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34See 19 CFR 351.301(b). 

35See 19 CFR 351.301(b)(2). 

36See section 782(b) of the Act. 

37See Certification of Factual Information to 

Import Administration During Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 78 FR 42678 (July 

17, 2013) (‘‘Final Rule’’); see also frequently asked 

questions regarding the Final Rule, available at 

http://enforcement.trade.gov/tlei/notices/factual_

info_final_rule_FAQ_07172013.pdf. 

(ii) evidence submitted in support of 

allegations; (iii) publicly available 

information to value factors under 19 

CFR 351.408(c) or to measure the 

adequacy of remuneration under 19 CFR 

351.511(a)(2); (iv) evidence placed on 

the record by the Department; and (v) 

evidence other than factual information 

described in (i)–(iv). 19 CFR 351.301(b) 

requires any party, when submitting 

factual information, to specify under 

which subsection of 19 CFR 

351.102(b)(21) the information is being 

submitted 34 and, if the information is 

submitted to rebut, clarify, or correct 

factual information already on the 

record, to provide an explanation 

identifying the information already on 

the record that the factual information 

seeks to rebut, clarify, or correct.35 Time 

limits for the submission of factual 

information are addressed in 19 CFR 

351.301, which provides specific time 

limits based on the type of factual 

information being submitted. Interested 

parties should review the regulations 

prior to submitting factual information 

in this investigation. 

Extensions of Time Limits 

Parties may request an extension of 

time limits before the expiration of a 

time limit established under 19 CFR 

351.301, or as otherwise specified by the 

Secretary. In general, an extension 

request will be considered untimely if it 

is filed after the expiration of the time 

limit established under 19 CFR 351.301. 

For submissions that are due from 

multiple parties simultaneously, an 

extension request will be considered 

untimely if it is filed after 10:00 a.m. ET 

on the due date. Under certain 

circumstances, we may elect to specify 

a different time limit by which 

extension requests will be considered 

untimely for submissions which are due 

from multiple parties simultaneously. In 

such a case, we will inform parties in 

the letter or memorandum setting forth 

the deadline (including a specified time) 

by which extension requests must be 

filed to be considered timely. An 

extension request must be made in a 

separate, stand-alone submission; under 

limited circumstances we will grant 

untimely-filed requests for the extension 

of time limits. Parties should review 

Extension of Time Limits; Final Rule, 78 

FR 57790 (September 20, 2013), 

available at http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/ 

pkg/FR-2013-09-20/html/2013- 

22853.htm, prior to submitting factual 

information in this investigation. 

Certification Requirements 

Any party submitting factual 

information in an AD or CVD 

proceeding must certify to the accuracy 

and completeness of that information.36

Parties are hereby reminded that revised 

certification requirements are in effect 

for company/government officials, as 

well as their representatives.37

Investigations initiated on the basis of 

the petition filed on or after August 16, 

2013, and other segments of any AD or 

CVD proceedings initiated on or after 

August 16, 2013, should use the formats 

for the revised certifications provided in 

19 CFR 351.303(g). The Department 

intends to reject factual submissions if 

the submitting party does not comply 

with the applicable revised certification 

requirements. 

Notification to Interested Parties 

Interested parties must submit 

applications for disclosure under APO 

in accordance with 19 CFR 351.305. On 

January 22, 2008, the Department 

published Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Proceedings: 

Documents Submission Procedures; 

APO Procedures, 73 FR 3634 (January 

22, 2008). Parties wishing to participate 

in this investigation should ensure that 

they meet the requirements of these 

procedures (e.g., the filing of letters of 

appearance as discussed at 19 CFR 

351.103(d)). 

This notice is issued and published 

pursuant to sections 702 and 777(i) of 

the Act, and 19 CFR 351.203(c). 

Dated: October 25, 2017. 

Gary Taverman, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping 

and Countervailing Duty Operations, 

performing the non-exclusive functions and 

duties of the Assistant Secretary for 

Enforcement and Compliance. 

