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1The NCTA is a trade association that represents 

cable operators. Many of the NCTA’s members file 

Statements of Account with and pay royalties to the 

Copyright Office under the statutory license set 

forth in Section 111 of the Copyright Act, which 

allows them to retransmit television and radio 

programs that are embodied in local distant 

broadcast transmissions. 

2Both the Joint Sports Claimants and the Program 

Suppliers represent copyright owners who are the 

beneficiaries of the royalties that are paid under the 

Section 111 and 119 statutory licenses. Generally 

speaking, the Joint Sports Claimants represent 

copyright owners that produce professional and 

college sports programming, while the Program 

Suppliers represent copyright owners that produce 

and/or syndicate movies, programs, and specials 

that are broadcast by television stations. 

International Branch, Transport Airplane 

Directorate, FAA, has the authority to 

approve AMOCs for this AD, if requested 

using the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19. 

In accordance with 14 CFR 39.19, send your 

request to your principal inspector or local 

Flight Standards District Office, as 

appropriate. If sending information directly 

to the International Branch, send it to ATTN: 

Sanjay Ralhan, Aerospace Engineer, 

International Branch, ANM–116, Transport 

Airplane Directorate, FAA, 1601 Lind 

Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057–3356; 

telephone (425) 227–1405; fax (425) 227– 

1149. Information may be emailed to: 9- 

ANM-116-AMOC-REQUESTS@faa.gov. 

Before using any approved AMOC, notify 

your appropriate principal inspector, or 

lacking a principal inspector, the manager of 

the local flight standards district office/ 

certificate holding district office. The AMOC 

approval letter must specifically reference 

this AD. 

(2) Airworthy Product: For any requirement 

in this AD to obtain corrective actions from 

a manufacturer or other source, use these 

actions if they are FAA-approved. Corrective 

actions are considered FAA-approved if they 

are approved by the State of Design Authority 

(or their delegated agent). You are required 

to assure the product is airworthy before it 

is returned to service. 

(k) Related Information 

(1) Refer to MCAI European Aviation 

Safety Agency Airworthiness Directive 2011– 

0202, dated October 13, 2011, and the service 

information specified in paragraphs (k)(1)(i) 

and (k)(1)(ii) of this AD, for related 

information. 

(i) Airbus Service Bulletin A320–32–1346, 

Revision 4, including Appendices 1 and 2, 

dated April 22, 2011. 

(ii) Airbus Service Bulletin A320–32–1349, 

Revision 03, including Appendix 1, dated 

October 5, 2011. 

(2) For service information identified in 

this AD, contact Airbus, Airworthiness 

Office—EAS, 1 Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, 

31707 Blagnac Cedex, France; telephone +33 

5 61 93 36 96; fax +33 5 61 93 44 51; email 

account.airworth-eas@airbus.com; Internet 

http://www.airbus.com. You may review 

copies of the referenced service information 

at the FAA, Transport Airplane Directorate, 

1601 Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For 

information on the availability of this 

material at the FAA, call 425–227–1221. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on 

September 26, 2012. 

Ali Bahrami, 

Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24394 Filed 10–2–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. 2012–5] 

Verification of Statements of Account 

Submitted by Cable Operators and 

Satellite Carriers 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

extension of reply comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office is again 

extending the deadline for filing reply 

comments in response to its Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking concerning the 

verification of Statements of Account 

and royalty payments that are deposited 

with the Office by cable operators and 

satellite carriers. 

DATES: Reply comments on the 

proposed rule published at 77 FR 35643, 

June 14, 2012, must be received in the 

Office of the General Counsel of the 

Copyright Office no later than 5 p.m. 

Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) on October 

24, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The Copyright Office 

strongly prefers that comments be 

submitted electronically. A comment 

submission page is posted on the 

Copyright Office Web site at http://

www.copyright.gov/docs/soaaudit/. The 

Web site interface requires submitters to 

complete a form specifying name and 

other required information, and to 

upload comments as an attachment. To 

meet accessibility standards, all 

comments must be uploaded in a single 

file in either the Adobe Portable 

Document File (PDF) format that 

contains searchable, accessible text (not 

an image); Microsoft Word; 

