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1. Request for Waiver of Overpayment 

Recovery or Change in Repayment 

Notice—20 CFR 404.502–404.513, 

404.515, 20 CFR 416.550–416.570, and 

416.572—0960–0037. When Social 

Security beneficiaries and Supplemental 

Security Income (SSI) recipients receive 

an accidental overpayment of benefits, 

they must repay the amount of the 

overpayment. These beneficiaries and 

recipients can use Form SSA–632–BK to 

take one of three actions: (1) Request an 

exemption from repaying, as recovery of 

the payment would cause financial 

hardship; (2) inform SSA they want to 

repay the overpayment at a monthly rate 

over a period longer than 36 months; 

and (3) request a different rate of 

recovery. In the latter two cases, the 

respondents must also provide financial 

information to SSA to help the agency 

determine how much the overpaid 

person can afford to repay each month. 

Respondents are overpaid beneficiaries 

or SSI recipients who are requesting a 

waiver of recovery of an overpayment or 

a lesser rate of withholding. 

Type of Request: REVISION OF AN OMB-APPROVED INFORMATION COLLECTION. 

Type of request Number of respondents 

Frequency of 

response Response time Total burden (hours) 

Waiver of Overpayment (Completes Whole Paper Form) ...... 400,000 1 2 hours ................................... 800,000 

Change in Repayment (Completes Partial Paper Form) ........ 100,000 1 45 minutes ............................. 75,000 

Regional Application (New York Debt Management) ............. 44,000 1 2 hours ................................... 88,000 

Internet Instructions ................................................................. 500,000 1 5 minutes ............................... 41,667 

Totals ................................................................................ 1,044,000 ........................ ................................................ 1,004,667 

2. Employee Work Activity 

Questionnaire—20 CFR 404.1574 and 

20 CFR 404.1592–0960–0483—Social 

Security disability beneficiaries and SSI 

recipients qualify for payments when a 

verified physical or mental impairment 

prevents them from working. If 

disability claimants attempt to return to 

work after receiving payments, but are 

unable to continue working, they submit 

Form SSA–3033, Employee Work 

Activity Questionnaire, so SSA can 

evaluate their work attempt. SSA uses 

this form to evaluate unsuccessful 

subsidy work and determine applicants’ 

continuing eligibility for disability 

payments. The respondents are 

employers of Social Security disability 

beneficiaries and SSI recipients who 

unsuccessfully attempted to return to 

work. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 15,000. 

Frequency of Response: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 3,750 

hours. 

3. Sheltered Workshop Wage 

Reporting—0960–0771. Sheltered 

workshops are nonprofit organizations 

or institutions that implement a 

recognized program of rehabilitation for 

handicapped workers, or provide such 

workers with remunerative employment 

or other occupational rehabilitating 

activity of an educational or therapeutic 

nature. Sheltered workshops perform a 

service for their clients by reporting 

monthly wages directly to SSA. SSA 

uses the information these workshops 

provide to verify and post monthly 

wages to the SSI recipient’s record. Most 

workshops report monthly wage totals 

to their local SSA office so we can 

adjust the client’s SSI payment amount 

in a timely manner and prevent 

overpayments. Sheltered workshops are 

motivated to report wages voluntarily as 

a service to their clients. Respondents 

are sheltered workshops that report 

monthly wages for services performed 

in the workshop. 

Type of Request: Revision of an OMBapproved information collection. 

Number of Respondents: 900. 

Frequency of Response: 12. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 2,700 

hours. 

Dated: December 28, 2010. 

Faye Lipsky, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Center for Reports 

Clearance, Social Security Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33078 Filed 12–30–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4191–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2010–0175] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Renewal of a Previously Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the 

information collection request described 

in this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

renew an information collection. We 

published a Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day public comment period 

on this information collection on 

September 15, 2010. We are required to 

publish this notice in the Federal 

Register by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

February 2, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may 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 DOT Desk Officer. You 

are asked to comment on any aspect of 

this information collection, including: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways for the FHWA to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

All comments should include the 

Docket number FHWA–2010–0175. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Kenneth Petty, (202) 366–6654, Office of 

Planning, Environment, and Realty; 

Federal Highway Administration, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 

ET, Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Planning and Research Program 

Administration. 

OMB Control #: 2125–0039. 

Background: Under the provisions of 

Title 23, United States Code, Section 

505, 2 percent of Federal-aid highway 

funds in certain categories that are 

apportioned to the States are set aside 

to be used only for State Planning and 

Research (SPR). At least 25 percent of 


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the SPR funds apportioned annually 

must be used for research, development, 

and technology transfer activities. In 

accordance with government-wide grant 

management procedures, a grant 

application must be submitted for these 

funds. In addition, recipients must 

submit periodic progress and financial 

reports. In lieu of Standard Form 424, 

Application for Federal Assistance, the 

FHWA uses a work program as the grant 

application. The information contained 

in the work program includes task 

descriptions, assignments of 

responsibility for conducting the work 

effort, and estimated costs for the tasks. 

This information is necessary to 

determine how FHWA planning and 

research funds will be utilized by the 

State Transportation Departments and if 

the proposed work is eligible for Federal 

participation. The content and 

frequency of submission of progress and 

financial reports specified in 23 CFR 

part 420 are specified in OMB Circular 

A–102 and the companion common 

grant management regulations. 

Respondents: 52 State Transportation 

Departments, including the District of 

Columbia and Puerto Rico. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Estimated Average Annual Burden 

per Response: 560 hours per 

respondent. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 29,120 hours. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued On: December 22, 2010. 

