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(8) A list of known sources of 

information on national or regional 

prices for the Domestic Like Product or 

the Subject Merchandise in the U.S. or 

other markets. 

(9) If you are a U.S. producer of the 

Domestic Like Product, provide the 

following information on your firm’s 

operations on that product during 

calendar year 2016, except as noted 

(report quantity data in short tons and 

value data in U.S. dollars, f.o.b. plant). 

If you are a union/worker group or 

trade/business association, provide the 

information, on an aggregate basis, for 

the firms in which your workers are 

employed/which are members of your 

association. 

(a) Production (quantity) and, if 

known, an estimate of the percentage of 

total U.S. production of the Domestic 

Like Product accounted for by your 

firm’s(s’) production; 

(b) Capacity (quantity) of your firm to 

produce the Domestic Like Product (that 

is, the level of production that your 

establishment(s) could reasonably have 

expected to attain during the year, 

assuming normal operating conditions 

(using equipment and machinery in 

place and ready to operate), normal 

operating levels (hours per week/weeks 

per year), time for downtime, 

maintenance, repair, and cleanup, and a 

typical or representative product mix); 

(c) the quantity and value of U.S. 

commercial shipments of the Domestic 

Like Product produced in your U.S. 

plant(s); 

(d) the quantity and value of U.S. 

internal consumption/company 

transfers of the Domestic Like Product 

produced in your U.S. plant(s); and 

(e) the value of (i) net sales, (ii) cost 

of goods sold (COGS), (iii) gross profit, 

(iv) selling, general and administrative 

(SG&A) expenses, and (v) operating 

income of the Domestic Like Product 

produced in your U.S. plant(s) (include 

both U.S. and export commercial sales, 

internal consumption, and company 

transfers) for your most recently 

completed fiscal year (identify the date 

on which your fiscal year ends). 

(10) If you are a U.S. importer or a 

trade/business association of U.S. 

importers of the Subject Merchandise 

from any Subject Country, provide the 

following information on your firm’s(s’) 

operations on that product during 

calendar year 2016 (report quantity data 

in short tons and value data in U.S. 

dollars). If you are a trade/business 

association, provide the information, on 

an aggregate basis, for the firms which 

are members of your association. 

(a) The quantity and value (landed, 

duty-paid but not including 

antidumping duties) of U.S. imports 

and, if known, an estimate of the 

percentage of total U.S. imports of 

Subject Merchandise from each Subject 

Country accounted for by your firm’s(s’) 

imports; 

(b) the quantity and value (f.o.b. U.S. 

port, including antidumping duties) of 

U.S. commercial shipments of Subject 

Merchandise imported from each 

Subject Country; and 

(c) the quantity and value (f.o.b. U.S. 

port, including antidumping duties) of 

U.S. internal consumption/company 

transfers of Subject Merchandise 

imported from each Subject Country. 

(11) If you are a producer, an exporter, 

or a trade/business association of 

producers or exporters of the Subject 

Merchandise in any Subject Country, 

provide the following information on 

your firm’s(s’) operations on that 

product during calendar year 2016 

(report quantity data in short tons and 

value data in U.S. dollars, landed and 

duty-paid at the U.S. port but not 

including antidumping duties). If you 

are a trade/business association, provide 

the information, on an aggregate basis, 

for the firms which are members of your 

association. 

(a) Production (quantity) and, if 

known, an estimate of the percentage of 

total production of Subject Merchandise 

in each Subject Country accounted for 

by your firm’s(s’) production; 

(b) Capacity (quantity) of your firm(s) 

to produce the Subject Merchandise in 

each Subject Country (that is, the level 

of production that your establishment(s) 

could reasonably have expected to 

attain during the year, assuming normal 

operating conditions (using equipment 

and machinery in place and ready to 

operate), normal operating levels (hours 

per week/weeks per year), time for 

downtime, maintenance, repair, and 

cleanup, and a typical or representative 

product mix); and 

(c) the quantity and value of your 

firm’s(s’) exports to the United States of 

Subject Merchandise and, if known, an 

estimate of the percentage of total 

exports to the United States of Subject 

Merchandise from each Subject Country 

accounted for by your firm’s(s’) exports. 

