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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 171 / Tuesday, September 4, 2012 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Technical Standard Order (TSO)–C65a,
Airborne Doppler Radar Ground Speed
and/or Drift Angle Measuring
Equipment (For Air Carrier Aircraft)
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of cancellation of
Technical Standard Order (TSO)–C65a,
Airborne Doppler Radar Ground Speed
and/or Drift Angle Measuring
Equipment (For Air Carrier Aircraft).
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
FAA’s cancellation of TSO–C65a. The
effect of the cancelled TSO will result
in no new TSO–C65a design or
production approvals. However,
cancellation will not affect current
production of articles with an existing
TSO authorization (TSOA). Articles
produced under an existing TSOA can
still be installed per the existing
airworthiness approvals.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Albert Sayadian, AIR–130, Federal
Aviation Administration, 470 L’Enfant
Plaza, Suite 4102, Washington, DC
20024. Telephone (202) 385–4652, fax
(202) 385–4651, email to: albert.
sayadian@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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Background
The Doppler radar ground speed and/
or drift angle measuring equipment
described by this TSO was used to
provide inputs to semiautomatic selfcontained dead reckoning navigation
systems which were not continuously
dependent on information derived from
ground based or external navigation
aids. The system employed radar signals
to detect and measure ground speed and
drift angle, using the aircraft compass
system as its directional reference. This
approach is less accurate than Inertial
Navigation Systems (INS), and the use
of an external reference is required for
periodic updates if acceptable position
accuracy is to be achieved on long range
flights. Use of INS and Global
Positioning System (GPS) has rendered
TSO–C65a Doppler sensor equipment
that provides inputs to dead reckoning
navigation systems obsolete.
On August 18, 1983, the FAA
published TSO–C65a. The FAA has no
record of any TSO–C65a applications
dating back to 1990. Our research
indicates there are no new TSO–C65a
applications in progress, and there are
no authorized manufacturers
manufacturing, advertising, or selling
TSO–C65a compliant equipment. Given

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the obsolescence of the equipment, and
the lack of industry interest in new
TSO–C65a product design, the FAA is
cancelling TSO–C65a.
Comments
Request for comments of our
proposed cancellation of TSO–C65a as
published in 77 FR 37470, June 21,
2012, produced no comments.
Conclusion

TSO–C65a is cancelled effective
February 1, 2013.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 28,
2012.
Susan J.M. Cabler,
Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering
Division, Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. 2012–21632 Filed 8–31–12; 8:45 am]
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Federal Aviation Administration
Technical Standard Order (TSO)–C68a,
Airborne Automatic Dead Reckoning
Computer Equipment Utilizing Aircraft
Heading and Doppler Ground Speed
and Drift Angle Data (for Air Carrier
Aircraft)
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of cancellation of
Technical Standard Order (TSO)–C68a,
Airborne Automatic Dead Reckoning
Computer Equipment Utilizing Aircraft
Heading and Doppler Ground Speed
and Drift Angle Data (for Air Carrier
Aircraft).
AGENCY:

This notice announces the
FAA’s cancellation of TSO–C68a. The
effect of the cancelled TSO–C68a will
result in no new TSO–C68a design or
production approvals.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Albert Sayadian, AIR–130, Federal
Aviation Administration, 470 L’Enfant
Plaza, Suite 4102, Washington, DC
20024. Telephone (202) 385–4652, fax
(202) 385–4651, email to:
albert.sayadian@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Background
Doppler radar is a semiautomatic selfcontained dead reckoning navigation
system (radar sensor plus computer)
which is not continuously dependent on
information derived from ground based
or external aids. The system employs
radar signals to detect and measure
ground speed and drift angle, using the
aircraft compass system as its
directional reference. Doppler is less
accurate than Inertial Navigation System

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Comments
Request for comments of our
proposed cancellation of TSO–C68a as
published in 77 FR 37733, June 22,
2012, produced no comments.
Conclusion

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(INS), and the use of an external
reference is required for periodic
updates if acceptable position accuracy
is to be achieved on long range flights.
Use of INS and Global Positioning
System (GPS) has rendered TSO–C68a
systems obsolete. The FAA has no
record of any applications for TSO–
C68a since it was published in 1983.
Given the obsolescence of the
equipment, and the lack of industry
interest in TSO–C68a product designs,
the FAA is cancelling TSO–C68a.

