47882 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 152 / Monday, August 9, 2010 / Notices 

Under Section 103 of Title I of the 

Aviation Safety and Noise Abatement 

Act of 1979 (hereinafter referred to as 

‘‘the Act’’), an airport operator may 

submit to the FAA noise exposure maps 

that meet applicable regulations and 

that depict non-compatible land uses as 

of the date of submission of such maps, 

a description of projected aircraft 

operations, and the ways in which such 

operations will affect such maps. The 

Act requires such maps to be developed 

in consultation with interested and 

affected parties in the local community, 

government agencies, and persons using 

the airport. 

An airport operator who has 

submitted such noise exposure maps 

that are found by FAA to be in 

compliance with the requirements of 

Federal Aviation Regulation (FAR) Part 

150, promulgated pursuant to Title I of 

the Act, may submit a noise 

compatibility program for FAA approval 

that sets forth the measures the operator 

has taken, or proposes, for the 

introduction of additional noncompatible uses. 

The FAA has completed its review of 

the noise exposure map and related 

descriptions submitted by the Rhode 

Island Airport Corporation. The specific 

maps under consideration were Figure 1 

Existing Condition (2010) Noise 

Exposure Map, Figure 2 Forecast 

Condition (2020 EIS No-action) Noise 

Exposure Map, and Figure 3 Forecast 

Conditions (2020 EIS Preferred 

Alternative) Noise Exposure Map in the 

submission. The FAA has determined 

that these maps for T.F.Green Airport 

are in compliance with applicable 

requirements. This determination is 

effective on July 27, 2010. 

FAA’s determination on an airport 

operator’s noise exposure maps is 

limited to a finding that the maps were 

developed in accordance with the 

procedures contained in Appendix A of 

FAR Part 150. Such determination does 

not constitute approval of the 

applicant’s data, information or plans, 

or a commitment to approve a noise 

compatibility program or to fund the 

implementation of that program. 

If questions arise concerning the 

precise relationship of specific 

properties to noise exposure contours 

depicted on a noise exposure map 

submitted under section 103 of the Act, 

it should be noted that the FAA is not 

involved in any way in determining the 

relative locations of specific properties 

with regard to the depicted noise 

contours, or in interpreting the noise 

exposure maps to resolve questions 

concerning, for example, which 

properties should be covered by the 

provisions of section 107 of the Act. 

These functions are inseparable from 

the ultimate land use control and 

planning responsibilities of local 

government. These local responsibilities 

are not changed in any way under part 

150 or through FAA’s review of a noise 

exposure map. Therefore, the 

responsibility for the detailed 

overlaying of noise exposure contours 

onto the map depicting properties on 

the surface rests exclusively with the 

airport operator that submitted the map 

or with those public agencies and 

planning agencies with which 

consultation is required under section 

103 of the Act. The FAA has relied on 

the certification by the airport operator, 

under section 150.21 of FAR Part 150, 

that the statutorily required consultation 

has been accomplished. 

Copies of the noise exposure maps 

and of the FAA’s evaluation of the maps 

are available for examination at the 

following locations: 

Rhode Island Airport Corporation 

T.F.Green Airport, 2000 Post Road, 

Warwick, RI 02886; 

Or: 

Federal Aviation Administration, New 

England Region, Airports Division, 12 

New England Executive Park, 

Burlington, Massachusetts 01803. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Issued in Burlington, Massachusetts, on 

July 27, 2010. 

LaVerne Francis Reid, 

Manager, Airports Division. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19611 Filed 8–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2010–34] 

Petition for Exemption; Summary of 

Petition Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), 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 August 30, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

identified by Docket Number FAA– 

2010–0184 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: 

Laverne Brunache (202) 267–3133 or 

Tyneka 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 August 3, 

2010. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petition for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2010–0184. 

Petitioner: FlightSafety International. 

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 

61.57(c). 


