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and in initial continuing disability

reviews.

These forms are being developed

because the forms currently used by the

DDSs vary in format and content. It was

decided that for the sake of a uniform

national childhood program (and with

this information in hand and the

sensitivity of this population), the time

has come for a National Teacher

Questionnaire and Information About

the Working Age Child. The

respondents are the educational

community and small businesses that

educate and/or employ applicants for

Supplemental Security Income for the

aged, blind, and Disabled.

SSA–5665–BK SSA–5665–

Sup

Number of Respondents .......................................................................................................................................... 475,000 125,000

Frequency of Response .......................................................................................................................................... 1 1

Average Burden Per Response (minutes) .............................................................................................................. 15–20 5–10

Estimated Annual Burden (hours) ........................................................................................................................... 158,333 20,833

2. Beneficiary Recontact Report—

0960–0536. SSA collects the

information on Form SSA–1587 to

ensure that eligibility for benefits

continues after entitlement is

established. SSA asks children ages 15,

16, and 17 information about marital

status to detect overpayments and avoid

continuing payment to those no longer

entitled. Studies show that children

who marry fail to report the marriage,

which is a terminating event. The

respondents are applicants for Title II

(Old-Age, Survivors and Disability

Insurance) Children/Beneficiaries who

are ages 15, 16, and 17.

Number of Respondents: 982,357.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Average Burden Per Response: 3

minutes.

Estimated Annual Burden: 49,118

hours.

3. Questionnaire About Employment

or Self-Employment Outside the United

States, 0960–0050. This information is

used by SSA to determine whether work

performed by beneficiaries outside the

United States (U.S.) is cause for

deductions from their monthly benefits;

to determine which of two work tests

(foreign or regular) is applicable; and to

determine the months, if any, for which

deductions should be imposed. The

respondents are beneficiaries living and

working outside the U.S.

Number of Respondents: 20,000.

Frequency of Response: 1.

Average Burden Per Response: 12

minutes.

Estimated Annual Burden: 4,000

hours.

(SSA Address)

Social Security Administration,

DCFAM, Attn: Frederick W.

Brickenkamp, 1–A–21 Operations

Bldg., 6401 Security Blvd., Baltimore,

MD 21235.

(OMB Address)

Office of Management and Budget,

OIRA, Attn: Desk Officer for SSA,

New Executive Office Building, Room

10230, 725 17th St., NW.,

Washington, DC 20503.

Date: November 22, 2000.

Elizabeth A. Davidson,

Acting Reports Clearance Officer, Social

Security Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–30403 Filed 11–28–00; 8:45 am]

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Trade Policy Staff Committee; Public

Comments on Proposed United StatesSingapore Free Trade Agreement

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice of intent to conduct

negotiations, initiation of environmental

review, and request for comments.

SUMMARY: This publication gives notice

that the United States intends to

conduct negotiations with the Republic

of Singapore to conclude a free trade

agreement. The Trade Policy Staff

Committee (TPSC) is requesting written

comments from the public to assist the

United States Trade Representative

(USTR) in formulating negotiating

objectives for the agreement and to

provide advice on how specific goods

and services and other matters should

be treated under the agreement. This

publication also provides notice that,

pursuant to Executive Order 13141 (64

FR 63169), USTR, through the TPSC, is

initiating an environmental review of

the agreement.

The TPSC is requesting written

comments from the public on what

should be included in the scope of the

environmental review, including the

potential environmental effects that

might flow from the free trade

agreement and the potential

implications for our environmental laws

and regulations. Persons submitting

written comments should provide as

much detail as possible on the degree to

which the subject matter they propose

for inclusion in the review may raise

significant environmental issues in the

context of the negotiation.

DATES: Public comments should be

received by noon, December 19, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

procedural questions concerning public

comments, contact Gloria Blue,

Executive Secretary, TPSC, Office of the

USTR, 600 17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20508 (202) 395–3475.

All questions regarding the

environmental review should be

addressed to Mary Latimer, Deputy

Assistant US Trade Representative for

Environment and Natural Resources,

Office of the USTR (202) 395–7320. All

other questions regarding the

negotiations should be addressed to

Barbara Weisel, Deputy Assistant US

Trade Representative for Bilateral Asian

Affairs, Office of the USTR (202) 395–

6813.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

November 16, 2000, President Clinton

agreed with Singapore’s Prime Minister

Goh Chok Tong to negotiate a bilaterial

free trade agreement. In the

negotiations, the United States and

Singapore will seek to eliminate duties

and commercial barriers to bilateral

trade in U.S.- and Singaporean-origin

goods and also expect to address trade

in services, investment, trade-related

aspects of intellectual property rights,

trade-related environmental and labor

matters, and other issues. Two-way

trade between the United States and

Singapore totaled $34.4 billion in 1999.

