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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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1See Federal Register notices of March 28, 2008 

(73 FR 16740) and June 5, 2008 (73 FR 32073) for 

the analysis and discussion associated with this 

burden hour estimate. 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g. permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

In compliance with these 

requirements, NHTSA asks for public 

comments on the following collection of 

information: 

Title: Defect and Noncompliance 

Reporting and Notification. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0004. 

Affected Public: Businesses or 

individuals. 

Abstract: This notice requests 

comment on NHTSA’s proposed 

extension to approved collection of 

information OMB No. 2127–0004. This 

collection covers the information 

collection requirements found within 

various statutory sections in the Motor 

Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (Act), 49 

U.S.C. 30101, et seq., that address and 

require manufacturer notifications to 

NHTSA of safety-related defects and 

failures to comply with Federal Motor 

Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in 

motor vehicles and motor vehicle 

equipment, as well as the provision of 

particular information related to the 

ensuing owner and dealers notifications 

and free remedy campaigns that follow 

those notifications. The sections of the 

Act imposing these requirements 

include 49 U.S.C. 30118, 30119, 30120, 

and 30166. Many of these requirements 

are implemented through, and 

addressed with more specificity in, 49 

CFR part 573, Defect and 

Noncompliance Responsibility and 

Reports (part 573) and 49 CFR part 577, 

Defect and Noncompliance Notification. 

Pursuant to the Act, motor vehicle 

and motor vehicle equipment 

manufacturers are obligated to notify, 

and then provide various information 

and documents, to NHTSA in the event 

a safety defect or noncompliance with 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 

(FMVSS) is identified in products they 

manufactured. See 49 U.S.C. 30118(b) 

and 49 CFR 573.6 (requiring 

manufacturers to notify NHTSA, and 

provide certain information, when they 

learn of a safety defect or 

noncompliance). Manufacturers are 

further required to notify owners, 

purchasers, dealers and distributors 

about the safety defect or 

noncompliance. See 49 U.S.C. 30118(b), 

30120(a), and 49 CFR 577.7, 577.13. 

They are required to provide to NHTSA 

copies of communications pertaining to 

recall campaigns that they issue to 

owners, purchasers, dealers, and 

distributors. See 49 U.S.C. 30166(f) and 

49 CFR 573.6(c)(10). 

Manufacturers are also required to file 

with NHTSA a plan explaining how 

they intend to reimburse owners and 

purchasers who paid to have their 

products remedied before being notified 

of the safety defect or noncompliance, 

and explain that plan in the 

notifications they issue to owners and 

purchasers about the safety defect or 

noncompliance. See 49 U.S.C. 30120(d) 

and 49 CFR 573.13. They are further 

required to keep lists of the respective 

owners, purchasers, dealers, 

distributors, lessors, and lessees of the 

products determined to be defective or 

noncompliant and involved in a recall 

campaign, and are required to provide 

NHTSA with a minimum of six 

quarterly reports reporting on the 

progress of their recall campaigns. See 

49 CFR 573.8 and 573.7, respectively. 

The Act and Part 573 also contain 

numerous information collection 

requirements specific to tire recall and 

remedy campaigns. These requirements 

relate to the proper disposal of recalled 

tires, including a requirement that the 

manufacturer conducting the tire recall 

submit a plan and provide specific 

instructions to certain persons (such as 

dealers and distributors) addressing that 

disposal, and a requirement that those 

persons report back to the manufacturer 

certain deviations from the plan. See 49 

U.S.C. 30120(d) and 49 CFR 573.6(c)(9). 

They also require the reporting to 

NHTSA of intentional and knowing 

sales or leases of defective or 

noncompliant tires. 

49 U.S.C. 30166(n), and its 

implementing regulation found at 49 

CFR 573.10, mandates that anyone who 

knowingly and willfully sells or leases 

for use on a motor vehicle a defective 

tire or a tire that is not compliant with 

FMVSS, and with actual knowledge that 

the tire manufacturer has notified its 

dealers of the defect or noncompliance 

as required under the Act, is required to 

report that sale or lease to NHTSA no 

more than five working days after the 

person to whom the tire was sold or 

leased takes possession of it. 

