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optometrist noted, ‘‘Robert has been 

driving commercially for a number of 

years, has been a patient here for over 

a decade, and I see no reason why he 

should not be able to continue to drive.’’ 

Mr. Smith reported that he has driven 

straight trucks for 17 years, 

accumulating 1.3 million miles and 

tractor-trailer combinations for 17 years 

accumulating 10,200 miles. He holds a 

Class A CDL from Ohio. His driving 

record for the last 3 years shows no 

crashes and no convictions for moving 

violations in a CMV. 

Richard D. Williams 

Mr. Williams, 55, has had loss of 

vision in his right eye since 2006. The 

best corrected visual acuity in his right 

eye is 20/60 and in his left eye, 20/20. 

Following an examination in 2011, his 

optometrist noted, ‘‘In light of the fact 

that his left eye has perfect 20/20 vision 

and that he does have a history of 

decreased vision in the right eye for the 

past several years, I do feel that he has 

adapted well to the situation and I have 

no concerns in his ability to drive a 

commercial vehicle.’’ Mr. Williams 

reported that he has driven straight 

trucks for 35 years, accumulating 2.6 

million miles, tractor-trailer 

combinations for 20 years accumulating 

1.5 million miles and buses for 5 years, 

accumulating 62,500 miles. He holds a 

Class D operator’s license from 

Oklahoma. His driving record for the 

last 3 years shows no crashes and no 

convictions for moving violations in a 

CMV. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) 

and 31315, FMCSA requests public 

comment from all interested persons on 

the exemption petitions described in 

this notice. The Agency will consider all 

comments received before the close of 

business May 5, 2011. Comments will 

be available for examination in the 

docket at the location listed under the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. The 

Agency will file comments received 

after the comment closing date in the 

public docket, and will consider them to 

the extent practicable. In addition to late 

comments, FMCSA will also continue to 

file, in the public docket, relevant 

information that becomes available after 

the comment closing date. Interested 

persons should monitor the public 

docket for new material. 

Issued on: March 29, 2011. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7959 Filed 4–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2011–0091] 

Unified Carrier Registration Plan Board 

of Directors; Request for Nominations 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice Requesting Nominations 

from among Chief Administrative 

Officers of State Agencies to the Board 

of Directors. 

SUMMARY: The FMCSA solicits 

nominations and applications for 

appointment to the Board of Directors of 

the Unified Carrier Registration Plan 

(UCR Plan) of interested persons to 

serve as representatives of chief 

administrative officers of State agencies 

responsible for overseeing the Unified 

Carrier Registration Agreement (UCR 

Agreement). The Agency will appoint 

four members from such State agencies, 

one from each of FMCSA’s four service 

areas. As authorized by 49 U.S.C. 

14504a, the UCR Plan is responsible for 

the administration of the UCR 

Agreement. The UCR Agreement 

governs the registration and the 

collection and distribution of fees paid 

by for-hire and private motor carriers, 

brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing 

companies. The UCR Plan and 

Agreement replaced the Single State 

Registration System (SSRS), which was 

repealed as of January 1, 2008. 

DATES: Nominations or expressions of 

interest for appointment to the Board of 

Directors must be received on or before 

April 20, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

to this notice, identified by docket 

number FMCSA–2011–0091, by any of 

the following methods—Internet, 

facsimile, regular mail, or handdelivery. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Federal 

Docket Management System (FDMS) 

Web site at http://www.regulations.gov. 

The FDMS is the preferred method for 

submitting comments, and we urge you 

to use it. In the ‘‘Comment’’ or 

‘‘Submission’’ section, type Docket ID 

Number ‘‘FMCSA—2011–0091’’, select 

‘‘Go’’, and then click on ‘‘Send a 

Comment or Submission.’’ You will 

receive a tracking number when you 

submit a comment. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail, Courier, or Hand-Deliver: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Docket 

Operations (M–30), West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590. Office hours are between 9 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Docket: Comments and material 

received from the public, as well as 

background information and documents 

mentioned in this preamble, are part of 

docket FMCSA—2011–0091, and are 

available for inspection and copying on 

the Internet at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. You may also 

view and copy documents at the U.S. 