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Description of Relief Sought 

FlightSafety International proposes an 

exemption that would permit 

FlightSafety International to provide 

instrument proficiency checks and 

endorsements in an approved 14 CFR 

part 142 course using a Level 6 flight 

training device. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19512 Filed 8–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

Elimination of USDOT Number 

Registrant-Only Classification 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of procedural changes to 

the Performance and Registration 

Information Systems Management 

Program. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces 

elimination of the ‘‘registrant-only’’ 

USDOT number as part of the 

Performance and Registration 

Information Systems Management 

(PRISM) program. FMCSA developed 

the concept of a ‘‘registrant-only’’ 

USDOT number to identify registered 

owners of commercial motor vehicles 

(CMVs) that are not motor carriers, but 

lease their CMVs to entities that are 

motor carriers. FMCSA has concluded 

that registrant-only USDOT numbers are 

being used differently from what the 

Agency intended and thus the practice 

of issuing registrant-only numbers to 

entities that are not motor carriers is 

having an adverse affect on the Agency’s 

ability to track motor carriers’ safety 

violations. As a result, FMCSA made the 

decision to eliminate the PRISM 

procedure that requires non-motor 

carrier registrants to obtain USDOT 

numbers, and will maintain all existing 

numbers as dormant registrant-only 

USDOT numbers. 

DATES: The effective date of the change 

is September 1, 2011. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Lawler, Department of Transportation, 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

(202) 366–3866 (telephone), 202–366– 

3375 (fax), tom.lawler@dot.gov (e-mail). 

Background 

PRISM was created by Section 4003 of 

the Intermodal Surface Transportation 

Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), Public 

Law 102–240 (105 Stat.1914, 2144, Dec. 

18, 1991) as a demonstration project. 

The goal of the demonstration project 

was to explore the potential benefits of 

using State commercial vehicle 

registration sanctions as an incentive to 

improve motor carrier safety [49 U.S.C. 

31106(b)]. In 1998, Congress authorized 

additional funding through Section 

4004 of the Transportation Equity Act 

for the 21st Century (TEA–21), Public 

Law 105–178 (112 Stat. 107, 398, June 

9, 1998) to implement the PRISM 

program nationwide. 

In 1999, FMCSA created the 

‘‘registrant-only’’ USDOT number 

classification to identify registered 

owners of CMVs that are not motor 

carriers but lease their CMVs to entities 

that are motor carriers. Because the 

registrant is not a motor carrier, the 

registrant-only USDOT number is used 

to track ownership of CMVs in the 

Motor Carrier Management Information 

System (MCMIS). A registrant-only 

USDOT number does not authorize a 

non-motor carrier to operate in 

interstate commerce, and it should not 

have any safety events assigned to it. 

However, in numerous cases, law 

enforcement personnel have been 

presented a registrant-only number 

during inspections and crash 

investigations. As a result, data that 

should be assigned to the record of the 

motor carrier operating the CMV has 

been erroneously assigned to the 

registrant-only DOT number. The 

Agency conducted an analysis in 2009 

and found that over 35,500 (18%) of the 

more than 200,000 registrant-only 

records in MCMIS contained crash and 

inspection activity that should have 

been recorded on the lessee’s motor 

carrier record. 

Placement of this information on a 

registrant-only record adversely affects 

the accuracy of FMCSA’s safety 

monitoring system. Motor carriers that 

improperly use registrant-only numbers 

can evade FMCSA oversight, including 

compliance reviews and new entrant 

program audits. In addition, if safety 

events are not properly attributed to the 

motor carriers operating CMVs, FMCSA 

cannot factor those events into the 

motor carriers’ safety ratings. 

Action To Be Taken 

On September 1, 2011, FMCSA will 

eliminate the practice of allowing nonmotor carrier registrants to obtain 

registrant-only USDOT numbers. 

Approximately 40 of the State 

jurisdictions that are PRISM members 

will be affected by this change. 

Members will need to modify their 

forms, instruction manuals, computer 

systems’ validation and safety edits, 

renewal application and MCS–150 edits 

and procedures. FMCSA will be 

working with members to make the 

necessary changes. The goal is for 

members to make these changes by 

August 31, 2011. 

While members are modifying their 

systems, the FMCSA Division Offices 

will be researching the events attributed 

to the registrant-only records and 

reassigning the events to the proper 

motor carrier record on MCMIS, or, if 

appropriate, changing the non-motor 

carrier to motor carrier status. The 

registrant-only USDOT numbers will 

remain on MCMIS as dormant numbers 

unless a non-motor carrier changes its 

status to motor carrier. FMCSA’s goal is 

to have all of the records corrected by 

December 31, 2011. 

Issued on: July 30, 2010. 

Anne S. Ferro, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2010–19593 Filed 8–6–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0187] 

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption 

Applications; Vision 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of applications for 

exemptions; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces receipt of 

applications from 21 individuals for 

exemption from the vision requirement 

in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations. If granted, the exemptions 

would enable these individuals to 

qualify as drivers of commercial motor 

vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce 

without meeting the Federal vision 

standard. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 8, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket No. FMCSA– 

2010–0187 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 


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