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Engineering, or such officer’s designee,

to enter into an extension to and

modification of Contract No. P–94P07–

115471 with Cane Patch Mining

Company, Inc.

7. Delegation of authority to the Vice

President of Fuel Supply and

Engineering, or such officer’s designee,

to enter into an extension to and

modification of Contract No. P–90P07–

115734 with Arch Coal Sales Company,

Inc.

8. Approval for TVA Director William

H. Kennoy to be an incorporator and

director of the East Tennessee

Intermodal Transportation Commerce

Center, Inc.

9. Approval to file a condemnation

case related to the Dunmar-Paradise Tap

to Ennis Transmission Line,

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

10. Approval for TVA Nuclear to enter

into a contract in which Westinghouse

Electric Corporation would purchase

from TVA a spare reactor coolant pump

internals package located at the Watts

Bar Nuclear Plant Unit 2.

11. Expansion of participation in the

Interruptible Power Pilot Project and

delegation of authority to the Executive

Vice President, Customer Service and

Marketing, to execute the contractual

arrangements.

12. Sale of noncommercial,

nonexclusive permanent easement to

Lakeside Properties, Inc., affecting 2.47

acres of land on Tellico Lake in Monroe

County, Tennessee (Tract No. XTELR–

191RE), for the construction, operation,

and maintenance of private water-use

facilities.

13. Amendment of the Pickwick

Reservoir Land Management Plan and

grant of a permanent easement to the

City of Florence, Alabama, affecting

approximately 121 acres and a

temporary construction easement

affecting approximately 4 acres of land

on Pickwick Lake in Lauderdale County,

Alabama (Tract No. XPR–457E), for a

wastewater treatment plant, sewer

lagoons, and a sewerline.

14. Proposed rate schedules for

ancillary services to be included in 1997

edition of the Transmission Service

Guidelines, approved July 10, 1997,

providing open access transmission

service over the TVA system.

15. Proposed 1997 edition of the

Transmission Service Guidelines

providing open access transmission

service over the TVA system.

For more information: Please call

TVA Public Relations at (423) 632–6000,

Knoxville, Tennessee. Information is

also available at TVA’s Washington

Office (202) 898–2999.

Dated: August 29, 1997.

Edward S. Christenbury,

General Counsel and Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–23584 Filed 9–2–97; 11:42 am]

BILLING CODE 8120–08–M

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Report On The Andean Trade

Preference Act: Request For Public

Comment

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Trade Policy Staff

Committee (TPSC) is seeking the views

of interested parties on the operation of

the Andean Trade Preference Act, as

amended (19 U.S.C. 3201 et seq) (‘‘the

ATPA’’). Section 203(f) of the ATPA

requires the President to submit a report

to the Congress regarding the operation

of the ATPA on or before December 4,

1997, the sixth anniversary of the date

of the enactment of the ATPA. The

TPSC invites written comments

concerning the issues to be examined in

preparing such a report, including the

considerations described in subsections

203(c) and (d) of the ATPA.

DATES: Public comments are due at

USTR by October 17, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Director for Mexican

Affairs, Office of the Western

Hemisphere, Office of the U.S. Trade

Representatives, 600 17th Street NW.,

Room 523, Washington, DC 20506.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Koplovsky, Director for

Mexican Affairs, Office of the Western

Hemisphere, Office of the United States

Trade Representative, (202) 395–3142.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested

parties are invited to submit comments

on any aspect of the program’s

operation, including the status of

beneficiary countries—Bolivia,

Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru—under

the criteria described in subsections 203

(c) and (d) of the ATPA. Issues to be

examined in this report include: The

program’s effect on the volume and

composition of trade and investment

between the United States and the

Andean beneficiary countries; its effect

on the economic growth and

development of the beneficiary

countries; the extent to which the

program has advanced narcotics

eradication; related sustainable

alternative development efforts in cocagrowing areas; and the degree to which

the program has encouraged the trade

and investment policies cited in the

ATPA.

