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COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Membership of the USCCR 

Performance Review Board 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of Membership of the 

USCCR Performance Review Board. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

appointment of the Performance Review 

Board (PRB) of the United States 

Commission on Civil Rights. Publication 

of PRB membership is required 

pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 4314(c)(4). 

The PRB provides fair and impartial 

review of the U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights’ Senior Executive Service 

performance appraisals and makes 

recommendations regarding 

performance ratings and performance 

awards to the Staff Director, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights for the FY 

2006 rating year. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyro 

Beatty, Director of Human Resources, 

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 624 

Ninth Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20425. Telephone: (202) 376–8364. 

USCCR Performance Review Board 

Members 

Cynthia G. Pierre, Director, Field 

Management Programs, EEOC. 

Lawrence W. Roffee, Executive 

Director, U.S. Access Board. 

David Enzel, Deputy Director, HUD 

Office of Appeals Policy Management. 

Dated: February 15, 2007. 

David P. Blackwood, 

General Counsel. 

[FR Doc. E7–2957 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6335–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

A–583–816 

Certain Stainless Steel Butt–Weld Pipe 

Fittings from Taiwan: Notice of 

Extension of Time Limit for Preliminary 

Results in Antidumping Duty 

Administrative Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 22, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Helen Kramer or Judy Lao, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 7, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution, 

NW, Washington DC 20230; telephone: 

(202) 482–0405 and (202) 482–7924, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 2, 2006, the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘the Department’’) 

published a notice of opportunity to 

request an administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on stainless 

steel butt–weld pipe fittings from 

Taiwan for the period of review (‘‘POR’’) 

of June 1, 2005, through May 31, 2006. 

See Antidumping or Countervailing 

Duty Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation, Opportunity to Request 

Administrative Review; 71 FR 32032 

(June 2, 2006). On June 22, 2006, 

Flowline Division of Markovitz 

Enterprises, Inc. (‘‘Flowline Division’’), 

Gerlin, Inc., Shaw Alloy Piping 

Products, Inc., and Taylor Forge 

Stainless, Inc. (collectively, 

‘‘petitioners’’) requested an 

antidumping duty administrative review 

for Ta Chen Stainless Pipe Co., Ltd. (‘‘Ta 

Chen’’), Liang Feng Stainless Steel 

Fitting Co., Ltd., Tru–Flow Industrial 

Co., Ltd., Censor International 

Corporation, and PFP Taiwan Co., Ltd. 

On June 29, 2006, Ta Chen requested an 

administrative review of its sales to the 

United States during the POR. On July 

27, 2006, the Department published the 

notice initiating this administrative 

review. See Initiation of Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Reviews and Request for Revocation In 

Part, 71 FR 42626 (July 27, 2006). The 

preliminary results are currently due 

not later than March 2, 2007. 

Extension of Time Limits for 

Preliminary Results of Review 

Pursuant to section 751(a)(3)(A) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘the 

Act’’), and 19 CFR § 351.213(h)(2), the 

Department may extend the deadline for 

completion of the preliminary results of 

a review by 120 days if it determines 

that it is not practicable to complete the 

preliminary results within 245 days 

after the last day of the anniversary 

month of the date of publication of the 

order for which the administrative 

review was requested. Due to the 

complexity of the issues involved and 

the time required to analyze Ta Chen’s 

supplemental questionnaire responses, 

as well as the demands of other 

proceedings handled by the office 

administering this review, the 

Department has determined that it is not 

practicable to complete this review 

within the original time period. 

Accordingly, the Department is 

extending the time limit for the 

preliminary results by 120 days, to not 

later than July 2, 2007, in accordance 

with Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. 

The deadline for the final results of this 

review will continue to be 120 days 

after publication of the preliminary 

results. 

This notice is published in 

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

and 777(i) of the Act. 

Dated: February 13, 2007. 

Stephen J. Claeys, 

Deputy Assistant Secretaryfor Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–2901 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Implementation of Grants to 

Manufacturers of Certain Worsted 

Wool Fabrics Established Under Title 

IV of the Miscellaneous Trade and 

Technical Corrections Act of 2004 

AGENCY: Department of Commerce, 

International Trade Administration. 

ACTION: Notice Announcing the 

Availability of Grant Funds. 

