60284 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 199 / Monday, October 17, 2005 / Notices 

Comment 5: Clerical Errors: Revisions to 

Variable and Total Costs of 

Manufacturing 

[FR Doc. E5–5715 Filed 10–14–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–427–819, C–428–829, C–421–809, C–412–

821] 

Low Enriched Uranium from France, 

Germany, the Netherlands, and the 

United Kingdom: Extension of Time 

Limit for Preliminary Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Reviews 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 17, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kristen Johnson or Darla Brown, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Office 3, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–4793 or (202) 482–

2849, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background Information 

On March 23, 2005, the U.S. 

Department of Commerce (‘‘the 

Department’’) published a notice of 

initiation of the administrative reviews 

of the countervailing duty orders on low 

enriched uranium from France, 

Germany, the Netherlands, and the 

United Kingdom covering the period of 

review January 1, 2004, through 

December 31, 2004. See Initiation of 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Reviews and Requests 

for Revocation in Part, 70 FR 14643 

(March 23, 2005). The preliminary 

results are currently due no later than 

October 31, 2005. 

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary 

Results 

Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, as amended (‘‘the Act’’), 

requires the Department to make a 

preliminary determination within 245 

days after the last day of the anniversary 

month of an order or finding for which 

a review is requested. Section 

751(a)(3)(A) of the Act further states that 

if it is not practicable to complete the 

review within the time period specified, 

the administering authority may extend 

the 245-day period to issue its 

preliminary results by up to 120 days. 

We determine that completion of the 

preliminary results of these reviews 

within the 245-day period is not 

practicable for the following reasons. 

These reviews are extraordinarily 

complicated because of the complex 

nature of the more than adequate 

remuneration program in the review 

covering France and the request for 

revocation in the reviews covering 

Germany, the Netherlands, and the 

United Kingdom. Given the complexity 

of these issues, which need to be 

thoroughly analyzed by the Department, 

and in accordance with section 

751(a)(3)(A) of the Act, we are extending 

the time period for issuing the 

preliminary results of reviews by 120 

days. Therefore, the preliminary results 

are now due no later than February 28, 

2006. The final results continue to be 

due 120 days after publication of the 

preliminary results. 

This notice is issued and published in 

accordance with sections 751(a)(3)(A) 

and 777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: October 11, 2005. 

Gary Taverman, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. E5–5713 Filed 10–14–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 092705B] 

Endangered and Threatened Species; 

Take of Anadromous Fish; Correction 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; availability of fishery 

plan and request for comment; 

Correction 

SUMMARY: This document corrects an 

earlier version of this action that was 

published on October 3, 2005, in which 

the ACTION statement was omitted. The 

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife 

(ODFW) has submitted a Fishery 

Management and Evaluation Plan 

(FMEP) and the Washington Department 

of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) has 

submitted an amendment to an FMEP 

pursuant to the protective regulations 

promulgated for Lower Columbia River 

(LCR) coho salmon under the 

Endangered Species Act. The FMEPs 

specify the future management of inland 

recreational fisheries potentially 

affecting LCR coho salmon. This 

document serves to notify the public of 

the availability of the FMEPs for review 

and comment before final approval or 

disapproval is made by NMFS. 

DATES: Comments on the FMEPs must 

be received at the appropriate address or 

fax number (see ADDRESSES) no later 

than 5 p.m. Pacific daylight time on 

November 2, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the 

application should be addressed to the 

Salmon Recovery Division, Hatcheries 

and Inland Fisheries Branch, 1201 NE 

Lloyd Blvd. Suite 1100, Portland, OR 

97232 or faxed to 503–872–2737. 

Comments may be submitted by e-mail. 

The mailbox address for providing email comments is 

LCRCohoFMEPs.nwr@noaa.gov. Include 

in the subject line of the e-mail 

comment the following identifier: 

Comments on LCR Coho FMEPs. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Turner, Portland, Oregon, at 

phone number: (503) 736–4737, or email: rich.turner@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Species Covered in This Notice 

This notice is relevant to the Lower 

Columbia River coho salmon 

(Oncorhynchus kisutch), Lower 

Columbia River Chinook salmon (O. 

tshawytscha), Lower Columbia River 

steelhead (O. mykiss), and Columbia 

River chum salmon (O. keta) 

evolutionarily significant unit (ESU). 

ODFW has submitted to NMFS an 

FMEP: Lower Columbia River Coho in 

Oregon Freshwater Fisheries of the 

Lower Columbia River Tributaries 

(between the Pacific Ocean and Hood 

River). WDFW has submitted an 

amendment to their Lower Columbia 

River FMEP for inland recreational 

fisheries potentially affecting listed 

adult and juvenile LCR coho salmon. 

These FMEPs include fisheries 

occurring in all tributaries to the Lower 

Columbia River from the Pacific Ocean 

to the Hood River in Oregon and the Big 

White Salmon River in Washington. The 

objective of the fisheries described in 

these FMEPs is to harvest known, 

hatchery-origin coho salmon, and other 

fish species in a manner that does not 

appreciably reduce the likelihood of 

survival and recovery of listed LCR 

salmon and steelhead ESUs. All 

fisheries included in these FMEPs will 

be managed such that only hatcheryorigin coho salmon that are adipose finclipped may be retained. Impact levels 

on listed LCR coho salmon are specified 

in ODFW’s FMEP and the amendment 

to WDFW’s FMEP. Population viability 

analysis and risk assessments in the 

FMEPs indicate the extinction risk for 

listed coho salmon would not increase 

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as a result of the proposed fisheries. A 

variety of monitoring and evaluation 

tasks are specified in the FMEPs to 

assess the abundance of coho salmon, 

determine fishery effort and catch of 

coho salmon and other species, and 

monitor angler compliance. A review of 

compliance with the provisions of the 

FMEPs will be conducted by the state 

fisheries agencies annually and a 

comprehensive review to evaluate the 

effectiveness of the FMEPs will occur at 

a minimum every 5 years. 

