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FTA REGIONAL AND METROPOLITAN OFFICES

Mary Beth Mello, Regional Administrator, Region 1—Boston, Kendall 

Square, 55 Broadway, Suite 920, Cambridge, MA 02142–1093, Tel. 

617–494–2055. 

Robert C. Patrick, Regional Administrator, Region 6—Ft. Worth, 819 

Taylor Street, Room 8A36, Ft. Worth, TX 76102, Tel. 817–978–0550. 

States served: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

Rhode Island, and Vermont. 

States served: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and 

Texas. 

Brigid Hynes-Cherin, Regional Administrator, Region 2—New York, 

One Bowling Green, Room 429, New York, NY 10004–1415, Tel. 

212–668–2170. 

Mokhtee Ahmad, Regional Administrator, Region 7—Kansas City, MO, 

901 Locust Street, Room 404, Kansas City, MO 64106, Tel. 816– 

329–3920. 

States served: New Jersey, New York States served: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. 

New York Metropolitan Office, Region 2—New York, One Bowling 

Green, Room 428, New York, NY 10004–1415, Tel. 212–668–2202. 

Letitia Thompson, Regional Administrator, Region 3—Philadelphia, 

1760 Market Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103–4124, Tel. 

215–656–7100. 

Terry Rosapep, Regional Administrator, Region 8—Denver, 12300 

West Dakota Ave., Suite 310, Lakewood, CO 80228–2583, Tel. 720– 

963–3300. 

States served: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and District of Columbia. States served: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, 

and, Wyoming. 

Philadelphia Metropolitan Office, Region 3—Philadelphia, 1760 Market 

Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103–4124, Tel. 215–656–7070. 

Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Office, 1990 K Street, NW., Room 510, 

Washington, DC 20006, Tel. 202–219–3562. 

Yvette Taylor, Regional Administrator, Region 4—Atlanta, 230 Peachtree Street, NW Suite 800, Atlanta, GA 30303, Tel. 404–865–5600. Leslie T. Rogers, Regional Administrator, Region 9—San Francisco, 

201 Mission Street, Room 1650, San Francisco, CA 94105–1926, 

Tel. 415–744–3133. 

States served: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North 

Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and the Virgin Islands. 

States served: American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, 

Nevada, and the Northern Mariana, Islands. 

Los Angeles Metropolitan Office, Region 9—Los Angeles, 888 S. 

Figueroa Street, Suite 1850, Los Angeles, CA 90017–1850, Tel. 

213–202–3952. 

Marisol Simon, Regional Administrator, Region 5—Chicago, 200 West 

Adams Street, Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60606, Tel. 312–353–2789. 

Rick Krochalis, Regional Administrator, Region 10—Seattle, Jackson 

Federal Building, 915 Second Avenue, Suite 3142, Seattle, WA 

98174–1002, Tel. 206–220–7954. 

States served: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. States served: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. 

Chicago Metropolitan Office, Region 5—Chicago, 200 West Adams 

Street, Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60606, Tel. 312–353–2789. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4873 Filed 3–3–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD 2011–0017] 

Information Collection Available for 

Public Comments and 

Recommendations 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Maritime 

Administration’s (MARAD’s) intention 

to request extension of approval for 

three years of a currently approved 

information collection. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before May 3, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita 

Jackson, Maritime Administration, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366–0284; 

or e-mail: Rita.Jackson@dot.gov. Copies 

of this collection can also be obtained 

from that office. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Request for Waiver 

of Service Obligation, Request for 

Deferment of Service Obligation, and 

Application for Review. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0510. 

Form Numbers: MA–935, MA–936, 

MA–937. 

Expiration Date of Approval: Three 

years from date of approval by the 

Office of Management and Budget. 

Summary of Collection of 

Information: This information collection 

is essential for determining if a student 

or graduate of the United States 

Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) 

or subsidized student or graduate of a 

State maritime academy has a waivable 

situation preventing them from fulfilling 

the requirements of a service obligation 

contract signed at the time of their 

enrollment in a Federal maritime 

training program. It also permits the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD) to 

determine if a graduate, who wishes to 

defer the service obligation to attend 

graduate school, is eligible to receive a 

deferment. Their service obligation is 

required by law. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

This information collected establishes 

overall compliance with the service 

obligation contract in support of the 

Economic Growth and Trade and 

National Security goals identified in the 

DOT Strategic Plan. Because the 

graduates are required to serve as 

commissioned officers in the U.S. 

Merchant Marine Reserve, U.S. Naval 

Reserve (as an aspect of the service 

obligation), they become the Navy’s 

single largest source of naval reserve 

officers except for Naval R.O.T.C. In 

their civilian capacities, they are 

required first to sail on their 

professional merchant marine licenses 

or work in the maritime industry ashore. 

This dual role makes the graduates 

especially valuable because national 

defense planning initiatives and the 

Nation’s economic needs depend on 

available personnel who are highly 

trained. 

Description of Respondents: U.S. 

Merchant Marine Academy students 

and graduates, and subsidized students 

and graduates who attend the State 

Maritime Academies. 

Annual Responses: 11. 

Annual Burden: 3.30 hours. 


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Comments: Comments should be 

referred to the docket number that 

appears at the top of this document. 

Written comments may be submitted to 

the Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets, 

Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Comments also may be submitted by 

electronic means via the Internet at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Specifically 

address whether this information 

collection is necessary for proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency and will have practical utility, 

accuracy of the burden estimates, ways 

to minimize this burden, and ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the information to be collected. All 

comments received will be available for 

examination at the above address 

between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT (or 

EST), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal Holidays. An electronic version 

of this document is available on the 

World Wide Web at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you 

may visit http://www.regulations.gov. 

