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9 17 CFR 200.30–3(a)(12).

For the Commission, by the Division of

Market Regulation, pursuant to delegated

authority.9

Margared H. McFarland,

Deputy Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–3362 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8010–01–M

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Economic Injury Disaster

#9K67]

Commonwealth of Massachusetts (And

Contiguous Counties in Connecticut,

New York and Vermont)

Berkshire County and the contiguous

counties of Franklin, Hampden, and

Hampshire in the Commonwealth of

Massachusetts; Litchfield in

Connecticut; Columbia and Rensselaer

in New York; and Bennington in

Vermont constitute an economic injury

disaster loan area as a result of a fire

that occurred on January 17, 2001 in the

Town of Great Barrington. Eligible small

businesses and small agricultural

cooperatives without credit available

elsewhere may file applications for

economic injury assistance as a result of

this disaster until the close of business

on November 2, 2001 at the address

listed below or other locally announced

locations: U.S. Small Business

Administration, Disaster Area 1 Office,

360 Rainbow Blvd, South 3rd Floor,

Niagara Falls, NY 14303.

The interest rate for eligible small

businesses and small agricultural

cooperatives is 4 percent. The numbers

assigned for economic injury for this

disaster are 9K6700 for Massachusetts;

9K6800 for Connecticut; 9K6900 for

New York; and 9K7000 for Vermont.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 59002)

Date: February 2, 2001.

Kristine Marcy,

Acting Administrator.

[FR Doc. 01–3403 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #3317; Amendment

#3]

State of Texas

In accordance with a notice received

from the Federal Emergency

Management Agency, dated January 19,

2001, the above-numbered Declaration

is hereby amended to include Lamar

County as a disaster area due to

damages caused by a severe winter ice

storm beginning on December 12, 2000

and continuing through January 15,

2001.

Any counties contiguous to the above

named primary county and not listed

herein have been previously declared.

All other information remains the

same, i.e., the deadline for filing

applications for physical damage is

March 9, 2001 and for economic injury

the deadline is October 9, 2001.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008)

Dated: January 30, 2001.

Herbert L. Mitchell,

Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3401 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

[Declaration of Disaster #3317; Amendment

#4]

State of Texas

In accordance with a notice received

from the Federal Emergency

Management Agency, dated January 30,

2001, the above-numbered Declaration

is hereby amended to include Titus

County as a disaster area due to

damages caused by a severe winter ice

storm beginning on December 12, 2000

and continuing through January 15,

2001.

In addition, applications for economic

injury loans from small businesses

located in Camp County, Texas may be

filed until the specified date at the

previously designated location.

Any counties contiguous to the above

named primary county and not listed

herein have been previously declared.

All other information remains the

same, i.e., the deadline for filing

applications for physical damage is

March 9, 2001 and for economic injury

the deadline is October 9, 2001.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Nos. 59002 and 59008)

Dated: February 1, 2001.

Herbert L. Mitchell,

Associate Administrator for Disaster

Assistance.

[FR Doc. 01–3402 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

Region IV District Advisory Council

Meeting; Public Meeting

The U.S. Small Business

Administration, Georgia District Office

Advisory Council, will hold a public

meeting on Friday, March 9, 2001 at 9

a.m., at the Columbus Hilton, 800 Front

Avenue, Columbus, Georgia 31901; to

discuss matters as may be presented by

members, staff of the U.S. Small

Business Administration, or others

present.

For further information write or call

Mr. Charles E. Anderson, District

Director, U.S. Small Business

Administration, 233 Peachtree Street,

NE, Suite 1900, Atlanta, Georgia 30303;

telephone (404) 331–0266.

Nancyellen Gentile,

Committee Management Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–3404 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Coast Guard

[USCG–2001–8662]

National Preparedness for Response

Exercise Program (PREP)

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DOT.

ACTION: Request for comments on PREP

triennial exercise schedule for 2001,

2002, and 2003.

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard, the

Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA), the Research and Special

Programs Administration (RSPA) and

the Minerals Management Service

(MMS), in concert with the states, the

oil industry and concerned citizens,

developed the Preparedness for

Response Exercise Program (PREP). This

notice announces the PREP triennial

cycle, 2001–2003, and requests

comments from the public and

maximum industry and government

participation in the listed exercises.

