[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 77 (Monday, April 22, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19554-19555]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-9803]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A-821-802]


Notice of Extension of Time Limits of the Preliminary Results of 
Administrative Review of Agreement Suspending the Antidumping 
Investigation of Uranium from the Russian Federation, as Amended

AGENCY: Import Administration, International Trade Administration, 
Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Time Limits of the Preliminary Results 
of Administrative Review.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce (``the Department'') is extending 
the time limits by 120 days for the preliminary results of the 
administrative review of the Agreement Suspending the Antidumping 
Investigation of Uranium from the Russian Federation, as Amended.

EFFECTIVE DATE: April 22, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lori Ellison or James Doyle; Import 
Administration, International Trade Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 14th and Constitution Avenue, N.W., Washington DC 20230; 
telephone: (202) 482-5811 or (202) 482-0159, respectively.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Extension of Preliminary Results:

    The Department published its notice of initiation of this review in 
the Federal Register on November 21, 2001 (66 FR 58432). The 
Department's preliminary results are currently due on July 3, 2002.
    Section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Tariff Act of 1930 (``the Act''), as 
amended by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act, states that if it is not 
practicable to complete the review within the time specified, the 
administering authority may extend the 245-day period to issue its 
preliminary results by an additional 120 days. Because of the complex 
and novel issues presented by this review, it is impracticable for the 
Department to complete its analysis within the 245 day

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time frame provided under section 751(a)(3)(A) of the Act. Completion 
of the preliminary results within this period is impracticable for the 
following reasons: (1) This is the first administrative review of this 
suspension agreement, raising a number of issues of first impression; 
(2) the agreement has been in force since October 1992, making a 
particularly enormous quantity of information subject to review; (3) 
the agreement has been amended four times, thereby complicating the 
analysis; and (4) analysis of the Russian uranium industry will be 
complicated due to the complexity of uranium transactions in Russia and 
the high degree of integration between Russia's nuclear power and 
uranium production entities, and government.
    The Department is therefore extending the preliminary results due 
date by 120 additional days in accordance with section 751(a)(3)(A) of 
the Act. The new due date for the preliminary results is October 31, 
2002.

    Dated: April 12, 2002
Joseph A. Spetrini,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Import Administration, Group III.
[FR Doc. 02-9803 Filed 4-19-02; 8:45 am]
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