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31, 2008) (‘‘ITC Final’’). Therefore, 

pursuant to section 751(d)(2) of the Act 

and 19 CFR 351.222(i)(1)(iii), the 

Department is revoking the AD orders 

on SSB from France, Germany, Italy, 

South Korea, and the United Kingdom, 

and the CVD order on SSB from Italy. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 7, 2007 (AD 

Orders) and March 8, 2007 (CVD Order). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Devta Ohri or Brandon Farlander, AD/ 

CVD Operations, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–3853 and (202) 

482–0182, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scope of the Orders 

The merchandise subject to these AD 

and CVD orders is ‘‘stainless steel bar,’’

which includes articles of stainless steel 

in straight lengths that have been either 

hot-rolled, forged, turned, cold-drawn, 

cold-rolled or otherwise cold-finished, 

or ground, having a uniform solid cross 

section along their whole length in the 

shape of circles, segments of circles, 

ovals, rectangles (including squares), 

triangles, hexagons, octagons, or other 

convex polygons. Stainless steel bar 

includes cold-finished stainless steel 

bars that are turned or ground in straight 

lengths, whether produced from hotrolled bar or from straightened and cut 

rod or wire, and reinforcing bars that 

have indentations, ribs, grooves, or 

other deformations produced during the 

rolling process. 

Except as specified above, the term 

does not include stainless steel semifinished products, cut length flat-rolled 

products (i.e., cut length rolled products 

which if less than 4.75 mm in thickness 

have a width measuring at least 10 times 

the thickness, or if 4.75 mm or more in 

thickness having a width which exceeds 

150 mm and measures at least twice the 

thickness), products that have been cut 

from stainless steel sheet, strip or plate, 

wire (i.e., cold-formed products in coils, 

of any uniform solid cross section along 

their whole length, which do not 

conform to the definition of flat-rolled 

products), and angles, shapes and 

sections. 

The stainless steel bar subject to this 

review is currently classifiable under 

subheadings 7222.11.00.05, 

7222.11.00.50, 7222.19.00.05, 

7222.19.00.50, 7222.20.00.05, 

7222.20.00.45, 7222.20.00.75, and 

7222.30.00.00 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States 

(‘‘HTSUS’’). Although the HTSUS 

subheadings are provided for 

convenience and customs purposes, the 

written description of the scope of the 

orders is dispositive. 

Background 

On March 7, 2002, the Department 

issued the AD orders on SSB from 

France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, 

and the United Kingdom. See 

Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless 

Steel Bar From France, 67 FR 10385 

(March 7, 2002); Notice of Amended 

Final Determination of Sales at Less 

Than Fair Value and Antidumping Duty 

Order: Stainless Steel Bar From 

Germany, 67 FR 10382 (March 7, 2002); 

Notice of Antidumping Duty Order: 

Stainless Steel Bar From Italy, 67 FR 

10384 (March 7, 2002); Antidumping 

Duty Order: Stainless Steel Bar From 

Korea, 67 FR 10381 (March 7, 2002); 

Antidumping Duty Order: Stainless 

Steel Bar From the United Kingdom, 67 

FR 10381 (March 7, 2002). On March 8, 

2002, the Department issued the CVD 

order on SSB from Italy. See 

Countervailing Duty Order: Stainless 

Steel Bar From Italy, 67 FR 10670 

(March 8, 2002). 

On February 1, 2007, the Department 

initiated, and the ITC instituted, sunset 

reviews of the AD orders on SSB from 

France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, 

and the United Kingdom, and the CVD 

order on SSB from Italy. See Initiation 

of Five-Year (‘‘Sunset’’) Reviews, 72 FR 

4689 (February 1, 2007). 

As a result of its sunset reviews of 

these orders, the Department found that 

revocation of the AD orders would be 

likely to lead to the continuation or 

recurrence of dumping and that 

revocation of the CVD order would be 

likely to lead to continuation or 

recurrence of a countervailable subsidy. 

