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regulated under the ITAR (see e.g.,
sections 120.1(c) and (d), 126.7,
127.1(d), and 127.11(a)). The
Department of State applies a
presumption of denial for licenses or
other approvals involving such persons
as described in ITAR Section 127.11.
Pursuant to Section 38 of the AECA
and Section 128.3 of the ITAR, on
February 14, 2014, the Department of
State initiated administrative
proceedings, by means of a charging
letter, against Carlos Dominguez
(individually and in his capacity as
principal of the following entities);
Elint, S.A.; Spain Night Vision, S.A.;
and SNV, S.A. (including successors,
assignees, and aliases) (Respondents) to
impose debarment in accordance with
Section 127.7 of the ITAR. (The United
States Department of State, Docket#14–
DOS–0001). Respondents were charged
with 366 violations related to the
unauthorized re-export and retransfer of
night vision devices and related
technical data, conspiracy to and
causing of the re-export and retransfer of
defense articles without authorization,
the violation of terms and conditions of
Department authorizations, the
continued engagement in U.S. defense
trade despite ineligibility, the knowing
and willful causation and the
commission of prohibited acts, and the
falsification, misrepresentation and
omission of material facts on an export
control document, all in violation of
Section 38 of the AECA and Section 127
of the ITAR.
Since at least 2008, Respondents have
re-exported and retransferred hundreds
of night vision devices in violation of
Department authorizations and falsified
export control documents. After
multiple unfavorable responses to ‘Blue
Lantern’ end-use inquiries and
subsequent compliance reviews, DTCC
notified Respondents Dominguez and
Elint in September 2009 that they were
ineligible to engage in defense trade.
Shortly thereafter, Dominguez and Elint
changed or established new business
names and engaged third-party
purchasers in order to conceal their
activities and evade detection. Further
re-exports and retransfers of previously
exported defense articles continued
under these new business names, in
violation of the AECA and ITAR.
Due to Respondents’ failure to answer
the charges as provided in Section
128.5(a) of the ITAR, the Department
referred the case to an Administrative
Law Judge for consideration, in
accordance with Section 128.4 of the
ITAR. Pursuant to Section 128.3 of the
ITAR and the Default Order of the
Administrative Law Judge, dated April
23, 2014, Respondents’ failure to answer
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the charges constituted an admission of
the truth of the charges.
Section 128.4 of the ITAR provides for
a respondent’s ability to petition to set
aside defaults upon showing good
cause; however, the filing of such a
petition does not in any manner affect
an order entered upon default and such
order continues in full force and effect
unless a further order is made
modifying or terminating it.
On June 4, 2014, as the result of the
established violations and pursuant to
Section 127.7 of the ITAR, Carlos
Dominguez (individually and in his
capacity as principal of the following
entities); Elint, S.A.; Spain Night Vision,
S.A.; and SNV, S.A. (including
successors, assignees, and aliases) were
administratively debarred by the
Assistant Secretary of State for PoliticalMilitary Affairs for a period of three
years, until June 4, 2014; Reinstatement
after June 4, 2014 is not automatic. At
the end of the debarment period,
Respondents may apply for
reinstatement. Until licensing privileges
are reinstated, Carlos Dominguez
(individually and in his capacity as
principal of the following entities);
Elint, S.A.; Spain Night Vision, S.A.;
and SNV, S.A. (including successors,
assignees, and aliases) will remain
debarred. No civil penalties have been
imposed at this time.
This notice is provided to make the
public aware that the persons listed
above are prohibited from participating
directly or indirectly in any brokering
activities and in any export from or
temporary import into the United States
of defense articles, related technical
data, or defense services in all situations
covered by the ITAR.
