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Dated: , 2019. If the verified notice contains false or the Senior Privacy Program Manager: Jeffrey Herzig, misleading information, the exemption Christopher A. Marsalis, Tennessee Clearance Clerk. is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the Valley Authority, 400 W Summit Hill [FR Doc. 2019–25879 Filed 11–27–19; 8:45 am] exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) Dr. (WT 5D), Knoxville, Tennessee BILLING CODE 4915–01–P be filed at any time. The filing of 37902–1401; telephone (865) 632–2467 a petition to revoke will not (this is not a toll-free number) or by automatically stay the effectiveness of email at [email protected]. SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD the exemption. Petitions for stay must SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: be filed no later than 6, 2019 [Docket No. FD 36363] Type of Request: Extension without (at least seven days before the change of a currently approved CSX Transportation, Inc.—Corporate exemption becomes effective). collection. Family Merger Exemption—The Home All pleadings, referring to Docket No. Title of Information Collection: Avenue Rail-Road Company FD 36363, must be filed with the Employment Application. Surface Transportation Board either via OMB Approval Number: 3316–0063. CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), a e-filing or in writing addressed to 395 E Frequency of Use: On Occasion. Class I carrier, and The Home Avenue Street SW, Washington, DC 20423–0001. Type of Affected Public: Individuals. Rail-Road Company (HARR) In addition, one copy of each pleading Small Businesses or Organizations (collectively, the Parties) have filed a must be served on Louis E. Gitomer, Affected: No. verified notice of exemption for an Esq., Law Offices of Louis E. Gitomer, Federal Budget Functional Category intra-corporate family transaction under LLC, 600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301, Code: 999. 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3). CSXT directly Towson, MD 21204. Estimated Number of Annual controls and operates HARR. HARR According to the Parties, this action is Responses: 2,683. owns approximately 2.9 miles of categorically excluded from Estimated Total Annual Burden railroad and 3.99 miles of yard environmental review under 49 CFR Hours: 2,298. switching track in the State of Ohio. 1105.6(c). Estimated Average Burden Hours per Under the proposed transaction, HARR Board decisions and notices are Response: .85. will be merged into CSXT with CSXT as available at www.stb.gov. Need for and Use of Information: 1 the surviving corporate entity. Decided: November 25, 2019. Applications for employment are The Parties state that the purpose of By the Board, Allison C. Davis, Director, needed to collect information on the transaction is to simplify the Office of Proceedings. qualifications, suitability for corporate structure and reduce overhead Eden Besera, employment, and eligibility for costs. According to the Parties, the Clearance Clerk. veteran’s preference. The information is transaction will reduce corporate used to make comparative appraisals [FR Doc. 2019–25869 Filed 11–27–19; 8:45 am] overhead and duplication by and to assist in selections. The affected eliminating one corporation, while BILLING CODE 4915–01–P public consists of individuals who retaining the same assets to serve apply for TVA employment. customers, and will allow CSXT to obtain various savings. TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY Andrea S. Brackett, Unless stayed, the exemption will be Director, TVA Cybersecurity. Agency Information Collection effective on , 2019 (30 days [FR Doc. 2019–25823 Filed 11–27–19; 8:45 am] Activities: Proposed Collection; after the verified notice was filed). The BILLING CODE 8120–08–P Comment Request Parties state that they intend to consummate the proposed transaction AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority. on or after that date. ACTION: 30-Day notice of submission of OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES The Parties state that the transaction information collection approval and TRADE REPRESENTATIVE will not result in adverse changes in request for comments. service levels, significant operational Notice of Product Exclusions: China’s changes, or a change in the competitive SUMMARY: The information collection Acts, Policies, and Practices Related to balance with carriers outside the described below will be submitted to Technology Transfer, Intellectual corporate family. Therefore, the the Office of Management and Budget Property, and Innovation transaction is exempt from the prior (OMB) at, oira_submission@ AGENCY: Office of the United States approval requirements of 49 U.S.C. omb.eop.gov, for review, as required by Trade Representative. 