SUMMARY: This Notice announces the 

availability of grant funds in calendar 

year 2007 for U.S. manufacturers of 

certain worsted wool fabrics. The 

purpose of this notice is to provide the 

general public with a single source of 

program and application information 

related to the worsted wool grant 

offerings, and it contains the 

information about the program required 

to be published in the Federal Register. 

DATES: Applications by eligible U.S. 

producers of certain worsted wool 

fabrics must be received or postmarked 

by 5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Standard 

Time on March 26, 2007. Applications 

received after the closing date and time 

will not be considered. 

ADDRESSES: Applications must be 

submitted to the Industry Assessment 

Division, Office of Textiles and Apparel, 

Room 3001, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, 

(202) 482-4058. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim 

Bennett, Office of Textiles and Apparel, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, (202) 

482-4058. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Electronic 

Access: The full funding opportunity 

announcement for the worsted wool 

fabrics program is available through 

FedGrants at http://www.grants.gov. The 

Catalog of Federal 


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Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number is 

11.113, Special Projects. 

Statutory Authority: Section 

4002(c)(6) of the Miscellaneous Trade 

and Technical Corrections Act of 2004 

(Public Law 108-429, 118 Stat. 2603) 

(the ‘‘Act’’). The Act was amended 

pursuant to Section 1633 of the Pension 

Protection Act of 2006 (Public Law 109- 

280), which extended the availability of 

grant funds through 2009 and modified 

the eligibility criteria. 

Program Description: Section 

4002(c)(6)(A) of the Act authorizes the 

Secretary of Commerce to provide grants 

to persons (including firms, 

corporations, or other legal entities) who 

were, during calendar years 1999, 2000, 

and 2001, manufacturers of two 

categories of worsted wool fabrics. The 

first category are manufacturers of 

worsted wool fabrics, containing 85 

percent or more by weight of wool, with 

average fiber diameters greater than 18.5 

micron (Harmonized Tariff Schedule of 

the United States (HTS) heading 

9902.51.11); the total amount of 

available funds is $2,666,000, to be 

allocated among such manufacturers on 

the basis of the percentage of each 

manufacturers’ production of worsted 

wool fabric included in HTS 9902.51.11. 

The second category are manufacturers 

of worsted wool fabrics, containing 85 

percent or more by weight of wool, with 

average fiber diameters of 18.5 micron 

or less (HTS heading 9902.51.15, 

previously HTS heading 9902.51.12); 

the total amount of available funds is 

$2,666,000, to be allocated among such 

manufacturers on the basis of the 

percentage of each manufacturers’

production of worsted wool fabric 

included in HTS 9902.51.15. 

Funding Availability: The Secretary of 

Commerce is authorized under section 

4002(c)(6)(A) of the Act to provide 

grants to manufacturers of certain 

worsted wool fabrics. Funding for the 

worsted wool fabrics grant program will 

be provided by the Department of the 

Treasury from amounts in the Wool 

Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund (the 

‘‘Trust Fund’’). The total amount of 

grants to manufacturers of worsted wool 

fabrics described in HTS 9902.51.11 

shall be $2,666,000 in calendar year 

2007. The total amount of grants to 

manufacturers of worsted wool fabrics 

described in HTS 9902.51.15 shall also 

be $2,666,000 in calendar year 2007. 

Eligibility Criteria: Eligible applicants 

for the worsted wool fabric program 

include persons (including firms, 

corporations, or other legal entities) who 

were, during calendar years 1999, 2000 

and 2001, manufacturers of worsted 

wool fabric in the United States of the 

kind described in HTS 9902.51.11 or 

9902.51.15. Section 1633(b)(1)(C) of the 

Pension Protection Act of 2006 provides 

that only manufacturers who weave 

worsted wool fabric in the United States 

as of the date of application shall be 

eligible for grant funds. Any 

manufacturer who becomes a successorof-interest to a manufacturer of the 

worsted wool fabrics described in HTS 

9902.51.11 or HTS 9902.51.15 during 

1999, 2000 or 2001 because of a 

reorganization or otherwise, shall be 

eligible to apply for such grants. 