Written Notice

All written comments should be

addressed to: Michael Koplovsky,

Director for Mexican Affairs, Office of

the Western Hemisphere, Office of the

U.S. Trade Representative, 600 17th

Street, NW., Room 522, Washington, DC

20506.

All submissions must be in English

and should conform to the information

requirements of 15 CFR part 2003.

A submitter must provide twenty

copies of any comments. Comments

must be received at USTR no later than

5 p.m., October 17, 1997. If the

comments contain business confidential

information, twenty copies of a nonconfidential version must also be

submitted. Comments containing

business confidential information must

include a justification as to why the

information contained in the

submission should be treated

confidentially, and should be clearly

marked ‘‘business confidential’’ at the

top of each page. The non-confidential

version should also be clearly marked at

the top of each page ‘‘public version’’ or

‘‘non-confidential’’.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice, except for comments granted

‘‘business confidential’’ status pursuant

to 15 CFR 2003.6, will be available for

public inspection after the filing

deadline. Inspection is by appointment

only with the USTR Public Reading

Room, and can be arranged by calling

(202) 395–6186. Other requests and

questions should be directed to the

Office of the Western Hemisphere at

USTR by calling (202) 395–3142.

Frederick L. Montgomery,

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

[FR Doc. 97–23497 Filed 9–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3190–01–M

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Generalized System of Preferences

(GSP); Schedule of Hearings and

Deadlines for Submitting Comments

on Petitions for the GSP 1997 Product

Review and Country Practices Review

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative (USTR).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to set forth the timetable for hearings,

and for providing public comments on

petitions requesting: (1) Changes in the

eligibility for duty-free treatment under

the GSP program of products accepted

for the 1997 Product Review; and (2)

modifications in the status of GSP

beneficiary countries in regard to their
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practices, as specified in 15 CFR 2007.0

(a) and (b).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: GSP

Subcommittee, Office of the United

States Trade Representative, 600 17th

Street, NW, Room 518, Washington, DC

20508 (Tel. 202/395–6971). Public

versions of all documents relating to

this review may be seen by appointment

in the USTR public Reading Room

between 9:30–12 a.m. and 1–4 p.m. (Tel.

202/395–6186).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The GSP

program is authorized pursuant to Title

V of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended

(‘‘the Trade Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2461 et

seq.). The GSP program grants duty-free

treatment to designated eligible articles

that are imported from designated

beneficiary developing countries. In a

Federal Register notice dated August

13, 1997 (62 FR 43408), USTR

announced the acceptance of product

petitions for review. In addition, USTR

has received a number of petitions

requesting that certain practices in

certain beneficiary developing countries

be reviewed to determine whether such

countries are in compliance with the

eligibility criteria set forth in sections

502(b) and 502(c) of the Trade Act (19

U.S.C. 2462(b) and 2462(c)).

I. Subject of Reviews

A. Petitions Requesting Modifications of

Product Eligibility

As described in a Federal Register

notice dated August 13, 1997 (62 FR

43408), USTR accepted petitions from

interested parties and foreign

governments to: (1) Designate articles as

eligible for the GSP; (2) withdraw,

suspend or limit GSP duty-free

treatment accorded either to eligible

articles under the GSP or to individual

beneficiary developing countries with

respect to specific GSP eligible articles;

and (3) waive competitive need limits.

USTR has requested the advice of the

U.S. International Trade Commission

(USITC) on the probable economic

effects of granting the requested GSP

changes on U.S. industries producing

like or directly competitive articles and

on consumers. A nonconfidential

version of the USITC analysis will be

made available to the public as of

approximately December 30, 1997.

Any modifications to the list of

articles eligible for duty-free treatment

under the GSP program resulting from

the GSP 1997 Product Review will be

announced on or about May 1, 1998,

and will take effect July 1, 1998.

