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U.S.C. 1675(a)(3)(A)) and 19 CFR 

351.213(h)(2).

Dated: January 28, 2005. 

Barbara E. Tillman, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration 

The Manufacturing Council: Meeting of 

The Manufacturing Council

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Manufacturing Council 

will hold a full Council meeting to 

discuss topics related to the state of 

manufacturing. The Manufacturing 

Council is a Secretarial Board at the 

Department of Commerce, established to 

ensure regular communication between 

Government and the manufacturing 

sector. This will be the third meeting of 

The Manufacturing Council and will 

include updates by the Council’s three 

subcommittees. For information about 

the Council, please visit the 

Manufacturing Council Web site at: 

http://www.manufacturing.gov/

council.htm.

DATES: February 18, 2005. Time: 1:30 

p.m.

ADDRESSES: Henry Ford Museum, Lovett 

Hall, 20900 Oakwood Blvd., Dearborn, 

MI 48124. This program is physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Requests for sign language 

interpretation or other auxiliary aids 

should be submitted no later than 

February 10, 2005, to The 

Manufacturing Council, Room 4043, 

Washington, DC, 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Manufacturing Council Executive 

Secretariat, Room 4043, Washington, DC 

20230 (Phone: 202–482–1369). The 

Executive Secretariat encourages 

interested parties to refer to The 

Manufacturing Council Web site 

(http://www.manufacturing.gov/

council/) for the most up-to-date 

information about the meeting and the 

Council.

Dated: January 28, 2005. 

Sam Giller, 

Executive Secretary, The Manufacturing 

Council.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration 

North American Free-Trade 

Agreement, Article 1904; NAFTA Panel 

Reviews; Request for Panel Review

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United 

States Section, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of first request for panel 

review. 

SUMMARY: On January 21, 2005, Tembec, 

Inc. filed a First Request for Panel 

Review with the United States Section 

of the NAFTA Secretariat pursuant to 

Article 1904 of the North American Free 

Trade Agreement. Panel review was 

requested of the Determination under 

Section 129(a)(4) of the Uruguay Round 

Agreements Act, made by the United 

States International Trade Commission, 

respecting Certain Softwood Lumber 

Products from Canada. This 

determination was published in the 

Federal Register, (69 FR 75916) on 

December 20, 2004. The NAFTA 

Secretariat has assigned Case Number 

USA–CDA–2005–1904–03 to this 

request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Caratina L. Alston, United States 

Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite 

2061, 14th and Constitution Avenue, 

Washington, DC 20230, (202) 482–5438.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter 

19 of the North American Free-Trade 

Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’) establishes a 

mechanism to replace domestic judicial 

review of final determinations in 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

cases involving imports from a NAFTA 

country with review by independent 

binational panels. When a Request for 

Panel Review is filed, a panel is 

established to act in place of national 

courts to review expeditiously the final 

determination to determine whether it 

conforms with the antidumping or 

countervailing duty law of the country 

that made the determination. 

Under Article 1904 of the Agreement, 

which came into force on January 1, 

1994, the Government of the United 

States, the Government of Canada and 

the Government of Mexico established 

Rules of Procedure for Article 1904 

Binational Panel Reviews (‘‘Rules’’). 

These Rules were published in the 

Federal Register on February 23, 1994 

(59 FR 8686). 

A first Request for Panel Review was 

filed with the United States Section of 

the NAFTA Secretariat, pursuant to 

Article 1904 of the Agreement, on 

January 21, 2005, requesting panel 

review of the determination described 

above. 

The Rules provide that: 

(a) A Party or interested person may 

challenge the final determination in 

whole or in part by filing a Complaint 

in accordance with Rule 39 within 30 

days after the filing of the first Request 

for Panel Review (the deadline for filing 

a Complaint is February 22, 2005); 

(b) A Party, investigating authority or 

interested person that does not file a 

Complaint but that intends to appear in 

support of any reviewable portion of the 

final determination may participate in 

the panel review by filing a Notice of 

Appearance in accordance with Rule 40 

within 45 days after the filing of the first 

Request for Panel Review (the deadline 

for filing a Notice of Appearance is 

March 7, 2005); and 

(c) The panel review shall be limited 

to the allegations of error of fact or law, 

including the jurisdiction of the 

investigating authority, that are set out 

in the Complaints filed in the panel 

review and the procedural and 

substantive defenses raised in the panel 

review.

Dated: January 27, 2005. 

Caratina L. Alston, 

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 012505B]

Endangered Species; Permit No. 1226 

and Permit No. 1239

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Scientific research permit 

modifications.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

requests for modifications to scientific 

research permits No. 1226 submitted by 

the New York State Department of 

Environmental Conservation, Hudson 

River Fisheries Unit, Bureau of Marine 

Resources, 21 South Putt Corners Road, 

New Paltz, New York, 12561–1696 

(Kathryn A. Hattala, Principal 

Investigator) and No. 1239 submitted by 

Dr. Boyd Kynard, U.S. Geological 

Survey, Conte Anadromous Fish 

Research Center, P.O. Box 796, One 

Migratory Way, Turners Falls, 

Massachusetts 01376, have been 

granted.