(12) Identify significant changes, if 

any, in the supply and demand 

conditions or business cycle for the 

Domestic Like Product that have 

occurred in the United States or in the 

market for the Subject Merchandise in 

each Subject Country after 2011, and 

significant changes, if any, that are 

likely to occur within a reasonably 

foreseeable time. Supply conditions to 

consider include technology; 

production methods; development 

efforts; ability to increase production 

(including the shift of production 

facilities used for other products and the 

use, cost, or availability of major inputs 

into production); and factors related to 

the ability to shift supply among 

different national markets (including 

barriers to importation in foreign 

markets or changes in market demand 

abroad). Demand conditions to consider 

include end uses and applications; the 

existence and availability of substitute 

products; and the level of competition 

among the Domestic Like Product 

produced in the United States, Subject 

Merchandise produced in each Subject 

Country, and such merchandise from 

other countries. 

(13) (Optional) A statement of 

whether you agree with the above 

definitions of the Domestic Like Product 

and Domestic Industry; if you disagree 

with either or both of these definitions, 

please explain why and provide 

alternative definitions. 

Authority: This proceeding is being 

conducted under authority of title VII of the 

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published 

pursuant to section 207.61 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: September 26, 2017. 

Lisa R. Barton, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20971 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Proposed 

Consent Decree Under the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act 

On September 22, 2017, the 

Department of Justice lodged a proposed 

Consent Decree with the United States 

District Court for the District of 

Minnesota in the lawsuit entitled 

United States v. City of Cass Lake, Civil 

Action No. 17–4367. 

In this action, the United States 

brought claims against the City of Cass 

Lake, Minnesota for response costs and 

injunctive relief associated with the 

release and threatened release of 

hazardous substances from facilities at 

and near the St. Regis Paper Company 

Superfund Site (‘‘Site’’) in Cass Lake, 

Minnesota, pursuant to the 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act, 42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq. (‘‘CERCLA’’). 

The proposed Consent Decree requires 

Defendant to make a payment of 

$30,000 to reimburse EPA past costs at 

the Site, with the settlement amount 

based on Defendant’s limited ability to 


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pay. The proposed Consent Decree also 

requires the City to cooperate with EPA 

and any parties performing cleanup 

work at the Site and to assist with 

implementing any necessary land use 

restrictions. 

The publication of this notice opens 

a period for public comment on the 

Consent Decree. Comments should be 

addressed to the Assistant Attorney 

General, Environment and Natural 

Resources Division, and should refer to 

United States v. City of Cass Lake, D.J. 

Ref. No. 90–11–3–06790/3. All 

comments must be submitted no later 

than thirty (30) days after the 

publication date of this notice. 

Comments may be submitted either by 

email or by mail: 

To submit 

comments: Send them to: 

By email ....... pubcomment-ees.enrd@

usdoj.gov. 

By mail ......... Assistant Attorney General, 

U.S. DOJ—ENRD, P.O. 

Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

During the public comment period, 

the Consent Decree may be examined 

and downloaded at this Justice 

Department Web site: https://

www.justice.gov/enrd/consent-decrees. 

We will provide a paper copy of the 

Consent Decree upon written request 

and payment of reproduction costs. 

Please mail your request and payment 

to: Consent Decree Library, U.S. DOJ— 

ENRD, P.O. Box 7611, Washington, DC 

20044–7611. 

Please enclose a check or money order 

for $17.75 (25 cents per page 

reproduction cost) payable to the United 

States Treasury. For a paper copy 

without the exhibits and signature 

pages, the cost is $8.00. 

Randall M. Stone, 

Acting Assistant Section Chief, 

Environmental Enforcement Section, 

Environment and Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. 2017–21040 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR 

Employment and Training 

Administration 

Labor Surplus Area Classification 

AGENCY: Employment and Training 

Administration, Labor. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is 

to announce the annual list of labor 

surplus areas for Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. 