11323. See 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(3). the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. Under 49 U.S.C. 10502(g), the Board The Tennessee Valley Authority is ACTION: Notice of product exclusions. may not use its exemption authority to soliciting public comments on this SUMMARY: In 2018, the U.S. relieve a rail carrier of its statutory proposed collection. Trade Representative imposed obligation to protect the interests of its DATES: Comments should be sent to the additional duties on goods of China employees. As a condition to the use of TVA Senior Privacy Program Manager, with an annual trade value of this exemption, any employees and the OMB Office of Information & approximately $200 billion as part of adversely affected by this transaction Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk the action in the Section 301 will be protected by the conditions set Officer for Tennessee Valley Authority, investigation of China’s acts, policies, forth in New York Dock Railway— Washington, DC 20503, or email: oira_ and practices related to technology Control—Brooklyn Eastern District [email protected], no later than transfer, intellectual property, and Terminal, 360 I.C.C. 60 (1979). , 2019. innovation. The U.S. Trade ADDRESSES: Requests for information, Representative initiated a product 1 An executed copy of the agreement and plan of merger was filed on , 2019, to replace including copies of the information exclusion process in 2019, and the draft agreement attached to the verified notice collection proposed and supporting interested persons have submitted of exemption. documentation, should be directed to requests for the exclusion of specific

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products. This notice announces the of the HTSUS most applicable to the any public comments on the pertinent U.S. Trade Representative’s particular product requested for exclusion requests. determination to grant certain exclusion exclusion, and could submit As set out in the Annex, the requests specified in the Annex to this information on the ability of U.S. exclusions are reflected in 32 specially notice. Customs and Border Protection to prepared product descriptions, which DATES: The product exclusions administer the requested exclusion. cover 39 separate exclusion requests. announced in this notice will apply as Requestors were asked to provide the In accordance with the notice, of the , 2018, effective date quantity and value of the Chinese-origin the exclusions are available for any of the $200 billion action, to 7, product that the requestor purchased in product that meets the description in 2020. the last three years. With regard to the the Annex, regardless of whether the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For rationale for the requested exclusion, requests had to address the following importer filed an exclusion request. general questions about this notice, Further, the scope of each exclusion is contact Assistant General Counsels factors: • Whether the particular product is governed by the scope of the product Philip Butler or Megan Grimball, or available only from China and descriptions in the Annex, and not by Director of Industrial Goods Justin specifically whether the particular the product descriptions set out in any Hoffmann at (202) 395–5725. For product and/or a comparable product is particular request for exclusion. specific questions on customs available from sources in the United classification or implementation of the Paragraph A, subparagraphs (3)–(5) States and/or third countries. are conforming amendments to the product exclusions identified in the • Whether the imposition of annex to this notice, contact HTSUS reflecting the modification additional duties on the particular made by the Annex. [email protected]. product would cause severe economic SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: harm to the requestor or other U.S. Paragraph B, subparagraph (1) is a typographical correction of U.S. note A. Background interests. • Whether the particular product is 20(ll)(23) to subchapter III of chapter 99 For background on the proceedings in strategically important or related to of the HTSUS that modifies the unit of this investigation, please see the prior ‘‘Made in China 2025’’ or other Chinese measurement published in the annex to notices issued in the investigation, industrial programs. the notice published at 84 FR 57803 including 82 FR 40213 (, The June 24 notice stated that the U.S. ( 28, 2019). Paragraph B, 2017), 83 FR 14906 ( 6, 2018), 83 Trade Representative would take into subparagraphs (2)–(5), make conforming FR 28710 (, 2018), 83 FR 33608 account whether an exclusion would amendments to note 20(g) published at ( 17, 2018), 83 FR 38760 (, undermine the objective of the Section 83 FR 47974 (, 2019), note 2018), 83 FR 47974 (September 21, 301 investigation. 