Prohibitions On Market Manipulation and False Information in Subtitle B of Title VIII of The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, 32259-32260 [E8-12739]
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section, Congress charges the FAA with
promoting safe flight of civil aircraft in
air commerce by prescribing regulations
for practices, methods, and procedures
the Administrator finds necessary for
safety in air commerce. This regulation
is within the scope of that authority
because it addresses an unsafe condition
that is likely to exist or develop on
products identified in this rulemaking
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We determined that this proposed AD
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under Executive Order 13132. This
proposed AD would not have a
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responsibilities among the various
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For the reasons discussed above, I
certify this proposed regulation:
1. Is not a ‘‘significant regulatory
action’’ under Executive Order 12866,
2. Is not a ‘‘significant rule’’ under the
DOT Regulatory Policies and Procedures
(44 FR 11034, February 26, 1979), and
3. Will not have a significant
economic impact, positive or negative,
on a substantial number of small entities
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You can find our regulatory
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Applicability
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
(c) This AD applies to all Boeing Model
737–300, –400, and –500 series airplanes,
certificated in any category.
16 CFR Part 317
Unsafe Condition
Prohibitions On Market Manipulation
and False Information in Subtitle B of
Title VIII of The Energy Independence
and Security Act of 2007
Compliance
SUMMARY: In a Federal Register notice
issued and announced on May 1, 2008,1
and published in the Federal Register
on May 7, 2008 (‘‘Notice’’),2 the Federal
Trade Commission (‘‘Commission’’ or
‘‘FTC’’) requested comment on its
Advance Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking (‘‘ANPR’’) in connection
with its rulemaking pursuant to Section
811 of the Energy Independence and
Security Act of 2007 (‘‘EISA’’). The
ANPR stated that comments must be
submitted on or before June 6, 2008. In
response to a request to extend the
comment period received on May 19,
2008, the Commission has determined
to extend the comment period for an
additional 15 days.
DATES: Comments addressing the Market
Manipulation ANPR must be received
on or before June 23, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
‘‘Market Manipulation Rulemaking,
P082900’’ to facilitate the organization
of comments. Comments containing
material for which confidential
treatment is requested must be filed in
paper form, must be clearly labeled
‘‘Confidential,’’ and must comply with
Commission Rule 4.9(c).3
Because paper mail in the Washington
area, and specifically to the FTC, is
subject to delay due to heightened
security screening, please consider
submitting your comments in electronic
form. Comments filed in electronic form
should be submitted by using the
following weblink: (https://
(e) Comply with this AD within the
compliance times specified, unless already
done.
Operational Test/Related Testing
List of Subjects in 14 CFR Part 39
Air transportation, Aircraft, Aviation
safety, Safety.
Alternative Methods of Compliance
(AMOCs)
The Proposed Amendment
(g)(1) The Manager, Seattle ACO, FAA,
ATTN: Sue Lucier, Aerospace Engineer,
Propulsion Branch, ANM–140S, 1601 Lind
Avenue SW., Renton, Washington 98057–
3356; telephone (425) 917–6438; fax (425)
917–6590, has the authority to approve
AMOCs for this AD, if requested using the
procedures found in 14 CFR 39.19.
(2) To request a different method of
compliance or a different compliance time
for this AD, follow the procedures in 14 CFR
39.19. Before using any approved AMOC on
any airplane to which the AMOC applies,
notify your appropriate principal inspector
(PI) in the FAA Flight Standards District
Office (FSDO), or lacking a PI, your local
FSDO.
PART 39—AIRWORTHINESS
DIRECTIVES
1. The authority citation for part 39
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 40113, 44701.
§ 39.13
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2. The FAA amends § 39.13 by adding
the following new AD:
Boeing: Docket No. FAA–2008–0614;
Directorate Identifier 2007–NM–351–AD.
Comments Due Date
(a) We must receive comments by July 21,
2008.
Affected ADs
(b) None.
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2008.
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Manager, Transport Airplane Directorate,
Aircraft Certification Service.
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(d) This AD results from a report of inservice occurrences of loss of fuel system
suction feed capability, followed by total loss
of pressure of the fuel feed system. We are
issuing this AD to detect and correct failure
of the engine fuel suction feed of the fuel
system, which could result in dual engine
flameout, inability to restart the engines, and
consequent forced landing of the airplane.