DATES: Comments and related material

must reach the Docket Management

Facility on or before April 10, 2001.

ADDRESSES: To make sure your

comments and related material are not

entered twice in the docket, please

submit them by only one of the

following methods:

(1) By mail to the Docket Management

Facility, (USCG–2001–8662), U.S.

Department of Transportation, room PL–

401, 400 Seventh Street SW.,

Washington, DC 20590–0001.

(2) By hand 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.

The telephone number is 202–366–

9329.

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(3) By fax to the Docket Management

Facility at 202–493–2251.

(4) Electronically through the Web

Site for the Docket Management System

at http://dms.dot.gov.

The Docket Management Facility

maintains the public docket for this

notice. Comments and documents, as

indicated in this notice, will become

part of this docket and will be available

for inspection or copying at room PL–

401 on the Plaza Level of the Nassif

Building at the same address between 9

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. You

may electronically access the public

docket for this notice on the Internet at

http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

questions on this notice and general

information regarding the PREP program

and the schedule, contact Mr. Robert

Pond, Office of Response, Plans and

Preparedness Division (G–MOR–2), U.S.

Coast Guard Headquarters, 2100 2nd St.

SW., Washington, DC 20593–0001,

telephone 202–267–6603, fax 202–267–

4065 or e-mail rpond@comdt.uscg.mil.

For questions on viewing, or submitting

material to the docket, contact Ms.

Dorothy Beard, Chief, Dockets,

Department of Transportation,

telephone 202–366–9329.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PREP

Area exercise schedule and exercise

design manuals are available on the

Internet at http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/

gmhome.htm (see index, then oil

response). To obtain a hard copy of the

exercise design manual, contact Ms.

Melanie Barber at the Research and

Special Programs Administration, Office

of Pipeline Safety, at 202–366–4560.

The 1994 PREP Guidelines can be found

on the following web site: http://

www.uscg.mil/hq/g-m/nmc/response/

#PREP. Hard copies of the PREP

Guidelines are available at no cost by

writing or faxing the TASC Warehouse,

3341 Q 75th Avenue, Landover, MD

20785, fax: 301–386–5394. The stock

number of the manual is USCG–X0191.

Please indicate the quantity when

ordering. Quantities are limited to 10

per order.

On August 29, 2000, a PREP

workshop was held at the Department of

Transportation Nassif Building. The

workshop was used as a public forum to

discuss the vitality of the PREP

program. Participants, as well as all

concerned individuals, were encouraged

to submit comments in writing to the

docket. The National Scheduling

Coordinating Committee (NSCC) is in

the process of developing responses to

all comments submitted. These

responses will be published in a future

Federal Register notice.

Request for Comments

We encourage you to participate by

submitting comments and related

material. If you do so, please include

your name and address, identify the

docket number [USCG–2001–8662],

indicate the specific section of the

document to which each comment

applies, and give the reason for each

comment. You may submit your

comments and materials by mail or

hand delivery, submit them in an

unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by

11 inches, suitable for copying and

electronic filing. If you submit them by

mail and would like to know they

reached the facility, please enclose a

stamped, self addressed postcard or

envelope. We will consider all

comments and material received during

the comment period.

Background and Purpose

The Coast Guard, EPA, RSPA, and

MMS developed the National

Preparedness for Response Exercise

Program (PREP) to provide guidelines

for compliance with the pollution

response exercise requirements (33

U.S.C. 1321(j)). The guiding principles

for PREP distinguish between internal

and external exercises. Internal

exercises are conducted within the plan

holder’s organization. External exercises

extend beyond the plan holder’s

organization to involve other members

of the response community. External

exercises are separated into two

categories: (1) Area exercises, designed

to evaluate the entire response

mechanism in a given area, and (2)

Government-initiated unannounced

exercises, to ensure adequate pollution

response preparedness of an individual

plan holder.

