Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 249 / Friday, December 28, 2001 / Notices 67349

The ITAC will meet as US Study

Group D from 9:30 to 3:30 on

Wednesday, January 16, 2002 to prepare

for meetings of ITU Study Groups 16

and 17. This meeting will be held at the

Telecommunications Industry

Association, 1300 Pennsylvania

Avenue, Suite 350, Washington, DC. If

preparations for SG17 are not completed

at this meeting, they will be continued

via email from February 6–13, 2002.

Directions for joining the Study Group

D email reflector for this e-mail meeting

can be provided by the Secretariat (see

below).

Members of the general public may

attend these meetings. Directions to

meeting location and actual room

assignments may be determined by

calling the ITAC Secretariat at 202 647–

0965 or e-mail to minardje@state.gov.

Attendees may join in the

discussions, subject to the instructions

of the Chair. Admission of participants

will be limited to seating available.

Dated: December 20, 2001.

Doreen F. McGirr,

Director, Telecommunications Development,

U.S. Department of State.

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Public Notice 3833]

[Docket No. MARAD–2001–11135]

Secretary of State’s Advisory

Committee on Private International

Law; Study Group on International

Carriage of Goods by Sea; Meeting

Notice

There will be a public meeting of a

study group of the Secretary of State’s

Advisory Committee on Private

International Law on Wednesday,

January 9, 2002, to consider the draft

instrument on the International Carriage

of Goods by Sea, as prepared by the

Comite ́ Maritime International (CMI) for

the United Nations Commission on

International Trade Law (UNCITRAL).

The meeting will be held from 9:30 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m. in rooms 3200–3204 of the

Nassif building at the Department of

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC.

The purpose of the Study Group

meeting is to assist the Departments of

State and Transportation in determining

the U.S. negotiating position for the first

session of the UNCITRAL Working

Group on this draft instrument, to be

held in New York from April 15 to 26,

2002.

The text prepared by CMI at the

request of UNCITRAL will constitute

the basic working document of the

UNCITRAL Working Group. A copy of

the preliminary draft convention should

shortly be available on UNCITRAL’s

website, www.uncitral.org. Persons

interested in the work of the study

group may also request copies from Ms.

Rosalia Gonzales by fax at 202–776–

8482, by telephone at 202–776–8420

(you may leave your request, name,

telephone number, e-mail, or mailing

address on the answering machine), or

by e-mail at gonzaler@ms.state.gov. Email is the most efficient way to

transmit the documents.

The Study Group meeting is open to

the public up to the capacity of the

meeting room. Persons wishing to

attend should contact Ms. Gonzales by

telephone, fax, or e-mail, providing their

name, affiliation, telephone and fax

number, and e-mail address. Persons

who wish to have their views

considered are encouraged to submit

written comments in advance of the

meeting. Comments should refer to

docket number MARAD–2001–11135.

Written comments may be submitted to

the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets,

Room PL–401, Department of

Transportation, 400 7th St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20590–0001. You may

also send comments electronically via

the Internet at http://dmses.dot.gov/

submit/. All comments will become part

of this docket and will be available for

inspection and copying at the above

address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,

e.s.t., Monday through Friday, except

federal holidays. An electronic version

of this document along with all

documents entered into this docket is

available on the World Wide Web at

http://dms.dot.gov.

Mary Helen Carlson,

Attorney-Adviser, Office of the Assistant Legal

Adviser For Private International Law, U.S.

Department of State.

Edmund T. Sommer, Jr.,

Chief, Division of General and International

Law, Office of the Chief Counsel, Maritime

Administration, U.S. Dept. of Transportation.

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OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES

TRADE REPRESENTATIVE

Trade Policy Staff Committee;

Extension of Deadline for the

Submission of Written Comments on

What Action, if Any, the President

Should Take Under Section 203 of the

Trade Act of 1974 With Regard to

Imports of Certain Steel and

Responses to Such Comments

AGENCY: Office of the United States

Trade Representative.

ACTION: Extension of deadline for

submission of comments and responses.

SUMMARY: The Trade Policy Staff

Committee (‘‘TPSC’’) is extending the

deadline for the submission of written

comments on what action, if any, the

President should take under section 203

of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C.

2253) (‘‘Trade Act’’) with regard to

imports of certain steel and responses to

such written comments, which were

requested in a Federal Register notice of

October 26, 2001. See 66 FR 54321

(‘‘Notice’’).

DATES: The deadline for written

comments on what action, if any, the

President should take under section 203

of the Trade Act is being extended to

January 4, 2002, and the deadline for

responses to such written comments is

being extended to January 15, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Office of Industry, Office of the United

States Trade Representative, 600 17th

Street, NW., Room 501, Washington, DC

20508. Telephone (202) 395–5656.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

October 26, 2001, the TPSC published

in the Federal Register a request for

written public comments on what action

the President should take under section

203 of the Trade Act to facilitate efforts

by the domestic industries producing

certain steel products to make a positive

adjustment to import competition and

provide greater economic and social

benefits than costs. See 66 FR 54321

(‘‘Notice’’). According to the Notice, the

deadline for the submission of written

comments on what action, if any, the

President should take under section 203

of the Trade Act is December 28, 2001,

and the deadline for responses to such

written comments is January 8, 2002.

The TPSC is extending the deadline for

written comments until not later than

January 4, 2002, and the deadline for

responses to written comments until not

later than January 15, 2002. Parties

should refer to the Notice, as modified

by the TPSC’s Federal Register notice of

November 29, 2001 (66 FR 59599), for