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1The Act expired on August 20, 1994. Executive

Order 12924 (59 FR 43437, August 23, 1994)

continued the Regulations in effect under the

International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50

U.S.C.A. §§ 1701–1706 (1991 & Supp. 1994))

(hereinafter ‘‘IEEPA’’). Executive Order 12924 was

extended by Presidential Notice of August 15, 1995

(60 FR 42767, August 17, 1995).

2The Regulations governing the violations at

issue are found in the 1990 version of the Code of

Federal Regulations. Those Regulations are codified

at 15 CFR Parts 768–799 (1990). Between October

1, 1990 and March 27, 1993, the Regulations were

continued in effect by Executive Order No. 12730

(55 FR 40373, October 2, 1990), issued pursuant to

IEEPA.

Southwestern Regional Office, (505)

842–3210.

Dated: November 29, 1995.

Milo Larson,

Acting Deputy Regional Forester,

Southwestern Region.

[FR Doc. 95–29714 Filed 12–5–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

Rural Housing Service

Housing Preservation Grants

AGENCY: Rural Housing Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Rural Housing Service

(RHS) announces that it is soliciting

competitive applications under its

Housing Preservation Grant (HPG)

program. The HPG program is a grant

program which provides qualified

public agencies, private nonprofit

organizations, and other eligible entities

grant funds to assist very low- and lowincome homeowners repair and

rehabilitate their homes in rural areas,

and to assist rental property owners and

cooperative housing complexes repair

and rehabilitate their units if they agree

to make such units available to low- and

very low-income persons. This action is

taken to comply with Agency

regulations found in 7 CFR part 1944,

subpart N, which requires the Agency to

announce the opening and closing dates

for receipt of preapplications for HPG

funds from eligible applicants. The

intended effect of this Notice is to

provide eligible organizations notice of

these dates.

DATES: RHS hereby announces that it

will begin receiving preapplications on

January 2, 1996. The closing date for

acceptance by RHS of preapplications is

April 1, 1996.

This period will be the only time

during the current fiscal year that RHS

accepts preapplications. Preapplications

must be received by or postmarked on

or before this date.

ADDRESSES: Submit preapplications to

Rural Economic and Community

Development (RECD) servicing offices

for the HPG program; applicants must

contact their RECD State Office for this

information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Sue M. Harris-Green, Senior Loan

Officer, Multi-Family Housing

Processing Division, RHS, USDA, Room

5337, South Agriculture Building,

Washington, DC 20250, telephone (202)

720–1606. (This is not a toll free

number.)

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 7 CFR part

1944, subpart N provides details on

what information must be contained in

the preapplication package. Entities

wishing to apply for assistance should

contact the RECD State Office to receive

further information and copies of the

preapplication package. Eligible entities

for these competitively awarded grants

include State and local governments,

nonprofit corporations, Federally

recognized Indian Tribes, and consortia

of eligible entities.

This program is listed in the Catalog

of Federal Domestic assistance under

No. 10.433, Housing Preservation

Grants. This program is subject to the

provisions of Executive Order 12372

which requires intergovernmental

consultation with State and local

officials (7 CFR part 3015, subpart V; 48

FR 29115, June 24, 1983). Applicants

are also referred to 7 CFR part 1944,

sections 1944.674 and 1944.676 (d) and

(e) for specific guidance on these

requirements relative to the HPG

program.

The funding instrument for the HPG

program will be a grant agreement. The

term of the grant can vary from 1 to 2

years, depending on available funds and

demand. No maximum or minimum

grant levels have been set, although

based on fiscal year (FY) 1996 fund

availability, the Agency anticipates that

the average grant will be $75,000 for a

1-year proposal. For FY 96, $11 million

is available and has been distributed

under a formula allocation to States

pursuant to 7 CFR part 1940, subpart L,

‘‘Methodology and Formulas for

Allocation of Loan and Grant Funds.’’

Decisions on funding will be based on

the preapplications, and notices of

action on the preapplications should be

made no earlier than 66 days prior to

the closing date.

