21064 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 76 / Wednesday, April 19, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Proposed Advisory Circular; Bird

Ingestion Certification Standards

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability of

proposed advisory circular and request

for comments.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability of proposed Advisory

Circular (AC) No. 33.76–1, Bird

Ingestion Certification Standards.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before June 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Send all comments on the

proposed AC to the Federal Aviation

Administration, Attn: Engine and

Propeller Standards Staff, ANE–110,

Engine and Propeller Directorate,

Aircraft Certification Service, 12 New

England Executive Park, Burlington,

MA, 01803–5299.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Marc Bouthillier, Engine and Propeller

Standards Staff, ANE–110, at the above

address, telephone (781) 238–7120, fax

(781) 238–7199. A copy of the subject

AC may also be obtained electronically

by writing to the following Internet

address: ‘‘marc.bouthillier@faa.gov’’.

Additionally, you may obtain a copy of

the draft AC directly from the internet

at the following address http://

www.faa.gov/avr/air/acs/draftach.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

A copy of the subject AC may be

obtained by contacting the person

named above under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Interested

persons are invited to comment on the

proposed AC, and to submit such

written data, views, or arguments as

they desire. Commenters must identify

the subject of the AC, and subject

comments in duplicate to the address

specified above. All communications

received on or before the closing date

for comments will be considered by the

Engine and Propeller Directorate,

Aircraft Certification Service, before

issuance of the final AC.

Background

This draft advisory circular (AC)

provides guidance and acceptable

methods, but not the only methods, that

may be used to demonstrate compliance

with the bird ingestion requirements of

§ 33.76 of the Federal Regulations, Title

14 of the Code of Federal Regulations

once that regulation becomes final. A

proposal to amend the Federal Aviation

Regulations by adding a new section,

§ 33.76, was published in the Federal

Register on December 11, 1998 (64 FR

68635). Although this draft AC does

refer to regulatory requirements that

would be mandatory, this draft AC is

not, in itself, mandatory. This AC would

neither change any regulatory

requirements nor authorizes changes in

or deviations from the regulatory

requirements.

This effort was adopted as a part 33

and Joint Aviation Regulations for

engines (JAR–E) harmonization project

and was selected as an Aviation

Rulemaking Advisory Committee

(ARAC) project. This draft AC provides

information and guidance that addresses

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)

type certification standards for aircraft

turbine engines with regard to bird

ingestion. The requirements under

§ 33.76 reflect recent analysis of the bird

threat encountered in service by turbine

engine powered aircraft.

This advisory circular, published

under the authority granted to the

Administrator by 49 U.S.C. 106(g),

40113, 44701–44702, 44704, provides

guidance for these proposed

requirements.

Issued in Burlington, Massachusetts, on

April 12, 2000.

Thomas A. Boudreau,

Acting Manager, Engine and Propeller

Directorate, Aircraft Certification Service.

[FR Doc. 00–9839 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket Number: MARAD–2000–7246]

Requested Administrative Waiver of

the Coastwise Trade Laws

AGENCY: Maritime Administration,

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Invitation for public comments

on a requested administrative waiver of

the Coastwise Trade Laws for the vessel

PUFFIN.

SUMMARY: As authorized by Public Law

105–383, the Secretary of

Transportation, as represented by the

Maritime Administration (MARAD), is

authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.

build requirement of the coastwise laws

under certain circumstances. A request

for such a waiver has been received by

MARAD. The vessel, and a description

of the proposed service, is listed below.

Interested parties may comment on the

effect this action may have on U.S.

vessel builders or businesses in the U.S.

that use U.S.-flag vessels. If MARAD

determines that in accordance with

Pub.L. 105–383 and MARAD’s

regulations at 46 CFR 388 (65 FR 6905;

February 11, 2000) that the issuance of

the waiver will have an unduly adverse

effect on a U.S.-vessel builder or a

business that uses U.S.-flag vessels, a

waiver will not be granted.