Appendix 

Scope of the Investigation 

The merchandise covered by this 

investigation is carbon and alloy forged steel 

fittings, whether unfinished (commonly 

known as blanks or rough forgings) or 

finished. Such fittings are made in a variety 

of shapes including, but not limited to, 

elbows, tees, crosses, laterals, couplings, 

reducers, caps, plugs, bushings and unions. 

Forged steel fittings are covered regardless of 

end finish, whether threaded, socket-weld or 

other end connections. 

While these fittings are generally 

manufactured to specifications ASME 

B16.11, MSS SP–79, and MSS SP–83, ASTM 

A105, ASTM A350 and ASTM A182, the 

scope is not limited to fittings made to these 

specifications. 

The term forged is an industry term used 

to describe a class of products included in 

applicable standards, and does not reference 

an exclusive manufacturing process. Forged 

steel fittings are not manufactured from 

casting. Pursuant to the applicable standards, 

fittings may alsobe machined from bar stock 

or machined from seamless pipe and tube. 

All types of fittings are included in the 

scope regardless of nominal pipe size (which 

may or may not be expressed in inches of 

nominal pipe size), pressure rating (usually, 

but not necessarily expressed in pounds of 

pressure, e.g., 2,000 or 2M; 3,000 or 3M; 

6,000 or 6M; 9,000 or 9M), wall thickness, 

and whether or not heat treated. 

Excluded from this scope are all fittings 

entirely made of stainless steel. Also 

excluded are flanges, butt weld fittings, and 

nipples. 

Subject carbon and alloy forged steel 

fittings are normally entered under HTSUS 

7307.99.1000, 7307.99.3000, 7307.99.5045, 

and 7307.99.5060. They also may be entered 

under HTSUS 7307.92.3010, 7307.92.3030, 

7307.92.9000, and 7326.19.0010. 

The HTSUS subheadings and 

specifications are provided for convenience 

and customs purposes; the written 

description of the scope is dispositive. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology 

Notice of Localization and Tracking 

System Testing Consortium 

AGENCY: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of Research Consortium. 

SUMMARY: The National Institute of 

Standards and Technology (NIST), an 

agency of the United States Department 

of Commerce, is establishing the 

Localization and Tracking System (LTS) 

Testing Consortium and invites 

organizations to participate in this 

Consortium. Participants in this 

Consortium will have the opportunity to 

test their LTS leveraging a unique 

capability on the NIST Gaithersburg 

campus. The goals of the LTS Testing 

Consortium are to demonstrate and 

further develop standardized 

localization and tracking system testing 

procedures, and to assess current state 

of the art. The LTS Testing Consortium 

will not evaluate whether any 

individual system is commercially 

feasible. Participants in the Consortium 

will be required to sign a Cooperative 

Research and Development Agreement 

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1 International Organization of Standardization/ 

International Electrotechnical Commission/Joint 

Technical Committee 1/Subcommittee 31. 

2 It is also possible to have such capability using 

cameras installed in the environment. In that case, 

there is no need for the person, robot, or other 

object to be equipped with an electronic device. 

However, such imaging-based techniques are 

beyond the scope of the LTS Testing Consortium. 

DATES: Letters of interest for 

participation in this LTS Testing 

Consortium will be accepted until 

December 15, 2017. LTS testing is 

expected to occur in April or May 2018, 

with a pre-event workshop in February, 

however dates are subject to change. 

