4412 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 16 / Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Commercial Space Transportation 

Advisory Committee—Closed Session 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Commercial Space 

Transportation Advisory Committee 

Special Closed Session. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463, 5 U.S.C. App. 2), and 

Title 41 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, section 102–3.160, notice is 

hereby given of a special closed session 

of the Commercial Space Transportation 

Advisory Committee (COMSTAC). The 

special closed session will be an 

administrative session for the 

Committee members to review the 

structure of COMSTAC’s public 

meetings and discuss if the current 

structure is the most desirable 

arrangement of activities. The meeting 

will take place on Thursday, February 

10, 2010, at the Washington Convention 

Center, 801 Mount Vernon Place NW., 

Washington, DC 20001, from 8 a.m. 

until 8:45 a.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Susan Lender (AST–100), Office of 

Commercial Space Transportation 

(AST), 800 Independence Avenue SW., 

Room 325, Washington, DC 20591, 

telephone (202) 267–8029, e-mail 

susan.lender@faa.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, January 18, 

2011. 

George C. Nield, 

Associate Administrator for Commercial 

Space Transportation. 

[FR Doc. 2011–1410 Filed 1–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Notice To Rescind Notice of Intent To 

Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement: Multiple South and East 

Texas Counties, State of Texas 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA). 

ACTION: Rescind Notice of Intent to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that the 

Notice of Intent to prepare a Tier One 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the proposed extension of Interstate 

Highway 69 (I–69) from near Laredo and 

the Lower Rio Grande Valley is 

rescinded. The original notice dated 

January 15, 2004 was published in the 

Federal Register Volume 69, number 10 

and on pages 2382–2383. The original 

notice can be viewed electronically 

here: http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/ 

2004/04-866.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Gregory S. Punske, P.E., District 

Engineer (District B, South), Federal 

Highway Administration, Texas 

Division, 300 East 8th Street, Room 826, 

Austin, Texas 78701. Telephone (512) 

536–5960. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA, in cooperation with the Texas 

Department of Transportation (TxDOT), 

published a Notice of Intent in the 

Federal Register on January 15, 2004 

(Volume 69, No. 10 Page 2382) and a 

Notice of Intent correction published on 

January 30, 2004 (Volume 69, No. 20, 

Page 4557) to prepare a Tier One EIS for 

the proposed extension of I–69 from 

near Laredo and the Lower Rio Grande 

Valley. The proposed Tier One EIS was 

to evaluate the National High Priority 

Corridor 18 and Corridor 20 systems. In 

addition, I–69 was also being evaluated 

as part of the Trans-Texas Corridor 

(TTC) system which would have 

included lanes for passenger vehicles, 

separate lanes for trucks, rail lines, and 

a utility corridor. 

The I–69/TTC Tier One DEIS was 

released for public review and comment 

on November 13, 2007. A Notice of 

Availability (NOA) was published in the 

Texas Register on December 11, 2007 

and in the Federal Register on 

December 14, 2007. TxDOT held public 

hearings on the Tier One DEIS in 

February and March of 2008. In June 

2008, TxDOT informed the FHWA of 

their intent to eliminate the Tier One 

New Location Alternative and not 

advance it as an alternative for the I–69/ 

TTC project. TxDOT further 

recommended that only the use of 

existing and planned transportation 

facilities be advanced as the preferred 

alternative. The basis for this decision 

centered on consideration of 

environmental and transportation 

planning factors in combination with 

the technical comments received on the 

Tier One DEIS. Also, on January 6, 2009, 

TxDOT unveiled Innovative 

Connectivity in Texas/Vision 2009 

which defined a new vision for 

TxDOT’s corridor development process 

and resulted in the retirement of the 

Trans-Texas Corridor concept. As a 

result of the retirement of the TTC 

concept and TxDOT’s intent to only 

evaluate the use of existing and planned 

facilities to develop I–69, the project 

described and being evaluated under the 

above mentioned notices is no longer 

under consideration. As a result, the 

above mentioned notices are rescinded. 

Issued on: January 14, 2011. 

Gregory S. Punske, 

District Engineer (District B, South), Austin, 

Texas. 

[FR Doc. 2011–1441 Filed 1–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[FMCSA Docket No. FMCSA–2006–25756] 

Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) 

Standards; Volvo Trucks North 

America, Renewal of Exemption 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of final disposition. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its final 

decision regarding Volvo Trucks North 

America’s (Volvo) application for an 

exemption for Andreas Hamsten to 

enable him to continue to test-drive 

commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in 

the United States without a commercial 

driver’s license (CDL) issued by one of 

the States. FMCSA previously 

announced its decision to renew the 

exemption and requested comment on 

the decision. No comments were 

received. 

DATES: This exemption is effective from 

June 18, 2010 through June 18, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Christine Hydock, FMCSA Driver and 

Carrier Operations Division, Office of 

Bus and Truck Standards and 

Operations, Telephone: 202–366–4325. 

E-mail: MCPSD@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, 

FMCSA may renew an exemption, 

including an exemption from the CDL 

requirements of 49 CFR 383.23, for a 

maximum 2-year period if it finds ‘‘such 

exemption would likely achieve a level 

of safety that is equivalent to, or greater 

than, the level that would be achieved 

absent such exemption.’’ The procedures 

for requesting an exemption (including 

renewals) are prescribed in 49 CFR part 

381. FMCSA evaluated Volvo’s 

application on its merits and decided to 

renew Andreas Hamsten’s exemption 

for a two-year period, effective June 18, 

2010, as previously announced in the 

Federal Register (75 FR 45198, August 

2, 2010). 

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