[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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