39334 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 123 / Monday, June 26, 2000 / Proposed Rules

that the alarm on the bag leak detection

system does not sound for more than 5

percent of the total operating time in

each 6-month reporting period. Each

time the alarm sounds and the owner or

operator initiates corrective actions

within 1 hour of the alarm, 1 hour of

alarm time will be counted. If the owner

or operator takes longer than 1 hour to

initiate corrective actions, alarm time

will be counted as the actual amount of

time taken by the owner or operator to

initiate corrective actions. If inspection

of the baghouse system demonstrates

that no corrective actions are necessary,

no alarm time will be counted.

(B) The owner or operator shall

continuously record the output from the

bag leak detection system.

* * * * *

[FR Doc. 00–15915 Filed 6–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

43 CFR Parts 3130 and 3160

[WO–310–1310–03–2410]

RIN 1004–AD13

National Petroleum Reserve, Alaska—

Unitization

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of

extension of public comment period.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) hereby gives notice

that it is extending the public comment

period on a Notice of Proposed Rule,

which was published in the Federal

Register on April 26, 2000 (54 FR

24542). The comment period for the

proposed rule expires on June 26, 2000.

The proposed rule would add a new

subpart to BLM’s oil and gas regulations

implementing new statutory authority

allowing operators to enter into unit

agreements in the National Petroleum

Reserve, Alaska (NPRA). Units allow for

the sharing of costs and spreading of

revenues among several leases, and

allow for production from unit leases to

occur without regard to lease or

property boundaries. The rule would

also allow for waiver, suspension, or

reduction of rental or royalty for NPRA

leases; allow for suspension of

operations and production for NPRA

leases; amend existing regulatory

language to set the primary lease term

for an NPRA lease at 10 years. Current

regulations allow 10 years, or a shorter

term if it is in the notice of sale; and add

a new subpart to the NPRA regulations

on subsurface storage agreements.

Subsurface storage agreements allow

operators to store gas in existing

geologic structures on Federal lands.

This proposal would also make it

clear that existing suspension

regulations would not apply to the

NPRA. In response to requests from the

public, BLM is extending the comment

period to August 10, 2000.

DATES: Submit comments by August 10,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Mail: Director (630), Bureau

of Land Management, Administrative

Record, Room 401 LS, 1849 C Street,

NW, Washington, DC 20240. Personal or

messenger delivery: Room 401, 1620 L

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036.

Internet e-mail: WOComment@blm.gov.

(Include ‘‘Attn: AD13’’).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Erick Kaarlela of BLM’s Fluid Minerals

Group at (202) 452–0340 or Ian Senio of

BLM’s Regulatory Affairs Group at (202)

452–5049.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: If you

wish to comment, you may submit your

comments by any one of several

methods. You may mail comments to

Director (630), Bureau of Land

Management, Room 401 LS, 1849 C

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20240. You

may deliver comments to Room 401,

1620 L Street, NW, Washington, DC

20036. You may also comment via the

Internet to WOComment@blm.gov.

Please submit Internet comments as an

ASCII file avoiding the use of special

characters and any form of encryption.

Please also include ‘‘Attn: AD13’’ and

your name and return address in your

Internet message. If you do not receive

a confirmation that we have received

your Internet message, contact us

directly at (202) 452–5030. Please make

your written comments on the proposed

rule as specific as possible, confine

them to issues pertinent to the proposed

rule, and explain the reason for any

changes you recommend. Where

possible, your comments should

reference the specific section or

paragraph of the proposal that you are

addressing. BLM may not necessarily

consider or include in the

Administrative Record for the final rule

comments that BLM receives after the

close of the comment period (see DATES)

or comments delivered to an address

other than those listed above (see

ADDRESSES). Comments, including

names and street addresses of

respondents, will be available for public

review at the address listed under

‘‘ADDRESSES: Personal or messenger

delivery’’ during regular business hours

(7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.), Monday

through Friday, except holidays.

