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1Or the next business day, if the deadline falls 

on a weekend, federal holiday or any other day 

when the Department is closed. 

(5) Competitive Criteria 

Information that shows how the 

proposal is responsive to the selection 

criteria specified in the Notice. 

(6) Lender Certification 

A commitment letter signed by the 

lender, on the lender’s letterhead, 

indicating that the lender will make a 

loan to the borrower for the proposed 

project, under specified terms and 

conditions subject only to the issuance 

of a guarantee by the Agency. 

The deadline for the submission of a 

complete application and application 

fee is 90 days from the date of 

notification of response selection. If the 

application and fee are not received by 

the appropriate State Office within 90 

days from the date of notification, the 

selection is subject to cancellation, 

thereby allowing another response that 

is ready to proceed with processing to 

be selected. The State Office has the 

ability to extend this 90 day deadline for 

receipt of an application only for good 

cause. 

Obligation of Program Funds: The 

Agency will only obligate funds to 

projects that meet the requirements for 

obligation, including having undergone 

a satisfactory environmental review in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) 

and having submitted the $2,500 

application fee and completed Form RD 

3565–1 for the selected project. 

Conditional Commitment: Once 

required documents for obligation and 

the application fee are received and all 

NEPA requirements have been met, the 

USDA Rural Development State Office 

will issue a conditional commitment, 

which stipulates the conditions that 

must be fulfilled before the issuance of 

a guarantee, in accordance with 7 CFR 

3565.303. 

Issuance of Guarantee: The USDA 

Rural Development Office will issue a 

guarantee to the lender for a project in 

accordance with 7 CFR 3565.303. No 

guarantee can be issued without a 

complete application, review of 

appropriate certifications, satisfactory 

assessment of the appropriate level of 

environmental review, and the 

completion of any conditional 

requirements. 

Non-Discrimination Statement 

USDA prohibits discrimination in all 

its programs and activities on the basis 

of race, color, national origin, age, 

disability, and where applicable, sex, 

marital status, religion, sexual 

orientation, genetic information, 

political beliefs, reprisal, or because all 

or part of an individual’s income is 

derived from any public assistance 

program. (Not all prohibited bases apply 

to all programs.) Persons with 

disabilities who require alternative 

means for communication of program 

information (Braille, large print, 

audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s 

TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TDD). To file a complaint of 

discrimination, write to USDA, Director, 

Office of Civil Rights, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–9410, or call 

(800) 795–3272 (voice), or (202) 720–

6382 (TDD). ‘‘USDA is an equal 

opportunity provider, employer, and 

lender.’’

Dated: January 29, 2008. 

James C. Alsop, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Housing Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–1949 Filed 2–1–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–XV–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 

Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation; Opportunity To Request 

Administrative Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sheila E. Forbes, Office of AD/CVD 

Operations, Customs Unit, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230, 

telephone: (202) 482–4697. 

Background 

Each year during the anniversary 

month of the publication of an 

antidumping or countervailing duty 

order, finding, or suspension of 

investigation, an interested party, as 

defined in section 771(9) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended (the Act), may 

request, in accordance with section 

351.213 (2004) of the Department of 

Commerce (the Department) 

Regulations, that the Department 

conduct an administrative review of that 

antidumping or countervailing duty 

order, finding, or suspended 

investigation. 

Opportunity to Request a Review: Not 

later than the last day of February 

2008,1 interested parties may request 

administrative review of the following 

orders, findings, or suspended 

investigations, with anniversary dates in 

February for the following periods: 

Period 

Antidumping Duty Proceedings 

BRAZIL: 

Stainless Steel Bar, A–351–825 ............................................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp, A–351–838 ................................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

ECUADOR: Frozen Warmwater Shrimp, A–331–802 ................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–8/14/07 

FRANCE: Uranium, A–427–818 .................................................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

INDIA: 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, A–533–817 ............................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Forged Stainless Steel Flanges, A–533–809 ......................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp, A–533–840 ................................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Stainless Steel Bar, A–533–810 ............................................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Certain Preserved Mushrooms, A–533–813 .......................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

INDONESIA: 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, A–560–805 ............................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Certain Preserved Mushrooms, A–560–802 .......................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

ITALY: 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, A–475–826 ............................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A–475–828 ............................................................................................................. 2/1/07–1/31/08 


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2 If the review request involves a non-market 

economy and the parties subject to the review 

request do not qualify for separate rates, all other 

exporters of subject merchandise from the nonmarket economy country who do not have a 

separate rate will be covered by the review as part 

of the single entity of which the named firms are 

a part. 