20(ll) published at 84 FR 57803 (October 2018), 83 FR 49153 (, The June 24 notice required 28, 2019), note 20(mm) published at 84 2018), 83 FR 65198 (, submission of requests for exclusion FR 61674 (, 2019), and 2018), 84 FR 7966 ( 5, 2019), 84 from the $200 billion action no later heading 9903.88.04 of the HTSUS FR 20459 (, 2019), 84 FR 29576 than , 2019, and noted that published at 83 FR 47974 (September (June 24, 2019), 84 FRN 38717 (August the U.S. Trade Representative 21, 2019). 7, 2019), 84 FR 46212 (, periodically would announce decisions. As stated in the , 2019 2019), 84 FR 49591 (September 20, In August 2019, the U.S. Trade notice, the exclusions will apply from 2019), 84 FR 57803 (, 2019), Representative granted an initial set of September 24, 2018, to August 7, 2020. and 84 FR 61674 (November 13, 2019). exclusion requests. See 84 FR 38717. U.S. Customs and Border Protection will Effective September 24, 2018, the U.S. The U.S. Trade Representative granted issue instructions on entry guidance and Trade Representative imposed additional exclusions in September, implementation. additional 10 percent duties on goods of October, and November 2019. See 84 FR The U.S. Trade Representative will China classified in 5,757 full and partial 49591, 84 FR 57803, and 84 FR 61674. continue to issue determinations on subheadings of the Harmonized Tariff The Office of the United States Trade pending requests on a periodic basis. Schedule of the United States (HTSUS), Representative (USTR) regularly with an approximate annual trade value updates the status of each pending Joseph Barloon, of $200 billion. See 83 FR 47974, as request on the USTR Exclusions Portal General Counsel, Office of the U.S. Trade modified by 83 FR 49153. In May 2019, at https://exclusions.ustr.gov/s/ Representative. the U.S. Trade Representative increased docket?docketNumber=USTR-2019- the additional duty to 25 percent. See 84 0005. Annex FR 20459. On June 24, 2019, the U.S. Trade Representative established a B. Determination To Grant Certain A. Effective with respect to goods process by which U.S. stakeholders can Exclusions entered for consumption, or withdrawn request exclusion of particular products Based on the evaluation of the factors from warehouse for consumption, on or classified within an 8-digit HTSUS set out in the June 24 notice, which are after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on subheading covered by the $200 billion summarized above, pursuant to sections September 24, 2018, subchapter III of action from the additional duties. See 84 301(b), 301(c), and 307(a) of the Trade chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff FR 29576 (the June 24 notice). Act of 1974, as amended, and in Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) Under the June 24 notice, requests for accordance with the advice of the is modified: exclusion had to identify the product interagency Section 301 Committee, the 1. By inserting the following new subject to the request in terms of the U.S. Trade Representative has heading 9903.88.35 in numerical physical characteristics that distinguish determined to grant the product sequence, with the material in the new it from other products within the exclusions set out in the Annex to this heading inserted in the columns of the relevant 8-digit subheading covered by notice. The U.S. Trade Representative’s HTSUS labeled ‘‘Heading/Subheading’’, the $200 billion action. Requestors also determination also takes into account ‘‘Article Description’’, and ‘‘Rates of had to provide the 10-digit subheading advice from advisory committees and Duty 1-General’’, respectively:

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Rates of duty Heading/ Article description 1 subheading 2 General Special

‘‘9903.88.35 ...... Articles the product of China, as provided for in U.S. note 20(nn) The duty provided in to this subchapter, each covered by an exclusion granted by the the applicable sub- U.S. Trade Representative. heading’’.

