Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 184 / Monday, September 24, 2007 / Notices 54315 

Dated: September 18, 2007. 

C. Miller Crouch, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department 

of State. 

[FR Doc. E7–18765 Filed 9–21–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 5939] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: 

‘‘Lawrence Weiner: As Far as the Eye 

Can See’’

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority 

No. 236 of October 19, 1999, as 

amended, and Delegation of Authority 

No. 257 of April 15, 2003 [68 FR 19875], 

I hereby determine that the object to be 

included in the exhibition ‘‘Lawrence 

Weiner: As Far as the Eye Can See,’’

imported from abroad for temporary 

exhibition within the United States, is 

of cultural significance. The object is 

imported pursuant to a loan agreement 

with the foreign owner or custodian. I 

also determine that the exhibition or 

display of the exhibit object at the 

Whitney Museum, New York, NY, from 

on or about November 15, 2007, until on 

or about February 10, 2008, and at the 

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los 

Angeles, CA, from on or about April 13, 

2008, to on or about July 14, 2008, and 

at possible additional exhibitions or 

venues yet to be determined, is in the 

national interest. Public Notice of these 

Determinations is ordered to be 

published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Carol B. 

Epstein, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the 

Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State 

(telephone: 202/453–8048). The address 

is U.S. Department of State, SA–44, 301 

4th Street, SW., Room 700, Washington, 

DC 20547–0001. 

Dated: September 17, 2007. 

C. Miller Crouch, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department 

of State. 

[FR Doc. E7–18770 Filed 9–21–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

DOT’s Migration to the Federal Docket 

Management Systems (FDMS) 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

service disruption to DOT’s Docket 

Management System (DMS), which 

contains the public dockets for all DOT 

agencies (except for the Surface 

Transportation Board), the 

Transportation Security Administration 

(TSA), and the United States Coast 

Guard (USCG). (Subsequent references 

to ‘‘DOT’’ in this document also apply 

to TSA and USCG.) Effective September 

30, 2007, DOT’s DMS will be replaced 

by the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS), a government-wide, 

electronic docket management system. 

Please note that in preparation for 

migration, effective Thursday, 

September 27, 2007 at 5 p.m. DMS will 

no longer accept electronic comments/ 

submissions. DMS will accept, as well 

as process, faxed and other paper 

documents up until 12 noon on Friday, 

September 28, 2007. If falling due 

during this transition, due dates for 

filings in rulemakings and adjudications 

will be delayed until October 1, 2007, 

unless otherwise advised by the 

originating office. On October 1, 2007 

FDMS will begin accepting DOT-related 

electronic submission. At that time, it 

will display all open DOT dockets. 

Between October 1 and October 31, the 

remaining DOT dockets still will be 

accessible in DMS. By October 31, the 

full migration of all dockets currently in 

DMS is expected to be completed. The 

change in systems will not change any 

requirements in DOT regulations. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, Office of 

Information Services, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590; 

telephone number: (202) 493–0402; fax 

number (202) 493–2251; e-mail address: 

renee.wright@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

FDMS is a major component of the 

President’s e-Rulemaking Initiative, 

which provides easy access to the 

public dockets maintained by Federal 

agencies, while streamlining and 

increasing the efficiency of the internal 

procedures for agencies that did not 

already have electronic internetaccessible systems. FDMS is designed so 

that the public has a single point of 

access to the public dockets across the 

Federal government. FDMS offers a 

standard, online procedure for Federal 

agencies to handle and process 

documents. The Initiative reduces costs 

by eliminating duplicative information 

systems and technical infrastructures. 

A. What Is FDMS? 

FDMS is a full-featured electronic 

docket management system that gives 

Federal personnel and docket managers 

the ability to better manage their 

rulemakings, adjudications, and other 

docketed program activities. With this 

system, more than thirty Federal 

departments and agencies can post 

documents, supporting materials, and 

public comments/submissions on the 

Internet and the public will have a onestop site to search, view, and download 

documents, as well as to submit 

comments or other documents to the 

agency dockets. Although all Federal 

agencies are required to use FDMS for 

their rulemaking dockets, FDMS also 

will handle and process public docket 

materials for other purposes. DOT will 

use it for all of the material currently 

docketed in DMS, such as adjudications, 

peer review, and data quality. We will 

shortly add a docket subcategory for 

significant guidance documents. 