Period 

JAPAN: 

Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A–588–602 ................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, A–588–847 ............................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Stainless Steel Bar, A–588–833 ............................................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

MALAYSIA: Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A–557–809 ................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

MEXICO: Welded Large Diameter Line Pipe, A–201–828 ........................................................................................................... 2/1/07–2/26/07 

PHILIPPINES: Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A–565–801 ............................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

REPUBLIC OF KOREA: 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, A–580–836 ............................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings, A–580–813 ............................................................................................................. 2/1/07–1/31/08 

TAIWAN: Forged Stainless Steel Flanges, A–583–821 ................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

THAILAND: Frozen Warmwater Shrimp, A–549–822 ................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA: 

Axes/adzes, A–570–803 ......................................................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Bars/wedges, A–570–803 ...................................................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Certain Preserved Mushrooms, A–570–851 .......................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Frozen Warmwater Shrimp, A–570–893 ................................................................................................................................ 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Hammers/sledges, A–570–803 .............................................................................................................................................. 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Natural Bristle Paint Brushes and Brush Heads, A–570–501 ............................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Picks/mattocks, A–570–803 ................................................................................................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM: Frozen Warmwater Shrimp, A–552–802 ....................................................................... 2/1/07–1/31/08 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings 

INDIA: 

Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, C–533–818 ............................................................................................ 1/1/07–12/31/07 

Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand, C–533–829 .......................................................................................................... 1/1/07–12/31/07 

INDONESIA: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, C–560–806 ............................................................................. 1/1/07–12/31/07 

ITALY: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, C–475–827 ....................................................................................... 1/1/07–12/31/07 

REPUBLIC OF KOREA: Certain Cut-to-Length Carbon-Quality Steel Plate, C–580–837 ........................................................... 1/1/07–12/31/07 

Suspension Agreements 

None. 

In accordance with section 351.213(b) 

of the regulations, an interested party as 

defined by section 771(9) of the Act, 

may request in writing that the 

Secretary conduct an administrative 

review. For both antidumping and 

countervailing duty reviews, the 

interested party must specify the 

individual producers or exporters 

covered by an antidumping finding or 

an antidumping or countervailing duty 

order or suspension agreement for 

which it is requesting a review, and the 

requesting party must state why it 

desires the Secretary to review those 

particular producers or exporters.2 If the 

interested party intends for the 

Secretary to review sales of merchandise 

by an exporter (or a producer if that 

producer also exports merchandise from 

other suppliers) which were produced 

in more than one country of origin and 

each country of origin is subject to a 

separate order, then the interested party 

must state specifically, on an order-byorder basis, which exporter(s) the 

request is intended to cover. 

Please note that, for any party the 

Department was unable to locate in 

prior segments, the Department will not 

accept a request for an administrative 

review of that party absent new 

information as to the party’s location. 

Moreover, if the interested party who 

files a request for review is unable to 

locate the producer or exporter for 

which it requested the review, the 

interested party must provide an 

explanation of the attempts it made to 

locate the producer or exporter at the 

same time it files its request for review, 

in order for the Secretary to determine 

if the interested party’s attempts were 

reasonable, pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.303(f)(3)(ii). 

As explained in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Assessment of Antidumping Duties, 68 

FR 23954 (May 6, 2003), the Department 

has clarified its practice with respect to 

the collection of final antidumping 

duties on imports of merchandise where 

intermediate firms are involved. The 

public should be aware of this 

clarification in determining whether to 

request an administrative review of 

merchandise subject to antidumping 

findings and orders. See also the Import 

Administration Web site at http:// 

ia.ita.doc.gov. 

