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STATE JUSTICE INSTITUTE

Sunshine Act Meeting

DATE AND TIME: Friday, May 1, 1998, 9:00

a.m.–5:00 p.m.; Saturday, May 2, 1998,

9:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.

PLACE: Radisson Resort, 500 Padre

Boulevard, South Padre Island, Texas

78597.

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: FY 1998

grant requests, internal Institute

business matters.

PORTIONS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC: All

matters other than those noted as closed

below.

PORTIONS CLOSED TO THE PUBLIC: Internal

personnel matters and Board of

Directors’ committee meetings.

CONTACT PERSON FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION:

David I. Tevelin, Executive Director,

State Justice Institute, 1650 King Street,

Suite 600, Alexandria, VA 22314, (703)

684–6100.

David I. Tevelin,

Executive Director.

[FR Doc. 98–10185 Filed 4–13–98; 4:07 pm]

BILLING CODE 6820–SC–M

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Generalized System of Preferences

(GSP); Deadline for Submission of

Petitions for the 1998 Annual GSP

Product and Country Eligibility

Practices Review

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Notice of the 1998 annual GSP

product and country eligibility practices

review.

SUMMARY: The deadline for the

submission of petitions for the 1998

Annual GSP Product and Country

Eligibility Practices Review is 5:00 p.m.,

Tuesday, June 16, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

GSP Subcommittee, Office of the United

States Trade Representative, 600 17th

Street, N.W., Room 518, Washington,

DC 20508. The telephone number is

(202) 395–6971.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Announcement of 1998 Annual GSP

Product and Country Eligibility

Practices Review

The GSP regulations (15 CFR Part

2007) provide the schedule of dates for

conducting an annual review unless

otherwise specified by a Federal

Register notice. Notice is hereby given

that, in order to be considered in the

1998 Annual GSP Product and Country

Eligibility Practices Review, all petitions

to modify the list of articles eligible for

duty-free treatment under GSP or to

review the GSP status of any beneficiary

developing country must be received by

the GSP Subcommittee of the Trade

Policy Staff Committee no later than 5

p.m., Tuesday, June 16, 1998. Petitions

submitted after the deadline will not be

considered for review and will be

returned to the petitioner.

The GSP provides for the duty-free

importation of designated articles when

imported from designated beneficiary

developing countries. The GSP is

authorized by title V of the Trade Act of

1974 (19 U.S.C. 2461 et. seq.), as

amended (the ‘‘Trade Act’’), and is

implemented in accordance with

Executive Order 11888 of November 24,

1975, as modified by subsequent

Executive Orders and Presidential

Proclamations. Section 505 of the Trade

Act states that duty-free treatment

provided under the GSP shall not

remain in effect after June 30, 1998. If

the program expires without

reauthorization on that date, the 1998

Annual GSP review will be conducted

according to a schedule to be issued in

the Federal Register if and when the

program is reauthorized. The review

will be based on those petitions that are

submitted prior to the June 16 deadline

and accepted for review by the GSP

Subcommittee.

A. 1998 GSP Annual Product Review

Interested parties or foreign

governments may submit petitions: (1)

To designate additional articles as

eligible for GSP; (2) to withdraw,

suspend or limit GSP duty-free

treatment accorded either to eligible

articles under the GSP or to individual

beneficiary developing countries with

respect to specific GSP eligible articles;

(3) to waive the competitive need limits

for individual beneficiary developing

countries with respect to specific GSP

eligible articles; and (4) to otherwise

modify GSP coverage. As specified in 15

CFR 2007.1, all product petitions must

include a detailed description of the

product and the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule (HTS) subheading in which

the product is classified.

B. 1998 GSP Annual Country Eligibility

Practices Review

Interested parties may submit

petitions to have the GSP status of any

eligible beneficiary developing country

reviewed with respect to any of the

designation criteria listed in sections

502(b) or 502(c) of the Trade Act (19

U.S.C. 2462 (b) and (c)). Such petitions

must comply with the requirements of

15 CFR 2007.01(b).

C. Submissions of Petitions and

Requests

Petitions to modify GSP treatment

should be addressed to GSP

Subcommittee, Office of the U.S. Trade

Representative, 600 17th Street, NW,

Room 518, Washington, DC 20508. An

original and fourteen (14) copies of each

petition must be submitted in English.

If the petition contains business

confidential information, an original

and fourteen (14) copies of a

nonconfidential version of the

submission along with an original and

fourteen (14) copies of the confidential

version must be submitted. In addition,

the submission containing confidential

information should be clearly marked

‘‘confidential’’ at the top and bottom of

each and every page of the submission.

Petitions submitted as ‘‘business

confidential’’ must conform to 15 CFR

2003.6 and other qualifying information

submitted in confidence must conform

to 15 CFR 2007.7. The version that does

not contain business confidential

information (the public version) should

also be clearly marked at the top and

bottom of each page (either ‘‘public

version’’ or ‘‘nonconfidential’’).

Furthermore, interested parties

submitting petitions that request action

with respect to specific products should

list on the first page of the petition the

following information: (1) The requested

action; (2) the HTS subheading in which

the product is classified; and (3) if

applicable, the beneficiary country.

All such submissions must conform to

the GSP regulations which are set forth

in 15 CFR Part 2007. The regulations are

also included in ‘‘A Guide to the U.S.

Generalized System of Preferences

(GSP)’’ (August 1991) (‘‘GSP Guide’’).

Petitioners are strongly advised to

review the GSP regulations.

