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34 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(2). 

35 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12). 

believes that the proposed extension of 

the compliance date for NASDAQ/NM 

securities to October 31, 2005 is 

reasonable in order to allow CHX 

participants and their layoff vendors 

additional time to implement system 

changes to comply with the proposal, 

while, at the same time, allows the 

Exchange to implement the proposal 

immediately, as of September 30, 2005, 

for Dual Trading System issues without 

further delay. Accordingly, the 

Commission believes that accelerated 

approval of Amendment No. 4 is 

appropriate. 

IV. Solicitation of Comments 

Interested persons are invited to 

submit written data, views, and 

arguments concerning the foregoing, 

including whether Amendment No. 4 to 

the proposed rule change is consistent 

with the Act. Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

Electronic Comments 

• Use the Commission’s Internet 

comment form (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml); or 

• Send an e-mail to rulecomments@sec.gov. Please include File 

Number SR–CHX–2004–25 on the 

subject line. 

Paper Comments 

• Send paper comments in triplicate 

to Jonathan G. Katz, Secretary, 

Securities and Exchange Commission, 

Station Place, 100 F Street, NE., 

Washington, DC 20549–9303. 

All submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–CHX–2004–25. This file 

number should be included on the 

subject line if e-mail is used. To help the 

Commission process and review your 

comments more efficiently, please use 

only one method. The Commission will 

post all comments on the Commission’s 

Internet Web site (http://www.sec.gov/ 

rules/sro.shtml). Copies of the 

submission, all subsequent 

amendments, all written statements 

with respect to the proposed rule 

change that are filed with the 

Commission, and all written 

communications relating to the 

proposed rule change between the 

Commission and any person, other than 

those that may be withheld from the 

public in accordance with the 

provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552, will be 

available for inspection and copying in 

the Commission’s Public Reference 

Room. Copies of such filing also will be 

available for inspection and copying at 

the principal office of the Exchange. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change; the Commission does 

not edit personal identifying 

information from submissions. You 

should submit only information that 

you wish to make available publicly. All 

submissions should refer to File 

Number SR–CHX–2004–25 and should 

be submitted on or before October 27, 

2005. 

V. Conclusion 

For the foregoing reasons, the 

Commission finds that the proposed 

rule change, as amended, is consistent 

with the requirements of the Act and the 

rules and regulations thereunder 

applicable to a national securities 

exchange. 

It is therefore ordered, pursuant to 

Section 19(b)(2) of the Act,34 that the 

proposed rule change (SR–CHX–2004–

25) and Amendment Nos. 1, 2, and 3 

thereto are approved, and that 

Amendment No. 4 thereto is hereby 

approved on an accelerated basis. 

For the Commission, by the Division of 

Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated 

authority.35

Jonathan G. Katz, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E5–5468 Filed 10–5–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8010–01–P 

OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE 

Generalized System of Preferences 

(GSP): Request For Public Comments 

AGENCY: Office of the United States 

Trade Representative. 

ACTION: Request for comments and 

notice of public hearing. 

SUMMARY: Legislation authorizing the 

Generalized System of Preferences 

(GSP) program expires on December 31, 

2006. As Congress considers reauthorization of the program, the Trade 

Policy Staff Committee (TPSC) is 

reviewing whether the Administration’s 

operation of the program should be 

changed so that benefits are not focused 

on trade from a few countries and 

developing countries that traditionally 

have not been major traders under the 

program receive benefits. The TPSC will 

conduct a public hearing and is 

requesting public comment on this 

subject. 

DATES: The schedule for the public 

hearing and solicitation of public 

comments follows: 

October 21, 2005: Deadline for 

requests to appear at the Trade Policy 

Staff Committee Public Hearing and 

deadline for written pre-hearing brief or 

statement. Request to include name, 

address, telephone, fax, e-mail address, 

and witness’s organization, if any. 

November 3, 2005: Public Hearing: 

Rooms 1 and 2, 1724 F Street, NW., 

Washington, DC (If necessary, the 

hearing will continue on the next day.) 

