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6See Antidumping Proceedings: Calculation of 

the Weighted-Average Dumping Margin and 

Assessment Rate in Certain Antidumping 

Proceedings; Final Modification, 77 FR 8101, 8102 

(February 14, 2012). 

7See section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act 

8See Order, 69 FR 77989. 9 Id. 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP) shall assess, antidumping duties 

on all appropriate entries of subject 

merchandise covered by this review. 

Because the respondents’ weightedaverage dumping margins or importerspecific assessment rates are zero in the 

final results of review, we intend to 

instruct CBP to liquidate entries without 

regard to antidumping duties.6 The final 

results of this administrative review 

shall be the basis for the assessment of 

antidumping duties on entries of 

merchandise covered by the final results 

of this review and for future deposits of 

estimated duties, where applicable.7

In accordance with Commerce’s 

‘‘automatic assessment’’ practice, for 

entries of subject merchandise during 

the POR for which Meghmani and 

Navapad did not know that their 

merchandise was destined for the 

United States, we will instruct CBP to 

liquidate such entries at the all-others 

rate established in the original less-thanfair value (LTFV) investigation (i.e., 

27.48 percent) 8 if there is no rate for the 

intermediate company(ies) involved in 

the transaction. 

Commerce intends to issue 

assessment instructions to CBP no 

earlier than 35 days after the date of 

publication of these final results of this 

review in the Federal Register. If a 

timely summons is filed at the U.S. 

Court of International Trade, the 

assessment instructions will direct CBP 

not to liquidate relevant entries until the 

time for parties to file a request for a 

statutory injunction has expired (i.e., 

within 90 days of publication). 

Cash Deposit Requirements 

The following cash deposit 

requirements will be effective upon 

publication in the Federal Register of 

these final results of administrative 

review for all shipments of the subject 

merchandise entered, or withdrawn 

from warehouse, for consumption on or 

after the publication date, as provided 

by section 751(a)(2)(C) of the Act: (1) the 

cash deposit rate for the companies 

listed above will be equal to the 

weighted-average dumping margin 

established in these final results of this 

administrative review (i.e., 0.00 

percent); (2) for merchandise exported 

by producers or exporters not covered in 

this review but covered in a prior 

completed segment of the proceeding, 

the cash deposit rate will continue to be 

the company-specific rate published in 

the completed segment for the most 

recent period; (3) if the exporter is not 

a firm covered in this review or another 

completed segment of this proceeding, 

but the producer is, the cash deposit 

rate will be the company-specific rate 

established for the most recent 

completed segment for the producer of 

the merchandise; and (4) the cash 

deposit rate for all other producers or 

exporters will continue to be 27.48 

percent, the all-others rate established 

in the less-than-fair-value 

investigation.9 These cash deposit 

requirements, when imposed, shall 

remain in effect until further notice. 

Notification To Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers of their responsibility 

under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a 

certificate regarding the reimbursement 

of antidumping and/or countervailing 

duties prior to liquidation of the 

relevant entries during the POR. Failure 

to comply with this requirement could 

result in Commerce’s presumption that 

reimbursement of antidumping and/or 

countervailing duties occurred and the 

subsequent assessment of double 

antidumping duties, and/or an increase 

in the amount of antidumping duties by 

the amount of the countervailing duties. 

Administrative Protective Order 

This notice also serves as a final 

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)(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 violation subject to sanction. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Commerce is issuing and publishing 

the final results of this review in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and 

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

351.221(b)(5). 

Dated: January 10, 2025. 

Steven Presing, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy 

and Negotiations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

Notice of Availability of Final Guidance 

on Designation of New Regional Ocean 

Partnerships 

AGENCY: Office for Coastal Management, 

National Ocean Service, National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), U.S. 

Department of Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of final 

guidance regarding the designation of 

new regional ocean partnerships. 

SUMMARY: Under the James M. Inhofe 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2023 (NDAA), coastal States 

(including Puerto Rico, the United 

States Virgin Islands, Guam, the 

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 

Islands, the Trust Territories of the 

Pacific Islands, and American Samoa), 

Indian Tribes (as defined in the final 

guidance), and other entities may form 

new partnerships and apply to NOAA 

(as delegated) for designation as a 

regional ocean partnership (ROP). ROPs 

coordinate the management of ocean, 

coastal, and Great Lakes resources. After 

inviting Tribal consultation and careful 

consideration of public comments, 

NOAA announces the final guidance on 

designating new ROPs under the NDAA. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the final 

designation guidance document may be 

found on NOAA’s Office for Coastal 

Management website at https://

coast.noaa.gov/data/coasthome/ 

funding/_pdf/rop-designation-guidancefinal.pdf. 

A summary of comments received and 

NOAA’s responses to the comments 

may be found at: https://coast.noaa.gov/ 

data/coasthome/funding/_pdf/ropdesignation-guidance-comments.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joshua Lott, Office for Coastal 

Management, NOS, NOAA, 1305 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, Maryland, 

20910; ATTN: Regional Ocean 

Partnership Designation Guidance. 

Phone: (202) 670–3826; or Email: 

rop.iija@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ROPs are 

regional organizations voluntarily 

convened by coastal States and Indian 

Tribes, and designated by NOAA, as 

delegated, per the NDAA, to coordinate 

the management of ocean, coastal, and 

Great Lakes resources. These 

partnerships work in collaboration with 

other governments (including Tribal, 

Federal, and local) and stakeholders to 

address ocean and coastal issues of 

common concern in that region. 