See Stainless Steel Bar from France, 

Italy, South Korea and the United 

Kingdom; Final Results of the Expedited 

Sunset Reviews of the Antidumping 

Duty Orders, 72 FR 30772 (June 4, 

2007); Stainless Steel Bar from 

Germany; Final Results of the Sunset 

Review of the Antidumping Duty Order, 

72 FR 56985 (October 5, 2007); Stainless 

Steel Bar From Italy: Final Results of 

Expedited Five-Year (‘‘Sunset’’) Review 

of the Countervailing Duty Order, 72 FR 

31288 (June 6, 2007). The Department 

notified the ITC of the magnitude of the 

margins likely to prevail were the AD 

orders to be revoked and the level of 

subsidy likely to prevail were the CVD 

order to be revoked. 

On January 31, 2008, the ITC 

determined, pursuant to section 751(c) 

of the Act, that revocation of these 

orders would not be likely to lead to 

continuation or recurrence of material 

injury to an industry in the United 

States within a reasonably foreseeable 

time. See ITC Final and USITC 

Publication 3981 (January 2008), 

entitled Stainless Steel Bar from France, 

Germany, Italy, Korea, and the United 

Kingdom (Inv. Nos. 701–TA–413 and 

731–TA–913–916 & 918 (Review)). 

Determination 

As a result of the determination by the 

ITC that revocation of these orders is not 

likely to lead to the continuation or 

recurrence of material injury to an 

industry in the United States, the 

Department, pursuant to section 751(d) 

of the Act, is revoking the AD orders on 

SSB from France, Germany, Italy, South 

Korea, and the United Kingdom, and the 

CVD order on SSB from Italy. Pursuant 

to section 751(d) of the Act and 19 CFR 

351.222(i)(2)(i), the effective date of 

revocation is March 7, 2007 (AD Orders) 

and March 8, 2007 (CVD Order). The 

Department will notify U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection to terminate 

suspension of liquidation and collection 

of cash deposits on entries of the subject 

merchandise entered or withdrawn from 

warehouse on or after March 7, 2007 

(AD Orders) and March 8, 2007 (CVD 

Order). Entries of subject merchandise 

prior to the effective date of revocation 

will continue to be subject to 

suspension of liquidation and 

antidumping and countervailing duty 

deposit requirements. The Department 

will complete any pending 

administrative reviews of these orders 

and will conduct administrative reviews 

of subject merchandise entered prior to 

the effective date of revocation in 

response to appropriately filed requests 

for review. 

These five-year sunset reviews and 

notice are in accordance with section 

751(d)(2) of the Act and published 

pursuant to section 777(i)(1) of the Act. 

Dated: January 31, 2008. 

David Spooner, 

Assistant Secretary for Import 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Announcement of a Public Meeting To 

Discuss the USG IPv6 Testing Program 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST) 


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invites interested parties, including 

accreditors, testing laboratories and test 

equipment suppliers, to attend a 

meeting regarding the conformity 

assessment scheme proposed for the 

evaluation of Internet Protocol Version 

6 (IPv6) products to be purchased by 

federal agencies. The purpose of the 

meeting is to announce details of the 

proposed testing program for IPv6 

devices, and specifically, to identify 

potential accreditation bodies to 

participate in the program. 

DATES: The workshop will be held on 

February 19, 2008, from 9 a.m. till 5 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The workshop will be held 

at National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899, Building 101, 

Lecture Room B. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Nightingale, 301 975 4171, 

usgv6-project@antd.nist.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In June 

2005 the Office of Management and 

Budget initiated a policy to expedite 

adoption and deployment of IPv6 

within the Federal Government (http:// 

www.whitehouse.gov/omb/memoranda/ 

fy2005/m05–22.pdf). As part of this 

policy, NIST was directed to develop a 

standard to address IPv6 compliance for 

the Federal Government. In response, 

NIST has developed NIST SP 500–267 

‘‘A Profile for IPv6 in the U.S. 

Government’’ that provides such a 

standard and outlines the basic 

parameters for a compliance testing 

program. (see: http://www.antd.nist.gov/ 

usgv6/.) 