Applications to Receive 

Allocations: Applicants must provide: 

(1) Company name, address, contact and 

phone number; (2) Federal tax 

identification number; (3) the name and 

address of each plant or location in the 

United States where worsted wool 

fabrics of the kind described in HTS 

9902.51.11 or HTS 9902.51.15 was 

woven by the applicant in 1999, 2000 

and 2001; (4) the name and address of 

each plant or location in the United 

States where the applicant is weaving 

worsted wool fabrics of the kind 

described in HTS 9902.51.11 and or 

HTS 9902.51.15 as of the date of 

application; (5) the quantity, in linear 

yards, of worsted wool fabric 

production described in HTS 9902.51.11 

or 9902.51.15, as appropriate, woven in 

the United States in each of calendar 

years 1999, 2000 and 2001; and (6) the 

value of worsted wool fabric production 

described in HTS 9902.51.11 or 

9902.51.15, as appropriate, woven in the 

United States in each of calendar years 

1999, 2000 and 2001. This data must 

indicate actual production (not 

estimates) of worsted wool fabric of the 

kind described in HTS 9902.51.11 or 

9902.51.15. 

At the conclusion of the application, 

the applicant must attest that ‘‘all 

information contained in the 

application is complete and correct and 

no false claims, statements, or 

representations have been made.’’

Applicants should be aware that, 

generally, pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 3729, 

persons providing a false or fraudulent 

claims, and, pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1001, 

persons making materially false 

statements or representations, are 

subject to civil or criminal penalties, 

respectively. 

Information that is marked ‘‘business 

confidential’’ will be protected from 

disclosure to the full extent permitted 

by law. 

Other Application 

Requirements: Complete applications 

must include the following forms and 

documents: CD-346, Applicant for 

Funding Assistance; CD-511, 

Certification Regarding Lobbying; SF–

424, Application for Federal Assistance; 

and SF-424B, Assurances - NonConstruction Programs. The CD forms 

are available via Web site: http:// 

www.osec.doc.gov/forms/direct.htm. 

The SF forms are available via web site: 

http://www.grants.gov/sitemap/ 

sitemap.jsp (See ‘‘Applicant 

Information, Approved Standard Form 

SF-424 Forms’’). 

This document contains collection-ofinformation requirements subject to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA). The 

use of Standard Forms 269, 424, 424A, 

424B, SF-LLL, and CD-346 has been 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) under the respective 

control numbers 0348-0039, 0348-0043, 

0348-0044, 0348-0040, 0348-0046, and 

0605-0001. Notwithstanding any other 

provision of law, no person is required 

to respond to, nor shall any person be 

subject to a penalty for failure to comply 

with, a collection of information subject 

to the requirements of the PRA unless 

that collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Allocation Procedures: Section 

4002(c)(6)(A) of the Act requires that 

each grant be allocated among eligible 

applicants on the basis of the percentage 

of each manufacturers’ production of 

the fabric described in HTS 9902.51.11 

or HTS 9902.51.15 for calendar years 

1999, 2000, and 2001, compared to the 

production of such fabric by all 

manufacturers who qualify for such 

grants. Following the closing date of the 

receipt of applications, the Department 

shall calculate the appropriate 

allocation of the allotted funds among 

eligible applicants in accordance with 

the statutory procedures. Award 

decisions shall be final and not subject 

to appeal or protest. 

Intergovernmental 

Review: Applications under this 

program are not subject to Executive 

Order 12372, ‘‘Intergovernmental 

Review of Federal Programs’’. 

Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements: Department of Commerce 

Pre-Award Notifications for Grants and 

Cooperative Agreements, which are 

contained in the Federal Register Notice 

of December 30, 2004 (69 FR 78389), are 

applicable to this solicitation. 

It has been determined that this notice 

is not significant for purposes of E.O. 

12866. 

Administrative Procedure/Regulatory 

Flexibility: Prior notice and an 

opportunity for public comment are not 

required by the Administrative 

Procedure Act for rules concerning 

public property, loans, grants, benefits, 

and contracts (5 USC 553(a)(2)). Because 

notice and opportunity for comment are 

not required pursuant to 5 USC 553 or 

any other law, the analytical 


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requirements of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act (5 USC 601 et seq.) are 

inapplicable. Therefore, a regulatory 

flexibility analysis is not required and 

has not been prepared. 

Dated: February 15, 2007. 

R. Matthew Priest, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Textiles and 

Apparel. 