Estimated Burden: This collection has 

an approved burden of 21,370 hours per 

year.1 Our review of recall information 

since we last requested approval of this 

collection does not demonstrate that 

this figure requires adjustment. A 

summary explanation of how this total 

annual figure was calculated follows. 

There continue to be an average of 

650 noncompliance or safety defect 

notifications to NHTSA filed each year 

by approximately 175 distinct 

manufacturers, with an estimated 750 

quarterly reports filed per quarter (or 

3,000 reports per year). Although the 

average number of recalls filed per year 

and the average number of 

manufacturers filing fluctuates each 

year, we have not seen, nor expect to 

see, consistent dramatic changes in 

these averages. 

We continue to estimate that it takes 

a manufacturer an average of 4 hours to 

complete each notification report to 

NHTSA, that it takes another 4 hours to 

complete each quarterly report, and that 

maintenance of the required owner, 

purchaser, dealer and distributors lists 

requires 8 hours. Accordingly, the 

subtotal estimate of annual burden 

hours related to the reporting to NHTSA 

of a safety defect or noncompliance, 

completion of quarterly reports on the 

progress of recall campaigns, and 

maintenance of owner and purchaser 

lists is 16,000 hours annually ((650 

notices × 4 hours/report) + (3,000 

quarterly reports × 4 hours/report) + 

(175 manufacturers × 8 hours)). 

In addition, we continue to estimate 

an additional 2 hours will be needed to 

add to a manufacturer’s information 

report details relating to the 

manufacturer’s intended schedule for 

notifying its dealers and distributors, 

and tailoring its notifications to dealers 

and distributors in accordance with the 

requirements of 49 CFR 577.13. This 

would total to an estimated 1,300 hours 

annually (650 notices × 2 hours/report). 

In the event a manufacturer supplied 

the defect or noncompliant product to 

independent dealers through 

independent distributors, that 

manufacturer is required to include in 

its notifications to those distributors an 

instruction that the distributors are to 

then provide copies of the 

manufacturer’s notification of the defect 

or noncompliance to all known 

distributors or retail outlets further 

down the distribution chain within five 

working days. See 49 CFR 

577.8(c)(2)(iv). As a practical matter, 

this requirement would only apply to 

equipment manufacturers since vehicle 

manufacturers generally sell and lease 

vehicles through a dealer network, and 

not through independent distributors. 

We continue to believe previous 

estimates of roughly 90 equipment 

recalls per year are sound. Although the 

distributors are not technically under 

any regulatory requirement to follow 

that instruction, we expect that they 

will, and have estimated the burden 

associated with these notifications 

(identifying retail outlets, making copies 

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mailing) to be 5 hours per recall 

campaign. Assuming an average of 3 

distributors per equipment item, (which 

is a liberal estimate given that many 

equipment manufacturers do not use 

independent distributors) the total 

number of burden hours associated with 

this third party notification burden is 

approximately 1,350 hours per year (90 

recalls × 3 distributors × 5 hours). 

As for the burden linked with a 

manufacturer’s preparation of and 

notification concerning its 

reimbursement for pre-notification 

remedies, consistent with previous 

estimates (see 69 FR 11477 (March 10, 

2004)), we continue to estimate that 

preparing a plan for reimbursement 

takes approximately 8 hours annually, 

and that an additional 2 hours per year 

is spent tailoring the plan to particular 

defect and noncompliance notifications 

to NHTSA and adding tailored language 

about the plan to a particular safety 

recall’s owner notification letters. In 

sum, these required activities add an 

additional 2,700 annual burden hours 

((175 manufacturers × 8 hours) + (650 

recalls × 2 hours)). 

In summary, the total burden 

associated with the defect and 

noncompliant information collection 

and reporting requirements we continue 

to estimate at 21,350 hours per year. 

As explained earlier, the Act and part 

573 also contain numerous information 

collection requirements specific to tire 

recall and remedy campaigns, as well as 

a statutory and regulatory reporting 

requirement that anyone that knowingly 

and intentionally sells or leases a 

defective or noncompliant tire notify 

NHTSA of that activity. 

