81_FR_6257 81 FR 6233 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

81 FR 6233 - Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 24 (February 5, 2016)

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FR Document2016-02231

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 24 (Friday, February 5, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 24 (Friday, February 5, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 6233-6234]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02231]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    The Department of Commerce will submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) for clearance the following proposal for collection of 
information under the emergency provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 
Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).
    Agency: International Trade Administration (ITA).
    Title: Interim Procedures for Considering Requests from the Public 
under the Textile and Apparel Safeguard Provision of the United States-
Korea Free Trade Agreement.
    OMB Control Number: 0625-0269.
    Type of Request: Regular submission.
    Burden Hours: 56.
    Number of Respondents: 14.
    Average Hours per Response: 4 hours for a Textile and Apparel 
Safeguard Request; and 4 hours for a Comment.
    Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle C, Section 331 through Section 
338 of the United States-Korea Free Trade Agreement Implementation Act 
(the ``Act'') implements the textile and apparel safeguard provisions, 
provided for in Article 4.1 of the United States-Korea Free Trade 
Agreement (the ``Agreement''), which entered into force on March 15, 
2012. This safeguard mechanism applies when, as a result of the 
reduction or elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a 
Korean textile or apparel article is being imported into the United 
States in such increased quantities, in absolute terms or relative to 
the domestic market for that article, and under such conditions as to 
cause serious damage or actual threat thereof to a U.S. industry 
producing a like or directly competitive article. In these 
circumstances, Article 4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a) 
suspend any further reduction in the rate of duty provided for under 
Annex 2-B of the Agreement in the duty imposed on the article; or (b) 
increase duties on the imported article from

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Korea to a level that does not exceed the lesser of the prevailing U.S. 
normal trade relations (``NTR'')/most-favored-nation (``MFN'') duty 
rate for the article or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect on the day 
before the Agreement enters into force.
    The Statement of Administrative Action accompanying the Act 
provides that the Committee for the Implementation of Textile 
Agreements (CITA) will issue procedures for requesting such safeguard 
measures, for making its determinations under Section 332(a) of the 
Act, and for providing relief under Section 332(b) of the Act. CITA was 
unable to publish these procedures earlier and is requesting an 
emergency review of the information collection and procedures from the 
Office of Management and Budget.
    CITA must collect information in order to determine whether a 
domestic textile or apparel industry is being adversely impacted by 
imports of these products from Korean, thereby allowing CITA to take 
corrective action to protect the viability of the domestic textile or 
apparel industry, subject to section 332(b) of the Act.
    Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
    Frequency: On occasion.
    Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
    Copies of the above information collection proposal can be obtained 
by calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, Departmental Paperwork Clearance 
Officer, (202) 482-0336, Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230 or via email at 
[email protected].
    Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information 
collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of this notice 
to Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk Officer, Fax number (202) 395-5167 or via 
the Internet at [email protected].

