Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 87 / Friday, May 4, 2001 / Notices 22627

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

Ticket To Work and Work Incentives

Advisory Panel Meeting

AGENCY: Social Security Administration

(SSA).

ACTION: Notice; correction.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Social

Security Administration published a

document in the Federal Register of

April 17, 2001, concerning a meeting of

the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives

Advisory Panel. The document

contained information that has changed

for the meeting times and the agenda

including times for the public comment

period.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kristen M. Breland, 202–358–6423.

Corrections

1. In the Federal Register of April 17,

2001, in FR Doc. 01–9511, on page

19829, in the second column, correct

the ‘‘Date’’ to read:

Dates:

May 8, 2001, 10 a.m.–6:30 p.m.

May 9, 2001, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

May 10, 2001, 9 a.m.–4 p.m.

2. In the Federal Register of April 17,

2001, in FR Doc. 01–9511, on page

19829, in the second column, correct

the ‘‘Address’’ to read:

Address: Almas Temple, Oasis Room,

1315 K Street, NW., Washington, DC

20005, 202–898–1688.

On Tuesday, May 8, 2001 from 4:30

p.m. to 6:30 p.m. ONLY, the public

meeting reconvenes at the Ticket to

Work and Work Incentives Advisory

Panel Office, Social Security

Administration, 400 Virginia Avenue,

SW., Suite 700, Washington, DC 20024;

202–358–6430.

3. In the Federal Register of April 17,

2001, in FR Doc. 01–9511, on page

19830, in the first column, correct the

‘‘Agenda’’ to read:

Agenda: The Public Testimony

Comment Period on Ticket to Work and

Work Incentives Improvement Act

Implementation is now scheduled only

on Wednesday, May 9, 2001 from 9:15

a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Dated: April 30, 2001.

Deborah M. Morrison,

Designated Federal Officer.

Corrected Agenda

Ticket To Work and Work Incentives

Advisory Panel, Public Meeting Agenda

Almas Temple, Oasis Room, 1315 K

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20005,

202–898–1688

May 8, 9, and 10, 2001

Tuesday, May 8, 2001, Day 1

10:00 a.m.

Meeting Called to Order by Deborah

Morrison, Designated Federal

Officer

10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Welcome, Introductions and Review

of the Agenda, Sarah Wiggins

Mitchell, Chair, Presiding

10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Update on TWWIIA Implementation

12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (On Your Own)

1:30 p.m.

Meeting Reconvenes, Sarah Wiggins

Mitchell, Presiding

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Update on TWWIIA Implementation

2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Breakout sessions:

Planning and Operations Committee

Evaluation Committee

4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Open House and Web site Launch

The public meeting reconvenes at the

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives

Advisory Panel Office, Social Security

Administration, 400 Virginia Avenue,

SW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20024,

Phone: 202–358–6430.

Welcome—Sarah Wiggins Mitchell,

Presiding

Opening Remarks and Review Agenda

Introduction of Panel Members and Staff

Year One in Review—Annual Interim

Progress Report

Presentation and Launch of New

Advisory Panel Web Site

Hands-on Demonstration of Panel’s New

Web Site www.ssa.gov/work/panel

Discussion

6:30 p.m.

Adjournment

Wednesday, May 9, 2001, Day 2

Meeting reconvenes at Almas Temple,

Oasis Room, 1315 K Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20005, 202–898–1688.

9:00 a.m.

Meeting Reconvened, Sarah Mitchell,

Chair, Presiding

9:15 a.m. to 10:15 a.m.

Public Testimony Comment Period on

TWWIIA Implementation

10:15 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.

Break

10:45 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Update on TWWIIA Implementation

12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (On Your Own)

1:30 p.m.

Meeting Reconvenes, Sarah Wiggins

Mitchell, Chair, Presiding

1:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.

Panel Deliberations on Final Advice

Report

3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.

Break

3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Continuation of Panel Deliberations

on Final Advice Report

Please Note: In the event that the public

comments do not take up the scheduled time

period, the Panel will use that time to

deliberate and conduct other Panel business.

Thursday, May 10, 2001 Day Three

9:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.

Meeting Reconvened and Opening

Remarks, Sarah Wiggins Mitchell,

Chair, Presiding

9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

Update on TWWIIA Implementation

10:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Break

11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Panel Deliberation on Final Advice

Report

12:00 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch (On Your Own)

1:30 p.m.

