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International Trade Tribunal (CITT)

respecting Certain Solder Joint Pressure

Pipe Fittings and Solder Joint Drainage,

Waste and Vent Pipe Fittings, made of

Cast Copper Alloy, Wrought Copper

Alloy or Wrought Copper, Originating in

or Exported from the United States of

America (Secretariat File No. CDA–93–

1904–11) affirmed the determination of

the CITT. A copy of the complete panel

decision is available from the NAFTA

Secretariat.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James R. Holbein, United States

Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat, Suite

2061, 14th and Constitution Avenue,

Washington, DC 20230, (202) 482–5438.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chapter

19 of the United States-Canada FreeTrade Agreement (‘‘Agreement’’)

establishes a mechanism to replace

domestic judicial review of final

determinations in antidumping and

countervailing duty cases involving

imports from the other 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,

1989, the Government of the United

States and the Government of Canada

established Rules of Procedure for

Article 1904 Binational Panel Reviews

(‘‘Rules’’). The Rules were published in

the Federal Register on December 30,

1988 (53 FR 53212). The Rules were

amended by Amendments to the Rules

of Procedures for Article 1904

Binational Panel Reviews, published in

the Federal Register on December 27,

1989 (54 FR 53165). A consolidated

version of the amended Rules was

published in the Federal Register on

June 15, 1992 (57 FR 26698). The Rules

were further amended and published in

the Federal Register on February 8,

1994 (59 FR 5892). The panel review in

this matter was conducted in

accordance with the Rules, as amended.

PANEL DECISION: In the February 13, 1995

decision, the Binational Panel affirmed

the investigating authority’s

determination respecting Certain Solder

Joint Pressure Pipe Fittings and Solder

Joint Drainage, Waste and Vent Pipe

Fittings, made of Cast Copper Alloy,

Wrought Copper Alloy or Wrought

Copper, Originating in or Exported from

the United States of America made by

the Canadian International Trade

Tribunal.

A Notice of Final Panel Action will be

issued on the eleventh (11) day

following the issuance of the decision

(February 24, 1995).

Dated: February 21, 1995.

James R. Holbein,

United States Secretary, NAFTA Secretariat.

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Minority Business Development

Agency

Business Development Center

Applications: Alaska

AGENCY: Minority Business

Development Agency.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: On page 8636 in the issue

dated Wednesday, February 15, 1995,

third column, first paragraph, the award

number is corrected to read, ‘‘10–10–

95005–01’’.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Steven Saho at (415) 744–3001.

11.800 Minority Business Development

Center

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)

Dated: February 22, 1995

Frances B. Douglas,

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer,

Minority Business Development Agency.

[FR Doc. 95–4729 Filed 2–4–95; 8:45 am]

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Business Development Center

Applications: Portland, Oregon

AGENCY: Minority Business

Development Agency, Commerce.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: On page 8633 in the issue

dated Wednesday, February 15, 1995,

third column, second paragraph, the

award number is corrected to read, ‘‘10–

10–95013–01’’.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Steven Saho at (415) 744–3001.

11.800 Minority Business Development

Center

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)

Dated: February 22, 1995.

Frances B. Douglas,

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer,

Minority Business Development Agency.

[FR Doc. 95–4833 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

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Business Development Center

Applications: Seattle, WA

AGENCY: Minority Business

Development Agency.

ACTION: Correction.

SUMMARY: On page 8641 in the issue

dated Wednesday, February 15, 1995,

second column, second paragraph, the

award number is corrected to read, ‘‘10–

10–95014–01’’.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT:

Steven Saho at (415) 744–3001.

11.800 Minority Business Development

Center

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance)

Dated: February 22, 1995

Frances B. Douglas,

Alternate Federal Register Liaison Officer,

Minority Business Development Agency.

[FR Doc. 95–4832 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[Docket No. 950210047–5047–01; I.D.

