Domestic Baggage Liability

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

14 CFR Part 254

[Docket No. 49330]

RIN 2105-AC07

Domestic Baggage Liability

AGENCY: Department of Transportation; Office of the Secretary.

ACTION: Extension of the comment period.

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SUMMARY: The Department is extending the comment period for the

rulemaking on domestic baggage liability. Responding carriers should

submit their baggage claim information to the Department by November

29, 1994. DOT will aggregate the data submitted, publish a notice in

the Federal Register, and place the aggregated data in the docket for

this proceeding. The comment period will close 30 days after the data

is placed in the docket. This action is in response to a petition by

the Air Transport Association of America.

DATES: Carrier data is due November 29, 1994. The comment period, which

will be announced in a subsequent notice in the Federal Register, will

be 30 days after the Department places the aggregated data in the

docket.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joanne Petrie, Office of Regulation

and Enforcement, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. Department of

Transportation, 400 7th Street SW, Room 10424, Washington, DC 20590.

(202) 366-9306.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 30, 1994 (59 FR 49867), the

Office of the Secretary (OST) published a notice of proposed rulemaking

proposing to raise the domestic baggage liability limit for U.S. air

carriers. The comment period closes on November 29, 1994.

On November 10, 1994, the Air Transport Association (ATA)

petitioned OST to extend the comment period. It suggested that

responding carriers have until November 29, 1994, to submit information

about their baggage claim experience. It asked for OST to aggregate the

information because the individual carrier responses are proprietary,

and then allow 60 days for comments after DOT places the aggregated

claims information in the docket. ATA claims that this information will

enable interested members of the public to submit better-grounded

comments and will enable DOT to make a decision based on the fullest

information possible.

We have decided to grant a modified version of ATA's request.

Carrier data will now be due November 29, 1994. The Department will

attempt to aggregate the data, to the extent practicable, and place the

information in the docket. The comment period, which will be announced

in a subsequent notice in the Federal Register, will be 30 days after

the Department places the aggregated data in the docket.

Issued in Washington, DC on November 23, 1994.

Patrick Murphy,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Aviation and International Affairs.

[FR Doc. 94-29393 Filed 11-23-94; 3:49 pm]

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