Further, pursuant to Section 120.1(d)
of the ITAR, persons with knowledge
that another person is ineligible must
obtain authorization from the
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls
prior to, directly or indirectly and in
any manner or capacity, applying for,
obtaining, or using any export control
document for such ineligible person, or
ordering, buying, receiving, using,
selling, delivering, storing, disposing of,
forwarding, transporting, financing, or
otherwise servicing or participating in
any manner in any transaction that may
involve any defense article, which
includes technical data, defense
services, or brokering activities, where
such ineligible person may obtain any
benefit therefrom or have any direct or
indirect interest therein.
Exceptions may be made to this
denial policy on a case-by-case basis at
the discretion of the Directorate of
Defense Trade Controls. However, such
an exception would be granted only
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after a full review of all circumstances,
paying particular attention to the
following factors: Whether an exception
is warranted by overriding U.S. foreign
policy or national security interests;
whether an exception would further law
enforcement concerns that are
consistent with foreign policy or
national security interests of the United
States; or whether other compelling
circumstances exist that are consistent
with the foreign policy or national
security interests of the United States,
and law enforcement concerns.
This notice involves a foreign affairs
function of the United States
encompassed within the meaning of the
military and foreign affairs exclusion of
the Administrative Procedures Act.
Because the exercise of this foreign
affairs function is highly discretionary,
it is excluded from review under the
Administrative Procedures Act.
Dated: June 4, 2014.
Tom Kelly,
Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Political-Military Affairs, Department of
State.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Aviation Weather Product Change:
Transition of Select Area Forecasts
(FAs) to Digital and Graphical
Alternatives
Federal Aviation
Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), in coordination
with the National Weather Service
(NWS), will transition seven (7) Area
Forecasts (FAs), currently used as flight
planning and pilot weather briefing
aids, to digital and graphical
alternatives. A joint-agency working
group has concluded that these digital
and graphical alternatives better-meet
the needs of today’s aviation users.
Guidance with respect to the proper use
of these alternatives is forthcoming.
SUMMARY:
Note: Area Forecasts (FAs) for Alaska, the
Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico will
remain unaffected at this time.
The Federal Aviation
Administration must receive comments
on or before August 4, 2014. The
Agencies are targeting early 2015 for
transition.
ADDRESSES: Please mail comments
concerning this notice to the NextGen
DATES:
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Aviation Weather Division (ANG–C6),
Federal Aviation Administration, 800
Independence Ave. SW., Washington,
DC 20591.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stewart Stepney, 202–385–7182 or
stewart.stepney@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: United
States Code (citation below) directs the
Administrator of the Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) to make
recommendations to the Secretary of
Commerce on providing meteorological
services necessary for the safe and
efficient movement of aircraft. The
Secretary, in turn, is directed to
cooperate with the Administrator and
give complete consideration to these
recommendations. As such, FAA has
coordinated extensively with the
National Weather Service (NWS) to
review current and future aviation
weather information requirements.
The Area Forecast (FA) is an
abbreviated, plain-language forecast of
specified weather phenomena, covering
a geographical area designated by the
FAA. The Area Forecast (FA) is used to
determine en-route weather and to
estimate conditions at airports that do
not have a Terminal Aerodrome
Forecast (TAF). It is produced by the
National Weather Service (NWS) under
the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), within the
Department of Commerce (DoC).
The Area Forecast (FA) contains
weather information in a format
originally developed in the 1930s. By
design, it carries a character-count
limitation and is prohibited from
describing Instrument Flight Rule (IFR)
conditions (reserved for AIRMETs and
SIGMETs). It covers an extremely large
geographical area (typically, several
states) and is only issued 3–4x daily
(each valid for 18hrs).
These specifications tend to produce
a broad forecast of limited value. While
the Area Forecast (FA) met aviation
weather information needs for many
years, today NWS provides equivalent
information through a number of better
alternatives.
An FAA–NWS joint-agency working
group recently recommended that the
Area Forecast (FA) be transitioned to
more-modern digital and graphical
forecasts, observations, and
communications capabilities that
provide improved weather information
to decision-makers.
