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citizenship, and name of your industry 

association, or applicable affiliation. If 

you are attending as a public citizen 

please indicate so. 

For persons participating by 

telephone, please contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section by email or phone for 

the teleconference call-in number and 

passcode. Callers outside the 

Washington metropolitan area are 

responsible for paying long-distance 

charges. 

The public must arrange by December 

12, 2013 to present oral statements at 

the meeting. The public may present 

written statements to the Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee by 

providing 25 copies to the Designated 

Federal Officer, or by bringing the 

copies to the meeting. 

If you are in need of assistance or 

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this meeting, please contact the person 

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INFORMATION CONTACT. Sign and oral 

interpretation, as well as a listening 

device, can be made available if 

requested 10 calendar days before the 

meeting. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 

25, 2013. 

Brenda Courtney, 

Designated Federal Officer, Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2013–28720 Filed 11–29–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No FAA–2005–22842] 

Notice of Opportunity To Participate; 

Criteria and Application Procedures for 

Participation in the Military Airport 

Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of criteria and 

application procedures. 

SUMMARY: This document announces the 

criteria, application procedures, and 

schedule to be applied by the Secretary 

of Transportation in designating or 

redesignating, and funding capital 

development for up to 15 current jointuse or former military airports seeking 

first time designation or redesignation to 

participate in the MAP. 

DATES: Applications must be received 

on or before January 31, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit an original and two 

copies of Standard Form (SF) 424, 

‘‘Application for Federal Assistance,’’ 

prescribed by the Office of Management 

and Budget Circular A–102, available at 

http://www.faa.gov/airports/resources/

forms/media/aip_sf424_2010.pdf along 

with all supporting and justifying 

documentation required by this notice. 

Applicant should specifically request to 

be considered for designation or 

redesignation to participate in the fiscal 

year 2014 MAP. Submission should be 

sent to the Regional FAA Airports 

Division or Airports District Office that 

serves the airport. Applicants may find 

the proper office on the FAA Web site 

http://www.faa.gov/airports/news_

information/contact_info/regional/ or 

may contact the office below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Kendall Ball (Kendall.Ball@faa.gov), 

Airports Financial Assistance Division 

(APP–500), Office of Airport Planning 

and Programming, Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), 800 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20591, (202) 267–7436. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

General Description of the Program 

The MAP allows the Secretary to 

designate current joint-use or former 

military airports to receive grants from 

the Airport Improvement Program (AIP). 

The Secretary is authorized to designate 

an airport (other than an airport 

designated before August 24, 1994) only 

if: 

(1) The airport is a former military 

installation closed or realigned under 

the Title 10 U.S.C. Sec. 2687 

(announcement of closures of large 

Department of Defense installations 

after September 30, 1977), or under 

Section 201 or 2905 of the Defense 

Authorization Amendments and Base 

Closure and Realignment Acts; or 

(2) the airport is a military installation 

with both military and civil aircraft 

operations. 

The Secretary shall consider for 

designation only those current joint-use 

or former military airports, at least 

partly converted to civilian airports as 

part of the national air transportation 

system, that will reduce delays at 

airports with more than 20,000 hours of 

annual delays in commercial passenger 

aircraft takeoffs and landings, or will 

enhance airport and air traffic control 

system capacity in metropolitan areas, 

or reduce current and projected flight 

delays (49 U.S.C. 47118(c)). 

The MAP provides capital 

development assistance to civil airport 

sponsors of designated current joint-use 

military airfields or former military 

airports that are included in the FAA’s 

National Plan of Integrated Airport 

Systems (NPIAS). Airports designated to 

the MAP may be able to receive grant 

funds from a set-aside (currently four 

percent of AIP discretionary funds) for 

airport development, including certain 

projects not otherwise eligible for AIP 

assistance. These airports are also 

eligible to receive grants from other 

categories of AIP funding. 

Number of Airports 

A maximum of 15 airports per fiscal 

year may participate in the MAP, of 

which 3 may be General Aviation (GA) 

airports. There are 8 slots available for 

designation or redesignation in FY 2014. 

There are no GA slots available in FY 

2014. 

Term of Designation 

The maximum term is five fiscal years 

following designation. The FAA can 

designate airports for a period of less 

than five years. The FAA will evaluate 

the conversion needs of the airport in its 

capital development plan to determine 

the appropriate length of designation. 

