Flavored Malt Beverages and Related Proposals; Posting of Comments Received on the TTB Internet Web Site

Washington, D.C. - The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) has issued a notice modifying the conditions for the posting of comments on the TTB Internet Web site submitted in response to the Flavored Malt Beverage and Related Proposals notice (Notice No. 4), published in the Federal Register on March 24, 2003.

The notice, published in the Federal Register on December 2, 2003, announces that all comments submitted in response to Notice No. 4 will be posted on our Internet Web site with the commenter's street address, telephone number, and e-mail address included, unless the commenter requests within the next 3 weeks that such information be removed from the posted comment.

If you commented on Notice No. 4, you have until December 23, 2003 to request removal of any street address, telephone number, or e-mail address from the posted comment.

Please include information to identify your original comment. For example, your request should include your name, address, date of your original comment, and the name of any letterhead your original comment was written on. In all cases, please reference "Notice No. 4-I.D. Removal" in the subject line of your request:

You may send your requests to any of the following addresses:

TTB will only accept requests to remove street addresses, telephone numbers, and e-mail addresses from the posted version of a comment on Notice No. 4 from the original, individual commenter. We will not accept such requests from an organization or company on behalf of a group of individual commenters.

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