80 FR 46243 - Smart Cities Infrastructure Business Development Mission to India; February 8-12, 2016
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
International Trade Administration Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 149 (August 4, 2015)
International Trade Administration
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 149 (August 4, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-19123 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 149 (Tuesday, August 4, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 46243-46245] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-19123] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE International Trade Administration Smart Cities Infrastructure Business Development Mission to India; February 8-12, 2016 AGENCY: International Trade Administration, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The United States Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration (ITA) is organizing an Executive-led Smart Cities Infrastructure Business Development Mission to India (New Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai, with an optional spin off site visit to Vizag) from February 8-12, 2016. Today, India's cities account for approximately 60% of the country's Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2030, that share is expected to reach 75% and the urban labor force is expected to increase by nearly 200 million workers. The new Indian Government led by Prime Minister Modi assumed office in June 2014 with an overwhelming mandate to focus on economic development. To capture the popular imagination and motivate the people of India, the new government has proposed a dramatic nationwide program to build 100 smart cities. In practice this will mean a wide variety of major infrastructure projects across the country that will be funded by the central and state governments over the next few years along with private sector capital. Infrastructure needs in India are estimated to be in the $1.5-$2 trillion range. The recently launched initiative [[Page 46244]] will move to define and implement reforms that drive the growth of smart cities. At this stage, the government has highlighted resource management, 24 hour water and power supply, world class transportation systems, state of the art education systems, advanced e-government, and environmental sustainability as pillars of India's smart cities. This initiative offers excellent opportunities for U.S. companies to participate in these projects in selected areas and sectors. In recognition of cutting-edge U.S. technologies, products and services, the Government of India is encouraging the U.S. Government (USG) and U.S. companies to take the lead in developing smart city projects in three major urban areas: Ajmer in the state of Rajasthan, Allahabad in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Vishakhapatnam (aka Vizag) in the state of Andhra Pradesh. With the support of the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, U.S. companies will be involved in planning and technical assistance for each of these cities. However, U.S. participation is not limited to these three cities. CS India, in partnership with the American Chamber of Commerce and other local commercial chambers, has been staging events throughout the country in cities with additional public and private smart city projects. Schedule ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Day of week Date Activity ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday...................... Feb. 7......... Participants arrive in Delhi. Monday...................... Feb. 8......... Country briefing by U.S. Embassy staff on programs and opportunities in the infrastructure sector. B-2-B Business Meetings for delegates in New Delhi. Evening Reception. Tuesday..................... Feb. 9......... Government meetings. Depart for Mumbai afternoon. Briefing on Western India. Evening Reception. Wednesday................... Feb. 10........ B-2-B Business Meetings for delegates in Mumbai. Evening Travel to Chennai. Thursday.................... Feb. 11........ Briefing on Southern India B-2-B Business Meetings for delegates in Chennai. Evening Reception. Friday...................... Feb. 12........ Optional smart city site visit to Vizag.* Return to the United States on own itinerary. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ * Vizag (aka Vishakhapatnam) has made the most progress in terms of planning for physical infrastructure upgrades and implementation of smart city technologies. Additionally, the US Trade and Development Agency recently awarded a master planning contract to a consortium of US companies to facilitate smart city implementation in Vizag. A spin off visit to Vizag will provide an opportunity for mission participants to visit an up and coming smart city in India and to market their technologies directly to decision makers in Vizag as well as to the US consortium that has the master planning contract. Target Sectors ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IT infrastructure Water ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [ssquf] IT architecture, security solutions, [ssquf] Engineering, and other Internet of Things applications. procurement, and construction services. [ssquf] Smart Grid applications, including [ssquf] Operations Demand Management and Demand Response, services. Distribution Automation, and Distributed [ssquf] Advanced Energy Resource Management. Filtration. [ssquf] Building Energy Management Systems, [ssquf] Membrane LED Lighting, Smart Street Lighting and filtration. other energy efficient lighting systems and [ssquf] Sewage treatment control technology. technology. [ssquf] Waste to energy technology. [ssquf] Energy efficient technologies and [ssquf] Anaerobic applications in transportation. digestion. [ssquf] Services for city planning, [ssquf] Nitrification. including Environmental Sustainability [ssquf] Biological Plans, GIS mapping, and financial services. denitrification. [ssquf] Monitoring equipment. [ssquf] Testing equipment. