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7 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Trading and Markets, pursuant to delegated 

authority.7

Kevin M. O’Neill, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4280 Filed 2–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8011–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 7806] 

In the Matter of the Review of the 

Designation of the Islamic Jihad 

Union; AKA Islamic Jihad Group; AKA 

Jama’at al-Jihad; AKA The Libyan 

Society; AKA The Kazakh Jama’at; 

AKA The Jamaat Mojahedin; AKA 

Jamiyat; AKA Jamiat al-Jihad al-Islami; 

AKA Dzhamaat Modzhakhedov; AKA 

Islamic Jihad Group of Uzbekistan; 

AKA al-Djihad al-Islami; AKA Islomiy 

Jihod Ittihodi; AKA Ittihad al-Jihad alIslami as a Foreign Terrorist 

Organization Pursuant to Section 219 

of the Immigration and Nationality Act, 

as Amended 

Based upon a review of the 

Administrative Record assembled in 

these matters pursuant to Section 

219(a)(4)(C) of the Immigration and 

Nationality Act, as amended (8 U.S.C. 

1189[a][4][C]) (‘‘INA’’), and in 

consultation with the Attorney General 

and the Secretary of the Treasury, I 

conclude that the circumstances that 

were the basis for the 2005 designation 

of the aforementioned organization as a 

foreign terrorist organization have not 

changed in such a manner as to warrant 

revocation of the designation and that 

the national security of the United 

States does not warrant a revocation of 

the designation. 

Therefore, I hereby determine that the 

designation of the aforementioned 

organization as a foreign terrorist 

organization, pursuant to Section 219 of 

the INA (8 U.S.C. 1189), shall be 

maintained. 

This determination shall be published 

in the Federal Register. 

Dated: February 16, 2012. 

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 

Secretary of State. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4334 Filed 2–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0022] 

Request for Comments on a New 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 

below is being forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and comments. A Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period soliciting comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on August 23, 2011 (76 FR 

52731). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 26, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Blane Workie or Daeleen Chesley, Office 

of the Secretary, Office of the Assistant 

General Counsel for Aviation 

Enforcement and Proceedings (C–70), 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 

20590, (202) 366–9342 (voice) 202–366– 

7152 (fax) or at Blane.Workie@dot.gov or 

Daeleen.Chesley@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Submission of Aviation Consumer 

Protection Division Web page On-Line 

Aviation Complaint Form. 

Type of Request: Request for an OMB 

control number for a new information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Department of 

Transportation’s (Department) Office of 

the Assistant General Counsel for 

Aviation Enforcement and Proceedings 

(Enforcement Office) has broad 

authority under 49 U.S.C., Subtitle VII, 

to investigate and enforce consumer 

protection and civil rights laws and 

regulations related to air transportation. 

The Enforcement Office, including its 

Aviation Consumer Protection Division 

(ACPD), monitors compliance with and 

investigates violations of the 

Department of Transportation’s aviation 

economic, consumer protection, and 

civil rights requirements. 

Among other things, the office is 

responsible for receiving and 

investigating service-related consumer 

complaints filed against air carriers. 

Once received, the complaints are 

reviewed by the office to determine the 

extent to which carriers are in 

compliance with federal aviation 

consumer protection and civil rights 

laws and what, if any, action should be 

taken. 

The key reason for this request is to 

enable consumers to file their 

complaints to the Department using an 

on-line form. If the information 

collection form is not available, the 

Department may receive fewer 

complaints from consumers. The lack of 

information could inhibit the 

Departments’ ability to improve airline 

consumer satisfaction, effectively 

investigate individual complaints 

against an air carrier, and/or determine 

patterns and practices that may develop 

with an air carrier’s services in violation 

of our rules. The information collection 

also furthers the objectives of 49 U.S.C. 

41712, 40101, 40127, 41702, and 41705 

to protect consumers from unfair or 

deceptive practices, to protect the civil 

rights of air travelers, and to ensure safe 

and adequate service in air 

transportation. 

Filing a complaint using a web-based 

form is voluntary and minimizes the 

burden on the public. Consumers can 

also choose to file a complaint with the 

Department by sending a letter using 

regular mail or by phone message. The 

type of information requested on the online form includes complainant’s name, 

address, daytime phone number 

(including area code) and email address, 

name of the airline or company about 

which she/he is complaining, flight 

date, flight number, and origin and 

destination cities of complainant’s trip. 

A consumer may also use the form to 

give a description of a specific problem 

or to ask for air-travel related 

information from the ACPD. The 

Department has limited its 

informational request to only that 

information necessary to meet its 

program and administrative monitoring 

and enforcement requirements. 

On August 23, 2011, the Department 

published a 60-day notice in the Federal 

Register (76 FR 52732) asking for 

comments on whether this collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Department. We received one comment 

in the docket from a commenter that 

supported the Department collecting the 

information. 

Respondents: Consumers that Choose 

to File an On-Line Complaint with the 

Aviation Consumer Protection Division. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

8,693 (based on CY 2011 data). 