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TSO–C68a is cancelled effective
February 1, 2013.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 28,
2012.
Susan J. M. Cabler,
Assistant Manager, Aircraft Engineering
Division, Aircraft Certification Service.
[FR Doc. 2012–21633 Filed 8–31–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping
Requirements; Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection abstracted below has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. The nature of the information
collection is described as well as its
expected burden. The Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published
on June 8, 2012, and comments were
due by August 7, 2012. No comments
were received.
DATES: Comments should be submitted
on or before October 4, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dennis Brennan, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: 202–366–1029; or email:
dennis.brennan@dot.gov. Copies of this
SUMMARY:

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collection also can be obtained from that
office.
Maritime
Administration (MARAD).
Title: Monthly Report of Ocean
Shipments Moving under Export-Import
Bank Financing (Ocean Shipments
Moving under Export-Import Bank
Financing).
OMB Control Number: 2133–0013.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Shippers subject to
Export-Import Bank Financing.
Form Number(s): MA–518.
Abstract: In accordance with 46
U.S.C. 55304 (PR 17), certain shippers
receiving Export-Import Bank financing
must transport items that move by sea
on U.S.-flag registered vessels unless
they receive a Certification of NonAvailability from MARAD. MARAD will
use the information collected to assist
shippers with obtaining carriage on
U.S.-flag registered vessels and to make
determinations of vessel availability.
MARAD will also use the information
collected to monitor compliance with
the U.S.-flag shipping requirements as
required by 46 U.S.C. 55305(d)(2).
Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 196
hours.
Addresses: Send comments regarding
these information collections to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street NW.,
Washington, DC, 20503, Attention:
MARAD Desk Officer. Alternatively,
comments may be sent via email to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs (OIRA), Office of Management
and Budget, at the following address:
oira.submissions@omb.eop.gov.
Comments Are Invited On: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A comment to OMB is best assured of
having its full effect if OMB receives it
receives it within 30 days of
publication.

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.

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Issued in Washington, DC on August 27,
2012.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012–21721 Filed 8–31–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD–2012–0085]

Requested Administrative Waiver of
the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel
ZINGARA; Invitation for Public
Comments
Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

As authorized by 46 U.S.C.
12121, the Secretary of Transportation,
as represented by the Maritime
Administration (MARAD), is authorized
to grant waivers of the U.S.-build
requirement of the coastwise laws under
certain circumstances. A request for
such a waiver has been received by
MARAD. The vessel, and a brief
description of the proposed service, is
listed below.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
October 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
docket number MARAD–2012–0085.
Written comments may be submitted by
hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Operations, M–30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
send comments electronically via the
Internet at http://www.regulations.gov.
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.T., Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays. An electronic version
of this document and all documents
entered into this docket is available on
the World Wide Web at http://
www.regulations.gov.
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INTENDED COMMERCIAL USE OF
VESSEL: ‘‘Carrying passengers for
sailing, sightseeing, sunset cruises.’’
GEOGRAPHIC REGION: Florida.
The complete application is given in
DOT docket MARAD–2012–0085 at
http://www.regulations.gov. Interested
parties may comment on the effect this
action may have on U.S. vessel builders
or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in
accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and
MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part
388, that the issuance of the waiver will
have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.vessel builder or a business that uses
U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a
waiver will not be granted. Comments
should refer to the docket number of
this notice and the vessel name in order
for MARAD to properly consider the
comments. Comments should also state
the commenter’s interest in the waiver
application, and address the waiver
criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR part 388.
Privacy Act
Anyone is able to search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78).
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: August 27, 2012.
Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2012–21725 Filed 8–31–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
Voluntary Intermodal Sealift
Agreement (VISA)
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice of open season for
enrollment in the VISA program.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Linda Williams, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Room W23–453,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202–
366–0903, Email
Linda.Williams@dot.gov.
As
described by the applicant the intended
service of the vessel ZINGARA is:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Introduction
The VISA program was established
pursuant to section 708 of the Defense
Production Act of 1950, as amended
(DPA), which provides for voluntary
agreements for emergency preparedness
programs. VISA was approved for a two
year term on January 30, 1997, and
published in the Federal Register on
February 13, 1997, (62 FR 6837).

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