What did Commerce Department publish on April 23?

The US Commerce Department published a five page rule on April 23, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Addition of Certain Persons to the Entity List.

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 April 23

Title
Marine Mammals; File No. 19444
Recruitment of First Responder Network Authority Board Members
Marine Mammals; File No. 18662
Endangered Species; File No. 18604
Taking of Threatened or Endangered Marine Mammals Incidental to Commercial Fishing Operations; Issuance of Permit
Subsidy Programs Provided by Countries Exporting Softwood Lumber and Softwood Lumber Products to the United States; Request for Comment
Steel Wire Garment Hangers From the Socialist Republic of Vietnam: Rescission of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review; 2014-2015
Approval of Subzone Status; Red Wing Shoe Company, Inc., Red Wing, Minnesota
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 93-Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Cormetech, Inc. (Selective Catalyst Reduction Catalysts), Durham, North Carolina
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request
Prestressed Concrete Steel Wire Strand From Brazil, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea, Mexico, and Thailand: Continuation of the Antidumping Duty Finding/Orders and Countervailing Duty Order
Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 134-Chattanooga, Tennessee; Notification of Proposed Production Activity, Cormetech, Inc. (Selective Catalyst Reduction Catalysts), Cleveland, TN
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Cod by Trawl Catcher Vessels in the Central Regulatory Area of the Gulf of Alaska
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pacific Ocean Perch in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Management Area
Fisheries of the Exclusive Economic Zone Off Alaska; Pollock in Statistical Area 630 in the Gulf of Alaska
Addition of Certain Persons to the Entity List