DATES: Submit comments on or before

May 19, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to

docket number MARAD–2000–7246.

Written comments may be submitted by

hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,

U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401,

Department of Transportation, 400 7th

St., SW, Washington, DC 20590–0001.

You may also send comments

electronically via the Internet at http://

dmses.dot.gov/submit/. All comments

will become part of this docket and will

be available for inspection and copying

at the above address between 10 a.m.

and 5 p.m., E.T., Monday through

Friday, except federal holidays. An

electronic version of this document and

all documents entered into this docket

is available on the World Wide Web at

http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Hokana, U.S. Department of

Transportation, Maritime

Administration, MAR 832 Room 7201,

400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington,

DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–0760.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title V of

Pub. L. 105–383 provides authority to

the Secretary of Transportation to

administratively waive the U.S.-build

requirements of the Jones Act, and other

statutes, for small commercial passenger

vessels (less than 12 passengers). This

authority has been delegated to the

Maritime Administration per 49 CFR

1.66, Delegations to the Maritime

Administrator, as amended. By this

notice, MARAD is publishing

information on a vessel for which a

request for a U.S.-build waiver has been

received, and for which MARAD

requests comments from interested

parties. Comments should refer to the

docket number of this notice and the

vessel name in order for MARAD to

properly consider the comments.

Comments should also state the

commentor’s interest in the waiver

application, and address the waiver

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’S

regulations at 46 CFR 388.

Vessel Proposed for Waiver of the U.S.-

build Requirement

(1) Name of vessel and owner for

which waiver is requested: Name of

vessel: Sailing Vessel PUFFIN. U.S.

Documentation Number 697029. Owner:

Thomas B. Brener.

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(2) Size, capacity and tonnage of

vessel: According to the Applicant

‘‘PUFFIN is a fractional sloop rigged

sailing vessel 35.8 feet in length with a

gross registered tonnage of 9 tons

pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 14502. She has a

4.8′ draft with a steadying and stable

wing keel and a flush deck. She would

carry no more than 6 paying

passengers.’’

(3) Intended use for vessel, including

geographic region of intended operation

and trade. According to the applicant:

‘‘My own approach to the teaching of

sailing and exploration is specific and is

not offered by any other organization or

individual in the intended use areas in

U.S. East Coast waters from Delaware

Bay to Rhode Island and in the Atlantic

Waters of South-Central Florida. A day

or week aboard ‘‘PUFFIN’’ will be an

experience that combines the discovery

of new places, fish, plants, animals and

birds with the sense of sailing and the

feel of the elements. It is my hope to be

able to open up new vistas for anyone,

including the physically challenged, the

deaf and the blind. This particular

vessel is an ideal vessel for the purposes

of teaching sailing through feel and

touch. She is a non-polluting, stable,

small, shallow draft sailing platform

capable of a long run offshore for those

who may want to see a bird migration

from a perch in the near coastal Atlantic

Ocean. The cost for such an excursion

would be about $300 a day including

the captain.’’

(4) Date and place of construction and

(if applicable) rebuilding. Date of

construction: 1985, place of

construction: Alkmaar, Holland.

(5) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on other commercial

passenger vessel operators. According to

the applicant: ‘‘My own approach to the

teaching of sailing and exploration is

specific and is not offered by any other

organization or individual in the

intended use areas in U.S. East Coast

waters from Delaware Bay to Rhode

Island and in the Atlantic Waters of

South-Central Florida.’’

(6) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on U.S. shipyards.

According to the applicant: ‘‘Given that

this will be a small private enterprise

working, at times, in conjunction with

not-for-profit concerns that would be

performing a service that historically

provides a very small financial return;

there will be no impact on U.S.

shipyards. U.S. production shipyards to

not manufacture a vessel such as

‘‘PUFFIN’’ and the market for such a

vessel is very small, possibly nonexistent. The cost to build a similarly

equipped vessel based on the attached

survey would be $190,000. Given that

the estimated return would net less than

$15,000 per year after expenses, there is

clearly no economic justification to

construct a new vessel for this

purpose.’’

