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Forms of molybdenum include, but 

are not limited to, items falling under 

the following eight-digit HS numbers, as 

identified in the 2012 Tariff 

Implementation Program: 26131000, 

26139000, 28257000, 28417010, 

28417090, 72027000, 81021000, 

81029400 and 81029700. Forms of 

molybdenum also include, but are not 

limited to, items falling under the 

following 10-digit CCC Codes, as 

identified in the 2012 Export Licensing 

Management Commodities List: 

2613100000, 2613900000, 2825700000, 

2841701000, 2841709000, 7202700000, 

8102100000, 8102940000 and 

8102970000. 

USTR believes that these export 

restraints and China’s administration of 

and manner of imposing these export 

restraints are inconsistent with China’s 

obligations under Articles X and XI of 

the General Agreement on Tariffs and 

Trade 1994; paragraphs 2(A)2, 5.1 and 

11.3 of Part I of the Protocol on the 

Accession of the People’s Republic of 

China (‘‘Accession Protocol’’); and the 

provisions of paragraph 1.2 of Part I of 

the Accession Protocol (which 

incorporates commitments in 

paragraphs 83, 84, 162 and 165 of the 

Report of the Working Party on the 

Accession of China). 

Public Comment: Requirements for 

Submissions 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written comments concerning 

the issues raised in this dispute. Persons 

may submit public comments 

electronically to www.regulations.gov 

docket number USTR–2012–0005. If you 

are unable to provide submissions by 

www.regulations.gov, please contact 

Sandy McKinzy at (202) 395–9483 to 

arrange for an alternative method of 

transmission. 

To submit comments via 

www.regulations.gov, enter docket 

number USTR–2012–0005 on the home 

page and click ‘‘search’’. The site will 

provide a search-results page listing all 

documents associated with this docket. 

Find a reference to this notice by 

selecting ‘‘Notice’’ under ‘‘Document 

Type’’ on the left side of the searchresults page, and click on the link 

entitled ‘‘Submit a Comment.’’ (For 

further information on using the 

www.regulations.gov Web site, please 

consult the resources provided on the 

Web site by clicking on ‘‘How to Use 

This Site’’ on the left side of the home 

page.) 

The www.regulations.gov site 

provides the option of providing 

comments by filling in a ‘‘Type 

Comments’’ field, or by attaching a 

document using an ‘‘upload file’’ field. 

It is expected that most comments will 

be provided in an attached document. If 

a document is attached, it is sufficient 

to type ‘‘See attached’’ in the ‘‘Type 

Comments’’ field. 

A person requesting that information 

contained in a comment submitted by 

that person be treated as confidential 

business information must certify that 

such information is business 

confidential and would not customarily 

be released to the public by the 

submitter. Confidential business 

information must be clearly designated 

as such and the submission must be 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ 

at the top and bottom of the cover page 

and each succeeding page. Any 

comment containing business 

confidential information must be 

submitted by fax to Sandy McKinzy at 

(202) 395–3640. A non-confidential 

summary of the confidential 

information must be submitted to 

www.regulations.gov. The nonconfidential summary will be placed in 

the docket and open to public 

inspection. 

Information or advice contained in a 

comment submitted, other than business 

confidential information, may be 

determined by USTR to be confidential 

in accordance with section 135(g)(2) of 

the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 

2155(g)(2)). If the submitter believes that 

information or advice may qualify as 

such, the submitter B 

(1) Must clearly so designate the 

information or advice; 

(2) Must clearly mark the material as 

‘‘SUBMITTED IN CONFIDENCE’’ at the 

top and bottom of the cover page and 

each succeeding page; and 

(3) Must provide a non-confidential 

summary of the information or advice. 

Any comment containing confidential 

information must be submitted by fax. A 

non-confidential summary of the 

confidential information must be 

submitted to www.regulations.gov. The 

non-confidential summary will be 

placed in the docket and open to public 

inspection. 

Pursuant to section 127(e) of the 

Uruguay Round Agreements Act (19 

U.S.C. 3537(e)), USTR will maintain a 

docket on this dispute settlement 

proceeding accessible to the public at 

www.regulations.gov, docket number 

USTR–2012–0005. The public file will 

include non-confidential comments 

received by USTR from the public with 

respect to the dispute. If a dispute 

settlement panel is convened or in the 

event of an appeal from such a panel, 

the U.S. submissions, any nonconfidential submissions, or nonconfidential summaries of submissions, 

received from other participants in the 

dispute, will be made available to the 

public on USTR’s Web site at 

www.ustr.gov, and the report of the 

panel, and, if applicable, the report of 

the Appellate Body, will be available on 

the Web site of the World Trade 

Organization, www.wto.org. Comments 

open to public inspection may be 

viewed on the www.regulations.gov Web 

site. 

Bradford L. Ward, 

Assistant United States Trade Representative 

for Monitoring and Enforcement. 

[FR Doc. 2012–18429 Filed 7–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3290–F2–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Commercial Space Transportation 

Advisory Committee—Public 

Teleconference 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Commercial Space 

Transportation Advisory Committee 

Teleconference. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice 

is hereby given of three teleconferences 

of the Systems Working Group of the 

Commercial Space Transportation 

Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). The 

teleconferences will take place on: 

Tuesday August 14, 2012, Tuesday 

September 18, 2012, and Tuesday 

October 23, 2012. All teleconferences 

will begin at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight 

Time and will last approximately one 

hour. Individuals who plan to 

participate should contact Susan 

Lender, Designated Federal Officer 

(DFO), (the Contact Person listed below) 

by phone or email for the teleconference 

call in number. 

The purpose of these three 

teleconferences is to assist the FAA 

early in its development of regulations 

to protect occupants of commercial 

suborbital and orbital spacecraft. 

