Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 188 / Thursday, September 29, 2005 / Notices 56963 

ACTION: Notice of Pilot Program 

extension. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

extension of SBA’s Export Express Pilot 

Program until November 30, 2005. This 

extension will allow time for SBA to 

complete its decision making regarding 

potential modifications and 

enhancements to the Program. 

DATES: The Export Express Pilot 

Program is extended under this notice 

until November 30, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charles Thomas, Office of Financial 

Assistance, U.S. Small Business 

Administration, 409 Third Street, 

Washington, DC 20416; Telephone (202) 

205–6490; charles.thomas@sba.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Export Express Pilot Program was 

established as a subprogram of the 

Agency’s SBAExpress Pilot Program. It 

was established in 1998 to assist current 

and prospective small exporters, 

particularly those needing revolving 

lines of credit. Export Express generally 

conforms to the streamlined procedures 

of SBAExpress and carriers SBA’s full 

75–85 percent guaranty. The maximum 

loan amount under this Program is 

limited to $250,000. The extension of 

this Program until November 30, 2005, 

will allow the SBA to more fully 

evaluate the results and impact of the 

Program and to consider possible 

changes and enhancements to the 

Program. It will also allow SBA to 

further consult with its lending partners 

and the small business community 

about the Program. 

(Authority: 13 CFR 120.3) 

Michael W. Hager, 

Associate Deputy Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 05–19441 Filed 9–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–M 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Identification of Countries Under 

Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974: 

Request for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative 

ACTION: Request for written submissions 

from the public. 

SUMMARY: Section 182 of the Trade Act 

of 1974 (Trade Act) (19 U.S.C. 2242), 

requires the United States Trade 

Representative (USTR) to identify 

countries that deny adequate and 

effective protection of intellectual 

property rights or deny fair and 

equitable market access to U.S. persons 

who rely on intellectual property 

protection. Section 182 is commonly 

referred to as the ‘‘Special 301’’

provision of the Trade Act. In addition, 

USTR is required to determine which of 

those countries should be identified as 

Priority Foreign Countries. On April 30, 

2005, USTR announced the results of 

the 2005 Special 301 review and stated 

that Out-of-Cycle Reviews (OCRs) 

would be conducted for Russia, Canada, 

Indonesia and the Philippines. USTR 

will conduct these OCRs in early 2006. 

USTR requests written comments from 

the public concerning the acts, policies, 

and practices relevant for this review 

under Section 182 of the Trade Act. 

DATES: Submissions must be received on 

or before 5 p.m. on Friday, December 2, 

2005. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Sybia Harrison, Special 

Assistant to the Section 301 Committee, 

and sent (i) electronically, to 

FR0528@ustr.gov, with ‘‘Special 301 

Out-of-Cycle Review: Russia, Canada, 

Indonesia and the Philippines’’ in the 

subject line, or (ii) by fax, to (202) 395–

9458, with a confirmation copy sent 

electronically to the e-mail address 

above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Choe Groves, Director for 

Intellectual Property and Chair of the 

Special 301 Committee, Office of the 

United States Trade Representative, 

(202) 395–4510. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 182 of the Trade Act, USTR 

must identify those countries that deny 

adequate and effective protection for 

intellectual property rights or deny fair 

and equitable market access to U.S. 

persons who rely on intellectual 

property protection. Those countries 

that have the most onerous or egregious 

acts, policies, or practices and whose 

acts, policies, or practices have the 

greatest adverse impact (actual or 

potential) on relevant U.S. products may 

be identified as Priority Foreign 

Countries. Acts, policies, or practices 

that are the basis of a country’s 

designation as a Priority Foreign 

Country are normally the subject of an 

investigation under the Section 301 

provisions of the Trade Act. 

On April 30, 2005, USTR announced 

the results of the 2005 Special 301 

review, including an announcement that 

Out-of-Cycle Reviews (OCRs) would be 

conducted for Russia, Canada, Indonesia 

and the Philippines. Additional 

countries may also be reviewed as a 

result of the comments received 

pursuant to this notice, or as warranted 

by events. 

Requirements for Comments 

Comments should include a 

description of the problems 

experienced, and the effect of the acts, 

policies, and practices on U.S. industry. 

Comments should be as detailed as 

possible and should provide all 

necessary information for assessing the 

effect of the acts, policies, and practices. 

Any comments that include quantitative 

loss claims should be accompanied by 

the methodology used in calculating 

such estimated losses. 

Comments must be in English. No 

submissions will be accepted via postal 

service mail. Documents should be 

submitted as either WordPerfect, MS 

Word, or text (.TXT) files. Supporting 

documentation submitted as 

spreadsheets are acceptable as Quattro 

Pro or Excel files. A submitter 

requesting that information contained in 

a comment 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. A non-confidential version of 

the comment must also be provided. For 

any document containing business 

confidential information, the file name 

of the business confidential version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘BC-’’, 

and the file name of the public version 

should begin with the character ‘‘P-’’. 

The ‘‘P-’’ or ‘‘BC-’’ should be followed 

by the name of the submitter. 

Submissions should not include 

separate cover letters; information that 

might appear in a cover letter should be 

included in the submission itself. To the 

extent possible, any attachments to the 

submission should be included in the 

same file as the submission itself, and 

not as separate files. 

