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5See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; 

Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR 

39263 (July 6, 2011), as amended in Enforcement 

and Compliance; Change of Electronic Filing 

System Name, 79 FR 69046 (November 20, 2014) for 

details of Commerce’s electronic filing 

requirements, effective August 5, 2011. Information 

on help using ACCESS can be found at https://

access.trade.gov/help.aspx and a handbook can be 

found at https://access.trade.gov/help/

Handbook%20on%20Electronic%20

Filing%20Procedures.pdf. 

6See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19, 85 FR 17006 

(March 26, 2020); see also Temporary Rule 

Modifying AD/CVD Service Requirements Due to 

COVID19; Extension of Effective Period, 85 FR 

41363 (July 10, 2020). 

7See Memorandum, ‘‘Request for APO Segment,’’ 

dated May 8, 2024. 

unless an exception applies.5 An 

electronically filed document must be 

received successfully in its entirety by 

the applicable deadline. Note that 

Commerce has modified certain of its 

requirements for serving documents 

containing business proprietary 

information until further notice.6 Each 

submission must be placed on the 

record of the segment of the proceeding. 

Suspension of Liquidation 

Commerce previously notified CBP of 

the initiation of the ongoing 

circumvention inquiry in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.226(l)(1), and directed 

CBP to continue to suspend liquidation 

of entries of products subject to the 

circumvention inquiry that were already 

subject to the suspension of liquidation, 

and to collect the cash deposit for 

estimated antidumping duties that 

would be applicable if the product were 

determined to be covered by the scope 

of the Order. CBP should continue to 

suspend liquidation of entries already 

subject to the suspension of liquidation 

in accordance with Commerce’s 

previous instruction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Interested parties that wish to 

participate in this segment of the 

proceeding and be added to the public 

service list(s) for this segment of the 

proceeding must file an entry of 

appearance in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.103(d)(1), with one exception: the 

relevant parties to CBP’s EAPA 

investigation publicly identified by CBP 

in the covered merchandise referral 

referenced above are not required to 

submit an entry of appearance, and will 

be added to the public service list for 

this segment of the proceeding by 

Commerce. 

Commerce placed an APO on the 

record on May 10, 2024.7 Commerce 

intends to place the business 

proprietary versions of the documents 

(if any) contained in the covered 

merchandise referral on the record of 

this proceeding in ACCESS. 

Representatives of interested parties 

must submit applications for disclosure 

under the APO in accordance with the 

procedures outlined in Commerce’s 

regulations at 19 CFR 351.305. Those 

procedures apply to this segment of the 

proceeding, with one exception: APO 

applicants representing the parties that 

have been identified by CBP as an 

importer in the covered merchandise 

referral (referenced above) are exempt 

from the additional filing requirements 

for importers pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.305(d). 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to section 517(b)(4) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.227(b). 

Dated: January 7, 2025. 

Scot Fullerton, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE567] 

Whaling Provisions; Aboriginal 

Subsistence Whaling Quotas 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; notification of quota for 

bowhead whales. 

SUMMARY: NMFS notifies the public of 

the aboriginal subsistence whaling 

quota for bowhead whales assigned to 

the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission 

(AEWC), and of limitations on the use 

of the quota deriving from regulations of 

the International Whaling Commission 

(IWC). For 2025, the AEWC quota is 93 

bowhead whales struck. This quota and 

other applicable limitations govern the 

harvest of bowhead whales by licensed 

whaling captains of the AEWC. 

DATES: Applicable January 14, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Office of International 

Affairs, Trade, and Commerce, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Madison Harris, (202) 480–4592. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Aboriginal 

subsistence whaling in the United States 

is governed by the Whaling Convention 

Act (WCA) (16 U.S.C. 916 et seq.). 

Under the WCA, IWC regulations shall 

become effective with respect to all 

persons and vessels subject to the 

jurisdiction of the United States within 

90 days of notification from the IWC 

Secretariat of an amendment to the IWC 

Schedule (16 U.S.C. 916k). Regulations 

that implement the WCA, found at 50 

CFR part 230, require NOAA’s Assistant 

Administrator for Fisheries to publish, 

at least annually, aboriginal subsistence 

whaling quotas and any other 

limitations on aboriginal subsistence 

whaling deriving from regulations of the 

IWC. 

At the 67th meeting of the IWC in 

2018, the Commission set catch limits 

for aboriginal subsistence use of 

bowhead whales from the BeringChukchi-Beaufort Seas stock for the 

years 2019–2025. The aboriginal 

subsistence whaling catch limits were 

based on a joint request by Denmark on 

behalf of Greenland, the Russian 

Federation, St. Vincent and the 

Grenadines, and the United States, 

accompanied by documentation 

concerning the needs of the Native 

groups. 

The IWC set a 7-year block catch limit 

of 392 bowhead whales landed. For 

each of the years 2019 through 2025, the 

number of bowhead whales struck may 

not exceed 67, with unused strikes from 

the 3 prior quota blocks carried forward 

and added to the annual strike quota of 

subsequent years, provided that no more 

than 50 percent of the annual strike 

limit is added to the strike quota for any 

1 year. For the 2025 bowhead harvest, 

there are 33 strikes available for carryforward, so the combined strike quota 

set by the IWC for 2025 is 100 (67 + 33). 

Both Alaska and Russian Natives hunt 

the bowhead whale, and thus the IWC 

quota for the bowhead whale is shared 

between the two Native groups. To 

account for the shared quota, the United 

States and Russia established a 

cooperative arrangement to monitor the 

quota. 

