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abroad (HTS 2905.39.10; duty rate

7.9%).

FTZ procedures would exempt ISP

from Customs duty payments on the

foreign components used in export

production. Some 35 percent of the BLO

produced from the imported B1D in

1999 was exported. On its domestic

sales, ISP would be able to choose the

duty rates during Customs entry

procedures that apply to BLO (3.7%) for

the foreign input noted above. The

request indicates that the savings from

FTZ procedures would help improve

the plant’s international

competitiveness.

In accordance with the Board’s

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff

has been designated examiner to

investigate the application and report to

the Board.

Public comment is invited from

interested parties. Submissions (original

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the

Board’s Executive Secretary at the

address below. The closing period for

their receipt is March 19, 2001. Rebuttal

comments in response to material

submitted during the foregoing period

may be submitted during the subsequent

15-day period to April 3, 2001.

A copy of the application and the

accompanying exhibits will be available

for public inspection at each of the

following locations:

U.S. Department of Commerce, Export

Assistance Center, 601 West

Broadway, Room, 634B, Louisville,

KY 40202

Office of the Executive Secretary,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room

4008, U.S. Department of Commerce,

14th and Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20230

Dated: January 10, 2001.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Executive Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Order No. 1135]

Expansion of Foreign-Trade Zone 46,

Cincinnati, OH Area

Pursuant to its authority under the

Foreign-Trade Zones Act (the Act) of

June 18, 1934, as amended (19 U.S.C.

81a–81u), the Foreign-Trade Zones

Board (the Board) adopts the following

Order:

WHEREAS, the Greater Cincinnati

Foreign Trade Zone, Inc. (GCFTZ),

grantee of FTZ 46, submitted an

application to the Board for authority to

expand FTZ 46—Site 3 (Clermont

County Industrial Park) to include three

additional parcels (FTZ Doc. 44–2000,

filed 7–27–00);

WHEREAS, notice inviting public

comment was given in the Federal

Register (64 FR 47712, 8–3–00) and the

application has been processed

pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s

regulations; and,

WHEREAS, the Board adopts the

findings and recommendations of the

examiner’s report, and finds that the

requirements of the Act and the Board’s

regulations are satisfied, and that the

proposal is in the public interest;

NOW, THEREFORE, the Board hereby

authorizes the grantee to expand its

zone as requested in the application,

subject to the Act and the Board’s

regulations, including Section 400.28.

Signed at Washington, DC, this 29th day of

December 2000.

Richard W. Moreland,

Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for

Import Administration, Alternate Chairman,

Foreign-Trade Zones Board.

Pierre V. Duy,

Acting Executive Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[C–428–817]

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel

Plate from Germany; Final Results of

Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Final Results of

Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews.

SUMMARY: On September 8, 2000, the

Department of Commerce (the

Department) published in the Federal

Register its preliminary results of

administrative reviews of the

countervailing duty order on certain

cut-to-length carbon steel plate from

Germany for the periods calendar year

1997 and calendar year 1998 (65 FR

54496). The Department has now

completed these administrative reviews

in accordance with section 751(a) of the

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (the Act).

For information on the net subsidy for

each reviewed company, and for all

non-reviewed companies, please see the

‘‘Final Results of Review’’ section of this

notice. We will instruct the U.S.

Customs Service (Customs) to assess

countervailing duties as detailed in the

‘‘Final Results of Review’’ section of this

notice.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 17, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert Copyak, Office of AD/CVD

Enforcement VI, Group II, Import

Administration, International Trade

Administration, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230;

telephone: (202) 482–2786.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(b), these

administrative reviews cover only those

producers or exporters of the subject

merchandise for which the

administrative reviews were specifically

requested. Accordingly, these

administrative reviews cover exporter

Novosteel SA and producer Reiner

Brach GmbH and Co. KG. We received

timely allegations of additional

subsidies, including allegations of

upstream subsidies. We initiated

examinations of three of these alleged

subsidy programs and determined not to

initiate examinations of the alleged

upstream subsidy programs. See

memorandum to Melissa G. Skinner,

Director, Office of AD/CVD Enforcement

VI, from Team, entitled 1997 and 1998

Administrative Reviews of the

Countervailing Duty Order on Certain

Cut-to-Length Carbon Steel Plate from

Germany: Memorandum Regarding

Affiliation, Cross-ownership, Upstream

Subsidy Allegations, and Other Subsidy

Allegations, dated August 23, 2000.

