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DATES: You must submit your clarifying 

questions in writing using the 

procedures outlined below by October 

15, 2010. The FAA anticipates 

responding to these submissions by 

October 22, 2010. Comments on the 

proposed rule must be received on or 

before November 15, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: See the ‘‘Procedures for 

Filing Clarifying Requests’’ section of 

this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: See 

the ‘‘Procedures for Filing Clarifying 

Requests’’ section of this notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 14, 2010, the FAA 

published a notice of proposed 

rulemaking (NPRM) entitled ‘‘Flightcrew 

Member Duty and Rest Requirements’’ 

(75 FR 55852). The proposed regulation 

recognizes the growing similarities 

between the types of operations and the 

universality of factors that lead to 

fatigue in most individuals. Fatigue 

threatens aviation safety because it 

increases the risk of pilot error that 

could lead to an accident. The new 

requirements, if adopted, would 

eliminate the current distinctions 

between domestic, flag and 

supplemental operations. The proposal 

provides different requirements based 

on the time of day, whether an 

individual is acclimated to a new time 

zone, and the likelihood of being able to 

sleep under different circumstances. 

The comment period closes November 

15, 2010. 

Since the docket opened, the FAA has 

received numerous requests for 

technical clarification of the proposed 

rulemaking. The FAA believes that it 

makes sense to provide additional 

clarity where comenters believe the 

draft regulatory text is unclear or omits 

pertinent information. For example, one 

commenter noted that there is a crossreference to the existing flight 

crewmember regulations in the 

regulations governing flight and duty 

time for flight attendants. By dropping 

all of the part 121 flight crewmember 

flight and duty regulations, that crossreference would no longer make sense, 

and it would be unclear whether the 

provision still had any validity. 

To the extent possible, the FAA 

believes there is value in providing 

greater technical clarity while the 

comment period is still open. This 

clarity will allow interested parties to 

focus on the policy implications of the 

proposal without spending undue 

amounts of time trying to figure out how 

the rule, if implemented, would be 

implemented or interact with other 

regulatory requirements. The FAA also 

believes that there should be a cut-off 

for consideration of these technical 

issues so that commenters know with 

certainty how these issues are resolved 

before they finalize their comments. 

Accordingly, the FAA requests that all 

requests for clarification be submitted to 

the docket no later than October 15, 

2010. The FAA anticipates responding 

to requests that are truly clarifying in 

nature by October 22, 2010, a full three 

weeks before the close of the comment 

period. To the extent a request raises 

policy considerations that are more 

appropriately resolved after the public 

has been given a full opportunity to 

comment, the FAA anticipates 

addressing those comments in a final 

rule. 

Procedures for Filing Clarifying 

Requests 

The below procedures are not a 

substitute for filing substantive 

questions and comments to the 

proposed rule. The procedures for 

submitting those types of comments are 

discussed in the NPRM. Commenters 

should follow those procedures to file 

their substantive questions and 

comments by November 15, 2010. 

If you wish to submit a request to the 

FAA for clarification of the NPRM 

(Docket Number FAA–2009–1093) 

before the comment period closes, you 

must send your request using the below 

method by October 15, 2010. 

1. Post your request on the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal. To access this 

electronic docket, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, enter Docket 

Number FAA 2009–1093, and follow the 

online instructions for sending your 

request electronically. 

2. In addition to sending your request 

to the electronic docket, send a copy via 

e-mail to the subject matter expert as 

noted below. 

• Technical Clarifications: Dale E. 

Roberts, Air Transportation Division, 

Flight Standards Service, Federal 

Aviation Administration; e-mail 

dale.e.roberts@faa.gov. 

• Legal Clarifications: Rebecca 

MacPherson, Office of the Chief 

Counsel, Regulations Division, Federal 

Aviation Administration; e-mail 

rebecca.macpherson@faa.gov. 

• Cost/Benefit Clarifications: Peter 

Ivory, Office of Aviation Policy & Plans, 

Federal Aviation Administration; e-mail 

peter.ivory@faa.gov. 

The FAA will reply to requests for 

clarification to the NPRM if submitted 

by October 15, 2010. We will respond 

directly to you and post the response in 

the docket established for this 

rulemaking. We anticipate providing 

our response by October 22, 2010. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 6, 

2010. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25678 Filed 10–7–10; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION 

20 CFR Parts 404, 405, and 416 

[Docket No. SSA–2007–0053] 

Compassionate Allowances for 

Cardiovascular Disease and Multiple 

Organ Transplants, Office of the 

Commissioner, Hearing 

AGENCY: Social Security Administration. 

ACTION: Announcement of public 

hearing. 

SUMMARY: We are considering ways to 

quickly identify diseases and other 

serious medical conditions that 

obviously meet the definition of 

disability under the Social Security Act 

(Act) and can be identified with 

minimal objective medical information. 

We are calling this method 

‘‘Compassionate Allowances.’’ In 

December 2007, April 2008, November 

2008, July 2009, and November 2009, 

we held Compassionate Allowance 

public hearings. These hearings 

concerned rare diseases, cancers, 

traumatic brain injury and stroke, earlyonset Alzheimer’s disease and related 

dementias, and schizophrenia, 

respectively. This hearing is the sixth in 

the series. The purpose of this hearing 

is to obtain your views about the 

advisability and possible methods of 

identifying and implementing 

compassionate allowances for both 

adults and children with cardiovascular 

diseases and multiple organ transplants. 

We plan to address other medical 

conditions at subsequent hearings. 