011195B]

RIN 0648–XX08

Atlantic Monkfish Fishery; Control

Date

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of control date for entry

into the Atlantic monkfish fishery.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

anyone entering the Atlantic monkfish

fishery after February 27, 1995 (control

date), will not be assured of future

access to the Atlantic monkfish resource

in Federal waters if a management

regime is developed and implemented

under the Magnuson Fishery

Conservation and Management Act

(Magnuson Act) that limits the number

of participants in the fishery. This

announcement is intended to promote

awareness of potential eligibility criteria

for future access to the Atlantic

monkfish resource and to discourage

new entries into this fishery based on

economic speculation, while the New

England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery

Management Councils (Councils)

contemplate whether and how access to

the Atlantic monkfish fishery should be

controlled. The potential eligibility

criteria may be based on historical

participation, defined as any number of

trips having any documented amount of

monkfish landings. This announcement,

therefore, gives the public notice that

they should locate and preserve records

that substantiate and verify their

participation in the monkfish fishery.

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 27, 1995.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Douglas G. Marshall, Executive Director,

New England Fishery Management

Council, 617–231–0422, David R. Keifer,

Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic

Fishery Management Council, 302–674–

2331 or Paul H. Jones, Fishery Policy

Analyst, NMFS Northeast Regional

Office, 508–281–9273.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Monkfish (Lophius americanus, also

known as goosefish or anglerfish) are

widely distributed in the northwest

Atlantic Ocean from the northern Gulf

of St. Lawrence to Cape Hatteras, NC.

This species is found from the tideline

to depths as great as 840 m (2,756 ft).

They reach 48 cm (19 in) in length by

age 4, when most monkfish are mature.

The maximum observed age has been 9

and 11 years for males and females,

respectively.

Landings of monkfish tails have

increased markedly since the mid1970’s, from 600 metric tons (mt) in

1975 to 2,300 mt in 1980 and then to

4,300 mt in 1989. Landings for 1993

(tails) totalled 6,600 mt; total live weight

landed including tails, livers, and other

body parts and monkfish landed round

totalled 18,600 mt. This continued

increase reflects both increased effort in

other fisheries (primarily for groundfish

and sea scallops) in which monkfish are

taken as bycatch and increasing levels of

directed effort towards this species.

Since 1990, increased directed effort has

occurred from vessels employing trawls,

scallop dredges and sink gillnets,

generally in deeper waters, and this

component of the fishery now accounts

for nearly 30 percent of the total

landings. Interest in fishing for

monkfish is being fueled by increasing

value of monkfish livers and increasing

market acceptance of small tails. This

trend is likely to continue as fishermen

seek alternatives to the traditional

scallop and groundfish fisheries, which

are severely depleted and intensively

regulated.

Developing markets for monkfish tails

and livers allowed fishermen to fish

more profitably and land increasingly

smaller monkfish over the past several

years. Because of this trend, several

Atlanic coast states recently

implemented minimum fish size

requirements for monkfish. Monkfish

liver prices are now at or near all-time

highs, and some dealers have reportedly

been unable to fill market demand for

small tails, since many coastal states

have imposed minimum size limits.

Landings of excessively small monkfish

with tails as small as 9 inches (22.9 cm),

and occasionally as small as 5 inches

(12.7 cm), are of major concern.

Abundance, as measured by research

vessel surveys, has declined to near

record lows, and average sizes of

monkfish in commercial landings and in

research vessel surveys have declined to

record lows in recent years. A steady

decline in proportion of mature fish in

the population has also been noted (to

25% or less in the Gulf of Maine, the

lowest observed percentage in the time

series) with potential adverse effects on

future recruitment.

Recent increases in landings of

monkfish to record high levels, declines

in abundance and biomass to at or near

record lows, and the declining

proportion of mature individuals in the

population all indicate that this

resource is overfished and in a

deteriorating condition; and if current

fishery trends continue, recovery of this

resource will become increasingly

problematical. Guidelines Relating to

Intent of the Councils in Establishing a

Control Date for the Management of

Monkfish

1. The Councils are currently

considering that, in the event that a

system of assigning fishing rights is

developed as part of an FMP for

monkfish, such assignments shall be

based upon historical levels of

participation in the fishery prior to

February 27, 1995, with the following

considerations for recent investment.

2. The current intent of the Councils

is that newly constructed vessels will be

given consideration in the assignment of

fishing rights if they were under

construction as of February 27, 1995, as

evidenced by written construction

contracts.