By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

Dated: April 14, 2000.

Joel C. Richard,

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

[FR Doc. 00–9804 Filed 4–18–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P

DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service

Open Meeting of the Information

Reporting Program Advisory

Committee

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS),

Treasury.

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting of the

Information Reporting Program

Advisory Committee.

SUMMARY: In 1991 the IRS established

the Information Reporting Program

Advisory Committee (IRPAC) in

response to a recommendation made by

the United States Congress. The primary

purpose of IRPAC is to provide an

organized public forum for discussion of

relevant information reporting issues

between the officials of the IRS and

representatives of the payer/practitioner

community. IRPAC offers constructive

observations about current or proposed

policies, programs, and procedures and,

when necessary, suggests ways to

improve the operation of the

Information Reporting Program (IRP).

There will be a meeting of IRPAC on

Thursday, May 11, 2000. The meeting

will be held in Room 3313 of the

Internal Revenue Service Main

Building, which is located at 1111

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,

DC. A summarized version of the

agenda along with a list of topics that

are planned to be discussed are listed

below.

Summarized Agenda for Meeting

9:00 Meeting Opens

11:30 Break for Lunch

1:00 Meeting Resumes

4:00 Meeting Adjourns

The topics that are planned to be covered

are as follows:

(1) IRPAC Paper on Electronic Payee

Statements

(2) IRPAC Paper on the Threshold for

Reporting Interest on Canadian Deposit

Accounts

(3) IRPAC Paper on Reporting Cancellation of

Indebtedness Income

(4) IRS Update on the New Section 1441

Regulation

(5) IRPAC Paper on Expanding the Combined

Federal/State Information Return Filing

Program

(6) IRPAC Paper on Tax Certifications for

Disregarded Entities

(7) IRPAC Update on IRPAC’s Articles in the

‘‘SSA/IRS Reporter’’

(8) IRS Update on Proposed Changes to Form

W–2, Form 1099–DIV, and Form 1099–

MISC

(9) IRS Update on Proposed Changes to the

Form SS–8

(10) IRPAC Paper on Reporting the

Revocation of a Roth IRA

(11) IRPAC Paper on Reporting

Recharacterizations and Reconversions

(12) IRS Update on the Proposed Taxpayer

Identification Number (TIN) Matching

System

(13) IRS Update on the IRS/SSA Magnetic

Media/Electronic Filing Seminars for

2000

Note: Last minute changes to these topics

are possible and could prevent advance

notice.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IRPAC

currently reports to the National

Director, Office of Specialty Taxes, who

is the executive responsible for

information reporting payer compliance.

IRPAC is instrumental in providing

advice to enhance the IRP Program.

Increasing participation by external

stakeholders in the planning and

improvement of the tax system will help

achieve the goals of increasing

voluntary compliance, reducing burden,

and improving customer service.

IRPAC is currently comprised of

representatives from various segments

of the information reporting payer/

practitioner community. IRPAC

members are not paid for their time or

services, but consistent with Federal

regulations, they are reimbursed for

their travel and lodging expenses to

attend two public meetings each year.

DATES: The meeting will be open to the

public, and will be in a room that

accommodates approximately 80

people, including members of IRPAC

and IRS officials. Seats are available to

members of the public on a first-come,

first-served basis. In order to get your

name on the building access list,

notification of intent to attend this

meeting must be made with Ms.

Thomasine Matthews no later than

Monday, May 8, 2000. Ms. Matthews

can be reached by e-mail at

thomasine.matthews@irs.gov, or by

telephone at 202–622–4214. Notification

of intent to attend should include your

name, organization and phone number.

If you leave this information for Ms.

Matthews in a voice-mail message,

please spell out all names.

A draft of the agenda will be available

via e-mail or facsimile transmission the

week prior to the meeting. Please call or