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to assess antidumping duties on all 

appropriate entries. For Angang, 

antidumping duties shall be assessed at 

rates equal to the cash deposit of 

estimated antidumping duties required 

at the time of entry, or withdrawal from 

warehouse, for consumption, in 

accordance with 19 CFR 351.212(c)(2). 

The Department will issue appropriate 

assessment instructions directly to CBP 

15 days after publication of this notice. 

Preliminary Rescission of Review 

On January 23, February 6, and March 

6, 2009, the Department placed CBP 

data and entry documentation on the 

record of the instant review, which 

indicated that Baosteel may have 

entered subject merchandise during the 

POR. On March 25, 2009, the 

Department requested additional 

information from Baosteel regarding the 

classification of the shipments. On April 

1, 2009, Baosteel provided information 

demonstrating that the entries in 

question had been misclassified, and 

were actually shipments of merchandise 

outside the scope of this antidumping 

duty order. Upon review of Baosteel’s 

response, the Department finds that 

there is no record evidence that 

indicates Baosteel made entries of 

subject merchandise during the POR. 

Therefore, in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(3) and consistent with our 

practice, we are preliminarily 

rescinding this review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain hot– 

rolled carbon steel flat products from 

the PRC for the period of November 1, 

2007, to October 31, 2008. If the 

rescission is confirmed in our final 

results, the cash deposit rate for 

Baosteel will continue to be the rate 

established in the most recently 

completed segment of this proceeding. 

Interested parties may submit 

comments for consideration in the 

Department’s final results not later than 

30 days after publication of this notice. 

See 19 CFR 351.309(c). Responses to 

those comments may be submitted not 

later than five days following 

submission of the comments. See 19 

CFR 351.309(d). All written comments 

must be submitted in accordance with 

19 CFR 351.303, and must be served on 

interested parties on the Department’s 

service list in accordance with 19 CFR 

351.303(f)(3). The Department will issue 

the final results of this administrative 

review, which will include the results of 

its analysis of issues raised in any such 

comments, within 120 days of 

publication of the preliminary results, 

and will publish these results in the 

Federal Register. 

Notification to Importers 

This notice serves as a final reminder 

to importers for whom this review is 

being rescinded, as of the publication 

date of this notice, of their 

responsibility under 19 CFR 

351.402(f)(2) to file a certificate 

regarding the reimbursement of 

antidumping duties prior to liquidation 

of the relevant entries during this 

review period. Failure to comply with 

this requirement could result in the 

Secretary’s presumption that 

reimbursement of the antidumping 

duties occurred and the subsequent 

assessment of double antidumping 

duties. 

Notification Regarding APOs 

This notice also serves as a reminder 

to parties subject to administrative 

protective orders (‘‘APO’’) of their 

responsibility concerning the return or 

destruction of proprietary information 

disclosed under APO in accordance 

with 19 CFR 351.305, which continues 

to govern business proprietary 

information in this segment of the 

proceeding. Timely written notification 

of the return/destruction of APO 

materials or conversion to judicial 

protective order is hereby requested. 

Failure to comply with the regulations 

and terms of an APO is a violation 

which is subject to sanction. 

This notice is in accordance with 

sections 751 and 777(i)(1) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930, as amended, and 19 CFR 

351.213(d)(4). 

Dated: June June 19, 2009. 

John M. Andersen, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Antidumping and Countervailing Duties 

Operations. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XP71 

Notice of Availability of Draft Stock 

Assessment Reports 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS reviewed the Alaska, 

Atlantic, and Pacific regional marine 

mammal stock assessment reports 

(SARs) in accordance with the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act. SARs for 

marine mammals in the Alaska, 

Atlantic, and Pacific regions were 

revised according to new information. 

NMFS solicits public comments on draft 

2009 SARs. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

September 24, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: The 2009 draft stock 

assessment reports and summaries of 

them are available in electronic form via 

the Internet at http:// 

www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/sars/. 

Copies of the Alaska Regional SARs 

may be requested from Robyn Angliss, 

Alaska Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, 

7600 Sand Point Way, NE BIN 15700, 

Seattle, WA 98115–0070. 

Copies of the Atlantic and Gulf of 

Mexico Regional SARs may be 

requested from Gordon Waring, 

Northeast Fisheries Science Center, 166 

Water St., Woods Hole, MA 02543. 

Copies of the Pacific Regional SARs 

may be requested from Jim Carretta, 

Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 

8604 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 

92037–1508. 

Send comments or requests for copies 

of reports to: Chief, Marine Mammal 

and Sea Turtle Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 EastWest Highway, Silver Spring, MD 

20910–3226, Attn: Stock Assessments. 

Comments may also be sent via 

facsimile (fax) to 301–427–2522 or via 

email to mmsar.2009@noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Eagle, Office of Protected Resources, 

301–713–2322, ext. 105, e-mail 

Tom.Eagle@noaa.gov; Robyn Angliss 

206- 526–4032, e-mail 

Robyn.Angliss@noaa.gov, regarding 

Alaska regional stock assessments; 

Gordon Waring, 508–495–2311, e-mail 

Gordon.Waring@noaa.gov, regarding 

Atlantic regional stock assessments; or 

Jim Carretta, 858–546–7171, e-mail 

Jim.Carretta@noaa.gov, regarding 

Pacific regional stock assessments. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 117 of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act (MMPA) (16 U.S.C. 1361 

et seq.) requires NMFS and the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service (FWS) to prepare 

stock assessments for each stock of 

marine mammals occurring in waters 

under the jurisdiction of the United 

States. These reports must contain 

information regarding the distribution 

and abundance of the stock, population 

growth rates and trends, estimates of 

annual human-caused mortality and 

serious injury from all sources, 

descriptions of the fisheries with which 

the stock interacts, and the status of the 

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stock. Initial reports were completed in 

1995. 

