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Chapter 4 of the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (HTS) to

delete the tariff-rate quota (TRQ)

allocation of 400,000 kilograms to

Hungary for Italian-type cheese and to

increase TRQ allocation to Hungary for

Swiss or Emmenthaler cheese to

800,000 kilograms.

EFFECTIVE DATE: This modification is

effective on January 1, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Suzanne Early, Senior Policy Advisor,

Office of the United States Trade

Representatives, 600 17th Street NW,

Washington, D.C. 20508; telephone

(202) 395–6127.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 4,

1993, the United States and Hungary

signed a Memorandum of

Understanding on the Results of

Uruguay Round Negotiations on

Agriculture. In this Memorandum, the

United States agrees on a one-time basis

to reallocate Hungary’s TRQ allocations

among cheese categories, provided

Hungary’s request was received by the

United States prior to the fourth year of

the TRQ implementation period (1998).

Beginning on January 1, 1995, and

each year thereafter, Hungary is

allocated: (1) 400,000 kilograms of the

TRQ for Italian-Type cheeses under

Additional U.S. Note 21 of Chapter 4 of

the HTS; and (2) 400,000 kilograms of

the TRQ for Swiss or Emmenthaler

cheese under Additional U.S. Note 25 of

Chapter 4 of the HTS. On December 12,

1996 the Government of Hungary

requested that its entire 800,000

kilograms of cheese allocation be shifted

to the TRQ Swiss or Emmenthaler

cheese. The Government of Hungary

was advised at that time that

reallocation requires several

administrative procedures which could

not be implemented before 1998.

Section 404(d)(3) of the Uruguay

Round Agreements Act (URAA) (19

U.S.C. 3601(d)(3)) authorizes the

President to allocate in-quota quantities

of a TRQ for any agricultural product

among countries or customs areas and to

modify an allocation as the President

determines appropriate. Section 604 of

the Trade Act of 1974, as amended

(‘‘Trade Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2483)

authorizes the President to embody in

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the

United States (HTS) the substance of the

relevant provisions of that Act, and

other acts affecting import treatment,

and actions thereunder, including the

removal, modification, continuance, or

imposition of any rate of duty or other

import restriction.

In paragraph (3) of Proclamation 6763

of December 23, 1994, the President

delegated his authority under section

404(d)(3) of the URAA to the United

States Trade Representative (USTR). In

paragraph 5 of Proclamation 6914 of

August 26, 1996, the President

determined that it is appropriate to

authorize the USTR to exercise his

authority under section 604 of the Trade

Act to embody in the HTS the substance

of any action taken by USTR under

section 404(d)(3) of the URAA.

Modification of the HTS

Pursuant to the above authority, the

USTR has determined that it is

appropriate to modify the TRQ

allocations of Hungary and to embody

such modifications in the HTS. Effective

with respect to articles entered, or

withdrawn from warehouse for

consumption, on or after January 1,

1998: (1) Additional U.S. note 21 to

chapter 4 of the HTS is modified by

deleting ‘‘Hungary 400,000’’ from the

list of countries and quantities in such

note; and (2) addditional U.S. note 25 to

Chapter 4 of the HTS is modified by

deleting the quantity ‘‘400,000’’ set out

opposite Hungary and by inserting the

quantity ‘‘800,000’’ in lieu thereof.

Charlene Barshefsky,

United States Trade Representative.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory

Committee; Training and Qualifications

Issues—Revised Task

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of revised task

assignments for the Aviation

Rulemaking Advisory Committee

(ARAC).

SUMMARY: Notice is given of revised

tasks assigned to and accepted by the

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory

Committee (ARAC). This notice informs

the public of the activities of ARAC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Tom Toula, Federal Aviation

Administration, Flight Standards

Service, AFS–210, 800 Independence

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591;

phone (202) 267–3729; fax (202) 267–

5229.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The FAA has established an Aviation

Rulemaking Advisory Committee to

provide advice and recommendations to

the FAA Administrator, through the

Associate Administrator for Regulation

and Certification, on the full range of

the FAA’s rulemaking activities with

respect to aviation-related issues. This

includes obtaining advice and

recommendations on the FAA’s

commitment to harmonize its Federal

Aviation Regulations (FAR) and

practices with its trading partners in

Europe and Canada.

One area ARAC deals with is training

and qualifications issues. These issues

involve training and qualification of air

carrier crewmembers and other air

transport employees.

The Tasks

This notice is to inform the public

that the FAA has asked ARAC to

provide advice and recommendation on

the following revised harmonization

tasks. The original tasks were published

in the Federal Register on November 3,

1997 (62 FR 59382).

Task 1. Determine the benefits of

licensing harmonization.

Task 2. Define criteria for Federal

Aviation Administration (FAA)

conversion of Joint Aviation Authorities

(JAA) issued licenses, and for JAA

conversion of FAA issued licenses.

Consider only the Airline Transport

Pilot (ATP) license, except where that

license might convert to only a

Commercial pilot license.

Task 3. Develop a recommendation,

with justification, on whether the

product (i.e., a specific level of license

or certificate) should be harmonized, or

the process (i.e., the curriculum,

prerequisite experience, length of

training, etc.) should be harmonized.

(a) If recommending that the product

should be harmonized, develop a matrix

of essential requirements for the FAA

and JAA to impose on license holders of

the other in order to convert licenses.

(b) If recommending that the process

should be harmonized, develop a matrix

of specific differences and how those

differences should be equalized.

