	

            UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

    DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

            OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY

                     WASHINGTON, DC

U.S.-BRAZIL COMBINATION FREQUENCIES

(Atlanta-Rio de Janeiro)           

Docket OST-2004-19161

									          Served:  January 10, 2005						

NOTICE SHORTENING ANSWER PERIOD

On January 7, 2005, Delta Air Lines, Inc. (Delta) filed a motion in the
above captioned docket requesting that the Department (1) act
immediately on its application filed September 1, 2004, for allocation
of seven U.S.-Brazil frequencies for Atlanta-Rio de Janeiro service and 

(2) shorten the answer period to the motion and require answers to be
filed no later than noon, January 11, 2005, to permit final action by
January 14, 2005.

On January 10, Delta advised the Department that there were no
objections to a shortened answer date of 5:00 p.m. January 11.

Under these circumstances we will shorten the answer period to 5:00 p.m.
January 11.  Acting under authority assigned in 14 CFR 385.13, answers
to Delta’s January 7 motion will now be due no later than 5:00 p.m.
January 11.

We will serve this notice by email or facsimile on all parties served
with the motion.  We authorize answers to be served by facsimile or
email.

By:

						PAUL L. GRETCH

						Director, Office of International Aviation

(SEAL)

Dated: January 10, 2005  

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 

 Under the Department’s regulations (14 CFR 302.11), answers to the
motion would be due January 19, 2005.