Since 1994, the USCG, EPA, RSPA,

and MMS have published a triennial

schedule of Area exercises. In short, the

Area exercises involve the entire

response community (Federal, State,

local, and industry participants) and

therefore, require more extensive

planning than other oil spill response

exercises. The PREP guidelines describe

all of these exercises in more detail.

This notice announces the next triennial

schedule of Area exercises.

Not all industry leads have been

identified at this time. Industry plan

holders are encouraged to take

advantage of this opportunity to

exercise with the entire response

community and to coordinate their

regularly scheduled spill management

team and equipment deployment

exercises with the Area Committees.

Companies interested in participating

in an Area exercise may call either the

Coast Guard office or the EPA On-Scene

Coordinator (OSC) where the exercise is

scheduled. Alternatively, the companies

interested in participating in an

exercise, where the Coast Guard is the

OSC, may call Mr. Pond at 202–267–

6603, and he will facilitate scheduling.

The following is the PREP schedule

for calendar Years 2001, 2002, and 2003.

PREP SCHEDULE—GOVERNMENT-LED AREA EXERCISES

Area Agency Plan holder Date/qtr 1

Calendar Year 2001

Saulte St. Marie (MSO Saulte St. Marie) ........................................... CG ...................................................... 30 Apr–02 May.

NY, NY (Act NY) ................................................................................. CG ...................................................... 04 Jun–08 Jun.

SW LA/SE TX (MSO Morgan City, MSO Port Arthur) ....................... CG SONS Phase I ............................. Sep.

EPA Region I ...................................................................................... EPA ...................................................... To Be Determined.

Chicago Area (MSO Chicago) ............................................................ CG ...................................................... 24 Sep–28 Sep.

Maryland Coastal (Act Baltimore) ...................................................... CG ...................................................... 10 Dec–14 Dec.

Calendar Year 2002

South FL (MSO Miami) ...................................................................... CG ...................................................... 25 Feb–01 Mar.

SW LA/SE TX (MSO Morgan City, MSO Port Arthur) ....................... CG SONS Phase II ............................ Spring 2002.

Boston (MSO Boston) ........................................................................ CG ...................................................... 17 Jun–21 Jun.

Hawaii/Samoa (MSO Honolulu) ......................................................... CG ...................................................... 22 Jul–26 Jul.

Central CA Coast (MSO San Francisco) ........................................... CG ...................................................... 16 Sep–20 Sep.

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PREP SCHEDULE—GOVERNMENT-LED AREA EXERCISES—Continued

Area Agency Plan holder Date/qtr 1

EPA Region VII .................................................................................. EPA ...................................................... To Be Determined.

Calendar Year 2003

Marianna Islands (MSO Guam) ......................................................... CG ...................................................... 1

EPA Region II ..................................................................................... EPA ...................................................... 1

Philadelphia (MSO Philadelphia) ........................................................ CG ...................................................... 2

SE Alaska (MSO Juneau) .................................................................. CG ...................................................... 3

Savannah (MSO Savannah) .............................................................. CG ...................................................... 4

Florida Panhandle (MSO Mobile) ....................................................... CG ...................................................... 4

PREP SCHEDULE—INDUSTRY-LED EXERCISES

Area Plan holder 2 Date 1

Calendar Year 2001

Guam (MSO Guam) .......................................................................................................... v ................................................................... 1

Charleston (MSO Charleston) ........................................................................................... f (mtr) ........................................................... 1

Southern Coastal NC (MSO Wilmington) .......................................................................... v ................................................................... 1

EPA Region VII ................................................................................................................. f (nonmtr) ..................................................... 2

Long Island Sound (MSO Long Island Sound) ................................................................. f .................................................................... 2

EPA Region V ................................................................................................................... f .................................................................... 2

San Francisco Bay (MSO San Francisco) ........................................................................ f (mtr) ........................................................... 3

Duluth-Superior (MSO Duluth) .......................................................................................... f .................................................................... 3

South TX Coastal Zone (MSO Corpus Christi) ................................................................. v ................................................................... 3

Prince William Sound (MSO Valdez) ................................................................................ p ................................................................... 3

LA/LB (MSO LA/LB) .......................................................................................................... v ................................................................... 4

San Diego (MSO San Diego) ............................................................................................ f .................................................................... 4