Submissions that do not provide all

information required by sections 2007.0

and 2007.1 of the GSP regulations will

not be accepted for review, except upon

a detailed showing in the submission

that the petitioner made a good faith

effort to obtain the information required.

These requirements will be strictly

enforced. Petitions with respect to

waivers of the competitive need

limitations must meet the information

requirements for product addition

requests in section 2007.1(c) of the GSP

regulations. A model petition format is

available from the GSP Subcommittee

and is included in the GSP Guide.

Petitioners are requested to use this
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model petition format so as to ensure

that all information requirements are

met.

Only the public versions of the

submissions will be available for public

inspection and only by appointment.

Appointments to review petitions may

be made by contacting Ms. Brenda Webb

(Tel. 202/395–6186) of the USTR Public

Reading Room. The hours of the

Reading Room are 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon

and 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Monday

through Friday.

Frederick L. Montgomery,

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

[FR Doc. 98–10141 Filed 4–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3901–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Route Structures Over the Grand

Canyon National Park (GCNP); Meeting

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The National Park Service

(NPS) and Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA) announce that a

meeting of interested parties will take

place on April 28–29 in Flagstaff,

Arizona to discuss route structures over

the Grand Canyon National Park

(GCNP). This meeting will be open to

the public. This notice serves to inform

the public of the meeting dates.

DATES AND LOCATIONS: Interested parties

will meet on April 28, 1998, beginning

at 10 a.m., in conference rooms in the

LaQuinta Inn and Suites, 2015 South

Beulah, Flagstaff, Arizona, telephone:

(520) 556–8666. The starting time for

the meeting on April 29 will be

announced at the April 28 meeting.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Carla Mattix, Office of the Solicitor, U.S.

Department of the Interior, 1849 C St.,

NW, Washington, DC 20240, telephone:

(202) 208–7957, or Linda Williams,

Office of Rulemaking, Federal Aviation

Administration, 800 Independence

Ave., Washington, DC 20591, telephone:

(202) 267–9685.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The purpose of the Flagstaff meeting

is to discuss the commercial air tour

route structure for GCNP and provide a

forum for interested parties to consider

a tentative route through the Sanup

Flight-free Zone that has been identified

by NPS as a viable air tour route.

The FAA is requesting by letter, the

attendance of designated representatives

of various groups, including air tour

operators, local government, Native

Americans, and environmentalists. Each

group’s designated representative will

be asked to sit on a panel to discuss the

proposed route structures.

Meeting Protocol

The April 28–29 meeting will be open

to the public. However, the following

rules apply:

Only designated representatives will

be seated on the panel, and be allowed

to participate in the discussion.

However, any representative may call

upon another individual to elaborate on

a relevant point, and the NPS and FAA

advisors to the panel have the full right

to the floor and may raise and address

appropriate points. Any other person

attending the meeting may address the

panel if time permits and may file

statements with the panel for its

consideration.

Issued in Washington, DC on April 10,

1998.

Joseph A. Hawkins,

Director Office of Rulemaking.

[FR Doc. 98–10072 Filed 4–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Railroad Administration

Agency Request for Emergency

Processing of Collections of

Information by the Office of

Management and Budget

AGENCY: Federal Railroad

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Federal Railroad

Administration (FRA) hereby gives

notice that it has submitted the

following information collection request

(ICR) to the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) for emergency processing

under the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (Pub. L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. chapter

35). FRA requests that OMB authorize

the collection of information identified

below on or before April 13, 1998, for

180 days after the date of issuance of

this notice in the Federal Register. A

copy of this individual ICR, with

applicable supporting documentation,

may be obtained by calling FRA’s

clearance officers, Robert Brogan

(telephone number (202) 632–3318) or

Maryann Johnson (telephone number

(202) 632–3226). Comments and

questions about the ICR identified

below should be directed to the Office

of Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attn: OMB Desk Officer for FRA,

Washington, D.C. 20503.

Title: PTC System-Technology/

Functionality Questionnaire.

OMB Number: 2130-new.

Frequency: One-time.

Affected Public: Railroad Industry.

Number of respondents: 10.

Estimated Time Per Respondent: 4

hours.

Total Burden: 40 hours.

Description: The Railroad Safety

Advisory Committee (RSAC) workgroup

charged with investigating Positive

Train Control (PTC) is requesting

information from the railroad industry

concerning the technologies and

functionality of the various PTC

products/programs that either exist or

are being planned for development.

Information collected will be used by

the RSAC PTC Implementation Task

Force in facilitating the implementation

of PTC on the Nation’s railroads.

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.

Issued in Washington, D.C. on April 10,

1998.

Maryann Johnson,

Information Collection Budget Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–10129 Filed 4–15–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–06–U

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs

Administration

[Docket No. RSPA–98–3665 (PDA–21(R)]

Application by Association of Waste

Hazardous Materials Transporters for a

Preemption Determination as to

Tennessee Hazardous Waste

Transporter Fee and Reporting

Requirements

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs

Administration (RSPA), DOT.

ACTION: Public notice and invitation to

comment; correction.

SUMMARY: This notice corrects an error

in the DATES section of the public notice

and invitation to comment published on

April 9, 1998 (63 FR 17479) and clarifies

that an administrative determination on

the application by the Association of

Waste Hazardous Materials Transporters

will be issued by RSPA’s Associate

Administrator for Hazardous Materials

Safety.

DATES: Comments received on or before

May 26, 1998, and rebuttal comments

received on or before July 8, 1998, will

be considered before an administrative

ruling is issued by RSPA’s Associate

Administrator for Hazardous Materials

Safety. Rebuttal comments may discuss

only those issues raised by comments

received during the initial comment

period and may not discuss new issues.