(This memorandum is on file in public

version form in the public file room of

room B–099 of the main Commerce

building.) These administrative reviews

cover 39 programs and the periods

calendar year 1997 and calendar year

1998.

On September 8, 2000, the

Department published in the Federal

Register its preliminary results of

administrative reviews. See Certain Cutto-Length Carbon Steel Plate From

Germany; Preliminary Results of

Countervailing Duty Administrative

Reviews, 65 FR 54496 (Preliminary

Results). We invited interested parties to

comment on the Preliminary Results.

We received comments on October 10,

2000, and on October 27, 2000.

Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the statute are references to

the provisions of the Act, as amended

by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act

(URAA) effective January 1, 1995. The

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Department is conducting these

administrative reviews in accordance

with section 751(a) of the Act. In

addition, unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Department’s regulations

reference 19 CFR part 351 (1999).

Scope of the Review

The merchandise subject to these

administrative reviews includes hotrolled carbon steel universal mill plates

(i.e., flat-rolled products rolled on four

faces or in a closed box pass, of a width

exceeding 150 millimeters but not

exceeding 1,250 millimeters and of a

thickness of not less than 4 millimeters,

not in coils and without patterns in

relief), of rectangular shape, neither

clad, plated nor coated with metal,

whether or not painted, varnished, or

coated with plastics or other

nonmetallic substances; and certain hotrolled carbon steel flat-rolled products

in straight lengths, of rectangular shape,

hot rolled, neither clad, plated, nor

coated with metal, whether or not

painted, varnished, or coated with

plastics or other nonmetallic substances,

4.75 millimeters or more in thickness

and of a width which exceeds 150

millimeters and measures at least twice

the thickness, as currently classifiable in

the HTSUS under item numbers

(7208.40.3030), (7208.40.3060),

(7208.51.0030), (7208.51.0045),

(7208.51.0060), (7208.52.0000),

(7208.53.0000), (7208.90.0000),

(7210.70.3000), (7210.90.9000),

(7211.13.0000), (7211.14.0030),

(7211.14.0045), (7211.90.0000),

(7212.40.1000), (7212.40.5000),

(7212.50.0000). Included in these

administrative reviews are flat-rolled

products of non-rectangular crosssection where such cross-section is

achieved subsequent to the rolling

process (i.e., products which have been

‘‘worked after rolling’’)—for example,

products which have been beveled or

rounded at the edges. Excluded from

these reviews is grade X–70 plate. Also

excluded from these administrative

reviews is certain carbon cut-to-length

steel plate with a maximum thickness of

80 mm in steel grades BS 7191, 355 EM,

and 355 EMZ, as amended by Sable

Offshore Energy Project specification XB

MOO Y 15 0001, types 1 and 2.

Analysis of Programs

Programs Determined To Be Not Used

We examined the following programs

and determined, based on the

questionnaire responses, that the

producer and/or exporter of the subject

merchandise did not apply for or

receive benefits under these programs

during the periods of review:

1. Capital Investment Grants

2. Investment Premium Act

3. Joint Scheme: Improvement of

Regional Economic Structure—GA

Investment Grants and Other GA

Subsidies

4. Ruhr District Action Program

5. Aid for Closure of Steel Operations

6. Joint Program: Upswing East

7. Freight Programs under the Special

Subsidies for Companies in the

Zonal Border Area

8. Loan Guarantees under

Treuhandanstalt Subsidies

9. Long-term Loans from the

Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau

(KfW)

10. Tax Programs under Special

Subsidies for Companies in the

Zonal Border Area

11. Structural Improvement Aids

12. ECSC Article 54 Loans

13. ECSC Article 54 Interest Rebates

14. ECSC Redeployment Aid Under

Article 56(2)(b)

