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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject permit amendments are 

requested under the authority of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 

and the regulations governing the 

taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR 222–226). 

Application to Modify Permit No. 1578 

The existing permit authorizes 

sampling 500 shortnose sturgeon adults 

and sub-adults annually in the main 

stem of the Kennebec River between 

Augusta, ME and Lockwood Dam. 

Efforts have focused on the location of 

spawning and foraging habitat, 

migratory pathways, and effects of river 

flow on migration and habitat use. The 

applicant now proposes to document 

the use of other river systems by 

sturgeon in the Gulf of Maine (GOM) 

proposing an increase in numbers of 

shortnose sturgeon captured from 500 to 

600, while also expanding the action 

area to include: (1) the Kennebec River 

mouth to Lockwood Dam; (2) the 

Androscoggin River mouth to 

Brunswick Dam; (3) the Sheepscot River 

mouth to Reversing Falls; (4) the 

Sasanoa River, the Back River, and 

Sagadahoc Bay; (5) Tottman Cove; and 

(6) the lower Saco River. New research 

methods proposed include: use of Floy 

tags for external identification; 

endoscopic examination with 

borescopes to verify sex; blood 

sampling; gastric lavage for diet 

analysis; scute sampling for elemental 

analysis; and electro-narcosis for 

anesthetization. 

Application to Modify Permit No. 1595– 

03 

The objectives of the original research 

would remain the same for the proposed 

modification, assessing the distribution, 

movements, abundance and spawning 

of shortnose sturgeon in the Penobscot 

River system. However, the Permit 

Holder requests an increased number of 

shortnose sturgeon captured with gill 

and trammel nets from 200 to 300. Other 

research activities requested include: (1) 

lowering the minimum water 

temperature to 0°C to target sturgeon; (2) 

using Floy tags; (3) using electronarcosis for anesthetization; (4) using 

scute sampling for elemental analysis; 

(5) using gastric lavage for diet analysis; 

and (6) using fall (September December) 

to sample early life stages. 

Dated: Septemeber 21, 2010. 

Jolie Harrison, 

Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24036 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–423–809] 

Stainless Steel Plate in Coils from 

Belgium: Extension of Time Limits for 

Preliminary and Final Results of Full 

Five-year (‘‘Sunset’’) Review of 

Countervailing Duty Order 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: September 24, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alexander Montoro, AD/CVD 

Operations, Office 1, Import 

Administration, International Trade 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution 

Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20230; 

telephone: (202) 482–0238. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On June 2, 2010, the Department of 

Commerce (‘‘Department’’) initiated the 

second sunset review of the 

countervailing duty order on stainless 

steel plate in coils from Belgium in 

accordance with section 751(c) of the 

Tariff Act of 1930, as amended (‘‘Act’’). 

See Initiation of Five-year (‘‘Sunset’’) 

Review, 75 FR 30777 (June 2, 2010). 

Within the deadline specified in 19 CFR 

351.218(d)(1)(i), the Department 

received notices of intent to participate 

on behalf of Allegheny Ludlum 

Corporation and the United Steel, Paper 

and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, 

Energy, Allied Industrial and Service 

Workers International Union, who were 

the petitioners in the original 

investigation. Those parties claimed 

interested party status under section 

771(9)(C) and (D) of the Act, as 

manufacturers of a domestic like 

product and as a certified union 

representing workers in the domestic 

industry producing certain stainless 

steel plate in coils. The Department 

received substantive responses from the 

petitioners within the deadline 

specified in 19 CFR 351.218(d)(3)(i). 

The Department also received 

substantive responses in a timely 

manner from the following respondent 

interested parties: the Government of 

Belgium and ArcelorMittal Stainless 

Belgium N.V. Domestic and respondent 

interested parties also submitted timely 

rebuttal comments. 

On July 22, 2010, after analyzing the 

submission and rebuttals from 

interested parties and finding the 

substantive responses adequate, the 

Department determined to conduct a 

full sunset review. See Memorandum 

from Yasmin Nair, International Trade 

Compliance Analyst, to Susan H. 

Kuhbach, Director, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office 1, entitled ‘‘Adequacy 

Determination in Countervailing Duty 

Sunset Review of Certain Stainless Steel 

Plate in Coils from Belgium,’’ dated July 

22, 2010. 

Extension of Time Limits for 

Preliminary and Final Results of 

Reviews 

The Act provides for the completion 

of a full sunset review within 240 days 

of the publication of the initiation 

notice. See section 751(c)(5)(A) of the 

Act. In accordance with section 

751(c)(5)(B) of the Act, the Department 

may extend the period of time for 

making its determination by not more 

than 90 days, if it determines that the 

review is extraordinarily complicated. 

We determine that this review is 

extraordinarily complicated, pursuant to 

sections 751(c)(5)(C)(i) and (ii) of the 

Act, because there are a large number of 

programs under consideration for which 

the Department must analyze numerous 

complex issues. Therefore, the 

Department requires additional time to 

complete its analysis. Accordingly, the 

Department is extending the deadline in 

this proceeding by 90 days in 

accordance with section 751(c)(5)(B) of 

the Act . As a result, the Department 

intends to issue the final results of this 

full sunset review by April 28, 2011. 

With respect to the preliminary 

results of this full sunset review, the 

Department’s regulations, at 19 CFR 

351.218(f)(3), provide that the 

Department normally will issue its 

preliminary results in a full sunset 

review not later than 110 days after the 

initiation. However, because of the 

reasons cited above, we require 

additional time to conduct the analysis 

required for the preliminary results. 