WordPerfect; Rich Text Format (RTF); or 

ASCII text file format (not a scanned 

document). The maximum file size is 6 

megabytes (MB). The name of the 

submitter and organization should 

appear on both the form and the face of 

the comments. All comments will be 

posted publicly on the Copyright Office 

Web site exactly as they are received, 

along with names and organizations if 

provided. If electronic submission of 

comments is not feasible, please contact 

the Copyright Office at (202) 707–8380 

for special instructions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tanya Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, or Erik Bertin, Attorney 

Advisor, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Washington, DC 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax: 

(202) 707–8366. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

14, 2012, the Copyright Office published 

a notice of proposed rulemaking and 

request for comments concerning a new 

regulation that will allow copyright 

owners to audit the Statements of 

Account and royalty fees that cable 

operators and satellite carriers deposit 

with the Copyright Office under 

Sections 111 and 119 of the Copyright 

Act. The Office received comments on 

the proposed regulation from groups 

representing copyright owners, cable 

operators, and satellite carriers, which 

have been posted on the Copyright 

Office Web site at http://www.copyright.

gov/docs/soaaudit/comments/index.

html. The notice of proposed 

rulemaking stated that reply comments 

would be due on September 12, 2012. 

See 77 FR 35643, June 14, 2012. 

On August 24, 2012, the Office 

received a joint motion to extend the 

reply comment period (posted on the 

Office Web site at: http://www.

copyright.gov/docs/soaaudit/soa_audit.

html), which was filed by the National 

Cable & Telecommunications 

Association (‘‘NCTA’’),1 the Joint Sports 

Claimants, and the Program Suppliers.2

The moving parties asked the Office to 

extend the deadline for reply comments 

until October 3, 2012 in order to 

determine whether they agree on any 

aspects of the proposed regulation, 

which in turn, may narrow the issues 

that need to be resolved in this 

rulemaking. The Office granted the 

moving parties’ request, stating that 

reply comments would be due by 

October 3, 2012, as requested. See 77 FR 

55783 (Sept. 11, 2012). 

On September 26, 2012 the NCTA, the 

Joint Sports Claimants, and the Program 

Suppliers filed a second motion to 

extend the reply comment period for 

another three weeks (posted on the 

Office Web site at: http://www.

copyright.gov/docs/soaaudit/soa_audit.

html). Specifically, the moving parties 

asked the Office to extend the deadline 

for reply comments until October 24, 

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the moving parties stated that they have 

discussed the proposed regulation, but 

given the complexity of the issues 

involved, they need more time to 

complete their discussions and to 

prepare a joint set of reply comments 

(assuming they are able to reach an 

agreement). The moving parties stated 

that a three week extension would 

facilitate these discussions without 

causing harm to any interested person. 

In their initial motion, the NCTA, the 

Joint Sports Claimants, and the Program 

Suppliers asked the Office to extend the 

deadline for reply comments until 

October 3rd, indicating that this would 

give them a sufficient amount of time to 

discuss the proposed regulation and to 

reach an agreement ‘‘regarding 

procedures to be presented to the Office 

as part of the reply comments.’’ Having 

granted that request, the Office is 

reluctant to extend the deadline further. 

But in the interest of giving the NCTA, 

the Joint Sports Claimants, the Program 

Suppliers, and any other interested 

parties an opportunity to wrap-up their 

discussions, and if possible, to prepare 

a joint recommendation on the proposed 

regulation, the Office has decided to 

grant the stakeholders’ request and 

extend the deadline for filing reply 

comments by another three weeks, 

making reply comments due by October 

24, 2012. Further extensions will not be 

granted. 

Dated: September 27, 2012. 

Maria A. Pallante, 

Register of Copyrights. 

[FR Doc. 2012–24321 Filed 10–2–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

