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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.

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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

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e-mail Ms. Thomasine Matthews on or

after Wednesday, May 3, 2000, to have

a copy of the agenda faxed or e-mailed

to you. Please note that a draft agenda

will not be available until that date.

ADDRESSES: If you would like to have

IRPAC consider a written statement at a

future IRPAC meeting (not this

upcoming meeting), please write to Ms.

Kate LaBuda at the IRS, Office of Payer

Compliance, OP:EX:ST:PC, Room 2013,

1111 Constitution Avenue, NW.,

Washington, DC 20224, or e-mail her at

kate.labuda@irs.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

get on the access list to attend this

meeting, or to have a copy of the agenda

faxed to you on or after May 3, 2000,

please e-mail Ms. Thomasine Matthews

at thomasine.matthews@irs.gov, or call

her at 202–622–4214. For general

information about IRPAC, please e-mail

Ms. Kate LaBuda at kate.labuda@irs.gov

or call her at 202–622–3404.

Dated: April 12, 2000.

Gwen Glaize,

Director, Office of Payer Compliance, Office

of Examination.

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