Meeting Reconvenes, Sarah Mitchell,

Presiding

1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.

Panel Deliberations and Committee

Reports

2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Quarterly Business Meeting

Ticket to Work and Work Incentives

Advisory Panel Quarterly Business

Meeting—2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

I. Call to Order

II. Approval Minutes of Previous

Meetings

February 6, 7 and 8, 2001

March 26, 27 and 28, 2001

III. Administrative Report from

Executive Director

IV. Reports from Committees

Evaluation Committee

Planning and Operations Committee

V. Unfinished Business

VI. New Business

VII. Next Meeting

VIII. Wrap-up

4:00 p.m.

Adjournment

[FR Doc. 01–11325 Filed 5–1–01; 4:48 pm]

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Request for Public Comment on

Specific Rules of Origin in the Free

Trade Area of the Americas, the U.S.-

Chile Free Trade Agreement, and the

U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative (USTR).

ACTION: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: The interagency Trade Policy

Staff Committee (TPSC) seeks public

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comment by May 25, 2001, as part of its

efforts to develop product-specific rules

of origin for the Free Trade Area of the

Americas (FTAA), the U.S.-Chile Free

Trade Agreement (Chile FTA), and the

U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement

(Singapore FTA).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

procedural questions concerning public

comments, contact Gloria Blue,

Executive Secretary, Trade Policy Staff

Committee, Office of the United States

Trade Representative at (202) 395–3475.

General questions concerning FTAA

and Chile FTA negotiations should be

addressed to the agency’s Office of

Western Hemisphere Affairs at (202)

395–5190. General questions concerning

the Singapore FTA negotiations should

be addressed to the agency’s Office of

Asia and the Pacific, at (202) 395–3430.

Questions pertaining to this specific

request for public comment as it relates

to the Chile FTA and the Singapore FTA

should be addressed to Matthew Rohde,

Director for Customs Affairs, Office of

the USTR, at (202) 395–3063 and as

regards to the FTAA to Bennett Harman,

Deputy Assistant US Trade

Representative for Latin America, Office

of the USTR, at (202) 395–5190. The

official FTAA web site (www.ftaaalca.org) contains information regarding

the FTAA process, including official

documents.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: At the first

Summit of the Americas, held in Miami,

Florida on December 11, 1994, the

President of the United States and 33

other democratically-elected leaders in

the Western Hemisphere agreed to

conclude an FTAA no later than 2005.

Hemispheric leaders formally launched

FTAA negotiations at the second

Summit of the Americas, held in

Santiago, Chile on April 18–19, 1998.

The Presidents of the United States and

Chile announced plans for a Chile FTA

on November 29, 2000, and trade

ministers from the two countries

launched bilateral negotiations on

December 6, 2000. The TPSC has

already requested public comment on

general U.S. positions and objectives in

the FTAA (63 FR 128, July 6, 1998; 64

FR 248, December 28, 1999) and the

Chile FTA (65 FR 241, December 14,

2000).

On November 16, 2000, the President

of the United States and the Prime

Minister of Singapore agreed to

negotiate a bilateral free trade

agreement. The TPSC has previously

requested public comment on

negotiating objectives for the agreement

and on how specific goods and services

and other matters should be treated

under the Singapore FTA (65 FR 71197;

November 29, 2000 and 65 FR 80982;

December 22, 2000).

The United States is seeking rules of

origin in the FTAA, the Chile FTA and

the Singapore FTA which will ensure

that only goods produced in the

territories of the parties to those

Agreements qualify for preferential tariff

treatment. Concurrently, another

objective of the United States will be to

ensure that the rules of origin in the

FTAA, the Chile FTA and the Singapore

FTA are transparent, administrable, and

trade facilitative. In order to meet these

objectives, and based in part on

responses to previous requests for

public comment, in the negotiations to

date on these agreements the United

States has advocated pursuing the

development of product-specific rules of

origin.

A product-specific approach to

preferential rules of origin will require

negotiators to establish, for each product

or product sector, the degree of working

or processing necessary within the

Parties to the FTAA, Chile FTA, and the

Singapore FTA to transform nonoriginating component materials into

originating goods eligible for

preferential tariff treatment. In the North

American Free Trade Agreement

(NAFTA), the predominant approach

used for preferential rules of origin was

a product-specific ‘‘tariff shift’’

approach, whereby the degree of

working or processing is represented by

a specified change in Harmonized Tariff

System tariff classification for each

product or sector.