(f) Within 7,500 flight hours after the
effective date of this AD, perform an
operational test of the engine fuel suction
feed of the fuel system, and perform all
related testing, as applicable, before further
flight, according to a method approved by the
Manager, Seattle Aircraft Certification Office
(ACO), FAA. One approved method is the
operational test in Section 28–22–00, titled
‘‘Engine Fuel Feed System—Maintenance
Practices,’’ of the Boeing 737–300/400/500
Maintenance Manual (MM); and Boeing 737–
300/400/500 Task Card B28–22–00–2B, titled
‘‘Engine Fuel Suction Feed—Operational
Test,’’ dated July 12, 2006. Repeat the
operational test thereafter at intervals not to
exceed 7,500 flight hours. Thereafter, except
as provided in paragraph (g) of this AD, no
alternative procedure or repeat test intervals
will be allowed.
Accordingly, under the authority
delegated to me by the Administrator,
the FAA proposes to amend 14 CFR part
39 as follows:
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Federal Trade Commission.
Extension of period to submit
comments in response to the Advance
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
1 The Notice was announced in a press release
on May 1, 2008, available at: (https://www.ftc.gov/
opa/2008/05/anpr.shtm.)
2 Federal Trade Commission, Prohibitions On
Market Manipulation and False Information in
Subtitle B of the Energy Independence and Security
Act of 2007, 73 FR 25614 (May 7, 2008).
3 The comment must be accompanied by an
explicit request for confidential treatment,
including the factual and legal basis for the request,
and must identify the specific portions of the
comment to be withheld from the public record.
The request will be granted or denied by the
Commission’s General Counsel, consistent with
applicable law and the public interest. See
Commission Rule 4.9(c), 16 CFR 4.9(c).
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secure.commentworks.com/ftcmarketmanipulationANPR/)(and
following the instructions on the webbased form). To ensure that the
Commission considers an electronic
comment, you must file it on the webbased form at the weblink (https://
secure.commentworks.com/ftcmarketmanipulationANPR/). If this
notice appears at https://
www.regulations.gov, you may also file
an electronic comment through that
website. The Commission will consider
all comments that regulations.gov
forwards to it. You may also visit the
FTC website at (https://www.ftc.gov/opa/
index.shtml)to read the ANPR and the
news release describing it.
A comment filed in paper form
should include the ‘‘Market
Manipulation Rulemaking, P082900’’
reference both in the text and on the
envelope, and should be mailed to the
following address: Federal Trade
Commission, Market Manipulation
Rulemaking, P.O. Box 2846, Fairfax, VA
22031-0846. This address does not
accept courier or overnight deliveries.
Courier or overnight deliveries should
be delivered to: Federal Trade
Commission/Office of the Secretary,
Room H-135 (Annex G), 600
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington,
DC 20580.
The FTC Act and other laws the
Commission administers permit the
collection of public comments to
consider and use in this proceeding as
appropriate. The Commission will
consider all timely and responsive
public comments that it receives,
whether filed in paper or electronic
form. Comments received will be
available to the public on the FTC
website, to the extent practicable, at
https://www.ftc.gov. As a matter of
discretion, the FTC makes every effort to
remove home contact information for
individuals from the public comments it
receives before placing those comments
on the FTC website. More information,
including routine uses permitted by the
Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC’s
privacy policy, at (https://www.ftc.gov/
ftc/privacy.htm).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Mongoven, Deputy Assistant
Director of Policy & Coordination,
Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade
Commission, Market Manipulation
Rulemaking, P.O. Box 2846, Fairfax, VA
22031-0846, (202) 326-3772.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 7,
2008, the Commission published an
ANPR pursuant to the authority granted
to it in Section 811 of the EISA to
promulgate regulations prohibiting
‘‘market manipulation’’ in the
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petroleum industry. In that Notice, the
Commission solicited comment on a
variety of topics including the scope of
a proposed Rule; the impact of other
agencies’ extant rules against market
manipulation on a proposed Rule; and
the effectiveness of monetary penalties
in curbing behavior proscribed by a
proposed Rule. The ANPR stated that
the period for submitting initial
comments would close on June 6, 2008.
On May 19, 2008, the Commission
received a letter from counsel for the
American Petroleum Institute (‘‘API’’)
requesting that the Commission extend
the comment deadline in the ANPR
proceeding for an additional 60 days,
resulting in a 90-day comment period.
