[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 20 (Tuesday, January 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 3071]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1655]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Operations by Canadian and Mexican Specialty Air Service
Operators
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Order to Show Cause, Docket OST-96-1021, Order 96-1-28.
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SUMMARY: The Department is inviting comments on its tentative decision
to grant Canadian and Mexican ``specialty air service'' operators a
blanket foreign aircraft permit under 14 CFR Part 375 to conduct such
operations in the United States, to the extent the operations covered
under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The specific
specialty air services involved are: aerial mapping, aerial surveying,
aerial photography, forest fire management, fire fighting, aerial
advertising, glider towing, parachute jumping, aerial construction,
heli-logging, aerial sightseeing, flight training, aerial inspection
and surveillance, and aerial spraying services. NAFTA provides for the
operation of these services on a phase-in basis, with coverage for some
services already effective, and coverage for others becoming effective
at various times through January 1, 2000. The blanket foreign aircraft
permit the Department proposes would remove the present requirement
that operators obtain prior Department approval, on a contract-by-
contract basis, before conducting those specialty air services that are
provided for and for which coverage has become effective under NAFTA.
The authority would be subject to each operator's compliance with
applicable regulations and procedures of the Federal Aviation
Administration, and would be effective until further order of the
Department.
DATES: Objections to the issuance of a final order in this proceeding
are due: February 7, 1996. If objections are filed, answers to
objections are due: February 14, 1996. Persons filing pleadings should
contact the Department's Foreign Air Carrier Licensing Division at the
telephone number listed below for a list of persons to be served with
objections and answers to objections.
ADDRESSES: All documents in this proceeding, with appropriate filing
copies, should be filed in Docket OST-96-1021, addressed to Central
Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room
PL401, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, D.C. 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Wellington, Foreign Air Carrier
Licensing Division, U.S. Department of Transportation, Room 6412, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC. 20590. Telephone (202) 366-2391.
Dated: January 24, 1996.
Mark L. Gerchick,
Acting Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 96-1655 Filed 1-29-96; 8:45 am]
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