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There are four existing ROPs: the Gulf 

of Mexico Alliance, the Northeast 

Regional Ocean Council, the MidAtlantic Regional Council on the Ocean, 

and the West Coast Ocean Alliance. 

Section 10102(b)(3) of the NDAA, 

codified at 16 U.S.C. 1468(b)(3), 

designates these four entities as regional 

ocean partnerships; as such, the 

designation guidance and application 

process for new partnerships does not 

apply to them. 

The final designation guidance 

includes elements, specified in the 

NDAA, that must be included in an 

application for a new ROP; the manner 

in which the application must be 

submitted to NOAA; and funding 

eligibility for new ROPs. Applications 

for new ROPs must identify the 

members that will comprise the new 

ROP, identify the governing body of the 

new ROP, identify the purposes and 

functions of the new ROP, and be 

formally submitted by all state 

governors and Tribal government 

leaders. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1468. 

Jeffrey L. Payne, 

Director, Office for Coastal Management, 

National Ocean Service, National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XE594] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to a Marine 

Geophysical Survey in the Northwest 

Gulf of Mexico 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental 

harassment authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

regulations implementing the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as 

amended, notification is hereby given 

that NMFS has issued an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA) to the 

University of Texas at Austin (UT) to 

incidentally harass marine mammals 

during survey activities associated with 

a marine geophysical survey in coastal 

waters off Texas in the northwest (NW) 

Gulf of Mexico (GOM). 

DATES: This authorization is effective 

from January 13, 2025 through January 

12, 2026. 

ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of the 

application and supporting documents, 

as well as a list of the references cited 

in this document, may be obtained 

online at: https://

www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/ 

marine-mammal-protection/incidentaltake-authorizations-research-and-otheractivities. In case of problems accessing 

these documents, please call the contact 

listed below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rachel Wachtendonk, Office of 

Protected Resources, NMFS, (301) 427– 

8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The MMPA prohibits the ‘‘take’’ of 

marine mammals, with certain 

exceptions. Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and 

(D) of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et 

seq.) direct the Secretary of Commerce 

(as delegated to NMFS) to allow, upon 

request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

proposed or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed IHA 

is provided to the public for review. 

Authorization for incidental takings 

shall be granted if NMFS finds that the 

taking will have a negligible impact on 

the species or stock(s) and will not have 

an unmitigable adverse impact on the 

availability of the species or stock(s) for 

taking for subsistence uses (where 

relevant). Further, NMFS must prescribe 

the permissible methods of taking and 

other ‘‘means of effecting the least 

practicable adverse impact’’ on the 

affected species or stocks and their 

habitat, paying particular attention to 

rookeries, mating grounds, and areas of 

similar significance, and on the 

availability of the species or stocks for 

taking for certain subsistence uses 

(referred to in shorthand as 

‘‘mitigation’’); and requirements 

pertaining to the monitoring and 

reporting of the takings. The definitions 

of all applicable MMPA statutory terms 

used above are included in the relevant 

sections below and can be found in 

section 3 of the MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1362) 

and NMFS regulations at 50 CFR 

216.103. 

Summary of Request 

On July 25, 2024, NMFS received a 

request from UT for an IHA to take 

marine mammals incidental to a marine 

geophysical survey in coastal waters off 

Texas in the NW GOM. The application 

was deemed adequate and complete on 

September 24, 2024. UT’s request is for 

take of bottlenose dolphins, Atlantic 

spotted dolphins, and rough-toothed 

dolphins, by Level B harassment only. 

Neither UT nor NMFS expect serious 

injury or mortality to result from this 

activity and, therefore, an IHA is 

appropriate. There are no changes from 

the proposed IHA to the final IHA. 

Description of Activity 

Researchers from UT plan to conduct 

a low-energy marine seismic survey 

using airguns as the acoustic source 

from the research vessel (R/V) Brooks 

McCall (McCall) or similar vessel 

operated by TDI-Brooks International. 

The planned survey will occur within 

Texas State waters in the NW GOM from 

approximately January to April 2025. 

The planned survey will occur within 

the Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) of 

the United States and in Texas State 

waters, in water depths less than 30 

meters (m). To complete this high 

resolution 3D (HR3D) seismic survey, 

the McCall will tow a 2-airgun array 

with a total discharge volume of ∼210 

cubic inches (in3) at a depth of 3–4 

meters (m), with a shot interval of 12.5 

m (5–10 seconds (s)) as the primary 

acoustic source. The airgun array 

receiver will consist of four 25-m-long 

solid-state hydrophone streamers, 

spaced 10 m apart. Approximately 4,440 

km of seismic acquisition is planned. 

The airgun array will introduce 

underwater sounds that may result in 

take, by Level B harassment only, of 

marine mammals. 

A detailed description of the planned 

marine geophysical survey is provided 

in the Federal Register notice for the 

proposed IHA (89 FR 91340, November 

19, 2024). Since that time, no changes 

have been made to the planned 

activities. Therefore, a detailed 

description is not provided here. Please 

refer to that Federal Register notice for 

a detailed description of the specific 

activity. 

Comments and Responses 

A notice of NMFS’ proposal to issue 

an IHA to UT was published in the 

Federal Register on November 19, 2024 

(89 FR 91340). That notice described, in 

detail, UT’s activity, the marine 

mammal species that may be affected by 

the activity, and the anticipated effects 

on marine mammals. In that notice, we 

requested public input on the request 

for authorization described therein, our 

analyses, the proposed authorization, 

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