B. How Can I Access and Use FDMS? 

You may access FDMS on the Internet 

at http://www.regulations.gov. You may 

use FDMS to access available public 

docket materials online, as well as 

submit electronic comments or other 

documents to a particular docket 

available in FDMS. 

C. How Can I Search FDMS? 

You may also search for an available 

public docket or for particular docket 

material. FDMS provides two basic 

methods of searching to retrieve dockets 

and docket materials that are available 

in the system: (1) ‘‘Quick Search’’ to 

search using a full-text search engine, or 

(2) ‘‘Advanced Search,’’ which displays 

various indexed fields such as the 

docket name, docket identification 

number, phase of the action, initiating 

office, date of issuance, document title, 

document identification number, type of 

document, Federal Register reference, 

CFR citation, etc. Each data field in the 

advanced search may be searched 

independently or in combination with 

other fields, as desired. Each search 

yields a simultaneous display of all 

available information found in FDMS 

that is relevant to the requested subject 

or topic. 


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D. How Can I Make Submissions to 

FDMS? 

1. Online. You may submit your 

comments/submissions online to FDMS 

when a particular docket is open for 

public submissions. Federal Register 

notices and adjudicatory and other 

documents will usually identify 

whether a docket has been established 

in FDMS. FDMS also can be searched to 

determine if a docket has been 

established. Using http:// 

www.Regulations.gov to submit 

comments or other documents is DOT’s 

preferred method for receiving 

comments/submissions. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments/submissions. 

2. Mail. Documents also may be 

submitted by mail to Docket 

Management Facility, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey, SE., 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

3. Hand-delivery. Documents may be 

submitted by hand delivery or courier to 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

4. Fax. Faxed submissions are 

accepeted at: 202–493–2251 

E. How Will DOT Know Who Is Making 

a Submission? 

As with DMS, FDMS is an 

‘‘anonymous access’’ system, which 

means DOT will not know your identity, 

e-mail address, or other contact 

information unless it is provided in the 

body of your submission. DOT rules 

applicable to adjudicatory submissions 

still apply. We recommend that you 

include your name, mailing address, 

and an e-mail address or other contact 

information in the body of your 

document to ensure that you can be 

identified as the submitter. This also 

allows DOT to contact you in the event 

further information is needed or if there 

are questions. For example, if DOT 

cannot read your submission due to 

technical difficulties and you cannot be 

contacted, your submission may not be 

considered. Note that it is DOT’s policy 

not to edit your submission; all 

documents received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Therefore, any identifying or contact 

information provided in the body of a 

submission will be included in the 

official public docket, and made 

available to the public. 

F. What Effect Will Use of FDMS Have 

on My Privacy? 

As with DMS, anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all submissions 

entered into any of our dockets in FDMS 

by the name of the individual 

submitting the document (or signing the 

document, if submitted on behalf of an 

association, business, labor union, etc.). 

You may review DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 

Register published on April 11, 2000 

(65 FR 19477–78) or you may visit 

http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov, which will 

be available by October 1, 2007. 

G. Will FDMS Offer List Serves Like 

DMS? 

FDMS will offer a list serve. Anyone 

who had formerly signed up for the 

DMS list serve will have to sign up 

again in FDMS to receive e-mail 

notifications from FDMS. We apologize 

for any inconvenience this will cause. 

Note that FDMS’s list serve will only 

allow users to sign up for specific 

dockets. Users will not be able to sign 

up for categories of dockets, such as all 

FMCSA rulemakings. Users also will not 

be able to sign up for the subject areas 

currently allowed in DMS. (e.g., 

federalism). Some features that were 

available in DMS will not work in 

FDMS. For example, the list serve in 

DMS can search our Rulemaking 

Management System (RMS) for data 

necessary to respond to a list serve 

request. FDMS cannot search RMS for 

data because it is not allowed to go 

behind the DOT firewall. In response to 

this change, to help identify matters of 

interest for which the public may wish 

to sign up in the FDMS list serve, DOT 

will provide some reports and other 

information on http:// 

DocketsInfo.dot.gov. 

II. Migration From DMS to FDMS 

A. Phased Migration 

Using a phased approach, all dockets 

currently contained in DMS will be 

moved to FDMS. All open DOT dockets 

(dockets to which DOT agencies or the 

public may still submit documents or 

comments) will be available in FDMS 

on October 1, 2007. Due to the 

tremendous amount of data to be 

transferred from DOT DMS to FDMS, 

the migration of the remaining dockets 

will occur over the month of October 

and is expected to be completed by 

October 31, 2007. During this time, DMS 

will remain online for searching, 

viewing, and downloading documents 

in these remaining DOT dockets. 

