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You may view documents submitted 

to a docket at the address and times 

given above. You may also view the 

documents on the Internet at 

http://www.regulations.gov by following 

the online instructions for accessing the 

dockets available at that Web site. 

The petition, supporting materials, 

and all comments received before the 

close of business on the closing date 

indicated below will be filed and will be 

considered. All comments and 

supporting materials received after the 

closing date will also be filed and will 

be considered to the extent possible. 

When the petition is granted or denied, 

notice of the decision will be published 

in the Federal Register pursuant to the 

authority indicated below. 

Comment closing date: December 20, 

2010 

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

Delegations of authority at CFR 1.50 and 

501.8. 

Issued on: November 15, 2010. 

Claude H. Harris, 

Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29168 Filed 11–18–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2010–51] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption 

received. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of 14 CFR. 

The purpose of this notice is to improve 

the public’s awareness of, and 

participation in, this aspect of FAA’s 

regulatory activities. Neither publication 

of this notice nor the inclusion or 

omission of information in the summary 

is intended to affect the legal status of 

the petition or its final disposition. 

DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number 

involved and must be received on or 

before November 29, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

identified by Docket Number FAA– 

2010–1012 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Government-wide rulemaking Web 

site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov 

and follow the instructions for sending 

your comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to the Docket 

Management Facility; U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket 

Management Facility at 202–493–2251. 

• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to 

the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Privacy: We will post all comments 

we receive, without change, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information you provide. 

Using the search function of our docket 

Web site, anyone can find and read the 

comments received into any of our 

dockets, including the name of the 

individual sending the comment (or 

signing the comment for 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). 

Docket: To read background 

documents or comments received, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time 

or to the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Keira Jones (202) 267–4025, Tyneka 

Thomas (202) 267–7626 or David 

Staples (202) 267–4058, Office of 

Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

This notice is published pursuant to 14 

CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

15, 2010. 

Dennis Pratte, 

Acting Deputy Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition For Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2010–1012. 

Petitioner: Seaborne Airlines. 

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 

14 CFR 121.305(j) 

Description of Relief Sought: Seaborne 

Airlines is requesting relief from the 

requirement to install a third gyroscopic 

bank and pitch indicator in its DHC–6– 

300 aircraft. 

[FR Doc. 2010–29195 Filed 11–18–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2010–53] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption 

received. 

SUMMARY: This notice contains a 

summary of a petition seeking relief 

from specified requirements of 14 CFR. 

The purpose of this notice is to improve 

the public’s awareness of, and 

participation in, this aspect of FAA’s 

regulatory activities. Neither publication 

of this notice nor the inclusion or 

omission of information in the summary 

is intended to affect the legal status of 

the petition or its final disposition. 

DATES: Comments on this petition must 

identify the petition docket number 

involved and must be received on or 

before November 29, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

identified by Docket Number FAA– 

2010–0947 and FAA–2010–0970 using 

any of the following methods: 

• Government-wide rulemaking Web 

site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov 

and follow the instructions for sending 

your comments electronically. 

• Mail: Send comments to the Docket 

Management Facility; U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket 

Management Facility at 202–493–2251. 

• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to 

the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Privacy: We will post all comments 

we receive, without change, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information you provide. 

Using the search function of our docket 

Web site, anyone can find and read the 

comments received into any of our 

dockets, including the name of the 

individual sending the comment (or 

signing the comment for 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). 

Docket: To read background 

documents or comments received, go to 


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70966 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 223 / Friday, November 19, 2010 / Notices 

1National State of Good Repair Assessment, June 

2010 and Transit Asset Management Practices—A 

National and International Review, July 2010. 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time 

or to the Docket Management Facility in 

Room W12–140 of the West Building 

Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Keira Jones, 202–267–4025, or Tyneka 

L. Thomas, 202–267–7626, Office of 

Rulemaking, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

16, 2010. 

Dennis Pratte, 

Acting Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition For Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2010–0947 and 

FAA–2010–0970. 

Petitioner: Seaborne Virgin Islands, 

Inc. d.b.a. Seaborne Airlines. 

Section of 14 CFR Affected: Part 121, 

Appendix K, Paragraph 5(a) 

Description of Relief Sought: 

Seaborne Virgin Islands, Inc. d.b.a. 

Seaborne Airlines (Seaborne) petitioned 

for exemption from certain aircraft 

performance requirements in part 121, 

Appendix K, Paragraph 5(a) that are 

effective on and after December 20, 

2010, that pertain to the operations of 

Seaborne’s DHC–6–300 airplanes (float 

and wheel equipped). 

