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accept the remaining funds or submit 

the total request for National Office 

reserve funds available after pooling. If 

the applicant agrees to lower its grant 

request, the applicant must certify that 

the purposes of the project will be met 

and provide the remaining total funds 

needed to complete the project. 

If one or more grant or combination 

applications have the same score and 

remaining funds in the State allocation 

are insufficient to fully award all, the 

remaining funds must be divided 

proportionally between the 

applications. The applicant must be 

notified they may accept the 

proportional amount of funds or submit 

their total request for National Office 

reserve. If the applicant agrees to lower 

its grant request, the applicant must 

certify that the purposes of the project 

will be met and provide the remaining 

total funds needed to complete the 

project. 

At its discretion, the Agency may also 

elect to allow the remaining funds to be 

carried over to the next fiscal year rather 

than selecting a lower scoring 

application(s) or distributing funds on a 

pro-rata basis. 

C. Award Considerations. All awards 

will be on a discretionary basis. In 

determining the amount of a renewable 

energy system or energy efficiency 

improvement grant or loan guarantee, 

the Agency will consider the six criteria 

specified in 7 CFR 4280.114(e) or 7 CFR 

4280.129(g), as applicable. 

D. Anticipated Announcement and 

Federal Award Dates. All awards should 

be completed by September 30, 2015. 

VI. Federal Award Administration 

Information 

A. Federal Award Notices. The 

Agency will award and administer 

renewable energy system and energy 

efficiency improvement grants, 

guaranteed loans in accordance with 7 

CFR 4280.122, and 7 CFR 4280.139, as 

applicable. The Agency will award and 

administer the energy audit and 

renewable energy development 

assistance grants in accordance with 7 

CFR 4280.195. Notification 

requirements of 7 CFR 4280.111, apply 

to this Notice. 

B. Administrative and National Policy 

Requirements. 

(1) Equal Opportunity and 

Nondiscrimination. The Agency will 

ensure that equal opportunity and 

nondiscrimination requirements are met 

in accordance with the Equal Credit 

Opportunity Act, 15 U.S.C. 1691 et seq. 

and 7 CFR part 15d, Nondiscrimination 

in Programs and Activities Conducted 

by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. 

The Agency will not discriminate 

against applicants on the basis of race, 

color, religion, national origin, sex, 

marital status, or age (provided that the 

applicant has the capacity to contract); 

because all or part of the applicant’s 

income derives from any public 

assistance program; or because the 

applicant has in good faith exercised 

any right under the Consumer Credit 

Protection Act, 15 U.S.C. 1601 et seq. 

(2) Civil Rights Compliance. 

Recipients of grants must comply with 

the Americans with Disabilities Act of 

1990, 42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq., Title VI 

of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. 

2000d et seq., and Section 504 of the 

Rehabilitation Act of 1973, 29 U.S.C. 

794. This may include collection and 

maintenance of data on the race, sex, 

and national origin of the recipient’s 

membership/ownership and employees. 

These data must be available to conduct 

compliance reviews in accordance with 

7 CFR 1901.204. 

(3) Environmental Analysis. 7 CFR 

part 1940, subpart G or successor 

regulation outlines environmental 

procedures and requirements for this 

subpart. Prospective applicants are 

advised to contact the Agency to 

determine environmental requirements 

as soon as practicable after they decide 

to pursue any form of financial 

assistance directly or indirectly 

available through the Agency. 

(4) Appeals. A person may seek a 

review of an Agency decision or appeal 

to the National Appeals Division in 

accordance with 7 CFR 4280.105. 

C. Reporting. Reporting requirements 

will be in accordance with the Grant 

Agreement, 7 CFR 4280.123(j), 7 CFR 

4280.143, 7 CFR 4280.196, as 

applicable. 

VII. Other Information 

A. Paperwork Reduction Act 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the information 

collection requirements associated with 

renewable energy system and energy 

efficiency improvement grants and 

guaranteed loans, as covered in this 

Notice, has been approved by the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

under OMB Control Number 0570–0050. 

The information collection requirements 

associated with energy audit and 

renewable energy development 

assistance grants have also been 

approved by OMB under OMB Control 

Number 0570–0059. 

B. Nondiscrimination Statement 

The U.S. Department of Agriculture 

(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, familial status, parental 

status, religion, sexual orientation, 

genetic information, political beliefs, 

reprisal, or because of 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). 