Six copies of the request should be 

submitted to the Assistant Secretary for 

Import Administration, International 

Trade Administration, Room 1870, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 14th Street & 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230. The Department also asks 

parties to serve a copy of their requests 

to the Office of Antidumping/ 

Countervailing Operations, Attention: 

Sheila Forbes, in room 3065 of the main 

Commerce Building. Further, in 

accordance with section 351.303(f)(l)(i) 

of the regulations, a copy of each 

request must be served on every party 

on the Department’s service list. 

The Department will publish in the 

Federal Register a notice of ‘‘Initiation 

of Administrative Review of 

Antidumping or Countervailing Duty 

Order, Finding, or Suspended 

Investigation’’ for requests received by 

the last day of February 2008. If the 

Department does not receive, by the last 

day of February 2008, a request for 

review of entries covered by an order, 

finding, or suspended investigation 

listed in this notice and for the period 

identified above, the Department will 

instruct the U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection to assess antidumping or 

countervailing duties on those entries at 

a rate equal to the cash deposit of (or 

bond for) estimated antidumping or 

countervailing duties required on those 

entries at the time of entry, or 

withdrawal from use, for consumption 

and to continue to collect the cash 

deposit previously ordered. 


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1See Letter from Greenberg Traurig to the 

Department of Commerce, regarding ‘‘Sodium 

Hexametaphosphate from the People’s Republic of 

China: Withdrawal from Participation,’’ dated 

September 28, 2007 (‘‘Hubei Xingfa Withdrawal 

Letter’’). 

2See Letter from Williams Mullen to the 

Department of Commerce, regarding ‘‘Sodium 

Hexametaphosphate from China: Clerical Error 

Comments,’’ dated September 17, 2007. 

3See Memorandum to James C. Doyle, Director, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office 9 through Scot T. 

Fullerton, Program Manager, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office 9, from Erin Begnal, Senior International 

Trade Analyst, AD/CVD Operations, Office 9, 

regarding ‘‘Antidumping Duty Investigation of 

Sodium Hexametaphosphate from the People’s 

Republic of China: Allegation of Ministerial Errors,’’

dated October 25, 2007 (‘‘Ministerial Error Memo’’). 

4 ICL Performance Products, LP and Innophos, 

Inc. 

This notice is not required by statute 

but is published as a service to the 

international trading community. 

Dated: January 24, 2008. 

Stephen J. Claeys, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. E8–1974 Filed 2–1–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–908] 

Final Determination of Sales at Less 

Than Fair Value: Sodium 

Hexametaphosphate From the 

People’s Republic of China 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

DATES: Effective Date: February 4, 2008. 

SUMMARY: On September 14, 2007, the 

Department of Commerce (the 

‘‘Department’’) published its 

preliminary determination of sales at 

less than fair value (‘‘LTFV’’) in the 

antidumping investigation of sodium 

hexametaphosphate (‘‘SHMP’’) from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’). 

The period of investigation (‘‘POI’’) is 

July 1, 2006, through December 31, 

2006. We invited interested parties to 

comment on our preliminary 

determination of sales at LTFV. The 

final dumping margins for this 

investigation are listed in the ‘‘Final 

Determination Margins’’ section below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Begnal or Scot Fullerton, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–1442 or (202) 482–

1386, respectively. 

Final Determination 

We determine that SHMP from the 

PRC is being, or is likely to be, sold in 

the United States at LTFV as provided 

in section 735 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (‘‘the Act’’). The estimated 

margins of sales at LTFV are shown in 

the ‘‘Final Determination Margins’’

section of this notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Case History 

The Department published its 

preliminary determination of sales at 

LTFV on September 14, 2007. See 

Preliminary Determination of Sales at 

Less Than Fair Value: Sodium 

Hexametaphosphate from the People’s 

Republic of China, 72 FR 52544 

(September 14, 2007) (‘‘Preliminary 

Determination’’). 