November 14, 2005: Deadline for 

submission of written public comments 

and post-hearing and rebuttal briefs. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The TPSC 

is seeking written comments and 

testimony at a public hearing on the 

following issues: (1) Whether operation 

of the GSP program should be modified 

so that beneficiaries that have not 

previously been major traders under the 

program increase their participation, 

which will assist them in using trade to 

promote their economic development; 

and (2) Whether some beneficiaries are 

sufficiently competitive with respect to 

trade in eligible products and have 

expanded exports to the extent that they 

should no longer be designated as GSP 

beneficiaries. 

The TPSC is also seeking comments 

on the period for which the Congress 

should reauthorize the GSP program. 

Note: the TPSC is not seeking 

information of the type provided in 

connection with its annual review of 

product coverage and competitive need 

limits under the GSP program. 

In 2004, the top ten GSP beneficiary 

developing countries by trade volume 

(not including trade in petroleum 

products) were India, Brazil, Thailand, 

Indonesia, Turkey, Philippines, South 

Africa, Venezuela, Argentina, and 

Russia. 

Notice of Public Hearing 

The TPSC will hold a hearing on 

November 3, 2005, beginning at 10 a.m., 

in Rooms 1 and 2, 1724 F Street NW., 

Washington, DC. If necessary, the 

hearing will continue on the next day. 

The hearing will be open to the public 

and a transcript of the hearing will be 

made available for public inspection or 

can be purchased from the reporting 

company. No electronic media coverage 

will be allowed. 

Each interested party wishing to make 

an oral presentation at the hearing must 

submit, following the ‘‘Requirements for 

Submissions’’ below, the name, address, 

telephone number, facsimile number, 

and e-mail address, if available, of the 

witness(es) representing the party to 

Marideth Sandler, Executive Director of 

the GSP Program and Chairman of the 

TPSC GSP Subcommittee, by 5 p.m., 

October 21, 2005. Requests to present 

oral testimony in connection with the 

public hearing must be accompanied by 

a written brief or statement, in English, 

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1Linwood Yard on the Indiana & Ohio Railway 

is also known as Undercliff Yard. 

and also must be received by 5 p.m., 

October 21, 2005. Oral testimony before 

the GSP Subcommittee of the TPSC will 

be limited to five-minute presentations 

that summarize or supplement 

information contained in briefs or 

statements submitted for the record. 

Post-hearing briefs or statements will be 

accepted if they conform with the 

regulations cited below and are 

submitted, in English, by 5 p.m., 

November 14, 2005. Parties not wishing 

to appear at the public hearing may 

submit post-hearing written briefs or 

statements, in English, by 5 p.m., 

November 14, 2005. 

Requirements for Submission 

In order to facilitate prompt 

processing of submissions, USTR 

strongly urges and prefers electronic email submissions only in response to 

this notice. Hand-delivered submissions 

will not be accepted. These submissions 

should be single-copy transmissions in 

English with the total submission not to 

exceed 20 single-spaced standard lettersize pages. E-mail submissions should 

use the following subject line: ‘‘2005 

GSP Review’’ and, as appropriate 

‘‘Notice of Intent to Testify’’ or Written 

Comments.’’ Documents must be 

submitted in English in one of the 

following formats: MSWord (.DOC), 

WordPerfect (.WPD), or text (.TXT) files. 

Documents may not be submitted as 

electronic image files or contain 

imbedded images (for example, ‘‘.JPG,’’

‘‘.TIF,’’ ‘‘.PDF,’’ ‘‘.BMP,’’ or ‘‘.GIF’’). 

Supporting documentation submitted as 

spreadsheets are acceptable as Excel 

files, formatted for printing on 81⁄2 x 11 

inch paper. To the extent possible, any 

data attachments to the submission 

should be included in the same file as 

the submission itself, and not as 

separate files. 

If the submission contains business 

confidential information, a nonconfidential version of the submission 

must also be submitted that indicates 

where confidential information was 

redacted by inserting asterisks where 

material was deleted. In addition, the 

confidential submission must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’

at the top and bottom of each page of the 

document. The non-confidential version 

must also be clearly marked at the top 

and bottom of each page (either 

‘‘PUBLIC VERSION’’ or ‘‘NONCONFIDENTIAL’’). Documents that are 

submitted without any marking will be 

considered public documents. For any 

document containing business 

confidential information submitted as 

an electronic attached file to an e-mail 

transmission, 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 characters ‘‘P–’’. 