Calendar Year 2002

Tampa (MSO Tampa) ....................................................................................................... v ................................................................... 1

Northwest (MSO Puget Sound) ......................................................................................... v ................................................................... 1

South LA/LB (MSO LA/LB) ................................................................................................ f (mtr) ........................................................... 1

EPA Oceania ..................................................................................................................... f (nonmtr) ..................................................... 1

EPA Region II .................................................................................................................... p ................................................................... 2

Eastern Wisconsin (MSO Milwaukee) ............................................................................... v ................................................................... 2

Eastern Great Lakes (MSO Buffalo) ................................................................................. f (mtr) ........................................................... 3

Maine/New Hampshire (MSO Portland) ............................................................................ v ................................................................... 3

Providence (MSO Providence) .......................................................................................... v ................................................................... 3

EPA Region VI .................................................................................................................. f (nonmtr) ..................................................... 4

Virginia Coastal (MSO Hampton Roads) .......................................................................... f (mtr) ........................................................... 4

Houston/Galveston (MSO Houston/Galveston) ................................................................. p ................................................................... 4

Alabama/Mississippi (MSO Mobile) ................................................................................... f .................................................................... 4

Calendar Year 2003

EPA Region IX .................................................................................................................. p ................................................................... 1

North Coast Area (MSO San Francisco) .......................................................................... f (mtr) ........................................................... 1

New Orleans (MSO New Orleans) .................................................................................... p ................................................................... 2

W Lake Erie (MSO Toledo) ............................................................................................... f (nonmtr) ..................................................... 2

EPA Region IV .................................................................................................................. f (nonmtr) ..................................................... 2

Northwest Area (MSO Portland) ....................................................................................... v ................................................................... 3

Cleveland (MSO Cleveland) .............................................................................................. f (mtr) ........................................................... 3

Detroit (MSO Detroit) ......................................................................................................... v ................................................................... 3

Caribbean Area (MSO San Juan) ..................................................................................... v ................................................................... 4

EPA Region III ................................................................................................................... f (nonmtr) ..................................................... 4

Jacksonville (MSO Jacksonville) ....................................................................................... v ................................................................... 4

1Quarters: 1 (Jan–Mar); 2 (Apr–Jun); 3 (Jul–Sep); 4 (Oct–Dec). Note also exercise areas and dates are fixed. For 2001 and 2002 Government

led area exercises are fixed, the actual quarter in which a listed area will be exercised is subject to projections in each of those areas as the exercise year approaches. 2 Industry: v-Vessel; f (mtr)-marine transportation-related facility; f (nonmtr)-marine non-transportation related facility; p-pipeline.

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Dated: January 31, 2001.

Howard L. Hime,

Acting Director of Standards, Marine Safety

and Environmental Protection.

[FR Doc. 01–3372 Filed 2–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–15–U

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Aviation Administration

[Docket No. FAA–2001–8872]

Reciprocal Acceptance of Repair

Design Approvals Between the Federal

Aviation Administration and Transport

Canada Civil Aviation

AGENCY: Federal Aviation

Administration, (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of policy, request for

comments.

SUMMARY: This notice announces an

FAA general statement of policy

applicable to the acceptability of repair

design data approved by Transport

Canada Civil Aviation (TCCA) in

accordance with the provisions of a

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU)

agreed to by TCCA and the FAA on May

6, 1998. The MOU was signed pursuant

to the Schedule of Implementation

Procedures of the August 31, 1984 U.S./

Canada Bilateral Airworthiness

Agreement. This document advises the

public that certain Canadian repair

design approvals for U.S. and Canadian

products are considered to be technical

data approved by the Administrator.

Such data therefore may be used for the

purpose of performing a repair on a

U.S.-registered aircraft or on an

aeronautical product intended for

installation on a U.S.-registered aircraft.

DATES: Comments must be received on

or before March 12, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Address your comments to

the Docket Management System, U.S.

Department of Transportation, Room

Plaza 401, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20590–0001. You must

identify the docket number FAA–2000–

at the beginning of your comments,

and you should submit two copies of

your comments. If you wish to receive

confirmation that FAA received your

comments, include a self-addressed,

stamped postcard.