2. by inserting the following new U.S. mm or more but not exceeding 1.5 components with a nitrile rubber note 20(nn) to subchapter III of chapter mm in thickness (described in sealing element and brass element 99 in numerical sequence: statistical reporting number backup rings, measuring 3.7 cm or ‘‘(nn) The U.S. Trade Representative 6815.10.0100) more but not over 52 cm in determined to establish a process by (5) Grinding beads of yttria-stabilized diameter and 30 cm or more but not which particular products classified in zirconia (described in statistical over 72 cm in length (described in heading 9903.88.03 and provided for in reporting number 6909.11.2000) statistical reporting number U.S. notes 20(e) and (f) to this (6) Tube or pipe sleeves (couplings) of 8479.89.9450) subchapter could be excluded from the alloy steel (except stainless steel), (13) Vacuum cleaners, bagless, upright, additional duties imposed by heading threaded, each weighing 0.19 kg or capable of operating in wet mode or 9903.88.03, and by which particular more but not over 18.2 kg, dry mode, each with self-contained products classified in heading measuring 305 cm in length, electric motor of a power not 9903.88.04 and provided for in U.S. measuring 1.2 cm or more but not exceeding 1,500 W and having a note 20(g) to this subchapter could be over 10.2 cm in diameter, UL listed tank capacity not over 4 liters excluded from the additional duties (described in statistical reporting (described in statistical reporting imposed by heading 9903.88.04. See 83 number 7307.92.3030) number 8508.11.0000) FR 47974 (September 21, 2018) and 84 (7) Butt welding tube or pipe elbows of (14) Vacuum cleaners, bagless, upright, FR 29576 (June 24, 2019). Pursuant to galvanized steel, each weighing each with self-contained electric the product exclusion process, the U.S. 0.19 kg or more but not over 17 kg, motor of a power not exceeding Trade Representative has determined measuring 12 mm or more but not 1,500 W and having a dust that the additional duties provided for over 102 mm in inside diameter, UL receptacle capacity not exceeding 1 in heading 9903.88.03 shall not apply to listed (described in statistical liter (described in statistical the following particular products, which reporting number 7307.93.6000) reporting number 8508.11.0000) are provided for in the enumerated (8) Foldable stepladders of steel, each (15) Starter motors for internal statistical reporting numbers: with 2, 3 or 4 steps and safety latch, combustion gasoline engines (1) Candy lollipops, not containing with load capacity of 90 kg or more designed for use in the lawn, cocoa, such goods put up for retail but not over 140 kg (described in automotive, watercraft, motorcycle, sale in packings in the form of a statistical reporting number industrial and garden industries larger plastic lollipop, each 7326.90.8660) (described in statistical reporting comprising a spheroid container (9) Flat panel display mounting adapters number 8511.40.0000) with a major axis of 14 cm and a of base metal (described in (16) EGR coolant tube assemblies of minor axis of 11 cm, with and a statistical reporting number stainless steel for diesel powered plastic stick measuring 22 cm in 8302.50.0000) vehicles of headings 8701 to 8705 length inserted in the bottom of the (10) Telescoping curtain rod sets put up (described in statistical reporting container, with the container for retail sale, each set including number 8708.99.8180) portion wrapped in printed plastic two or more cylindrical telescoping (17) Bicycles, not motorized, each film cinched at the container’s rods, two or more wall brackets having aluminum- or magnesium- bottom by a printed hang tag capable of affixing the rods to alloy wheels both measuring more (described in statistical reporting building components, all the than 69 cm but not more than 71 cm number 1704.90.3550) foregoing of steel, and two or more in diameter, tires of cross-sectional (2) Sodium metal (CAS No. 7440–23–5), rod finials of resins or other diameter of 3.5 cm, aluminum in bulk solid form (described in plastics, the foregoing not including frame, a polyurethane/carbon fiber