(c) Make specific recommendations

about which FAA regulations or Joint

Aviation Requirements should be

changed to achieve the recommended

actions. Any recommendations

requiring changes to Title 14 of Code of

Federal Regulations must be forwarded

to the FAA for consideration of

rulemaking priority, resource allocation,

and additional tasking to ARAC to

develop rulemaking, as appropriate.

Task 4. Review the current standards

of 14 CFR sections 61.75 and 61.77 as

part of the overall task. In light of this

review, recommend appropriate

guidance material that could later be

incorporated into advisory material or

an appendix to 14 CFR part 61 that
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contains the criteria developed in task 3

(a) or (b) above.

The FAA expects ARAC to complete

these tasks within 12 months and

submit a report through ARAC to the

FAA and to the JAA.

ARAC Acceptance of Tasks

ARAC has accepted the tasks and has

chosen to establish a new Licensing

Harmonization Working Group. The

working group will serve as staff to

ARAC to assist ARAC in the analysis of

the assigned task. Working group

recommendations must be reviewed and

approved by ARAC. If ARAC accepts the

working group’s recommendations, it

forwards them to the FAA as ARAC

recommendations.

Working Group Activity

As is the case with all harmonization

working groups, meetings of the

Licensing Harmonization Working

Group will be held alternately between

the United States and Europe.

Tentatively, the next two meetings will

be held in Washington, DC, in January

1998 and in Hoofddorp, The

Netherlands, in February 1998.

The Licensing Harmonization

Working Group is expected to comply

with the procedures adopted by ARAC.

As part of the procedures, the working

group is expected to:

1. Recommend to ARAC a work plan

for completion of the tasks, including

the rationale supporting such a plan, for

consideration at the meeting of ARAC to

consider Training and Qualifications

Issues held following publication of this

notice.

2. Give a detailed conceptual

presentation to ARAC of the proposed

recommendations, prior to proceeding

with the work stated in item 3 below.

3. Provide a status report at each

meeting of ARAC held to consider

Training and Qualifications Issues.

Participation in the Working Group

The Licensing Harmonization

Working Group is composed of experts

having an interest in the assigned task.

A working group member need not be

a representative of a member of the full

committee.

The Secretary of Transportation has

determined that the formation and use

of ARAC are necessary and in the public

interest in connection with the

performance of duties imposed on the

FAA by law.

Meetings of ARAC will be open to the

public. Meetings of the Licensing

Harmonization Working Group will not

be open to the public, except to the

extent that individuals with an interest

and expertise are selected to participate.

No public announcement of working

group meetings will be made.

Issued in Washington, DC, on December

12, 1997.

Thomas K. Toula,

Assistant Executive Director for Training and

Qualifications Issues, Aviation Rulemaking

Advisory Committee.

[FR Doc. 97–32883 Filed 12–16–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[FHWA Docket No. 97–3199]

Notice of Request for Extension of

Currently Approved Information

Collection; Nationwide Survey of

Public Roads Readers

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

requirement in section 3506(c)(2)(A) of

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,

this notice announces the intention of

the FHWA to request the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) to

renew the information collection that

measures the manner and extent to

which the FHWA’s magazine, Public

Roads, is achieving its objectives and

meeting the needs of its readers/

customers.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before February 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: All signed, written

comments should refer to the docket

number that appears in the heading of

this document and must be submitted to

the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets,

Room PL–401, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20590–0001. All

comments received will be available for

examination at the above address

between 10:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., E.T.,

Monday through Friday except Federal

holidays. Those desiring notification of

receipt of comments must include a selfaddressed, stamped postcard/envelope.

Interested parties are invited to send

comments regarding any aspect of this

information collection, including, but

not limited to: (1) The necessity and

utility of the information collection for

the proper performance of the functions

of the FHWA; (2) the accuracy of the

estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance

the quality, utility, and clarity of the

collected information; and (4) ways to

minimize the collection burden without

reducing the quality of the collected

information. Comments submitted in

response to this notice will be

summarized and/or included in the

request for OMB renewal of this

information collection.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Anne Barsanti, Office of Research and

Development, Federal Highway

Administration, U.S. Department of

Transportation, 6300 Georgetown Pike,

McLean, VA 22101–2296, (703) 285–

2102 or (703) 285–2443. Office hours are

from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., E.T.,

Monday thru Friday, except Federal

holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Nationwide Survey of Public

Roads Readers.

OMB Number: 2125–0562.

Background: This study is pursuant to

President Clinton’s Executive Order

12862, which requires all agencies to

identify their customers, survey their

satisfaction with current services, set

standards for service and measure

results against them. In addition, a

nationwide census of readers was

conducted in 1995 to gauge the overall

satisfaction of readers and to measure,

in particular, reader satisfaction with

significant changes that had been made

in the magazine’s design and content,

subject scope, and audience. Now, it is

time to survey a sample of the

readership and compare the results to

the benchmark established in 1995.

Also, the results of this survey will form

the basis of a major, direct-mail

campaign to increase the number of

paid subscribers.

Respondents: Paid and

complementary subscribers to Public

Roads magazine.

Average Burden Per Response: The

average burden per response is 0.25

hours.

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The

estimated total annual burden is 375

hours.

Frequency: FHWA intends to use

biennial followup surveys, starting in

1998, to track any changes in the

baseline data collected in 1995, as well

as to measure satisfaction with resulting

improvements in the product and

services.

Authority: Presidential Executive Order

12862.

Issued on: December 10, 1997.

George Moore,

Associate Administrator for Administration.

[FR Doc. 97–32959 Filed 12–16–97; 8:45 am]

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