You may also submit comments

through the Internet to http://

dms.dot.gov. You may review the public

docket containing comments to this

notice of policy in person in the Dockets

Office between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,

Monday through Friday, except Federal

holidays. The Dockets Office is on the

plaza level of the NASSIF Building at

the Department of Transportation at the

above address. Also, you may review

public dockets on the Internet at

http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Victor Powell, Certification Procedure

Branch, AIR–110, Aircraft Engineering

Division, Aircraft Certification Service,

Federal Aviation Administration, 800

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20591, Telephone:

(202) 267–9580, fax (202) 267–5340, email victor.powell@faa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Comments Invited

Interested persons are invited to

submit written comments, data, views,

or arguments regarding this policy.

Comments should identify the

regulatory docket or notice number and

should be submitted in triplicate to the

Rules Docket address specified above.

All comments received and a report

summarizing any substantive public

contact with FAA personnel on this

policy will be filed in the docket. The

docket is available for public inspection

both before and after the closing date for

receiving comments. The Administrator

will consider comments made on this

policy on or before the closing date for

comments, and the policy may be

changed in light of the comments

received.

The FAA will acknowledge receipt of

comments if commenters include a selfaddressed, stamped postcard with the

comments. The postcards should be

marked ‘‘Comments to Docket No. FAA–

2000– .’’ When the comments are

received by the FAA, the postcards will

be dated, time stamped, and returned to

the commenters.

Availability of Documents

You can get an electronic copy of the

current bilateral agreement between the

United States and Canada using the

Internet through FAA’s web page at

http://www.faa.gov/avr/air/air4/

Baalst.htm.

You can get a copy of the May 6, 1998

MOU for the Design Approval of

Aeronautical Product Repairs by

submitting a request to the person listed

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT.

Background

On May 6, 1998 representatives of the

FAA and TCCA signed an MOU which

set forth procedures for implementing

the ‘‘design approval of repairs’’

provisions of the BAA between the

United States and Canada signed on

August 31, 1984. The MOU was signed

pursuant to Chapter 4, Maintenance

Alteration or Modification of

Aeronautical Products, and Chapter 7,

Special Arrangements of the BAA

Schedule of Implementation

Procedures. The FAA and TCCA signed

the MOU for the purpose of avoiding

duplication of design approvals by

giving maximum permissible credit for

repair design approvals made by each

authority.

In the MOU the FAA and TCCA agree

to cooperate in accepting each other’s

design approval of repairs. The

authorities also agree that certain data

generated in the design approval of

repairs and found to comply with the

regulations of both authorities is

approved by both, without any other

required actions. The MOU continues to

remain in force under the provisions of

the Bilateral Aviation Safety Agreement

signed between the United States and

Canada on June 12, 2000.

Statement of Policy

U.S. Acceptance of Canadian Repair

Design Data

As specified in this statement of

policy, certain Canadian repair design

approvals are considered to be technical

data approved by the Administrator for

the purpose of performing a repair on a

U.S.-registered aircraft or on an

aeronautical product intended for

installation on a U.S.-registered aircraft.

For U.S. State of Design products,

repair design approvals issued directly

by TCCA are considered technical data

approved by the Administrator. Repair

design approvals issued solely by a

TCCA delegate for U.S. State of Design

products are not considered technical

data approved by the Administrator.

TCCA delegate approvals for U.S. State

of Design products must have the

specific approval of the authority or

direct FAA or FAA designee approval

before being considered to be technical

data approved by the Administrator.

Repair design approvals issued by

either the TCCA or an appropriately

authorized TCCA delegate for Canadian

State of Design products are considered

to be technical data approved by the

Administrator. TCCA or TCCA delegate

repair design approvals are not

considered technical data approved by

the Administrator for products where

the United States or Canada is not the

State of Design (a ‘‘third country’’

product). Direct FAA or FAA designee

review and approval is required for

repair design data for ‘‘third country’’

products.

For repairs to engines and propellers

the State of Design of the engine or

propeller, not the State of Design of the

aircraft that the engine or propeller is

installed on, determines whether

Canadian repair design data is