2394 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 9 / Tuesday, January 14, 2014 / Proposed Rules 

Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus 

Mandatory Service Bulletin A310–28–2148, 

Revision 07, dated February 13, 2012. 

(n) New Requirement of This AD: Additional 

Work 3 

For airplanes on which the actions 

specified in Airbus Service Bulletin A310– 

28–2148, Revision 03, dated June 2, 2009, 

have been accomplished, and do not have 

production modification 07633 or Airbus 

Service Bulletin A310–36–2015 has not been 

done: Within 1,000 flight hours or 12 months 

after the effective date of this AD, whichever 

occurs first, do the modification, in 

accordance with paragraph ‘‘Additional 

Work 3’’ of the Accomplishment Instructions 

of Airbus Mandatory Service Bulletin A310– 

28–2148, Revision 07, dated February 13, 

2012. 

(o) New Requirement of This AD: Additional 

Work 1 and 2 

For airplanes on which the actions 

specified in Airbus Service Bulletin A310– 

36–2015 have not been accomplished and 

production modification 07633 has not been 

done, and that have done the actions 

specified in paragraphs (o)(1) and (o)(2) of 

this AD: Within 6,000 flight hours or 30 

months after the effective date of this AD, 

whichever occurs first, do the modification, 

in accordance with paragraphs ‘‘Additional 

Work 1’’ and ‘‘Additional Work 2’’ of the 

Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus 

Mandatory Service Bulletin A310–28–2148, 

Revision 07, dated February 13, 2012. 

(1) Modification in accordance with the 

Accomplishment Instructions of Airbus 

Service Bulletin A310–28–2148, dated 

January 23, 2002; or Airbus Service Bulletin 

A310–28–2148, Revision 01, dated October 

29, 2002. 

(2) Further modification by ‘‘Additional 

Work 3’’ of the Accomplishment Instructions 

of Airbus Mandatory Service Bulletin A310– 

28–2148, Revision 06, dated August 31, 2011. 

(p) Other FAA AD Provisions 

The following provisions also apply to this 

AD: 

(1) Alternative Methods of Compliance 

(AMOCs): The Manager, International 

Branch, ANM–116, Transport Airplane 

Directorate, FAA, has the authority to 

approve AMOCs for this AD, if requested 

using the procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19. 

In accordance with 14 CFR 39.19, send your 

request to your principal inspector or local 

Flight Standards District Office, as 

appropriate. If sending information directly 

to the International Branch, send it to ATTN: 

Dan Rodina, Aerospace Engineer, 

International Branch, ANM–116, Transport 

Airplane Directorate, FAA, 1601 Lind 

Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057–3356; 

telephone (425) 227–2125; fax (425) 227– 

1149. Information may be emailed to: 9- 

ANM-116-AMOC-REQUESTS@faa.gov. 

Before using any approved AMOC, notify 

your appropriate principal inspector, or 

lacking a principal inspector, the manager of 

the local flight standards district office/

certificate holding district office. The AMOC 

approval letter must specifically reference 

this AD. 

(2) Airworthy Product: For any requirement 

in this AD to obtain corrective actions from 

a manufacturer, use these actions if they are 

FAA-approved. Corrective actions are 

considered FAA-approved if they were 

approved by the State of Design Authority (or 

its delegated agent, or by the design approval 

holder (DAH) with a State of Design 

Authority’s design organization approval). 

For a repair method to be approved, the 

repair approval must specifically refer to this 

AD. You are required to ensure the product 

is airworthy before it is returned to service. 

(q) Related Information 

(1) Refer to Mandatory Continuing 

Airworthiness Information (MCAI) European 

Aviation Safety Agency Airworthiness 

Directive 2012–0188, dated September 19, 

2012, for related information. This MCAI 

may be found in the AD docket on the 

Internet at http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching for and locating Docket No. FAA– 

2013–1072. 

(2) For service information identified in 

this AD, contact Airbus SAS, Airworthiness 

Office—EAW, 1 Rond Point Maurice 

Bellonte, 31707 Blagnac Cedex, France; 

telephone +33 5 61 93 36 96; fax +33 5 61 

93 44 51; email account.airworth-eas@

airbus.com; Internet http://www.airbus.com. 

You may view this service information at the 

FAA, Transport Airplane Directorate, 1601 

Lind Avenue SW., Renton, WA. For 

information on the availability of this 

material at the FAA, call 425–227–1221. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on January 

7, 2014. 

