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details found through registering at the
web link above. To request additional
accommodations, please email
[email protected] at least 10 days
prior to the meeting.
Members of the public are invited to
make statements during the open
comment period of the meeting or
submit written comments. The
comments must be received in the
regional office approximately 30 days
after each scheduled meeting. Written
comments may be emailed to Barbara
Delaviez at [email protected]. Persons who
desire additional information may
contact Barbara Delaviez at 202–539–
8246.
Records and documents discussed
during the meeting will be available for
public viewing as they become available
at www.facadatabase.gov. Persons
interested in the work of this advisory
committee are advised to go to the
Commission’s website, www.usccr.gov,
or to contact the Eastern Regional Office
at the above phone number or email
address.
Agenda
Oct. 5, Nov. 2, Nov. 4, Nov. 9, and Nov.
16; 12:00 p.m. (ET)
• Rollcall
• Planning Meeting: Oct. 5
• Briefings on Water Affordability/
Accessibility: Nov. 2, Nov. 4, Nov. 9,
Nov. 16
• Next Steps and Other Business
• Open Comment
• Adjournment
Dated: September 21, 2021.
David Mussatt,
Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Services Surveys: BE–185,
Quarterly Survey of Financial Services
Transactions Between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Foreign
Persons
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 (PRA), on or after the date of
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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
May 26, 2021, during a 60-day comment
period. This notice allows for an
additional 30 days for public comments.
Agency: Bureau of Economic
Analysis, Department of Commerce.
Title: Quarterly Survey of
Transactions between U.S. Financial
Services Providers and Foreign Persons.
OMB Control Number: 0608–0065.
Form Number(s): BE–185.
Type of Request: Regular submission,
extension of a current information
collection.
Number of Respondents: 2,860
annually (715 filed each quarter; 580
reporting mandatory data, and 135 that
would file exemption claims or
voluntary responses).
Average Hours per Response: 10
hours is the average for those reporting
data and one hour is the average for
those filing an exemption claim. Hours
may vary considerably among
respondents because of differences in
company size and complexity.
Burden Hours: 24,140 hours annually.
Needs and Uses: The data are needed
to monitor U.S. trade in financial
services, to analyze the impact of these
cross-border services on the U.S. and
foreign economies, to compile and
improve the U.S. economic accounts, to
support U.S. commercial policy on trade
in services, to conduct trade promotion,
and to improve the ability of U.S.
businesses to identify and evaluate
market opportunities. The data are used
in estimating the trade in financial
services component of the U.S.
international transactions accounts
(ITAs) and national income and product
accounts (NIPAs).
Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.
Frequency: Quarterly.
Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.
Legal Authority: International
Investment and Trade in Services
Survey Act (Pub. L. 94–472, 22 U.S.C.
3101–3108, as amended), and Section
5408 of the Omnibus Trade and
Competitiveness Act of 1988.
This information collection request
may be viewed at www.reginfo.gov.
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
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publication of this notice on the
following website www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. 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 0608–0065.
Sheleen Dumas,
Department PRA Clearance Officer, Office of
the Chief Information Officer, Commerce
Department.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security
[Docket No. 210902–0176]
RIN 0694–XC083

Notice of Request for Public
Comments on Section 232 National
Security Investigation of Imports of
Neodymium-Iron-Boron (NdFeB)
Permanent Magnets
Bureau of Industry and
Security, Office of Technology
Evaluation, U.S. Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of request for public
comments.
AGENCY:

On September 21, 2021, the
Secretary of Commerce (Secretary)
initiated an investigation to determine
the effects on the national security from
imports of neodymium-iron-boron
(NdFeB) permanent magnets (sometimes
referred to as neodymium magnets, neo
magnets, or rare earth magnets). This
investigation has been initiated under
section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act
of 1962, as amended. While the
Department is interested in any
information related to this investigation
that the public can provide, this notice
identifies particular issues of
significance.

SUMMARY:

Interested parties are invited to
submit written comments, data,
analyses, or other information pertinent
to the investigation to the Department of
Commerce’s (Department) Bureau of
Industry and Security by November 12,
2021. The due date for filing comments
is November 12, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Submissions: You may
submit comments, identified by docket
number BIS 2021–0035 or RIN 0694–
XC083, through the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. To submit
comments via https://
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www.regulations.gov, enter docket
number BIS–2021–0035 on the home
page and click ‘‘search.’’ The site will
provide a search results page listing all
documents associated with this docket.
Find a reference to this notice and click
on the link entitled ‘‘Comment Now!’’
(For further information on using
https://www.regulations.gov, please
consult the resources provided on the
website by clicking on ‘‘How to Use
This Site.’’)
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
David Boylan, Industrial Studies
Division, Bureau of Industry and
Security, U.S. Department of Commerce,
(202) 482–0194, [email protected].
For more information about the section
232 program, including the regulations
and the text of previous investigations,
please see www.bis.doc.gov/232.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On September 21, 2021, the Secretary
initiated an investigation under section
232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962,
as amended (19 U.S.C. 1862), to
determine the effects on the national
security from imports of NdFeB
permanent magnets. Numerous critical
national security systems rely on NdFeB
permanent magnets, including fighter
aircraft and missile guidance systems. In
addition, NdFeB permanent magnets are
essential components of critical
infrastructure, including electric
vehicles and wind turbines. The
magnets are also used in computer hard
drives, audio equipment, and MRI
devices. If the Secretary finds that
NdFeB permanent magnets are being
imported into the United States in such
quantities or under such circumstances
as to threaten to impair the national
security, the Secretary shall so advise
the President in her report on the
findings of the investigation.

