This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER

contains notices to the public of the proposed

issuance of rules and regulations. The

purpose of these notices is to give interested

persons an opportunity to participate in the

rule making prior to the adoption of the final

rules.

Proposed Rules Federal Register

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Vol. 76, No. 68 

Friday, April 8, 2011 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

7 CFR Part 1463 

RIN 0560–AI12 

Tobacco Transition Payment Program; 

Cigar and Cigarette Per Unit 

Assessments; Correction 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation 

and Farm Service Agency, USDA. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; correction. 

SUMMARY: This document contains a 

correction to the Request for Comments 

titled ‘‘Tobacco Transition Payment 

Program; Cigar and Cigarette Per Unit 

Assessments,’’ which was published 

March 22, 2011. The Commodity Credit 

Corporation (CCC) is correcting an 

inaccurate statement about the possible 

consequences of an alternative 

assessment methodology. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by May 23, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on the Request for 

Comments, as corrected by this 

document. In your comment, please 

specify RIN 0560–AI12 and include the 

volume, date, and page number (March 

22, 2011, 76 FR 15859–15864) of the 

issue of the Federal Register in which 

the Request for Comments was 

published. You may submit comments 

by either of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Jane Reed, Economic and 

Policy Analysis Staff, Farm Service 

Agency, USDA, 1400 Independence 

Ave, SW., Mail Stop 0515, Washington, 

DC 20250–0514. 

Comments may be inspected at the 

above address, in room 3722, between 

8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday through 

Friday, except holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jane 

Reed; phone: (202) 720–6782. Persons 

with disabilities or who require 

alternative means for communication 

(Braille, large print, audio tape, etc.) 

should contact the USDA Target Center 

at (202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 

22, 2011, CCC published a Request for 

Comments (76 FR 15859–15864) 

requesting comments about the 

calculation of assessments to fund the 

Tobacco Transition Payment Program 

(TTPP) as authorized by the Fair and 

Equitable Tobacco Reform Act of 2004 

(FETRA) (7 U.S.C. 518–519a). CCC 

needs to correct the information in the 

Request for Comments to remove 

inadvertently inaccurate estimates of the 

impact of an alternative cigar 

assessment methodology. 

The Request for Comments on page 

15864, in the first column, contained a 

paragraph that stated that the possible 

impact of one alternative might have 

been a twelve-fold increase with respect 

to large cigars for 2010, and that the 

effect of this might have even been 

greater for previous years because of a 

recent change in product mix. That 

paragraph reads as follows: 

But assuming a situation in which there are 

substantial small cigar marketings in the 

actual ‘‘small cigar’’ tax category, changing 

the Step B method would substantially 

change assessment levels. Even applied to 

assessment data from the first quarter of 

2010, it appears that the alternative method 

of using cigar subcategories would have 

increased the large cigar unit assessment as 

much as 12 times. That difference might 

actually have been greater before then 

because in 2010, the shift in market volume 

from small to large cigars had already begun. 

The estimate of the impact of the 

alternative method is inaccurate; an 

error was made in the calculations on 

which this paragraph was based. A 

recalculation was made using 2006 data. 

The recalculation demonstrated that had 

the alternative methodology been in use 

in 2006, the alternative methodology 

would have increased the large cigar 

assessment by roughly 80 percent, not 

twelve-fold, and would have decreased 

the small cigars assessment (as ‘‘small 

cigars’’ are defined for the purposes of 

excise taxes) by roughly 95 percent. For 

2010, it is estimated that there would 

have been only a slight change in the 

large cigar assessment if cigar categories 

were broken out separately at the Step 

A level. Therefore, this document 

corrects the Request for Comments by 

removing the paragraph quoted above 

that contains the inaccurate estimate of 

impact. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on April 4, 

2011. 

Carolyn B. Cooksie, 

Acting Executive Vice President, Commodity 

Credit Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–8403 Filed 4–7–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

14 CFR Part 39 

[Docket No. FAA–2011–0304; Directorate 

Identifier 2010–NM–103–AD] 

RIN 2120–AA64 

Airworthiness Directives; The Boeing 

Company Model 757 Airplanes 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM). 

SUMMARY: The FAA proposes to 

supersede an existing airworthiness 

directive (AD) that applies to all Model 

757 airplanes. The existing AD currently 

requires revising the Airworthiness 

Limitations (AWLs) section of the 

Instructions for Continued 

Airworthiness by incorporating new 

limitations for fuel tank systems to 

satisfy Special Federal Aviation 

Regulation No. 88 requirements. That 

AD also requires the initial inspection of 

certain repetitive AWL inspections to 

phase-in those inspections, and repair if 

necessary. This proposed AD would 

require actions that were provided 

previously as optional actions, and 

would require a certain initial 

inspection to be accomplished for a 

revised AWL. This proposed AD results 

from a report that an AWL required by 

the existing AD must be revised. We are 

proposing this AD to prevent the 

potential for ignition sources inside fuel 

tanks caused by latent failures, 

alterations, repairs, or maintenance 

actions, which, in combination with 

flammable fuel vapors, could result in a 

fuel tank explosion and consequent loss 

of the airplane. 

DATES: We must receive comments on 

this proposed AD by May 23, 2011. 

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