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1Corresponding, but non-identical requirements 

for NOTOCs can be found in Part7;4.1 of the ICAO 

Technical Instructions for the Safe Transport of 

Dangerous Goods by Air (ICAO TI). The Department 

of Transportation has a history and statutory 

mandate to harmonize with the ICAO TI when 

safety considerations and the public interest are not 

compromised. 49 USC 5120(b). 

Goods Panel considers revisions to this 

document.1

The FAA and PHMSA are interested 

in acquiring a comprehensive 

understanding of the entire NOTOC 

system. Participants are encouraged to 

address the following issues: 

Processes 

• While recognizing variance between 

air carriers, what are the process(es) 

leading to the generation of the NOTOC 

and its delivery to the pilot in 

command? 

• What are the processes involved in 

providing emergency responders the 

information they require? 

What are each stakeholder’s unique 

informational needs? 

• When an onboard incident/ 

emergency occurs not caused by or 

immediately associated with hazardous 

materials how does (or how could) the 

information on the NOTOC impact a 

pilot’s reaction? How does this compare 

to when hazardous materials are the 

suspected cause of an onboard incident? 

• Are there notable instances where 

the presence of information or lack of 

information impacted an air carrier’s, 

pilot’s, or emergency responder’s course 

of action? 

• Should there be a distinction (i.e. 

format or information included) 

between passenger and cargo-only air 

carriers? 

General Questions 

• For hazardous materials required to 

be listed on NOTOCs, is there additional 

information that would be useful? Is 

there certain information extraneous to 

NOTOC users? 

• Are there certain excepted 

hazardous materials not currently 

required to be on a NOTOC that should 

be included on the NOTOC? Are there 

hazardous materials currently required 

to be on the NOTOC that may not need 

to be included? 

• Can the format of the NOTOC be 

improved? Should different versions be 

considered for different users? 

• Should consumer commodities be 

addressed in an alternative manner? 

When the NOTOC is provided to Flight 

Crews 

• 49 CFR 175.33(a) requires ‘‘accurate 

and legible written information’’ be 

provided to pilots in command, ‘‘as 

early as practicable before departure of 

the aircraft’’. The FAA and PHMSA are 

interested in investigating if current 

airline processes afford sufficient time 

for pilots in command to review the 

NOTOC, particularly taking into 

account the extensive demands of an 

aircrew prior to departure. How do 

airlines implement this policy and how 

can it be improved? 

When the NOTOC is provided to 

Emergency Responders 

• 49 CFR 175.33(c)(3) requires 

NOTOCs to be readily accessible at the 

intended arrival airport. 49 CFR 

175.33(c)(4) requires NOTOCs (or the 

information contained within NOTOC’s) 

to be issued to emergency responders at 

reasonable times and locations. The 

FAA, PHMSA, and relevant 

stakeholders are well aware of instances 

of unacceptable delay in providing 

required information to emergency 

responders. What improvements to this 

process have been made or are being 

considered? How are airlines 

considering leveraging new technologies 

where someday even ‘‘unintended’’ 

arrival airports would be aware of an 

aircraft’s hazardous materials? 

Participation at the Public Meetings 

Attendance is open to the public. 

Speakers should be prepared to limit 

their oral remarks to 10 minutes in the 

event the number of speakers exceeds 

the time allocated in the agenda. 

Public Meeting Procedures 

A panel of representatives from the 

FAA and PHMSA will be present. An 

FAA representative will facilitate the 

meetings in accordance with the 

following procedures: 

(1) The meetings are designed to 

facilitate the public comment process. 

The meetings will be informal and nonadversarial. No individual will be 

subject to questioning by any other 

participant. Government representatives 

on the panel may ask questions to 

clarify statements. Any statement made 

during the meetings by a panel member 

should not be construed as an official 

position of the government. 

a. One exception is that, time 

permitting, attendees may be allowed to 

ask questions following the FAA Air 

Traffic Control Organization’s Briefing 

on the Flight Object Initiative. 

(2) There will be no admission fees or 

other charges to attend or to participate 

in the public meeting. The meeting will 

be open to all persons, subject to the 

capacity in the meeting room and the 

web-conferencing system. Every effort 

will be made to accommodate all 

persons wishing to attend. The FAA and 

PHMSA will try to accommodate all 

speakers, subject to time constraints. 

The FAA and PHMSA reserve the right 

to exclude some speakers, if necessary, 

to obtain balanced viewpoints. 

(1) The FAA and PHMSA will review 

and consider all material presented by 

participants at the public meeting. If the 

speaker wishes to provide handouts to 

attendees, these materials shall be 

provided by speaker. 

(2) Presentations, supplemental data, 

and other information may be provided 

to FAA and PHMSA at the discretion of 

the participant. 

(3) Each person presenting comments 

is asked to submit data to support the 

comments. The FAA and PHMSA will 

protect from disclosure all proprietary 

data submitted in accordance with 

applicable laws. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on February 18, 

2011. 

