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1See Temporary Rule Modifying AD/CVD Service 

Requirements Due to COVID–19, 85 FR 41363 (July 

10, 2020). 

2See 19 CFR 351.218(d)(1)(iii). 

Filing Information 

As a courtesy, we are making 

information related to sunset 

proceedings, including copies of the 

pertinent statute and Commerce’s 

regulations, Commerce’s schedule for 

Sunset Reviews, a listing of past 

revocations and continuations, and 

current service lists, available to the 

public on Commerce’s website at the 

following address: https://

enforcement.trade.gov/sunset/. All 

submissions in these Sunset Reviews 

must be filed in accordance with 

Commerce’s regulations regarding 

format, translation, and service of 

documents. These rules, including 

electronic filing requirements via 

Enforcement and Compliance’s 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Centralized Electronic Service System 

(ACCESS), can be found at 19 CFR 

351.303. 

In accordance with section 782(b) of 

the Act, any party submitting factual 

information in an AD/CVD proceeding 

must certify to the accuracy and 

completeness of that information. 

Parties must use the certification 

formats provided in 19 CFR 351.303(g). 

Commerce intends to reject factual 

submissions if the submitting party does 

not comply with applicable revised 

certification requirements. 

Letters of Appearance and 

Administrative Protective Orders 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.103(d), 

Commerce will maintain and make 

available a public service list for these 

proceedings. Parties wishing to 

participate in any of these five-year 

reviews must file letters of appearance 

as discussed at 19 CFR 351.103(d). To 

facilitate the timely preparation of the 

public service list, it is requested that 

those seeking recognition as interested 

parties to a proceeding submit an entry 

of appearance within 10 days of the 

publication of the Notice of Initiation. 

Because deadlines in Sunset Reviews 

can be very short, we urge interested 

parties who want access to proprietary 

information under administrative 

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application immediately following 

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this notice of initiation. Commerce’s 

regulations on submission of proprietary 

information and eligibility to receive 

access to business proprietary 

information under APO can be found at 

19 CFR 351.304–306. Note that 

Commerce has temporarily modified 

certain of its requirements for serving 

documents containing business 

proprietary information, until further 

notice.1

Information Required From Interested 

Parties 

Domestic interested parties, as 

defined in section 771(9)(C), (D), (E), (F), 

and (G) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.102(b), wishing to participate in a 

Sunset Review must respond not later 

than 15 days after the date of 

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this notice of initiation by filing a notice 

of intent to participate. The required 

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351.218(d)(1)(ii). In accordance with 

Commerce’s regulations, if we do not 

receive a notice of intent to participate 

from at least one domestic interested 

party by the 15-day deadline, Commerce 

will automatically revoke the order 

without further review.2

If we receive an order-specific notice 

of intent to participate from a domestic 

interested party, Commerce’s 

regulations provide that all parties 

wishing to participate in a Sunset 

Review must file complete substantive 

responses not later than 30 days after 

the date of publication in the Federal 

Register of this notice of initiation. The 

required contents of a substantive 

response, on an order-specific basis, are 

set forth at 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3). Note 

that certain information requirements 

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from the ITC ’s information 

requirements. Consult Commerce’s 

regulations for information regarding 

Commerce’s conduct of Sunset Reviews. 

Consult Commerce’s regulations at 19 

CFR part 351 for definitions of terms 

and for other general information 

concerning antidumping and 

countervailing duty proceedings at 

Commerce. 

This notice of initiation is being 

published in accordance with section 

751(c) of the Act and 19 CFR 351.218(c). 

Dated: August 16, 2021. 

James Maeder, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

[Docket No. 210826–0169] 

National Cybersecurity Center of 

Excellence (NCCoE) Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 

invites organizations to provide letters 

of interest describing products and 

technical expertise to support and 

demonstrate security platforms for the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project. This notice is the initial step for 

the National Cybersecurity Center of 

Excellence (NCCoE), in collaborating 

with technology companies, to address 

cybersecurity challenges identified 

under the Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) project. Participation 

in the project is open to all interested 

organizations. 

DATES: Collaborative activities will 

commence as soon as enough completed 

and signed letters of interest have been 

returned to address all the necessary 

components and capabilities, but no 

earlier than October 1, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at 

9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, 

MD 20850. Letters of interest must be 

submitted to applied-crypto-testing@

nist.gov or via hardcopy to National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, 

Rockville, MD 20850. Interested parties 

can access the letter of interest template 

by visiting https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/ 

projects/building-blocks/appliedcryptography/cmvp-automation and 

completing the letter of interest 

webform. NIST will announce the 

completion of the selection of 

participants and inform the public that 

it will no longer accept letters of interest 

for this project at https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation. Organizations whose letters 

of interest are accepted will be asked to 

sign a consortium Cooperative Research 

and Development Agreement (CRADA) 

with NIST; a template CRADA can be 

found at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/library/ 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Apostol Vassilev via phone (301) 975– 

3221 or email applied-crypto-testing@

nist.gov; by mail to National Institute of 

Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 

9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, 

MD 20850. Additional details about the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project are available at https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation. 