All comments should be addressed to 

Sybia Harrison, Special Assistant to the 

Section 301 Committee, and sent (i) 

electronically, to FR0528@ustr.gov, with 

‘‘Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review: 

Russia, Canada, Indonesia and the 

Philippines’’ in the subject line, or (ii) 

by fax, to (202) 395–9458, with a 

confirmation copy sent electronically to 

the e-mail address above. 

Public Inspection of Submissions 

Within one business day of receipt, 

non-confidential submissions will be 

placed in a public file open for 

inspection at the USTR reading room, 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative, Annex Building, 1724 F 

Street, NW., Room 1, Washington, DC. 

An appointment to review the file must 

be scheduled at least 48 hours in 

advance and may be made by calling 

Jacqueline Caldwell at (202) 395–6186. 

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The USTR reading room is open to the 

public from 10 a.m. to noon and from 

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

Friday. 

Jennifer Choe Groves, 

Director for Intellectual Property and Chair 

of the Special 301 Committee. 

[FR Doc. 05–19490 Filed 9–28–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W5–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2005–22417] 

Notice of Intent To Survey Medical 

Examiners Who Certify the Physical 

Qualifications of Commercial Motor 

Vehicle Drivers 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirement of Section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

this notice announces the intention of 

FMCSA to request approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for an information collection 

associated with the agency’s medical 

examiner Role Delineation Study. This 

information collection would gather 

data on the role of medical examiners 

and provide medical examiners 

(medical doctors (MDs), doctors of 

osteopathy (DOs), doctors of 

chiropractic (DCs), physician assistants 

(PAs) and advance practice nurses 

(APNs)) who perform FMCSA physical 

examinations of commercial motor 

vehicle (CMV) drivers a means of 

participating in an assessment of the 

knowledge, skills, and abilities 

necessary to effectively determine if a 

CMV driver’s health meets Federal 

physical qualifications standards. The 

data obtained from the Role Delineation 

Study and other sources would be used 

to support the development of the 

National Registry of Certified Medical 

Examiners (NRCME) program. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before November 28, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Docket Number FMCSA–

2005–22417 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments on the DOT electronic docket 

site. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management System 

(DMS) Facility, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Nassif Building, Room PL–401, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Room PL–401 on 

plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, 

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

through Friday, except on Federal 

holidays. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number of the notice. Note that all 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http://dms.dot.gov 

including any personal information 

provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL–

401 on the plaza level of the Nassif 

Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000, at 65 FR 

19477 or you may visit http:// 

dms.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information, contact Dr. Mary D. 

Gunnels, Office of Bus and Truck 

Standards and Operations, Physical 

Qualifications Division, 202–366–4001. 

Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Eastern time, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Notice of Intent to Survey 

Medical Examiners Who Certify the 

Physical Qualifications of Commercial 

Motor Vehicle Drivers. 

Background 

Section 4116 of The Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU) (Public Law 109–

59) requires the Secretary of 

Transportation ‘‘to establish and 

maintain a current national registry of 

medical examiners who are qualified to 

perform examinations and issue medical 

certificates.’’ To implement this 

requirement, FMCSA is developing the 

National Registry program that was 

announced at a June 22, 2005, Public 

Meeting in Arlington, Virginia (70 FR 

28596; May 18, 2005). The NRCME will 

be comprised, in part, of a training and 

testing program that will include a 

database of medical examiners who 

conduct medical examinations of 

interstate CMV drivers and effectively 

determine their physical qualifications 

to operate such vehicles in interstate 

commerce as defined in 49 CFR 391.41. 

Once the program is implemented, 

FMCSA would only accept medical 

examinations conducted by NRCME 

medical examiners. The NRCME 

program would require training using a 

standardized curriculum, a certification 

examination, and procedures to 

maintain the quality of the program in 

accordance with national accreditation 

standards. The Role Delineation Study 

is a critical component of developing a 

standardized training curriculum and a 

valid, reliable and fair certification 

examination. The goal of the Role 

Delineation Study is to inform the 

policies that guide the NRCME program 

in accordance with national 

accreditation standards. The study is an 

assessment of the knowledge, skills, and 

abilities necessary for a medical 

examiner to perform competently. The 

Role Delineation Study incorporates the 

following components: (1) Develop a 

task list through a variety of techniques; 

(2) measure agreement on each task in 

the list by a representative sample of 

medical examiners; (3) disqualify tasks 

lacking sufficient agreement; (4) identify 

critical tasks; and (5) create 

specifications for an examination. The 

information derived from the Role 

Delineation Study is necessary to form 

the basis of a professionally and legally 

sound quality management system that 

supports a national accreditation of the 

certification program. A survey of 

medical examiners is one of the 

techniques for gathering data from 

FMCSA medical examiners for the Role 

Delineation Study. 

Respondents: Medical examiners 

(MDs, DOs, DCs, PAs, and APNs) who 

are currently performing FMCSA 

physical examinations of CMV drivers. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: The estimated average burden 

per response for each survey is 30 to 60 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

estimated total annual burden is 500 to 

1000 hours for the information 

collection based on the following 

requirement for statistical significance: 

200 responses for each of the five 

medical examiner professional 

categories; [1000 respondents per survey