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Responsibility-New Direction for 

Addressing Airworthiness Issues for 

Transport Airplanes’’ (70 FR 40166, July 

12, 2005), and the industry’s ability to 

provide the necessary retrofit equipment 

that might be required. 

ARAC should provide information 

that could lead to requirements in 

rudder load conditions, and/or system 

design that can be satisfied with 

practical design approaches. 

The FAA will provide a copy of each 

DOT report mentioned in this tasking 

notice. 

Schedule: The tasks described above 

are to be accomplished within 18 

months of publication of this tasking 

notice in the Federal Register. 

ARAC Acceptance of Task 

ARAC accepted the task and will 

assign it to the reestablished Flight 

Controls Harmonization Working 

Group, under Transport Airplane and 

Engine Issues. This working group will 

use task groups to assist in their 

activities. Nominees should have 

experience in the areas of flight test, 

flight controls, loads, or human factors. 

The working group serves as support to 

ARAC and assists in the analysis of 

assigned tasks. ARAC must review and 

approve the working group’s 

recommendations. If ARAC accepts the 

working group’s recommendations, it 

will forward them to the FAA. 

Working Group Activity 

The Flight Controls Harmonization 

Working Group must comply with the 

procedures adopted by ARAC. As part 

of the procedures, the working group 

must: 

1. Recommend a work plan for 

completion of the task, including the 

rationale supporting such a plan, for 

consideration at the next ARAC meeting 

on Transport Airplane and Engine 

Issues held following publication of this 

notice. 

2. Give a detailed conceptual 

presentation of the proposed 

recommendations before proceeding 

with the work stated in item 3 below. 

3. Draft the appropriate documents 

and required analyses and/or any other 

related materials or documents. 

4. Provide a status report at each 

ARAC meeting held to consider 

Transport Airplane and Engine Issues. 

Participation in the Working Group 

The Flight Controls Harmonization 

Working Group will be composed of 

technical experts having an interest in 

the assigned task. A working group 

member need not be a representative or 

a member of the full committee. 

If you have expertise in the subject 

matter and wish to become a member of 

the working group, write to the person 

listed under the caption FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT expressing that 

desire. Describe your interest in the task 

and state the expertise you would bring 

to the working group. We must receive 

all requests by April 25, 2011. The 

assistant chair and the assistant 

executive director will review the 

requests and advise you whether or not 

your request is approved. 

If you are chosen for membership on 

the working group, you must represent 

your aviation community segment and 

actively participate in the working 

group by attending all meetings, and 

providing written comments when 

requested to do so. You must devote the 

resources necessary to support the 

working group in meeting any assigned 

deadlines. You must keep your 

management chain and those you may 

represent advised of working group 

activities and decisions to ensure that 

the proposed technical solutions don’t 

conflict with your sponsoring 

organization’s position when the subject 

being considered is presented to ARAC 

for approval. Once the working group 

has begun deliberations, members will 

not be added or substituted without the 

approval of the assistant chair, the 

assistant executive director and the 

working group chair. 

The Secretary of Transportation 

determined that the formation and use 

of ARAC is necessary and in the public 

interest in connection with the 

performance of duties imposed on the 

FAA by law. 

ARAC meetings are open to the 

public. Meetings of the Flight Controls 

Harmonization Working Group will not 

be open to the public, except to the 

extent individuals with an interest and 

expertise are selected to participate. The 

FAA will make no public 

announcement of working group 

meetings. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 23, 

2011. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Executive Director, Aviation Rulemaking 

Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7180 Filed 3–25–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement: Cook 

County, IL 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this 

Notice of Intent to advise the public that 

an Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) will be prepared for the Grand 

Crossing Rail Project, which involves 

new railroad track work, structural 

work, grading, and signal improvements 

to provide a new direct route for Amtrak 

trains from New Orleans, Louisiana or 

Carbondale, Illinois into Chicago Union 

Station, and to provide sufficient 

mainline capacity to accommodate 

existing and additional Amtrak trains 

along with freight traffic in the City of 

Chicago, Cook County, Illinois. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Norman R. Stoner, P.E., Division 

Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration, 3250 Executive Park 

Drive, Springfield, Illinois 62703, 

Phone: (217) 492–4600. Steve McClarty, 

Acting Bureau Chief, Bureau of 

Railroads, Illinois Department of 

Transportation, 100 W. Randolph Street, 

Suite 6–600, Chicago, Illinois 

60601–3229, Phone: (312) 793–3940. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA, in cooperation with the Illinois 

Department of Transportation, Bureau of 

Railroads, will prepare an EIS on a 

proposal to construct a direct rail 

connection between the Canadian 

National (CN) and Norfolk Southern 

(NS) Chicago Line to provide a new, 

more direct route to Chicago’s Union 

Station for Amtrak trains coming from 

New Orleans, Louisiana, and 

Carbondale, Illinois. The proposed 

project is an element of the overall 

Chicago Region Environmental and 

Transportation Efficiency Program 

(CREATE), a joint effort of the Illinois 

Department of Transportation, the 

Chicago Department of Transportation, 

and the Association of American 

Railroads to restructure, modernize, and 

expand freight and passenger rail 

facilities and highway grade separations 

in the Chicago metropolitan area. 