[FR Doc. 2010–29196 Filed 11–18–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Transit Asset Management (TAM) Pilot 

Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

United States Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Request for Proposals (RFP). 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) is soliciting 

proposals from public transportation 

providers, state Departments of 

Transportation (DOT), and Metropolitan 

Planning Organizations (MPO)— 

individually or in partnership—to 

demonstrate effective Transit Asset 

Management (TAM) systems and ‘‘best 

practices’’, which can be replicated to 

improve transportation asset 

management at the nation’s rail and bus 

public transportation agencies. Public 

sector applicants may partner with asset 

management system suppliers; however 

the official proposer must be a public 

agency. The TAM pilot program is 

intended to address several public 

transportation asset management 

challenges identified in previous 

research by FTA.1 FTA contemplates 

making multiple cooperative agreement 

awards for TAM pilot projects to varied 

teams. 

The total available funding for the 

TAM pilot program is $3 million. FTA 

will award cooperative agreements, up 

to $1 million each, to successful 

proposers for pilot projects that will 

demonstrate certain aspects of TAM 

systems. Successful TAM pilot projects 

will promote the use of advanced tools 

and practices throughout the public 

transportation industry. FTA is looking 

for innovative approaches to asset 

management using proven technology 

that will enhance the ability of public 

transportation providers, MPOs, and 

state DOTs to maintain their assets in a 

state of good repair and/or make more 

informed resource allocation decisions. 

Proposed solutions must be scalable and 

transferable such that they can be 

adapted by public transportation 

agencies and organizations of various 

sizes and modes. Additionally, FTA 

seeks to provide technical assistance to 

public transportation agencies through 

written reports and technical knowledge 

to be provided under the cooperative 

agreements. 

DATES: Proposals must be submitted 

electronically by January 18, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Proposals shall be 

submitted electronically to 

http://www.grants.gov. The Web site 

allows organizations to find and apply 

for funding opportunities electronically 

from all Federal grant-making agencies 

and is the single access point for over 

1,000 cooperative agreement programs 

offered by the 26 Federal grant-making 

agencies. 

Mail and fax submissions will not be 

accepted (excluding supplemental 

information which cannot be sent 

electronically). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact Aaron C. James, Director, Office 

of Engineering, (202) 493–0107, 

aaron.james@dot.gov for proposalspecific information and issues. 

I. Funding Authority 

The FY 2010 DOT–HUD 

appropriations bill provides significant 

resources to FTA to encourage improved 

management of the condition and 

recapitalization of the Nation’s transit 

infrastructure. Specifically, the bill 

states: 

‘‘Asset Management—The conference 

agreement includes $5,000,000 to develop 

asset management plans, technical 

assistance, data collection and a pilot 

program as proposed by the Senate. The 

House did not include similar language. The 

conferees expect the pilot program to include 

transit agencies that vary in size and direct 

FTA to report findings to the House and 

Senate Committees on appropriations within 

18 months of enactment.’’ 

FTA is using a portion of this research 

funding, authorized by 49 U.S.C. 5312, 

to support research in asset management 

practices and condition assessment 

methodologies, as well as new data 

collection and analysis activities. $3 

million has been reserved for the pilot 

projects being solicited in this RFP. 

II. Background and Objectives 

FTA is one of eleven agencies in the 

Department of Transportation (DOT) 

and has the primary responsibility of 

carrying out the Federal mandate of 

promoting and improving the nation’s 

public transportation system. As part of 

its role, FTA provides over $10 billion 

annually in financial assistance to 

transit agencies and states for building 

and maintaining public transportation 

systems. There is growing concern that 

a significant portion of the nation’s 

public transportation assets are in need 

of capital reinvestment due to the 

historically inadequate level of financial 

resources available for maintenance and 

asset replacement activities and/or an 

inability by agencies to set appropriate 

recapitalization priorities due to a lack 

of effective and easily adopted asset 

condition assessment tools and systems. 

The National State of Good Repair 

Assessment, published by FTA in June 

2010, indicated that roughly one-third 

of the nation’s public transit assets 

(weighted by replacement value) are in 

marginal or poor condition and that 

almost $80 billion is needed to bring 

them into a ‘‘state of good repair.’’ It has 

been widely acknowledged that asset 

management practices in the public 

transportation sector have not received 

the same level of technical advancement 

or attention as have those used for the 

nation’s highways and public utilities. 

FTA commissioned a review of ‘‘Transit 

Asset Management Practices—National 

and International’’ and posted this 

report to its Web site in July 2010. The 

review found that while several transit 

agencies are utilizing TAM systems of 

one form or another, there are many 

transit agencies without a system in 

place for managing the condition of 

their capital assets in a holistic manner. 

Effective TAM systems use quality data 


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