Commerce Department publishes rule on Feb. 21

The US Commerce Department published a two page rule on Feb. 21, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Western Pacific Crustacean Fisheries; 1996 Initial Quota.

The Department includes the Census Bureau, which is used to determine many factors about American life. Downsizing the Federal Government, a project aimed at lowering taxes and boosting federal efficiency, said the Department is involved in misguided foreign trade policies and is home to many unneeded programs.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Commerce Department on Feb. 21

Title
Public Information, Freedom of Information and Privacy
Western Pacific Crustacean Fisheries; 1996 Initial Quota
Color Television Receivers, Except for Video Monitors, From Taiwan; Amended Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
Foreign-Trade Zone 154Baton Rouge, Louisiana Application for Subzone Status, Exxon Corporation (Oil Refinery/Petrochemical Complex), Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area
Foreign-Trade Zone 70Detroit, Michigan; Application for Expansion
Trademark Processing
Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments
Ceramic Tile from Mexico; Amended Revocation of the Countervailing Duty Order
Marine Mammals
North Carolina State University, et al.; Notice of Consolidated Decision on Applications for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instruments This is a decision consolidated pursuant to Section 6(c) of the Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Materials Importation Act of 1966 (Pub. L. 89-651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be viewed between 8:30 A.M. and 5:00 P.M. in Room 4211, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. No instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, for such purposes as each is intended to be used, is being manufactured in the United States. Docket Number: 95-094. Applicant: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-7212. Instrument: Stopped-Flow Spectrophotometer, Model SX.17MV. Manufacturer: Applied Photophysics, United Kingdom. Intended Use: See notice at 60 FR 57221, November 14, 1995. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides: simultaneous measurements across the entire white-light spectrum with high beam stability using a diode array detector. Advice Received From: National Institutes of Health, December 1, 1995. The National Institutes of Health advises in its memorandum that (1) the capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are pertinent to each applicant's intended purpose and (2) they know of no domestic instrument or apparatus of equivalent scientific value for the intended use of each instrument. We know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to any of the foreign instruments.
Florida International University, Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument
Industrial Nitrocellulose From the United Kingdom
Steel Jacks From Canada; Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review
Continuous Electron Beam Accelerator Facility, Notice of Decision on Application for Duty-Free Entry of Scientific Instrument