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New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590; or 

• Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 of 

the U.S. Department of Transportation 

West Building Ground Floor, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Communications received within 45 

days of the date of this notice will be 

considered by FRA before final action is 

taken. Comments received after that 

date will be considered as far as 

practicable. All written communications 

concerning these proceedings are 

available for examination during regular 

business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) at the 

above facility. All documents in the 

public docket are also available for 

inspection and copying on the Internet 

at the docket facility’s Web site at 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

FRA wishes to inform all potential 

commenters that anyone is able to 

search the electronic form of all 

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). 

Issued in Washington, DC on August 6, 

2009. 

Grady C. Cothen, Jr., 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Safety 

Standards and Program Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–19278 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

Fiscal Year 2010 Safety Grants 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice is to inform the 

public of FMCSA’s Fiscal Year (FY) 

2010 safety grant opportunities and 

FMCSA’s changes to its application and 

award processes for grant programs. The 

Agency instituted procedural changes in 

an effort to simplify and streamline its 

grants application and award processes. 

The 11 safety programs include the 

Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program 

(MCSAP) Basic grants; MCSAP 

Incentive grants; MCSAP New Entrant 

Safety Audit grants; MCSAP High 

Priority grants; Commercial Motor 

Vehicle (CMV) Operator Safety Training 

grants; Border Enforcement grants 

(BEG); Commercial Driver’s License 

Program Improvement (CDLPI) grants; 

Commercial Driver’s License 

Information System (CDLIS) 

Modernization grants; Performance and 

Registration Information Systems 

Management (PRISM) grants; Safety 

Data Improvement Program grants 

(SaDIP); and the Commercial Vehicle 

Information Systems and Networks 

(CVISN) grants. Each grant program was 

provided for in the Agency’s most 

recent authorization, the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU). The purpose of 

this notice is to provide grantees with 

information on the Agency’s FY 2010 

safety grant application deadlines. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please contact the following FMCSA 

staff with questions or needed 

information on the Agency’s grant 

programs: 

MCSAP New Entrant Safety Audit 

Grants—Arthur Williams, 

arthur.williams@dot.gov, 202–366– 

3695, Border Enforcement Grants—Carla 

Vagnini, carla.vagnini@dot.gov, 202– 

366–3771, MCSAP High Priority 

Grants—Cim Weiss, cim.weiss@dot.gov, 

202–366–0275, CMV Operator Safety 

Training Grants—Julie Otto, 

julie.otto@dot.gov, 202–366–0710, 

CDLPI Grants—Brandon Poarch, 

brandon.poarch@dot.gov, 202–366– 

3030, CDLIS Modernization Grants— 

Brandon Poarch, 

brandon.poarch@dot.gov, 202–366– 

3030, SaDIP Grants—Betsy Benkowski, 

betsy.benkowski@dot.gov, 202–366– 

4808, PRISM Grants—Tom Lawler, 

tom.lawler@dot.gov, 202–366–3866, 

CVISN Grants—Julie Lane, 

julie.lane@dot.gov, 202–385–2391. 

All staff may be reached at FMCSA, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., EST, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Regulatory History 

On March 24, 2009, FMCSA 

published a notice with request for 

comments in the Federal Register (74 

FR 12437) regarding the establishment 

of Fiscal Year (FY) 2010 grant 

application due dates and other grant 

program changes. 

Background and Purpose 

FMCSA recognizes that State 

governments and other grantees are 

dependent on its safety grants to 

develop and maintain important 

commercial motor vehicle (CMV) safety 

programs. FMCSA further acknowledges 

that delays in awarding grant funds may 

have an adverse impact on these 

important safety programs. As a result, 

FMCSA conducted a grants process 

review, in an effort to identify ways to 

streamline the application, award, and 

grants management processes, and to 

award grant funds earlier each fiscal 

year. In addition, FMCSA made changes 

in the grants application, award and 

oversight processes to standardize 

application forms, increase the use of 

electronic documents, standardize 

quarterly reports and reduce the number 

of needed grant amendments. 

Discussion of Comments 

Five comments were received in the 

docket. All commenters supported 

FMCSA’s changes, especially any efforts 

to award funds earlier in the fiscal year. 

One commenter suggested delaying on 

the proposed application dates until FY 

2011. Another commenter suggested one 

due date for all grants. Other comments 

included suggestions beyond the scope 

of FMCSA’s current changes. This 

information will be considered during 

future grant program modifications. 

FY 2010 Safety Grants Program 

First, the schedule for the FY 2010 

grant applications is as follows: 

MCSAP Basic and Incentive Grants— 

August 1, 2009. 

New Entrant Safety Audit Grants— 

September 1, 2009. 

Border Enforcement Grants— 

September 15, 2009. 

CMV Operator Safety Training 

Grants—October 1, 2009. 

SaDIP Grants—October 2, 2009. 

MCSAP High Priority Grants— 

October 15, 2009. 

CDLPI Grants—November 1, 2009. 

CDLIS Modernization Grants— 

November 15, 2009. 

PRISM Grants—December 1, 2009. 

CVISN Grants—December 1, 2009. 

Second, consistent with its contract 

authority, FMCSA will enter into grant 

agreements beginning October 1 or as 

soon thereafter as administratively 

practicable. FMCSA intends to enter 

into grant agreements no later than 90 

days from the date the application is 

due but not prior to October 1. 

