

the aggregate. CEs are a form of review 

that agencies use to comply with NEPA 

for proposed actions that normally have 

no or minimal environmental effects. 

NIST requests the views of the public on 

its draft NEPA Procedures as well as its 

substantiation record for the proposed 

CEs. 

DATES: Submit written comments on or 

before January 10, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: The draft NEPA Procedures 

and CE substantiation record are 

available for review at https://

www.nist.gov/chips/nationalenvironmental-policy-act-nepa. Submit 

all electronic public comments via 

email to CHIPSNEPA@chips.gov citing 

‘‘NEPA Procedures’’ in the subject line. 

NIST will accept comments in attached 

Word or PDF formats or within the body 

of the email. 

Comments sent by any other method, 

to any other address or individual, or 

received after the end of the comment 

period, may not be considered by NIST. 

All comments received are a part of the 

public record; commenters should not 

include personal identifying 

information (e.g., name, address, etc.), 

confidential business information, or 

otherwise sensitive information. NIST 

will accept anonymous comments. The 

most helpful comments include a 

specific recommendation, explain the 

reason for any recommended change, 

and provide supporting information. 

NIST will consider all relevant 

comments received on or before the 

closing date. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Frenkel, NIST, telephone number 

240–204–1960, email David.Frenkel@

chips.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Legal Framework 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., 

requires Federal agencies to consider 

the environmental effects of their 

proposed actions in their decisionmaking processes and inform and 

engage the public in that process. 

Section 101(a) of NEPA sets forth a 

national policy to use all practicable 

means and measures, including 

financial and technical assistance, in a 

manner calculated to foster and promote 

the general welfare, to create and 

maintain conditions under which 

humans and nature can exist in 

productive harmony, and fulfill the 

social, economic, and other 

requirements of present and future 

generations of Americans. 42 U.S.C. 

4331(a). Section 102 of NEPA directs 

agencies to interpret and administer 

Federal policies, regulations and laws 

consistent with NEPA’s policies. 42 

U.S.C. 4332. 

NEPA also created the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ), which 

has issued regulations implementing 

NEPA, 40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508 

(CEQ regulations). CEQ also has issued 

numerous guidance documents to 

facilitate agency implementation of 

NEPA. See CEQ, CEQ Guidance 

Documents, https://ceq.doe.gov/ 

guidance/guidance.html. 

To comply with NEPA, agencies 

determine the appropriate level of 

review of any major Federal action—an 

environmental impact statement (EIS), 

environmental assessment (EA), or 

categorical exclusion (CE). 40 CFR 

1501.3. If a proposed action is likely to 

have significant environmental effects, 

the agency must prepare an EIS and 

document its decision in a record of 

decision. 40 CFR 1501.3(c)(3), part 1502, 

1505.2. If the proposed action is not 

likely to have significant environmental 

effects or the effects are unknown, the 

agency may instead prepare an EA, 

which is a concise public document 

used to support agency decision 

making. 40 CFR 1501.3(c)(2), 1501.5, 

1508.1(j). After completing the analysis 

in the EA, the agency may conclude that 

the action will have no significant 

effects and document that conclusion in 

a finding of no significant impact, or 

conclude that the action is likely to have 

significant effects and therefore requires 

preparation of an EIS. 40 CFR 1501.6(a), 

1508.1(j). 

Under NEPA and the CEQ regulations, 

a Federal agency may establish CEs— 

categories of actions that the agency has 

determined normally do not have a 

significant effect on the human 

environment, individually or in the 

aggregate—in its agency NEPA 

procedures. 42 U.S.C. 4336(e)(1); 40 

CFR 1501.4(a), 1507.3(c)(8), 1508.1(e). If 

an agency determines that a CE 

established in its agency NEPA 

procedures covers a proposed action, it 

then evaluates the proposed action for 


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