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necessary to permit Penn Mutual to

issue the Contracts and to permit Penn

Mutual and Penn Insurance to issue

Future Contracts which allow them to

recapture Purchase Payment

Enhancements as described herein. For

the reasons stated in this Application,

Applicants submit that the requested

exemptions meet the standards set out

in Section 6(c), namely, that the

exemptions are necessary or appropriate

in the public interest and consistent

with the protection of investors and the

purposes fairly intended by the policy

and provisions of the Act.

For the Commission, by the Division of

Investment Management, under delegated

authority.

Jonathan G. Katz,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–26744 Filed 10–17–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8010–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3438]

Advisory Committee on International

Economic Policy; Open Meeting Notice

The Advisory Committee on

International Economic Policy (ACIEP)

will meet from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on

Tuesday, October 31, 2000, in Room

1105, U.S. Department of State, 2201 C

Street, NW, Washington, DC 20520. The

meeting will be hosted by Committee

Chairman R. Michael Gadbaw and

Assistant Secretary of State for

Economic and Business Affairs E.

Anthony Wayne.

The ACIEP serves the U.S.

Government in a solely advisory

capacity concerning issues and

problems in international economic

policy. The objective of the ACIEP is to

provide expertise and insight on these

issues that are not available within the

U.S. Government.

Topics for the October 31 meeting

will be:

• Priority Democracies: Colombia and

Nigeria

• Resources for Foreign Policy—What

Americans Get for Their Tax Dollars

• Foreign Policy Implications of

Rising Oil Prices

• Updates on:

—Biotechnology

—Global Information Economy

—Other Current Foreign Policy Issues

The public may attend these meetings

as seating capacity allows. The media is

welcome but discussions are off the

record. Admittance to the Department of

State building is by means of a prearranged clearance list. In order to be

placed on this list, please provide your

name, title, company or other affiliation

if appropriate, social security number,

date of birth, and citizenship to the

ACIEP Executive Secretariat by fax (202)

647–5936 (Attention: Cecilia Walker) or

email: (walkercr@state.gov) by October

27th. On the date of the meeting,

persons who have registered should

come to the 23rd Street entrance. One of

the following valid means of

identification will be required for

admittance: a U.S. driver’s license with

photo, a passport, or a U.S. Government

ID.

For further information about the

meeting, contact Deborah Grout, ACIEP

Secretariat, U.S. Department of State,

Bureau of Economic and Business

Affairs, Room 3526, Main State,

Washington, DC 20520. Tel: 202–647–

2534; or Carol Thompson, Email:

thompsonce@state.gov.

Dated: October 12, 2000.

Carol E. Thompson,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–26776 Filed 10–17–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4710–07–P

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice No. 3437]

Advisory Panel to the United States

Section of the North Pacific

Anadromous Fish Commission; Notice

of a Closed Meeting

The Advisory Panel to the United

States Section of the North Pacific

Anadromous Fish Commission will

meet on October 29, 2000, at the

Imperial Hotel, 1–1–1, Uchisaiwaicho,

Chiyoda-ky, Tokyo 100–8558, Japan.

This session will involve discussion of

the Eighth Annual Meeting of the North

Pacific Anadromous Fish Commission,

to be held on October 30—November 2,

2000. The discussion will begin at 7:00

p.m. and is closed to the public.

The members of the Advisory Panel

will examine various options for the

U.S. position at the Eighth Annual

Meeting. These considerations must

necessarily involve review of sensitive

matters, the disclosure of which would

frustrate U.S. participation at the

Annual Meeting. Accordingly, the

determination has been made to close

the 7:00 p.m. meeting pursuant to

Section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act and 5 U.S.C. Section

552b(c)(9).

Requests for further information on

the meeting should be directed to Ms.

Sally Cochran, International Relations

Officer, Office of Marine Conservation

(OES/OMC), Room 5806, U.S.

Department of State, Washington, D.C.

20520–7818. Ms. Cochran can be

reached by telephone on (202) 647–2883

or by FAX (202) 736–7350.

Dated: October 11, 2000.

Mary Beth West,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Oceans and

Fisheries, Department of State.

[FR Doc. 00–26775 Filed 10–17–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4710–09–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[CGD17–00–015]

Application for Recertification of Cook

Inlet Regional Citizen’s Advisory

Council

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Availability; request

for comments.

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces

the availability of and seeks comments

on the application for recertification

submitted by the Cook Inlet Regional

Citizen’s Advisory Council (CIRCAC) for

September 1, 2000 through August 31,

2001. Under the Oil Terminal and Oil

Tanker Environmental Oversight and

Monitoring Act of 1990, the Coast Guard

may certify, on an annual basis, an

alternative voluntary advisory group in

lieu of a Regional Citizen’s Advisory

Council for Cook Inlet.

DATES: Comments must reach the

Seventeenth Coast Guard District on or

before November 17, 2000.

ADDRESSES: You may mail your

comments to the Seventeenth Coast

Guard District (mor), P.O. Box 25517,

Juneau, AK, 99802–5517. You may also

deliver them to the Juneau Federal

Building, room 753, 709 W 9th St,

Juneau, AK between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, except Federal

holidays.

The Seventeenth Coast Guard District

maintains the public docket for this

recertification process. Comments

regarding recertification will become

part of this docket and will be available

for inspection or copying at the Juneau

Federal Building, room 753, 709 W 9th

St.

