58856 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 184 / Thursday, September 22, 2011 / Notices 

Republic of Madagascar, Somalia, 

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www.regulations.gov, docket number 

USTR–2011–0010. 

Donald W. Eiss, 

Acting Chair, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24312 Filed 9–21–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W1–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Determination Regarding Waiver of 

Discriminatory Purchasing 

Requirements With Respect to Goods 

and Services of Armenia 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Determination Regarding 

Waiver of Discriminatory Purchasing 

Requirements under the Trade 

Agreements Act of 1979. 

DATES: Effective Date: September 15, 

2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean 

Heilman Grier, Senior Procurement 

Negotiator, Office of the United States 

Trade Representative, (202) 395–9476. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 7, 2010, the WTO Committee 

on Government Procurement approved 

the accession of Armenia to the World 

Trade Organization (‘‘WTO’’) Agreement 

on Government Procurement (‘‘GPA’’). 

Armenia submitted its instrument of 

accession to the Secretary-General of the 

WTO on August 16, 2011. The GPA will 

enter into force for Armenia on 

September 15, 2011. The United States, 

which is also a party to the GPA, has 

agreed to waive discriminatory 

purchasing requirements for eligible 

products and suppliers of Armenia 

beginning on September 15, 2011. 

Section 1–201 of Executive Order 

12260 of December 31, 1980 delegated 

the functions of the President under 

sections 301 and 302 of the Trade 

Agreements Act of 1979 (‘‘the Trade 

Agreements Act’’) (19 U.S.C. 2511, 

2512) to the United States Trade 

Representative. 

Determination: In conformity with 

sections 301 and 302 of the Trade 

Agreements Act, and in order to carry 

out U.S. obligations under the GPA, I 

hereby determine that: 

1. Armenia has become a party to the 

GPA and will provide appropriate 

reciprocal competitive government 

procurement opportunities to United 

States products and services and 

suppliers of such products and services. 

In accordance with section 301(b)(1) of 

the Trade Agreements Act, Armenia is 

so designated for purposes of section 

301(a) of the Trade Agreements Act. 

2. Accordingly, beginning on 

September 15, 2011, with respect to 

eligible products (namely, those goods 

and services covered under the GPA for 

procurement by the United States) of 

Armenia and suppliers of such 

products, the application of any law, 

regulation, procedure, or practice 

regarding government procurement that 

would, if applied to such products and 

suppliers, result in treatment less 

favorable than that accorded— 

(A) To United States products and 

suppliers of such products, or 

(B) To eligible products of another 

foreign country or instrumentality 

which is a party to the GPA and 

suppliers of such products, 

shall be waived. This waiver shall be 

applied by all entities listed in United 

States Annexes 1 and 3 of GPA 

Appendix 1. 

3. The Trade Representative may 

modify or withdraw the designation in 

paragraph 1 and the waiver in paragraph 

2. 

Ronald Kirk, 

United States Trade Representative. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24313 Filed 9–21–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W1–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Application of Jet-A, LLC for 

Certificate Authority 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of Order to Show Cause 

(Order 2011–9–8). Docket DOT–OST– 

2010–0120. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation is directing all interested 

persons to show cause why it should 

issue an order finding Jet-A, LLC fit, 

willing, and able to operate interstate 

charter air transportation of persons, 

property and mail, using one large 

aircraft. 

DATES: Persons wishing to file 

objections should do so no later than 

September 28, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Objections and answers to 

objections should be filed in Docket 

DOT–OST–2010–0120 and addressed to 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Docket Operations, (M–30, Room W12– 

140), 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

West Building Ground Floor, 

Washington, DC 20590, and should be 

served upon the parties listed in 

Attachment A to the order. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Catherine J. O’Toole, Air Carrier Fitness 

Division (X–56, Room W86–489), U.S. 


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Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 184 / Thursday, September 22, 2011 / Notices 58857 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, (202) 366–9721. 

Dated: September 14, 2011. 

Robert Letteney, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation and 

International Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24191 Filed 9–21–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DOT–OST–2011–0178] 

Privacy Act of 1974: System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Department of Transportation 

(DOT), Office of the Secretary. 

ACTION: Notice to establish a system of 

records and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 

Transportation proposes to establish a 

new Department of Transportation 

system of records titled, ‘‘Department of 

Transportation/ALL–23 Information 

Sharing Environment Suspicious 

Activity Reporting Initiative System of 

Records.’’ This system of records will 

allow DOT to compile suspicious 

activity report data that meet the 

Information Sharing Environment 

Suspicious Activity Reporting 

Functional Standard and share these 

Suspicious Activity Reporting data with 

authorized participants in the 

Nationwide Suspicious Activity 

Reporting Initiative, including other 

DOT operating administrations, Federal 

departments and agencies, State, local 

and Tribal law enforcement agencies, 

and the private sector. Additionally, the 

Department of Transportation issued a 

Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to 

exempt this system from certain 

provisions of the Privacy Act elsewhere 

in the Federal Register. This newly 

established system will be included in 

the Department of Transportation’s 

inventory of record systems. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

October 24, 2011. This new system will 

be effective October 24, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number Docket No. 