3. The public is further notified that

it is the current intent of the Councils

that historical participation will transfer

with a vessel, for transfers made after

February 27, 1995, unless such transfers

are accompanied by a written document

indicating the agreement of both buyer

and seller that any future fishing rights

applicable to that vessel are not being

transferred via sale, lease, or any other

means of conveyance. Any such

transfers or explicit retention of fishing

rights may only be executed with any

and all fishing rights presently assigned

to said vessel or which may be assigned

based on that vessel’s prior participation

in any other fishery. This potential

restriction may mean, for example, that

no transfers or explicit retention of

monkfish fishing rights may be made

without also transferring or retaining the

vessel’s or the former owner’s right to

fish for groundfish, scallops, or another

regulated species.

If a vessel’s fishing rights were

transferred to a new owner prior to

February 27, 1995, the new owner may

have the option of excluding the

previous owner’s history of

participation when qualifying for a

limited access fishery. If a vessel is

transferred with its fishing rights to a

new owner after February 27, 1995, the

entire history of fishing for monkfish

may be required when determining

eligibility.

4. The Councils’ current intent is that

if fishing rights are explicitly retained

by a previous owner as described above,

or a qualifying vessel is lost or

destroyed, the owner of said vessel or its

rights may qualify for a limited access

fishery for monkfish without having

title to a replacement vessel. Upgrades

or replacements of vessels after

February 27, 1995 that are inconsistent

with the Multispecies, Scallop, or

Summer Flounder Fishery Management

Plans may disqualify the vessel from the

limited access monkfish fishery.

5. Further, the Councils currently

intend that any system of assigning

fishing rights may consider the

following concerns relative to

individuals or corporations that have

sold a vessel within the time that may

be chosen to determine historical

fishing rights:

a. Extent of past participation in the

Atlantic monkfish fishery;

b. Demonstration of intent prior to

February 27, 1995 to re-enter the

Atlantic monkfish fishery with a

different vessel.

c. Requirement that a vessel’s history

may be applied such that no more than

one vessel may rely on that history to

qualify for the limited access fishery.

The Councils intend to address

whether and how to limit entry of

commercial vessels into this fishery in

a Monkfish FMP. The Councils’ intent

in making this announcement is to

discourage speculative entry into the

commercial monkfish fishery while

potential management regimes to

control access into the fishery are

discussed and possibly developed by

the Council. The control date will help

to distinguish bona fide established

fishermen from speculative entrants to

the fishery. Although fishermen are

notified that entering the fishery after

the control date will not assure them of

future access to the monkfish resource

on the grounds of previous

participation, additional and/or other

qualifying criteria also may be applied.

The Councils may choose different

and variably weighted methods to

qualify fishermen based on the type and

length of participation in the fishery or

on the quantity of landings. The
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qualification criteria may be structured

such that vessels fishing for other

species and having incidental catches of

monkfish would be able to continue to

do so without qualifying for a limited

access permit.

This notice hereby establishes

February 27, 1995 for potential use in

determining historical or traditional

participation in a monkfish fishery. This

action does not commit the Councils to

develop any particular management

regime or to use any specific criteria for

determining entry to the fishery. The

Councils may choose a different control

date, or may choose a management

program that does not make use of such

a date. The Councils may choose also to

take no further action to control entry or

access to the fishery. Any action by the

Councils will be taken pursuant to the

requirement for FMP development

established under the Magnuson Act.

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.

Dated: February 17, 1995.

Gary Matlock,

Program Management Officer, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Advisory Committee on Student

Financial Assistance; Meeting

AGENCY: Advisory Committee on

Student Financial Assistance,

Education.

ACTION: Notice of upcoming meeting;

Amendment.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice

that was published in the Federal

Register issue of Thursday, February 9,

1995, 60 FR 7759. This amended notice

sets forth the schedule and proposed

agenda of a forthcoming partially closed

meeting of the Advisory Committee on

Student Financial Assistance.