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Web site: Please visit our official mission Web site for more information: http://www.export.gov/trademissions/smartcitiesindia2016/index.asp Fees: $4,000 for SME firms. $4,500 for large firms. Additional participants: $1,000 per person. Additional fees for optional trip to Vizag: SME firms that will be attending the optional Vizag trip will pay $4,100, Large firms that attend will pay $4,800. Application: All interested firms and associations may register via the following link, https://emenuapps.ita.doc.gov/ePublic/TM/6R0Q. Application Deadline: November 10, 2015. Exclusions The mission fee does not include any personal travel expenses such as lodging, most meals, local ground transportation, and air transportation from the U.S. to the mission sites, between mission sites, and return to the United States. Business visas may be required. Government fees and processing expenses to obtain such visas are also not included in the mission costs. However, the U.S. Department of Commerce will provide instructions to each participant on the procedures required to obtain necessary business visas. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each applicant must submit a completed and signed mission application and supplemental application materials, including adequate information on the company's products or services primary market objectives, and goals for participation. If the U.S. Department of Commerce receives an incomplete application, the Department may reject the application, request additional [[Page 46245]] information, or take the lack of information into account when evaluating the applications. Companies must provide certification of products or services originating from the United States or if manufactured/produced outside of the United States, the product/service is marketed under the name of a U.S. firm and has U.S. content representing at least 51% of the value of the finished good or service. In the case of a trade association or trade organization, the applicant must certify that, for each company to be represented by the trade association or trade organization, the products and services the represented company seeks to export are either produced in the United States or, if not, marketed under the name of a U.S. firm and have at least 51% U.S. content. Criteria for Application The following criteria will be evaluated in selecting participants:Relevance of the company's (or in the case of a trade association/organization, represented companies') business to the mission goals; Company's (or in the case of a trade association/ organization, represented companies') market potential for business in India; and Provision of adequate information on the company's products and/or services, and communication of the company's (or in the case of a trade association/organization, represented companies') primary objectives. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Jessica Dulkadir, International Trade Specialist, Trade Missions, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, Tel: 202 482 2026, Fax: 202-482-9000, [email protected]. Ms. Camille Richardson, Principal Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service, Mumbai, Tel: +91 22 2672-4215, [email protected]. Frank Spector, Trade Missions Program. 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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE on the U.S. and foreign economies, to (including hours and cost) of the
compile and improve the U.S. economic proposed collection of information; (c)
Bureau of Economic Analysis accounts, to support U.S. commercial ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
policy on trade in services, to conduct clarity of the information to be
Proposed Information Collection; trade promotion, and to improve the collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
Comment Request; Services Surveys: ability of U.S. businesses to identify and burden of the collection of information
BE–125, Quarterly Survey of evaluate market opportunities. The data on respondents, including through the
Transactions in Selected Services and are used in estimating the services use of automated collection techniques
Intellectual Property With Foreign component of the U.S. international or other forms of information
Persons transactions accounts and national technology.
AGENCY: Bureau of Economic Analysis, income and product accounts. Comments submitted in response to
Commerce. The Bureau of Economic Analysis this notice will be summarized and/or
ACTION: Notice.
(BEA) is proposing minor additions and included in the request for OMB
modifications to the current BE–125 approval of this information collection;
SUMMARY: The Department of survey. The effort to keep current they also will become a matter of public
Commerce, as part of its continuing reporting requirements generally record.
effort to reduce paperwork and unchanged is intended to minimize Dated: July 28, 2015.
respondent burden, invites the general respondent burden while considering Glenna Mickelson,
public and other Federal agencies to the needs of data users. Existing
Management Analyst, Office of Chief
comment on proposed and/or language in the instructions and Information Officer.
continuing information collections, as definitions will be reviewed and
[FR Doc. 2015–18873 Filed 8–3–15; 8:45 am]
required by the Paperwork Reduction adjusted as necessary to clarify survey
BILLING CODE 3510–06–P
Act of 1995, Public Law 104–13 (44 requirements.
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)).