15. ECSC Article 54 Loans

16. ECSC Article 54 Interest Rebates

17. Loans with Reduced Interest Rates

under the Steel Restructuring Plan

18. Federal and State Government Loan

Guarantees under the Steel

Restructuring Plan

19. Special Ruhr Plan

20. Zukunftsinitiative Montaregionen

(ZIM)

21. Kreditanstalt fur Wiederaufbau

(KfW) Investment Loans for Eastern

Germany

22. Deutsche Ausglechsbank Investment

Loans for Eastern Germany

23. European Recovery Program Loans

for Eastern Germany

24. Loan Guarantee Program Loans for

Eastern Germany

25. Peine-Salzgitter Profit Transfer

Agreement and Other Operation

Loss Subsidies

26. Elimination of Duisburg Harbor

Tolls

27. Export Credits at Preferential Rates

28. Miscellaneous Tax Subsidies

29. Loans from the Government of

Nordrhein-Westphalen

30. Tax Subsidies for Eastern Germany

31. European Investment Bank Loans

and Loan Guarantees

32. New Community Instrument Loans

33. European Regional Development

Fund Aid

34. Nordrhein-Westphalen’s Air

Pollution Control Program

35. ECSC Article 54 Loan Guarantees

36. ECSC Article 56 Conversion Loans

37. European Social Funds Grants

38. Assistance Measures for the

Companies within the Steel

Industry to Partially Compensate for

Costs of the Social Plans

39. Social Aid for the Workers in the

Coal and Steel Industries

Analysis of Comments Received

The comments submitted by

interested parties are addressed in the

‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum’’

(Decision Memorandum) from Holly A.

Kuga, Acting Deputy Assistant

Secretary, Import Administration, to

Troy H. Cribb, Assistant Secretary for

Import Administration, dated January 8,

2000, which is hereby adopted by this

notice. A list of the issues addressed is

attached to this notice as Appendix I.

The Decision Memorandum is a public

document which is on file in room B–

099 of the Main Commerce Building and

can be accessed via the internet at the

website http://ia.ita.doc.gov/frn and

under the heading ‘‘Germany.’’ The

paper copy and electronic version of the

Decision Memorandum are identical in

content.

Final Results of Administrative Reviews

In accordance with 19 CFR

351.221(b)(5), we calculated an

individual subsidy rate for the

producer/exporter subject to these

administrative reviews. For the periods

calendar year 1997 and calendar year

1998, we determine the net subsidy for

Novosteel SA/Reiner Brach GmbH and

Co. KG to be 0.00 percent ad valorem.

As provided for in the Act and 19 CFR

351.106(c)(1), any rate less than 0.5

percent ad valorem in an administrative

review is de minimis. Accordingly, no

countervailing duties will be assessed.

The Department will instruct Customs

to liquidate, without regard to

countervailing duties, shipments of the

subject merchandise from Novosteel SA

produced by Reiner Brach GmbH and

Co. KG, exported on or after January 1,

1997 through December 31, 1997 and

January 1, 1998 through December 31,

1998. Also, the cash deposits for this

producer will be zero.

Because the URAA replaced the

general rule in favor of a country-wide

rate with a general rule in favor of

individual rates for investigated and

reviewed companies, the procedures for

establishing countervailing duty rates,

including those for non-reviewed

companies, are now essentially the same

as those in antidumping cases, except as

provided for in section 777A(e)(2)(B) of

the Act. The requested review will

normally cover only those companies

specifically named. See 19 CFR

351.213(b). Pursuant to 19 CFR

351.212(c), for all companies for which

a review was not requested, duties must

be assessed at the cash deposit rate, and

cash deposits must continue to be

collected, at the rate previously ordered.

As such, the countervailing duty cash

deposit rate applicable to a company

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can no longer change, except pursuant

to a request for a review of that

company. See Federal-Mogul

Corporation and The Torrington

Company v. United States, 822 F.Supp.