statistical reporting number mechanisms for opening or closing cord drive belt, 3-, 7- or 12-speed 2805.11.0000) curtains (described in statistical rear hub and twist shifter (described (3) Plastic trays, of a kind used for retail reporting number 8302.41.6050) in statistical reporting number packaging, custom vacuum formed (11) Electric display cases incorporating 8712.00.2500) from polyvinyl chloride or refrigerating equipment designed (18) Single-speed bicycles meeting the polystyrene sheets (0.45 to 0.9 mm for commercial use, each with a criteria of HTS subheading in thickness), each measuring 7.62 glass front to display the food or 8712.00.44, each having steel frame, cm or more but not over 53.34 cm drink being stored (described in with aluminum stems, rims and in length, 17.15 cm or more but not statistical reporting number crankset and with rider contact area over 42.55 cm in width, and 3.18 8418.50.0080) of plastics, each bicycle weighing cm or more but not over 15.24 cm (12) Wireline bridge plug assemblies for not over 11.5 kg (described in in depth (described in statistical use in oil and gas fields, compliant statistical reporting number reporting number 3923.10.9000) with Specification 11D1 of the 8712.00.4400) (4) Nonelectrical graphite sheets, American Petroleum Institute (API), (19) Carts (other than industrial hand flexible, measuring 1,000 mm in each composed of cylindrically trucks and portable luggage carts) length, 1,000 mm in width, and 0.8 shaped, sand cast, cast iron that convert into ladders, each

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weighing not more than 15 kg, more but not over 232 cm in height after 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on measuring not more than 105 cm by with light-emitting diode (LED) September 24, 2018: 56 cm by 11 cm (described in lamp as light source (described in 1. U.S. note 20(ll)(23) to subchapter III statistical reporting number statistical reporting number of chapter 99 of the Harmonized Tariff 8716.80.5090) 9405.20.6010) Schedule of the United States (HTSUS) (20) Dump carts, each with a steel (29) Electric household table or desk is modified by deleting ‘‘Articulated frame, a plastic bed and four lamps, of base metal other than chains of iron, not over 8 mm in pneumatic tires on wheels, with a brass, each measuring 25 cm or thickness and valued not over $2 per kg capacity not exceeding 550 kg more but not over 92 cm in height (described in statistical reporting (described in statistical reporting with an E26 socket (described in number 7315.12.0080)’’ and inserting number 8716.80.5090) statistical reporting number ‘‘Articulated chains of iron, not over 8 (21) Canoes (other than of wood or of 9405.20.6010) mm in thickness and valued not over $2 metal) each valued over $800, not of (30) Electric household table or desk per m (described in statistical reporting a type designed to be principally lamps, of base metal other than number 7315.12.0080)’’ in lieu thereof. used with motors or sails (described brass, each measuring 38 cm or 2. U.S. note 20(g) to subchapter III of in statistical reporting number more but not over 87 cm in height, chapter 99 of the HTSUS is amended by 8903.99.0500) with light-emitting diode (LED) inserting the following phrase at the end (22) Folding chairs with aluminum lamp as light source and featuring of the first sentence after the phrase ‘‘the frames, each comprising a seat of an AC outlet, a charging pad and following products of China’’: polyester ripstop fabric and USB port designed for the charging ‘‘, except products of China granted an exclusion by the U.S. Trade polyester netting and an aluminum of electronic devices (described in Representative and provided for in: (1) frame, weighing not more than 600 statistical reporting number heading 9903.88.33 and U.S. note 20(ll) g (described in statistical reporting 9405.20.6010) to subchapter III of chapter 99; or (2) number 9401.79.0015) (31) Electric household floor-standing (23) Folding tables designed for heading 9903.88.34 and U.S. note lamps, of wood, each measuring camping, each composed of a 20(mm) to subchapter III of chapter 99’’. 