27538 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 91 / Thursday, May 10, 2012 / Notices 

1FAA, Aviation Rulemaking Advisory Committee 

(ARAC)—New Task (76 FR 21936). 

AMENDMENTS TO PFC APPROVALS

Amendment No. city, State Amendment 

approved date 

Original 

approved net 

PFC revenue 

Amended 

approved net 

PFC revenue 

Original 

estimated 

charge 

exp. date 

Amended 

estimated 

charge 

exp. date 

11–11–C–01–RNO Reno, NV .............................................. 04/03/12 $25,491,376 $33,933,876 04/01/17 07/01/18 

07–02–C–01–CLT ................................................................ 04/11/12 144,557,137 143,057,137 12/01/18 12/01/18 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2012. 

Joe Hebert, 

Manager, Financial Analysis and Passenger 

Facility Charge Branch. 

[FR Doc. 2012–11231 Filed 5–9–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee—Continuing a Task 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of continuing a task 

assignment for the Aviation Rulemaking 

Advisory Committee (ARAC). 

SUMMARY: The FAA assigned the 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC) a continuing task to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

the FAA about implementing a process 

for prioritizing rulemaking projects. 

This task addresses, in part, one of the 

Department of Transportation’s Future 

of Aviation Advisory Committee 

(FAAC) recommendations. This notice 

informs the public of a continuing 

ARAC activity and does not solicit 

membership for the existing Rulemaking 

Prioritization Working Group (RPWG). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katherine Haley, Office of Rulemaking, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20591; telephone: 202– 

493–5708, facsimile: 202–267–5075; 

email: Katherine.L.Haley@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The FAA established ARAC to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

the FAA Administrator on the FAA’s 

rulemaking activities. ARAC’s objectives 

are to improve the development of the 

FAA’s regulations by providing 

information, advice, and 

recommendations related to aviation 

issues. 

In April 2011, the FAA tasked ARAC 

to provide advice and recommendations 

on developing a framework and 

methodologies to assist the FAA in 

assessing and sequencing potential 

rulemaking projects.1 The FAA 

provided the RPWG with a set of issues 

to test the framework and 

methodologies. The RPWG conducted 

its task from June to December 2011 and 

submitted recommendations to ARAC 

on December 14, 2011. ARAC accepted 

the recommendations on December 16, 

2011 and forwarded them to the FAA. 

The entire recommendation report can 

be found at: http://www.faa.gov/

regulations_policies/rulemaking/

committees/arac/. 

The March 2012 ARAC Executive 

Committee meeting included a 

discussion of continuing the task to 

further test the RPWG’s methodology. 

This notice advises the public that the 

FAA has assigned, and the ARAC 

Executive Committee has accepted, the 

task to test the methodology and to 

develop a report including 

recommendations explaining the 

results. 

The Task 

The FAA has tasked the RPWG to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

further test the recommended 

methodology. 

The RPWG is expected to develop a 

report containing recommended 

changes to the methodology. This report 

should document both majority and 

minority positions on the findings and 

the rationale for each position. Any 

disagreements should be documented, 

including the rationale for each position 

and the reasons for the disagreement. 

In developing its recommendations, 

the RPWG shall: 

1. Review the RPWG Phase I 

Recommendation Report. 

2. Test the methodology and the tools 

using a subset of completed rulemakings 

provided by the FAA. 

3. Develop measurable scoring 

evaluation to evaluate projects against 

each other. 

4. Evaluate the results of the test and 

refine the process and the tools 

accordingly. 

Schedule: The recommendations must 

be forwarded to the ARAC Executive 

Committee for review and approval no 

later than September 2012. The RPWG 

may be asked to clarify the report 

between September and December 2012. 

ARAC Acceptance of Task 

The ARAC Executive Committee has 

accepted the continuing task using 

members of the existing RPWG. The 

RPWG serves as staff to ARAC and 

assists in the analysis of the assigned 

task. ARAC must review and approve 

the RPWG’s recommendations. If ARAC 

accepts the working group’s 

recommendations, it will send them to 

the FAA. 

Working Group Activity 

The RPWG must comply with the 

procedures adopted by ARAC. As part 

of the procedures, the RPWG must: 

1. Recommend a work plan for 

completion of the task, including the 

rationale supporting such a plan, for 

consideration at the next ARAC 

Executive Committee meeting held 

following publication of this notice. 

2. Provide a status report at each 

meeting of the ARAC Executive 

Committee. 

3. Draft the recommendation report 

and required analyses and/or any other 

related materials or documents. 

4. Present the final recommendations 

to the ARAC Executive Committee for 

review and approval. 