The MMPA requires NMFS and FWS 

to review the SARs at least annually for 

strategic stocks and stocks for which 

significant new information is available, 

and at least once every 3 years for nonstrategic stocks. NMFS and the FWS are 

required to revise a SAR if the status of 

the stock has changed or can be more 

accurately determined. NMFS, in 

conjunction with the Alaska, Atlantic, 

and Pacific Scientific Review Groups 

(SRGs), reviewed the status of marine 

mammal stocks as required and revised 

reports in the Alaska, Atlantic, and 

Pacific regions to incorporate new 

information. NMFS solicits public 

comments on the draft 2009 SARs. 

Alaska Reports 

Twenty-three reports (14 strategic 

stocks and 9 non-strategic stocks) were 

revised, and 13 reports were not revised. 

Most revisions included updates of 

abundance and/or mortality estimates; 

there were no changes in the status of 

the affected stocks. 

The most recent 5–year period of 

incidental mortality and serious injury 

estimates for Federal fisheries in Alaska 

is 2002–2006. Although observer data 

from these fisheries are available for 

more recent years, analysis of observer 

data from 2007 and 2008 has not been 

completed due to changes in staffing 

and in the structure of the database. The 

2007 and 2008 fishery mortality data are 

currently being analyzed, and these 

results will be incorporated in the 2010 

SARs. 

Results from a collaborative 

international study on humpback 

whales have been incorporated into the 

reports for the Central and Western 

North Pacific stocks. These results 

produced new abundance estimates for 

these stocks and allowed PBR for both 

stocks to be changed from undetermined 

to calculated values. Both stocks remain 

strategic stocks because they are 

populations of an endangered species. 

Atlantic Reports 

Fifty-two new or updated reports (16 

strategic and 36 non-strategic) are 

included among 2009 Atlantic regional 

SARs. Nineteen reports were not 

revised. New reports include four stockspecific reports for beaked whales and 

nine new reports of bay, sound, and 

estuary stocks of bottlenose dolphins 

along the Atlantic coast. The 39 revised 

reports included updates of abundance 

or mortality estimates, strandings, and 

status of these stocks was unchanged. 

However, Potential Biological Removal 

(PBR) estimates for three stocks of 

dolphins (bottlenose, Atlantic spotted, 

and rough-toothed) in the Gulf of 

Mexico were changed to 

‘‘undetermined’’ because the abundance 

data supporting these estimates are 

outdated (more than 8 years old). 

The beaked whale reports were 

previously published as a combined 

report (Mesoplodon sp.) because most 

beaked whale species cannot be 

distinguished from one another during 

abundance surveys. Each of the new 

reports and the report for Cuvier’s 

beaked whale contain the same numbers 

for abundance (3,513), minimum 

population estimate (2,154), and PBR 

(17) and were included in the 2008 SAR 

for Mesoplodon sp. Similarly, a single 

observed serious injury of an 

unidentified beaked whale incidental to 

a long-line fishery is included in all 

reports; three of the beaked whale 

species (Blainville’s, Sowerby’s, and 

True’s) have additional human-caused 

mortality based upon stranded animals 

that were identified to species. 

Bottlenose dolphins within bays, 

sounds, and estuaries along the Atlantic 

coast were not included in previous 

stock assessment reports. Although 

these stock identities have been 

proposed, there is sufficient mixing of 

individuals from coastal and bay stocks 

that abundance and mortality/serious 

injury estimates for all nine of the new 

bottlenose dolphin stocks are unknown. 

Pacific Reports 

In the Pacific region, 13 reports were 

updated in 2009, including 8 strategic 

stocks and 5 non-strategic stocks; 50 

SARs were not revised. Most changes 

were updates of abundance or mortality 

estimates and did not result in a change 

of status of any stock. 

A new SAR for humpback whales in 

American Samoa waters, which is 

strategic because all humpback whales 

are listed under the Endangered Species 

Act, is also included. The assessment 

for Northern Oregon/Washington Coast 

stock of harbor porpoise includes a 

name change (‘‘Oregon’’ is appended to 

‘‘Northern Oregon’’) to reflect recent 

stock boundary changes. Changes in 

abundance estimates for the two stocks 

of harbor porpoise that occur in Oregon 

waters are the result of these boundary 

changes and do not reflect biological 

changes in the populations. 

Dated: June 19, 2009. 

Helen M. Golde, 

Deputy Director, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Patent and Trademark Office 

Invention Promoters/Promotion Firms 

Complaints 

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment 

request. 

SUMMARY: The United States Patent and 

Trademark Office (USPTO), as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on the continuing information 

collection, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104– 

13 (44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)). 

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Officer, Administrative Management 

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Trademark Office, P.O. Box 1450, 

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Office, P.O. Box 1450, Alexandria, VA 

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8800; or by e-mail at Cathie.Kirik@

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