Background: The NCCoE, part of 

NIST, is a public-private collaboration 

for accelerating the widespread 

adoption of integrated cybersecurity 

tools and technologies. The NCCoE 

brings together experts from industry, 

government, and academia under one 

roof to develop practical, interoperable 

cybersecurity approaches that address 

the real-world needs of complex 

Information Technology (IT) systems. 

By accelerating dissemination and use 

of these integrated tools and 

technologies for protecting IT assets, the 

NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT 

communications, data, and storage 

systems; reduce risk for companies and 

individuals using IT systems; and 

encourage development of innovative, 

job-creating cybersecurity products and 

services. 

Process: NIST is soliciting responses 

from all sources of relevant security 

capabilities (see below) to enter into a 

Cooperative Research and Development 

Agreement (CRADA) to provide 

products and technical expertise to 

support and demonstrate security 

platforms for the Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) project. The full 

project can be viewed at: https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation. 

Interested parties can access the 

template for a letter of interest by 

visiting the project website at https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation and completing the letter of 

interest webform. On completion of the 

webform, interested parties will receive 

access to the letter of interest template, 

which the party must complete, certify 

as accurate, and submit to NIST by 

email or hardcopy. NIST will contact 

interested parties if there are questions 

regarding the responsiveness of the 

letters of interest to the project objective 

or requirements identified below. NIST 

will select participants who have 

submitted complete letters of interest on 

a first come, first served basis within 

each category of product components or 

capabilities listed below, up to the 

number of participants in each category 

necessary to carry out this project. 

When the project has been completed, 

NIST will post a notice on the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project website at https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation announcing the completion 

of the project and informing the public 

that it will no longer accept letters of 

interest for this project. 

Completed letters of interest should 

be submitted to NIST and will be 

accepted on a first come, first served 

basis. There may be continuing 

opportunity to participate even after 

initial activity commences for 

participants who were not selected 

initially or have submitted the letter 

interest after the selection process. 

Selected participants will be required to 

enter into a consortium CRADA with 

NIST (for reference, see ADDRESSES

section above). 

Objective: The Cryptographic Module 

Validation Program (CMVP) validates 

third-party assertions that cryptographic 

module implementations satisfy the 

requirements of Federal Information 

Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 

140–3, Security Requirements for 

Cryptographic Modules. Current 

industry cryptographic product 

development, production, and 

maintenance processes place significant 

emphasis on time-to-market efficiency. 

A number of elements of the validation 

process are manual in nature, and the 

period required for third-party testing 

and government validation of 

cryptographic modules is often 

incompatible with industry 

requirements. The purpose of the 

project is to demonstrate the value and 

practicality of automation to improve 

the efficiency and timeliness of CMVP 

operation and processes. The proposed 

proof-of-concept solution(s) will 

integrate commercial and open source 

products that leverage cybersecurity 

standards and recommended practices 

to demonstrate the use case scenarios 

detailed in the Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) project description at 

https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/ 

building-blocks/applied-cryptography/ 

cmvp-automation. This project will 

result in a publicly available NIST 

Cybersecurity Practice Guide as a 

Special Publication 1800 series, a 

detailed implementation guide 

describing the practical steps needed to 

implement a cybersecurity reference 

implementation. 

Requirements for Letters of Interest: 

Each responding organization’s letter of 

interest should identify which security 

platform component(s) or capability(ies) 

it is offering. Letters of interest should 

not include company proprietary 

information, and all components and 

capabilities must be commercially 

available. Components are listed in 

section 3 of the Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) project description at 

https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/ 

building-blocks/applied-cryptography/ 

cmvp-automation and include, but are 

not limited to: 

• Validation authority server 

• ACV proxy server 

• ACV client 

• Hardware or software cryptographic 

modules 

• Host processors for software 

cryptographic modules 

• Network devices supporting webbased exchange of information in 

JSON format 

• Harnesses for integration of ACV 

clients with hardware or software 

cryptographic modules 

• Automated cryptographic module 

testing expertise 

Each responding organization’s letter 

of interest should identify how its 

products help address one or more of 

the following desired characteristics and 

properties in section 1 of the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project description at https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation: 