Sheleen Dumas,
Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-02231 Filed 2-4-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 24 / Friday, February 5, 2016 / Notices 6233 of interest to the Tribes. A monitoring Nature of Decision To Be Made Dated: February 1, 2016. strategy will be developed to support Stacey L. Forson, learning and sharing lessons learned This proposed action is a proposal Forest Supervisor, Ochoco National Forest. through time. Input from interested and not a decision. The Forest Dated: January 29, 2016. parties and the most current, applicable Supervisors of the Ochoco, Umatilla, Genevieve R. Masters, science will be used to guide the and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests Forest Supervisor, Umatilla National Forest. learning strategy. will decide, for their respective Forests, Dated: January 29, 2016. Connected actions that would be whether to implement the action as proposed, whether to take no action at Tom Montoya, analyzed as a part of the EIS include hazard tree removal, snag creation, this time, or whether to implement any Forest Supervisor, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. down wood creation, soil remediation alternatives that are analyzed. The [FR Doc. 2016–02269 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] (subsoiling, scarification), invasive plant Forest Supervisors will also decide treatment, native seeding of disturbed BILLING CODE 3410–11–P whether to amend their respective Land sites, system road reconstruction, road and Resource Management Plan, if maintenance, re-closure of roads opened necessary to implement the decision. to implement treatments, water source DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE development, material source Scoping Process development, installation of erosion Submission for OMB Review; This notice of intent initiates the Comment Request control features, culvert replacement for scoping process, which guides the haul support, activity fuel preparation The Department of Commerce will development of the environmental and treatment, hand line construction, submit to the Office of Management and impact statement. Issues that are raised temporary fencing, stump treatment for Budget (OMB) for clearance the annosus root rot, and reforestation. A with the proposal may lead to alternative ways to meet the purpose following proposal for collection of suite of Best Management Practices information under the emergency (BMPs) and Project Design Criteria and need of the project. Scoping will provisions of the Paperwork Reduction (PDC) will be integrated into the design also be used to determine site specific Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). of alternatives and the analysis of effects concerns that are relevant to forest Agency: International Trade to ensure that relevant natural treatment locations. Administration (ITA). resources, tribal treaty resources, and It is important that reviewers provide Title: Interim Procedures for social values are managed and protected their comments at such times and in Considering Requests from the Public in a manner consistent with policy, law, such manner that they are useful to the under the Textile and Apparel and regulation. BMPs and PDCs will agency’s preparation of the Safeguard Provision of the United also serve to ensure that implementation environmental impact statement. States–Korea Free Trade Agreement. of the actions described in the ROD are Therefore, comments should be OMB Control Number: 0625–0269. properly executed. provided prior to the close of the Type of Request: Regular submission. The purpose and need for action is comment periods and should clearly Burden Hours: 56. consistent with the Ochoco, Umatilla, articulate the reviewer’s concerns and Number of Respondents: 14. and Wallowa-Whitman National Forest contentions. Average Hours per Response: 4 hours Land and Resource Management Plans for a Textile and Apparel Safeguard (LRMP), as amended and applicable. Comments received in response to Request; and 4 hours for a Comment. Other key guiding policies include, but this solicitation, including names and Needs and Uses: Title III, Subtitle C, are not limited to, the Endangered addresses of those who comment, will Section 331 through Section 338 of the Species Act, National Forest be part of the public record for this United States–Korea Free Trade Management Act, National Cohesive proposed action. Comments submitted Agreement Implementation Act (the Wildland Fire Management Strategy, anonymously will be accepted and ‘‘Act’’) implements the textile and and all laws and executive orders and considered. apparel safeguard provisions, provided Forest Service policies guiding Tribal Several public engagement sessions for in Article 4.1 of the United States– consultation. will be held in Blue Mountains Korea Free Trade Agreement (the Go to http://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/ communities in March 2016 before ‘‘Agreement’’), which entered into force forestresiliencyproject for more detailed completion of the scoping period.It is on March 15, 2012. This safeguard information and maps of the project area important that reviewers provide their mechanism applies when, as a result of and proposed treatments. comments at such times and in such the reduction or elimination of a customs duty under the Agreement, a Forest Plan Amendments manner that they are useful to the Korean textile or apparel article is being agency’s preparation of the If necessary to meet the purpose and imported into the United States in such environmental impact statement. increased quantities, in absolute terms need of the FRP, the Forest Service may need to amend one or more Forest Plans Therefore, comments should be or relative to the domestic market for for activities such as cutting large trees provided prior to the close of the that article, and under such conditions (>21″ in diameter), restoring or comment period and should clearly as to cause serious damage or actual conserving old forest characteristics, articulate the reviewer’s concerns and threat thereof to a U.S. industry contentions. mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES restoring forest structure in elk habitat, producing a like or directly competitive or maintaining current road densities. article. In these circumstances, Article 4.1.1(b) permits the United States to (a) Responsible Official suspend any further reduction in the The responsible officials for decisions rate of duty provided for under Annex on the Ochoco, Umatilla, and Wallowa- 2–B of the Agreement in the duty Whitman National Forests are their imposed on the article; or (b) increase respective Forest Supervisors. duties on the imported article from VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:22 Feb 04, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\05FEN1.SGM 05FEN1

