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securities in the above listed company 

is suspended for the period from 9:30 

a.m. EDT, April 13, 2009 through 11:59 

p.m. EDT, on April 24, 2009. 

By the Commission. 

Florence E. Harmon, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E9–8743 Filed 4–13–09; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

[Docket No. USTR–2009–0010] 

Request for Public Comments 

Regarding Status of U.S. Equipment 

Industry Access to the European 

Community’s (EC) Galileo Program 

and European Markets for Related 

Goods and Services 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Trade Policy Staff 

Committee is seeking the views of 

interested parties on six questions 

regarding U.S. equipment industry 

access to the EC Galileo program and 

European markets for related goods and 

services, which pertain to Articles 5, 6, 

and 8 of the Agreement on the 

Promotion, Provision and Use of Galileo 

and GPS Satellite-Based Navigation 

Systems and Related Applications 

(‘‘Agreement’’). USTR will use this 

information in connection with its 

preparation of a report to Congress, as 

requested in the explanatory statement 

accompanying the Omnibus 

Appropriations Act, 2009, and to 

identify issues that may merit further 

discussion with the EC and its Member 

States under the consultation 

mechanism established under the 

Agreement. 

DATES: Public comments are due no 

later than 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 13, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted electronically to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, docket number 

USTR–2009–0010. If you are unable to 

provide submissions by http:// 

www.regulations.gov, please contact 

Gloria Blue at (202) 395–3475 to arrange 

for an alternative method of 

transmission. If (as explained below) the 

comment contains confidential 

information, then the comment should 

be submitted only by fax to Gloria Blue 

at (202) 395–5141. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

procedural questions concerning written 

comments, contact Gloria Blue, 

Executive Secretary, Trade Policy Staff 

Committee, at (202) 395–3475. All other 

questions should be directed to Scott 

Pietan, Director of Industry, Office of 

the United States Trade Representative, 

600 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC, 

(202) 395–9646. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2004, 

the United States and the EC and its 

Member States signed the Agreement on 

the Promotion, Provision and Use of 

Galileo and GPS Satellite-Based 

Navigation Systems and Related 

Applications (‘‘Agreement’’), which 

addresses U.S. and EC satellite 

navigation services, in particular the 

U.S. Global Positioning System, and the 

planned EC Galileo system. The 

Agreement has not yet entered into 

force, but it is being provisionally 

applied. The Agreement may be found 

at http://pnt.gov/public/docs/2004/ 

gpsgalileoagreement.pdf. In addition to 

addressing signal compatibility and 

individual and mutual security 

concerns, the Agreement calls for nondiscrimination and open markets in 

trade in civil satellite navigation-related 

goods and services. 

In an explanatory statement 

accompanying the Omnibus 

Appropriations Act, 2009, Congress 

requested that USTR report on the status 

of U.S. equipment industry access to the 

EC Galileo program and European 

markets for related goods and services, 

in order to assess EC compliance with 

the Agreement. Joint Explanatory 

Statement to the Omnibus 

Appropriations Act, 2009, Public Law 

111–008, 155 Cong. Rec. H1653, H1840 

(daily ed., Feb. 23, 2009). To assist it in 

fulfilling that request, and in identifying 

matters that merit further discussion 

with the EC and its Member States in 

connection with the consultation 

mechanism provided under the 

Agreement, USTR is seeking comments 

on six issues: 

(1) Has the EC or any of its Member 

States established any measures of the 

type described in Article 5.1 of the 

Agreement that adversely affect U.S. 

equipment industry access to Galileo 

navigation and timing signals and 

services, value added services, 

augmentations and global navigation 

and timing goods, or European markets 

for related goods and services? 

(2) Has the EC or any of its Member 

States established any measures that 

have the effect, directly or indirectly, of 

mandating the use of any civil satellitebased navigation and timing signals or 

services, value-added service, 

augmentation, or global navigation and 

timing equipment within its territory, 

not expressly authorized by the 

International Civil Aviation 

Organization or the International 

Maritime Organization, as described in 

Article 5.2 of the Agreement? 

(3) Does the EC or any of its Member 

States maintain a non-discriminatory 

approach with respect to trade in goods 

and services related to civil satellitebased navigation and timing signals, 

augmentations, and value-added 

services, consistent with the affirming 

statement contained in Article 6.1 of the 

Agreement? 

(4) Are any EC or Member State 

measures with respect to goods and 

services related to civil satellite-based 

navigation and timing signals or 

services, augmentations, and valueadded services used as a disguised 

restriction on or an unnecessary 

obstacle to international trade, as 

described in Article 6.2 of the 

Agreement? 

(5) Does the EC make publicly 

available on a non-discriminatory basis, 

sufficient information concerning its 

unencrypted civil satellite-based 

navigation and timing signals and 

augmentations, consistent with Article 

8.1 of the Agreement? 

(6) To the extent that it provides civil 

satellite-based navigation and timing 

signals or services, augmentation, or 

value-added service for civil users that 

is encrypted or otherwise has features 

that allow the global navigation service 

provider to deny access, does the EC or 

any of its Member States, subject to 

applicable export controls, afford to U.S. 

manufacturers of global navigation and 

timing equipment or augmentation or 

value-added services providers, on a 

non-discriminatory basis, access to the 

information necessary to incorporate 

such encryption or other similar 

features into their equipment, through 

licensing of necessary information or 

other means at market prices, consistent 

with the terms set forth in Article 8.2 of 

the Agreement? 