Christopher Glasow, 

Director, Office of Hazardous Materials. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4237 Filed 2–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Docket No. FHWA–2011–0014 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Approval of a New Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Request for Approval 

of a New Information Collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval of a new information 

collection that is summarized below 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 

are required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by May 

2, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

2011–0014 by any of the following 

methods: 

Web Site: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 


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11310 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 40 / Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / Notices 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Kuehn, 202–493–3414, Office of 

Corporate Research, Technology, and 

Innovation Management, Federal 

Highway Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Exploratory Advanced Research 

(EAR) Program sponsored project titled 

‘‘Effects of Automated Transit and 

Pedestrian/Bicycling Facilities on Urban 

Travel Patterns.’’ 

Type of request: New information 

collection requirement. 

Background: The Exploratory 

Advanced Research (EAR) Program was 

established to conduct longer term, 

higher risk research that will result in a 

potentially dramatic breakthrough for 

improving the durability, efficiency, 

environmental impact, productivity, 

and safety of highway and intermodal 

transportation systems. FHWA awarded 

a research project titled ‘‘Effects of 

Automated Transit and Pedestrian/ 

Bicycling Facilities on Urban Travel 

Patterns’’ that was submitted in response 

to a solicitation in 2009 and supports 

the EAR Program focus area of new 

technology and advanced policies for 

energy and resource conservation. The 

project conducted by the University of 

Michigan with support from the 

University of Illinois at Chicago has the 

potential to lead to applications for 

evidence-based policies and approaches 

that could substantially reduce the 

percentage and total number of short 

trips using private vehicles and increase 

the percentage and number of trips 

using current and future transit 

technology and non-motorized trips, 

which would reduce use and 

dependence on fossil fuels and 

associated pollution impacts. 

The research project is attempting to 

gauge potential travel-behavior response 

to far-reaching improvements in the 

pedestrian, cycling, and transit 

environments of neighborhoods. The 

transit improvements are inspired by 

the frequency and quality of service that 

might be made possibility of future 

technologies. The project is studying the 

capacity of these improvements to 

generate the following kinds of shifts: 

(1) Modal shift of neighborhood trips 

from auto to other modes; (2) Increased 

use of regional public transit based on 

improved station access; and (3) Shift of 

more remote non-work destinations to 

destinations within the neighborhood. 

To explore these issues, the research 

team is building a model that integrates 

activity-based and agent-based 

components. The models in turn will be 

based on a survey of residents in four 

neighborhoods of metropolitan Chicago. 

As part of the survey, respondents will 

be presented with images representing 

potential improvements to the 

pedestrian, cycling, and transit 

environments of their neighborhoods 

and will respond to scenarios regarding 

their travel under these altered 

conditions. 

We will mail 7,700 invitations with 

an expectation of 1,400 residents 

responding. From that pool, 800 will be 

selected for the study, which includes a 

survey packet, travel diary and phone 

interview. 

Respondents: We estimate that 1,400 

residents will respond to the initial 

invitation and 800 residents will 

participate in the study. 

Frequency: This is a one-time 

collection. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: The invitation portion takes 

approximately 15 minutes to complete. 

1400 residents × 15 minutes = 350 

hours. 

The research study takes 

approximately 1 hour and 30 minutes 

(30 minutes for the survey packet and 

travel diary and 1 hour for the phone 

interview). 

800 residents × 90 minutes = 1,200 

hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: The total burden for this onetime information collection would be 

approximately 1,550 hours. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the U.S. 

DOT’s performance, including whether 

the information will have practical 

utility; (2) the accuracy of the U.S. 

DOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, 

and clarity of the collected information; 

and (4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued on: February 24, 2011. 

Juli Huynh, 

Chief, Management Programs and Analysis 

Division. 

[FR Doc. 2011–4590 Filed 2–28–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Alternatives Analysis Program 

Discretionary Funding Allocations 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Alternatives Analysis Program 

Announcement of Project Selections. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) announces the 

selection of projects funded with 

unallocated Section 5339 Alternatives 

Analysis Program funds in support of 

DOT’s Livability Initiative, which was 

announced in the Alternatives Analysis 

Program Notice of Funding Availability 

(NOFA) on May 28, 2010. The 

Alternatives Analysis Program assists 

potential sponsors of major transit 

capital investments (‘‘New Starts’’ and 

‘‘Small Starts’’ projects) in the evaluation 

of all reasonable modal and multimodal 

alternatives and general alignment 

options to address transportation needs 

in a defined travel corridor. Through 

these funding awards, FTA will support 

a limited number of alternatives 

analyses, or technical work conducted 

as part of proposed or on-going 

alternatives analyses, that seek to 

advance major transit investments that 

foster the six livability principles of the 

DOT–HUD–EPA Partnership for 

Sustainable Communities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Successful applicants should contact 

the appropriate FTA Regional office 

(Appendix A) for specific information 

regarding applying for the funds. For 

general information on the Alternatives 

Analysis Program, contact Kenneth 

Cervenka, Office of Planning and 

Environment, at (202) 493–0512 or 

Kenneth.Cervenka@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A total of 

$25,700,000 was available for FTA’s 

Alternatives Analysis Program. A total 

of $73,027,950 was requested for 67 

projects, indicating significant demand 

for funds. Project proposals were 


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