📈Postponement of CVD Investigation for L-Lysine from China
The U.S. Department of Commerce has postponed the preliminary determination date in the countervailing duty investigation concerning L-lysine imports from the People's Republic of China. This decision follows a request by the Lysine Fair Trade Coalition seeking additional time to gather information regarding the investigation, affecting import compliance and trade dynamics.
Learn More🏗️National Construction Safety Team Advisory Committee Meeting Notice
The National Construction Safety Team (NCST) Advisory Committee (Committee) will hold an open virtual meeting via web conference on Tuesday, September 9, 2025, and Tuesday, September 16, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time. The primary purposes of this meeting are to update the Committee on the progress of the NCST investigation focused on the impacts of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, progress of the NCST investigation focused on the Champlain Towers South partial building collapse that occurred in Surfside, Florida, and provide responses to the Committee's 2024 recommendations. The final agenda will be posted on the NIST website at https://www.nist.gov/topics/disaster-failure-studies/national- construction-safety-team-ncst/advisory-committee-meetings.
Learn More🌊Proposed Revisions to NOAA Categorical Exclusions Under NEPA
A July 1, 2025, Notice in the Federal Register entitled "Procedures for Considering Environmental Impacts" announced an update of Department of Commerce (DOC or Department) Administrative Order 216-6, "Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act," (NEPA) and NEPA implementing procedures specific to sub-components of DOC. As part of that Notice, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) solicited comments on proposals to establish new categorical exclusions (CEs) and amend existing CEs. The description of CEs in that Notice included several technical errors. This correction provides revised CE text and a new deadline for public comments.
Learn More📄Comments Request on International Import Certificate Regulation
The Department of Commerce, in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), invites 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. The purpose of this notice is to allow for 60 days of public comment preceding submission of the collection to OMB.
Learn More🐟Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council Public Meeting Details
The Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold public meetings of the Council including joint session with the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) Interstate Fishery Management Programs (ISFMP) Policy Board and the Bluefish and Summer Flounder, Scup, and Black Sea Bass Management Boards.
Learn More🐟Notice of Public Meeting
The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council (Council) will hold a meeting of its advisory panels via webinar to address Executive Order Restoring American Seafood Competitiveness.
Learn More🎣NMFS Seeks Comments on Exempted Fishing Permit for Pacific Sardine
The Regional Administrator, West Coast Region, NMFS, has made a preliminary determination that an exempted fishing permit (EFP) application warrants further consideration. This application, from the California Wetfish Producers Association (CWPA), requests an exemption from the expected prohibition on primary directed fishing for Pacific sardine during the 2025-2026 fishing year as part of industry-based scientific research. NMFS requests public comment on this application.
Learn More📉Final Results of Antidumping Duty Administrative Review on Steel Pipes
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) determines that producers/exporters of heavy-walled rectangular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes (HWR) from Mexico made sales of subject merchandise at less than normal value during the period of review (POR), September 1, 2022, through August 31, 2023.
Learn More🧊Preliminary Negative Determination on Float Glass Imports from Malaysia
The U.S. Department of Commerce (Commerce) preliminarily determines that critical circumstances do not exist with respect to imports of float glass products in the countervailing duty (CVD) investigation of float glass products from Malaysia. The period of investigation is January 1, 2023, through December 31, 2023.
Learn More🌊Notice for Nominations to Inland Waterways Users Board
The Department of the Army is publishing this second notice to request nominations to serve as representatives on the Inland Waterways Users Board ("Board"), sponsored by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. The Board provides independent advice and recommendations to the Secretary of the Army and the Congress. The Secretary of the Army recommends its 11 (eleven) representative organizations to the Secretary of Defense for approval. This notice is to solicit nominations for eleven (11) appointments for terms that will begin by February 16, 2026. For additional information about the Board, please visit the committee's website at http://www.iwr.usace.army.mil/ Missions/Navigation/Inland-Waterways-Users-Board/.
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