6234 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 24 / Friday, February 5, 2016 / Notices Korea to a level that does not exceed the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction responsibility for publishing the lesser of the prevailing U.S. normal Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). procedures and administering trade relations (‘‘NTR’’)/most-favored- Agency: International Trade commercial availability requests to the nation (‘‘MFN’’) duty rate for the article Administration (ITA). Committee for the Implementation of or the U.S. NTR/MFN duty rate in effect Title: Interim Procedures for Textile Agreements (CITA), which on the day before the Agreement enters Considering Requests under the issues procedures and acts on requests into force. Commercial Availability Provision of through the U.S. Department of The Statement of Administrative the United States-Korea Free Trade Commerce, Office of Textiles and Action accompanying the Act provides Agreement. Apparel (OTEXA). OTEXA was unable that the Committee for the OMB Control Number: 0625–0270. to publish these procedures earlier and Implementation of Textile Agreements Type of Request: Emergency is requesting an emergency review of (CITA) will issue procedures for submission (new information the information collection and requesting such safeguard measures, for collection). procedures from the Office of making its determinations under Burden Hours: 89. Management and Budget. Section 332(a) of the Act, and for Number of Respondents: 16. CITA must collect information about Average Hours per Response: 8 hours fiber, yarn or fabric technical providing relief under Section 332(b) of for Request for Commercial Availability specifications and the production the Act. CITA was unable to publish Determination; 2 hours for Response to capabilities of U.S. textile producers to these procedures earlier and is a Request; and 1 hour for Rebuttal. determine whether certain fibers, yarns, requesting an emergency review of the Needs and Uses: The United States information collection and procedures or fabrics are available in commercial and Korea negotiated the U.S.-Korea quantities in a timely manner in the from the Office of Management and Free Trade Agreement (the Budget. United States, subject to Section ‘‘Agreement’’), which entered into force 202(o)(3) of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade CITA must collect information in on March 15, 2012. Subject to the rules Agreement Implementation Act. order to determine whether a domestic of origin in Annex 4–A of the Affected Public: Business or other for- textile or apparel industry is being Agreement, pursuant to the provisions profit organizations. adversely impacted by imports of these of the Agreement, textile and apparel Frequency: On occasion. products from Korean, thereby allowing articles must contain fiber, yarn, and Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. CITA to take corrective action to protect fabric produced in Korea or the United Copies of the above information the viability of the domestic textile or States to receive duty-free tariff collection proposal can be obtained by apparel industry, subject to section treatment. Appendix 4–B–1 of the calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, 332(b) of the Act. Affected Public: Business or other for- Agreement will contain a list of specific Department Paperwork Clearance profit organizations. fiber, yarn, or fabric that either Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of Frequency: On occasion. importing Party determined, based on Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. information supplied by interested Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, Copies of the above information entities, that the fiber, yarn, or fabric is DC 20230 or via the Internet at JJessup@ collection proposal can be obtained by not available in commercial quantities doc.gov. calling or writing Jennifer Jessup, in a timely manner in its territory, or if Written comments and Departmental Paperwork Clearance no interested entity objects to the recommendations for the proposed Officer, (202) 482–0336, Department of request. Textile and apparel articles information collection should be sent Commerce, Room 6616, 14th and containing these fibers, yarns, or fabrics within 30 days of publication of this Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, would also be entitled to duty-free or notice to Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk DC 20230 or via email at JJessup@ preferential duty treatment despite not Officer, Fax number (202) 395–5167 or doc.gov. being produced in Korea or the United via the Internet at Wendy_L._Liberante@ Written comments and States. omb.eop.gov. recommendations for the proposed The list of commercially unavailable Sheleen Dumas, information collection should be sent fibers, yarns, and fabrics may be Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief within 30 days of publication of this changed pursuant to the commercial Information Officer. notice to Wendy Liberante, OMB Desk availability provision in Chapter 4, [FR Doc. 2016–02229 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] Officer, Fax number (202) 395–5167 or Annex 4–B, Paragraphs 1–13 of the BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P via the Internet at Wendy_L._Liberante@ Agreement. Under this provision, omb.gov. interested entities from the United States or Korea have the right to request Sheleen Dumas, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE that a specific fiber, yarn, or fabric be Departmental PRA Lead, Office of the Chief added to, or removed from, the list of Information Officer. International Trade Administration commercially unavailable fibers, yarns, [FR Doc. 2016–02231 Filed 2–4–16; 8:45 am] and fabrics in Appendix 4–B–1. [C–560–824] BILLING CODE 3510–FP–P Section 202(o)(3) of the Act provides that the President may modify the list of Certain Coated Paper Suitable for fibers, yarns and fabrics in Appendix 4– High-Quality Print Graphics Using DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE B–1 by determining whether additional Sheet-Fed Presses From Indonesia: Final Results of Expedited First Sunset mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES fibers, yarns, or fabrics are not available Submission for OMB Review; Review of the Countervailing Duty in commercial quantities in a timely Comment Request Order manner in the United States, and that The Department of Commerce will the President will issue procedures AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance, submit to the Office of Management and governing the submission of requests International Trade Administration, Budget (OMB) for clearance the and providing an opportunity for Department of Commerce. following proposal for collection of interested entities to submit comments. 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FR Citation81 FR 6233 
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