[Federal Register: January 29, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 19)]
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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]
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