Although the FAA has not yet targeted 

a date for proposing regulations to 

protect the health and safety of crew 

and space flight participants, the FAA 

believes that the development of sound 

and appropriate regulations for human 

space flight can only be achieved with 

a deliberate, multi-year effort. Moreover, 

the FAA believes that early industry 

input into this regulatory effort before 

any formal proposal by the FAA is 

critical. 

Thus, the FAA would like to engage 

with COMSTAC on a periodic basis, 

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approximately once per month, on 

specific topics. The topics for the first 

three teleconferences are as follows: 

(1) What Level of Safety Should FAA 

Target? We will discuss whether the 

FAA should regulate to one or multiple 

levels of space flight safety, what level 

or levels of safety the FAA should 

attempt to achieve, and whether the 

level or levels of safety should be 

quantified. We will also discuss what 

level of care, short of a fatality, the FAA 

should be concerned with. 

(2) What Should FAA Oversight Look 

Like? Aircraft-like certification is not 

feasible at this time, due to current 

technology and the FAA’s statutory 

mandate only to pursue minimal 

regulations that take into consideration 

the evolving standards of safety in the 

commercial space flight industry. 51 

U.S.C. 50905(c)(3). We will discuss 

what a licensing process should look 

like in terms of FAA oversight, whether 

such oversight could or should be called 

a ‘‘certification,’’ and for how long 

informed consent should remain in 

effect. 

(3) What Types of Requirements and 

Associated Guidance Material Should 

FAA Develop? In general, the FAA 

favors space transportation regulations 

that are performance or process based. 

We will discuss the level of empirical or 

analytical data necessary to justify any 

performance-based human space flight 

regulation, the possible use of Advisory 

Circulars to add clarity to regulations, 

and what place government and 

industry standards should have in FAA 

licensing. 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant written statements for 

the COMSTAC working group members 

to consider under the advisory process. 

Statements may concern the issues and 

agenda items mentioned above or 

additional issues that may be relevant 

for the U.S. commercial space 

transportation industry. Interested 

parties wishing to submit written 

statements should contact Susan 

Lender, DFO, (the Contact Person listed 

below) in writing (mail or email) by 

August 7, 2012, for the August 14 

teleconference, September 11, 2012, for 

the September 18 teleconference, and 

October 16, 2012, for the October 23 

teleconference. This way the 

information can be made available to 

COMSTAC members for their review 

and consideration before each 

teleconference. Written statements 

should be supplied in the following 

formats: one hard copy with original 

signature or one electronic copy via 

email. The FAA may schedule up to 10 

more teleconferences in the coming 

months to allow the U.S. commercial 

space transportation industry to share 

views with the FAA on a number of 

specific topics related to commercial 

human space flight safety. 

An agenda will be posted on the FAA 

Web site at http://www.faa.gov/go/ast. 

Individuals who plan to participate 

and need special assistance should 

inform the Contact Person listed below 

in advance of the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Lender (AST–5), Office of 

Commercial Space Transportation 

(AST), 800 Independence Avenue SW., 

Room 331, Washington, DC 20591, 

telephone (202) 267–8029; Email 

susan.lender@faa.gov. Complete 

information regarding COMSTAC is 

available on the FAA Web site at: 

http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/

headquarters_offices/ast/advisory_

committee/. 

Issued in Washington, DC, July 23, 2012. 

George C. Nield, 

Associate Administrator for Commercial 

Space Transportation. 

[FR Doc. 2012–18555 Filed 7–27–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0106] 

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption 

Applications; Vision 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of final disposition. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its 

decision to exempt 12 individuals from 

the vision requirement in the Federal 

Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 

(FMCSRs). They are unable to meet the 

vision requirement in one eye for 

various reasons. The exemptions will 

enable these individuals to operate 

commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in 

interstate commerce without meeting 

the prescribed vision requirement in 

one eye. The Agency has concluded that 

granting these exemptions will provide 

a level of safety that is equivalent to or 

greater than the level of safety 

maintained without the exemptions for 

these CMV drivers. 

DATES: The exemptions are effective July 

30, 2012. The exemptions expire on July 

30, 2014. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elaine M. Papp, Chief, Medical 

Programs Division, (202)–366–4001, 

fmcsamedical@dot.gov, FMCSA, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W64– 

224, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access 

You may see all the comments online 

through the Federal Document 

Management System (FDMS) at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov at any time or 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

FDMS is available 24 hours each day, 

365 days each year. If you want 

acknowledgement that we received your 

comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments on-line. 

Privacy Act: Anyone may search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or of the person signing the 

comment, if submitted on behalf of an 

association, business, labor union, etc.). 

You may review DOT’s Privacy Act 

Statement for the FDMS published in 

the Federal Register on January 17, 

2008 (73 FR 3316), or you may visit 

http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/

E8-785.pdf. 

Background 

On June 4, 2012, FMCSA published a 

notice of receipt of exemption 

applications from certain individuals, 

and requested comments from the 

public (77 FR 33017). That notice listed 

12 applicants’ case histories. The 12 

individuals applied for exemptions from 

the vision requirement in 49 CFR 

391.41(b)(10), for drivers who operate 

CMVs in interstate commerce. 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, 

FMCSA may grant an exemption for a 

2-year period if it finds ‘‘such 

exemption would likely achieve a level 

of safety that is equivalent to or greater 

than the level that would be achieved 

absent such exemption.’’ The statute 

also allows the Agency to renew 

exemptions at the end of the 2-year 

period. Accordingly, FMCSA has 

evaluated the 12 applications on their 

merits and made a determination to 

grant exemptions to each of them. 

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