DATES AND TIMES: February 27, 1995,

beginning at 9:00 a.m. and ending at

5:00 p.m.; and February 28, 1995,

beginning at 8:30 a.m. and ending at

12:00 noon, but closed from 8:30 a.m. to

9:30 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Dupont Plaza Hotel, 1500

New Hampshire Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20036.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Brian K. Fitzgerald, Staff Director,

Advisory Committee on Student

Financial Assistance, Portals Building,

1280 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Suite 601,

Washington, D.C. 20202–7582, (202)

708–7439.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Advisory Committee will meet in

Washington, D.C. on February 27, 1995,

from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and on

February 28, from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00

noon. The meeting will be closed to the

public on February 28, from 8:30 a.m. to

9:30 a.m. to discuss personnel matters.

The ensuing discussions will relate to

internal personnel rules and practices of

an agency and will disclose information

of a personal nature when disclosure

would constitute a clearly unwarranted

invasion of personal privacy if

conducted in open session. Such

matters are protected by exemptions (2)

and (6) of Section 552(b)(c) of Title 5

U.S.C.

A summary of the activities at the

closed session and related matters

which are informative to the public

consistent with the policy of Title 5

U.S.C. 552(b) will be available to the

public within fourteen days of the

meeting.

Records are kept of all Committee

proceedings, and are available for public

inspection at the Office of the Advisory

Committee on Student Financial

Assistance, Portals Building, 1280

Maryland Avenue, S.W., Suite 601,

Washington, D.C. from the hours of 9:00

a.m. to 5:30 p.m., weekdays, except

Federal holidays.

Dated: February 17, 1995.

Brian K. Fitzgerald,

Staff Director, Advisory Committee on

Student Financial Assistance.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Hydrogen Technical Advisory Panel

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770, as

amended), notice is hereby given of the

following advisory committee meeting:

Name: Hydrogen Technical Advisory

Panel.

Date and Time: Monday, March 6, 1995,

9:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 7, 1995,

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

Place: Mark Center Raddison Hotel, 5000

Seminary Road, Alexandria, Virginia,

Telephone: 703–845–1010.

FOR FURTHER INFROMATION CONTACT:

Russell Eaton, Designated Federal

Official, 1000 Independence Avenue

SW, Washington, DC 20585, Telephone:

(202) 586–1506.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose: The Hydrogen Technical

Advisory Panel (HTAP) will advise the

Secretary of Energy who has the overall

management responsibility for carrying

out the programs under the Matsunaga

Hydrogen Research, Development, and

Demonstration Program Act of 1990,

Public Law 101–566. The Panel will

review and make any necessary

recommendations to the Secretary on

the following items: (1) the

implementation and conduct of

programs required by the Act, (2) the

economic, technological, and

environmental consequences of the

deployment of hydrogen production and

use systems, and (3) the contents of the

comprehensive 5-year program required

by the Act.

Tentative Agenda

Monday 6, 1995

9:00 a.m.—Introductions and Opening

Comments: P. Takahashi

9:10 a.m.—Hydrogen Programs within OUT:

K. Rabago

9:30 a.m.—Hydrogen Programs within OTT:

T. Gross

9:50 a.m.—Report from the U.S. DOE: R.

Eaton

10:10 a.m.—Report on Hydrogen Program:

N. Rossmeissl

10:30 a.m.—Report on NREL Program: C.

Gregoire

10:45 a.m.—Break

11:00 a.m.—International Activities: R.

Eaton

11:15 a.m.—Report on Congressional

Activities: Rep. R. Walker M. Wiggins

12:00 p.m.—Lunch

1:00 p.m.—Industry/Public Outreach: D.

Nahmias

1:30 p.m.—Status Reports from HTAP

Committees

5:30 p.m.—Wrap-up: P. Takahashi

Tuesday, March 7, 1995

9:00 a.m.—Future Plans of HTAP:

Committee Chairmen

10:00 a.m.—Roundtable Discussion: Panel

11:00 a.m.—Public Comments: All

Public Participation

The meeting is open to the public.

The Chairman of the HTAP is

empowered to conduct the meeting in a

fashion that will, in the Chairman’s

judgment, facilitate the orderly conduct

of business.

Any member of the public who

wishes to make an oral statement

pertaining to agenda items should

contact the Designated Federal Official

at the address or telephone number

listed above. Requests must be received

before 5 p.m. (E.S.T.) Monday, March 6,

1995, and reasonable provision will be

made to include the presentation during

the public comment period. It is

requested that oral presenters provide