If you wish to file a Civil Rights 

program complaint of discrimination, 

complete the USDA Program 

Discrimination Complaint Form, found 

online at http://www.ascr.usda.gov/

complaint_filing_cust.html, or at any 

USDA office, or call (866) 632–9992 to 

request the form. You may also write a 

letter containing all of the information 

requested in the form. Send your 

completed complaint form or letter to us 

by mail at U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, Director, Office of 

Adjudication, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20250– 

9410, by fax (202) 690–7442 or email at 

program.intake@usda.gov. Individuals 

who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have 

speech disabilities and you wish to file 

a program complaint please contact 

USDA through the Federal Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339 or (800) 845– 

6136 (in Spanish). USDA is an equal 

opportunity provider and employer.’’ 

The full ‘‘Non-Discrimination 

Statement’’ is found at: http://

www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/

usdahome?navtype=FT&navid=Non_

Discrimination. 

Dated: December 18, 2014. 

Lillian E. Salerno, 

Administrator, Rural Business-Cooperative 

Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–XY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–523–808] 

Certain Steel Nails From the Sultanate 

of Oman: Affirmative Preliminary 

Determination of Sales at Less Than 

Fair Value and Postponement of Final 

Determination 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(‘‘Department’’) preliminarily 

determines that certain steel nails 


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1See Certain Steel Nails From India, the Republic 

of Korea, Malaysia, the Sultanate of Oman, Taiwan, 

the Republic of Turkey, and the Socialist Republic 

of Vietnam: Initiation of Less-Than-Fair-Value 

Investigations, 79 FR 36019 (June 25, 2014) 

(‘‘Initiation Notice’’). 

2See Certain Steel Nails from Republic of Korea, 

Malaysia, Taiwan, the Sultanate of Oman, Taiwan, 

and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: 

Postponement of Preliminary Determination of 

Antidumping Duty Investigations, 79 FR 63082 

(October 22, 2014). 

3See December 17, 2014 memorandum to Ronal 

K. Lorentzen, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for the 

Preliminary Determination in the Antidumping 

Duty Investigation of Certain Steel Nails from the 

Sultanate of Oman,’’ adopted concurrently with this 

notice. A list of the topics discussed in the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum appears in 

Appendix II, below. 

4On November 24, 2014, Enforcement and 

Compliance changed the name of the Import 

Administration AD and CVD Centralized Electronic 

Service System (‘‘IA ACCESS’’) to AD and CVD 

Centralized Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’). 

The Web site location was changed from http://

iaaccess.trade.gov to http://access.trade.gov. The 

Final Rule changing the references to the 

Regulations can be found at: 79 FR 69046 

(November 20, 2014). 

5See 19 CFR 351.309. 

6See 19 CFR 351.310(c). 

(‘‘nails’’) from the Sultanate of Oman 

(‘‘Oman’’) are being, or are likely to be, 

sold in the United States at less than fair 

value (‘‘LTFV’’), as provided in section 

733(b) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the ‘‘Act’’). The period of 

investigation is April 1, 2013 through 

March 31, 2014. The estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins are 

shown in the ‘‘Preliminary 

Determination’’ section of this notice. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on this preliminary 

determination. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 29, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lilit 

Astvatsatrian, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office IV, Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–6412. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Department published the notice 

of initiation of this investigation on June 

25, 2014.1 Pursuant to section 

773(c)(1)(A) of the Act, the Department 

postponed this preliminary LTFV 

determination by a period of 42 days.2

Scope of the Investigation 

The product covered by this 

investigation is certain steel nails from 

Oman. For a full description of the 

scope of the investigation, see Appendix 

I to this notice. 

Scope Comments 

Several interested parties (i.e., IKEA 

Supply AG and IKEA Distributions 

Services Inc. (collectively IKEA), Target 

Corporation, and The Home Depot) 

submitted comments to the Department 

on the scope of the investigation as it 

appeared in the Initiation Notice, and 

Mid Continent Steel & Wire, Inc. 

(Petitioner) submitted rebuttal 

comments. For discussion of those 

comments and rebuttal comments, see 

the Preliminary Decision 

Memorandum.3

Methodology 

The Department has conducted this 

investigation in accordance with section 

731 of the Act. Export price (‘‘EP’’) has 

been calculated in accordance with 

section 772 of the Act. Normal value 

(‘‘NV’’) has been calculated in 

accordance with section 773 of the Act. 