Jeffrey E. Duven, 

Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate, 

Aircraft Certification Service. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

17 CFR Part 150 

RIN 3038–AD82 

Aggregation of Provisions 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: On November 15, 2013, the 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission (‘‘Commission’’) published 

in the Federal Register a notice of 

proposed rulemaking (the ‘‘Aggregation 

Proposal’’) to amend existing 

regulations setting out the Commission’s 

policy for aggregation under its position 

limits regime. On the same day that the 

Commission adopted the Aggregation 

Proposal, it also adopted a proposal to 

establish speculative position limits for 

the 28 exempt and agricultural 

commodity futures and options 

contracts and the physical commodity 

swaps that are economically equivalent 

to such contracts that previously had 

been covered by part 151 of its 

regulations (the ‘‘Position Limits 

Proposal’’). However, the Position 

Limits Proposal was not published in 

the Federal Register until December 12, 

2013. Because the comment period for 

both proposals was 60 days after 

publication in the Federal Register, the 

comment period for the Position Limits 

Proposal runs to a later date than the 

comment period for the Aggregation 

Proposal. In order to provide interested 

parties with an opportunity to comment 

on the Aggregation Proposal for so long 

as the comment period on the Position 

Limits Proposal is open, the 

Commission is extending the comment 

period for the Aggregation Proposal so 

that it ends at the same time as the 

comment period for the Position Limits 

Proposal. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

Aggregation Proposal published 

November 15, 2013, at 78 FR 68946, is 

extended until February 10, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 3038–AD82, by any of 

the following methods: 

• Agency Web site: http://

comments.cftc.gov; 

• Mail: Melissa D. Jurgens, Secretary 

of the Commission, Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581; 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Same as 

mail, above; or 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method. 

All comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 

English translation. Comments will be 

posted as received to http://

www.cftc.gov. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. If you wish the 

Commission to consider information 

that may be exempt from disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act, 

a petition for confidential treatment of 

the exempt information may be 

submitted according to the procedures 

established in CFTC regulations at 17 

CFR part 145. 

The Commission reserves the right, 

but shall have no obligation, to review, 

pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse or 

remove any or all of your submission 

from http://www.cftc.gov that it may 

deem to be inappropriate for 

publication, such as obscene language. 

All submissions that have been redacted 


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1 7 U.S.C. 1 et seq. 

2See 17 CFR part 150. Part 150 of the 

Commission’s regulations establishes federal 

position limits on certain enumerated agricultural 

contracts; the listed commodities are referred to as 

enumerated agricultural commodities. 

3See 17 CFR 150.2. 

4See 17 CFR 150.3. 

5See 17 CFR 150.4. 

6See Aggregation of Positions, 78 FR 68946 (Nov. 

15, 2013). 

7See Position Limits for Derivatives, 78 FR 75680 

(Dec. 12, 2013). 

8See Aggregation Proposal, 78 FR at 68947. 

9See letter from the Asset Management Group of 

the Securities Industry and Financial Markets 

Association and the International Swaps and 

Derivatives Association dated December 20, 2013; 

letter from Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP on 

behalf of The Commercial Energy Working Group 

dated December 23, 2013; letter from the Edison 

Electric Institute, the Energy Power Supply 

Association and the American Gas Association 

dated January 3, 2014; and letter from the Futures 

Industry Association, Inc. (‘‘FIA’’), dated January 3, 

2014. These letters, and other comments received 

on the Aggregation Proposal, are available at http:// 

comments.cftc.gov/PublicComments/

CommentList.aspx?id=1427. 

10FIA noted that it ‘‘supports the Commission’s 

decision to propose, and if possible, finalize a wellcrafted Aggregation Proposal as expeditiously as 

possible.’’ FIA requested the Commission ‘‘not 

delay adopting a final aggregation rule pending 

finalization of the 2013 Position Limits Proposal.’’ 