[FR Doc. 07–794 Filed 2–16–07; 2:26 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

North American Free Trade Agreement 

(NAFTA), Article 1904 Binational Panel 

Reviews: Notice of Termination of 

Panel Review 

AGENCY: NAFTA Secretariat, United 

States Section, International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Consent Motion To 

Terminate the Panel Review of the final 

antidumping duty determination and 

order made by the International Trade 

Commission, respecting Purified 

Carboxymethylcellulose (‘‘CMC’’) from 

Mexico, Secretariat File No. USA–MEX–

2005–1904–05. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Notice of 

Consent Motion To Terminate the Panel 

Review by the complainants, the panel 

review is terminated as of February 13, 

2007. A panel has not been appointed 

to this panel review. Pursuant to Rule 

71(2) of the Rules of Procedure for 

Article 1904 Binational Panel Review, 

this panel review is terminated. 

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). The panel review in this 

matter was requested and terminated 

pursuant to these Rules. 

Dated: February 15, 2007. 

Caratina L. Alston, 

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat. 

[FR Doc. E7–2903 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–GT–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 021507C] 

Fisheries Off West Coast States and in 

the Western Pacific; Pacific Coast 

Groundfish Fishery; Application for an 

Exempted Fishing Permit 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of an exempted 

fishing permit application (EFP); intent 

to issue the EFP; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the receipt 

of an exempted fishing permit (EFP) 

application, and the intent to issue EFPs 

for vessels participating in an 

observation program to monitor the 

incidental take of salmon and 

groundfish in the shore-based 

component of the Pacific whiting 

fishery. The EFPs are necessary to allow 

trawl vessels fishing for Pacific whiting 

to delay sorting their catch, and thus to 

retain prohibited species and groundfish 

in excess of cumulative trip limits until 

the point of offloading. These activities 

are otherwise prohibited by Federal 

regulations. The EFPs will be effective 

no earlier than April 1, 2007, and would 

expire no later than December 31, 2007, 

but could be terminated earlier under 

the terms and conditions of the EFPs 

and other applicable laws. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

March 9, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments or request 

for copies of the EFP application to 

Gretchen Arentzen, Northwest Region, 

NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way N.E., Bldg. 

1, Seattle, WA 98115 0070 or email 

EFPwhiting2007.nwr@noaa.gov. 

Comments sent via email, including all 

attachments, must not exceed a 10 

megabyte file size. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gretchen Arentzen or Becky Renko at 

(206)526 6140. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

action is authorized by the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and 

Management Act provisions at 50 CFR 

600.745, which state that EFPs may be 

used to authorize fishing activities that 

would otherwise be prohibited. At the 

November 2006 Pacific Fishery 

Management Council (Council) meeting 

in Del Mar, California, NMFS received 

an application for these EFPs from the 

States of Washington, Oregon, and 

California. An opportunity for public 

testimony was provided during the 

Council meeting. The Council 

recommended that NMFS issue the 

EFPs, as requested by the States, and 

forwarded the EFP applications to 

NMFS. 

Each year since 1992, EFPs have been 

issued to vessels in the Pacific whiting 

shoreside fishery to allow unsorted 

catch to be landed. Without an EFP, 

groundfish regulations at 50 CFR 

660.306(a) require vessels to sort their 

catch at sea. The vessels fishing under 

the EFPs are required to deliver catch to 

designated processors. EFPs have been 

used to: track the incidental take of 

Chinook salmon as required in the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) Section 7 

Biological Opinion for Chinook salmon 

catch in the Pacific whiting fishery; and 

to track the catch of whiting and other 

groundfish species such that the fishing 

industry is not unnecessarily 

constrained and that the OYs, harvest 

guidelines, sector allocation and 

overfished species bycatch limits are not 

exceeded. 

Over the past five years, the number 

of vessels issued these EFPs has been 

between 31 and 38 vessels. Issuance of 

the 2007 EFPs, to approximately 40 

vessels, will allow samplers located at 

the shoreside processing facilities to 

collect information on the incidental 

catch of salmon and groundfish in 

unsorted whiting deliveries. Unlike the 

at-sea sectors of the Pacific whiting 

fishery, where catch is sorted and 

processed shortly after it has been taken, 

vessels in the shoreside fishery must 

hold primary season Pacific whiting on 

the vessel for several hours or days until 

it can be offloaded at a shoreside 

processor. Pacific whiting deteriorates 

rapidly, so it must be handled quickly 

and immediately chilled to maintain 

product quality. This is particularly true 

if the Pacific whiting is to be used to 

make surimi (a fish paste product). The 

quality or grade of surimi is highly 

dependent on the freshness of the 

Pacific whiting, which demands careful 


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