The free trade agreement will be

modeled upon the recently signed free

trade agreement between Jordan and the

United States, but will recognize the

substantial volume of trade between

Singapore and the United States. USTR

is requesting that the U.S. International

Trade Commission conduct a study of

the potential economic impacts of the

free trade agreement.

USTR, through the TPSC, will

perform an environmental review of the

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agreement pursuant to Executive Order

13141, 64 FR 63169.

Written comments with as much

specificity as possible, including data,

views and recommendations, are invited

on:

(a) General and commodity-specific

negotiating objectives for the agreement.

(b) Economic costs and benefits to

U.S. producers and consumers of

removal of tariffs and non-tariff barriers

to U.S.-Singapore trade.

(c) Treatment of specific goods

(described by Harmonized System tariff

numbers) under the agreement,

including comments on (1) product

specific import or export interests or

barriers, (2) experience with particular

measures that should be addressed in

the negotiations, and (3) in the case of

articles for which immediate

elimination of tariffs is not appropriate,

recommended staging schedule for such

elimination.

(d) Adequacy of existing customs

measures to ensure Singaporean origin

of imported goods, and appropriate

rules of origin for goods entering the

United States under the agreement.

(e) Proposals for service sectors to be

addressed in the agreement, existing

barriers to trade in those sectors, and

economic costs and benefits of removing

such barriers.

(f) Relevant trade-related intellectual

property rights issues that should be

addressed in the negotiations.

(g) Relevant investment issues that

should be addressed in the negotiations.

(h) Relevant environmental and labor

issues that should be addressed in the

negotiations.

(i) Possible environmental effects of

the agreement and the scope of the U.S.

environmental review of the agreement.

Comments identifying as present or

potential trade barriers laws or

regulations that are not primarily traderelated should address the economic,

political and social objectives of such

regulations and the degree to which

they discriminate against producers of

the other country. Comments on the

scope of the environmental review

should be as detailed as possible.

Written Comments

Persons submitting written comments

should provide twenty (20) copies no

later than noon, December 19, 2000, to

Gloria Blue at address listed above. If

possible, comments should be

submitted before this date. Where

possible, please supplement written

comments with a computer disk of the

submission containing as much of the

technical details as possible either in

spreadsheet or word processing table

format, with each tariff line/services

sector in a separate cell. The disk

should have a label identifying the

software used and the submitter.

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,

including any information submitted on

disks, 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 nonconfidential summary thereof. If the

submission contains business

confidential information, twenty 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 version that does 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.

[FR Doc. 00–30386 Filed 11–28–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory

Committee Meeting on Air Carrier

Operations

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) DOT.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice

to advise the public of a meeting of the

Federal Aviation Administration

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory

Committee to discuss air carrier

operations issues.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

December 13, 2000, at 10:00 a.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in

Conference Room 827, Federal Office

Building 10A (the ‘‘FAA Building’’), 800

Independence Ave., SW., Washington,

DC 20591.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Linda Williams, Office of Rulemaking,

800 Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20591, telephone (202)

267–9685.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–

463, 5 U.S.C. App. II), notice is hereby

given of a meeting of the Aviation

Rulemaking Advisory Committee on Air

Carrier Operations to be held on

December 13, 2000.

The agenda will include:

• Airplane Performance Working

Group status report.

• Extended Range Operations with

Two-Engine Aircraft (ETOPS) Working

(ETOPS) Working Group status report.

• Consideration of a proposed task to

review proposed Advisory Circular 120–

29A, Criteria for Approval of

Nonprecision, Category I and Category II

Weather Minima for Takeoff, Approach

and Landing and all associated

comments received during the public

comment period.

Attendance is open to the interested

public but may be limited by the space

available. Members of the public must

make arrangements in advance to

present oral statements at the meeting or

may present written statements to the

committee at any time. Arrangements

may be made by contacting the person

listed under the heading FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT.

Sign and oral interpretation can be

made available at the meeting, as well

as an assistive listening device, if

requested 10 calendar days before the

meeting.

If you are in need of assistance or

require a reasonable accommodation for

this event, please contact the person

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

Issued in Washington, DC, on November

27, 2000.

Gregory L. Michael,

Assistant Executive Director for Air Carrier

Operations, Aviation Rulemaking Advisory

Committee.

[FR Doc. 00–30494 Filed 11–28–00; 8:45 am]

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