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U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401,

Department of Transportation, 400 7th

St., SW, Washington, DC 20590–0001.

You may also send comments

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Friday, except federal holidays. An

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Hokana, U.S. Department of

Transportation, Maritime

Administration, MAR–832 Room 7201,

400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington,

DC 20590. Telephone 202–366–0760.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title V of

Pub. L. 105–383 provides authority to

the Secretary of Transportation to

administratively waive the U.S.-build

requirements of the Jones Act, and other

statutes, for small commercial passenger

vessels (less than 12 passengers). This

authority has been delegated to the

Maritime Administration per 49 CFR

1.66, Delegations to the Maritime

Administrator, as amended. By this

notice, MARAD is publishing

information on a vessel for which a

request for a U.S.-build waiver has been

received, and for which MARAD

requests comments from interested

parties. Comments should refer to the

docket number of this notice and the

vessel name in order for MARAD to

properly consider the comments.

Comments should also state the

commenter’s interest in the waiver

application, and address the waiver

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’S

regulations at 46 CFR part 388.

Vessel Proposed for Waiver of the U.S.-

Build Requirement

(1) Name of vessel and owner for

which waiver is requested: Name of

vessel: S/V MIMI. Owner: George G.

Story, Alan M. Story & Spiro N. Cocotas;

Three Mates, Inc.

(2) Size, capacity and tonnage of

vessel: According to the Applicant:

‘‘LOD: 58.5′—BOD: 19.5′—Draft: 7.7′—

Mainmast: 63.5′. Gross: 36 Tons—Net:

31 Tons.’’

(3) Intended use for vessel, including

geographic region of intended operation

and trade: According to the applicant:

‘‘Charter; revolving around, but not

limited to, education and research work.

MIMI presently works widely along the

East Coast, into the Gulf of Mexico and

rarely beyond twenty miles offshore.’’

(4) Date and place of construction and

(if applicable) rebuilding: Date of

construction: 1931, place of

construction: Camaret, France.

(5) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on other commercial

passenger vessel operators: According to

the applicant: ‘‘The Sailing Vessel

MIMI, for the past seventeen years, has

worked solely in education. After the

filmed production of the educational

curriculums ‘‘The Voyage of the MIMI’’

in 1982 then ‘‘The Second Voyage of the

MIMI’’ two years later, a demand for the

curriculum platform, the S/V MIMI, to

tour the east coast became wide spread.

In the course of the school year the

vessel now sails four thousand nautical

miles along the Eastern United States

and shares the nautical life of it’s crew,

along with other points of related

nautical interests, such as navigation,

mechanical advantage, knot tying and

seamanship, with as many as forty-five

thousand elementary and middle school

students. The MIMI curriculum, which

was originally sponsored through a

collaboration between the United States

Department of Education, Bank Street

college of Education and the Public

Broadcasting System, is today seen by,

and worked with, well over one million

students, through over twenty-one

thousand schools systems nation wide,

annually. Sailing MIMI to all of the

areas the curriculum services is

impossible. Making MIMI available to

teachers during the vacationing periods

of the year, will further update and

carry the curriculum to the classroom

through the teacher’s experiences

aboard the vessel. The S/V MIMI,

operating within its not-for-profit status,

will be utilized as an uninspected

vessel, carrying only six fared

passengers, two crewmembers and one

cook, in a near coastal situation. By the

nature of MIMI’s reputation and fame,

no other vessel can deliver this

experience; since there is no other

recognizable MIMI, there is no impact

on other existing businesses of this

kind, simply because there are none to

impact upon. Also, ever since MIMI’s

homeport has been Gloucester,

Massachusetts, all maintenance and

repairs, as well as a major rebuilding

during the summer of 1995, have been

made with U.S. materials and U.S.

labor, in U.S. shipyards, the vessel itself

is operated by U.S. personnel and all

completely paid for with U.S. money

earned here in the United States.’’

(6) A statement on the impact this

waiver will have on U.S. shipyards:

According to the applicant: ‘‘For all of

the aforementioned reasons, it appears

as though the impact on United States

coastwise trade and United States

shipyards is a positive impact, not a

negative one, and will always continue

to be.’’

By Order of the Maritime Administrator.

Dated: April 21, 2000.

Joel C. Richard,

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Reports, Forms and Record Keeping

Requirements; Agency Information

Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice

announces that the Information

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted

below has been forwarded to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for

review and comment. The ICR describes

the nature of the information collections

and their expected burden. The Federal

Register Notice with a 60-day comment

period was published on October 27,

1999 [64 FR 57924–57925].

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before May 26, 2000.

ADDRESSES: 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 NHTSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Michael Huntley at the National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Office of Crash Avoidance Standards

(NPS–12), 202–366–0029, 400 Seventh

Street, SW, Room 5307, Washington, DC

20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Title: 49 CFR part 571.213, Child

Restraint Systems.

OMB Number: 2127–0511.

Type of Request: Extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: Each manufacturer of child

restraint systems must label each system

with safety information and instructions

on using the restraint. Without proper

use, the effectiveness of these systems

are greatly diminished. The

manufacturer is also required to provide

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step-by-step information on how the

restraint is to be used activated and

used. A permanently attached label

gives quick-look information on

whether the restraint meets the safety

requirements, recommended installation

and use and warnings against misuse.

Manufacturers are also required to

provide owner registration cards and

label to their child restraints with a

message informing users of the

importance of registering the restraint.

Affected Public: The manufacturer’s

producing child restraint systems.

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

90,000.

Comments are invited on: Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the Department,

including whether the information will

have practical utility; the accuracy of

the Departments estimate of the burden

of the proposed information collection;

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

A Comment to OMB is most effective

if OMB receives it within 30 days of

publication.

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 19,

2000.

Herman L. Simms,

Associate Administrator for Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Reports, Forms and Record Keeping

Requirements; Agency Information

Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice

announces that the Information

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted

below has been forwarded to the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) for

review and comment. The ICR describes

the nature of the information collections

and their expected burden. The Federal

Register Notice with a 60-day comment

period was published on November 10,

1999 [64 FR 61378–61379].

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before May 26, 2000.

ADDRESSES: 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 NHTSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

F. Oates at the National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, Office of State

and Community Services (NSC–01),

202–366–2730, 400 Seventh Street, SW,

Room 5238, Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Title: 23 CFR part 1335 State Highway

Safety Data and Traffic Records.

OMB Number: 2127—NEW.

Type of Request: New information

collection.

Abstract: The Transportation Equity

Act for the 21st Century, signed into law

on June 1998. Established a New

Section 411, entitled State Highway

Safety Data Improvements. Under this

provision, states may qualify for

incentive grant funds by adapting and

implementing effective highway safety

data and traffic records improvement

programs which meet specified

statutory criteria. The program identifies

three basic records system components,

all of which must be present if the state

is to retrieve multiple-year grants: (1) A

committee to coordinate the

development and use of highway safety

data and traffic records; (2) a systematic

assessment of the state’s highway safety

data and traffic records; and, (3) a

strategic plan for the continued

improvement of highway safety data

and traffic records.

Affected Public: Those state, local,

and tribal government officials applying

for incentive grant funds.

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 114.

Comments are invited on: Whether

the proposed collection of information

is necessary for the proper performance

of the functions of the Department,

including whether the information will

have practical utility; the accuracy of

the Departments estimate of the burden

of the proposed information collection;

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and ways to minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or

other forms of information technology.

A Comment to OMB is most effective

if OMB receives it within 30 days of

publication.

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 19,

2000.

Herman L. Simms,

Associate Administrator for Administration.

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