Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 229 / Friday, November 28, 2014 / Notices 70849 

1The Regulations are currently codified in the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 15 CFR parts 730– 

774 (2014). The Regulations issued pursuant to the 

Export Administration Act (50 U.S.C. app. §§ 2401– 

2420 (2000)) (‘‘EAA’’). Since August 21, 2001, the 

EAA has been in lapse and the President, through 

Executive Order 13222 of August 17, 2001 (3 CFR, 

2001 Comp. 783 (2002)), which has been extended 

by successive Presidential Notices, the most recent 

being that of August 7, 2014 (79 FR 46959 (August 

11, 2014)), has continued the Regulations in effect 

under the International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701, et seq. (2006 & Supp. 

IV 2010)). 

be evaluated during the consideration of 

a request to use Federal land, how is 

guidance provided to the applicant by 

your agency prior to completion of the 

SF–299? What role should the 

Telecommunications Program play in 

providing guidance to such applicants? 

4. The Programmatic Environmental 

Assessment of the Telecommunications 

Program will outline the Federal land 

management agencies’ categorical 

exclusions and procedures for 

identifying extraordinary circumstances. 

The RUS environmental document will 

also acknowledge that the use and 

occupancy of Federal land by some 

Telecommunications Program projects 

is necessary and, in particular 

circumstances with necessary 

authorizations, appropriate. What 

barriers do you envision in adopting a 

RUS environmental document in the 

consideration of your agency’s decisions 

to authorize a special use permit by a 

Telecommunications Program 

participant? 

5. How can RUS and other Federal 

agencies work together to share 

information as well as train managers 

and staff at the field levels regarding 

broadband issues and necessary 

environmental reviews and Federal 

decisionmaking, including land use 

authorizations? 

Dated: November 4, 2014. 

Jasper Schneider, 

Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28100 Filed 11–26–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Bureau of Industry and Security 

In the Matter of: Lev Steinberg, 119 

Mackenzie Street, Brooklyn, New York 

11235; Order Denying Export 

Privileges 

On February 25, 2014, in the U.S. 

District Court for the Southern District 

of New York, Lev Steinberg 

(‘‘Steinberg’’) was convicted of violating 

the International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701, et seq. 

(2006 & Supp. IV 2010)) (‘‘IEEPA’’). 

Specifically, Steinberg unlawfully, 

willfully and knowingly exported and 

attempted to export from the United 

States to Russia, items on the Commerce 

Control List, namely, an Eo-Tech 552 

holographic weapons scope and other 

items, without first having obtained a 

license to do so from the United States 

Department of Commerce. Steinberg was 

sentenced to probation for a term of 12 

months, criminal fine of $4000 and a 

$200 assessment. 

Section 766.25 of the Export 

Administration Regulations (‘‘EAR’’ or 

‘‘Regulations’’) 1 provides, in pertinent 

part, that ‘‘[t]he Director of the Office of 

Exporter Services, in consultation with 

the Director of the Office of Export 

Enforcement, may deny the export 

privileges of any person who has been 

convicted of a violation of the Export 

Administration Act (‘‘EAA’’), the EAR, 

or any order, license or authorization 

issued thereunder; any regulation, 

license, or order issued under the 

International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706); 18 

U.S.C. 793, 794 or 798; section 4(b) of 

the Internal Security Act of 1950 (50 

U.S.C. 783(b)), or section 38 of the Arms 

Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778).’’ 15 

CFR 766.25(a); see also Section 11(h) of 

the EAA, 50 U.S.C. app. § 2410(h). The 

denial of export privileges under this 

provision may be for a period of up to 

10 years from the date of the conviction. 

15 CFR 766.25(d); see also 50 U.S.C. 

app. § 2410(h). In addition, Section 

750.8 of the Regulations states that the 

Bureau of Industry and Security’s Office 

of Exporter Services may revoke any 

Bureau of Industry and Security (‘‘BIS’’) 

licenses previously issued in which the 

person had an interest in at the time of 

his conviction. 

BIS has received notice of Steinberg’s 

conviction for violating the IEEPA, and 

in accordance with Section 766.25 of 

the Regulations, BIS has provided notice 

and an opportunity for Steinberg to 

make a written submission to BIS. BIS 

has not received a submission from 

Steinberg. 