Public Comment: Requirements for 

Submissions 

Persons may submit public comments 

electronically to http:// 

www.regulations.gov docket number 

USTR–2009–0010. If you are unable to 

provide submission by http:// 

www.regulations.gov, please contact 

Gloria Blue at (202) 395–3475 to arrange 

for an alternative method of 

transmission. 

To submit comments via http:// 

www.regulations.gov, enter docket 

number USTR–2009–0010 on the home 

page and click ‘‘go’’. The site will 

provide a search-results page listing all 

documents associated with this docket. 

Find a reference to this notice by 


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selecting ‘‘Notice’’ under ‘‘Document 

Type’’ on the left side of the searchresults page, and click on the link 

entitled ‘‘Send a Comment or 

Submission.’’ (For further information 

on using the http://www.regulations.gov 

Web site, please consult the resources 

provided on the Web site by clicking on 

‘‘How to Use This Site’’ on the left side 

of the home page.) The http:// 

www.regulations.gov site provides the 

option of providing comments by filling 

in a ‘‘General Comments’’ field, or by 

attaching a document. It is expected that 

most comments will be provided in an 

attached document. If a document is 

attached, it is sufficient to type ‘‘See 

attached’’ in the ‘‘General Comments’’ 

field. 

A person requesting that information 

contained in a comment submitted by 

that person be treated as confidential 

business information must certify that 

such information is business 

confidential and would not customarily 

be released to the public by the 

submitter. Confidential business 

information must be clearly designated 

as such and the submission must be 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ 

at the top and bottom of the cover page 

and each succeeding page. Any 

comment containing business 

confidential information should be 

submitted only by fax to Gloria Blue at 

(202) 395–3475. A non-confidential 

summary of the confidential 

information must be submitted to 

http://www.regulations.gov. The nonconfidential summary will be placed in 

the docket and open to public 

inspection. 

Comments will be placed in the 

docket and open to public inspection, 

except confidential business 

information. Comments may be viewed 

on the http://www.regulations.gov Web 

site by entering docket number USTR– 

2009–0010 in the search field on the 

home page. 

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chair, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. E9–8548 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W9–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2009–11] 

Petitions for Exemption; Summary of 

Petitions Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of petitions for 

exemption received; Extension of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 14 CFR 

11.47(c), the FAA has received a 

petition from NetJets Aviation, Inc. That 

petition requested an extension of the 

comment period for a petition from 

CitationShares Management LLC. The 

FAA will extend the comment period 

for 40 days after date of publication. 

DATES: Comments on petitions received 

must identify the petition docket 

number involved and must be received 

on or before May 26, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

identified by Docket Number FAA– 

2009–0083 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Government-wide rulemaking Web 

site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov 

and follow the instructions for sending 

your comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to the Docket 

Management Facility; U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket 

Management Facility at 202–493–2251. 

• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to 

the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Docket: To read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time 

or to the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We will 

post all comments we receive, without 

change, to http://www.regulations.gov, 

including any personal information you 

provide. Using the search function of 

our docket Web site, anyone can find 

and read the comments received into 

any of our dockets, including the name 

of the individual sending the comment 

(or signing the comment for an 

association, business, labor union, etc.). 

You may review DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 

Register published on April 11, 2000 

(65 FR 19477–78). 

Background 

The comment period for the Summary 

of Petition Received published on 

March 25, 2009 (74 FR 12924) and 

closes on April 14, 2009. However, 

NetJets Aviation, Inc. petitioned the 

FAA to extend the comment period. 

This notice extends the comment 

period. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tyneka Thomas (202) 267–7626 or 

Laverne Brunache (202) 267–3133, 

Office of Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 10, 

2009. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. E9–8607 Filed 4–14–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0312] 

Parts and Accessories Necessary for 

Safe Operation; Grant of Exemption for 

DriveCam, Inc. 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of final disposition. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration (FMCSA) 

announces its decision to grant an 

exemption to DriveCam, Inc. (DriveCam) 

that will enable video event recorders to 

be mounted on commercial motor 

vehicles lower in the windshield than is 

currently permitted by the Agency’s 

regulations. DriveCam requested the 

exemption so that commercial motor 

vehicle operators would be able to use 

video event recorders to increase safety 

through (1) identification and 

remediation of risky driving behaviors 

such as distracted driving and 

drowsiness; (2) enhanced monitoring of 

passenger behavior for CMVs in 

passenger service; and (3) enhanced 

collision review and analysis. FMCSA 

believes that permitting video event 

recorders to be mounted lower than 

currently allowed, but still outside the 

driver’s sight lines to the road and 

highway signs and signals, will 

maintain a level of safety that is 

equivalent to, or greater than, the level 

of safety achieved without the 

exemption. 

DATES: This exemption is effective from 

April 15, 2009 through April 15, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Luke W. Loy, Vehicle and Roadside 

Operations Division, Office of Bus and 


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