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subject of an investigation under the 

Section 301 provisions of the Trade Act 

(19 U.S.C. 2411 et seq.). USTR may not 

identify a country as a Priority Foreign 

Country if that country is entering into 

good faith negotiations or making 

significant progress in bilateral or 

multilateral negotiations to provide 

adequate and effective IPR protection. In 

addition, USTR has created a ‘‘Priority 

Watch List’’ and a ‘‘Watch List’’ under 

the Special 301 provisions. Placement of 

a trading partner on the Priority Watch 

List or Watch List indicates that 

particular problems exist in that country 

with respect to IPR protection, 

enforcement, or market access for 

persons relying on intellectual property. 

Countries placed on the Priority Watch 

List are the focus of increased bilateral 

attention concerning the problem areas. 

An Out-of-Cycle Review (OCR) is a 

tool that USTR uses to encourage 

progress on IPR issues of concern. It 

provides an opportunity for heightened 

engagement with a trading partner to 

address and remedy such issues. 

Successful resolution of specific IPR 

issues of concern or lack of action on 

such issues can lead to a change in a 

trading partner’s identification on a 

Special 301 list outside of the typical 

period for the annual Special 301 

Report. USTR may conduct OCRs of 

other trading partners as circumstances 

warrant or as requested by the trading 

partner. 

In the 2017 Special 301 Report, USTR 

placed Thailand on the Priority Watch 

List but noted that the United States was 

prepared to review that status if 

Thailand continued to take positive 

steps and made substantial progress in 

addressing the concerns described in 

the Report. Thailand has requested that 

USTR conduct an OCR in light of its 

efforts to achieve substantial progress. 

II. Public Comments 

USTR invites written comments 

concerning any act, policy, or practice 

that is relevant to the decision regarding 

whether USTR should identify Thailand 

under Section 182 of the Trade Act. 

Submissions may report positive or 

negative developments with respect to 

Thailand. USTR requests that interested 

parties provide specific references to 

laws, regulations, policy statements, 

executive, presidential or other orders, 

administrative, court or other 

determinations that should factor into 

the review. USTR also requests that 

submissions include data, loss 

estimates, and other information 

regarding the economic impact on the 

United States, U.S. industry, and the 

U.S. workforce caused by the denial of 

adequate and effective intellectual 

property protection. For comments that 

include quantitative loss claims, you 

should include the methodology used to 

calculate the estimated losses. 

Comments should be as detailed as 

possible and should provide all 

necessary information for assessing the 

effect of the acts, policies, and practices, 

particularly with respect to issues 

regarding Thailand identified in the 

2017 Special 301 Report. 

III. Submission Instructions 

All submissions must be in English 

and sent electronically via 

www.regulations.gov. To submit 

comments, locate the docket (folder) by 

entering the docket number USTR– 

2017–0017 in the ‘‘SEARCH for: Rules, 

Comments, Adjudications or Supporting 

Documents’’ window at the 

regulations.gov homepage and clicking 

‘‘Search.’’ The site will provide a 

search-results page listing all documents 

associated with this docket. Locate the 

reference to this notice by selecting 

‘‘Notice’’ under ‘‘Document Type’’ on 

the left side of the search-results page, 

and clicking on the link entitled 

‘‘Comment Now!’’ You should provide 

comments in an attached document, and 

name the file according to the following 

protocol, as appropriate: Commenter 

Name, or Organization_2017 Special 

301 OCR Thailand. Please include the 

following information in the ‘‘Type 

Comment’’ field: ‘‘2017 Out-of-Cycle 

Review of Thailand.’’ USTR prefers 

submissions in Microsoft Word (.doc) or 

Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats. If the 

submission is in another file format, 

please indicate the name of the software 

application in the ‘‘Type Comment’’ 

field. For further information on using 

the www.regulations.gov Web site, 

please select ‘‘How to Use 

Regulations.gov’’ on the bottom of any 

page. 

Please do not attach separate cover 

letters to electronic submissions; rather, 

include any information that might 

appear in a cover letter in the comments 

themselves. Similarly, to the extent 

possible, please include any exhibits, 

annexes, or other attachments in the 

same file as the comment itself, rather 

than submitting them as separate files. 

For any comment submitted 

electronically that contains business 

confidential information, the file name 

of the business confidential version 

should begin with the characters ‘‘BC’’. 