Department of Transportation’s Docket 

Operations Unit, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC. 

Privacy Act: All comments will be 

posted without change including any 

personal information provided to the 

FDMS at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Anyone can search the electronic form 

of all our dockets in FDMS, by the name 

of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). The 

Department of Transportation’s (DOT) 

complete Privacy Act Systems of 

Records notice was published in the 

Federal Register on April 11, 2000 (65 

FR 19476), and can be viewed at http: 

//docketsinfo.dot.gov. Comments 

received after the comment closing date 

will be included in the docket, and we 

will consider late comments to the 

extent practicable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jose M. Rodriguez, Office of Research 

and Information Technology, (202) 366– 

3517, FMCSA, Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 

SE., Washington, DC 20590 or by e-mail 

at: jose.rodriguez@dot.gov@dot.gov. 

Background 

Section 4305(b) of the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU) [Pub. L. 109–59, 

119 Stat. 1144, August 10, 2005] enacted 

49 U.S.C. 14504a entitled ‘‘Unified 

carrier registration system plan and 

agreement.’’ Under the UCR Agreement, 

motor carriers, motor private carriers, 

brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing 

companies that are involved in 

interstate transportation register and pay 

certain fees. The UCR Plan’s Board of 

Directors must issue rules and 

regulations to govern the UCR 

Agreement. Section 14504a(a)(9) defines 

the Unified Carrier Registration Plan as 

the organization of State, Federal, and 

industry representatives responsible for 

developing, implementing, and 

administering the UCRA. Section 

14504a(d)(1)(B) directed the Secretary to 

establish a Unified Carrier Registration 

Plan Board of Directors made up of 15 


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1On February 8, 2011, the BNSF Railway 

Company (BNSF) filed a verified notice of 

exemption under the Board’s class exemption 

procedures at 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(7). The notice 

covered the agreement by Union Pacific Railroad 

Company (UP) to grant local trackage rights to 

BNSF over UP’s lines extending between: (1) UP 

milepost 93.2 at Stockton, Cal., on UP’s Oakland 

Subdivision, and UP milepost 219.4 at Elsey, Cal., 

on UP’s Canyon Subdivision, a distance of 

approximately 126.2 miles; and (2) UP milepost 

219.4 at Elsey, Cal., and UP milepost 280.7 at 

Keddie, Cal., on UP’s Canyon Subdivision, a 

distance of 61.3 miles. BNSF states that the trackage 

rights are only temporary rights, but, because they 

are ‘‘local’’ rather than ‘‘overhead’’ rights, they do not 

qualify for the Board’s class exemption for 

temporary trackage rights at 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(8). 

See BNSF Ry.—Temporary Trackage Rights 

Exemption—Union Pac. R.R., FD 35466 (STB served 

Feb. 24, 2011). 

members from FMCSA, State 

governments, and the motor carrier 

industry. The Board also must 

recommend initial annual fees to be 

assessed against carriers, leasing 

companies, brokers, and freight 

forwarders under the UCRA, as well as 

any annual adjustments to those fees. 

Section 14504a(d)(1)(B) provides that 

the UCR Plan’s Board of Directors must 

consist of directors from the following 

groups: 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration: One director must be 

selected from each of the FMCSA 

service areas (as defined by FMCSA on 

January 1, 2005) from among the chief 

administrative officers of the State 

agencies responsible for administering 

the UCRA. 

State Agencies: The five directors 

selected to represent State agencies 

must be from among the professional 

staffs of State agencies responsible for 

overseeing the administration of the 

UCR Agreement. 

Motor Carrier Industry: Five directors 

must be from the motor carrier industry. 

At least one of the five motor carrier 

industry directors must be from ‘‘a 

national trade association representing 

the general motor carrier of property 

industry’’ and one of them must be from 

‘‘a motor carrier that falls within the 

smallest fleet fee bracket.’’ 