In its request, API advances three
arguments in support of an extension of
the comment period. First, API argues
that additional time is needed to
canvass its more than 400 members and
to ‘‘consolidate and present that
information for the Commission’s
consideration.’’ Second, API contends
that the extension is necessary to ensure
that there is ‘‘sufficient time for
thoughtful deliberation’’ about the
‘‘many novel and complex issues’’
addressed in the ANPR. Third, API
opines that ‘‘defining ‘manipulation’ is
inherently difficult and not within the
Commission’s traditional antitrust or
consumer protection experience,’’ and
thus providing additional time to
commenters will yield more carefully
considered comments, which will be
beneficial to the Commission as it
proceeds.
The Commission is sympathetic to the
concerns raised by API. The
Commission, however, is not persuaded
that a full 60-day extension—which
would triple the time allocated by the
Commission for the receipt of
comments—is necessary to ensure that
interested parties have an adequate
opportunity to prepare and submit
thoughtful responses at this stage in the
proceeding. The Commission believes
that a 15-day extension of the initial 30day comment period should be
sufficient to enable API and all other
commenters to finalize and submit
comments in response to the ANPR
while avoiding unnecessary delay.
Further, in the event that the
Commission determines to issue a
Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in this
proceeding, interested parties will be
afforded an additional period of time in
which to submit comments in response
to a proposed Rule. Accordingly, the
Commission has determined to extend
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the comment period set forth in the
ANPR until June 23, 2008.4
By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
17 CFR Part 150
RIN 3038–AC140
Revision of Federal Speculative
Position Limits
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rules; withdrawal.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: On November 21, 2007, the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (Commission or CFTC)
published a proposed rulemaking to
increase the Federal speculative
position limits for certain agricultural
commodity contracts set out in
Commission regulation 150.2 (proposed
rulemaking).1 The proposed rulemaking
would have increased the single-month
and all-months-combined position
limits for all contracts except contracts
based on oats in accordance with the
formula set out in Commission
regulation 150.5(c). The proposed
rulemaking would have also required
the aggregation of traders’ positions in
contracts that share substantially
identical terms with regulation 150.2enumerated contracts, regardless of
whether such contracts were
specifically delineated in that
regulation, for the purposes of
ascertaining compliance with the
Federal speculative position limits. For
the reasons provided below, the
Commission has determined to
withdraw the proposed rulemaking.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Donald Heitman, Senior Special
Counsel, Division of Market Oversight,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC
20581, telephone (202) 418–5041,
facsimile number (202) 418–5507, email dheitman@cftc.gov; or Martin
Murray, Economist, Division of Market
Oversight, telephone (202) 418–5276,
4 Under Commission Rule 4.3(a), the 15-day
comment period begins on Monday, June 9, 2008,
the first business day after the date on which the
comment period is currently scheduled to end. 16
CFR 4.3(a).
1 Revision of Federal Speculative Position Limits,
72 FR 65483 (November 21, 2007).
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FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION
16 CFR Part 317
[Project No. P082900]
RIN 3084-AB12
Prohibitions On Market Manipulation and False Information in
Subtitle B of Title VIII of The Energy Independence and Security Act of
2007
AGENCY: Federal Trade Commission.
ACTION: Extension of period to submit comments in response to the
Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.
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SUMMARY: In a Federal Register notice issued and announced on May 1,
2008,\1\ and published in the Federal Register on May 7, 2008
(``Notice''),\2\ the Federal Trade Commission (``Commission'' or
``FTC'') requested comment on its Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(``ANPR'') in connection with its rulemaking pursuant to Section 811 of
the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 (``EISA''). The ANPR
stated that comments must be submitted on or before June 6, 2008. In
response to a request to extend the comment period received on May 19,
2008, the Commission has determined to extend the comment period for an
additional 15 days.
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\1\ The Notice was announced in a press release on May 1, 2008,
available at: (https://www.ftc.gov/opa/2008/05/anpr.shtm.)
\2\ Federal Trade Commission, Prohibitions On Market
Manipulation and False Information in Subtitle B of the Energy
Independence and Security Act of 2007, 73 FR 25614 (May 7, 2008).
DATES: Comments addressing the Market Manipulation ANPR must be
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received on or before June 23, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to ``Market Manipulation Rulemaking,
P082900'' to facilitate the organization of comments. Comments
containing material for which confidential treatment is requested must
be filed in paper form, must be clearly labeled ``Confidential,'' and
must comply with Commission Rule 4.9(c).\3\
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\3\ The comment must be accompanied by an explicit request for