Therefore, the FAA will formally
recommend that NWS transition six (6)
Area Forecasts (FAs) covering separate
geographical areas of the Contiguous
United States (CONUS) and one (1) Area
Forecast (FA) covering Hawaii to digital
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and graphical alternatives already being
produced by NWS.
The seven (7) Area Forecasts (FAs)
affected include: FAUS41 (BOS),
FAUS42 (MIA), FAUS43 (CHI), FAUS44
(DFW), FAUS45 (SLC), FAUS46 (SFO)
and FAHW31 (Hawaii).
Note: Area Forecasts (FAs) for Alaska, the
Caribbean, and the Gulf of Mexico will
remain unaffected at this time.
Existing potential alternatives
identified by the joint-agency working
group include, but are not limited to:
• Surface weather analyses and
prognostic charts
• public forecast discussions
• Significant Weather (SIGWX) charts
• National Digital Forecast Database
(NDFD)
• Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs)
• Airmen’s Meteorological Information
(AIRMETs)
Aviation users are already
accustomed to consulting many of these
weather products during normal flight
planning. Together, they provide
information similar to that found in the
Area Forecast (FA), in higher resolution
and with the added benefit of graphical
depictions.
The joint-agency working group’s
membership included broad subjectmatter expertise from both FAA and
NWS, as well as the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
Members collected insight from
additional aviation weather
stakeholders including various pilot
organizations, weather briefers, airlines
and air traffic controllers.
Before the transition takes place, the
FAA will conduct a formal Safety Risk
Assessment as part of FAA’s Safety
Management System. Guidance with
respect to the proper use of proposed
alternatives is forthcoming.
Interested parties and stakeholders
may submit comments regarding the
planned transition by standard mail or
by email (kiley@avmet.com). Comments
must be received on or before August 4,
2014. The Agencies are targeting early
2015 for transition.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. § 44720(a).
Dated: June 11, 2014.
Richard J. Heuwinkel,
Manager, Aviation Weather Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0006]
Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Vision
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of applications for
exemption from the vision requirement,
request for comments.
AGENCY:
FMCSA announces receipt of
applications from 34 individuals for
exemption from the vision requirement
for operating a commercial motor
vehicle (CMV) in the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Regulations. The
applicants are unable to meet the vision
requirement in one eye for various
reasons. The exemptions will allow
these individuals to operate CMVs in
interstate commerce without meeting
the prescribed vision requirement in
one eye. At the end of the comment
period, the Agency will grant
exemptions to the applicants listed
herein if there are no adverse comments
that indicate the driver’s ability will not
achieve a level of safety equivalent to or
greater than the level of safety that
would be obtained by complying with
the regulations. All comments will be
reviewed and evaluated by FMCSA.
Some individuals appearing in this
notice may not receive exemptions
based on comments received during the
comment period. Individuals not
granted an exemption may either be
published at a future date based on
further evaluation or may not be
deemed to meet the aforementioned
level of safety if granted an exemption.
These individuals will be published in
a quarterly notice of exemption denials.
As always, any adverse comments
received after the exemption is granted
will be evaluated, and if they indicate
that the driver is not achieving a level
of safety equivalent to or greater than
the level of safety that would be
obtained by complying with the
regulation, the exemption will be
revoked. When granted, the exemptions
will allow these individuals with vision
deficiencies in one eye to operate in
interstate commerce.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 21, 2014. All comments
will be investigated by FMCSA. The
exemptions will be issued the day after
the comment period closes.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket No. FMCSA–
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Aviation Weather Product Change: Transition of Select Area
Forecasts (FAs) to Digital and Graphical Alternatives
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), in coordination
with the National Weather Service (NWS), will transition seven (7) Area
Forecasts (FAs), currently used as flight planning and pilot weather
briefing aids, to digital and graphical alternatives. A joint-agency
working group has concluded that these digital and graphical
alternatives better-meet the needs of today's aviation users. Guidance
with respect to the proper use of these alternatives is forthcoming.
Note: Area Forecasts (FAs) for Alaska, the Caribbean, and the
Gulf of Mexico will remain unaffected at this time.