The product-specific ‘‘tariff shift’’

approach is to be contrasted with rules

of origin based upon a single generallyapplicable rule, such as a ‘‘regional

value content’’ test , or a single

uniformly applied ‘‘tariff shift’’

standard. Comments previously

submitted as well as experience over the

years in administration of rules of origin

suggest important advantages related to

greater certainty in the administration of

product-specific rules of origin than

with a generally applicable ‘‘regional

value content’’ rule of origin. The

product-specific ‘‘tariff shift’’ approach

also has advantages over a uniform

‘‘tariff shift’’ approach because

Harmonized System tariff nomenclature

was not drafted for the purpose of

reflecting a particular transformation for

all products by virtue of a shift between

a single uniform level of digits within

the Harmonized System.

The NAFTA preferential rules of

origin are listed at General Note 12 to

the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the

United States (HTSUS), available on the

U.S. International Trade Commission

(ITC) web site at http://

dataweb.usitc.gov/SCRIPTS/tariff/

toc.html. A detailed summary of the

current U.S. negotiating position on

market access issues in the FTAA,

including rules of origin, can be found

on the USTR web site at www.ustr.gov/

regions/whemisphere/ftaa.shtml.

The TPSC invites comments on all

matters related to the development of

product-specific rules of origin for the

FTAA, the Chile FTA, and the

Singapore FTA. It is recognized that

comments or advice may or may not

differ as to issues presented,

respectively, by the FTAA, Chile FTA,

and Singapore FTA. To the greatest

extent possible, comments specifically

should address the following questions,

with clear designation as to the

particular product or sector and the

Harmonized System category or

categories to which such comments

apply.

• What, if any, are the specific market

concerns or commercial practices for a

particular product or sector that should

be taken into account in the

development of preferential rules of

origin in the FTAA, the Chile FTA, and

the Singapore FTA?

• Would it be appropriate to propose

product-specific preferential rules of

origin that are similar to, if not the same

as, existing NAFTA preferential rules of

origin?

• Alternatively, would it be

appropriate to propose product-specific

rules of origin that differ from existing

NAFTA preferential rules of origin in

order to take into account changed

market conditions or different

production and sourcing practices in

Singapore, Chile or the rest of the

Western Hemisphere?

• A number of the NAFTA

preferential rules of origin include

qualifications on product-specific tariffshift rules, such as an additional valuecontent criterion. Would it be

appropriate to propose simpler

preferential rules of origin for the

FTAA, Chile FTA, or Singapore FTA

that either rely solely on a product- or

sector-specific tariff shift? Alternatively,

in the event that an additional

qualification on a product-specific tariffshift rule may be deemed necessary,

would a formulation of a value-content

criterion that is simpler than what exists

in NAFTA be appropriate?

• Would it be appropriate to propose

product-specific rules of origin that

differ from existing NAFTA preferential

rules of origin where the United States

has or will soon have a most favored

nation tariff rate of zero?

• Would it be appropriate to propose

for certain products or sectors that the

parties to the FTAA, Chile FTA or

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Singapore FTA establish a common

external tariff and forego preferential

rules of origin?

Request for Comments

Request for public comment on

specific rules of origin for the FTAA, the

Chile FTA and the Singapore FTA.

Those persons wishing to provide

written comments should submit twenty

(20) typed copies, no later than noon,

May 25, 2001, to Gloria Blue, Executive

Secretary, Trade Policy Staff Committee,

Office of the U.S. Trade Representative,

Room F516, 1724 F Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20508. Nonconfidential

comments may be submitted via the

Internet to gblue@ustr.gov. Comments

should clearly state the position taken

and present evidence to support that

position. Any business confidential

material must be clearly marked as such

on the cover page (or letter) and

succeeding pages. Such submissions

must be accompanied by a

nonconfidential summary thereof.

Nonconfidential submissions will be

available for public inspection at the

USTR Reading Room, Office of the U.S.

Trade Representative, Room 3, 1724 F

Street, NW., Washington, DC. An

appointment to review the file may be

made by calling Brenda Webb at (202)

395–6186. The Reading Room is open to

the public from 10 a.m. to 12 noon and

from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through

Friday.