Dated: November 28, 1995.

Maureen Kennedy,

Administrator, Rural Housing Service.

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BILLING CODE 3410–07–U

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Action Affecting Export Privileges;

James L. Stephens

In the matter of: James L. Stephens,

President, Weisser’s Sporting Goods, 1018

National City Boulevard, National City,

California 92050, with an address at 16208

Orchard Bend Road, Poway, California

92064, Respondent.

Order

The Office of Export Enforcement,

Bureau of Export Administration,

United States Department of Commerce

(hereinafter, the ‘‘Department’’, having

notified James L. Stephens, in his

capacity as president of Weisser’s

Sporting Goods (hereinafter,

‘‘Stephens’’), of its intention to initiate

an administrative proceeding against

him pursuant to Section 13(c) of the

Export Administration Act of 1979, as

amended (50 U.S.C.A. app. §§ 2401–

2420 (1991 & Supp. 1995)) (hereinafter,

the ‘‘Act’’),1 and Part 788 of the Export

Administration Regulations (currently

codified at 15 CFR Parts 768–799

(1995)) (hereinafter, the ‘‘Regulations’’),2

based on allegations that:

1. Between mid-1990 and early 1992,

Stephens conspired with Karl Cording,

individually and doing business as A.

Rosenthal (PTY) Ltd., Windhoek,

Namibia, with offices in Linden, South

Africa and Cape Town, South Africa,

and Ian Ace, manager of A. Rosenthal,

Cape Town, South Africa, to export

U.S.-origin shotguns, from the United

States to Namibia and South Africa,

without applying for and obtaining from

the Department the validated export

licenses that the Stephens knew were

required by Section 772.1(b) of the

Regulations, in violation of Section

787.3(b) of the Regulations;

2. In furtherance of the conspiracy

described above, on two separate

occasions on or about November 27,

1990, Stephens exported U.S.-origin

shotguns, from the United States to

Namibia and South Africa, without

obtaining from the Department the

validated export licenses Stephens

knew or had reason to know were

required by Section 772.1(b) of the

Regulations, in violation of Sections

787.4(a) and 787.6 of the Regulations;

and

3. In furtherance of the conspiracy

described above, on two separate

occasions on or about November 27,

1990, Stephens made false or

misleading representations of material

fact to a U.S. agency in connection with

the preparation, submission, or use of

export control documents, in violation

of Section 787.5(a) of the Regulations;

and
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The Department and Stephens having

entered into a Consent Agreement

whereby the Department and Stephens

have agreed to settle this matter in

accordance with the terms and

conditions set forth therein, and the

terms of the Consent Agreement having

been approved by me;

It is therefore ordered,

First, that a civil penalty of $60,000

shall be assessed against Stephens,

$10,000 of which shall be paid to the

Department on or before January 5,

1996, and the remaining $50,000 to be

paid in four equal installments of

$12,500 each, the first of which is due

on or before March 29, 1996; the second,

on or before June 28, 1996; the third, on

or before September 27, 1996; and the

fourth, on or before December 27, 1996.

Payment shall be made in a manner

specified in the attached instructions.

Second, James L. Stephens, President,

Weisser’s Sporting Goods, 1018

National City Boulevard, National City,

California 92050, with an address at

16208 Orchard Bend Road, Poway,

California 92064, shall, for a period of

15 years from the date of entry of this

Order, be denied all privileges of

participating, directly or indirectly, in

any manner or capacity, in any

transaction in the United States or

abroad involving any commodity or

technical data exported or to be

exported from the United States and

subject to the Regulations.

A. All outstanding individual

validated export licenses in which

Stevens appears or participates, in any

manner or capacity, are hereby revoked

and shall be returned forthwith to the

Office of Export Licensing for

cancellation. Further, all Stevens’s

privileges of participating, in any

manner or capacity, in any special

licensing procedure, including, but not

limited to, distribution licenses, are

hereby revoked.

