Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 117 / Monday, June 17, 1996 / Notices 30597

COMMITTEE FOR THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE

AGREEMENTS

Extension of Staged Entry Period for

Certain Cotton, Wool, Man-Made Fiber,

Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber

Textiles and Textile Products and Silk

Apparel Products Produced or

Manufactured in the People’s Republic

of China

June 12, 1996.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs amending

earlier directives with respect to textile

products from China.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 14, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Aldrich, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March

3, 1972, as amended; section 204 of the

Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7

U.S.C. 1854).

At the request of the Office of the U.S.

Trade Representative, a notice

published in the Federal Register on

May 17, 1996 (61 FR 24919) amended

previous directives which established

limits for certain textile products,

produced or manufactured in China and

exported during 1996. (Also see 61 FR

25000, published on May 17, 1996.)

The Office of the U.S. Trade

Representative has decided to extend

the staged entry period of certain goods

produced or manufactured in China and

exported from China for an additional

30-day period beginning on June 14,

1996.

This action is being taken to facilitate

implementation of a further request to

CITA from the Office of the U.S. Trade

Representative in accordance with

section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, as

amended.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 60 FR 65299,

published on December 19, 1995).

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

June 12, 1996.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: This directive

amends, but does not cancel, the directives

issued to you on November 30, 1995 and

December 13, 1995, by the Chairman,

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements (CITA). Those directives concern

imports of certain silk apparel and certain

cotton, wool, man-made fiber, silk blend and

other vegetable fiber textile products,

produced or manufactured in the People’s

Republic of China and exported from China

during the twelve-month period beginning on

January 1, 1996 and extending through

December 31, 1996.

The above directives are hereby amended

to the extent necessary to facilitate

implementation of the directive of the Office

of the U.S. Trade Representative to the

Commissioner of Customs regarding textile

products from China dated June 12, 1996,

issued pursuant to section 301 of the Trade

Act of 1974, as amended. For your

information, entry of the following categories

of textile products, produced or

manufactured in the People’s Republic of

China, is hereby limited, over the 30-day

period (commencing with exports from China

on or after June 14, 1996) to the following

amounts:

Category Amount to be entered

Sublevels in Group I

218 ........................... 1,631,752 square meters.

317/326 .................... 2,961,510 square meters.

338/339 .................... 355,559 dozen.

341 ........................... 97,889 dozen.

347/348 .................... 360,698 dozen.

352 ........................... 270,175 dozen.

359–V1 .................... 122,273 kilograms.

360 ........................... 1,076,438 numbers.

361 ........................... 601,945 numbers.

447 ........................... 11,595 dozen.

448 ........................... 3,259 dozen.

638/639 .................... 354,776 dozen.

641 ........................... 194,097 dozen.

642 ........................... 45,002 dozen.

647 ........................... 226,428 dozen.

648 ........................... 161,781 dozen.

649 ........................... 131,463 dozen.

650 ........................... 16,367 dozen.

652 ........................... 376,963 dozen.

659–S2 .................... 87,044 kilograms.

840 ........................... 69,473 dozen.

842 ........................... 38,367 dozen.

847 ........................... 183,392 dozen.

Category Amount to be entered

Silk Apparel Group

733, 734, 735, 736,

738, 739, 740,

741, 742, 743,

744, 745, 746,

747, 748, 750,

751, 752, 758 and

759, as a group.

51,915,694 square

meters equivalent.

Specific Limit within

Group

740 (Men’s and boys’

shirts, not knit).

495,543 dozen.

741 (Women’s and

girls’ shirts/

blouses, not knit).

1,236,580 dozen.

1 Category 359–V: only HTS numbers

6103.19.2030, 6103.19.9030, 6104.12.0040,

6104.19.8040, 6110.20.1022, 6110.20.1024,

6110.20.2030, 6110.20.2035, 6110.90.9044,

6110.90.9046, 6201.92.2010, 6202.92.2020,

6203.19.1030, 6203.19.9030, 6204.12.0040,

6204.19.8040, 6211.32.0070 and

6211.42.0070. 2 Category 659–S: only HTS numbers

6112.31.0010, 6112.31.0020, 6112.41.0010,

6112.41.0020, 6112.41.0030, 6112.41.0040,

6211.11.1010, 6211.11.1020, 6211.12.1010

and 6211.12.1020.

Goods exported in excess of the amounts

allowed during the previous 30-day staged

entry period, beginning on May 15, 1996 and

extending through June 13, 1996 (see letter

dated May 15, 1996) may be entered during

the June 14, 1996 through July 13, 1996

period.

Textile products in the above group and

categories will be sublimits to the calendar

year limits for the same group and categories

established in the directives dated November

30, 1995 and December 13, 1995.

Categories 740 and 741 will be subject to

specific limits for the June 14, 1996 through

July 13, 1996 period,and subject to the Silk

Group limit for the same period. The June 14,

1996 through July 13, 1996 period for the

Silk Group, however, shall be a sublevel of

the Silk Group for the 1996 calendar year.