Carmen Suro-Bredie,

Chair, Trade Policy Staff Committee.

[FR Doc. 01–11306 Filed 5–3–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3190–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

Notice of Opportunity for Public

Comment on Surplus Property Release

at Smyrna Airport, Smyrna, Tennessee

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of 49

U.S.C. 47153(c), notice is being given

that the FAA is considering a request

from the Smyrna/Rutherford County

Airport Authority to waive the

requirement that a 23.934-acre parcel of

surplus property, located at the Smyrna

Airport, be used for aeronautical

purposes.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before June 4, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this notice

may be mailed or delivered in triplicate

to the FAA at the following address:

Memphis Airports District Office, 3385

Airways Boulevard, Suite 302,

Memphis, TN 38116–3841.

In addition, one copy of any

comments submitted to the FAA must

be mailed or delivered to Mr. John R.

Black, Executive Director of the

Smyrna/Rutherford County Airport

Authority at the following address: 660

Fitzhugh Blvd., Smyrna, TN 37167.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cynthia K. Wills, Program Manager,

Memphis Airports District Office, 3385

Airways Boulevard, Suite 302,

Memphis, TN 38116–3841, (901) 544–

3495 extension 16. The application may

be reviewed in person at this same

location.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA

is reviewing a request by Smyrna/

Rutherford County Airport Authority to

release 25.934 acres of surplus property

at the Smyrna Airport. The property

will be purchased by the Town of

Smyrna and used for the expansion of

the Smyrna Wastewater Treatment

Plant. The property fronts East Sam

Ridley Parkway and is adjacent and east

of the existing Smyrna Wastewater

Treatment Plan. The expansion

activities will include two(2) aeration

basins and two(2) clarifying ponds. The

net proceeds from the sale of this

property will be used for airport

purposes. The USDA has evaluated the

proposed use of the land for expansion

of the wastewater treatment facility and

has indicated the proposed usage will

be compatible with airport operations if

USDA recommendations are followed.

Any person may inspect the request

in person at the FAA office listed above

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. In addition, any person may,

upon request, inspect the request, notice

and other documents germane to the

request in person at the Smyrna/

Rutherford County Airport Authority.

Issued in Memphis, Tennessee, on April

26, 2001.

Charles L. Harris,

Assistant Manager, Memphis Airports District

Office, Southern Region.

[FR Doc. 01–11264 Filed 5–3–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Summary Notice No. PE–20001–34]

Petitions for Exemption; Summary of

Dispositions of Petitions Issued

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration (FAA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of dispositions of prior

petitions.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA’s rulemaking

provisions governing the application,

processing, and disposition of petitions

for exemption part 11 of Title 14, Code

of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this

notice contains a summary of

dispositions of certain petitions

previously received. The purpose of this

notice is to improve the public’s

awareness of, and participation in, this

aspect of FAA’s regulatory activities.

Neither publication of this notice nor

the inclusion or omission of information

in the summary is intended to affect the

legal status of any petition or its final

disposition.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Forest Rawls (202) 267–8033, Sandy

Buchanan-Sumter (202) 267–7271, or

Vanessa Wilkins (202) 267–8029, Office

of Rulemaking (ARM–1), Federal

Aviation Administration, 800

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20591.

This notice is published pursuant to

14 CFR 11.85 and 11.91.

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 30,

2001.

Donald P. Byrne,

Assistant Chief Counsel for Regulations.

Disposition of Petitions

Docket No: FAA–2001–9034.

Petitioner: Bombardier Aerospace,

Inc.

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR

25.1435(b)(1).

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit type certification

of the Model BD–100–1A10 by

conducting applicable testing specified

in accordance with (1) hydraulic system

components, lines, and installation are

individually tested to 1.5 times the

design operating pressure as part of

qualifications tests, and (2) the complete

hydraulic system is functionally tested

on the airplane over the range of motion

of all associated user systems at the

system relief pressure setting of 3,400

psid. Partial Grant, 04/18/2001,

Exemption No. 7508.

Docket No.: FAA–2001–8866.

Petitioner: Celsius Aerotech, Inc.

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 FR

145.45(f).

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit Celsius to

establish and maintain a number of

fixed locations within Celsius for the

repair station Inspection Procedures

Manual (IPM) and to assign IPM’s to key

individuals within departments. Grant,

04/10/2001, Exemption No. 6657B.