Based upon my review and 

consultations with BIS’s Office of 

Export Enforcement, including its 

Director, and the facts available to BIS, 

I have decided to deny Steinberg’s 

export privileges under the Regulations 

for a period of two (2) years from the 

date of Steinberg’s conviction. I have 

also decided to revoke all licenses 

issued pursuant to the Act or 

Regulations in which Steinberg had an 

interest at the time of his conviction. 

Accordingly, it is hereby ordered: 

First, from the date of this Order until 

February 25, 2016, Lev Steinberg, with 

a last known address of 119 Mackenzie 

Street, Brooklyn, New York 11235, and 

when acting for or on his behalf, his 

successors, assigns, employees, agents 

or representatives (the ‘‘Denied 

Person’’), may not, directly or indirectly, 

participate in any way in any 

transaction involving any commodity, 

software or technology (hereinafter 

collectively referred to as ‘‘item’’) 

exported or to be exported from the 

United States that is subject to the 

Regulations, including, but not limited 

to: 

A. Applying for, obtaining, or using 

any license, License Exception, or 

export control document; 

B. Carrying on negotiations 

concerning, or ordering, buying, 

receiving, using, selling, delivering, 

storing, disposing of, forwarding, 

transporting, financing, or otherwise 

servicing in any way, any transaction 

involving any item exported or to be 

exported from the United States that is 

subject to the Regulations, or in any 

other activity subject to the Regulations; 

or 

C. Benefitting in any way from any 

transaction involving any item exported 

or to be exported from the United States 

that is subject to the Regulations, or in 

any other activity subject to the 

Regulations. 

Second, no person may, directly or 

indirectly, do any of the following: 

A. Export or reexport to or on behalf 

of the Denied Person any item subject to 

the Regulations; 

B. Take any action that facilitates the 

acquisition or attempted acquisition by 

the Denied Person of the ownership, 

possession, or control of any item 

subject to the Regulations that has been 

or will be exported from the United 

States, including financing or other 

support activities related to a 

transaction whereby the Denied Person 

acquires or attempts to acquire such 

ownership, possession or control; 

C. Take any action to acquire from or 

to facilitate the acquisition or attempted 

acquisition from the Denied Person of 

any item subject to the Regulations that 

has been exported from the United 

States; 

D. Obtain from the Denied Person in 

the United States any item subject to the 

Regulations with knowledge or reason 

to know that the item will be, or is 

intended to be, exported from the 

United States; or 

E. Engage in any transaction to service 

any item subject to the Regulations that 

has been or will be exported from the 

United States and which is owned, 

possessed or controlled by the Denied 

Person, or service any item, of whatever 

origin, that is owned, possessed or 


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70850 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 229 / Friday, November 28, 2014 / Notices 

1See Antidumping and Countervailing Duty 

Proceedings: Electronic Filing Procedures; 

Administrative Protective Order Procedures, 76 FR 

39263 (July 6, 2011). 

controlled by the Denied Person if such 

service involves the use of any item 

subject to the Regulations that has been 

or will be exported from the United 

States. For purposes of this paragraph, 

servicing means installation, 

maintenance, repair, modification or 

testing. 

Third, after notice and opportunity for 

comment as provided in Section 766.23 

of the Regulations, any other person, 

firm, corporation, or business 

organization related to Steinberg by 

ownership, control, position of 

responsibility, affiliation, or other 

connection in the conduct of trade or 

business may also be made subject to 

the provisions of this Order in order to 

prevent evasion of this Order. 

Fourth, in accordance with Part 756 of 

the Regulations, Steinberg may file an 

appeal of this Order with the Under 

Secretary of Commerce for Industry and 

Security. The appeal must be filed 

within 45 days from the date of this 

Order and must comply with the 

provisions of Part 756 of the 

Regulations. 

Fifth, a copy of this Order shall be 

delivered to the Steinberg. This Order 

shall be published in the Federal 

Register. 

Sixth, this Order is effective 

immediately and shall remain in effect 

until February 25, 2016. 

Issued this 20th day of November, 2014. 