Redesignation 

Previously designated airports may 

apply for redesignation of an additional 

term not to exceed five years. Those 

airports must meet current eligibility 

requirements in 49 U.S.C. 47118(a) at 

the beginning of each grant period and 

have MAP eligible projects. The FAA 

will evaluate applications for 

redesignation primarily in terms of 

warranted projects fundable only under 

the MAP as these candidates tend to 

have fewer conversion needs than new 

candidates. The FAA’s goal is to 

graduate MAP airports to regular AIP 

participation by successfully converting 

these airports to civilian airport 

operations. 

Eligible Projects 

In addition to eligible AIP projects, 

MAP can fund fuel farms, utility 

systems, surface automobile parking 

lots, hangars, and air cargo terminals up 

to 50,000 square feet. A designated or 

redesignated military airport can receive 

not more than $7,000,000 each fiscal 

year to construct, improve, and repair 

terminal building facilities. In addition 

a designated or redesignated military 

airports can receive not more than 

$7,000,000 each fiscal year for MAP 

eligible projects that include hangars, 

cargo facilities, fuel farms, automobile 

surface parking, and utility work. 

Designation Considerations 

In making designations of new 

candidate airports, the Secretary of 

Transportation may only designate an 

airport (other than an airport so 


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designated before August 24, 1994) if it 

meets the following general 

requirements: 

(1) The airport is a former military 

installation closed or realigned under: 

(A) Section 2687 of Title 10; 

(B) Section 201 of the Defense 

Authorization Amendments and Base 

Closure and Realignment Act (BRAC) 

(10 U.S.C. 2687 note); or 

(C) Section 2905 of the Defense Base 

Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 

(10 U.S.C. 2687 note); or 

(2) The airport is a military 

installation with both military and civil 

aircraft operations; and 

(3) The airport is classified as a 

commercial service or reliever airport in 

the NPIAS. (See 49 U.S.C. 47105(b)(2)). 

In addition, three of the designated 

airports, if included in the NPIAS, may 

be a GA airport that was a former 

military installation closed or realigned 

under BRAC, as amended, or 10 U.S.C. 

2687. (See 49 U.S.C. 47118(g)). 

Therefore, a GA airport can only qualify 

under (1) above. ‘‘General aviation 

airport’’ means a public airport that is 

located in a State that, as determined by 

the Secretary: (A) Does not have 

scheduled service; or (B) has scheduled 

service with less than 2,500 passenger 

boardings each year. However, as noted 

under ‘‘Number of Airports,’’ there are 

no GA slots available in FY 2014. 

In designating new candidate airports, 

the Secretary shall consider if a grant 

will: 

(1) Reduce delays at an airport with 

more than 20,000 hours of annual 

delays in commercial passenger aircraft 

takeoffs and landings; or 

(2) Enhance airport and air traffic 

control system capacity in a 

metropolitan area or reduce current and 

projected flight delays. 

The application for new designations 

will be evaluated in terms of how the 

proposed projects will contribute to 

reducing delays and/or how the airport 

will enhance air traffic or airport system 

capacity and provide adequate user 

services. 

Project Evaluation 

Recently realigned or closed military 

airports, as well as active military 

airfields with new joint-use agreements, 

have the greatest need of funding to 

convert to, or to incorporate, civil 

airport operations. Newly converted 

airports and new joint-use locations 

frequently have minimal capital 

development resources and will 

therefore receive priority consideration 

for designation and MAP funding. The 

FAA will evaluate the need for eligible 

projects based upon information in the 

candidate airport’s five-year Capital 

Improvement Plan (CIP). 

1. The FAA will evaluate candidate 

airports and/or the airports such 

candidate airports will relieve based on 

the following specific factors: 

• Compatibility of airport roles and 

the ability of the airport to provide an 

adequate airport facility; 

• The capability of the candidate 

airport and its airside and landside 

complex to serve aircraft that otherwise 

must use a congested airport; 

• Landside surface access; 

• Airport operational capability, 

including peak hour and annual 

capacities of the candidate airport; 

• Potential of other metropolitan area 

airports to relieve the congested airport; 

• Ability to satisfy, relieve, or meet 

air cargo demand within the 

metropolitan area; 

• Forecasted aircraft and passenger 

levels, type of commercial service 

anticipated, i.e., scheduled or charter 

commercial service; 

• Type and capacity of aircraft 

projected to serve the airport and level 

of operations at the congested airport 

and the candidate airport; 

• The potential for the candidate 

airport to be served by aircraft or users, 

including the airlines, serving the 

congested airport; 

• Ability to replace an existing 

commercial service or reliever airport 

serving the area; and 

• Any other documentation to 

support the FAA designation of the 

candidate airport. 