The USG IPv6 Testing Program will 

require that products document claims 

of compliance to the profile through a 

Supplier’s Declaration of Conformity 

(SDOC) in accordance with ISO/IEC 

17050. Such declarations will be 

traceable to specific test results from 

laboratories accredited to the specific 

requirements of the IPv6 Test Program, 

including full compliance with ISO/IEC 

17025—General requirements for the 

competence of testing and calibration 

laboratories. Laboratory accreditation 

will be provided by bodies operating in 

accordance with ISO/IEC 17011—

General requirements for accreditation 

bodies accrediting conformity 

assessment bodies. 

The scope of laboratory accreditation 

includes test methods for computer 

network protocol conformance and 

interoperability testing based on open 

public test suites. The detailed set of 

test methods and validation procedures 

are still under development. One 

purpose of this meeting is to discuss the 

general plans for the development and 

execution of the test program and to 

identify parties interested in 

collaborating in the further development 

of its details. 

Provisional Agenda 

1. The USG IPv6 profile, its 

components and timing constraints. 

2. Accreditor qualification. 

3. Test method validation. 

4. Suppliers Declaration of 

Conformity. 

5. Discussion. 

All intending participants must 

register in advance, to gain access to the 

campus. Due to space limitations, there 

is a limit of 60 participants in this 

workshop. Precedence will be given to 

the first two representatives of each 

accreditation body and IPv6 testing 

laboratory. Please register early and 

designate your primary representative, 

in case there is a further need, due to 

a high response rate, to limit 

participation to one representative per 

organization to ensure that all interested 

parties can participate. Access to the 

NIST campus and the room cannot be 

guaranteed for unregistered participants. 

Dated: January 31, 2008. 

Richard F. Kayser, 

Acting Deputy Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XF09 

Endangered and Threatened Species: 

Program Review for Section 7 

Counterpart Regulations National Fire 

Plan Activities 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; availability of report. 

SUMMARY: The National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS) announces the 

availability of a joint report on the 

Forest Service and Bureau of Land 

Management’s use of the counterpart 

regulations for projects that support the 

National Fire Plan. 

ADDRESSES: The report and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or on-line from the 

NMFS website: http:// 

www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/. You may also 

send an e-mail request to 

NMFS.nationalfireplan@noaa.gov, or a 

written request to: Endangered Species 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13660, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301)713–1401; fax (301)427–2523. 

Specify whether you wish to receive a 

hard copy by U.S. mail or an electronic 

copy by e-mail. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ann 

Garrett, Endangered Species Division at 

(301)713–1401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Alternative 

Consultation Agreements NMFS and the 

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) have 

with the Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) and the Forest Service (FS), 

conducted a review of the 

determinations that BLM and FS made 

under the joint counterpart regulations 

for Endangered Species Act (ESA) 

section 7 consultation. The counterpart 

regulations, codified in 50 CFR part 402 

subpart C, provide an optional 

alternative to the standard section 7 

consultation process described in 

subparts A and B, and were developed 

specifically for agency projects that 

authorize, fund, or carry out actions that 

support the National Fire Plan. The 

National Fire Plan, part of the 

President’s 2002 Healthy Forests 

Initiative, is an interagency strategy for 

reducing the risk of catastrophic 

wildland fires and resorting fire-adapted 

ecosystems. The intent of the 

counterpart regulations is to eliminate 

the need to conduct informal 

consultation and obtain written 

concurrence from the FWS and NMFS 

for those National Fire Plan actions that 

the FS or BLM determines are ‘‘not 

likely to adversely affect (NLAA)’’ any 

listed species or designated critical 

habitat. 

According to the counterpart 

regulations for National Fire Plan 

activities, the FS or BLM may make 

NLAA determinations for fire plan 

projects after entering into an 

Alternative Consultation Agreement 

with FWS and NMFS, and upon 

implementing the provisions of the 

ACA. Each ACA outlines the procedures 

and roles of the agencies and specific 

requirements for reporting, training and 

execution of self-certification, and 

conducting periodic program 

monitoring of the use of the counterpart 

regulations. With the publication of this 

Notice of Availability, NMFS and FWS 

are announcing the completion of the 

first review of the FS’s and BLM’s use 

of the counterpart regulations and the 

availability of the report describing the 

results of the program review and 

recommendations for improving their 

decisions made pursuant to this 

authority. The results of the first review 


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