Served: November 15, 2007

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation

on the 15th of November, 2007

INTRA-ALASKA MAINLINE

SERVICE MAIL RATES	

Docket OST-2003-14695

(Docket OST-95-429)





NOTICE 

Order 2007-8-26, served August 27, 2007, tentatively set new
intra-Alaska mainline mail rates effective September 29, 2007, through
September 26, 2008, and provided for objections by September 17, 2007. 
On September 21, 2007, Order 2007-9-23 made the rates tentatively set by
Order 2007-8-26 final until further Department action, and in the
interest of fully developing the record before issuing a final order,
requested comments.  The United States Postal Service and Alaska
Airlines, Inc., responded on October 1, 2007.  

On October 19, 2007, NAC filed certain documents for which it seeks
confidential treatment.  We received no comments other than from these
three parties.  Under 14 C.F.R. § 302.12 (Rule 12) of the
Department’s regulations, parties may seek confidential treatment for
supporting documents and information.  NAC requested confidential
treatment of its filing, without making specific reference to Rule 12. 
Nonetheless, we will apply the provisions of Rule 12 to the treatment of
those documents.  In order to afford interested parties access to the
documents we will grant interim access to those documents to parties
covered by NAC’s Rule 12 Motion, i.e., to the counsel and outside
experts of the three parties who have responded to our request for
comments, Alaska Airlines, NAC, and the Postal Service, provided that
they file appropriate affidavits with the Department in advance.  We
also find it appropriate to grant interim access to any subsequent
materials that may be filed in this case under a Rule 12 Motion to
counsel and outside experts for interested parties who file appropriate
affidavits with the Department in advance, unless the party filing the
Motion objects.  

   

We expect all affidavits to state, at a minimum, that (1) the affiant is
counsel for an interested party in the proceeding or an outside
independent expert providing services to that party; (2) the affiant
will use the information only for the purpose of participating in this
proceeding; and (3) the affiant will disclose such information only to
other persons who have filed a valid affidavit in
Docket OST-2003-14695.  Affiants and interested parties must understand
and agree that any pleading or other filing that includes or discusses
information contained in the covered documents must itself be
accompanied by a Rule 12 Motion requesting confidential treatment. 
Affidavits must be filed in Docket OST-2003-14695 with the Department
of Transportation, Dockets, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE,
Washington, D.C. 20590.  

Affiants having filed affidavits may examine the documents at the
Department of Transportation at the Dockets location.  Affiants must
present a stamped copy of the affidavit filed with the Department of
Transportation before examination of the documents.  After a final order
has been issued for this rate year, all persons who filed
confidentiality affidavits in this proceeding are hereby directed to
file a further affidavit stating that all copies of the applicant’s
confidential materials have been destroyed or returned to the applicant.
 

Any comments from Parties to the proceeding concerning this information
are to be filed by November 27, 2007.

We shall serve this notice on all persons on the service list for this
docket.  

By: 

MICHAEL W. REYNOLDS

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Aviation

   and International Affairs 

(SEAL)

An electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide
Web at 

  HYPERLINK "http://www.regulations.gov"  http://www.regulations.gov  

To search for a Docket in the FDMS, click on the link above.  Then from
the Home Page...

Scroll to Search Documents

Under Step #1, select All Documents

Skip to Optional Step #4, Select “Docket ID”

Under “Category,” enter the Docket Number, DOT-OST-2003-14695

Click: “Exact Phrase”

Then click: Submit

 We will rule on the merits of the Rule 12 motions by subsequent order.

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