II. Method of Collection
DATES: Written comments must be DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
submitted on or before October 5, 2015. Form BE–125 is a quarterly report that
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
must be filed within 45 days after the International Trade Administration
to Jennifer Jessup, Departmental end of each fiscal quarter, or within 90
Paperwork Clearance Officer, days after the close of the fiscal year. Smart Cities Infrastructure Business
Department of Commerce, Room 6616, BEA offers its electronic filing option, Development Mission to India;
14th and Constitution Avenue NW., the eFile system, for use in reporting on February 8–12, 2016
Washington, DC 20230, or via email at Form BE–125. For more information
about eFile, go to www.bea.gov/efile. AGENCY: International Trade
jjessup@doc.gov. Administration, Department of
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: III. Data Commerce.
Requests for additional information or OMB Control Number: 0608–0067. ACTION: Notice.
copies of the information collection Form Number: BE–125.
instrument and instructions should be Type of Review: Regular submission. SUMMARY: The United States Department
directed to Christopher Stein, Chief, Affected Public: Business or other for- of Commerce, International Trade
Services Surveys Branch BE–50 (SSB), profit organizations. Administration (ITA) is organizing an
Bureau of Economic Analysis, U.S. Estimated Number of Responses: Executive-led Smart Cities
Department of Commerce, Washington, 8,400 annually (2,100 filed each quarter; Infrastructure Business Development
DC 20230; phone: (202) 606–9850; fax: 1,600 reporting mandatory data, and 500 Mission to India (New Delhi, Mumbai
(202) 606–5318; or via email at that would file other responses). and Chennai, with an optional spin off
christopher.stein@bea.gov. Estimated Time Per Response: 16 site visit to Vizag) from February 8–12,
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: hours is the average for those reporting 2016.
data and 1 hour is the average for other Today, India’s cities account for
I. Abstract responses, but hours may vary approximately 60% of the country’s
The Quarterly Survey of Transactions considerably among respondents Gross Domestic Product (GDP). By 2030,
in Selected Services and Intellectual because of differences in company size that share is expected to reach 75% and
Property with Foreign Persons (BE–125) and complexity. the urban labor force is expected to
is a survey that collects data from U.S. Estimated Total Annual Burden increase by nearly 200 million workers.
persons that engage in covered Hours: 104,400. The new Indian Government led by
transactions with foreign persons in Estimated Total Annual Cost to Prime Minister Modi assumed office in
selected services or intellectual Public: $0. June 2014 with an overwhelming
property. A U.S. person must report if Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory. mandate to focus on economic
it had sales of covered services or LEGAL AUTHORITY: International development. To capture the popular
intellectual property to foreign persons Investment and Trade in Services imagination and motivate the people of
that exceeded $6 million for the Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472, 22 U.S.C. India, the new government has
previous fiscal year, or are expected to 3101–3108, as amended). proposed a dramatic nationwide
exceed that amount during the current program to build 100 smart cities. In
fiscal year, or if it had purchases of IV. Request for Comments practice this will mean a wide variety of
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covered services or intellectual property Comments are invited on: (a) Whether major infrastructure projects across the
from foreign persons that exceeded $4 the proposed collection of information country that will be funded by the
million for the previous fiscal year, or is necessary for the proper performance central and state governments over the
are expected to exceed that amount of the functions of the Agency, next few years along with private sector
during the current fiscal year. including whether the information will capital. Infrastructure needs in India are
The data are needed to monitor U.S. have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of estimated to be in the $1.5–$2 trillion
trade in services, to analyze the impact the Agency’s estimate of the burden range. The recently launched initiative
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information, or take the lack of SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce Notifications
information into account when (the Department) is rescinding its
evaluating the applications. administrative review of the This notice serves as a final reminder
Companies must provide certification antidumping duty order on polyester to importers of their responsibility
of products or services originating from staple fiber (PSF) from Taiwan for the under 19 CFR 351.402(f)(2) to file a
the United States or if manufactured/ period of review (POR) May 1, 2014, certificate regarding the reimbursement
produced outside of the United States, through April 30, 2015. of antidumping duties prior to
the product/service is marketed under liquidation of the relevant entries
DATES: Effective Date: August 4, 2015.
the name of a U.S. firm and has U.S. during this review period. Failure to
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
content representing at least 51% of the comply with this requirement could
Bryan Hansen at 202–482–3683 or result in the Department’s presumption
value of the finished good or service. In Minoo Hatten at 202–482–1690, AD/
the case of a trade association or trade that reimbursement of antidumping
CVD Operations Office I, Enforcement duties occurred and the subsequent
organization, the applicant must certify and Compliance, International Trade
that, for each company to be represented assessment of doubled antidumping
Administration, U.S. Department of duties.