Charges for the 1996 calendar year limits for

Categories 740 and 741 will be provided by

CITA for goods exported during the June 14,

1996 through July 13, 1996 period.

The Committee for the Implementation of

Textile Agreements has determined that

these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5

U.S.C. 553(a)(1).

Sincerely,

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

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30598 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 117 / Monday, June 17, 1996 / Notices

Establishment and Amendment of

Import Limits for Certain Cotton and

Man-Made Fiber Textile Products

Produced or Manufactured in Nepal

June 11, 1996.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs establishing

and increasing limits.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 17, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Janet Heinzen, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212. For information on the

quota status of these limits, refer to the

Quota Status Reports posted on the

bulletin boards of each Customs port or

call (202) 927–5850. For information on

embargoes and quota re-openings, call

(202) 482–3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March

3, 1972, as amended; section 204 of the

Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7

U.S.C. 1854).

The Governments of the United States

and the Kingdom of Nepal agreed to

amend and extend their current bilateral

agreement for three additional years,

until December 31, 2000. The two

governments agreed to establish a limit

for merged Categories 342/642 and to

increase the 1996 base limit for

Categories 336/636.

In the letter published below, the

Chairman of CITA directs the

Commissioner of Customs to establish a

limit for newly merged Categories 342/

642 for the period beginning on January

1, 1996 and extending through

December 31, 1996 and to increase the

current limit for Categories 336/636.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 60 FR 65299,

published on December 19, 1995). Also

see 60 FR 62410, published on

December 6, 1995; and 60 FR 66269,

published on December 21, 1995.

The letter to the Commissioner of

Customs and the actions taken pursuant

to it are not designed to implement all

of the provisions of the bilateral

agreement, but are designed to assist

only in the implementation of certain of

its provisions.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

June 11, 1996.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: This directive cancels,

effective on June 17, 1996, the directive

issued to you on December 15, 1995, by the

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements (CITA), which directed

you to count imports for consumption and

withdrawals from warehouse for

consumption of textile products in Category

642 produced or manufactured in Nepal and

exported during the period November 28,

1995 through November 27, 1996. Import

charges already made to Category 642 shall

be retained.

This directive amends, but does not cancel,

the directive issued to you on November 29,

1995, by the Chairman of CITA. That

directive concerns imports of certain cotton

and man-made fiber textile products,

produced or manufactured in Nepal and

exported during the twelve-month period

which began on January 1, 1996 and extends

through December 31, 1996.

Effective on June 17, 1996 , you are

directed, pursuant to exchange of notes dated

April 18, 1996 and April 30, 1996 between

the Governments of the United States and the

Kingdom of Nepal, to establish a limit for

newly merged Categories 342/642 and

increase the current limit for Categories 336/

636 for the period January 1, 1996 through

December 31, 1996, as follows:

Category Twelve-month limit 1

342/642 .................... 262,764 dozen.

336/636 .................... 208,450 dozen.

1The limits have not been adjusted to account for any imports exported after December

31, 1995.

Adjustment to import charges for Category

642 will be provided at a later date.

The Committee for the Implementation of

Textile Agreements has determined that

these actions fall within the foreign affairs

exception to the rulemaking provisions of 5

U.S.C. 553(a)(1).

Sincerely,

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. RP95–408–010]

Columbia Gas Transmission

Corporation; Notice of Compliance

Filing

June 11, 1996.

Take notice that on June 5, 1996,

Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation

(Columbia) tendered for filing to become

part of its FERC Gas Tariff, Second

Revised Volume No. 1, the following

revised tariff sheets, to be effective June

6, 1996:

Third Revised Sheet No. 374

Second Revised Sheet No. 385

Columbia states that the purpose of

this filing is to comply with the tariff

changes directed to be made in

Columbia Gas Transmission Corp., 75

FERC ¶ 61,199 (1996). In compliance

with that order, and as further explained

in Columbia’s filing, Columbia is

making tariff changes to allow for

certain permissible cost-free inventory

transfers among SIT service agreements;

to incorporate procedures for posting

information concerning any grant of

emergency relief from interruption in

the event of a firm capacity curtailment

on Columbia’s system (Section 16.5 of

the General Terms and Conditions

(GTC)); to provide for the maintenance

and availability of information on such

grants of relief; and to extend

assessment of the $25 per dekatherm

penalty in GTC section 16.5 to parties

receiving such emergency relief on the

basis of materially false representations.

Columbia states that copies of its

filing have been mailed to all firm

customers, affected state commissions

and interruptible customers that have

made a standing request for service of

filings.

Any person desiring to protest this

filing should file a protest with the

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,

888 First Street, N.E., Washington, D.C.

20426, in accordance with Section

385.211 of the Commission’s Rules and

Regulations. All such protests must be

filed as provided in Section 154.210 of

the Commission’s regulations. Protests

will be considered by the Commission

in determining the appropriate action to

be taken, but will not serve to make

protestants parties to the proceedings.

Copies of this filing are on file with the

Commission and are available for public