Estimated Total Burden on 

Respondents: 2,173.25 (hours), 130,395 

(minutes). 

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding 

the burden estimate, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 


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the Office of Management and Budget, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the Office of 

the Secretary of Transportation, 725 

17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

Comments are invited on: Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimate of the burden 

of the proposed information collection; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 17, 

2012. 

Patricia Lawton, 

Departmental PRA Clearance Officer, Office 

of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2012–4317 Filed 2–23–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0170] 

Request for Comments of a Previously 

Approved Information Collection 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 

below is being forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and comments. A Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period soliciting comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on September 16, 2011 (76 FR 

57795). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before March 26, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Aleta Best, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Aviation and International 

Affairs (X–55), Office of the Secretary, 

W86–498, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, 

(202) 493–0797. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Disclosure of Code Sharing 

Arrangements and Long-Term Wet 

Leases. 

OMB Control Number: 2105–0537. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

Previously Approved Information 

Collection. 

Abstract: Codesharing is the name 

given to a common airline industry 

marketing practice where, by mutual 

agreement between cooperating carriers, 

at least one of the airline designator 

codes used on a flight is different from 

that of the airline operating the aircraft. 

In one version, two or more airlines 

each use their own designator codes on 

the same aircraft operation. Although 

only one airline operates the flight, each 

airline in a codesharing arrangement 

may hold out, market, and sell the flight 

as its own in published schedules. 

Codesharing also refers to the 

arrangements, such as when a code on 

a passenger’s ticket is not that of the 

operator of the flight, but where the 

operator does not also hold out the 

service in its own name. Such 

codesharing arrangements are common 

between commuter air carriers and their 

larger affiliates, and the number of 

arrangements between U.S. air carriers 

and foreign air carriers has also been 

increasing. Arrangements falling into 

this category are similar to leases of 

aircraft with crew (wet leases). 

The Department recognizes the strong 

preference of air travelers for on-line 

service (service by a single carrier) on 

connecting flights over interline service 

(service by multiple carriers). 

Codesharing arrangements are, in part, a 

marketing response to this demand for 

on-line service. Often, codesharing 

partners offer services similar to those 

available for on-line connections with 

the goal of offering ‘‘seamless’’ service 

(i.e., service where the transfers from 

flight to flight or airline to airline are 

facilitated). For example, they may 

locate gates near each other to make 

connections more convenient or 

coordinate baggage handling to give 

greater assurance that baggage will be 

properly handled. Codesharing 

arrangements can help airlines operate 

more efficiently because they can 

reduce costs by providing a joint service 

with one aircraft rather than operating 

separate services with two aircraft. 

Particularly in thin markets, this 

efficiency can lead to increased price 

and service options for consumers or 

enable the use of equipment sized 

appropriately for the market. Therefore, 

the Department recognizes that 

codesharing, as well as long-term wet 

leases, can offer significant economic 

benefits. 

Although codesharing and wet-lease 

arrangements can offer significant 

consumer benefits, they can also be 

misleading unless consumers know that 

the transportation they are considering 

for purchase will not be provided by the 

airline whose designator code is shown 

on the ticket, schedule, or itinerary and 

unless they know the identity of the 

airline on which they will be flying. The 

growth in the use of codesharing, 

wetleasing, and similar marketing tools, 

particularly in international air 

transportation, had given the 

Department concern about whether the 

then-current disclosure rules (14 CFR 

399.88) protected the public interest 

adequately and led the Department to 

adopt specific regulations requiring the 

disclosure of code-sharing arrangements 

and long-term wet leases on March 15, 

1999. (14 CFR part 257) 

These regulations required U.S. 

airlines, foreign airlines and travel 

agents doing business in the United 

States, to notify passengers of the 

existence of code-sharing or long-term 

wet lease arrangements. It also required 

U.S. airlines, foreign airlines and travel 

agents to tell prospective consumers, in 

all oral communications before booking 

transportation, that the transporting 

airline is not the airline whose 

designator code will appear on travel 

documents and identify the transporting 

airline by its corporate name and any 

other name under which that service is 

held out to the public. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

16,000, excluding travelers. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 300 

million (estimated number of passengers 

who may be traveling on a codeshare or 

wet-lease ticket). 

Annual Estimated Total Annual 

Burden Hours: Annual reporting burden 

for this data collection is estimated at 

618,750 hours for all travel agents and 

airline ticket agents, based on 15 

seconds per phone call and an average 

of 1.5 phone calls per trip, for the 

approximately 33% of codeshare 

itineraries that involve personal contact. 

Most of this data collection (third party 

notification) is accomplished through 

highly automated computerized 

systems. 

The estimated burden has changed 

from the previous collection based on 

adjustments to the set of respondents 

and changes to the number of annual 

airline passengers. 

Frequency of Collection: Collection 

occurs at the time a passenger books an 

airline ticket. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding 

the burden estimate, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, to 

the Office of Management and Budget, 


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