Authority: 49 CFR 1.66. 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Dated: February 14, 2011. 

Christine Gurland, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4939 Filed 3–3–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

Petition for Exemption From the 

Federal Motor Vehicle Motor Theft 

Prevention Standard; Jaguar Land 

Rover 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Grant of petition for exemption. 

SUMMARY: This document grants in full 

the petition of Jaguar Land Rover North 

America’s, (Land Rover) petition for an 

exemption of the Range Rover Evoque 

vehicle line in accordance with 49 CFR 

part 543, Exemption from the Theft 

Prevention Standard. This petition is 

granted because the agency has 

determined that the antitheft device to 

be placed on the line as standard 

equipment is likely to be as effective in 

reducing and deterring motor vehicle 

theft as compliance with the partsmarking requirements of the Theft 

Prevention Standard (49 CFR part 541). 

DATES: The exemption granted by this 

notice is effective beginning with the 

2012 model year. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Carlita Ballard, Office of International 

Policy, Fuel Economy and Consumer 

Programs, NHTSA, W43–439, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 

20590. Ms. Ballard’s phone number is 

(202) 366–5222. Her fax number is (202) 

493–2990. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a 

petition dated November 22, 2010, Land 

Rover requested an exemption from the 

parts-marking requirements of the theft 

prevention standard (49 CFR Part 541) 

for the Range Rover Evoque vehicle line 

beginning with MY 2012. The petition 

has been filed pursuant to 49 CFR part 

543, Exemption from Vehicle Theft 

Prevention Standard, based on the 

installation of an antitheft device as 

standard equipment for the entire 

vehicle line. 

Under § 543.5(a), a manufacturer may 

petition NHTSA to grant an exemption 

for one vehicle line per model year. In 

its petition, Land Rover provided a 

detailed description and diagram of the 

identity, design, and location of the 

components of the antitheft device for 

the Range Rover Evoque vehicle line. 

Land Rover stated that the Range Rover 

Evoque vehicles will be equipped with 

a passive, transponder based, electronic 

engine immobilizer antitheft device as 

standard equipment beginning with the 

2012 model year. Key components of its 

antitheft device will include a power 

train module, instrument cluster, body 

control module, remote frequency 

receive immobilizer antenna unit, smart 

key, door control units and a perimeter 

alarm system. The immobilizer device is 

automatically immobilized when the 

Smart Key is removed from the vehicle. 

Land Rover stated that the Smart Key is 

programmed and synchronized to the 

vehicle by means of a unique 

identification code key and a secret 

code key which is randomly generated 

and unique to each vehicle. 

Additionally, Land Rover states that its 

antitheft device will include an audible 

and visual perimeter alarm system as 

standard equipment that can be armed 

manually or programmed to arm 

automatically with the Smart Key. If the 

hood, luggage compartment, or doors 

are opened during an unauthorized 

entry, the vehicle siren alarm will sound 

and the exterior lights will flash. 

Land Rover stated that there are three 

methods of vehicle operation and 

engine start: (1) Pulling the driver’s door 

handle with correct Smart Key 

authentication, and pressing the ignition 

start button; (2) unlocking the vehicle 

with the Smart Key unlock button; and 

(3) using the emergency key blade. 

In addressing the specific content 

requirements of 543.6, Land Rover 

provided information on the reliability 

and durability of its proposed device. 

To ensure reliability and durability of 

the device, Land Rover conducted tests 

based on its own specified standards. 

Land Rover provided a detailed list of 

the tests conducted (i.e., temperature 

and humidity cycling, high and low 

temperature cycling, mechanical shock, 

random vibration, thermal stress/shock 

tests, material resistance tests, dry heat, 

dust and fluid ingress tests). Land Rover 

stated that it believes that its device is 

reliable and durable because it complied 

with specified requirements for each 

test. Additionally, Land Rover stated 

that the vehicle’s key recognition 

sequence includes in excess of a billion 

code combinations with encrypted data 

that is secure against copying. The 

coded data transfer between modules 

also use a unique secure identifier, 

random number and secure public 

algorithm. 

Land Rover stated that since the 

Range Rover Evoque is a new vehicle 

line, there is no data from a previous 

generation vehicle to compare theft rate 

data, although, it stated, the immobilizer 

in the Range Rover Evoque is 

substantially similar to the antitheft 

device installed on the MY 2010 Jaguar 

XJ vehicle line that was previously 

granted an exemption by the agency on 

November 16, 2009. Land Rover stated 

that based on 2006–2008 MY theft data 

information published by NHTSA, Land 

Rover vehicles equipped with 

immobilizers had theft rates that were 

below the median. Land Rover also 

stated that the immobilizer in the Range 

Rover Evoque line is no less effective 

than devices NHTSA has already 

granted full exemptions (i.e., Jaguar XK 

and XJ). Additionally, Land Rover 

submitted a Highway Loss Data Institute 

news release (July 19, 2000) showing an 

approximate 50% reduction in theft for 

vehicles installed with an immobilizer 

device. 

Based on the evidence submitted by 

Land Rover, the agency believes that the 

antitheft device for the Range Rover 

Evoque vehicle line is likely to be as 

effective in reducing and deterring 

motor vehicle theft as compliance with 


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