B. Without limiting the generality of

the foregoing, participation, either in the

United States or abroad, shall include

participation, directly or indirectly, in

any manner or capacity: (i) as a party or

as a representative of a party to any

export license application submitted to

the Department; (ii) in preparing or

filing with the Department any export

license application or request for

reexport authorization, or any document

to be submitted therewith; (iii) in

obtaining from the Department or using

any validated or general export license,

reexport authorization, or other export

control document; (iv) in carrying on

negotiations with respect to, or in

receiving, ordering, buying, selling,

delivering, storing, using or disposing

of, in whole or in part, any commodities

or technical data exported or to be

exported from the United States and

subject to the Regulations; and (v) in

financing, forwarding, transporting, or

other servicing of such commodities or

technical data.

C. After notice and opportunity for

comment as provided in Section

788.3(c) of the Regulations, any person,

firm, corporation, or business

organization related to Stephens by

affiliation, ownership, control, or

position of responsibility in the conduct

of trade or related services may also be

subject to the provisions of this Order.

D. As provided by Section 787.12(a)

of the Regulations, without prior

disclosure of the facts to and specific

authorization of the Office of Export

Licensing, in consultation with the

Office of Export Enforcement, no person

may directly or indirectly, in any

manner or capacity: (i) apply for, obtain,

or use any license, Shipper’s Export

Declaration, bill of lading, or other

export control document relating to an

export or reexport of commodities or

technical data by, to, or for another

person then subject to an order revoking

or denying his export privileges or then

excluded from practice before the

Bureau of Export Administration; or (ii)

order, buy, receive, use, sell, deliver,

store, dispose of, forward, transport,

finance, or otherwise service or

participate: (a) in any transaction which

may involve any commodity or

technical data exported or to be

exported from the United States; (b) in

any reexport thereof; or (c) in any other

transaction which is subject to the

Regulations, if the person denied export

privileges may obtain any benefit or

have any interest in, directly or

indirectly, any of these transactions.

Third, the proposed Charging Letter,

the Consent Agreement, and this Order

shall be made available to the public,

and this Order shall be published in the

Federal Register.

This order is effective immediately.

Dated: November 27, 1995.

John Despres,

Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DT–M

International Trade Administration

[A–580–812]

Court Decision and Suspension of

Liquidation: Dynamic Random Access

Memory Semiconductors of One

Megabit and Above From the Republic

of Korea

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 6, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

Beck, Office of Antidumping

Investigations, Import Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20230, telephone:

(202) 482–3464.

SUMMARY: On October 27, 1995, in the

case of Micron Technologies, Inc. v.

United States, Cons. Ct. No. 93–06–

00318, Slip Op. 95–175 (Micron), the

United States Court of International

Trade (the Court) affirmed the

Department of Commerce’s (the

Department’s) results of redetermination

on remand of the Final Determination of

Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Dynamic

Random Access Memory

Semiconductors of One Megabit and

Above from the Republic of Korea.

Consistent with the decision of the

United States Court of Appeals for the

Federal Circuit (Federal Circuit) in

Timken Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d

337 (Fed. Cir. 1990) (Timken), the

Department will not order the

liquidation of the subject merchandise

entered or withdrawn from warehouse

from consumption prior to a

‘‘conclusive’’ decision in this case.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On March 23, 1993, the Department

published its Final Determination of

Sales at Less Than Fair Value: Dynamic

Random Access Memory

Semiconductors of One Megabit and

Above from the Republic of Korea (57

FR 15467). On May 10, 1993, the

Department published its Antidumping

Order and Amended Final

Determination: Dynamic Random

Access Memory Semiconductors of One

Megabit and Above from the Republic of

Korea (58 FR 27520).

Subsequent to the Department’s final

determination, Micron Technologies

(the petitioner) and the three

respondents, Samsung Electronics Co.,

Ltd. and Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

(collectively Samsung), LG Semicon Co.,

Ltd. and LG Semicon America, Inc.

(collectively Semicon and formally