As specified in the July 10, 2000, the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) 4(d) rule 

for salmon and steelhead (65 FR 42422) 

and updated rule (June 28, 2005, 70 FR 

37160), NMFS may approve an FMEP if 

it meets criteria set forth in 50 CFR 

223.203(b)(4)(i)(A) through (I). Prior to 

final approval of an FMEP, NMFS must 

publish notification announcing its 

availability for public review and 

comment. 

Authority 

Under section 4 of the ESA, the 

Secretary of Commerce is required to 

adopt such regulations as he deems 

necessary and advisable for the 

conservation of species listed as 

threatened. The ESA salmon and 

steelhead 4(d) rule (65 FR 42422, July 

10, 2000, as updated in 70 FR 37160, 

July 28, 2005) specifies categories of 

activities that contribute to the 

conservation of listed salmonids and 

sets out the criteria for such activities. 

The rule further provides that the 

prohibitions of paragraph (a) of the rule 

do not apply to activities associated 

with fishery harvest provided that an 

FMEP has been approved by NMFS to 

be in accordance with the salmon and 

steelhead 4(d) rule (65 FR 42422, July 

10, 2000, as updated in 70 FR 37160, 

July 28, 2005). 

Dated: October 12, 2005. 

Angela Somma, 

Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office 

of Protected Resources, National Marine 

Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 05–20713 Filed 10–14–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 101105C] 

Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement on 

Issuance of Permits for Research on 

Northern Right Whales in the Atlantic 

and Pacific Oceans 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic 

andAtmospheric Administration 

(NOAA), Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces its 

intent to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) to analyze the 

environmental impacts of issuing 

permits facilitating research on 

endangered northern right whales. 

Publication of this notice begins the 

official scoping process that will help 

identify alternatives and determine the 

scope of environmental issues to be 

addressed in the EIS. This notice 

requests public participation in the 

scoping process and provides 

information on how to participate. 

ADDRESSES: See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for specific dates, times, 

and locations of public scoping 

meetings for this issue. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Written statements and questions 

regarding the scoping process must be 

postmarked by January 31, 2006, and 

should be mailed to: Steve Leathery, 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries 

Service, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910–3226, 

Fax: 301–427–2582 or e-mail at 

rweis.comments@noaa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NMFS 

proposes to continue to issue permits to 

various individuals and institutions for 

conduct of research on northern right 

whales, Eubalaena glacialis, in the 

Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Note that 

the International Whaling Commission 

recognizes two species of northern right 

whale: E. glacialis in the North Atlantic 

and E. japonica in the North Pacific. 

NMFS is currently conducting a status 

review to determine whether to list the 

population of northern right whales in 

the Pacific as a separate species (E. 

japonica) from the population in the 

Atlantic (E. glacialis). Permits would be 

issued pursuant to the provisions of 

section 104 of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 

et seq.) and section 10(a)(1)(A) of the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.), and NMFS regulations 

implementing these statutes. 

NMFS is the Federal agency 

responsible under the MMPA and ESA 

for management of right whales. NMFS 

issues permits to qualified individuals 

and institutions so they can conduct 

research activities likely to result in 

collection of information needed by 

NMFS to conserve and recover northern 

right whales. NMFS has issued permits 

for research on right whales for several 

decades. 

The purpose of issuing permits is to 

allow an exemption to the prohibition 

on ‘‘takes’’ established under the ESA 

and MMPA. The ESA and the MMPA 

prohibit ‘‘takes’’ of threatened and 

endangered species, and of marine 

mammals, respectively. The ESA 

defines ‘‘take’’ as ‘‘to harass, harm, 

pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, 

capture, or collect, or to attempt to 

engage in any such conduct.’’ Under the 

MMPA, ‘‘take’’ is defined as to ‘‘harass, 

hunt, capture, collect or kill, or attempt 

to harass, hunt, capture, collect or kill 

any marine mammal.’’ The MMPA 

further defines harassment as ‘‘any act 

of pursuit, torment, or annoyance which 

(i) has the potential to injure a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild [Level A harassment]; or (ii) has 

the potential to disturb a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild by causing a disruption of 

behavioral patterns, including, but not 

limited to, migration, breathing, 

nursing, breeding, feeding, or sheltering 

but which does not have the potential 

to injure a marine mammal or marine 

mammal stock in the wild [Level B 

harassment].’’

In addition to the general prohibitions 

of the MMPA and ESA, federal 

regulations (50 CFR 224.103) prohibit 

both boats and aircraft from 

approaching any right whale in the 

North Atlantic closer than 500 yards, 

except by permit. Many research 

activities, including aerial and vesselbased surveys, photo-identification, 

attachment of scientific instruments, 

and collection of tissue samples (remote 

biopsy sampling), require approaching 

right whales closer than this and may 

result in harassment or other acts 

otherwise prohibited under the MMPA 

and ESA. 

While the status of the right whale 

population has remained critical, the 

interest in research that will identify or 

resolve conservation problems for the 

species has grown. The level of research 

effort relative to the population size has 

increased and researchers are