• Support necessary schemas and 

protocols for evidence submission 

and validation for a scalable 

application programming interface 

(API) based architecture 

• Support standard tests for the 

functional tests of specific classes of 

technologies (e.g., software modules) 

and corresponding reporting of 

functional and non-functional 

security requirements 

• Be compatible with an infrastructure 

required to support a new automated 

validation program architecture 

• Include reusable test harnesses for test 

automation for different types of 

modules within the program 

architecture 

• Support maintaining validation 

within a changing operational 

environment 

• Support validation in third-party 

operational environments (e.g., cloud 

providers, contracted environments) 

• Support identification of positive and 

negative impacts that the new 

automation program may have on 

cryptographic product development, 


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production, integration, and testing 

organizations, including lessons 

learned 

• Contribute to recommend policies and 

best practices for the automated 

validation scope in appropriate NIST 

documents 

• Support a roadmap for migrating 

organizations and their customers 

from the current human-effort-centric 

CMVP to the new automated program, 

including recommended practices 

based on lessons learned 

• Broadly support improvements in 

cryptographic modules across all 

vendors participating in the CMVP 

through voluntary sharing of test data 

(e.g., seeds or test vectors) that result 

in failures to improve regression 

testing for module vendors 

In their letters of interest, responding 

organizations need to acknowledge the 

importance of and commit to provide: 

1. Access for all participants’ project 

teams to component interfaces and the 

organization’s experts necessary to make 

functional connections among security 

platform components. 

2. Support for development and 

demonstration of the Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) project, which will be 

based on the most recent versions of 

FIPS 140, SP 800–140, and Handbook 

(HB) 150–17 and conducted in a manner 

consistent with the most recent version 

of the following standards and 

guidance: FIPS 200, SP 800–37, SP 800– 

52, SP 800–53, SP 800–63, and SP 

1800–16. Additional details about the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project are available at https://

www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/buildingblocks/applied-cryptography/cmvpautomation. 

NIST cannot guarantee that all of the 

products proposed by respondents will 

be used in the demonstration. Each 

prospective participant will be expected 

to work collaboratively with NIST staff 

and other project participants under the 

terms of the consortium CRADA in the 

development of the Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) project. Prospective 

participants’ contribution to the 

collaborative effort will include 

assistance in establishing the necessary 

interface functionality, connection and 

set-up capabilities and procedures, 

demonstration harnesses, environmental 

and safety conditions for use, integrated 

platform user instructions, and 

demonstration plans and scripts 

necessary to demonstrate the desired 

capabilities. Each participant will train 

NIST personnel, as necessary, to operate 

its product in capability 

demonstrations. Following successful 

demonstrations, NIST will publish a 

description of the security platform and 

its performance characteristics sufficient 

to permit other organizations to develop 

and deploy security platforms that meet 

the security objectives of the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project. These descriptions will be 

public information. 

Under the terms of the consortium 

CRADA, NIST will support 

development of interfaces among 

participants’ products by providing IT 

infrastructure, laboratory facilities, 

office facilities, collaboration facilities, 

and staff support to component 

composition, security platform 

documentation, and demonstration 

activities. 

The dates of the demonstration of the 

Automation of the Cryptographic 

Module Validation Program (CMVP) 

project capability will be announced on 

the NCCoE website at least two weeks 

in advance at https://nccoe.nist.gov/. 

The expected outcome will demonstrate 

how the components of the solutions 

that address Automation of the 

Cryptographic Module Validation 

Program (CMVP) can enhance security 

capabilities that provide assurance of 

mitigation of identified risks while 

continuing to meet industry sectors’ 

compliance requirements. Participating 

organizations will gain from the 

knowledge that their products are 

interoperable with other participants’ 

offerings. 

For additional information on the 

NCCoE governance, business processes, 

and NCCoE operational structure, visit 

the NCCoE website https://

nccoe.nist.gov/. 

Alicia Chambers, 

NIST Executive Secretariat. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[RTID 0648–XB327] 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to the Fuel Pier 

Inboard Pile Removal Project in San 

Diego, California 

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 IHA to the 

United States Navy to incidentally 

harass, by Level B harassment only, 

marine mammals during pile driving/ 

removal activities associated with the 

Fuel Pier Inboard Pile Removal Project 

in San Diego Bay, California. 

DATES: This Authorization is effective 

from January 15, 2022 through January 

14, 2023. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kelsey Potlock, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

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/action/ 

incidental-take-authorization-us-navyfuel-pier-removal-naval-base-san-diegocalifornia. In case of problems accessing 

these documents, please call the contact 

listed above. 

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 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

incidental take authorization may be 

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 


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