confidential treatment, including the factual and legal basis for
the request, and must identify the specific portions of the comment
to be withheld from the public record. The request will be granted
or denied by the Commission's General Counsel, consistent with
applicable law and the public interest. See Commission Rule 4.9(c),
16 CFR 4.9(c).
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Because paper mail in the Washington area, and specifically to the
FTC, is subject to delay due to heightened security screening, please
consider submitting your comments in electronic form. Comments filed in
electronic form should be submitted by using the following weblink:
(https://
[[Page 32260]]
secure.commentworks.com/ftc-marketmanipulationANPR/)(and following the
instructions on the web-based form). To ensure that the Commission
considers an electronic comment, you must file it on the web-based form
at the weblink (https://secure.commentworks.com/ftc-
marketmanipulationANPR/). If this notice appears at https://
www.regulations.gov, you may also file an electronic comment through
that website. The Commission will consider all comments that
regulations.gov forwards to it. You may also visit the FTC website at
(https://www.ftc.gov/opa/index.shtml)to read the ANPR and the news
release describing it.
A comment filed in paper form should include the ``Market
Manipulation Rulemaking, P082900'' reference both in the text and on
the envelope, and should be mailed to the following address: Federal
Trade Commission, Market Manipulation Rulemaking, P.O. Box 2846,
Fairfax, VA 22031-0846. This address does not accept courier or
overnight deliveries. Courier or overnight deliveries should be
delivered to: Federal Trade Commission/Office of the Secretary, Room H-
135 (Annex G), 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20580.
The FTC Act and other laws the Commission administers permit the
collection of public comments to consider and use in this proceeding as
appropriate. The Commission will consider all timely and responsive
public comments that it receives, whether filed in paper or electronic
form. Comments received will be available to the public on the FTC
website, to the extent practicable, at https://www.ftc.gov. As a matter
of discretion, the FTC makes every effort to remove home contact
information for individuals from the public comments it receives before
placing those comments on the FTC website. More information, including
routine uses permitted by the Privacy Act, may be found in the FTC's
privacy policy, at (https://www.ftc.gov/ftc/privacy.htm).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Mongoven, Deputy Assistant
Director of Policy & Coordination, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade
Commission, Market Manipulation Rulemaking, P.O. Box 2846, Fairfax, VA
22031-0846, (202) 326-3772.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 7, 2008, the Commission published an
ANPR pursuant to the authority granted to it in Section 811 of the EISA
to promulgate regulations prohibiting ``market manipulation'' in the
petroleum industry. In that Notice, the Commission solicited comment on
a variety of topics including the scope of a proposed Rule; the impact
of other agencies' extant rules against market manipulation on a
proposed Rule; and the effectiveness of monetary penalties in curbing
behavior proscribed by a proposed Rule. The ANPR stated that the period
for submitting initial comments would close on June 6, 2008.
On May 19, 2008, the Commission received a letter from counsel for
the American Petroleum Institute (``API'') requesting that the
Commission extend the comment deadline in the ANPR proceeding for an
additional 60 days, resulting in a 90-day comment period. In its
request, API advances three arguments in support of an extension of the
comment period. First, API argues that additional time is needed to
canvass its more than 400 members and to ``consolidate and present that
information for the Commission's consideration.'' Second, API contends
that the extension is necessary to ensure that there is ``sufficient
time for thoughtful deliberation'' about the ``many novel and complex
issues'' addressed in the ANPR. Third, API opines that ``defining
`manipulation' is inherently difficult and not within the Commission's
traditional antitrust or consumer protection experience,'' and thus
providing additional time to commenters will yield more carefully
considered comments, which will be beneficial to the Commission as it
proceeds.
The Commission is sympathetic to the concerns raised by API. The
Commission, however, is not persuaded that a full 60-day extension--
which would triple the time allocated by the Commission for the receipt
of comments--is necessary to ensure that interested parties have an
adequate opportunity to prepare and submit thoughtful responses at this
stage in the proceeding. The Commission believes that a 15-day
extension of the initial 30-day comment period should be sufficient to
enable API and all other commenters to finalize and submit comments in
response to the ANPR while avoiding unnecessary delay. Further, in the
event that the Commission determines to issue a Notice of Proposed
Rulemaking in this proceeding, interested parties will be afforded an
additional period of time in which to submit comments in response to a
proposed Rule. Accordingly, the Commission has determined to extend the
comment period set forth in the ANPR until June 23, 2008.\4\
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\4\ Under Commission Rule 4.3(a), the 15-day comment period
begins on Monday, June 9, 2008, the first business day after the
date on which the comment period is currently scheduled to end. 16
CFR 4.3(a).
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By direction of the Commission.
Donald S. Clark,
Secretary.
[FR Doc. E8-12739 Filed 6-5-08: 8:45 am]
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