24114 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 92 / Friday, May 11, 2001 / Notices

1The petitioners are Carpenter Technology Corp.,

Crucible Specialty Metals, Electralloy Corp., Empire

Specialty Steel Inc., Slater Steels Corp., and the

United Steelworkers of America, AFL–CIO/CLC.

days after the date of this preliminary

determination or 45 days after our final

determinations, whether these imports

are materially injuring, or threaten

material injury to, the U.S. industry.

Public Comment

Case briefs for this investigation must

be submitted no later than one week

after the issuance of the verification

reports. Rebuttal briefs must be filed

within five days after the deadline for

submission of case briefs. A list of

authorities used, a table of contents, and

an executive summary of issues should

accompany any briefs submitted to the

Department. Executive summaries

should be limited to five pages total,

including footnotes. Further, we would

appreciate it if parties submitting

written comments would provide the

Department with an additional copy of

the public version of any such

comments on diskette.

Section 774 of the Act provides that

the Department will hold a hearing to

afford interested parties an opportunity

to comment on arguments raised in case

or rebuttal briefs, provided that such a

hearing is requested by any interested

party. If a request for a hearing is made

in an investigation, the hearing will

tentatively be held two days after the

deadline for submission of the rebuttal

briefs, at the U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20230. In

the event that the Department receives

requests for hearings from parties to

several honey cases, the Department

may schedule a single hearing to

encompass all those cases. Parties

should confirm by telephone the time,

date, and place of the hearing 48 hours

before the scheduled time. Interested

parties who wish to request a hearing,

or participate if one is requested, must

submit a written request within 30 days

of the publication of this notice. Oral

presentations will be limited to issues

raised in the briefs. We intend to make

our final determination no later than 75

days after the date of this preliminary

determination.

This determination is published

pursuant to sections 733(d) and 777(i)(1)

of the Act. Effective January 20, 2001,

Bernard T. Carreau is fulfilling the

duties of the Assistant Secretary for

Import Administration.

Dated: May 4, 2001.

Bernard T. Carreau,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–11941 Filed 5–10–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–427–820, A–428–830, A–475–829, A–580–

847, A–583–836, A–412–822]

Notice of Postponement of Preliminary

Determinations of Sales at Less Than

Fair Value: Stainless Steel Bar From

France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Taiwan,

and the United Kingdom

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 11, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brian Smith (France) at (202) 482–1766;

Barbara Wojcik-Betancourt (Korea) at

(202) 482–0629; Brian Ledgerwood (the

United Kingdom) at (202) 482–3836;

Craig Matney (Germany) at (202) 482–

1778; Jarrod Goldfeder (Italy) at (202)

482–0189; Blanche Ziv (Taiwan) at (202)

482–4207; Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

APPLICABLE STATUTE AND REGULATIONS:

Unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended

(the Act), are references to the

provisions effective January 1, 1995, the

effective date of the amendments made

to the Act by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (URAA). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department of Commerce’s (the

Department’s) regulations are to 19 CFR

part 351 (April 2000).

POSTPONEMENT OF PRELIMINARY

DETERMINATIONS: On January 24, 2001,

the Department published the initiation

of the antidumping duty investigations

of imports of stainless steel bar from

France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Taiwan,

and the United Kingdom. The notice of

initiation stated that we would make

our preliminary determinations for

these antidumping duty investigations

no later than 140 days after the date of

issuance of the initiation (i.e., June 6,

2001). See Notice of Initiation of

Antidumping Duty Investigations:

Stainless Steel Bar from France,

Germany, Italy, Korea, Taiwan, and the

United Kingdom, 66 FR 7620, 7626

(January 24, 2001); and Corrections,

Notice of Initiation of Antidumping

Duty Investigations: Stainless Steel Bar

from France, Germany, Italy, Korea,

Taiwan, and the United Kingdom, 66 FR

14986 (March 14, 2001).

On April 27, 2001, the petitioners 1

made a timely request pursuant to 19

CFR 351.205(e) for a 50-day

postponement of the preliminary

determinations, or until July 26, 2001.

The petitioners requested a

postponement of the preliminary

determinations because of the need for

additional time to submit comments

regarding the respondents’

questionnaire responses and for the

Department to analyze the respondents’

data and seek additional data, if

necessary, prior to the issuance of the

preliminary determinations.

For the reasons identified by the

petitioners, and because there are no

compelling reasons to deny the request,

we are postponing the preliminary

determinations under section 733(c)(1)

of the Act. We will make our

preliminary determinations no later

than July 26, 2001.

This notice is published pursuant to

sections 733(f) and 777(i) of the Act.

Dated: May 7, 2001.

Richard W. Moreland,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–11937 Filed 5–10–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–533–063]

Certain Iron-metal Castings From

India: Amended Final Results of

Countervailing Duty Administrative

Review in Accordance With Decision

Upon Remand

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of amendment to final

results of countervailing duty

administrative review.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to remand

instructions by the Court of

International Trade (CIT), the

Department has recalculated the

countervailing duty rates for the 1990

administrative review of the

countervailing duty order on certain

iron-metal castings from India. The final

countervailing duty rates for this

administrative review period are listed

below in the Final Results of Review

section of this notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 11, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert Copyak, AD/CVD Enforcement

Office VI, Group II, Import