4556 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 20 / Wednesday, January 31, 2007 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of Small and Disadvantaged 

Business Utilization; Solicitation of 

Applications for Regional Small 

Business Transportation Resource 

Centers (SBTRCs) Fiscal Year (FY) 

2007, Grant Opportunity 

AGENCY: Office of Small and 

Disadvantaged Business Utilization 

(OSDBU), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: OSDBU announces that it has 

published an opportunity to apply for 

the FY 2007 Small Business 

Transportation Business Resource 

Center funding on the grants.gov Web 

site (http://www.grants.gov). Section 

4134 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 

Efficient Transportation Equity Act: 

OSDBU is responsible for the 

implementation and execution of the 

Department of Transportation (DOT) 

activities on behalf of small businesses 

in accordance with Section 8, 15 and 31 

of the Small Business Act (SBA), as 

amended. The OSDBU also administers 

the provisions of Title 49, the Minority 

Resource Center (MRC) which includes 

the duties of advocacy, outreach and 

financial services on behalf of small and 

disadvantaged business and those 

certified under CFR 49 parts 23 and or 

26 as Disadvantaged Business 

Enterprises (DBE). This request solicits 

competitive proposals from business 

centered community-based 

organizations, transportation-related 

trade associations, colleges and 

universities, community colleges or 

chambers of commerce for participation 

in OSDBU’s Small Business 

Transportation Resource Centers 

(SBTRC) under the Minority Resource 

Center (MRC) program. OSDBU will 

enter into Cooperative Agreements with 

these organizations to outreach to the 

small business community in their 

designated region and provide financial 

and technical assistance, business 

training programs such as, business 

assessment, management training, 

counseling, technical assistance, 

marketing and outreach, and the 

dissemination of information, to 

encourage and assist small businesses to 

become better prepared to compete for, 

obtain, and manage DOT funded 

transportation-related contracts and 

subcontracts at the federal, state and 

local levels. Eligible applicants must be 

registered with the Internal Revenue 

Service as 501 C(6) or 501 C(3) taxexempt organizations. 

To apply for funding, applicants must 

be registered with grants.gov. 

Registration with grants.gov may take 

two to five days before the system will 

allow you to apply for grants using the 

grants.gov Web site http:// 

www.grants.gov/applicants/ 

get_registered.jsp. Submit application in 

accordance with the instructions 

provided. Applications for grant 

funding must be submitted 

electronically to OSDBU through the 

grants.gov Web site. 

DATES: Proposals must be submitted to 

Grants.gov by March 9, 2007, 4 p.m. 

Eastern Standard Time. Proposals 

received after the deadline will be 

considered non-responsive and will not 

be reviewed. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Art Jackson, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Office of Small and 

Disadvantaged Business Utilization, 400 

7th Street, SW., Room 9414, 

Washington, DC 20590, Tel. 202–366–

1930 or 800–532–1169. Office hours are 

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Issued on: January 25, 2007. 

Denise Rodriguez-Lopez, 

Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged 

Business Utilization (OSDBU). 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Summary Notice No. PE–2006–44] 

Petitions for Exemption; Summary of 

Petitions Received 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption 

received. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to FAA’s rulemaking 

provisions governing the application, 

processing, and disposition of petitions 

for exemption, part 11 of Title 14, Code 

of Federal Regulations (14 CFR), this 

notice contains a summary of certain 

petitions 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 the 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 any petition or its final 

disposition. 

DATES: Comments on petitions received 

must identify the petition docket 

number involved and must be received 

on or before February 20, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments on the 

petition to the Docket Management 

System, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Room Plaza 401, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. You must identify the 

docket number FAA–2006–26428 at the 

beginning of your comments. If you 

wish to receive confirmation that the 

FAA received your comments, include a 

self-addressed, stamped postcard. 

You may also submit comments 

through the Internet to http:// 

dms.dot.gov. You may review the public 

docket containing the petition, any 

comments received, and any final 

disposition in person in the Dockets 

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

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. The Docket Office (telephone 

1–800–647–5527) is on the plaza level 

of the NASSIF Building at the 

Department of Transportation at the 

above address. Also, you may review 

public dockets on the Internet at 

http://dms.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frances Shaver, (202–267–9681), Office 

of Rulemaking (ARM–1), Federal 

Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20591–3356, or Tyneka 

Thomas, (202–267–7626), Office of 

Rulemaking (ARM–1), Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591–

3356. 

This notice is published pursuant to 

14 CFR 11.85 and 11.91. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 22, 

2007. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking. 

Petitions for Exemption 

Docket No.: FAA–2006–26428. 

Petitioner: GROB Aerospace GmbH. 

Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR 

23.3(d). 

Description of Relief sought: 

Petitioner seeks an exemption from the 

requirements of § 23.3(d), Airplane 

categories, to permit the type 

certification of the GROB G180A in the 

commuter category. The G180A is a 

twin-engine turbojet airplane. Under 

§ 23.3(d), the commuter category is 

currently limited to propeller-driven 

multiengine aircraft. 

[FR Doc. 07–409 Filed 1–30–07; 8:45 am] 

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