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any Supplier’s costs, production,

capacity, inventories, domestic prices,

domestic sales, terms of domestic

marketing or sale, or U.S. business

plans, strategies, or methods, unless

such information is already generally

available to the trade or public.

2. Meetings at which GBW and the

Members establish export prices shall

not be open to the public.

3. GBW and the Members will comply

with requests made by the Secretary of

Commerce on behalf of the Secretary or

the Attorney General for information or

documents relevant to conduct under

the Certificate. The Secretary of

Commerce will request such

information or documents when either

the Attorney General or the Secretary

believes that the information or

documents are required to determine

that the Export Trade, Export Trade

Activities and Methods of Operation of

a person protected by this Certificate of

Review continue to comply with the

standards of section 303(a) of the Act.

VI. Protection Provided by Certificate

This Certificate protects GBW and the

Members, and their directors, officers,

and employees acting on their behalf,

from private treble damage actions and

governmental criminal and civil suits

under U.S. federal and state antitrust

laws for the export conduct specified in

the Certificate and carried out during its

effective period in compliance with its

terms and conditions.

A copy of the Certificate will be kept

in the International Trade

Administration’s Freedom of

Information Records Inspection Facility

Room 4102, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230.

Dated: April 20, 2001.

Vanessa Bachman,

Acting Director, Office of Export Trading

Company Affairs.

[FR Doc. 01–10457 Filed 4–26–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–U

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 042301A]

Atlantic Highly Migratory Species;

Draft Biological Opinion

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Reopening of comment period.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the

reopening of the comment period on the

draft biological opinion on

authorization of the fisheries under the

Fishery Management Plan for Atlantic

Tunas, Swordfish and Sharks that

published in the Federal Register on

April 11, 2001. This action is being

taken because several constituents

requested additional time to review the

document due to its size and

complexity.

DATES: Comments on the draft

document will be accepted through 5

p.m. EST on May 4, 2001. The draft

biological opinion is available from

NMFS (see ADDRESSES).

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the

document must be mailed to Bruce C.

Morehead, Acting Director, Office of

Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine

Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910; or

faxed to 301–713–1917. Comments will

not be accepted if submitted via email

or the Internet. Copies of the draft

document may be obtained from

Christopher Rogers, Acting Chief,

Highly Migratory Species Management

Division, NMFS, 1315 East-West

Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christopher Rogers, 301–713–2347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For tbhe

notice of availability of the draft

biological opinion on authorization of

the fisheries under the Fishery

Management Plan for Atlantic Tunas,

Swordfish and Sharks that published at

66 FR 18755, April 11, 2001, the

comment period ended on April 18,

2001 at 5 p.m. EST. This document

reopens the comment period to May 4,

2001. The document is available on the

Internet at (http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/);

printed copies are available from NMFS

upon request (see ADDRESSES).

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

Dated: April 24, 2001.

Bruce C. Morehead,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 01–10521 Filed 4–24–01; 3:35 pm]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 041001C]

Taking and Importing of Marine

Mammals

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of affirmative finding

renewal.

SUMMARY: The Assistant Administrator

for Fisheries, NMFS, (Assistant

Administrator) renewed the affirmative

finding for the Republic of Ecuador

under the Marine Mammal Protection

Act (MMPA) on April 19, 2001. The

renewal of Ecuador’s affirmative finding

allows for the continued importation

into the United States of yellowfin tuna

and yellowfin tuna products harvested

in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean

(ETP) after March 3, 1999, by

Ecuadorian-flag purse seine vessels or

vessels with greater than 400 short tons

(362.8 metric tons (mt)) carrying

capacity operating under Ecuadorian

jurisdiction. The affirmative finding

renewal was based on the review of

documentary evidence submitted by the

Republic of Ecuador and obtained from

the Inter-American Tropical Tuna

Commission (IATTC) and the

Department of State. This finding

remains in effect through March 31,

2002.

DATES: Effective April 1, 2001, through

March 31, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Regional Administrator, Southwest

Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean

Boulevard, Suite 4200, Long Beach,

California, 90802–4213; Phone 562–

980–4000; Fax 562–980–4018.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

MMPA, 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq., as

amended by the International Dolphin

Conservation Program Act (IDCPA)

(Pub. L. No. 105-42, 111 Stat. 1122

(1997)), allows the entry into the United

States of yellowfin tuna harvested by

purse seine vessels in the ETP under

certain conditions. If requested by the

harvesting nation, the Assistant

Administrator for Fisheries, NMFS

(Assistant Administrator), will

determine whether to make an

affirmative finding based upon

documentary evidence provided by the

harvesting nation, the IATTC, and/or

the Department of State. A finding will

remain valid for 1 year (April 1 through

March 31) or for such other period as

the Assistant Administrator may

determine. An affirmative finding

applies to tuna and tuna products that

were harvested in the ETP by purse

seine vessels of the nation and applies

to any tuna harvested in the ETP purse

seine fishery after March 3, 1999, the

effective date of the IDCPA.

The affirmative finding process

requires that the harvesting nation meet

several conditions related to compliance