B. Petitions Accepted for Review

Regarding Country Practices

Pursuant to 15 CFR 2007.0(b), the

Trade Policy Staff Committee has

accepted petitions to review the GSP

status of (1) Belarus and Swaziland

based on the alleged failure of each to

provide adequate and effective

protection for internationally recognized

worker rights, and (2) the Philippines

based on its alleged failure to provide

equitable and reasonable access to its

markets. (The decision on the

Philippines intellectual property rights

case has been deferred.)

Any modifications to the list of

beneficiary developing countries for

purposes of the GSP program resulting

from the Country Practices Review will

take effect on such date as will be

notified in a future Federal Register

notice.

II. Opportunities for Public Comment

and Inspection of Comments

The GSP Subcommittee of the TPSC

invites comments in support of, or in

opposition to, any petition which is the

subject of this notice. Submissions

should comply with 15 CFR Part 2007,

including sections 2007.0, and 2007.1.

All submissions should identify the

subject article(s) in terms of the current

Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the

United States (‘‘HTS’’) nomenclature.

Comments should be submitted in

fourteen (14) copies, in English, to the

Chairman of the GSP Subcommittee of

the Trade Policy Staff Committee, 600

17th Street, NW., Room 518,

Washington, DC 20508. Information

submitted will be subject to public

inspection by appointment with the

staff of the USTR public reading room,

except for information granted

‘‘business confidential’’ status pursuant

to 15 CFR 2003.6 and other qualifying

information submitted in confidence

pursuant to 15 CFR 2007.7. If the

document contains business

confidential information, an original

and fourteen (14) copies of a

nonconfidential version of the

submission along with an original and

fourteen (14) copies of the confidential

version must be submitted. In addition,

any document containing confidential

information should be clearly marked

‘‘confidential’’ at the top and bottom of

each page of the document. The version

that does not contain confidential

information (the public version) should

also be clearly marked at the top and

bottom of every page (either ‘‘public

version’’ or ‘‘nonconfidential’’).

Comments should be submitted no later

than 5:00 p.m. on September 30, 1997.

III. Notice of Public Hearings

Hearings will be held on October 22,

23, (and October 24, 1997, if needed)

beginning at 10:00 a.m. at the U.S.

International Trade Commission

Building, 500 E Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20436. The hearings

will be open to the public and a

transcript of the hearings will be made

available for public inspection or can be

purchased from the reporting company.

No electronic media coverage will be

allowed.

All interested parties wishing to

present oral testimony at the hearings

must submit the name, address, and

telephone number of the witness(es)

representing their organization to the

Chairman of the GSP Subcommittee.

Such requests to present oral testimony

at the public hearings should be

accompanied by fourteen (14) copies, in

English, of a written brief or statement,

and should be received by 5 p.m. on

September 30, 1997. Oral testimony

before the GSP Subcommittee will be

limited to five minute presentations that

summarize or supplement information

contained in the briefs or statements

submitted for the record. Post-hearing

and rebuttal briefs or statements should

conform to the regulations cited above

and be submitted in fourteen (14)

copies, in English, no later than 5 p.m.

November 19, 1997.

Interested persons not wishing to

appear at the public hearings may also

submit pre-hearing written briefs or

statements by 5:00 p.m. on September

30, 1997, and post-hearing and rebuttal

written briefs or statements by

November 19, 1997. Comments by

interested persons on the USITC Report

should be submitted in fourteen (14)

copies, in English, by 5 p.m. January 15,

1998.

Frederick L. Montgomery,

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

[FR Doc. 97–23493 Filed 9–3–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3190–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Notice of Safety Advisory

AGENCY: Federal Railroad

Administration (FRA), Department of

Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of Safety Advisory.

SUMMARY: FRA is issuing Safety

Advisory 97–1 addressing safety

practices to reduce the risk of casualties

from train derailments caused by

damage to tracks, roadbed, and bridges

resulting from uncontrolled flows of