DATES: The Federal Aviation Administration must receive comments on or
before August 4, 2014. The Agencies are targeting early 2015 for
transition.
ADDRESSES: Please mail comments concerning this notice to the NextGen
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Aviation Weather Division (ANG-C6), Federal Aviation Administration,
800 Independence Ave. SW., Washington, DC 20591.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stewart Stepney, 202-385-7182 or
stewart.stepney@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: United States Code (citation below) directs
the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to make
recommendations to the Secretary of Commerce on providing
meteorological services necessary for the safe and efficient movement
of aircraft. The Secretary, in turn, is directed to cooperate with the
Administrator and give complete consideration to these recommendations.
As such, FAA has coordinated extensively with the National Weather
Service (NWS) to review current and future aviation weather information
requirements.
The Area Forecast (FA) is an abbreviated, plain-language forecast
of specified weather phenomena, covering a geographical area designated
by the FAA. The Area Forecast (FA) is used to determine en-route
weather and to estimate conditions at airports that do not have a
Terminal Aerodrome Forecast (TAF). It is produced by the National
Weather Service (NWS) under the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), within the Department of Commerce (DoC).
The Area Forecast (FA) contains weather information in a format
originally developed in the 1930s. By design, it carries a character-
count limitation and is prohibited from describing Instrument Flight
Rule (IFR) conditions (reserved for AIRMETs and SIGMETs). It covers an
extremely large geographical area (typically, several states) and is
only issued 3-4x daily (each valid for 18hrs).
These specifications tend to produce a broad forecast of limited
value. While the Area Forecast (FA) met aviation weather information
needs for many years, today NWS provides equivalent information through
a number of better alternatives.
An FAA-NWS joint-agency working group recently recommended that the
Area Forecast (FA) be transitioned to more-modern digital and graphical
forecasts, observations, and communications capabilities that provide
improved weather information to decision-makers.
Therefore, the FAA will formally recommend that NWS transition six
(6) Area Forecasts (FAs) covering separate geographical areas of the
Contiguous United States (CONUS) and one (1) Area Forecast (FA)
covering Hawaii to digital and graphical alternatives already being
produced by NWS.
The seven (7) Area Forecasts (FAs) affected include: FAUS41 (BOS),
FAUS42 (MIA), FAUS43 (CHI), FAUS44 (DFW), FAUS45 (SLC), FAUS46 (SFO)
and FAHW31 (Hawaii).
Note: Area Forecasts (FAs) for Alaska, the Caribbean, and the
Gulf of Mexico will remain unaffected at this time.
Existing potential alternatives identified by the joint-agency
working group include, but are not limited to:
Surface weather analyses and prognostic charts
public forecast discussions
Significant Weather (SIGWX) charts
National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD)
Terminal Aerodrome Forecasts (TAFs)
Airmen's Meteorological Information (AIRMETs)
Aviation users are already accustomed to consulting many of these
weather products during normal flight planning. Together, they provide
information similar to that found in the Area Forecast (FA), in higher
resolution and with the added benefit of graphical depictions.
The joint-agency working group's membership included broad subject-
matter expertise from both FAA and NWS, as well as the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Members collected insight from
additional aviation weather stakeholders including various pilot
organizations, weather briefers, airlines and air traffic controllers.
Before the transition takes place, the FAA will conduct a formal
Safety Risk Assessment as part of FAA's Safety Management System.
Guidance with respect to the proper use of proposed alternatives is
forthcoming.
Interested parties and stakeholders may submit comments regarding
the planned transition by standard mail or by email (kiley@avmet.com).
Comments must be received on or before August 4, 2014. The Agencies are
targeting early 2015 for transition.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. Sec. 44720(a).
Dated: June 11, 2014.
Richard J. Heuwinkel,
Manager, Aviation Weather Division.
[FR Doc. 2014-14364 Filed 6-18-14; 8:45 am]
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