DOT–OST–2011–0178, by one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Department of Transportation 

Docket Management, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, 

DC 20590. 

• Instructions: All submissions 

received must include the agency name 

and docket number for this rulemaking. 

All comments received will be posted 

without change to http://www.

regulations.gov, including any personal 

information provided. 

• Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to http://www.

regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general questions, please contact: 

Lawrence V. Hopkins, (202–366–6285), 

Associate Director for Intelligence, 

Department of Transportation, 

Washington, DC 20590. For privacy 

issues, please contact: Claire W. Barrett 

(202–366–8135), Departmental Chief 

Privacy Officer, Department of 

Transportation, Washington, DC 20590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

In accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, the Department of 

Transportation (DOT) proposes to 

establish a new DOT system of records 

titled, ‘‘DOT/ALL–23 Information 

Sharing Environment (ISE) Suspicious 

Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative 

System of Records.’’ 

This system of records will allow 

DOT operating administrations that 

produce, receive, and store suspicious 

activity reports (SARs) pursuant to their 

existing authorities, responsibilities, 

platforms, and programs to compile and 

share report data that also meet the ISE– 

SAR Functional Standard with 

authorized participants in the 

Nationwide SAR Initiative (NSI), 

including Federal departments and 

agencies, State, local and Tribal law 

enforcement agencies, and the private 

sector. The NSI is one of a number of 

government-wide efforts designed to 

implement guidelines first issued by the 

President on December 16, 2005, for 

establishing the ISE pursuant to section 

1016 of the Intelligence Reform and 

Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 

(IRTPA), as amended. The NSI 

establishes a nationwide capability to 

gather, document, process, analyze and 

share information about suspicious 

activity, incidents, or behavior 

reasonably indicative of terrorist 

activities (hereafter collectively referred 

to as suspicious activity or activities) to 

enable rapid identification and 

mitigation of potential terrorist threats. 

There is a long history of 

documenting of suspicious activity, 

particularly in the law enforcement 

community. These reports are 

sometimes referred to as suspicious 

activity reports, tips and leads, or other 

similar terms. Federal, State, local and 

Tribal agencies and the private sector 

currently collect and document 

suspicious activities in support of their 

responsibilities to investigate and 

prevent potential crimes, protect 

citizens, and apprehend and prosecute 

criminals. Since some of these 

documented activities may bear a nexus 

to terrorism, the Program Manager for 

the Information Sharing Environment 

(PM–ISE) developed a standardized 

process for identifying, documenting, 

and sharing terrorism-related SAR data 

(hereinafter referred to as an ‘‘ISE– 

SAR’’), which meet the definition and 

criteria set forth in the ISE Functional 

Standard Suspicious Activity Reporting 

(Version 1.5, May 2009) to the 

maximum extent possible consistent 

with the protection of individual 

privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties. 

The Functional Standard defines an 

ISE–SAR as official documentation of 

observed behavior determined to have a 

potential nexus to terrorism (i.e., to be 

reasonably indicative of criminal 

activity associated with terrorism). 

Several operating administrations 

within DOT regularly observe or 

otherwise encounter suspicious 

activities while executing their 

authorized missions and performing 

operational duties. Operating 

administrations document those 

observations or encounters in SARs. 

Across the Department, the operational 

setting or context for activities reported 

in SARs are as varied as the 

Department’s regulatory responsibilities. 

Engagement with the NSI will alter 

neither those underlying mission 

functions nor upset the current 

methodologies employed by DOT 

operating administrations collecting 

information on suspicious activities and 

issuing SARs. Rather, the NSI will 

facilitate the more effective sharing and 

discovery—both internally and between 

DOT and external NSI participants—by 

incorporating a standardized 

technological and functional approach 

for recording and storing ISE–SARs 

throughout DOT. Once trained in the 

NSI program and the application of 

these technical and functional 

standards, DOT personnel will review 

operating administration SARs and 

submit the data only from those that 

meet the ISE–SAR Functional Standard 

into the NSI Shared Space. 

In keeping with NSI standards, 

whenever suspicious activity is 

determined to have a potential nexus to 

terrorism, DOT personnel will extract 

data from the operating administration 

level SARs and input that data in a 

standardized format to the NSI Shared 

Space. All ISE–SAR data introduced 


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