POSTAL SERVICE 

39 CFR Part 111 

New Marking Standards for Parcels 

Containing Hazardous Materials 

AGENCY: Postal ServiceTM. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: The Postal Service is 

proposing to revise Mailing Standards 

of the United States Postal Service, 

Domestic Mail Manual (DMM®) 601.10 

to adopt new mandatory marking 

standards for parcels containing 

mailable hazardous material that will 

align with the revised requirements 

provided by the Department of 

Transportation (DOT). This proposed 

rule also provides terminology and 

categorization changes needed to 

respond to the pending elimination of 

the ‘‘Other Regulated Material’’ (ORM– 

D) category and the partial elimination 

of the ‘‘Consumer Commodity’’ category 

by the DOT. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

October 23, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Mail or deliver written 

comments to the manager, Product 

Classification, U.S. Postal Service, 475 

L’Enfant Plaza SW., Room 4446, 

Washington, DC 20260–5015. You may 

inspect and photocopy all written 

comments at USPS® Headquarters 

Library, 475 L’Enfant Plaza SW., 11th 

Floor North, Washington, DC, by 

appointment only between the hours of 

9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through 

Friday. Call 202–268–2906 in advance 

for an appointment. Email comments, 

containing the name and address of the 

commenter, may be sent to 

MailingStandards@usps.gov, with a 

subject line of ‘‘Hazardous Materials.’’ 

Faxed comments are not accepted. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin Gunther at 202–268–7208. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Postal 

Service proposes to revise DMM 601.10, 

and to make corresponding revisions to 

Publication 52, Hazardous, Restricted, 

and Perishable Mail, chapters 2, 3 and 

7, and Appendices A and C, to adopt 

new marking standards for parcels 

containing mailable hazardous 

materials. These marking standards 

were recently added to the DMM for 

optional use by mailers, as an 

alternative to the current DMM marking 

standards for parcels containing 

mailable hazardous materials. 

If this proposal is adopted, the Postal 

Service will require use of these 

markings on parcels intended for air and 

surface transportation. However, the 

new markings standards will be 

deferred for parcels intended for surface 

transportation, to coincide with the 

delayed implementation date for ground 

transportation proscribed by the DOT. 

The new standards, including proposed 

implementation dates, are summarized 

below. 

Mailers should note that any other 

marking or documentation requirements 

not specifically referenced in this 

proposed rule, including the 

preparation of a properly completed 

shipper’s declaration, will not be 

modified or eliminated by any of the 

revisions described herein. 

Background 

On January 19, 2011, the DOT’s 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA) published 

final rule HM–215K (76 FR 3308–3389), 

which harmonized the requirements of 

the U.S. Hazardous Materials 

Regulations (HMR) with international 

transport requirements. In its Federal 

Register final rule, PHMSA signaled its 

intent to, among other things, eliminate 

the ‘‘Other Regulated Material’’ (ORM– 

D) classification for all forms of 

transportation. This change will become 

effective on January 1, 2013 for 

shipments intended for air 

transportation, and on January 1, 2015 

for shipments intended for surface 

transportation. 

In addition to the elimination of the 

ORM–D category, PHMSA also 

eliminated the ‘‘consumer commodity’’ 

category for products in hazard classes 

4, 5, and 8, as well as a portion of 

hazard class 9, for all shipments 

intended for air transportation. This 

change will become effective on January 

1, 2013. After this date, the mailability 

of materials previously falling within 

the ‘‘consumer commodity’’ category 

must be evaluated based on its 

eligibility under the limited quantity 

category in the HMR. 

PHMSA expects that the alignment of 

the existing limited quantity provisions 

in the HMR with international standards 

and regulations will enhance safety by 

facilitating a single uniform system of 

transporting limited quantity materials. 

Because of the inherent risk unique to 

air transportation, PHMSA believes that 

full harmonization with the 

International Civil Aviation 

Organization Technical Instructions 

(ICAO TI) is necessary with regard to 

the materials authorized and the 

guidelines for limited quantities 

(including consumer commodities) 

intended for transport by air. The ICAO 

TI also include specific provisions for 

air transport of dangerous goods in the 

mail, which are much more restrictive 

than the general standards. No 

dangerous goods are allowed in 

international mail, with the exception of 

certain infectious substances, certain 

patient specimens and certain 

radioactive materials as noted in section 

135 of Mailing Standards of the United 

States Postal Service, International Mail 

Manual (IMM®); and these materials 

may only be sent by authorized mailers 

for authorized purposes. 

Proposed Air Transport Standards for 

January 1, 2013 

The Postal Service plans to align its 

hazardous materials mailing 

requirements with those of the DOT 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA) by proposing 

the mandatory use of the marking 

standards described in this proposed 

rule on all parcels intended for air 

transportation. These rules were 

incorporated into the DMM for optional 

use on August 6, 2012. If this proposal 

is adopted these optional markings will 


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