115 cm or more but not over 210 cm polyester ripstop fabric top 3. U.S. note 20(ll) to subchapter III of in height, with an E26 socket designed to assemble onto an chapter 99 of the HTSUS is amended by (described in statistical reporting aluminum frame, the foregoing inserting the following phrase at the end number 9405.20.8010) when opened for use measures of the first sentence after the phrase (32) Electric household table or desk 53.34 cm x 41.91 cm x 36.83 and ‘‘imposed by heading 9903.88.03’’: lamps, of wood, each measuring 25 weighs under 0.9 kg (described in ‘‘, and by which particular products cm or more but not over 80 cm in statistical reporting number classified in heading 9903.88.04 and height, with an E26 socket 9403.20.0050) provided for in U.S. note 20(g) to this (24) Outdoor tables of steel and (described in statistical reporting subchapter could be excluded from the aluminum, each measuring no more number 9405.20.8010)’’ additional duties imposed by heading than 93 cm by 93 cm by 63 cm, 3. by amending the last sentence of 9903.88.04’’. incorporating a built-in gas-burning the first paragraph of U.S. note 20(e) to 4. U.S. note 20(mm) to subchapter III fire pit (described in statistical subchapter III of chapter 99: of chapter 99 of the HTSUS is amended reporting number 9403.20.0050) a. By deleting the word ‘‘or’’ where it by inserting the following phrase at the (25) Foldable cots with frames of steel appears after the phrase ‘‘U.S. note end of the first sentence after the phrase and/or aluminum, each with 20(ll) to subchapter III of chapter 99;’’; ‘‘imposed by heading 9903.88.03’’: sleeping surface of polyester or and ‘‘, and by which particular products nylon fabric, each cot measuring b. by inserting the phrase ‘‘; or (5) classified in heading 9903.88.04 and 185 cm or more but not over 230 cm heading 9903.88.35 and U.S. note provided for in U.S. note 20(g) to this in length, 70 cm or more but not 20(nn) to subchapter III of chapter 99’’ subchapter could be excluded from the over 105 cm in width and 7 cm or after the phrase ‘‘U.S. note 20(mm) to additional duties imposed by heading more but not over 58 cm in height subchapter III of chapter 99’’. 9903.88.04’’. (described in statistical reporting 4. by amending U.S. note 20(f) to 5. The article description of heading number 9403.20.0090) subchapter III of chapter 99: 9903.88.04 of the HTSUS is amended by (26) Foldable tables with frames of steel a. By deleting the word ‘‘or’’ where it deleting ‘‘Articles’’ and inserting in lieu and/or aluminum, each measuring appears after the phrase ‘‘U.S. note thereof the phrase ‘‘Except as provided 25 cm or more but not over 156 cm 20(ll) to subchapter III of chapter 99;’’; in headings 9903.88.33 or 9903.88.34, in length, 30 cm or more but not and articles’’. over 80 cm in width and 37 cm or b. by inserting the phrase ‘‘; or (5) [FR Doc. 2019–25820 Filed 11–27–19; 8:45 am] more but not over 113 cm in height, heading 9903.88.35 and U.S. note BILLING CODE 3290–F0–P with a tabletop surface of aluminum 20(nn) to subchapter III of chapter 99’’ (described in statistical reporting after the phrase ‘‘U.S. note 20(mm) to number 9403.20.0090) subchapter III of chapter 99’’. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (27) Electric household floor-standing 5. by amending the Article lamps, of base metal other than Description of heading 9903.88.03: Federal Aviation Administration brass, each measuring 1.22 m or a. By deleting ‘‘9903.88.33 or’’ and more but not over 2.59 m in height, inserting ‘‘9903.88.33,’’ in lieu thereof; Notice of Intent To Rule on a Request with an E26 socket (described in and To Release Surplus Property at the statistical reporting number b. by inserting ‘‘or 9903.88.35,’’ after Daniel Field Airport, Augusta, Georgia 9405.20.6010) ‘‘9903.88.34,’’. AGENCY: Federal Aviation (28) Electric household floor-standing B. Effective with respect to goods Administration (FAA), DOT. lamps, of base metal other than entered for consumption, or withdrawn ACTION: Notice and request for comment. brass, each measuring 77 cm or from warehouse for consumption, on or

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