For a full description of the 

methodology underlying our 

conclusions, see the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum. The 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is made available 

to the public via Enforcement and 

Compliance’s Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (‘‘ACCESS’’).4

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at https://access.trade.gov, and is 

available to all parties in the 

Department’s Central Records Unit, 

located at room 7046 of the main 

Department of Commerce building. In 

addition, a complete version of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum can 

be found at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/. The signed 

and the electronic versions of the 

Preliminary Decision Memorandum are 

identical in content. 

All Others Rate 

Section 735(c)(5)(A) of the Act 

provides that the estimated ‘‘all others’’ 

rate shall be an amount equal to the 

weighted average of the estimated 

weighted-average dumping margins 

established for exporters and producers 

individually investigated, excluding any 

zero or de minimis margins, and any 

margins determined entirely under 

section 776 of the Act. We based our 

calculation of the ‘‘all others’’ rate on 

the margin calculated for Oman 

Fasteners, LLC (‘‘Oman Fasteners’’), the 

only mandatory respondent in this 

investigation. 

Preliminary Determination 

The Department preliminarily 

determines that the following weightedaverage dumping margins exist: 

Producer or exporter 

Weightedaverage 

dumping 

margin 

(percent) 

Oman Fasteners, LLC .......... 9.07 

All Others .............................. 9.07 

Disclosure and Public Comment 

We intend to disclose the calculations 

performed to parties in this proceeding 

within five days of the date of 

publication of this notice in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.224(b). 

Case briefs or other written comments 

may be submitted to the Assistant 

Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance no later than seven days 

after the date on which the final 

verification report is issued in this 

proceeding. Rebuttal briefs, limited to 

issues raised in case briefs, may be 

submitted no later than five days after 

the deadline date for case briefs.5

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.309(c)(2) and 

(d)(2), parties who submit case briefs or 

rebuttal briefs in this proceeding are 

encouraged to submit with each 

argument: (1) A statement of the issue; 

(2) a brief summary of the argument; 

and (3) a table of authorities. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.310(c), 

interested parties who wish to request a 

hearing, or to participate if one is 

requested, must submit a written 

request to the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance, U.S. 

Department of Commerce. All 

documents must be filed electronically 

using ACCESS. An electronically filed 

request must be received successfully in 

its entirety by ACCESS, by 5:00 p.m. 

Eastern Standard Time, within 30 days 

after the date of publication of this 

notice.6 Requests should contain the 

party’s name, address, and telephone 

number, the number of participants, and 

a list of the issues to be discussed. If a 

request for a hearing is made, the 

Department intends to hold the hearing 

at the U.S. Department of Commerce, 

14th Street and Constitution Avenue 

NW., Washington, DC 20230, at a time 

and date to be determined. Parties 

should confirm by telephone the date, 

time, and location of the hearing two 

days before the scheduled date. 

Postponement of Final Determination 

and Extension of Provisional Measures 

Pursuant to section 735(a)(2) of the 

Act, Oman Fasteners requested that the 

Department postpone the final 

determination and extend provisional 

measures from four months to six 


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7See also 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2) and (e); see also 

Letter from Oman Fasteners to the Department, 

regarding ‘‘Request to Postpone Final 

Determination’’ (December 11, 2014); see also Letter 

from Petitioner to the Department, regarding 

‘‘Extension Request of Final Determination’’ 

(December 10, 2014). 

8 Id. 

9See Modification of Regulations Regarding the 

Practice of Accepting Bonds During the Provisional 

Measures Period in Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Investigations, 76 FR 61042 

(October 3, 2011). 

1See Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven 

Selvedge From the People’s Republic of China: 

Preliminary Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review; 2012, 79 FR 36013 (June 25, 

2014) (Preliminary Results). 

months. Additionally, Oman Fasteners 

requested to extend the application of 

the provisional measures prescribed 

under section 733(d) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.210(e)(2), from a four-month 

period to a six-month period. Pursuant 

to a request from Oman Fasteners and 

in accordance with section 735(a)(2)(A) 

of the Act and 19 CFR 351.210(b)(2)(ii) 

and (e)(2), we will make our final 

determination no later than 135 days 

after the date of publication of this 

preliminary determination.7 The 

suspension of liquidation described 

above will be extended accordingly.8

Suspension of Liquidation 

In accordance with section 733(d)(2) 

of the Act, we are directing U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection (‘‘CBP’’) 

to suspend liquidation of all entries of 

nails from Oman as described in the 

scope of the investigation section 

entered, or withdrawn from warehouse, 

for consumption on or after the date of 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.205(d), we 

will instruct CBP to require a cash 

deposit equal to the weighted-average 

amount by which the NV exceeds EP, as 

indicated in the chart above.9 These 

suspension of liquidation instructions 

will remain in effect until further notice. 