782 (CIT 1993) and Floral Trade Council

v. United States, 822 F.Supp. 766 (CIT

1993) (interpreting 19 CFR 353.22(e),

the prior antidumping regulation on

automatic assessment, which was

identical to 19 CFR 355.22(g)).

Therefore, the cash deposit rates for all

companies except those covered by

these reviews will be unchanged by the

results of these reviews.

We will instruct Customs to continue

to collect cash deposits for nonreviewed companies at the most recent

company-specific or country-wide rate

applicable to the company. Accordingly,

the cash deposit rates that will be

applied to non-reviewed companies

covered by this order will be the rate for

that company established in the most

recently completed administrative

proceeding conducted under the URAA.

If such a review has not been

conducted, the rate established in the

most recently completed administrative

proceeding pursuant to the statutory

provisions that were in effect prior to

the URAA amendments is applicable.

See Final Affirmative Countervailing

Duty Determinations: Certain Steel

Products from Germany, 58 FR 37315

(July 9, 1993). This rate shall apply to

the non-reviewed companies until a

review of a company assigned these

rates is requested. In addition, for the

periods calendar year 1997 and calendar

year 1998, the assessment rates

applicable to all non-reviewed

companies covered by this order are the

cash deposit rates in effect at the time

of entry.

This notice serves as a reminder to

parties subject to administrative

protective order (APO) of their

responsibility concerning the

disposition of proprietary information

disclosed under APO in accordance

with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely

written notification of return/

destruction of APO materials or

conversion to judicial protective order is

hereby requested. Failure to comply

with the regulations and the terms of an

APO is a sanctionable violation.

These administrative reviews and this

notice are issued and published in

accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and

777(i)(1) of the Act.

Dated: January 8, 2001.

Troy H. Cribb,

Assistant Secretary for Import

Administration.

APPENDIX 1—Issues Discussed in

Decision Memorandum

Analysis of Comments

1. Upstream Subsidy Allegations

2. Need to Conduct Verification

3. Attribution of Subsidies

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 011001A]

Small-craft Facility Questionnaire

AGENCY: National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

ACTION: Proposed information

collection; comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing

effort to reduce paperwork and

respondent burden, invites the general

public and other Federal agencies to

take this opportunity to comment on

proposed and/or continuing information

collections, as required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C.

3506(c)(2)(A)).

DATES: Written comments must be

submitted on or before March 19, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments

to Madeleine Clayton, Departmental

Forms Clearance Officer, Department of

Commerce, Room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue NW, Washington,

DC 20230 (or via Internet at

MClayton@doc.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or

copies of the information collection

instrument(s) and instructions should

be directed to Lyn Preston, Chief,

Nautical Data Branch, Marine Chart

Division, N/CS26, Room 7350, 1315

East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD

20910-3282 (phone 301-713-2737, ext.

123 or e-mail Lyn.Preston@noaa.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Abstract

NOAA’s National Ocean Services

produces nautical charts to ensure safe

navigation. Small-craft charts are

designed for recreational boaters and

include information on local marine

facilities and the services they provide

(fuel, repairs, etc.). Information must be

gathered from marinas to update the

information provided to the public.

II. Method of Collection

Forms are sent to marinas when the

relevant chart is to be updated. Forms

are also made available at boat shows.

III. Data

OMB Number: 0648-0021.

Form Number: NOAA Form 77-1.

Type of Review: Regular submission.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

1,600.

Estimated Time Per Response: 8

minutes.

Estimated Total Annual Burden

Hours: 213.

Estimated Total Annual Cost to

Public: $0.

IV. Request for Comments

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the agency, including

whether the information shall have

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden

(including hours and cost) of the

proposed collection of information; (c)

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including through the

use of automated collection techniques

or other forms of information

technology.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for OMB

approval of this information collection;

they also will become a matter of public

record.

Dated: January 9, 2001

Gwellnar Banks,

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief

Information Officer.

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BILLING CODE 3510–JT–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 011001B]

Observer Workshop Survey

AGENCY: National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

ACTION: Proposed information

collection; comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Commerce, as part of its continuing