	           UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

      DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

             OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                  WASHINGTON, D.C.



						Served:  February 23, 2004

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Notice Shortening Answer Period

Docket OST-2002-14049

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By a Notice of Action Taken, dated December 10, 2003, we granted a
90-day waiver of the startup dates as required by Order 2003-9-9 for
Evergreen International Airlines and Kalitta Air LLC for the two
frequencies that each carrier was awarded for their proposed Seoul,
Korea-Hong Kong services.  In granting that authority, we indicated that
several carriers had expressed interest in using one or more of the four
frequencies at issue on an interim basis.   We noted that Federal
Express had at the time of the Notice of Action Taken two pendente lite
frequencies for Seoul service.  The Notice of Action Taken permitted
Federal Express to extend its pendente lite frequencies at Seoul through
March 10, 2004 (the anticipated date for Evergreen and Kalitta to
startup Seoul-Hong Kong services).  Subsequently, by Notice of Action
Taken, January 9, 2004, we allocated one frequency each to Northwest
Airlines and Polar Air Cargo on an interim basis through March 10, 2004.

In a letter, dated February 20, 2004, Evergreen International Airlines
notified the Department and the parties to the proceeding that Evergreen
had decided to return to the Department its two frequencies for
fifth-freedom all-cargo services between Hong Kong and Seoul allocated
to Evergreen in the 2002/2003 Hong Kong Fifth-Freedom All-Cargo
Frequency Proceeding, Docket OST 2002-14049. 

Under the Department’s rules, comments on Evergreen’s letter would
be due March 2, 2004.  We have decided to shorten the comment period and
to request comments on Evergreen’s letter by Thursday, February 26,
2004.  We request reply comments by Friday, February 27, 2004.



We will serve this notice by email or facsimile to all parties in Docket
OST-2002-14049, and we authorize comments to be served by facsimile or
email.

						PAUL L. GRETCH

			Director, Office of International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated:  February 23, 2004

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

  HYPERLINK "http://dms.dot.gov//reports/reports_aviation.asp" 
http://dms.dot.gov//reports/reports_aviation.asp 

 The January 9 Notice of Action Taken also required Evergreen and
Kalitta to give notice two weeks prior to their inauguration of service
so that interim frequencies could be taken down in a timely fashion. 
For a 

March 10 startup date, the latest date to provide this Notice would be
February 25, 2004.  We expect Kalitta to provide this required notice in
a timely fashion.