ADDRESSES: Letters of interest and 

requests for additional information can 

be directed to the NIST LTS Testing 

Consortium Manager, Nader Moayeri, of 

the Advanced Network Technologies 

Division of NIST’s Information 

Technology Laboratory. Nader 

Moayeri’s contact information are NIST, 

100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8920, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8920, USA, 

email: nader.moayeri@nist.gov, and 

telephone: +1 301–975–3767. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the terms 

and conditions of NIST’s CRADA, 

please contact Jeffrey DiVietro, CRADA 

and License Officer, NIST’s Technology 

Partnerships Office, by mail to 100 

Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 2200, 

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899–2200, by 

email to jeffrey.divietro@nist.gov, or by 

telephone at +1 301–975–8779. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Consortium Objectives: ISO/IEC JTC 1/ 

SC 31 1 has developed the international 

standard, ISO/IEC 18305, ‘‘Test and 

evaluation of localization and tracking 

systems’’ that addresses test methods 

with performance metrics and considers 

environmental factors and usage 

scenarios expected in the field. NIST’s 

objectives under this LTS Testing 

Consortium are to plan and conduct 

Test and Evaluation (T&E) activities 

based on ISO/IEC 18305. Goals of the 

T&E activities include: 

1. Assessment of ISO/IEC 18305 to 

identify improvements that can be 

incorporated into the next version of the 

standard; and 

2. Assessment of LTS technologies 

using the standardized test methods of 

ISO/IEC 18305 for the dual purposes of 

comparing technologies to identify 

strengths and weaknesses of various 

technological approaches and solutions, 

and to make it possible for Consortium 

Members to use that information as a 

basis for further developing their LTS. 

The results from the LTS Testing 

Consortium will allow the validation of 

ISO/IEC 18305. The results will also 

allow setting minimum performance 

requirements for various applications of 

LTS technology and enable comparisons 

based on common test methods. Results 

from this research are expected to 

improve the performance of LTS 

technologies. 

Background Information: Indoor 

localization is the capability to 

determine/estimate the location of an 

entity to be localized or tracked (ELT), 

such as a person, a robot, or some other 

object equipped with an appropriate 

electronic device 2 in buildings and 

subterranean structures such as tunnels, 

caves, and underground mines. 

Tracking is the capability to estimate the 

location of such ELT on an ongoing 

basis and making the location 

information available to a tracking 

authority. Localization and tracking, 

whether indoors or outdoors, has 

applications in a wide range of domains 

including public safety, manufacturing, 

construction, health care, entertainment, 

social networking, building automation, 

and defense. 

Testing a LTS is complicated for 

several reasons: 

• There are many categories of LTS. 

Some rely on presence of electronic 

infrastructure in the environment 

(building/tunnel/cave/underground 

mine) to facilitate localization and 

tracking. Some systems require sitespecific training and calibration before 

they can be used. Some systems need to 

have access to the floor plans of the 

building or need to know the global 

coordinates of its boundaries to operate. 

Therefore, one must be careful when 

comparing the performance of various 

systems to ensure the comparisons are 

fair. 

• A LTS often has RF components. RF 

propagation can vary considerably from 

one building to another depending on 

the construction material used in the 

building, its floor plans, and objects 

present in the building. Therefore, the 

LTS must be tested in a variety of 

buildings, including a high rise, because 

a LTS typically has more difficulty in 

estimating the floor where the ELT is 

located than in estimating its horizontal 

location. 

• Given that the inertial sensors 

present in ubiquitous smartphones and 

other devices used for localization suffer 

from ‘‘drift’’ that worsens over time, it 

is important to test the LTS using long 

test scenarios, complex paths, different 

modes of mobility (e.g., walking, 

running, sidestepping, walking 

backwards, and crawling) and speeds of 

movement. Therefore, the use of large 

buildings is a prerequisite for a welldesigned testing procedure. 

Considering the complexities of 

indoor localization testing above, 

vendors may not have the opportunity 

to test their LTS in a thorough and 

comprehensive manner. Therefore, 

potential users may be unable to 

determine whether a given LTS meets 

their needs. These issues demonstrate 

the need for standardized testing 

procedures that can be used to test and 

compare localization and tracking 

systems. 

