Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 11 / Tuesday, January 19, 2021 / Notices 5313 

30120(h)) that permit manufacturers to 

file petitions for a determination of 

inconsequentiality allow NHTSA to 

exempt manufacturers only from the 

duties found in sections 30118 and 

30120, respectively, to notify owners, 

purchasers, and dealers of a defect or 

noncompliance and to remedy the 

defect or noncompliance. Therefore, any 

decision on this petition only applies to 

the subject vehicles that Tesla no longer 

controlled at the time it determined that 

the noncompliance existed. However, 

any decision on this petition does not 

relieve vehicle distributors and dealers 

of the prohibitions on the sale, offer for 

sale, or introduction or delivery for 

introduction into interstate commerce of 

the noncompliant vehicles under their 

control after Tesla notified them that the 

subject noncompliance existed. 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30118, 30120: 

delegations of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 

501.8. 

Otto G. Matheke III, 

Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01088 Filed 1–15–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2020–0006] 

Pipeline Safety: Request for Special 

Permit; Tennessee Gas Pipeline, L.L.C. 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA); DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: PHMSA is publishing this 

notice to solicit public comments on a 

request for special permit received from 

the Tennessee Gas Pipeline, L.L.C. 

(TGP). The special permit request is 

seeking relief from compliance with 

certain requirements in the Federal 

pipeline safety regulations. At the 

conclusion of the 30-day comment 

period, PHMSA will review the 

comments received from this notice as 

part of its evaluation to grant or deny 

the special permit request. 

DATES: Submit any comments regarding 

this special permit request by February 

18, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should reference 

the docket number for this specific 

special permit request and may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

• E-Gov Website: http://

www.Regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to enter comments on any 

Federal Register notice issued by any 

agency. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management System: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Docket Operations, M–30, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: Docket Management 

System: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9:00 

a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: You should identify the 

docket number for the special permit 

request you are commenting on at the 

beginning of your comments. If you 

submit your comments by mail, please 

submit two (2) copies. To receive 

confirmation that PHMSA has received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet 

users may submit comments at http://

www.Regulations.gov. 

Note: There is a privacy statement 

published on http://www.Regulations.gov. 

Comments, including any personal 

information provided, are posted without 

changes or edits to http://

www.Regulations.gov. 

Confidential Business Information: 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

is commercial or financial information 

that is both customarily and actually 

treated as private by its owner. Under 

the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

(5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from 

public disclosure. If your comments 

responsive to this notice contain 

commercial or financial information 

that is customarily treated as private, 

that you actually treat as private, and 

that is relevant or responsive to this 

notice, it is important that you clearly 

designate the submitted comments as 

CBI. Pursuant to 49 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) § 190.343, you may 

ask PHMSA to give confidential 

treatment to information you give to the 

agency by taking the following steps: (1) 

Mark each page of the original 

document submission containing CBI as 

‘‘Confidential’’; (2) send PHMSA, along 

with the original document, a second 

copy of the original document with the 

CBI deleted; and (3) explain why the 

information you are submitting is CBI. 

Unless you are notified otherwise, 

PHMSA will treat such marked 

submissions as confidential under the 

FOIA, and they will not be placed in the 

public docket of this notice. 

Submissions containing CBI should be 

sent to Kay McIver, DOT, PHMSA– 

PHP–80, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. Any 

commentary PHMSA receives that is not 

specifically designated as CBI will be 

placed in the public docket for this 

matter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

General: Ms. Kay McIver by telephone 

at 202–366–0113, or by email at 

kay.mciver@dot.gov. 

Technical: Mr. Steve Nanney by 

telephone at 713–272–2855, or by email 

at steve.nanney@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA 

received a special permit request from 

TGP seeking a waiver from the 

requirements of 49 CFR 192.611(a) and 

(d): Change in class location: 

Confirmation or revision of maximum 

allowable operating pressure, and 

§ 192.619(a): Maximum allowable 

operating pressure: Steel or plastic 

pipelines. This special permit is being 

requested in lieu of pipe replacement or 

pressure reduction for six (6) special 

permit segments of 16,116 feet (3.052 

miles) on the TGP pipeline system. The 

proposed special permit segments are 

located in Harris County, Texas, 

Ouachita Parish, Louisiana, and 

Robertson County, Tennessee. The TGP 

pipeline class location in the special 

permit segments has changed from a 

Class 1 or Class 2 to a Class 3 location. 

The TGP pipeline special permit 

segments are 24-inch, 26-inch, and 30- 

inch diameter pipelines with an existing 

maximum allowable operating pressure 

of 750 pounds per square inch gauge. 

The installation of the special permit 

segments occurred in 1966 and 1989. 

The special permit request, proposed 

special permit with conditions, and 

Draft Environmental Assessment (DEA) 

for the TGP pipeline are available for 

review and public comment in Docket 

No. PHMSA–2020–0006. We invite 

interested persons to review and submit 

comments on the special permit request 

and DEA in the docket. Please include 

any comments on potential safety and 

environmental impacts that may result 

if the special permit is granted. 

Comments may include relevant data. 

Before issuing a decision on the 

special permit request, PHMSA will 

evaluate all comments received on or 

before the comment closing date. 

Comments received after the closing 

date will be evaluated, if it is possible 

to do so without incurring additional 

expense or delay. PHMSA will consider 

each relevant comment it receives in 

making its decision to grant or deny this 

special permit request. 


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5314 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 11 / Tuesday, January 19, 2021 / Notices 

Issued in Washington, DC, under authority 

delegated in 49 CFR 1.97. 

Alan K. Mayberry, 

Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. 

