[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 2005)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 40973]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-14056]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
49 CFR Part 23
[Docket No. OST-97-2550]
RIN 2105-AD51
Participation by Disadvantaged Business Enterprise in Airport
Concessions
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.
ACTION: Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking; Extension of
Comment Period.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation issued a supplemental notice
of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) on this subject on March 22, 2005. The
comment period was scheduled to close June 20, 2005. In response to
requests from car rental industry members and a trade association of
disadvantaged business enterprises who work in airports, we are
extending the comment period for 60 days.
DATES: Comments on the SNPRM must be received by August 19, 2005. Late-
filed comments will be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments on this SNPRM should be filed with: the Docket
Management System, U.S. Department of Transportation. Room PL-401, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Please identify the
docket number OST-97-2005 at the beginning of your comments. You may
also submit comments through the Internet to http://dms.dot.gov. You
may review the public docket containing comments to these proposed
regulations in person in the Dockets Office between 9 a.m. and 5 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 comments to
the docket on the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov. Search by using the
last set of digits in the docket number (i.e., 2550).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert C. Ashby, Deputy Assistant
General Counsel for Regulation and Enforcement, Department of
Transportation, 400 7th St., SW., Room 10424, Washington, DC 20590-
0001. Telephone (202) 366-9310 (voice); (202) 755-7687 (TDD). E-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In March 2005, the Department of
Transportation (DOT) issued a final rule on the subject of
disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE) in airport concessions. At the
same time, we issued a supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking
asking for additional comment on several issues, including size
standards and the possibility of creating national (rather than
airport-by-airport) DBE goals for car rental companies.
We received correspondence requesting a 60-day extension of the
comment period on behalf of several car rental companies, including
Hertz, Dollar/Thrifty, Vanguard, and Enterprise. The correspondence
requested the additional time to permit the companies to review the
SNPRM and develop their position on the complex issues involved. We
understand they are particularly interested in further thinking about
the national car rental goal concept mentioned in the SNPRM. In
addition, we received correspondence from the Airport Minority Advisory
Council (AMAC) requesting a similar extension.
We believe that such an extension would be helpful to the
Department in determining next steps concerning size standards and car
rental goal issues, and we do not believe that it would unduly delay
any further rulemaking resulting from the SNPRM. Consequently, we are
granting the requested 60-day extension.
Issued this 30th day of June, 2005, at Washington DC.
Jeffrey A. Rosen,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 05-14056 Filed 7-13-05; 1:11 pm]
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