Beginning October 1, 2007, any filing 

to an open docket must go to the FDMS 

at http://www.Regulations.gov. Until 

12:00 noon on Friday, September 28, 

2007, DMS will process all remaining 

September 27 electronic submissions in 

the pipeline, as well as any faxed or 

paper documents. DMS will accept, as 

well as process, faxed and paper 

documents up until 12:00 noon on 

Friday, September 28, 2007. Any faxed 

or paper submissions received after that 

time or not processed by 12:00 noon 

Friday, September 28, 2007, in DMS, 

will be processed on Monday, October 

1 in FDMS. 

B. Docket ID Numbers 

When DOT migrates its DMS data to 

FDMS, docket (identification) numbers 

that were assigned in DMS (legacy 

numbers), will, for the most part, remain 

the same in FDMS. However, dockets 

that used to be designated ‘‘OST’’, 

‘‘RSPA’’, ‘‘BTS’’, and ‘‘OMCS’’ in DMS 

will change to the following: 

OST–2007–1486 will become DOT–

OST–2007–1486. RSPA–2007–1486 will 

become PHMSA–RSPA–2007–1486. 

BTS–2007–1486 will become RITA–

BTS–2007–1486. OMCS–2007–1486 

will become FMCSA–OMCS–2007–

1486. 

FDMS will provide online public 

access to all existing, legacy dockets in 

DMS. Any Docket opened after 

September 27, 2007, will receive a 

docket ID in FDMS format. 

C. DOT-wide Searches 

If you want to search all DOT 

agencies, including OST, for a docket, 

you should do so by selecting 

‘‘Department of Transportation (ALL)’’. 

D. FDMS Submissions and Docket 

Numbers 

Currently in DMS, the public may 

submit comments and other documents, 

such as applications, petitions, 

exemptions, waivers, and other 

documents without knowing the actual 

docket ID. In FDMS, you are not 

allowed to submit a document without 

a docket ID. To handle this, DOT will 

be implementing ‘‘shell dockets’’. A 

‘‘shell docket’’ will be a ‘‘catch all’’ for 

submissions, such as applications, 

petitions, exemptions, and/or waivers, 

and data quality without a docket ID. 

DOT staff will review the documents in 

the ‘‘shell docket’’ and file them 

appropriately. 

E. FDMS Docket Types 

FDMS dockets are divided into two 

types, ‘‘Rulemaking’’ and ‘‘NonRulemaking.’’ To review dockets or 

make submissions, please use the 

‘‘Search the Docket’’ tab. Select the 

department or agency and use the 

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dockets other than rulemaking; from 

there you can select the appropriate subtype, such as ‘‘Peer Review’’. 

III. Additional Information 

A. Information on Use of FDMS 

Additional details about FDMS, as 

well as detailed instructions and 

assistance for using the system, are 

available at http://www.regulations.gov 

DOT will also have available online by 

October 1, 2007, a new site that will 

provide helpful information about the 

use of FDMS for DOT dockets. The site 

will also contain other helpful 

information, such as reports that were 

available on DMS but will not be 

available on FDMS. The site will be at 

http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov. In addition, 

if you are interested in attending 

informational sessions regarding FDMS 

that DOT will be offering on October 3, 

2007, (2–4 pm for the public) and 

October 4, 2007, (9–11 am for the 

public) in the DOT Conference Center/ 

Multi-Media Room, West Building, 

Room W11–130 at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC. Sign up 

is available at http://www.dms.dot.gov. 

B. Agencies Covered 

This notice applies to: the Federal 

Aviation Administration (FAA), the 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration (NHTSA), the Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA), the 

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), 

the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), the Research 

and Innovative Technology 

Administrative (RITA), the Federal 

Transit Administration (FTA), the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD), the 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA), the Saint 

Lawrence Seaway Development 

Corporation (SLSDC), and the Office of 

the Secretary (OST). Please note that the 

Transportation Security Administration 

(TSA) and the United States Coast 

Guard (USCG) also use DMS and their 

dockets will be transferring with the 

DOT dockets to FDMS. 

Renee V. Wright, 

Program Manager, Docket Operations. 

Dated: September 19, 2007. 