Judith Kane, 

Acting Chief, Management Programs and 

Analysis Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32721 Filed 12–30–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for Proposed Transit 

Improvements to the North Red and 

Purple Lines, Cook County, IL 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

U.S. Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA), as the lead 

Federal agency, and the Chicago Transit 

Authority (CTA) intend to prepare a 

Tier 1 Environmental Impact Statement 

(Tier 1 EIS) for the North Red and 

Purple Line Modernization (RPM) 

Project in Cook County, Illinois. The 

CTA operates the rapid transit system in 

Cook County, Illinois. The proposed 

project, described more completely 

within, would bring the North Red and 

Purple lines up to a state of good repair 

from the track structure immediately 

north of Belmont Station in Chicago, 

Illinois to the Linden terminal in 

Wilmette, Illinois. The purpose of this 

Notice of Intent is to (1) alert interested 

parties regarding the intent to prepare 

the EIS, (2) to provide information on 

the nature of the proposed project and 

possible alternatives, and (3) to invite 

public participation in the EIS process. 

DATES: Written comments on the scope 

of the EIS, including the project’s 

purpose and need, the alternatives to be 

considered, the impacts to be evaluated, 

and the methodologies to be used in the 

evaluations should be sent to CTA on or 

before February 18, 2011. See 

ADDRESSES below for the address to 

which written public comments may be 

sent. Four public scoping meetings to 

accept comments on the scope of the 

EIS will be held on the following dates: 

• Monday, January 24, 2011; 6 p.m. to 

8:30 p.m.; at St. Augustine College, 1345 

West Argyle Street, Chicago, IL 60640. 

• Tuesday, January 25, 2011; 6 p.m. 

to 8:30 p.m.; at the Nicholas Senn High 

School, 5900 North Glenwood Avenue, 

Chicago, IL 60660. 

• Wednesday, January 26, 2011; 6 

p.m. to 8:30 p.m.; at the New Field 

Primary School, 1707 West Morse 

Avenue, Chicago, IL 60626. 

• Thursday, January 27, 2011; 6 p.m. 

to 8:30 p.m.; at the Fleetwood-Jourdain 

Community Center, 1655 Foster Street, 

Evanston, IL 60201. 

The buildings to be used for the 

scoping meetings are accessible to 

persons with disabilities. Any 

individual who requires special 

assistance or language translation, such 

as a sign language interpreter, to 

participate in the scoping meeting 

should contact Mr. Jeff Wilson, 

Government and Community Relations 

Officer, Chicago Transit Authority, at 

312–681–2712 or 

jwilson@transitchicago.com, five days 

prior to the meeting. 

Scoping materials describing the 

project purpose and need and the 

alternatives proposed for analysis will 

be available at the meetings and on the 

CTA Web site http:// 

www.transitchicago.com/rpmproject. 

Paper copies of the scoping materials 

may also be obtained from Mr. Jeff 

Wilson, Government and Community 

Relations Officer, Chicago Transit 

Authority, at 312–681–2712 or 

jwilson@transitchicago.com. 

An interagency scoping meeting will 

be held on Monday, January 24 at 10:30 

a.m. at CTA Headquarters, in 

Conference Room 2A, 567 W. Lake 

Street, Chicago, IL 60661. 

Representatives of Native American 

Tribal governments and Federal, State, 

regional, and local agencies that may 

have an interest in any aspect of the 

project will be invited to be 

participating or cooperating agencies, as 

appropriate. 

ADDRESSES: Comments will be accepted 

at the public scoping meetings or they 

may be sent to Mr. Steve Hands, 

Strategic Planning and Policy, Chicago 

Transit Authority, P.O. Box 7602, 

Chicago, IL 60680–7602, or via e-mail at 

RPM@transitchicago.com. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Reginald Arkell, Community Planner, 

Federal Transit Administration, Region 

V, 200 West Adams Street, Suite 320, 

Chicago, IL 60606, phone 312–886– 

3704, e-mail reginald.arkell@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Scoping 

The FTA and CTA invite all 

interested individuals and 

organizations, public agencies, and 

Native American Tribes to comment on 

the scope of the Tier 1 EIS, including 

the project’s purpose and need, the 

alternatives to be studied, the impacts to 

be evaluated, and the evaluation 

methods to be used. The Tier 1 EIS will 

be a planning level EIS that will allow 

the CTA and FTA to use the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

process as a tool to involve agencies and 

the public in the decision making 

process for the project as well as to 

capture any associated or cumulative 

impacts on the environment. This 

process will ensure that: the complete 

9.5-mile RPM corridor is analyzed; the 

EIS is used to help refine and prioritize 

design concepts, and; related 

components of the project are grouped 

together for future analysis. After this 

Tier 1 EIS process is complete, 

component projects can each be 

evaluated more specifically with a 

second-tier EIS and/or other NEPA 

environmental documentation as 

needed. These ensuing NEPA 

documents can reference and 

summarize information from the Tier 1 

EIS and concentrate on the issues 

specific to the subsequent actions (40 

CFR 1502.20). Comments should 

address (1) the project’s priorities and 

appropriate cost-effective alternatives 

and components, and (2) any significant 

environmental impacts relating to the 

alternatives. 

NEPA ‘‘scoping’’ (40 CFR 1501.7) has 

specific and fairly limited objectives, 

one of which is to identify the 


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