2. The FAA will evaluate the extent 

to which development needs funded 

through MAP will make the airport a 

viable civil airport that will enhance 

system capacity or reduce delays. 

Application Procedures and Required 

Documentation 

Airport sponsors applying for 

designation or redesignation must 

complete and submit an SF 424, 

Application for Federal Assistance, and 

provide supporting documentation to 

the appropriate FAA Airports regional 

or district office serving that airport. 

Standard Form 424 

Sponsors may obtain this fillable form 

at http://www.faa.gov/airports/

resources/forms/media/aip_sf424_

2010.pdf. Applicants should fill this 

form out completely, including the 

following: 

• Mark Item 1, Type of Submission as 

a ‘‘pre-application’’ and indicate it is for 

‘‘construction’’. 

• Mark item 8, Type of Application as 

‘‘new’’, and in ‘‘other’’, fill in ‘‘Military 

Airport Program’’. 

• Fill in Item 11, Descriptive Title of 

Applicant’s Project. ‘‘Designation (or 

redesignation) to the Military Airport 

Program’’. 

• In Item 15a, Estimated Funding, 

indicate the total amount of funding 

requested from the MAP during the 

entire term for which you are applying. 

Supporting Documentation 

(A) Identification as a Current or 

Former Military Airport. The 

application must identify the airport as 

either a current or former military 

airport and indicate whether it was: 

(1) Closed or realigned under Section 

201 of the Defense Authorization 

Amendments and Base Closure and 

Realignment Act, and/or Section 2905 of 

the Defense Base Closure and 

Realignment Act of 1990 (Installations 

Approved for Closure by the Defense 

Base Realignment and Closure 

Commissions), or 

(2) Closed or realigned pursuant to 10 

U.S.C. 2687 as excess property (bases 

announced for closure by Department of 

Defense (DOD) pursuant to this title 

after September 30, 1977 (this is the 

date of announcement for closure)), or 

(3) A military installation with both 

military and civil aircraft operations. A 

general aviation airport applying for the 

MAP may be joint-use but must also 

qualify under (1) or (2) above. 

(B) Qualifications for MAP: 

Submit documents for (1) through (8) 

below: 

(1) Documentation that the airport 

meets the definition of a ‘‘public 

airport’’ as defined in 49 U.S.C. Sec. 

47102(20). 

(2) Documentation indicating the 

required environmental review for civil 

reuse or joint-use of the military airfield 

has been completed. This 

environmental review need not include 

review of the individual projects to be 

funded by the MAP. Rather, the 

documentation should reflect that the 

environmental review necessary to 

convey the property, enter into a longterm lease, or finalize a joint-use 

agreement has been completed. The 

military department conveying or 

leasing the property, or entering into a 

joint-use agreement, has the lead 

responsibility for this environmental 

review. To meet AIP requirements the 

environmental review and approvals 

must indicate that the operator or owner 

of the airport has good title, satisfactory 

to the Secretary, or assures to the FAA’s 

satisfaction that good title will be 

acquired. 

(3) For a former military airport, 

documentation that the eligible airport 

sponsor holds or will hold satisfactory 

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conveyance of property for airport 

purposes, or a long-term interim lease 

for 25 years or longer to the property on 

which the civil airport is being located. 

Documentation that an application for 

surplus or BRAC airport property has 

been accepted by the Federal 

Government is sufficient to indicate the 

eligible airport sponsor holds or will 

hold satisfactory title or a long-term 

lease. 

(4) For a current military airport, 

documentation that the airport sponsor 

has an existing joint-use agreement with 

the military department having 

jurisdiction over the airport. For all first 

time applicants a copy of the existing 

joint-use agreement must be submitted 

with the application. This is necessary 

so the FAA can legally issue grants to 

the sponsor. Here and in (3) directly 

above, the airport must possess the 

necessary property rights in order to 

accept a grant for its proposed projects 

during FY 2014. 

(5) Documentation that the airport is 

classified as a ‘‘commercial service 

airport’’ or a ‘‘reliever airport’’ as 

defined in 49 U.S.C. 47102(7) and 

47102(23). 

(6) Documentation that the airport 

owner is an eligible airport ‘‘sponsor’’ as 

defined in 49 U.S.C. 47102(26). 

(7) Documentation that the airport has 

a five-year Capital Improvement Plan 

(CIP) indicating all eligible grant 

projects requested to be funded either 

from the MAP or other portions of the 

AIP and an FAA approved Airport 

Layout Plan (ALP). 

(8) For commercial service airports a 

business/marketing plan or equivalent 

must be submitted with the application. 