Third, for all grants other than 

MCSAP Basic and Incentive, FMCSA 

will use a standard grant application 

form and a new quarterly reporting 

process. In its grant announcements on 

grants.gov, FMCSA will use Standard 

Form 424 (‘‘Application for Federal 

Assistance’’) and its attachments for all 

of its grant programs. While each grant 


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program may request different data in 

some of the data fields on the form, the 

use of the Standard Form 424 will be 

mandatory. FMCSA must adopt the 

Standard Form—Project Progress Report 

(SF–PPR) as its preferred form for 

quarterly reporting. Therefore, the SF– 

PRR would be mandatory for quarterly 

reporting. However, individual grant 

programs may require additional SF– 

PRR attachments. Additional guidance 

will be provided to grant recipients 

upon award. 

Fourth, FMCSA is increasing the use 

of electronic documents. As a result, the 

number of original copies of grant 

agreements required to be signed by 

Grantees and submitted to FMCSA is 

now two. In addition, FMCSA will 

provide most grant agreement 

documents electronically to its financial 

processing office. Grantees are, 

however, still required to submit the 

Automated Clearing House (ACH) 

Vendor Payment Form (SF–3881) 

directly to FMCSA’s financial 

processing office by U.S. Postal Service, 

courier service or secure fax. 

Application Information for FY 2010 

Grants 

General information about FMCSA 

grant programs is available in the 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

which can be found on the internet at 

http://www.cfda.gov. To apply for 

funding, applicants must register with 

grants.gov at http://www.grants.gov/ 

applicants/get–registered.jsp and submit 

an application in accordance with 

instructions provided for each grant 

program. 

If funds remain available within each 

grant program, applications filed after 

the deadline will be considered. 

Evaluation Factors: The following 

evaluation factors will be used in 

reviewing the applications for all 

FMCSA discretionary grants: 

(1) Prior performance—Completion of 

identified programs and goals per the 

project plan. 

(2) Effective Use of Prior Grants— 

Demonstrated timely use and expensing 

of available funds. 

(3) Cost Effectiveness—Applications 

will be evaluated and prioritized on the 

expected safety impact relative to the 

investment of grant funds. Where 

appropriate, costs per unit will be 

calculated and compared with national 

averages to determine effectiveness. In 

other areas, proposed costs will be 

compared with historical information to 

confirm reasonableness. 

(4) Applicability to announced 

priorities—If national priorities are 

included in the grants.gov notice, those 

proposals that specifically address these 

issues will be given priority 

consideration. 

(5) Ability of the applicant to support 

the strategies and activities in the 

proposal for the entire project period of 

performance. 

(6) Use of innovative approaches in 

executing a project plan to address 

identified safety issues. 

(7) Feasibility of overall program 

coordination and implementation based 

upon the project plan. 

(8) Grant specific evaluation factors as 

described in the grants.gov application 

information. 

Issued on: August 6, 2009. 

William A. Quade, 

Associate Administrator for Enforcement and 

Program Delivery. 

David Anewalt, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Research 

and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. E9–19285 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Intent To Rule on Request To 

Release Airport Property at the SeattleTacoma International Airport, Seattle, 

WA 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request to release 

airport property. 

SUMMARY: The FAA proposes to rule and 

invite public comment on the release of 

land at the Seattle-Tacoma International 

Airport under the provisions of section 

125 of the Wendell H. Ford Aviation 

Investment Reform Act for the 21st 

Century (AIR 21). 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before August 6, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on this 

application may be mailed or delivered 

to the FAA at the following address: Ms. 

Carol Suomi, Manager, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Northwest Mountain 

Region, Airports Division, Seattle 

Airports District Office, 1601 Lind Ave., 

SW., Suite 250, Renton, Washington 

98057. 

In addition, one copy of any 

comments submitted to the FAA must 

be mailed or delivered to Mr. Allan 

Royal, Manager, Port of Seattle Real 

Estate Development, P.O. Box 68727, 

Seattle, Washington, 98168. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Roman Pinon, Project Manager, Federal 

Aviation Administration, Northwest 

Mountain Region, Airports Division, 

Seattle Airports District Office, 1601 

Lind Avenue, SW., Suite 250, Renton, 

Washington 98057. 

The request to release property may 

be reviewed in person at this same 

location. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA 

invites public comment on the request 

to release property at the SeattleTacoma International Airport under the 

provisions of the AIR 21. 

On June 17, 2009, the FAA 

determined that the request to release 

property at the Seattle Tacoma 

International Airport submitted by the 

Port of Seattle, Washington met the 

procedural requirements of the Federal 

Aviation Regulations, part 155. The 

FAA may approve the request, in whole 

or in part, no later than August 6, 2009. 

The following is a brief overview of 

the request: 

The Seattle-Tacoma International 

Airport requests the release of 495,653 

square feet of non-aeronautical airport 

property to Port of Seattle, Washington. 

The current property is vacant and has 

no ability to have an aviation use 

associated with the land. The purpose of 

this release is to allow the Port to sell 

the subject land that no longer serves 

any aeronautical purpose at the airport 

to the City of Des Moines, WA for use 

as a jail site. 

Any person may inspect the request 

by appointment at the FAA office listed 

above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

In addition, any person may, inspect 

the application, notice and other 

documents germane to the application 

in person at the Seattle-Tacoma 

International Airport, 17801 

International Blvd., Seattle, Washington, 

98188. 

Issued in Renton, Washington on July 6, 

2009. 

Carol Suomi, 

Manager, Seattle Airports District Office. 

[FR Doc. E9–19055 Filed 8–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

In accordance with Part 211 of Title 

49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), 

notice is hereby given that the Federal 

Railroad Administration (FRA) received 

a request for a waiver of compliance 

with certain requirements of its safety 

standards. The individual petition is 

described below, including the party 

seeking relief, the regulatory provisions 

involved, the nature of the relief being 


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