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ADDRESSES: The modifications and 

related documents are available for 

review upon written request or by 

appointment in the following office(s):

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910, phone 

(301) 713–2289, fax (301) 427–2521; 

and,

Northeast Region, NMFS, One 

Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, MA 

01930–2298, phone (978) 281–9328, fax 

(978) 281–9394.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Jefferies (301)713–2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

requested modifications have been 

granted under the authority of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 

and the provisions of § 222.306 of the 

regulations governing the taking, 

importing, and exporting of endangered 

and threatened fish and wildlife (50 

CFR parts 222–226).

The New York State Department of 

Environmental Conservation is 

authorized to sample for and collect 300 

shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser 

brevirostrum) annually in the Hudson 

River. The objectives of the study are to 

collect data on current distribution, 

abundance, length structure and 

movements of shortnose sturgeon in this 

river system. This modification will 

extend the permit through October 31, 

2006.

Dr. Kynard is authorized to sample for 

and collect 300 shortnose sturgeon in 

the Connecticut River. The objectives of 

the study are to collect data on current 

distribution, abundance, length 

structure and movements of shortnose 

sturgeon in this river system. This 

modification will extend the permit 

through June 1, 2006.

Issuance of these modifications, as 

required by the ESA was based on a 

finding that such permits: (1) Were 

applied for in good faith; (2) will not 

operate to the disadvantage of the 

endangered species which is the subject 

of these permits; and (3) are consistent 

with the purposes and policies set forth 

in section 2 of the ESA.

Dated: January 22, 2005. 

Stephen L. Leathery,

Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[Docket No. 050114009–5009–01; I.D. 

011105B]

Whaling Provisions; Aboriginal 

Subsistence Whaling Quotas

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the 

aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for 

bowhead whales, and other limitations 

deriving from regulations adopted at the 

2002 Special Meeting of the 

International Whaling Commission 

(IWC). For 2005, the quota is 75 

bowhead whales struck. This quota and 

other limitations will govern the harvest 

of bowhead whales by members of the 

Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission 

(AEWC).

DATES: Effective February 3, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries 

Service, 1315 East West Highway, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cheri McCarty, (301) 713–2322.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Aboriginal 

subsistence whaling in the United States 

is governed by the Whaling Convention 

Act (16 U.S.C. 916 et seq.). Regulations 

that implement the Act, found at 50 CFR 

230.6, require the Secretary of 

Commerce (Secretary) to publish, at 

least annually, aboriginal subsistence 

whaling quotas and any other 

limitations on aboriginal subsistence 

whaling deriving from regulations of the 

IWC.

At the 2002 Special Meeting of the 

IWC, the Commission set quotas for 

aboriginal subsistence use of bowhead 

whales from the Bering-ChukchiBeaufort Seas stock. The bowhead quota 

was based on a joint request by the 

United States and the Russian 

Federation, accompanied by 

documentation concerning the needs of 

two Native groups: Alaska Eskimos and 

Chukotka Natives in the Russian Far 

East.

This action by the IWC thus 

authorized aboriginal subsistence 

whaling by the AEWC for bowhead 

whales. This aboriginal subsistence 

harvest is conducted in accordance with 

a cooperative agreement between NOAA 

and the AEWC.

The IWC set a 5-year block quota of 

280 bowhead whales landed. For each 

of the years 2003 through 2007, the 

number of bowhead whales struck may 

not exceed 67, except that any unused 

portion of a strike quota from any year, 

including 15 unused strikes from the 

1998 through 2002 quota, may be 

carried forward. No more than 15 strikes 

may be added to the strike quota for any 

one year. At the end of the 2004 harvest, 

there were 15 unused strikes available 

for carry-forward, so the combined 

strike quota for 2005 is 82 (67 + 15).

This arrangement ensures that the 

total quota of bowhead whales landed 

and struck in 2005 will not exceed the 

quotas set by the IWC. Under an 

arrangement between the United States 

and the Russian Federation, the Russian 

natives may use no more than seven 

strikes, and the Alaska Eskimos may use 

no more than 75 strikes.

NOAA is assigning 75 strikes to the 

Alaska Eskimos. The AEWC will 

allocate these strikes among the 10 

villages whose cultural and subsistence 

needs have been documented in past 

requests for bowhead quotas from the 

IWC, and will ensure that its hunters 

use no more than 75 strikes.

Other Limitations

The IWC regulations, as well as the 

NOAA rule at 50 CFR 230.4(c), forbid 

the taking of calves or any whale 

accompanied by a calf.

NOAA rules (at 50 CFR 230.4) contain 

a number of other prohibitions relating 

to aboriginal subsistence whaling, some 

of which are summarized here. Only 

licensed whaling captains or crew under 

the control of those captains may engage 

in whaling. They must follow the 

provisions of the relevant cooperative 

agreement between NOAA and a Native 

American whaling organization. The 

aboriginal hunters must have adequate 

crew, supplies, and equipment. They 

may not receive money for participating 

in the hunt. No person may sell or offer 

for sale whale products from whales 

taken in the hunt, except for authentic 

articles of Native handicrafts. Captains 

may not continue to whale after the 

relevant quota is taken, after the season 

has been closed, or if their licenses have 

been suspended. They may not engage 

in whaling in a wasteful manner.

Dated: January 27, 2005.

Rebecca Lent,

Deputy Assistant Administrator for 

Regulatory Programs, National Marine 

Fisheries Service.

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