DATES: This hearing will be held on 

November 9, 2010, between 8:30 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Eastern Standard Time 

(EST), in Baltimore, MD. The hearing 

will be held on the campus of the 

University of Maryland, Baltimore 

County in the University Center 

Ballroom. The university’s address is 

1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 

21250. While the public is welcome to 

attend the hearing, only invited 

witnesses will present testimony. You 

may also watch the proceedings live via 

Webcast beginning at 9 a.m., Eastern 

Standard Time (EST). You may access 

the Webcast line for the hearing on the 

Social Security Administration Web site 


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at http://www.socialsecurity.gov/ 

compassionateallowances/. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments about the compassionate 

allowances initiative with respect to 

adults and children with cardiovascular 

disease and multiple organ transplants, 

as well as topics covered at the hearing 

by: 

(1) e-mail addressed to 

Compassionate.Allowances@ssa.gov; or 

(2) mail to Jamillah Jackson, Deputy 

Director, Office of Compassionate 

Allowances and Disability Outreach, 

ODP, ORDP, Social Security 

Administration, 4671 Annex Building, 

6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 

21235–6401. We welcome your 

comments, but we may not respond 

directly to comments sent in response to 

this notice of hearing. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Compassionate.Allowances@ssa.gov. 

You may also mail inquiries about this 

hearing to Jamillah Jackson, Deputy 

Director, Office of Compassionate 

Allowances and Disability Outreach, 

ODP, ORDP, Social Security 

Administration, 4671 Annex Building, 

6401 Security Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 

21235–6401. For information on 

eligibility or filing for benefits, call our 

national toll-free number 1–800–772– 

1213 or TTY 1–800–325–0778, or visit 

Social Security online, at http:// 

www.socialsecurity.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under titles II and XVI of the Act, we 

pay benefits to individuals who meet 

our rules for entitlement and have 

medically determinable physical or 

mental impairments that are severe 

enough to meet the definition of 

disability in the Act. The rules for 

determining disability can be very 

complicated, but some individuals have 

such serious medical conditions that 

their conditions obviously meet our 

disability standards with minimal 

objective medical evidence alone. To 

better address the needs of these 

individuals, we are looking into ways to 

allow benefits as quickly as possible 

based on minimal objective medical 

information. 

Will We Respond to Your Comments? 

We will carefully consider your 

comments, although we will not 

respond directly to comments sent in 

response to this notice or the hearing. 

Additional Hearings 

We have held five hearings since 

December 2007. These hearings were on 

rare diseases, cancers, traumatic brain 

injury and stroke, early-onset 

Alzheimer’s disease and related 

dementias and schizophrenia. You may 

access the transcripts of the hearings at 

http://www.socialsecurity.gov/ 

compassionateallowances/. We plan to 

hold additional hearings on other 

conditions and will announce those 

hearings later with notices in the 

Federal Register. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Programs Nos. 96.001, Social Security— 

Disability Insurance; 96.006, Supplemental 

Security Income.) 

Michael J. Astrue, 

Commissioner of Social Security. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25503 Filed 10–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS 

Copyright Office 

37 CFR Part 201 

[Docket No. RM 2010–3] 

Refunds Under the Cable Statutory 

License 

AGENCY: Copyright Office, Library of 

Congress. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The Copyright Office 

published in the Federal Register of 

October 4, 2010, a notice of proposed 

rulemaking concerning refunds under 

the cable statutory license. This 

document corrects the date for 

submitting reply comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben 

Golant, Assistant General Counsel, and 

Tanya M. Sandros, Deputy General 

Counsel, Copyright GC/I&R, P.O. Box 

70400, Washington, DC 20024. 

Telephone: (202) 707–8380. Telefax: 

(202) 707–8366. 

Correction 

In proposed rule RM 2010–3, make 

the following correction in the Dates 

section. On page 61117 in the 2nd 

column, correct the DATES caption to 

read: 

DATES: Written comments must be 

received in the Office of the General 

Counsel of the Copyright Office no later 

than November 3, 2010. Reply 

comments must be received in the 

Office of the General Counsel of the 

Copyright Office no later than December 

3, 2010. 

Dated: October 6, 2010. 

Tanya Sandros, 

Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Copyright 

Office. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25652 Filed 10–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

50 CFR Part 622 

[Docket No. 0907271173–0475–02] 

RIN 0648–AY11 

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; SnapperGrouper Fishery off the Southern 

Atlantic States; Amendment 17B 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: NMFS issues this proposed 

rule to implement Amendment 17B to 

the Fishery Management Plan for the 

Snapper-Grouper Fishery of the South 

Atlantic Region (FMP), as prepared and 

submitted by the South Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council (Council). This 

proposed rule would, for South Atlantic 

snapper-grouper, establish annual catch 

limits (ACLs), and accountability 

measures (AMs) for eight snappergrouper species undergoing overfishing; 

modify management measures to limit 

total mortality of those species to the 

ACL; and add ACLs, annual catch 

targets (ACTs), and AMs to the 

management measures that may be 

amended via the framework procedure. 

This proposed rule is intended to 

address overfishing of eight snappergrouper species while maintaining catch 

levels consistent with achieving 

optimum yield. 

DATES: Written comments on this 

proposed rule must be received no later 

than 5 p.m., Eastern Time, on November 

26, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by RIN 0648–AY11, by any 

one of the following methods: 

• Electronic Submissions: Submit all 

electronic public comments via the 

Federal e-Rulemaking Portal http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

• Mail: Kate Michie, Southeast 

Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. 

Instructions: No comments will be 

posted for public viewing until after the 


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