See January 3, 2014, letter at footnote 4. 

or removed that contain comments on 

the merits of the rulemaking will be 

retained in the public comment file and 

will be considered as required under the 

Administrative Procedure Act and other 

applicable laws, and may be accessible 

under the Freedom of Information Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Sherrod, Senior Economist, 

Division of Market Oversight, (202) 418– 

5452, ssherrod@cftc.gov; Riva Spear 

Adriance, Senior Special Counsel, 

Division of Market Oversight, (202) 418– 

5494, radriance@cftc.gov; or Mark 

Fajfar, Assistant General Counsel, Office 

of General Counsel, (202) 418–6636, 

mfajfar@cftc.gov; Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission, Three Lafayette 

Centre, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Commission has long established 

and enforced speculative position limits 

for futures and options contracts on 

various agricultural commodities as 

authorized by the Commodity Exchange 

Act (‘‘CEA’’).1 The part 150 position 

limits regime,2 generally includes three 

components: (1) The level of the limits, 

which set a threshold that restricts the 

number of speculative positions that a 

person may hold in the spot-month, 

individual month, and all months 

combined,3 (2) exemptions for positions 

that constitute bona fide hedging 

transactions and certain other types of 

transactions,4 and (3) rules to determine 

which accounts and positions a person 

must aggregate for the purpose of 

determining compliance with the 

position limit levels.5 The Aggregation 

Proposal, generally speaking, sets out 

proposed changes to the Commission’s 

regulations relating to the third 

component of the position limits 

regime.6

The Commission has also adopted the 

Position Limits Proposal, proposing to 

establish speculative position limits for 

28 exempt and agricultural commodity 

futures and option contracts, and 

physical commodity swaps that are 

‘‘economically equivalent’’ to such 

contracts (as such term is used in 

section 4a(a)(5) of the CEA).7

The Commission adopted the 

Aggregation Proposal and the Position 

Limits Proposal separately because it 

believes that the proposed amendments 

regarding aggregation of positions could 

be appropriate regardless of whether the 

Position Limits Proposal is adopted. The 

Commission anticipates that it could 

adopt either of the proposals separately 

from the other, but if both proposals are 

finalized, the modifications in the 

Aggregation Proposal would apply to 

both the current position limits regime 

for futures and option contracts on nine 

agricultural commodities and to the 

position limits regime for 28 exempt 

and agricultural commodity futures and 

options contracts and the physical 

commodity swaps that are economically 

equivalent to such contracts that was 

proposed in the Position Limits 

Proposal.8

II. Extension of Comment Period 

Subsequent to issuing the Aggregation 

Proposal, the Commission has received 

four written comments from interested 

parties requesting that the Commission 

extend the comment period so that it 

would end at the same time as the 

comment period for the Position Limits 

Proposal.9 In general, these commenters 

said that because of the related nature 

of the two proposals, it would be more 

practicable to formulate comments on 

both the proposals at the same time. The 

commenters pointed out, for example, 

that in certain instances the comments 

to be made on an aspect of one of the 

proposals may depend on views 

regarding the other proposal. The 

Commission also notes that these 

requests for an extension of time were 

made by several groups representing a 

wide variety of market participants who 

are interested in commenting on the 

Aggregation Proposal.10

In light of the comments received, the 

Commission is extending the comment 

period for the Aggregation Proposal to 

align with the comment period for the 

Position Limits Proposal. Thus, both 

comment periods will end on February 

10, 2014. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 9, 

2014, by the Commission. 

Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, 

Deputy Secretary of the Commission. 

Note: The following appendix will not 

appear in the Code of Federal Regulations. 

Appendix to Extension of Comment 

Period for the Rulemaking Amending 

the Aggregation Provisions of Part 

150—Commission Voting Summary 

On this matter, Acting Chairman Wetjen 

and Commissioners Chilton and O’Malia 

voted in the affirmative. No Commissioner 

voted in the negative. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00496 Filed 1–13–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6351–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

U.S. Customs and Border Protection 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

19 CFR Parts 7, 163, and 178 

[Docket No. USCBP–2014–0001] 

RIN 1515–AD97 

Documentation Related to Goods 

Imported From U.S. Insular 

Possessions 

AGENCY: U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection, Department of Homeland 

Security; Department of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. 

SUMMARY: This document proposes to 

amend the U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection (CBP) regulations to 

eliminate the requirement that a 

customs official at the port of export 

verify and sign CBP Form 3229, 

Certificate of Origin for U.S. Insular 

Possessions, and to require only that the 

importer present this form, upon CBP’s 

request, rather than with each entry as 

is currently required. CBP believes that 

these amendments will serve to 

streamline the certification process and 

modernize the entry process by making 

it more efficient, as it will reduce the 

overall administrative burden on the 

importing trade as well as on CBP. The 

importer is still required to maintain 


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