DATES: The annual list of labor surplus 

areas is effective October 1, 2017, for all 

states, the District of Columbia, and 

Puerto Rico. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Samuel Wright, Office of Workforce 

Investment, Employment and Training 

Administration, 200 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Room C–4514, 

Washington, DC 20210. Telephone: 

(202) 693–2870 (This is not a toll-free 

number) or email wright.samuel.e@

dol.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Labor’s regulations 

implementing Executive Orders 12073 

and 10582 are set forth at 20 CFR part 

654, subpart A. These regulations 

require the Employment and Training 

Administration (ETA) to classify 

jurisdictions as labor surplus areas 

pursuant to the criteria specified in the 

regulations, and to publish annually a 

list of labor surplus areas. Pursuant to 

those regulations, ETA is hereby 

publishing the annual list of labor 

surplus areas. 

In addition, the regulations provide 

exceptional circumstance criteria for 

classifying labor surplus areas when 

catastrophic events, such as natural 

disasters, plant closings, and contract 

cancellations are expected to have a 

long-term impact on labor market area 

conditions, discounting temporary or 

seasonal factors. 

Eligible Labor Surplus Areas 

A Labor Surplus Area (LSA) is a civil 

jurisdiction that has a civilian average 

annual unemployment rate during the 

previous two calendar years of 20 

percent or more above the average 

annual civilian unemployment rate for 

all states during the same 24-month 

reference period. ETA uses only official 

unemployment estimates provided by 

the Bureau of Labor Statistics in making 

these classifications. The average 

unemployment rate for all states 

includes data for the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico. LSA classification criteria 

stipulate a civil jurisdiction must have 

a ‘‘floor unemployment rate’’ of 6.0% or 

higher to be classified a LSA. Any civil 

jurisdiction that has a ‘‘ceiling 

unemployment rate’’ of 10% or higher is 

classified a LSA. 

Civil jurisdictions are defined as 

follows: 

1. A city of at least 25,000 population 

on the basis of the most recently 

available estimates from the Bureau of 

the Census; or 

2. A town or township in the States 

of Michigan, New Jersey, New York, or 

Pennsylvania of 25,000 or more 

population and which possess powers 

and functions similar to those of cities; 

or 

3. All counties, except for those 

counties which contain any type of civil 

jurisdictions defined in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’ 

above; or 

4. A ‘‘balance of county’’ consisting of 

a county less any component cities and 

townships identified in ‘‘1’’ or ‘‘2’’ 

above; or 

5. A county equivalent which is a 

town in the States of Connecticut, 

Massachusetts, and Rhode Island, or a 

municipio in the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico. 

Procedures for Classifying Labor 

Surplus Areas 

The Department of Labor (DOL) issues 

the LSA list on a fiscal year basis. The 

list becomes effective each October 1, 

and remains in effect through the 

following September 30. The reference 

period used in preparing the current list 

was January 2014 through December 

2016. The national average 

unemployment rate (including Puerto 

Rico) during this period is rounded to 

5.12 percent. Twenty percent higher 

than the national unemployment rate 

during this period is rounded to 6.14 

percent but 6.1453 percent (since 5 is 

the 3rd place behind the decimal) will 

be used for the unemployment 

qualifying rate. Therefore, areas 

included on the FY 2018 LSA list had 

an unemployment rate for the reference 

period of 6.1453 percent or higher. To 

ensure that all areas classified as labor 

surplus meet the requirements, when a 

city is part of a county and meets the 

unemployment qualifier as a LSA, that 

city is identified in the LSA list, the 

balance of county, not the entire county, 

will be identified as a LSA if the balance 

of county also meets the LSA 

unemployment criteria. The FY 2018 

LSA list, statistical data on the current 

and some previous year’s LSAs are 

available at ETA’s LSA Web site http:// 

www.doleta.gov/programs/lsa.cfm. 

Petition for Exceptional Circumstance 

Consideration 

The classification procedures also 

provide criteria for the designation of 

LSAs under exceptional circumstances 

criteria. These procedures permit the 

regular classification criteria to be 

waived when an area experiences a 

significant increase in unemployment 

which is not temporary or seasonal and 

which was not reflected in the data for 

the 2-year reference period. Under the 

program’s exceptional circumstance 

procedures, LSA classifications can be 

made for civil jurisdictions, 

Metropolitan Statistical Areas or 

Combined Statistical Areas, as defined 


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