Test and Evaluation (T&E) Activities: 

NIST intends to hold a pre-event 

workshop for participants of the 

Consortium to prepare for the T&E 

activities. NIST anticipates the test 

event will take place over a period of 

two weeks (ten business days) about two 

months after the workshop. Each LTS 

will be tested over the course of 3–5 

days during one of the two weeks. 

During the two-week T&E event, each 

LTS will be tested under NIST 

supervision by the participating 

company staff members according to the 

procedures of ISO/IEC 18305. Lessons 

learned from testing will be used to 

make modifications to the testing 

procedures and corresponding future 

revisions in ISO/IEC 18305. Going 

forward, NIST intends to use the same 

set of buildings so that future testing 

will indicate the industry’s 

improvements in performance of indoor 

localization and tracking systems. 

Participation in this LTS Testing 

Consortium does not guarantee 

participation in future testing activities. 

Methodology: To the extent possible, 

NIST has chosen structures on its 

Gaithersburg, MD campus according to 

the guidelines specified in ISO/IEC 

18305. NIST has instrumented the 

structures with one-inch diameter, 

circular floor markers. Locations of the 

floor markers have been surveyed by a 

professional surveying company using 

precision laser surveying equipment. In 

addition, the locations of ∼200 Wi-Fi 

Access Points (APs) in these buildings 

have been surveyed and the Wi-Fi AP 

location information will be made 

available to Consortium Members solely 

for use in the Consortium and by each 

Consortium Member’s LTS that will be 

tested at the T&E event. Multiple tracks, 

each consisting of a set of floor markers, 

will be used to test each LTS. By 

comparing the ground truth 3D 

coordinates of each floor marker with 

the estimate of the 3D location provided 

by the LTS under test, the estimation 

error can be computed and statistical 

analysis on the error done using the 

performance metrics specified in ISO/ 

IEC 18305. 

Application Process: Interested 

parties should contact NIST using the 


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information provided in the ADDRESSES

section. NIST will then provide each 

interested party with a letter of interest 

template, which the party must 

complete and submit to NIST. Each 

party’s letter of interest must include 

the following information: 

1. Whether the LTS to be tested is 

commercially available now or at an 

advanced productization stages so that 

it would be commercially available by 

the end of 2018. 

2. Market the indoor LTS is targeting. 

3. Given that large buildings will be 

used for testing, whether the number of 

units available to install in these 

buildings is sufficient for the system to 

go through a suite of tests, one building 

at a time. (As a point of information, the 

largest building to be used for testing 

covers 100,000 square feet of space.) 

4. The willingness and ability to send 

an adequate number of staff members to 

install and uninstall the indoor LTS in 

test buildings and operate the 

equipment to administer the tests under 

NIST supervision for a period of about 

3 days. If for any reason a LTS runs into 

technical problems and cannot complete 

the tests in each building in the allotted 

time slot, NIST has designated the last 

two days of the week as ‘‘make-up 

days’’, where tests that were not 

completed in their allotted time slots 

can be redone. NIST will not be 

responsible for shipping equipment to 

NIST and back to your company. 

5. Willingness to provide all data form 

T&E activities to the NIST Consortium 

Manager for purposes of this project. 

6. A statement regarding whether the 

LTS requires deployment of equipment 

inside/outside a building in order to be 

tested; please specify the types of 

equipment that need to be deployed and 

how many per every 10,000 square feet 

of space. 

7. If the LTS uses RF technology, 

please specify the frequency band(s) and 

power levels the LTS uses. 

8. Whether the installation, 

uninstallation, or operation of the LTS 

is likely to cause damage of any type to 

the buildings or furnishing during 

testing. 

Letters of interest may be submitted to 

the LTS Testing Consortium Manager 

electronically using the email address 

provided in the ADDRESSES section. 

Letters of interest must include the 

name of the organization and the name 

and contact information for an official 

representing the organization. Letters of 

interest must not include any 

confidential information. NIST will not 

treat any information provided in the 

letters of interest as confidential or 

proprietary. NIST will review the letters 

of interest from each organization 

received prior to the closing date 

provided in the DATES section. 