On September 11, 2007, Hubei Xingfa 

Chemicals Group (‘‘Hubei Xingfa’’) 

requested a 60-day extension of the final 

determination. On September 28, 2007, 

the Department published the 

postponement of the final 

determination. See Postponement of 

Final Determination of Antidumping 

Duty Investigation: Sodium 

Hexametaphosphate from the People’s 

Republic of China, 72 FR 55176 

(September 28, 2007). On September 28, 

2007, Hubei Xingfa withdrew from 

participating in the investigation.1

On September 17, 2007, the 

Department received an allegation from 

Petitioners that the Department made 

clerical errors in its Preliminary 

Determination.2 On October 25, 2007, 

the Department found that it had made 

a clerical error with regard to its 

preliminary determination calculation 

for Hubei Xingfa, but found that the 

error was not ‘‘significant’’ to warrant 

amending the Preliminary 

Determination.3

We invited parties to comment on the 

Preliminary Determination. On 

November 19, 2007, the Petitioners 4

filed a case brief. 

Analysis of Comments Received 

All issues raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs by parties to this 

investigation are addressed in the 

‘‘Investigation of Sodium 

Hexametaphosphate from the People’s 

Republic of China: Issues and Decision 

Memorandum,’’ dated January 28, 2008, 

which is hereby adopted by this notice 

(‘‘Issues and Decision Memorandum’’). 

A list of the issues which parties raised 

and to which we respond in the Issues 

and Decision Memorandum is attached 

to this notice as an Appendix. The Issue 

and Decision Memorandum is a public 

document and is on file in the Central 

Records Unit (‘‘CRU’’), Main Commerce 

Building, Room B–099, and is accessible 

on the Web at http://www.trade.gov/ia. 

The paper copy and electronic version 

of the memorandum are identical in 

content. 

Changes Since the Preliminary 

Determination 

Based on our analysis of comments 

received, we have made changes in our 

margin calculations for the separate rate 

respondents. Additionally, because 

Hubei Xingfa refused to participate in 

verification, we determined to apply 

total adverse facts available (‘‘AFA’’) to 

Hubei Xingfa. As AFA, we found that 

Hubei Xingfa did not demonstrate that 

it was entitled to a separate rate, and is 

therefore part of the PRC entity. See 

Adverse Facts Available below. 

Scope of Investigation 

The merchandise subject to this 

investigation is sodium 

hexametaphosphate (‘‘SHMP’’). SHMP 

is a water-soluble polyphosphate glass 

that consists of a distribution of 

polyphosphate chain lengths. It is a 

collection of sodium polyphosphate 

polymers built on repeating NaPO3 

units. SHMP has a P2O5 content from 

60 to 71 percent. Alternate names for 

SHMP include the following: Calgon; 

Calgon S; Glassy Sodium Phosphate; 

Sodium Polyphosphate, Glassy; 

Metaphosphoric Acid; Sodium Salt; 

Sodium Acid Metaphosphate; Graham’s 

Salt; Sodium Hex; Polyphosphoric Acid, 

Sodium Salt; Glass H; Hexaphos; 

Sodaphos; Vitrafos; and BAC-N-FOS. 

SHMP is typically sold as a white 

powder or granule (crushed) and may 

also be sold in the form of sheets (glass) 

or as a liquid solution. It is imported 

under heading 2835.39.5000, HTSUS. It 

may also be imported as a blend or 

mixture under heading 3824.90.3900, 

HTSUS. The American Chemical 

Society, Chemical Abstract Service 

(‘‘CAS’’) has assigned the name 

‘‘Polyphosphoric Acid, Sodium Salt’’ to 

SHMP. The CAS registry number is 

68915–31–1. However, SHMP is 

commonly identified by CAS No. 

10124–56–8 in the market. For purposes 

of the investigation, the narrative 

description is dispositive, not the tariff 

heading, CAS registry number or CAS 

name. 

The product covered by this 

investigation includes SHMP in all 

grades, whether food grade or technical 

grade. The product covered by this 

investigation includes SHMP without 

regard to chain length i.e., whether 

regular or long chain. The product 

covered by this investigation includes 

SHMP without regard to physical form, 

whether glass, sheet, crushed, granule, 


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