Served: March 23, 2006

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

WASHINGTON, D.C.

Issued by the Department of Transportation

on the 23rd of March, 2006

INTRA ALASKA BUSH SERVICE MAIL RATES

	

Docket OST-2003-14694





				PROCEDURAL NOTICE

Order 2006-3-5, March 7, 2006, directed parties to show cause by
March 27, 2006, why the bush mail rates in that order should not be
finalized.  On March 22, Peninsula Airways, Inc., (PenAir) filed a
motion under 14 CFR 302.11, to extend the deadline for comments by 30
days.  PenAir stated that we should grant its request because it needs
additional time to evaluate the data behind the proposed rates and to
formulate a response, and because the order tentatively decreased the
rates by a significant amount.  PenAir states that the Postal Service
would not object to the 30-day extension.  On March 23, the
Consolidated Carriers stated that, although “the Order and its
supporting exhibits were clear and definitive, and the data on which the
Order is based have been available for many weeks,” it supports an
extension until at least April 10, 2006.  

Given the overlap between deadlines for answers to PenAir’s motion,
which is March 28, and comments to Order 2006-3-5, which is March 27,
and given the responses of the parties already filed we believe that it
is in the public interest to act before answers to the motion are due. 
We therefore grant Penn Air’s motion to extend the date for comments
to Order 2006-3-5 until April 26, 2006.

TODD M. HOMAN

Acting Director

Office of Aviation Analysis

-  PAGE 2  -