Therefore, we are extending the 

deadline for the preliminary results of 

this full sunset review by 90 days and 

intend to issue those preliminary results 

by December 19, 2010. However, 

December 19, 2010, falls on a Sunday, 

and it is the Department’s long–standing 

practice to issue a determination the 

next business day when the statutory 

deadline falls on a weekend, federal 

holiday, or any other day when the 


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58352 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 185 / Friday, September 24, 2010 / Notices 

Department is closed. See Notice of 

Clarification: Application of ‘‘Next 

Business Day’’ Rule for Administrative 

Determination Deadlines Pursuant to 

the Tariff Act of 1930, As Amended, 70 

FR 24533 (May 10, 2005). Accordingly, 

the deadline for completion of the 

preliminary results of this full sunset 

review is now no later than December 

20, 2010. 

This notice is issued in accordance 

with sections 751(c)(5)(B) and (C) of the 

Act. 

Dated: September 20, 2010. 

Susan H. Kuhbach, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24019 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XR61 

Marine Mammals; File No. 14535 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit 

amendment. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

Colleen Reichmuth, Ph.D., University of 

California at Santa Cruz, Long Marine 

Laboratory, 100 Shaffer Road, Santa 

Cruz, CA, has been issued a permit 

amendment (Permit No. 14535–01). 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or e-mail 

comments must be received on or before 

October 25, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The permit and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following office(s): 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301)713–2289; fax (301)713–0376; 

Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 

21668, Juneau, AK 99802–1668; phone 

(907)586–7221; fax (907)586–7249; and 

Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West 

Ocean Blvd., Suite 4200, Long Beach, 

CA 90802–4213; phone (562)980–4001; 

fax (562)980–4018. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Amy Sloan or Jennifer Skidmore, 

(301)713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

29, 2010, notice was published in the 

Federal Register (75 FR 37388) that a 

request for a permit amendment to 

conduct research on captive pinnipeds 

for scientific research had been 

submitted by the above-named 

applicant. The requested permit has 

been issued under the authority of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 

as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and 

the regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216). 

Permit No. 14535–01 authorizes the 

addition of two non-releasable animals 

of each of the following species to the 

captive research program: ringed seal 

(Phoca hispida), bearded seal 

(Erignathus barbatus), and spotted seal 

(Phoca largha). The purpose is to 

expand the comparative understanding 

of basic perceptual and cognitive 

function among pinnipeds and to assess 

potential impacts of human noise on 

marine mammals. The amendment is for 

the duration of the permit, which 

expires on December 31, 2014. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final 

determination has been made that the 

activity proposed is categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 

prepare an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Dated: September 17, 2010. 

P. Michael Payne, 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24040 Filed 9–23–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XZ24 

Magnuson-Stevens Act Provisions; 

General Provisions for Domestic 

Fisheries; Issuance of an Exempted 

Fishing Permit (EFP) 

AGENCY: Department of Commerce, 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), National 

Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). 

ACTION: Notification of issuance of a 

revised EFP to conduct exempted 

fishing. 

SUMMARY: The Regional Administrator 

for Sustainable Fisheries, Northeast 

Region, NMFS, has issued a revised EFP 

in support of a drop chain small mesh 

net study conducted by the University 

of Rhode Island (URI). The study aims 

to reduce summer flounder discard 

mortality in the Loligo small-mesh 

fishery. The revised EFP includes an 

exemption for participating vessels from 

the Trimester III Loligo mesh size 

restrictions. This exemption is 

consistent with the goals and objectives 

of the Summer Flounder, Scup, and 

Black Sea Bass Fishery Management 

Plan (FMP) and the Atlantic Mackerel, 

Squid, and Butterfish FMP. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sarah Heil, Fishery Management 

Specialist, (978) 281–9257. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

October 26, 2009, an EFP was issued to 

URI in support of a study that would 

test the effectiveness of a drop chain 

small mesh net in its ability to reduce 

catches of summer flounder in the small 

mesh fishery. The original EFP included 

exemptions from the summer flounder 

size restrictions specified at 50 CFR 

648.103, scup size restrictions at 

§ 648.124, scup possession limits at 

§ 648.125, and squid and butterfish 

possession restrictions at § 648.25. The 

exemption from summer flounder size 

restrictions was granted to allow vessels 

to retain and land summer flounder for 

a delayed mortality monitoring period. 

The remaining exemptions were granted 

to allow incidental catch species to be 

temporarily retained for data collection 

purposes. Field work for this project 

began in April 2010, and 8 of the 

project’s proposed 12 fishing trips have 

been completed. Research trips are 

conducted aboard two commercial 

fishing vessels, as normal fishing 

operations, using standard Loligo squid 

nets. Research trips conducted since 

April 2010 have used experimental and 

control nets with a codend mesh size of 

1 7/8 in. (48 mm), consistent with the 

Loligo mesh size restrictions in place at 

the time. 

Amendment 10 to the Atlantic 

Mackerel, Squid, and Butterfish FMP 

implemented an increase to the 

minimum mesh size for Loligo squid, 

from 1 7/8 in. (48 mm) to 2 1/8 in. (54 

mm), during Trimester I (January to 

April) and Trimester III (September to 

December), effective September 13, 

2010. This increase to the Loligo 

minimum mesh size was unanticipated 

at the time the original EFP application 

was submitted, and therefore, principal 

investigators did not request an 

exemption from Loligo mesh size 

restrictions. In addition, because the 2 

1/8–in. (54–mm) minimum mesh size 

was not in place at the onset of field 

operations, research trips were 

completed using nets consistent with 

Loligo gear restrictions at that time. 

On September 8, 2010, NMFS 

received a request from Kathy Castro of 

URI for an exemption from the new 


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