Individual respondents may request

confidentiality, which we will honor to

the extent allowable by law. If you wish

to withhold your name or address,

except for the city or town, you must

state this prominently at the beginning

of your comment. We will make all

submissions from organizations or

businesses, and from individuals

identifying themselves as

representatives or officials of

organizations or businesses, available

for public inspection in their entirety.

Dated: June 20, 2000.

Michael Schwartz,

Group Manager, Regulatory Affairs Group.

[FR Doc. 00–15959 Filed 6–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–84–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

46 CFR Parts 110 and 111

[USCG–1999–6096]

RIN 2115–AF89

Marine Shipboard Electrical Cable

Standards; Correction

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and

reopening of comment period;

correction.

SUMMARY: This document corrects the

notice of public meeting and reopening

of comment period as published on June

5, 2000. In that document, the docket

number was incorrectly published as

USCG–2000–6096. The correct docket

number is USCG–1999–6096.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

questions on the public meeting, call

Dolores Mercier, Project Manager, Office

of Design and Engineering Standards

(G–MSE), Coast Guard, telephone 202–

267–0658, fax 202–267–4816, e-mail

dmercier@comdt.uscg.mil. For questions

on viewing or submitting material to the

docket, call Dorothy Beard, Chief,

Dockets, Department of Transportation,

phone 202–366–9329.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On June 5, 2000, the Coast Guard

published a notice of public meeting

and reopening of comment period (65

FR 35600). The docket number was

incorrectly published. Please submit

your comments to USCG–1999–6096,

the correct docket number.

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Dated: June 14, 2000.

Howard L. Hime,

Acting Director of Standards.

[FR Doc. 00–15942 Filed 6–23–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–U

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS

COMMISSION

47 CFR Parts 1, 61, and 69

[CC Docket Nos. 96–262 and 97–146; DA

00–1268]

Commission Asks Parties To Update

and Refresh Record on Mandatory

Detariffing of CLEC Interstate Access

Services

AGENCY: Federal Communications

Commission.

ACTION: Proposed rule: comments

requested.

SUMMARY: The Federal Communications

Commission (Commission) sought

comment in two rulemaking dockets,

the Access Charge Reform rulemaking

docket and the Complete Detariffing for

Competitive Access Providers and

Competitive Local Exchange Carriers

(CLEC Detariffing) rulemaking docket,

regarding the regulatory or market-based

approaches that would ensure that

competitive local exchange carrier

(CLEC) rates for interstate access are

reasonable. Among the proposals

discussed in these proceedings, the

Commission invited interested parties to

comment on whether mandatory

detariffing of CLEC interstate access

service rates would provide a marketbased deterrent to excessive terminating

access charges. As indicated in this

Notice, interested parties may file

comments and reply comments to

update and refresh the records of these

proceedings regarding mandatory

detariffing of CLEC interstate access

services.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

July 12, 2000. Submit reply comments

on or before July 24, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit electronic

comments and other data to http://

www.fcc.gov/e-file/ecfs.html. See

Supplementary Information for file

formats and other information about

electronic filing. Submit paper copies to

the Commission’s Secretary, Magalie

Roman Salas, Office of the Secretary,

Federal Communications Commission

445—12th Street S.W., TW–A325,

Washington, D.C. 20554. See

Supplementary Information for

information on additional instructions

for filing paper copies.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joi

Roberson Nolen, 202–418–1537.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April

28, 2000, the court of appeals upheld

the Commission’s 1996 order requiring

detariffing for interstate, domestic,

interexchange services of nondominant

interexchange carriers. See MCI

WorldCom v. FCC, 209 F.3d 760 (D.C.

Cir. 2000); Policy and Rules Concerning

the Interstate, Interexchange

Marketplace, CC Docket No. 96–61,

Second Report and Order, 61 FR 59340

(November 2, 1996) (IXC Detariffing

Order). On May 1, 2000, the court lifted

the stay of the IXC Detariffing Order and

the rules adopted in the order became

effective. See MCI WorldCom v. FCC,

No. 96–1459, slip op. (D.C. Cir., May 1,

2000). In light of the court’s ruling, in

this Notice, we invite parties to update

and refresh the record regarding

mandatory detariffing of CLEC interstate

access services.