NOAA has assigned 93 strikes to the 

AEWC through its cooperative 

agreement with the AEWC, accounting 

for bowhead whales that may be hunted 

by Russian Natives. The AEWC will in 

turn allocate these strikes among the 11 

villages whose cultural and subsistence 

needs have been documented, and will 

ensure that AEWC whaling captains use 

no more than 93 strikes. 

At its 67th meeting, the IWC also 

provided for an automatic extension of 

aboriginal subsistence whaling catch 

limits under certain circumstances. 

Commencing in 2026, bowhead whale 

catch limits shall be extended every 6 

years provided: (a) the IWC Scientific 

Committee advises in 2024, and every 6 


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years thereafter, that such limits will not 

harm the stock; (b) the Commission does 

not receive a request from the United 

States or the Russian Federation for a 

change in the bowhead whale catch 

limits based on need; and (c) the 

Commission determines that the United 

States and the Russian Federation have 

complied with the IWC’s approved 

timeline and that the information 

provided represents a status quo 

continuation of the hunts. At its 69th 

meeting in September 2024, the IWC 

reviewed the aboriginal subsistence 

whaling extension criteria and 

determined by consensus that all of the 

conditions had been met, and thus 

agreed to extend the ASW strike/catch 

limits for 6 years, for the period 2026– 

2031. 

Other Limitations 

The IWC regulations, as well as the 

NOAA regulation at 50 CFR 230.4(c), 

forbid the taking of calves or any whale 

accompanied by a calf. 

NOAA regulations (at 50 CFR 230.4) 

also contain other prohibitions relating 

to aboriginal subsistence whaling, some 

of which are summarized here: 

• No person, other than licensed 

whaling captains or crew under the 

control of those captains, shall engage in 

aboriginal subsistence whaling. 

• No whaling captain shall engage in 

whaling that is not in accordance with 

the regulations of the IWC, NOAA, and 

the relevant cooperative agreement. 

• No whaling captain shall engage in 

whaling without an adequate crew or 

without adequate supplies and 

equipment. 

• No person may receive money for 

participating in the hunt. 

• No person may sell or offer for sale 

whale products from whales taken in 

the hunt, except for authentic articles of 

Native handicrafts. 

• Captains cannot continue to whale 

after the relevant quota is reached, after 

the season has been closed, or if their 

licenses have been suspended. 

• No captain shall engage in whaling 

in a wasteful manner. 

Dated: January 7, 2025. 

Alexa Cole, 

Director, Office of International Affairs, 

Trade, and Commerce, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

Community College of the Air Force 

Subcommittee of the Air University 

Board of Visitors Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) is publishing this notice to 

announce the following Federal 

Advisory Committee meeting of the Air 

University Board of Visitor’s (AU BoV) 

Community College of the Air Force 

(CCAF) Subcommittee. 

DATES: Tuesday, February 4, 2025, from 

8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Wednesday, 

February 5, 2025, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. 

(central time). 

ADDRESSES: Lake Area Technical 

College, 1201 Arrow Ave. NE, 

Watertown, SD 57201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Shawn P. O’Mailia, Designated Federal 

Officer, Air University Headquarters, 55 

LeMay Plaza South, Maxwell Air Force 

Base, Alabama 36112–6335, telephone 

(334) 953–4547, email 

shawn.omailia.3@au.af.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

meeting is held under the provisions of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) of 1972 (5 U.S.C., appendix, as 

amended), the Government in the 

Sunshine Act of 1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as 

amended), and 41 CFR 102–3.50(d). 

Purpose of the Meeting: For the CCAF 

Subcommittee of the Air University 

(AU) Board of Visitors (BOV) to review 

the education policies and activities of 

the Community College of the Air Force. 

The agenda will include: AU 

Reorganization—Barnes Center and 

CCAF, Accreditation Update, CCAF 

Credit Awarding Practices, and a LATC 

Overview and Tour. 

Meeting Accessibility: Open to the 

public. Any member of the public 

wishing to attend this meeting should 

contact the Designated Federal Officer at 

least ten calendar days prior to the 

meeting for information on base entry 

procedures. 

Written Statements: Any member of 

the public wishing to provide input to 

the Air University Board of Visitors in 

accordance with 41 CFR 102–3.140(c) 

and section 10(a)(3) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act should submit 

a written statement to the Designated 

Federal Officer. Statements submitted in 

response to the agenda mentioned in 

this notice must be received by the 

Designated Federal Officer at least ten 

calendar days prior to the meeting that 

is the subject of this notice. Written 

statements received after this date may 

not be provided to or considered by the 

CCAF Subcommittee of the Air 

University Board of Visitors until its 

next meeting. The Designated Federal 

Officer will review all timely 

submissions with the Air University 

Board of Visitors’ Board Chairperson 

and ensure they are provided to 

members of the Board before the 

meeting that is the subject of this notice. 

Tommy W. Lee, 

Acting Air Force Federal Register Liaison 

Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

[Docket Number DARS–2024–0036; OMB 

Control Number 0704–0231] 

Information Collection Requirement; 

Defense Federal Acquisition 

Regulation Supplement (DFARS) Part 

237, Service Contracting, and Related 

Clauses and Forms 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System; Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System has submitted to 

OMB for clearance the following 

proposal for collection of information 

under the provisions of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by February 13, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

You may also submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by the following method: Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tucker Lucas, 571–372–7574, or 

whs.mc-alex.esd.mbx.dd-dodinformation-collections@mail.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title and OMB Number: Defense 

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