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supporting this restraint agreement. The

agreement has reduced U.S. exports of

HFCS to Mexico and therefore burdened

and restricted U.S. commerce.

Section 302(a) of the Trade Act

authorizes the USTR to initiate an

investigation under chapter 1 of Title III

of the Trade Act (commonly referred to

as ‘‘section 301’’) in response to the

filing of a petition pursuant to section

302(a)(1). Matters actionable under

section 301 include, inter alia, acts,

policies, and practices of a foreign

country that are unjustifiable,

unreasonable, or discriminatory and

burden or restrict U.S. commerce. An

act, policy or practice is unjustifiable if

it is in violation of, or inconsistent with

the international legal rights of the

United States. An act, policy or practice

is unreasonable if the act, policy or

practice, while not necessarily in

violation of, or inconsistent with, the

international legal rights of the United

States, is otherwise unfair or

inequitable. Unreasonable acts, policies

or practices include, inter alia, denial of

fair and equitable market opportunities.

Initiation of Investigation and

Consultations

On May 15, 1998, the USTR

determined that an investigation should

be initiated to determine whether

certain acts, policies or practices of the

Government of Mexico affecting access

to the Mexican market for HFCS are

unreasonable and burden or restrict U.S.

commerce and are, therefore, actionable

under section 301.

Pursuant to section 303(a) of the

Trade Act, the USTR has requested

consultations with the Government of

Mexico concerning the issues under

investigation. USTR will seek

information and advice from the

appropriate representatives provided for

under section 135 of the Trade Act in

preparing the U.S. presentations for

such consultations.

Public Comment: Requirements for

Submissions

Interested persons are invited to

submit written comments concerning

the issues raised in the petition and any

other submissions to USTR in this

investigation. In particular, comments

are invited regarding (i) the acts,

policies and practices of the

Government of Mexico that are the

subject of this investigation; (ii) the

amount of burden or restriction on U.S.

commerce caused by these act, policies

and practices; (iii) the determinations

required under section 304 of the Trade

Act; and (iv) appropriate action under

section 301 which could be taken in

response.

Comments must be filed in

accordance with the requirements set

forth in 15 CFR 2006.8(b) (55 FR 20593)

and must be filed on or before noon on

Friday, June 19, 1998. Comments must

be in English and provided in twenty

copies to: Sybia Harrison, Staff Assistant

to the Section 301 Committee, Room

223, Office of the U.S. Trade

Representative, 600 17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20508.

Comments will be placed in a file

(Docket 301–118) open to public

inspection pursuant to 15 CFR 2006.13,

except confidential business

information exempt from public

inspection in accordance with 15 CFR

2006.15. Confidential business

information submitted in accordance

with 15 CFR 2006.15 must be clearly

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’

in a contrasting color ink at the top of

each page on each of 20 copies, and

must be accompanied by a

nonconfidential summary of the

confidential information. The

nonconfidential summary shall be

placed in the file that is open to public

inspection. Copies of the public version

of the petition and other relevant

documents are available for public

inspection in the USTR Reading Room.

An appointment to review the docket

(Docket No. 301–118) may be made by

calling Brenda Webb (202) 395–6186.

The USTR Reading Room is open to the

public from 9:30 a.m. to 12 noon and

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

Friday, and is located in Room 101.

Irving A. Williamson,

Chairman, Section 301 Committee.

[FR Doc. 98–13885 Filed 5–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3190–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. OST–96–1436]

Filing Procedures for the DOT Docket;

Electronic Submission

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST),

DOT.

ACTION: Notice requesting comment.

SUMMARY: The Department of

Transportation (DOT) is requesting the

public to comment on its plan to revise

its document filing requirements to

provide for electronic submission of

information to its central dockets

management system (DMS). Electronic

submission would provide more

convenience than the current

requirement to submit paper, by

allowing DOT customers to file

documents from their desktop

computers. It also would streamline

docket processing to accommodate the

anticipated increases in volume.

DATES: Comments must be submitted by

July 27, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

addressed to the Central Docket

Management Facility, (CDMF) SVC–

124.1, PL–401, Docket No. OST–96–

1436, Department of Transportation, 400

7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.

Any person wishing acknowledgment

that his/her comments have been

received should include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Comments

received will be available for public

inspection and copying in the CDMF,

Room PL–401, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. ET

Monday through Friday, except Federal

Holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Dorothy W. Walker, Chief Dockets,

SVC–124, (202) 366–9329.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOT

consolidated its nine separate docket

facilities into a central DMS and is

continuing the conversion from a paperbased system to an optical imaging

system for more efficient receipt,

storage, management, and retrieval of

docketed information. In order to

complete this phased transition to an

electronic docket system, DOT plans to

develop an Electronic Submission (ES)

enhancement for its DMS that would

allow customers to submit documents

electronically from their desktops into

the Docket. Currently all filings must be

submitted as a paper hard copy to the

DMS. The paper documents are then

processed into the DMS by entering a

document database record, scanning the

paper, and performing quality assurance

(QA) on the document images and data

to resolve any errors.