For relievers or general aviation airports 

other planning documents may be 

submitted. 

(C) Evaluation Factors: 

Submit information on the items 

below to assist in our evaluation: 

(1) Information identifying the 

existing and potential levels of visual or 

instrument operations and aeronautical 

activity at the current or former military 

airport and, if applicable, the congested 

airport. Also, if applicable, information 

on how the airport contributes to air 

traffic system or airport system capacity. 

If served by commercial air carriers, the 

revenue passenger and cargo levels 

should be provided. 

(2) A description of the airport’s 

projected civil role and development 

needs for transitioning from use as a 

military airfield to a civil airport. 

Include how development projects 

would serve to reduce delays at an 

airport with more than 20,000 hours of 

annual delays in commercial passenger 

aircraft takeoffs and landings; or 

enhance capacity in a metropolitan area 

or reduce current and projected flight 

delays. 

(3) A description of the existing 

airspace capacity. Describe how 

anticipated new operations would affect 

the surrounding airspace and air traffic 

flow patterns in the metropolitan area in 

or near the airport. Include a discussion 

of whether operations at this airport 

create airspace conflicts that may cause 

congestion or whether air traffic works 

into the flow of other air traffic in the 

area. 

(4) A description of the airport’s fiveyear CIP, including a discussion of 

major projects, their priorities, projected 

schedule for project accomplishment, 

and estimated costs. The CIP must 

specifically identify the safety, capacity, 

and conversion related projects, 

associated costs, and projected five-year 

schedule of project construction, 

including those requested for 

consideration for MAP funding. 

(5) A description of those projects that 

are consistent with the role of the 

airport and effectively contribute to the 

joint-use or conversion of the airfield to 

a civil airport. The projects can be 

related to various improvement 

categories depending on what is needed 

to convert from military to civil airport 

use, to meet required civil airport 

standards, and/or to provide capacity to 

the airport and/or airport system. The 

projects selected (e.g., safety-related, 

conversion-related, and/or capacityrelated), must be identified and fully 

explained based on the airport’s 

planned use. Those projects that may be 

eligible under MAP, if needed for 

conversion or capacity-related purposes, 

must be clearly indicated, and include 

the following information: 

Airside 

• Modification of airport or military 

airfield for safety purposes, including 

airport pavement modifications, 

marking, lighting, strengthening, 

drainage or modifying other structures 

or features in the airport environs to 

meet civil standards for approach, 

departure and other protected airport 

surfaces as described in 14 CFR part 77 

or standards set forth in FAA Advisory 

Circular 150/5300–13. 

• Construction of facilities or support 

facilities such as passenger terminal 

gates, aprons for passenger terminals, 

taxiways to new terminal facilities, 

aircraft parking, and cargo facilities to 

accommodate civil use. 

• Modification of airport or military 

utilities (electrical distribution systems, 

communications lines, water, sewer, 

storm drainage) to meet civil standards. 

Also, modifications that allow utilities 

on the civil airport to operate 

independently, where other portions of 

the base are conveyed to entities other 

than the airport sponsor or retained by 

the Government. 

• Purchase, rehabilitation, or 

modification of airport and airport 

support facilities and equipment, 

including snow removal, aircraft rescue, 

firefighting buildings and equipment, 

airport security, lighting vaults, and 

reconfiguration or relocation of eligible 

buildings for more efficient civil airport 

operations. 

• Modification of airport or military 

airfield fuel systems and fuel farms to 

accommodate civil aviation use. 

• Acquisition of additional land for 

runway protection zones, other 

approach protection, or airport 

development. 

• Cargo facility requirements. 

• Modifications, which will permit 

the airfield to accommodate general 

aviation users. 

Landside 

• Construction of surface parking 

areas and access roads to accommodate 

automobiles in the airport terminal and 

air cargo areas and provide an adequate 

level of access to the airport. 

• Construction or relocation of access 

roads to provide efficient and 

convenient movement of vehicular 

traffic to, on, and from the airport, 

including access to passenger, air cargo, 

fixed base operations, and aircraft 

maintenance areas. 

• Modification or construction of 

facilities such as passenger terminals, 

surface automobile parking lots, 

hangars, air cargo terminal buildings, 

and access roads to cargo facilities to 

accommodate civil use. 

(6) An evaluation of the ability of 

surface transportation facilities (e.g., 

road, rail, high-speed rail, and/or 

maritime) to provide intermodal 

connections. 

(7) A description of the type and level 

of aviation and community interest in 

the civil use of a current or former 

military airport. 

(8) One copy of the FAA-approved 

ALP for each copy of the application. 

