Notice2022-05992
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment Request; Procedures for Submitting Rebuttals and Surrebuttals Requests for Exclusions From and Objections to the Section 232 National Security Adjustments of Imports of Steel and Aluminum
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March 22, 2022
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 55 (Tuesday, March 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16168-16169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05992]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Procedures for Submitting Rebuttals and Surrebuttals Requests
for Exclusions From and Objections to the Section 232 National Security
Adjustments of Imports of Steel and Aluminum
The Department of Commerce will submit the following information
collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, on or after the date of publication of this notice. We invite the
general public and other Federal agencies to comment on proposed, and
continuing information collections, which helps us assess the impact of
our information collection requirements and minimize the public's
reporting burden. Public comments were previously requested via the
Federal Register on November 23, 2021, during a 60-day comment period.
This notice allows for an additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: Bureau of Industry and Security.
Title: Procedures for Submitting Rebuttals and Surrebuttals
Requests for Exclusions from and Objections to the Section 232 National
Security Adjustments of Imports of Steel and Aluminum.
OMB Control Number: 0694-0141.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Regular submission, extension of a current
information collection.
Number of Respondents: 19,462.
Average Hours per Response: 1 hour.
Burden Hours: 19,462.
Needs and Uses: On March 8, 2018, President Trump issued
Proclamations 9704 and 9705, imposing duties on imports of aluminum and
steel. The Proclamations also authorized the Secretary of Commerce to
grant exclusions from the duties ``if the Secretary determines the
steel or aluminum article for which the exclusion is requested is not
produced in the United States in a sufficient and reasonably available
amount or of a satisfactory quality or should be excluded based upon
specific national security considerations.'' On March 19, 2018, the
Secretary of Commerce issued an interim final rule, setting forth the
requirements U.S. businesses must satisfy when submitting exclusion
requests. On behalf of the Secretary, the U.S. Department of Commerce,
Bureau of Industry and Security (DOC/BIS) published the March 19 rule,
Requirements for Submissions Requesting Exclusions from the Remedies
Instituted in Presidential Proclamations Adjusting Imports of Steel
into the United States and Adjusting Imports of Aluminum into the
United States; and the filing of Objections to Submitted Exclusion
Requests for Steel and Aluminum (83 FR 12106). The March 19 rule also
set forth the requirements that U.S. parties must meet when submitting
objections to exclusion requests. The March 19 rule amended the
National Security Industrial Base Regulations to add two new
supplements, Supplements No. 1 (for steel exclusion requests) and No. 2
(for aluminum exclusion requests) to part 705. The Secretary started
this
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process with the publication of the March 19 rule and is continuing
that process to make various improvements with the publication of a
second interim final rule described below, including adding a rebuttal
and surrebuttal process. On September 11, 2018, BIS published a second
interim final rule, Submissions of Exclusion Requests and Objections to
Submitted Requests for Steel and Aluminum (83 FR 46026). The second
interim final rule published by BIS, on behalf of the Secretary, made
changes to the two supplements added in the March 19 rule: Supplement
No. 1 to Part 705--Requirements for Submissions Requesting Exclusions
from the Remedies Instituted in Presidential Proclamation 9705 of March
8, 2018 Adjusting Imports of Steel Articles into the United States; and
to Supplement No. 2 to Part 705--Requirements for Submissions
Requesting Exclusions from the Remedies Instituted in Presidential
Proclamation 9704 of March 8, 2018 to Adjusting Imports of Aluminum
into the United States.
Affected Public: Business or other for-profit organizations.
Frequency: On Occasion.
Respondent's Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962,
Presidential Proclamations 9704 and 9705.
This information collection request may be viewed at
<a href="http://www.reginfo.gov">www.reginfo.gov</a>. Follow the instructions to view the Department of
Commerce collections currently under review by OMB.
Written comments and recommendations for the proposed information
collection should be submitted within 30 days of the publication of
this notice on the following website <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>.
Find this particular information collection by selecting ``Currently
under 30-day Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search
function and entering either the title of the collection or the OMB
Control Number 0694-0141.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information
Officer, Commerce Department.
[FR Doc. 2022-05992 Filed 3-21-22; 8:45 am]
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