[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 19 (Friday, January 29, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Page 4702]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-2315]
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
[Investigation No. TA-201-68]
Lamb Meat; Import Investigations
AGENCY: United States International Trade Commission.
ACTION: Scheduling of time for vote on injury, and reasons for finding
the investigation is ``extraordinarily complicated.''
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EFFECTIVE DATE: January 26, 1999.
SUMMARY: The Commission has scheduled its vote in the injury phase of
this investigation for February 9, 1999, at 2 p.m., in the Main Hearing
Room, U.S. International Trade Commission Building, 500 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC. The Commission is publishing a separate Government in
the Sunshine Act notice for the February 9 meeting. The Commission's
reasons for finding the investigation to be extraordinarily complicated
are set forth in the ``background'' section below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Valerie Newkirk (202-205-3190), Office
of Investigations, U.S. International Trade Commission, 500 E Street
SW, Washington, DC 20436. Hearing impaired individuals are advised that
information on this matter can be obtained by contacting the TDD
terminal on (202-205-1810).
Background: On January 15, 1999, the Commission determined that
investigation No. TA-201-68, Lamb Meat, is ``extraordinarily
complicated'' within the meaning of section 202(b)(2)(B) of the Trade
Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252(b)(2)(B)). This determination allows the
Commission to take up to 30 additional days to make its injury
determination in this investigation--that is, the Commission must make
its injury determination before the 150th day after the filing of the
petition, as opposed to the 120th day. Under a 120-day schedule, the
Commission would have been required to make its injury determination by
February 4, 1999. However, the Commission plans to take only 5
additional days, and has scheduled its vote in the injury phase for
February 9. The time and place for the hearing in the remedy phase,
should this phase be necessary, and the deadlines for filing prehearing
and posthearing briefs and other submissions relating to remedy, remain
the same as previously announced.
The Commission's decision to designate this investigation
``extraordinarily complicated'' is based on the complexity of the
issues and the size of the record, which will include a substantial
amount of factual information developed late in the investigation and
after the Commission's January 12 public hearing. Because the schedule
for consideration of remedy issues does not change, the 5-day extension
will not impair the Commission's ability to give such issues sufficient
consideration.
Notice of institution of the investigation and scheduling was
published in the Federal Register of October 23, 1998 (63 FR 56940),
and notice of the Commission's determination that the investigation is
extraordinarily complicated was published in the Federal Register of
January 25, 1999 (64 FR 3715).
Issued: January 26, 1999.
By order of the Commission.
Donna R. Koehnke,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. 99-2315 Filed 1-28-99; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7020-02-P