[FR Doc. 07–4709 Filed 9–19–07; 2:26 pm] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Submission Deadlines for 

Schedule Information for John F. 

Kennedy International Airport and 

Newark Liberty International Airport for 

the Summer 2008 Scheduling Season 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 

ACTION: Notice of submission deadline. 

SUMMARY: Under this notice, the FAA 

announces that New York’s John F. 

Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and 

Newark Liberty International Airport 

(EWR) have been designated Level 2 

Schedules Facilitated Airports for the 

summer 2008 scheduling season in 

accordance with the International Air 

Transport Association (IATA) 

Worldwide Scheduling Guidelines. 

Accordingly, the FAA announces an 

October 11, 2007, deadline for 

submitting schedule information for all 

planned flights at JFK and EWR between 

the hours of 6 a.m. and 11 p.m., local 

time or 1000 and 0300 UTC. The FAA 

deadline coincides with the submission 

deadline established by IATA for the 

Summer 2008 Schedules Conference. 

The U.S. summer scheduling season 

is from March 9, 2008, through 

November 1, 2008, in recognition of the 

U.S. daylight saving time dates. The 

FAA understands the IATA summer 

2008 season is March 30, 2008, through 

October 25, 2008. The FAA will accept 

schedules that coincide with the IATA 

scheduling season, rather than U.S. 

daylight saving dates, in order to ease 

the administrative burdens on carriers 

conducting international operations and 

in order to ensure that FAA has the 

most accurate schedule information. 

The Level 2 designations for JFK and 

EWR are necessary because of increased 

levels of air traffic operations, 

congestion and delay at the airports and 

a tangible decrease in operational 

performance (performance data for each 

airport is provided below). The FAA is 

implementing a number of initiatives for 

JFK and EWR to improve air traffic 

control (ATC) efficiency and reduce 

delays at those and other airports. For 

instance, ATC has increased use of a 

second departure runway at JFK when 

conditions permit. Other measures for 

both airports will improve routing 

options during periods of adverse 

weather conditions. And, over the next 

several years, the FAA will redesign 

airspace in the New York/New Jersey/ 

Philadelphia areas in order to improve 

efficiency and reduce delays. These near 

term measures, however, are not 

sufficient to meet the current peak hour 

operational demands at these airports. 

John F. Kennedy Airport 

Operations at JFK were previously 

limited by the FAA under the High 

Density Rule. This rule was eliminated 

at JFK after January 1, 2007, in 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 41715(a)(2). 

The FAA advised IATA and carriers that 

this effectively changed the FAA 

determination for JFK under IATA 

guidelines to Level 1 as of January 1, 

2007. However, the FAA now 

redesignates JFK as Level 2 for the 

summer 2008 season and requests 

carriers to provide schedule information 

in accordance with this notice. 

JFK is experiencing increased 

congestion with a corresponding 

decrease in on-time performance. 

Comparing the period of October 2006 

through July 2007 to the same period in 

the previous year, the average daily 

operations at JFK increased 23 percent; 

the average daily arrivals with delays 

greater than one hour increased 114 

percent; and on-time gate arrivals 

within 15 minutes of scheduled time 

decreased from 69.7 percent to 61.2 

percent. Average taxi-out delay 

increased 19 percent from 30 to almost 

36 minutes on average. The metrics for 

the months of June and July 2007 show 

even further deterioration of 

performance. A number of carriers 

communicated their concerns to the 

FAA about the impact the delayed 

flights are having on operational 

reliability, flight connections and 

network planning. 

The FAA intends to work with 

carriers to review operations, 

particularly during the morning hours of 

7 a.m. to 10 a.m. and afternoon and 

evening hours from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. 

local time. Capacity exists for new 

operations or retiming of existing flights 

at many periods of the day. The FAA is 

currently completing a capacity and 

demand assessment of JFK and 

considering steps to address the timing 

of flights on the airport’s operation. This 

could result in operational limits during 

peak hours and a change of JFK’s 

designation to Level 3. 

Newark Liberty International Airport 

EWR has been one of the most 

consistently delayed airports in the 

National Airspace System (NAS). For 

example, for the period of October 2006 

through July 2007, EWR had an on-time 

arrival performance of 60.17 percent, 

the worst among the top 35 airports. 

Therefore, based on the airport’s 

performance metrics and the imbalance 

between ATC capacity and demand that 

is expected to continue in the near term, 


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