DOT also plans to revise its document

filing requirements to provide for ES. ES

is not intended to replace the current

paper-based submission process since

not all filers will have access to

computers. DMS will retain the paperbased filing process and continue to

accept paper. DOT also is considering a

direct dial-in capability for those

without Internet access and to provide

a backup capability in the event Internet

access is temporarily unavailable. All

documents that are electronically

submitted would be stored in a separate

database for ES waiting to be processed

by DMS staff. DMS staff would need to

perform QA review of ES filings prior to

saving the documents into the

production DMS.

For the sake of simplicity, the Office

of the Secretary is issuing this notice on

behalf of all of DOT’s constituent
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agencies. Ultimately, we envision that

ES would be available for all of the

constituent DOT agencies; although at

this time, not all have fully consolidated

into the DMS. To ensure the quality of

the product developed, DOT is

evaluating its internal needs as well as

those of the general public. Substantial

changes to the DMS business processes

and procedures and to agency filing

requirements may be needed.

This notice is intended to inform the

public about, and to solicit public

comment on, electronic submission and

any necessary changes to our filing

requirements. It may be downloaded

from the DMS Web Site News Page

located at http://dms.dot.gov by clicking

on the News Link. The questions are

intended only to elicit any thoughts and

ideas you may have on the ES

enhancement to DMS.

User-System Interaction

1. What is your current use of DMS?

2. What capabilities would you like to

see in the ES system?

3. Are there any other systems that

you use now or are aware of that we

should look at in developing ES?

4. What method should DMS use to

send/receive information using ES? For

example, e-mail, dial-in, Netscape,

Internet Explorer, etc.

5. Should the DMS notify you that

your document has: (1) arrived; and (2)

been accepted?

6. In case the document is rejected,

what information should the DMS send

back to the submitter? (e.g., time of

submission, reason for rejection).

7. Should the DMS provide submitters

with an electronic submission form to

fill out with information such as

organization, docket id, name and

address, point of contact, etc.? Filling

out such a form could take some time,

but could ensure better accuracy. The

DMS staff would file the submitter’s

information as submitted rather than

entering it into a record upon receipt,

possibly incorrectly.

Document Size and Format

1. How many pages are in the largest

documents you have ever submitted?

2. How many documents do you

submit on average each day? Each

month?

3. What word processing software do

you use to prepare your documents?

(e.g., Word Perfect (WP), Microsoft

Word, etc.)

4. What charts or graphics software

does the DMS need to accommodate?

(e.g., Power Point, Harvard Graphics,

Corel Draw, Freelance.)

Document Date and Time

1. Would you find it useful if you

were able to submit documents outside

normal business hours?

Security

1. Should the DMS require a unique

login id/password to submit a document

electronically?

2. Do you have a need to submit

comments anonymously?

3. If so, how could the DMS staff

contact you in case your submission is

incomplete or additional information is

needed?

4. Is it important that the DMS

validate the identity of the sender of a

document?

5. Should ES allow for encryption in

order to protect the contents of a

document during submission?

General

1. Are there any other special needs

that we should consider?

2. Are there any additional

capabilities the ES system should have?

Issued in Washington, DC on May 20,

1998.

Neil R. Eisner,

Assistant General Counsel for Regulation and

Enforcement.

[FR Doc. 98–13913 Filed 5–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–62–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping

Requirements Agency Information

Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice

announces that the Information

Collection(ICR) abstracted below has

been forwarded to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review and comment. The ICR describes

the nature of the information collection

and its expected burden. The Federal

Register Notice with a 60-day comment

period soliciting comments on the above

collection of information was published

on March 9, 1998, [63 FR 11472].

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before June 25, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Judith Street, ABC–100; Federal

Aviation Administration; 800

Independence Avenue, SW.;

Washington, DC 20591; Telephone

number (202) 267–9895.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

Title: Notice of Proposed Construction

or Alteration, Notice of Actual

Construction or Alteration, and Project

Status Request.

OMB Control Number: 2120–0001.

Type of Request: Extension of a

currently approved collection.

Affected Public: Persons or businesses

planning to construct or alter a structure

that may affect air safety.

Abstract: Federal Regulations (CFR

Part 77 of Title 14 )require all persons

to report proposed or actual

construction/alternation of structures

affecting air safety in order to promote

safety in air commerce and the efficient

use and preservation of the navigable

airspace and of airport traffic capacity at

public-use airports.

Annual Estimated Burden Hours:

8,820 hours.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, 725–17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20503, Attention FAA

Desk Officer.

Comments are Invited on: whether the

proposed collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the functions of the Department,

including whether the information will

have practical utility; the accuracy of

the Department’s estimate of the burden

of the proposed information collection;

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

Issued in Washington, D.C. on May

15,1998.

Vanester M. Williams,

Clearance Officer, United States Department

of Transportation.

[FR Doc. 98–13827 Filed 5–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–62–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Aviation Proceedings, Agreements

filed During the Week Ending May 15,

1998

The following Agreements were filed

with the Department of Transportation

under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 412

and 414. Answers may be filed within

21 days of date of filing.

Docket Number: OST–98–3845.

Date Filed: May 12, 1998.