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

by the name of the party (government, 

company, union, association, etc.) 

making the submission. 

E-mail submissions should not 

include separate cover letters or 

messages in the message area of the email; information that might appear in 

any cover letter should be included 

directly in the attached file containing 

the submission itself, including the 

sender’s e-mail address and other 

identifying information. 

The e-mail address for these 

submissions is 

FR0052@USTR.EOP.GOV. Documents 

not submitted in accordance with these 

instructions might not be considered in 

this review. If unable to provide 

submissions by e-mail, please contact 

the GSP Subcommittee to arrange for an 

alternative method of transmission. 

Public versions of all documents 

relating to this review will be available 

for review approximately two weeks 

after the relevant due date by 

appointment in the USTR public 

reading room, 1724 F Street NW., 

Washington, DC. Appointments may be 

made from 9:30 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. 

to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, by 

calling (202) 395–6186. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

procedural questions concerning written 

comments or participation in the public 

hearing, contact Regina Teeter, (202) 

395–9681. All other questions should be 

directed to Marideth Sandler, Executive 

Director of the GSP Program, Office of 

the United States Trade Representative, 

1724 F Street, NW., Room F–220, 

Washington, DC 20508, (202) 395–6971. 

Carmen Suro-Bredie, 

Chairman, Trade Policy Staff Committee. 

[FR Doc. 05–20089 Filed 10–5–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3190–W5–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

Notice of Safety Advisory 2005–04 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Safety Advisory 2005–

04. 

SUMMARY: FRA is issuing Safety 

Advisory 2005–04 advising shippers, 

consignees, and railroads of the dangers 

of allowing cars of ‘‘time-sensitive’’

chemicals to remain undelivered 

beyond their anticipated date of 

placement and to recommend enhanced 

procedures to avoid such occurrences. 

This action is being taken to improve 

the safety and reliability of hazardous 

materials shipments by railroad. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas A. Phemister, Railroad Safety 

Specialist (Hazardous Materials), 

Hazardous Materials Division, Office of 

Safety Assurance and Compliance, 

Federal Railroad Administration, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1120 

Vermont Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001 (telephone: (202) 493–6050; 

e-mail: tom.phemister@fra.dot.gov). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

At 6:40 p.m. EDT on August 28, 2005, 

in Cincinnati, OH, fire department 

personnel responded to a report of 

smoke coming from a tank car in a 

railroad yard (Linwood Yard 1) operated 

by the Indiana and Ohio Railway 

Company (IORY). As shipped, tank car 

PLCX 224841 contained 23,543.97 

gallons of styrene monomer, stabilized 

(170,966.7 pounds at the loading 

temperature of 60° F.). Styrene 

monomer, stabilized, is a class 3 

(flammable liquid) material. As a result 

of the release residents were evacuated 

within a 1 mile radius, later reduced to 

a 1⁄2 mile radius and, by the end of the 

fourth day, the exclusion zone was 

reduced further to the immediate area 

around the car. The Environmental 

Protection Agency’s Pollution Report 

indicates that, initially, 800 people were 

evacuated. In addition, four schools 

closed, and the Ohio River was closed 

to traffic for a short time. The incident 

lasted approximately 5 days. 

FRA’s preliminary investigation 

indicates that the cause of the incident 

was a polymerization of the styrene 

monomer in the tank car due to the 

deterioration of the inhibiting agent 

(para-tertiary butylcatechol) as a result 

of the extended time in transportation. 

The shipment consisted of 99.91% 

Styrene Monomer and .09% of other 

components (the largest identifiable 

component was the inhibiting agent) 

and was offered into transportation on 

December 30, 2004 by Westlake Styrene, 

Sulphur, LA, and consigned to Queen 

City Terminals, Cincinnati, OH, under 

bill of lading number 80435877. 

Movement records show that the car 

made a normal trip to the IORY, arriving 

at interchange between the Norfolk 

Southern Railway Company and the 

IORY (at Sharonville, OH) on January 

21, 2005. IORY records show the car 

was moved from the interchange yard to