Eligibility will be determined based on 

the information provided by the 

organization in response to the above 

request for specific information. NIST 

will notify an applicant in writing of its 

eligibility to participate in the LTS 

Testing Consortium. To participate, the 

eligible applicant will be required to 

sign a Cooperative Research and 

Development Agreement (CRADA) with 

NIST. Each participant’s CRADA will 

have identical terms and conditions that 

are consistent with the requirements of 

Title 15, United States Code, Chapter 

63, Section 3710a (Cooperative Research 

and Development Agreements). NIST 

does not guarantee participation or any 

other collaboration to any organization 

submitting a Letter of Interest. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3710a. 

Kevin Kimball, 

Chief of Staff. 

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BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XF574 

Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to 

Specified Activities; Taking Marine 

Mammals Incidental to U.S. 101/ 

Chehalis River Bridge—Scour Repair 

in Washington State 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental 

harassment authorization. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

regulations implementing the Marine 

Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) as 

amended, notification is hereby given 

that we have issued an incidental 

harassment authorization (IHA) to 

Washington State Department of 

Transportation (WSDOT) to take small 

numbers of marine mammals, by 

harassment, incidental to U.S. 101/ 

Chehalis River Bridge—Scour Repair in 

Washington State. 

DATES: This authorization is valid from 

July 1, 2018, through June 30, 2019. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shane Guan, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, (301) 427–8401. 

Electronic copies of the application and 

supporting documents, as well as the 

issued IHA, may be obtained online at: 

www.nmfs.noaa.gov/pr/permits/ 

incidental/construction.htm. In case of 

problems accessing these documents, 

please call the contact listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Sections 101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the 

MMPA (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) direct 

the Secretary of Commerce to allow, 

upon request, the incidental, but not 

intentional, taking of small numbers of 

marine mammals by U.S. citizens who 

engage in a specified activity (other than 

commercial fishing) within a specified 

geographical region if certain findings 

are made and either regulations are 

issued or, if the taking is limited to 

harassment, a notice of a proposed 

authorization is provided to the public 

for review. 

An authorization for incidental 

takings shall be granted if NMFS finds 

that the taking will have a negligible 

impact on the species or stock(s), will 

not have an unmitigable adverse impact 

on the availability of the species or 

stock(s) for subsistence uses (where 

relevant), and if the permissible 

methods of taking and requirements 

pertaining to the mitigation, monitoring 

and reporting of such takings are set 

forth. 

NMFS has defined ‘‘negligible 

impact’’ in 50 CFR 216.103 as an impact 

resulting from the specified activity that 

cannot be reasonably expected to, and is 

not reasonably likely to, adversely affect 

the species or stock through effects on 

annual rates of recruitment or survival. 

The MMPA states that the term ‘‘take’’ 

means to harass, hunt, capture, kill or 

attempt to harass, hunt, capture, or kill 

any marine mammal. 

Except with respect to certain 

activities not pertinent here, the MMPA 

defines ‘‘harassment’’ as: Any act of 

pursuit, torment, or annoyance which (i) 

has the potential to injure a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild (Level A harassment); or (ii) has 

the potential to disturb a marine 

mammal or marine mammal stock in the 

wild by causing disruption of behavioral 

patterns, including, but not limited to, 

migration, breathing, nursing, breeding, 

feeding, or sheltering (Level B 

harassment). 

National Environmental Policy Act 

Issuance of an MMPA 101(a)(5)(D) 

authorization requires compliance with 

the National Environmental Policy Act. 

NMFS determined the issuance of the 

proposed IHA is consistent with 

categories of activities identified in CE 

B4 (issuance of incidental harassment 

authorizations under section 

101(a)(5)(A) and (D) of the MMPA for 

which no serious injury or mortality is 


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