Karen H. Nies-Vogel, 

Director, Office of Exporter Services. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Initiation of Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Reviews 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘the Department’’) has received 

requests to conduct administrative 

reviews of various antidumping and 

countervailing duty orders and findings 

with October anniversary dates. In 

accordance with the Department’s 

regulations, we are initiating those 

administrative reviews. 

DATES: Effective November 28, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brenda E. Waters, Office of AD/CVD 

Operations, Customs Liaison Unit, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230, telephone: (202) 

482–4735. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department has received timely 

requests, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(b), for administrative reviews of 

various antidumping and countervailing 

duty orders and findings with October 

anniversary dates. 

All deadlines for the submission of 

various types of information, 

certifications, or comments or actions by 

the Department discussed below refer to 

the number of calendar days from the 

applicable starting time. 

Notice of No Sales 

If a producer or exporter named in 

this notice of initiation had no exports, 

sales, or entries during the period of 

review (‘‘POR’’), it must notify the 

Department within 60 days of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. All submissions must be filed 

electronically at http://

iaaccess.trade.gov in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.303.1 Such submissions are 

subject to verification in accordance 

with section 782(i) of the Tariff Act of 

1930, as amended (‘‘Act’’). Further, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.303(f)(1)(i), 

a copy must be served on every party on 

the Department’s service list. 

Respondent Selection 

In the event the Department limits the 

number of respondents for individual 

examination for administrative reviews, 

the Department intends to select 

respondents based on U.S. Customs and 

Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) data for U.S. 

imports during the POR. We intend to 

release the CBP data under 

Administrative Protective Order 

(‘‘APO’’) to all parties having an APO 

within seven days of publication of this 

initiation notice and to make our 

decision regarding respondent selection 

within 21 days of publication of this 

Federal Register notice. The 

Department invites comments regarding 

the CBP data and respondent selection 

within five days of placement of the 

CBP data on the record of the applicable 

review. Rebuttal comments will be due 

five days after submission of initial 

comments. 

In the event the Department decides 

it is necessary to limit individual 

examination of respondents and 

conduct respondent selection under 

section 777A(c)(2) of the Act: 

In general, the Department has found 

that determinations concerning whether 

particular companies should be 

‘‘collapsed’’ (i.e., treated as a single 

entity for purposes of calculating 

antidumping duty rates) require a 

substantial amount of detailed 

information and analysis, which often 

require follow-up questions and 

analysis. Accordingly, the Department 

will not conduct collapsing analyses at 

the respondent selection phase of this 

review and will not collapse companies 

at the respondent selection phase unless 

there has been a determination to 

collapse certain companies in a 

previous segment of this antidumping 

proceeding (i.e., investigation, 

administrative review, new shipper 

review or changed circumstances 

review). For any company subject to this 

review, if the Department determined, 

or continued to treat, that company as 

collapsed with others, the Department 

will assume that such companies 

continue to operate in the same manner 

and will collapse them for respondent 

selection purposes. Otherwise, the 

Department will not collapse companies 

for purposes of respondent selection. 

Parties are requested to (a) identify 

which companies subject to review 

previously were collapsed, and (b) 

provide a citation to the proceeding in 

which they were collapsed. Further, if 

companies are requested to complete 

the Quantity and Value (‘‘Q&V’’) 

Questionnaire for purposes of 

respondent selection, in general each 

company must report volume and value 

data separately for itself. Parties should 

not include data for any other party, 

even if they believe they should be 

treated as a single entity with that other 

party. If a company was collapsed with 

another company or companies in the 

most recently completed segment of this 

proceeding where the Department 

considered collapsing that entity, 

complete Q&V data for that collapsed 

entity must be submitted. 

Deadline for Withdrawal of Request for 

Administrative Review 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), a 

party that has requested a review may 

withdraw that request within 90 days of 

the date of publication of the notice of 

initiation of the requested review. The 

regulation provides that the Department 

may extend this time if it is reasonable 

to do so. In order to provide parties 

additional certainty with respect to 

when the Department will exercise its 

discretion to extend this 90-day 

deadline, interested parties are advised 

that the Department does not intend to 

extend the 90-day deadline unless the 

requestor demonstrates that an 


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