The ALP or supporting information 

should clearly show capacity and 

conversion related projects. Other 

information such as project costs, 

schedule, project justification, other 

maps and drawings showing the project 

locations, and any other supporting 

documentation that would make the 

application easier to understand should 

also be included. You may also provide 

photos, which would further describe 

the airport, projects, and otherwise 

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application. These maps and ALP’s 

should be cross-referenced with the 

project costs and project descriptions. 

Redesignation of Airports Previously 

Designated and Applying for Up to an 

Additional Five Years in the Program 

Airports applying for redesignation to 

the Military Airport Program must 

submit the same information required 

by new candidate airports applying for 

a new designation. On the SF 424, 

Application for Federal Assistance, 

prescribed by the Office of Management 

and Budget Circular A–102, airports 

must indicate their application is for 

redesignation to the MAP. In addition to 

the information required for new 

candidates, airports requesting 

redesignation must also explain: 

(1) Why a redesignation and 

additional MAP eligible project funding 

is needed to accomplish the conversion 

to meet the civil role of the airport and 

the preferred time period for 

redesignation not to exceed five years; 

(2) Why funding of eligible work 

under other categories of AIP or other 

sources of funding would not 

accomplish the development needs of 

the airport; and 

(3) Why, based on the previously 

funded MAP projects, the projects and/ 

or funding level were insufficient to 

accomplish the airport conversion needs 

and development goals. 

In addition to the information 

requested above, airports applying for 

redesignation must provide a reanalysis 

of their original business/marketing 

plans (for example, a plan previously 

funded by the Office of Economic 

Adjustment or the original Master Plan 

for the airport) and prepare a report. If 

there is not an existing business/

marketing plan a business/marketing 

plan or strategy must be developed. The 

report must contain: 

(1) Whether the original business/

marketing plan is still appropriate; 

(2) Is the airport continuing to work 

towards the goals established in the 

business/marketing plan; 

(3) Discuss how the MAP projects 

contained in the application contribute 

to the goals of the sponsor and their 

plans; and 

(4) If the business/marketing plan no 

longer applies to the current goals of the 

airport, how has the airport altered the 

business/marketing plan to establish a 

new direction for the facility and how 

do the projects contained in the MAP 

application aid in the completion of the 

new direction and goals and by what 

date does the sponsor anticipate 

graduating from the MAP. 

This notice is issued pursuant to Title 

49 U.S.C. 47118. 

Dated: Issued at Washington, DC, on 

November 22, 2013. 

Mary Walsh, 

Acting Director, Office of Airport Planning 

and Programming. 

[FR Doc. 2013–28748 Filed 11–29–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2013–0312] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Extension of an Approved 

Information Collection: Training 

Certification for Drivers of Longer 

Combination Vehicles 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval and invites public comment. 

FMCSA requests approval to renew the 

ICR entitled ‘‘Training Certification for 

Drivers of Longer Combination Vehicles 

(LCVs).’’ This ICR relates to Agency 

requirements for drivers to be certified 

to operate LCVs, and that motor carriers 

must satisfy before permitting their 

drivers to operate LCVs. Motor carriers, 

upon inquiry by authorized Federal, 

State or local officials, must produce an 

LCV driver-training certificate for each 

of their LCV drivers. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before January 31, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System Number FMCSA– 

2013–0312 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• 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 or Courier: West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the exemption process, 

see the Public Participation heading 

below. Note that all comments received 

will be posted without change to 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

see the Privacy Act heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to 

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for accessing the 

dockets, or go to the street address listed 

above. 

Privacy Act: 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 Privacy Act Statement for 

the Federal Docket Management System 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316), or you 

may visit http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/ 

2008/pdfE8-794.pdf. 

Public participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can obtain electronic submission and 

retrieval help and guidelines under the 

‘‘help’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you 

want us to notify you that we received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. Comments received 

after the comment closing date will be 

included in the docket and will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Thomas Yager, Chief, Driver and Carrier 

Operations Division, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, West Building 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–4325; email tom.yager@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

An LCV is any combination of a trucktractor and two or more semi-trailers or 

trailers that operates on the National 

System of Interstate and Defense 

Highways (according to 23 CFR 470.107) 

and has a gross vehicle weight greater 

than 80,000 pounds. To enhance the 

safety of LCV operations on our nation’s 

highways, Section 4007(b) of the Motor 

Carrier Act of 1991 directed the 

Secretary of Transportation to establish 

Federal minimum training requirements 

for drivers of LCVs [Intermodal Surface 


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