Alternative track configurations will be 

considered and refined. The no-action 

alternative will also be evaluated. A 

preferred alternative and associated 

potential impacts will be presented at a 

public hearing. Preliminary measures to 

minimize harm, construction cost 

estimates, and estimated right-of-way 

and relocation requirements will also be 

developed. 

The proposed action will reduce 

travel time on the Amtrak’s Illini-Saluki 

and City of New Orleans trains by 

eliminating a time-consuming back-up 

move into Union Station that these 

trains currently perform due to the 

existing track configuration. In addition, 

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additional rail capacity along the 

existing rail corridor(s) that would be 

used for the new route. It will also allow 

for the space currently occupied by the 

St. Charles Airline tracks and the CN 

mainline tracks along the Lake Michigan 

lakefront north of Grand Crossing to be 

used to serve future public needs. 

The project is located principally on 

existing railroad rights-of-way owned by 

CN, NS, and the Metra commuter 

railroad. The project area—bounded by 

117th Street on the south, Lake 

Michigan on the east, Pershing Road on 

the north, and Halsted Street on the 

west—consists of urban residential and 

industrial land uses; no significant 

natural resource impacts are 

anticipated. Potential impacts may 

include residential and commercial 

relocations, effects on community 

cohesion and low-income and minority 

populations, economic impacts, and 

impacts to publicly owned parks, 

properties potentially eligible for listing 

on the National Register of Historic 

Places, special waste sites, and public 

facilities and services. There is also the 

potential for noise and vibration, and air 

quality impacts. 

In an attempt to address the full range 

of issues related to this proposed action 

and identify all substantive issues, this 

project is being developed using the 

principles of Context Sensitive 

Solutions per the Illinois Department of 

Transportation’s Policies and 

Procedures. A Stakeholder Involvement 

Plan (SIP) will be developed that will 

detail the public involvement activities 

that will be conducted as part of this 

study and will address the Coordination 

Plan requirements of 23 U.S.C. 139(g) 

within the context of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

process. Under the SIP, an 

interdisciplinary Project Study Group 

will be formed to develop the project, 

and a Community Advisory Group will 

be formed to provide input to the study 

process. As part of the EIS process, a 

scoping meeting for obtaining input 

from resource agencies will be held in 

June 2011 and invitations will be sent 

to the resource agencies. Public 

informational meetings, focus meetings 

with stakeholders, a public hearing, 

newsletters, a project Web site, and 

interest group meetings will provide 

additional opportunities for public 

involvement. The project’s Draft EIS 

will be available for public and agency 

review prior to the public hearing. The 

time and location of the public hearing 

will be announced in local newspapers. 

Comments or questions concerning this 

proposed action and the Draft EIS 

should be directed to FHWA or the 

Illinois Department of Transportation at 

the addresses provided above. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning 

and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12372 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

program.) 

Issued on: March 21, 2011. 

Jon-Paul Kohler, 

Planning and Program Development 

Manager, Springfield, Illinois. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7203 Filed 3–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA–2011– 

0039] 

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping 

Requirements 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Request for public comment on 

an extension of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can 

collect certain information from the 

public, it must receive approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Under procedures established 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, before seeking OMB approval, 

Federal agencies must solicit public 

comment on proposed collections of 

information, including extensions and 

reinstatement of previously approved 

collections. 

This document describes a collection 

of information for which NHTSA 

intends to seek OMB approval. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 27, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

using any of the following methods. All 

comments must have the applicable 

DOT docket number (e.g., NHTSA– 

2011–0039) noted conspicuously on 

them. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Telephone: 1–800–647–5527. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this proposed collection of 

information. Note that all comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. 

Please see the Privacy Act heading 

below. 

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 (65 FR 

19477–78) or you may visit http:// 

DocketInfo.dot.gov. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. or the street 

address listed above. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex 

Ansley, Recall Management Division 

(NVS–215), Room W46–412, NHTSA, 

1200 New Jersey Ave., Washington, DC 

20590. Telephone: (202) 493–0481. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before an agency submits a proposed 

collection of information to OMB for 

approval, it must first publish a 

document in the Federal Register 

providing a 60-day comment period and 

otherwise consult with members of the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

each proposed collection of information. 

The OMB has promulgated regulations 

describing what must be included in 

such a document. Under OMB’s 

regulation, see 5 CFR 1320.8(d), an 

agency must ask for public comment on 

the following: 

(i) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(ii) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(iii) How to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(iv) How to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 


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