Any page containing business 

confidential information must be clearly 

marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ 

on the top of that page and the 

submission should clearly indicate, via 

brackets, highlighting, or other means, 

the specific information that is business 

confidential. A filer requesting business 

confidential treatment must certify that 

the information is business confidential 

and would not customarily be released 

to the public by the submitter. 

Additionally, the submitter should type 

‘‘Business Confidential 2017 Special 

301 OCR Thailand’’ in the ‘‘Comment’’ 

field. 

Filers of comments containing 

business confidential information also 

must submit a public version of their 

comments. The file name of the public 

version should begin with the character 

‘‘P’’. The non-business confidential 

version will be placed in the docket at 

www.regulations.gov and be available 

for public inspection. 

As noted, USTR strongly urges 

submitters to file comments through 

www.regulations.gov. You must make 

any alternative arrangements in advance 

of the relevant deadline and before 

transmitting a comment by contacting 

USTR at Special301@ustr.eop.gov. 

We will post comments in the docket 

for public inspection, except business 

confidential information. You can view 

comments on the https://

www.regulations.gov Web site by 

entering docket number USTR–2017– 

0017 in the search field on the home 

page. 

Elizabeth Kendall, 

Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative 

for Innovation and Intellectual Property, 

Office of the United States Trade 

Representative. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20103 Filed 9–20–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2017–74] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption 

received. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of Federal 

Aviation Regulations. The purpose of 

this notice is to improve the public’s 

awareness of, and participation in, this 

aspect of the 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 the petition or its final 

disposition. 


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DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number 

involved and must be received on or 

before October 2, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2017–0875 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 

information the commenter provides, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy. 

Docket: Background documents or 

comments received may be read at 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Follow the online instructions for 

accessing the docket or go to the Docket 

Operations in Room W12–140 of the 

West Building Ground Floor at 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Forseth, ANM–113, Federal 

Aviation Administration, 1601 Lind 

Avenue SW., Renton, WA 98057–3356, 

email mark.forseth@faa.gov, phone 

(425) 227–2796; or Alphonso 

Pendergrass, ARM–200, Office of 

Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591, 

email alphonso.pendergrass@faa.gov, 

phone (202) 267–4713. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on 

September 15, 2017. 

Victor Wicklund, 

Manager, Transport Standards Branch, Policy 

and Innovation Division, Aircraft 

Certification Service. 

Petition for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2017–0875. 

Petitioner: The Boeing Company. 

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 

25.1322(d)(1). 

Description of Relief Sought: Permit 

time-limited relief from the requirement 

to ‘‘prevent the presentation of an alert 

that is inappropriate or unnecessary’’ on 

Boeing Model 767–2C airplanes. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20099 Filed 9–20–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Research, Engineering and 

Development Advisory Committee 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of the Research, 

Engineering & Development Advisory 

Committee meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 11, 2017—9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Federal Aviation Administration, 

800 Independence Avenue SW., Bessie 

Coleman Conference Center (FOB 10A, 

Second Floor), Washington, DC 20591. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chinita A. Roundtree-Coleman at (609) 

485–7149 or email at chinita.roundtreecoleman@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C. App. 2), notice is hereby 

given of a meeting of the Research, 

Engineering and Development (RE&D) 

Advisory Committee. The meeting 

agenda will include time allocated to 

discuss recommendations provided by 

the advisory committee to the FAA on 

research and development investments 

in the areas of air traffic services, 

airports, aircraft safety, human factors 

and environment and energy. 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but seating is limited. With the 

approval of the chairman, members of 

the public may present oral statements 

at the meeting. Persons wishing to 

attend the meeting, present statements, 

or obtain information should contact the 

person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. Members 

of the public may present a written 

statement to the Committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC on September 

13, 2017. 

Chinita A. Roundtree-Coleman, 

Computer Specialist. 

[FR Doc. 2017–20130 Filed 9–20–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2017–75] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption 

received. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of Federal 

Aviation Regulations. The purpose of 

this notice is to improve the public’s 

awareness of, and participation in, this 

aspect of the 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 the petition or its final 

disposition. 

DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number 

involved and must be received on or 

before October 11, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments identified 

by docket number FAA–2017–0835 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Operations, M–30; U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, West 

Building Ground Floor, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: Take 

comments to Docket Operations in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations at 202–493–2251. 

Privacy: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 

553(c), DOT solicits comments from the 

public to better inform its rulemaking 

process. DOT posts these comments, 

without edit, including any personal 


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