Specifically, commenters should

discuss whether and, if so, how

mandatory detariffing: (1) Addresses

any market failure to constrain

terminating access rates; (2) provides a

market-based solution to excessive

terminating charges by encouraging

parties to negotiate terminating access

charges; (3) provides the same benefits

identified in the CLEC Detariffing

rulemaking proceeding for permissive

detariffing; (4) offers additional public

interest benefits beyond permissive

detariffing; (5) precludes the use of the

filed rate doctrine to nullify contractual

arrangements; (6) reduces the

administrative burden on the

Commission of maintaining tariffs; and

(7) reduces the economic burden on the

non-ILECs of filing tariffs.

This matter shall be treated as a

‘‘permit but disclose’’ proceeding in

accordance with the Commission’s ex

parte rules. See 47 CFR 1.1200, 1.1206.

Persons making oral ex parte

presentations are reminded that

memoranda summarizing the

presentations must contain summaries

of the substance of the presentations

and not merely a listing of the subjects

discussed. More than a one or two

sentence description of the views and

arguments presented is generally

required. See 47 CFR 1.1206(b). Other

rules pertaining to oral and written ex

parte presentations in permit-butdisclose proceedings are set forth in

§ 1.1206(b) of the Commission’s rules,

47 CFR 1.1206(b).

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis and

Paperwork Reduction Analysis. The

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the

CLEC Detariffing rulemaking docket and

both the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

and the Further Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking in the Access Charge

Reform rulemaking docket contained

Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analyses

(IRFA) as required by the Regulatory

Flexibility Act (RFA). See 5 U.S.C. 603;

see also 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq., as amended

by the Contract with America

Advancement Act of 1996, Public Law

104–121, 110 Stat. 8747 (1996)(CWAA).

See Access Charge Reform, CC Docket

No. 96–262, Notice of Proposed

Rulemaking, Third Report and Order,

and Notice of Inquiry, 62 FR 4670

(January 31, 1997); Access Charge

Reform, CC Docket No. 96–262, Fifth

Report and Order and Further Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking, 64 FR 51280

(September 22, 1999)); Hyperion

Telecommunications, Inc. and Time

Warner Petitions for Forbearance,

Complete Detariffing for Competitive

Access Providers and Competitive Local

Exchange Carriers, CC Docket No. 97–

146, Memorandum Opinion and Order

and Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, 62

FR 38244, June 19, 1997 (collectively,

NPRMs). In addition, the NPRMs also

invited the general public and the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) to

comment on the information collections

contained in the NPRMs, as required by

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

Public Law 104–13. Because this Notice

does not set forth substitute rules for, or

changes to, those contained in the

NPRMs, the initial IRFAs therefore are

not revised nor do we now solicit

additional comments on the information

collections contained in the NPRMs.

Legal Basis. The proposed action is

supported by Sections 4(i), 4(j), 201–

205, 251, 252, 253 and 403.

Filing Comments. Pursuant to

§§ 1.415 and 1.419 of the Commission’s

rules, 47 CFR 1.415, 1.419, interested

parties may file comments on or before

July 12, 2000. Interested parties may file

reply comments on or before July 24,

2000. Comments may be filed using the

Commission’s Electronic Comment

Filing system (ECFS) or by filing paper

copies. See Electronic Filing of

Documents in Rulemaking Proceedings,

64 FR 24121 (May 1, 1998). Comments

filed through ECFS can be sent as an

electronic file via the Internet to http:/

/www.fcc.gov/e-file/ecfs.html.

Commenters must transmit one

electronic copy of the comments to each

docket or rulemaking number

referenced in the caption. In completing

the transmittal screen, commenters

should include their full name, Postal

Service mailing address, and the

applicable docket or rulemaking

number. Parties also may submit an

electronic comment by Internet e-mail.

To get filing instructions for e-mail