Participation in the Working Group 

The existing RPWG is comprised 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. 

All existing RPWG members who 

choose to participate in this task must 

actively participate by attending all 

meetings, and providing written 

comments when requested to do so. 

Each member must devote the resources 

necessary to support the working group 

in meeting any assigned deadlines. Each 

member must keep their management 

chain, and those they may represent, 

advised of working group activities and 

decisions to ensure the proposed 

technical solutions do not conflict with 

their sponsoring organization’s position 

when the subject is presented to ARAC 

for approval. Once the RPWG has begun 

deliberations, members will not be 

added or substituted without the 

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approval of the FAA and the Working 

Group Chair. 

The Secretary of Transportation 

determined 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. However, RPWG meetings are 

not 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 the RPWG meetings. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 3, 2012. 

Brenda D. Courtney, 

Acting Executive Director, Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2012–11302 Filed 5–9–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket Number FRA–2012–0020] 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with Part 211 of Title 

49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

this document provides the public 

notice that by a document dated March 

8, 2012, the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) 

has petitioned the Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA) for a waiver of 

compliance from certain provisions of 

the Federal railroad safety regulations 

contained at 49 CFR Part 234. FRA 

assigned the petition Docket Number 

FRA–2012–0020. 

UP seeks a waiver from the portion of 

49 CFR Section 234.223, Gate arm. 

Section 234.223 requires that ‘‘each gate 

arm shall start its downward motion not 

less than three seconds after flashing 

lights begin to operate * * *.’’ 

UP also requests that the normal 

position of the gate arm down and the 

flashing lights dark not be considered as 

an activation failure, partial activation, 

or a false activation under 49 CFR 234.5. 

This waiver petition is related to the 

Illinois high-speed passenger rail project 

on the route between Chicago, IL, and 

St. Louis, MO; on UP’s Joliet and 

Springfield Subdivisions. This route is 

owned and maintained by UP. Highspeed passenger operation will be 

conducted by the National Railroad 

Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) or 

another operator designated by the 

Illinois Department of Transportation 

(IDOT). 

At farm private crossings (also known 

as field access crossings), which are 

currently not protected by active 

warning devices, IDOT has requested 

UP install active warning devices that 

operate differently than standard active 

warning devices. Currently, there are 24 

field access crossings proposed for the 

installation of the nonconventional 

crossing warning system. 

At the field access crossings involved, 

the normal operation would require the 

gate arms to be in the lowered position 

with no flashing lights activated. Upon 

the train’s approach, the flashing lights 

and bells would then activate. To allow 

for the landowner to bring vehicles or 

farm equipment across the crossing, it 

would be necessary to unlock a 

pushbutton box and operate the 

pushbutton. The gate would then return 

to the upright position and operate as a 

conventional active warning system for 

either 8 hours, or if ‘‘reset,’’ via 

pushbutton within the box. If not 

manually reset to the gate arm down 

condition, at the end of 8 hours the gate 

arms would then return to the down 

position. 

A copy of the petition, as well as any 

written communications concerning the 

petition, is available for review online at 

www.regulations.gov and in person at 

the U.S. Department of Transportation’s 

(DOT) Docket Operations Facility, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590. The Docket 

Operations Facility is open from 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Interested parties are invited to 

participate in these proceedings by 

submitting written views, data, or 

comments. FRA does not anticipate 

scheduling a public hearing in 

connection with these proceedings since 

the facts do not appear to warrant a 

hearing. If any interested party desires 

an opportunity for oral comment, they 

should notify FRA, in writing, before 

the end of the comment period and 

specify the basis for their request. 

All communications concerning these 

proceedings should identify the 

appropriate docket number and may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Web site: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Operations Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Communications received by June 25, 

2012 will be considered by FRA before 

final action is taken. Comments received 

after that date will be considered as far 

as practicable. 

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of any written 

communications and 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 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78), or 

online at http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2012. 

Ron Hynes, 

Acting Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Regulatory and Legislative Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2012–11337 Filed 5–9–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping 

Requirements; Agency Information 

Collection Activity Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 

below has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and comment. The ICR describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and the expected burden. The Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period was published on November 16, 

2011 (76 FR 71122–71123). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before June 11, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30 

days, to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, 

Attention NHTSA Desk Officer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Cicchino, Ph.D., Contracting 

Officer’s Technical Representative, 

Office of Behavioral Safety Research 

(NTI–131), National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Ave. SE., W46–491, Washington, DC 

20590. Dr. Cicchino’s phone number is 

202–366–2752 and her email address is 

jessica.cicchino@dot.gov. 

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