Manufacturers are required to include 

specific information relative to tire 

disposal in the notifications they 

provide NHTSA concerning 

identification of a safety defect or 

noncompliance with FMVSS in their 

tires, as well as in the notifications 

which they issue to their dealers or 

other tire outlets participating in the 

recall campaign. See 49 CFR 573.6(c)(9). 

We continue to estimate that there will 

be about 10 tire recall campaigns per 

year, and that inclusion of this 

additional information will require an 

additional two hours of effort beyond 

the subtotal above associated with nontire recall campaigns. This additional 

effort consists of one hour for the 

NHTSA notification and one hour for 

the dealer notification for a total of 20 

burden hours (10 tire recalls a year × 2 

hours per recall). 

Manufacturer owned or controlled 

dealers are required to notify the 

manufacturer and provide certain 

information should they deviate from 

the manufacturer’s disposal plan. 

Consistent with previous analysis, we 

continue to ascribe zero burden hours to 

this requirement since to date no such 

reports have been provided and our 

original expectation that dealers would 

comply with manufacturers’ plans has 

proven true. 

Accordingly, we estimate 20 burden 

hours a year will be spent complying 

with the tire recall campaign 

requirements found in 49 CFR 

573.6(c)(9). 

And, as we have yet to receive a 

single report of a defective or 

noncompliant tire being intentionally 

sold or leased in the fourteen years 

since this rule was proposed, our 

previous estimate of zero burden hours 

remains unchanged with this notice. 

In summary, our previous estimate of 

21,370 total burden hours associated 

with this approved information 

collection stands. 

Estimated Number of Respondents 

NHTSA receives reports of defect or 

noncompliance from roughly 175 

manufacturers per year. Again, this 

figure fluctuates from year to year, but 

we do not have a basis at this juncture 

to suspect this annual figure will change 

significantly. Accordingly, we estimate 

that there will continue to be 

approximately 175 manufacturers per 

year filing defect or noncompliance 

reports and completing the other 

information collection responsibilities 

associated with those filings. 

We discussed above that we have yet 

to receive a single report filed pursuant 

to 49 CFR 573.10. This information 

collection requirement, to reiterate, 

requires anyone who sells or leases a 

defective or noncompliant tire, with 

knowledge of that tire’s defectiveness or 

noncompliance, to report that sale or 

lease to NHTSA. Given the lack of filing 

history over many years, we estimate 

that there will continue to be zero 

reports filed and therefore zero 

respondents as to this requirement. 

In summary, we estimate that there 

will be a total of 175 respondents per 

year associated with OMB No. 2127– 

0004. 

Issued on: March 22, 2011. 

Frank Borris, 

Director, Office of Defects Investigation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7182 Filed 3–25–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Additional Identifying Information 

Associated With Persons Whose 

Property and Interests in Property Are 

Blocked Pursuant to the Executive 

Order 13566 of February 25, 2011, 

‘‘Blocking Property and Prohibiting 

Certain Transactions Related to Libya’’ 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing additional 

identifying information associated with 

the five individuals listed in the Annex 

to Executive Order 13566 of February 

25, 2011, ‘‘Blocking Property and 

Prohibiting Certain Transactions Related 

to Libya,’’ whose property and interests 

in property are therefore blocked. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Compliance 

Outreach & Implementation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, Department of 

the Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW. (Treasury Annex), 

Washington, DC 20220, Tel.: 202/622– 

2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available from OFAC’s Web site 

(http://www.treas.gov/ofac) or via 

facsimile through a 24-hour fax-ondemand service, Tel.: 202/622–0077. 

Background 

On February 25, 2011, the President 

issued Executive Order 13566, 

‘‘Blocking Property and Prohibiting 

Certain Transactions Related to Libya,’’ 

(the ‘‘Order’’) pursuant to the 

International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 

(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act 

(50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (the NEA), and 

section 301 of title 3, United States 

Code. 

Section 1 of the Order blocks, with 

certain exceptions, all property and 

interests in property that are in the 

United States, that come within the 

United States, or that are or come within 

the possession or control of any United 

States person, of persons listed in the 

Annex to the Order and of persons 

determined by the Secretary of the 

Treasury, in consultation with the 

Secretary of State, to satisfy certain 

criteria set forth in the Order. 


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