A copy of the application is also

available for inspection at the Cook Inlet

Regional Citizen’s Advisory Council

Offices at 910 Highland Avenue, Kenai,

AK 99611–8033 between the hours of 8

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. The

telephone number is (907) 283–7222 in

Kenai, Alaska.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

questions on viewing or submitting

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material to the docket contact LT Ryan

Murphy, Seventeenth Coast Guard

District (mor), (907) 463–2817.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Request for Comments

The Coast Guard encourages

interested persons to submit written

data, views, or arguments. It solicits

comments from interested groups

including oil terminal facility owners

and operators, owners and operators of

crude oil tankers calling at terminal

facilities, and fishing, aquacultural,

recreational and environmental citizens

groups, concerning the recertification

application of CIRCAC. Persons

submitting comments should include

their names and addresses, identify this

rulemaking (CGD17–00–15) and the

specific section of this document to

which each comment applies, and give

the reason for each comment. Please

provide all comments and attachments

in an unbound format, no larger than

81⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for copying

and electronic filing. Persons wanting

acknowledgement of receipt of

comments should enclose stamped, selfaddressed postcards or envelopes.

The Coast Guard plans no public

hearing. Persons may request a public

hearing by writing to Commander (m),

Seventeenth Coast Guard District, P.O.

Box 25517, Juneau, AK, 99802–5517.

The request should include reasons why

a hearing would be beneficial. If there

is sufficient evidence to determine that

oral presentations will aid this

recertification process, the Coast Guard

will hold a public hearing at a time and

place announced by a later notice in the

Federal Register.

Background and Purpose

The Coast Guard published guidelines

on December 31, 1992 (57 FR 626000),

to assist groups seeking recertification

under the Oil Terminal and Oil Tanker

Environmental Oversight and

Monitoring Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2732)

(the Act). The Coast Guard issued a

policy statement on July 7, 1993 (58 FR

36505), to clarify the factors that the

Coast Guard would be considering in

making its determination as to whether

advisory groups should be certified in

accordance with the Act; and the

procedures which the Coast Guard

would follow in meeting its certification

responsibilities under the Act.

The Coast Guard has received an

application for recertification of

CIRCAC, the currently certified advisory

group for the Cook Inlet region. In

accordance with the review and

certification process contained in the

policy statement, the Coast Guard

announces the availability of that

application.

At the conclusion of the comment

period, the Coast Guard will review all

application materials and comments

received and will take one of the

following actions:

(a) Recertify the advisory group under

33 U.S.C. 2732(o).

(b) Issue a conditional recertification

for a period of 90 days, with a statement

of any discrepancies, which must be

corrected to qualify for recertification

for the remainder of the year.

(c) Deny recertification of the advisory

group if the Coast Guard finds that the

group is not broadly representative of

the interests and communities in the

area or is not adequately fostering the

goals and purposes of 33 U.S.C. 2732.

The Coast Guard will notify CIRCAC

by letter of the action taken on its

application. A notice will be published

in the Federal Register to advise the

public of the Coast Guard’s

determination.

Dated: October 4, 2000.

T.J. Barrett,

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard Commander,

Seventeenth Coast Guard District.

[FR Doc. 00–26774 Filed 10–17–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[USCG 2000–8079]

Setting the Environmental Agenda of

the Coast Guard for Oil Pollution—

Prevention, Preparedness, and

Response—in the 21st Century

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and

request for comments.

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard is holding at

least one public meeting to help in

setting its environmental agenda for oil

pollution—prevention, preparedness,

and response—in the 21st Century. A

decade after the Oil Pollution Act of

1990, spills of cargo oil from tank

vessels and other sources have declined;

but spills continue to occur in marine

transport and to pose new risks and

challenges. The Coast Guard hopes to

receive input from all stakeholders to

identify likely threats to the

environment, and to receive ideas on

which it may base its prevention,

preparedness, and response programs

and needs in the future.

DATES: (1) The public meeting will take

place on December 12, 2000, from 8:30

a.m. to 4 p.m., but will conclude before

4 p.m. if there are no more comments.

(2) Comments and related material must

reach the Docket Management Facility

on or before December 30, 2000. (3) If

the Coast Guard decides to hold a

second public meeting, it will announce

that meeting by a later notice in the

Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: The public meeting will

take place at Coast Guard Headquarters,

2100 2nd Street SW., Washington, DC

20593–0001, in room 4202. The meeting

will also be video broadcast on the

internet.

To make sure your comments and

related materials enter the docket

[USCG 2000–8079] once and only once,

please submit them by only one of the

following means:

(1) By mail to the Docket Management

Facility, U.S. Department of

Transportation, room PL–401, 400

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC

20590–0001.

(2) By delivery to room PL–401 on the

Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC,

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays.

The telephone number is 202–366–

9329.

(3) By fax to the Docket Management

Facility at 202–493–2251.

(4) Electronically through the Web

Site for the Docket Management System

at http://dms.dot.gov.

The Docket Management Facility

maintains the public docket for this

notice. Comments and material received

from the public will become part of this

docket and will be available for

inspection or copying at room PL–401

on the Plaza level of the Nassif Building,

400 Seventh Street SW., Washington,

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday

through Friday, except Federal holidays.

You may also access the public docket

on the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

questions on this public meeting,

including those on how to access the

meeting on the internet, contact

Commander George H. Burns III, Office

of Response (G–MOR–1), Coast Guard,

telephone 202–267–0421, e-mail

Gburns@comdt.uscg.mil. (In particular,

we ask that those attending the meeting

notify CDR Burns so he can ensure that

adequate space is available.) For

questions on viewing or submitting

material to the docket, call Ms. Dorothy

Beard, Chief of Dockets, Department of

Transportation, telephone 202–366–

9329.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: