58342 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 189 / Thursday, September 28, 2000 / Notices

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Trade Policy Staff Committee; Request

for Public Comment on Draft

Environmental Review of Proposed

United States-Jordan Free Trade

Agreement

ACTION: Notice of Availability and

Request for Public Comment on the

Draft Environmental Review of the

proposed U.S.-Jordan Free Trade

Agreement.

SUMMARY: This notice advises that a

draft environmental review of the

proposed Agreement on the

Establishment of a Free Trade Area

Between the Government of the United

States and the Government of the

Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is now

available for review and comment. This

review was performed pursuant to

Executive Order 13141 and initiated in

the Federal Register on June 28, 2000

(65 Fed. Reg. 37976). The draft

environment review is available at the

Office of the United States Trade

Representative (USTR) Reading Room

(room 101), at 600 17th Street, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20508, as well as

electronically at the USTR website at:

http://www.ustr.gov. Persons submitting

written comments should note the

expedited comment deadline

necessitated by the negotiating

timetable.

DATES: Comments on the review should

be submitted on or before October 11,

2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

procedural questions concerning public

comments, contact Gloria Blue,

Executive Secretary, Trade Policy Staff

Committee (TPSC), Office of the USTR,

600 17th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.

20508, (202) 395–3475. All other

questions regarding the draft review

should be addressed to Kira Alvarez,

Director for Marine Resources and

Regional Affairs, Office of the USTR

(202) 395–7230.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 6,

2000, President Clinton agreed to

negotiate a biolateral free trade

agreement with Jordan’s King Abdullah

II.. In the negotiations, the United States

and Jordan are seeking to eliminate

duties and commercial barriers to

bilateral trade in U.S. and Jordanian

origin goods and are also addressing

trade in services, trade-related aspects of

intellectual property rights, traderelated environmental and labor

matters, and other issues. The TPSE

requested written comments from the

public to assist USTR in formulating

negotiating objectives for the agreement

in the Federal Register on June 2000 (65

FR 37594).

An evironmental review of the

proposed agreement was initiated on

June 28, 2000 (65 FR 39976). In that

notice, USTR also requested comments

on the scope of the review, including

the potential environmental effects that

might flow from the free trade

agreement and the potential

implications for U.S. environmental

laws and regulations.

Written Comments. Person submitting

written comments should provide

twenty(20) copies no later than noon

October 11, 2000, to Gloria Blue at the

address listed above. Written comments

submitted in connection with this

request, except for information granted

‘‘business confidential’’ status pursuant

to 15 CFR 2003.6, will be available for

public inspection in the USTR Reading

Room (Room 101) at the address noted

above. An appointment to review the

file may be made by calling Brenda

Webb at (202) 395–6186. The Reading

Room is open to the public from 10:00

a. m. to 12 noon and from 1 p.m. to 4

p.m., Monday through Friday.

Business confidential information

will be subject to the requirements of 15

CFR 2003.6. Any business confidential

material must be clearly marked as such

on the cover letter or page and each

succeeding page, and must be

accompanied by a non-confidential

summary thereof. If the submission

contains confidential information,

twenty (20) copies of a public version

that does not contain confidential

information must be submitted. A

justification as to why the information

contained in the submission should be

treated confidentially must be included

in the submission. In addition, any

submissions containing business

confidential information must be clearly

marked ‘‘Confidential’’ at the top and

bottom of the cover page (or letter) and

each succeeding page of the submission.

The versions that do not contain

confidential information should also be

clearly marked, at the top and bottom of

each page, ‘‘public version’’ or ‘‘nonconfidential’’.

Carmen Suro-Bredie,

Chair, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

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