U.S. Department of Transportation 

(the Department): One individual, either 

the FMCSA Deputy Administrator or 

such other Presidential appointee from 

the Department appointed by the 

Secretary, represents the Department. 

The establishment of the Board was 

announced in the Federal Register on 

May 12, 2006 (71 FR 27777). In that 

notice, the Agency recognized the 

American Trucking Associations, Inc. 

(ATA) as the national trade association 

representing the general motor carrier of 

property industry. ATA is a national 

affiliation of State trucking 

organizations representing the national, 

State and local interests of the 50 

affiliated State trucking associations; 

and the interests of specialized areas of 

the trucking industry through 

conferences and councils. The Agency 

selected the Owner-Operator 

Independent Drivers Association 

(OOIDA) as the organization from which 

to appoint an individual to represent 

motor carriers comprising the smallest 

fleet fee bracket. OOIDA is a national 

trade association representing the 

interests of small trucking companies 

and drivers. 

Each of the four current directors from 

the chief administrative officers of the 

State agencies responsible for 

overseeing the administration of the 

UCR Agreement are serving terms that 

expire on May 31, 2011. These directors 

may continue to serve until their 

replacements are appointed; each of 

them may be reappointed (49 U.S.C. 

14504a(d)(1)(D)(iii) and (iv)). Today’s 

publication serves as a notice requesting 

nominations for and public comment on 

possible appointment of the four 

members of the UCR Plan’s Board of 

Directors to be appointed from the chief 

administrative officers of the 

responsible State agencies in accordance 

with 49 U.S.C. 14504a(d). 

Board Member Nominations 

FMCSA seeks either nominations of, 

or expressions of interest from, 

individuals to serve as members of the 

board of directors for the UCR Plan from 

the responsible State agencies. 

Nominations or expressions of interest 

should indicate that the person 

nominated or recommended meets the 

statutory requirements specified in 49 

U.S.C. 14504a(d)(1)(B)(i). Nominations 

or expressions of interest must be 

transmitted by means of the procedures 

for comments specified earlier in this 

notice. FMCSA and the Department will 

make the appointments for the four 

members from the responsible State 

agencies for three-year terms, expiring 

on May 31, 2014. 

Issued on: March 25, 2011. 

Kelly Leone, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7957 Filed 4–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35466 (Sub-No. 1)] 

BNSF Railway Company—Temporary 

Trackage Rights Exemption—Union 

Pacific Railroad Company 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. 

ACTION: Partial revocation of exemption. 

SUMMARY: Under 49 U.S.C. 10502, the 

Board revokes the class exemption as it 

pertains to the trackage rights described 

in Docket No. FD 35466 1 to permit the 

trackage rights to expire at midnight on 

December 10, 2011, in accordance with 

the agreement of the parties, subject to 

the employee protective conditions set 

forth in Oregon Short Line Railroad— 

Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch 

Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham & 

Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 

91 (1979). 

DATES: This exemption will be effective 

on May 5, 2011. Petitions to stay must 

be filed by April 15, 2011. Petitions for 

reconsideration must be filed by April 

25, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: An original and 10 copies of 

all pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 

35466 (Sub-No. 1), must be filed with 

the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423– 

0001. In addition, a copy of each 

pleading must be served on BNSF’s 

representative: Karl Morell, Of Counsel, 

Ball Janik LLP, Suite 225, 1455 F Street, 

NW., Washington, DC 20005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joseph H. Dettmar, (202) 245–0395. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339.] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additional information is contained in 

the Board’s decision. Board decisions 

and notices are available on our Web 

site at http://www.stb.dot.gov. 

Decided: March 30, 2011. 

By the Board, Chairman Elliott and 

Commissioner Mulvey. 

Jeffrey Herzig, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2011–7998 Filed 4–4–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Treasury, on 

behalf of itself and the Consumer 

Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), 

will submit the following public 

information collection requirement to 

OMB for review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 on or after the date 

of publication of this notice. A copy of 

the submission may be obtained by 


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