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Written Comments
This investigation is being undertaken
in accordance with part 705 of the
National Security Industrial Base
Regulations (15 CFR parts 700 to 709)
(‘‘NSIBR’’). Interested parties are invited
to submit written comments, data,
analyses, or information pertinent to
this investigation to the Department’s
Office of Technology Evaluation no later
than November 12, 2021.
The Department is particularly
interested in comments and information
directed to the criteria listed in § 705.4
of the NSIBR as they affect national
security, including the following:
(i) Quantity of or other circumstances
related to the importation of NdFeB
permanent magnets;

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(ii) Domestic production and
productive capacity needed for NdFeB
permanent magnets to meet projected
national defense requirements;
(iii) Existing and anticipated
availability of human resources,
products, raw materials, production
equipment, and facilities to produce
NdFeB permanent magnets;
(iv) Growth requirements of the
NdFeB permanent magnets industry to
meet national defense requirements
and/or requirements for supplies and
services necessary to assure such growth
including investment, exploration, and
development;
(v) The impact of foreign competition
on the economic welfare of the domestic
NdFeB permanent magnets industry;
(vi) The displacement of any domestic
NdFeB permanent magnets production
causing substantial unemployment,
decrease in the revenues of government,
loss of investment or specialized skills
and productive capacity, or other
serious effects;
(vii) Relevant factors that are causing
or will cause a weakening of our
national economy; and
(viii) Any other relevant factors,
including the use and importance of
NdFeB permanent magnets in critical
infrastructure sectors identified in
Presidential Policy Directive 21 (Feb.
12, 2013) (for a listing of those 16
sectors see https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/
critical-infrastructure-sectors).
Requirements for Written Comments
The https://www.regulations.gov
website allows users to provide
comments by filling in a ‘‘Type
Comment’’ field, or by attaching a
document using an ‘‘Upload File’’ field.
The Department prefers that comments
be provided in an attached document.
The Department prefers submissions in
Microsoft Word (.doc) or Adobe Acrobat
(.pdf). If the submission is in an
application format other than those two,
please indicate the name of the
application in the ‘‘Type Comment’’
field. Please do not attach separate cover
letters to electronic submissions; rather,
include any information that might
appear in a cover letter in the comments
themselves. Similarly, to the extent
possible please include any exhibits,
annexes, or other attachments in the
same file (as part of the submission
itself) rather than in separate files.
Comments will be placed in the docket
and open to public inspection, except
information determined to be
confidential as set forth in § 705.6 of the
NSIBR. Comments may be viewed on
https://www.regulations.gov by entering
docket number BIS–2021–0035 in the
search field on the home page.

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Material submitted by members of the
public that is properly marked business
confidential information and accepted
as such by the Department will be
exempted from public disclosure as set
forth in § 705.6 of the NSIBR. All filers
using the portal should use the name of
the person or entity submitting
comments as the name of their files, in
accordance with the instructions below.
Anyone submitting business
confidential information should clearly
identify the business confidential
portion at the time of submission, file a
statement justifying nondisclosure and
referring to the specific legal authority
claimed, and also provide a nonconfidential version of the submission
in a separate file.
For comments submitted
electronically containing business
confidential information, the file name
of the business confidential version
should begin with the characters ‘‘BC.’’
Any page containing business
confidential information must be clearly
marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’
on the top of that page. The
corresponding non-confidential version
of those comments must be clearly
marked ‘‘PUBLIC.’’ The file name of the
non-confidential version should begin
with the character ‘‘P.’’ The ‘‘BC’’ and
‘‘P’’ should be followed by the name of
the person or entity submitting the
comments or rebuttal comments. Any
submissions with file names that do not
begin with a ‘‘BC’’ or ‘‘P’’ will be
assumed to be public and will be made
publicly available through http://
www.regulations.gov.
The Bureau of Industry and Security
does not maintain a separate public
inspection facility. Requesters should
first view the Bureau of Industry and
Security web page, which can be found
at https://efoia.bis.doc.gov/ (see the link
to the Index of Documents under the
‘‘Electronic FOIA’’ heading on the web
page). If requesters cannot access the
website, they may call 202–482–0795
for assistance. The records related to
this assessment are made accessible in
accordance with the regulations
published in part 4 of title 15 of the
Code of Federal Regulations (15 CFR 4.1
et seq.).
Matthew S. Borman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export
Administration.
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