[FR Doc. 2021–01025 Filed 1–15–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket Number: DOT–OST–2020–0254] 

Extension of the Comment Deadline 

Date; Request for Information for the 

Inclusive Design Reference Hub 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation (OST), Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice; request for information 

(RFI). 

SUMMARY: On December 21, 2020, DOT 

published in the Federal Register a 

request for information (RFI) regarding 

an Inclusive Design Reference Hub. This 

notice extends the deadline date for 

receiving comments until February 19, 

2021 at 5:00 p.m. (ET). 

DATES: Responses to the RFI must be 

received by February 19, 2021, no later 

than 5:00 p.m. (ET) to ensure 

consideration of your views. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted using any one of the 

following methods: 

• Electronic mail: Email comments to 

inclusivedesign@dot.gov with a courtesy 

copy to Robin.Gates@dot.gov. Responses 

must be provided as attachments to an 

email. It is recommended that 

attachments with file sizes exceeding 

25MB be compressed (i.e., zipped) to 

ensure message delivery. Responses 

must be provided as a Microsoft Word 

(.docx) attachment to the email, and be 

no more than 5 pages in length, with 12- 

point font and 1-inch margins. 

• Internet: To submit comments 

electronically, go to the Federal 

regulations website at http://

www.regulations.gov. Search by using 

the docket number (DOT–OST–2020– 

0254). Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

Respondents may answer as many or 

as few questions (see the questions 

below) as they wish. 

DOT will not respond to individual 

submissions or publish publicly a 

compendium of responses. A response 

to this RFI will not be viewed as a 

binding commitment to develop or 

pursue the project or ideas discussed. 

Respondents are requested to provide 

the following information at the 

beginning of their response to this RFI: 

• Company/institution name 

• Company/institution contact 

• Contact’s address, phone number, and 

email address 

Proprietary Information 

Because information received in 

response to this RFI may be used to 

structure future programs and/or 

otherwise be made available to the 

public, respondents are strongly advised 

to NOT include any information in their 

responses that might be considered 

business sensitive, proprietary, or 

otherwise confidential. However, 

respondents may choose to include such 

information in their submissions if they 

believe it will significantly assist DOT 

in the design of the program. 

Responses containing confidential, 

proprietary, or privileged information 

must be conspicuously marked as 

described below. Failure to comply with 

these marking requirements may result 

in the disclosure of the unmarked 

information under the Freedom of 

Information Act, 5 U.S.C. 552. 

If a response contains trade secrets or 

confidential commercial or financial 

information, the respondent must 

include a cover sheet identifying the 

specific pages containing that 

information. The cover sheet must also 

provide evidence that the respondent 

actually or customarily treats the 

information as private. 

In addition, the respondent must (1) 

mark the header and footer of every 

page that contains trade secrets or 

confidential commercial or financial 

information with ‘‘Contains 

Confidential Information Exempt from 

Public Disclosure’’ and (2) identify 

every line and paragraph containing 

such information with double brackets 

or highlighting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

monitored inbox at inclusivedesign@

dot.gov. You may also contact the 

Contracting Officer, Robin Gates, at 

Robin.Gates@dot.gov or (202) 366–1408. 

Please reference ‘‘RFI for Inclusive 

Design Reference Hub’’ in the subject 

line when submitting your response. 

DOT looks forward to your 

submission in response to this notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary 

On December 21, 2020, DOT 

published in the Federal Register (85 

FR 83152) a request for information 

(RFI) regarding an Inclusive Design 

Reference Hub. This notice extends the 

deadline date for receiving comments 

until February 19, 2021 at 5:00 p.m. 

(ET). Note: All other information in the 

December 21, 2020 Federal Register 

Notice (85 FR 83152) remain the same, 

and is included below for easy 

reference. 

In July 2020, as part of an event 

celebrating the 30th anniversary of the 

Americans with Disabilities Act, DOT 

committed to undertake a new initiative 

to establish a library of resources for 

accessibility in automation, and work 

with outside experts to study voluntary 

best practices for ensuring accessibility 

in automated vehicles. DOT invites 

stakeholders to provide input on critical 

first steps in this process, the 

qualifications of entities that are best 

suited to perform this work, and 

considerations to ensure long-term 

sustainability of this initiative. This 

notice is not a Solicitation, and it does 

not seek the submission of formal, 

binding quotations/proposals. In the 

event OST–P determines that services 

will be procured, a formal Request for 

Quote/Proposal will be issued. OST–P 

cannot and will not reimburse any 

organization for its time, effort, or costs 

expended in responding to this RFI. 

The purpose of this RFI is to collect 

input on a proposed initiative to 

establish and curate a library of existing 

technical specifications, voluntary 

consensus or consortia standards, and 

best practices and a roadmap of such 

resources that may be needed to enable 

accessibility of automated vehicles for 

persons with physical, sensory, and 

cognitive disabilities. This initiative, 

tentatively entitled the Inclusive Design 

Reference Hub, will involve 

consultation with a range of 

stakeholders. This RFI will serve to 

refine DOT’s vision, next steps, and 

long-term ownership and maintenance 

plan for this initiative. Respondents are 

encouraged to visit https://

www.transportation.gov/accessibility for 

more information on DOT’s accessibility 

initiatives. 

Background 

As transportation evolves, DOT is 

committed to a more accessible future 

and exploring accessibility 

opportunities that may materialize as 

vehicles and mobility services evolve. 

DOT encourages research into 

technologies that have the potential to 

remove barriers to accessibility in the 

transportation system and will seek to 

complement research done by leading 

academic institutions, the private sector 

and other entities to fill gaps that 

industry is not already covering. To this 

end, DOT recently announced its intent 

to establish a library of resources for 

accessibility in automation, and to work 

with outside experts to study voluntary 

best practices for ensuring accessibility 

in automated vehicles. 


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