International Trade Commission 

(‘‘ITC’’) Notification 

In accordance with section 733(f) of 

the Act, we have notified the ITC of our 

preliminary affirmative determination of 

sales at LTFV. Because the preliminary 

determination in this proceeding is 

affirmative, section 735(b)(2) of the Act 

requires that the ITC make its final 

determination as to whether the 

domestic industry in the United States 

is materially injured, or threatened with 

material injury, by reason of imports of 

certain steel nails from Oman before the 

later of 120 days after the date of this 

preliminary determination or 45 days 

after our final determination. Because 

we are postponing the deadline for our 

final determination to 135 days from the 

date of publication of this preliminary 

determination, as discussed above, the 

ITC will make its final determination no 

later than 45 days after our final 

determination. 

This determination is issued and 

published in accordance with sections 

733(f) and 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.205(c). 

Dated: December 17, 2014. 

Ronald K. Lorentzen, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Enforcement 

and Compliance. 

Appendix 

List of Topics Discussed in the Preliminary 

Decision Memorandum 

I. Summary 

II. Background 

III. Period of Investigation 

IV. Postponement of Preliminary 

Determination 

V. Postponement of Final Determination and 

Extension of Provisional Measures 

VI. Scope of the Investigation 

VII. Scope Comments 

VIII. Respondent Selection 

IX. Discussion of Methodology 

A. Fair Value Comparisons 

1. Determination of Comparison Method 

2. Results of the Differential Pricing 

Analysis 

X. Product Comparisons 

XI. Date of Sale 

XII. Affiliation 

XIII. Export Price 

XIV. Normal Value 

A. Comparison-Market Viability 

B. Calculation of Normal Value Based on 

CV 

XV. Currency Conversion 

XVI. U.S, International Trade Commission 

Notification 

XVII. Disclosure and Public Comment 

XVIII. Verification 

XIX. Conclusion 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[C–570–953] 

Narrow Woven Ribbons With Woven 

Selvedge From the People’s Republic 

of China: Final Results of 

Countervailing Duty Administrative 

Review; 2012 

AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

countervailing duty order on narrow 

woven ribbons with woven selvedge 

(ribbons) from the People’s Republic of 

China (PRC). The period of review 

(POR) is January 1, 2012, through 

December 31, 2012. We find that 

Yangzhou Bestpak Gifts & Crafts Co., 

Ltd. (Bestpak) received countervailable 

subsidies during the POR. 

DATES: Effective Date: December 29, 

2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Dana Mermelstein or Joshua Morris, 

AD/CVD Operations, Office I, 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–1391 or (202) 482–1779. 

Case History 

No party submitted comments on the 

Preliminary Results, which were 

published by the Department on June 

25, 2014.1 The events that have 

occurred since we published the 

Preliminary Results are discussed in the 

Memorandum to Paul Piquado, 

Assistant Secretary for Enforcement and 

Compliance, ‘‘Decision Memorandum 

for Final Results of Countervailing Duty 

Administrative Review: Narrow Woven 

Ribbons with Woven Selvedge from the 

People’s Republic of China’’ (Decision 

Memorandum), dated December 22, 

2014, which is hereby adopted by this 

notice. A list of the topics included in 

the Decision Memorandum is attached 

as an Appendix to this notice. 

The Decision Memorandum is a 

public document and is on file 

electronically via the Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Centralized 

Electronic Service System (ACCESS). 

ACCESS is available to registered users 

at http://access.trade.gov and in the 

Central Records Unit, room 7046 of the 

main Department building. In addition, 

a complete version of the Decision 

Memorandum can be accessed directly 

on the internet at http://

enforcement.trade.gov/frn/index.html/. 

The signed Decision Memorandum and 

the electronic versions of the Decision 

Memorandum are identical in content. 

Scope of the Order 

The scope of the order consists of 

ribbons. The merchandise subject to this 

order is classifiable under the 

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the 

United States (HTSUS) statistical 

categories 5806.32.1020; 5806.32.1030; 

5806.32.1050 and 5806.32.1060. Subject 

merchandise also may enter under 

subheadings 5806.31.00; 5806.32.20; 

5806.39.20; 5806.39.30; 5808.90.00; 

5810.91.00; 5810.99.90; 5903.90.10; 

5903.90.25; 5907.00.60; and 5907.00.80 


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