by the trade association or trade Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
organization, the products and services Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. This notice also serves as a reminder
the represented company seeks to to parties subject to administrative
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
export are either produced in the United protective order (APO) of their
States or, if not, marketed under the Background responsibility concerning the
name of a U.S. firm and have at least On May 30, 2015, based on a timely disposition of proprietary information
51% U.S. content. request for review by Far Eastern New disclosed under APO, in accordance
Century Corporation (FENC), an with 19 CFR 351.305(a)(3). Timely
Criteria for Application written notification of the return or
exporter of subject merchandise,1 the
The following criteria will be Department initiated an administrative destruction of APO materials or
evaluated in selecting participants: review of the antidumping duty order conversion to judicial protective order is
• Relevance of the company’s (or in on PSF from Taiwan with respect to hereby requested. Failure to comply
the case of a trade association/ FENC.2 with the regulations and the terms of an
organization, represented companies’) On July 21, 2015, FENC withdrew its APO is a sanctionable violation.
business to the mission goals; request for an administrative review.3 This notice is issued and published in
• Company’s (or in the case of a trade accordance with sections 751(a)(1) and
association/organization, represented Rescission of Review 777(i)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
companies’) market potential for Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.213(d)(1), the 351.213(d)(4).
business in India; and Department will rescind an Dated: July 28, 2015.
• Provision of adequate information administrative review, if a party that
Christian Marsh,
on the company’s products and/or requested a review withdraws the
services, and communication of the request within 90 days of the date of Deputy Assistant Secretary for Antidumping
and Countervailing Duty Operations.
company’s (or in the case of a trade publication of notice of initiation of the
association/organization, represented [FR Doc. 2015–19143 Filed 8–3–15; 8:45 am]
requested review. FENC withdrew its
companies’) primary objectives. request for review within the 90-day BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: time limit. Because no other party
Ms. Jessica Dulkadir, International requested a review, the Department is
rescinding this administrative review of DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Trade Specialist, Trade Missions, U.S.
Department of Commerce, the antidumping duty order on PSF International Trade Administration
Washington, DC 20230, Tel: 202 482 from Taiwan.
2026, Fax: 202–482–9000, Assessment [A–570–979]
Jessica.Dulkadir@trade.gov.
Ms. Camille Richardson, Principal The Department will instruct U.S.
Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells,
Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Whether or Not Assembled Into
Service, Mumbai, Tel: +91 22 2672– assess antidumping duties on all
appropriate entries of PSF from Taiwan Modules From the People’s Republic
4215, Camille.Richardson@trade.gov. of China: Partial Rescission of
during the POR at rates equal to the cash
Frank Spector, deposit rate of estimated antidumping Antidumping Duty Administrative
Trade Missions Program. duties required at the time of entry, or Review
[FR Doc. 2015–19123 Filed 8–3–15; 8:45 am] withdrawal from warehouse, for AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P consumption, in accordance with 19 International Trade Administration,
CFR 351.212(c)(1)(i). The Department Department of Commerce.
intends to issue appropriate assessment
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE instructions to CBP 15 days after the DATES: Effective Date: August 4, 2015.
publication of this notice in the Federal FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
International Trade Administration Register. Pedersen or Thomas Martin, AD/CVD
[A–583–833] Operations, Office IV, Import
1 See letter from FENC to the Department,
Administration, International Trade
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Polyester Staple Fiber From Taiwan: ‘‘Polyester Staple Fiber from Taiwan’’ (May 30,
2015).
Administration, U.S. Department of
Rescission of Antidumping Duty 2 See Initiation of Antidumping and Commerce, 14th Street and Constitution
Administrative Review; 2014–2015 Countervailing Duty Administrative Reviews, 80 FR Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230,
AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
37588 (July 1, 2015). telephone: (202) 482–2769 or (202) 482–
3 See letter from FENC to the Department,
International Trade Administration, 3936, respectively.
‘‘Polyester Staple Fiber from Taiwan’’ (July 21,
Department of Commerce. 2015). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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| Contact | Ms. Jessica Dulkadir, International Trade Specialist, Trade Missions, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, Tel: 202 482 2026, Fax: 202-482-9000, [email protected] Ms. Camille Richardson, Principal Commercial Officer, U.S. Commercial Service, Mumbai, Tel: +91 22 2672-4215, [email protected] | |
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