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1CORSIA applies to airplane operators that 

produce annual CO2 emissions greater than 10,000 

tonnes (i.e., 10,000 metric tons) from international 

flights, excluding emissions from excluded flights. 

The following activities are excluded CORSIA: 

—Domestic flights; 

—Humanitarian, medical, and firefighting 

operations, including flight(s) preceding or 

following a humanitarian, medical, or firefighting 

flight provided such flight(s) were conducted with 

the same airplane, were required to accomplish the 

related humanitarian, medical, or firefighting 

activities or to reposition thereafter the airplane for 

its next activity; 

—Operations using an airplane with a maximum 

certificated take-off mass equal to or less than 5,700 

kg; 

—Operations on behalf of the military. 

control exemption in Docket No. FD 

36708. 

If the verified notice contains false or 

misleading information, the exemption 

is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the 

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) 

may be filed at any time. The filing of 

a petition to revoke will not 

automatically stay the effectiveness of 

the exemption. Petitions for stay must 

be filed no later than September 1, 2023 

(at least seven days before the 

exemption becomes effective). 

All pleadings, referring to Docket No. 

FD 36707, must be filed with the 

Surface Transportation Board either via 

e-filing on the Board’s website or in 

writing addressed to 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001. In 

addition, a copy of each pleading must 

be served on WIM’s representative, John 

K. Fiorilla, Dyer & Peterson, PC, 605 

Main Street, Suite 104, Riverton, NJ 

08077–1440. 

According to WIM, this action is 

categorically excluded from 

environmental review under 49 CFR 

1105.6(c) and from historic preservation 

reporting requirements under 49 CFR 

1105.8(b). 

Board decisions and notices are 

available at www.stb.gov. 

Decided: August 21, 2023. 

By the Board, Mai T. Dinh, Director, Office 

of Proceedings. 

Kenyatta Clay, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18270 Filed 8–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. FAA–2022–1711] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of Renewed Approval of 

Information Collection: Carbon 

Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for 

International Aviation (CORSIA) 

Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification 

(MRV) Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for a renewed information 

collection. The Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following collection of 

information was published on January 

25, 2023. FAA received two comments 

to this notice. The collection involves a 

request that airplane operators subject to 

the applicability of Annex 16, Volume 

IV of the Convention on Civil Aviation 

(hereinafter the ‘‘Chicago Convention’’) 

submit electronically an Emissions 

Monitoring Plan (EMP), an annual 

Emissions Report (ER), and an optional 

annual ER CORSIA Eligible Fuels 

Annex (CEFA) to the FAA. The 

information to be collected is necessary 

because FAA will use the information to 

fulfill the United States’ responsibilities 

under the Chicago Convention. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by September 25, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kevin Partowazam by email at: 

Kevin.Partowazam@faa.gov; phone: 

202–267–3563. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for FAA’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information collection; and (d) 

ways that the burden could be 

minimized without reducing the quality 

of the collected information. 

OMB Control Number: 2120–0790. 

Title: CORSIA Monitoring, Reporting, 

and Verification (MRV) Program. 

Form Numbers: 1. Emissions 

Monitoring Plan (EMP) Template; 2. 

Emissions Report (ER) Template; 3. ER 

CORSIA Eligible Fuels Annex (CEFA). 

Type of Review: Clearance of a 

renewal of an information collection. 

Background: The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on the following 

collection of information was published 

on January 25, 2023 (88 FR 4878). FAA 

received two comments in response to 

this notice. 

The CORSIA MRV Program is a 

voluntary program for certain U.S. air 

carriers and commercial operators 

(collectively referred hereinafter as 

‘‘operators’’) to submit certain airplane 

CO2 emissions data to the FAA to enable 

the United States to establish uniformity 

with ICAO Standards And 

Recommended Practices (SARPs) for 

CORSIA, which were adopted in June 

2018, as Annex 16, Volume IV to the 

Chicago Convention. The United States 

supported the decision to adopt the 

CORSIA SARPs based on the 

understanding that CORSIA is the 

exclusive market-based measure 

applying to international aviation, and 

that CORSIA will ensure fair and 

reciprocal commercial competition by 

avoiding a patchwork of country- or 

regionally-based regulatory measures 

that are inconsistently applied, 

bureaucratically costly, and 

economically damaging. Furthermore, 

continued U.S. support for CORSIA 

assumes a high level of participation by 

other countries, particularly by 

countries with significant aviation 

activity, as well as a final CORSIA 

package that is acceptable to, and 

implementable by, the United States. 

Under CORSIA, all ICAO Member 

States whose airplane operators 

undertake international flights were 

required to develop an MRV system for 

CO2 emissions from those international 

flights starting January 1, 2019. The 

FAA’s CORSIA MRV Program is 

intended to be the United States’ MRV 

system for monitoring, reporting, and 

verification of U.S. airplane operator 

CO2 emissions from international 

flights. Operators that are subject to the 

applicability of CORSIA will submit 

their EMPs, ERs, and optional ER CEFAs 

electronically.1

Each document use Microsoft Excelbased templates and can be transmitted 

via email. EMPs that are submitted by 

operators will be used as a collaborative 

tool between the operator and FAA to 

document a given operator’s chosen fuel 

use monitoring procedures. FAA will 

retain a copy of the EMP and will share 

with ICAO a list of operators that submit 

EMPs. FAA will not submit any specific 

EMPs from U.S. operators to ICAO. 

Large operators, i.e., those emitting 

500,000 metric tons or more of CO2 per 


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year, will gather data through a ‘‘fuel 

use monitoring method.’’ Small 

operators, i.e., those emitting less than 

500,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, can 

use a simplified monitoring method. 

Annual ERs that are submitted to FAA 

by operators and verifiers will be used 

to document each operators’ 

international emissions. FAA will use 

the ERs, and optional ER CEFAs, to 

calculate aggregated emissions data for 

all U.S. operators. FAA will submit the 

aggregated emissions data to ICAO to 

demonstrate U.S. implementation of 

CORSIA. 

Respondents: Respondents will be 

airplane operators subject to the 

applicability of Annex 16, Volume IV of 

the Chicago Convention. FAA expects 

between 42 and 50 operators to submit 

an EMP and ER. Some additional 

operators could submit an EMP and ER 

over time based on their international 

aviation activities. 

Frequency: An EMP is a one-time 

submission. An ER and optional ER 

CEFA is an annual submission. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 

—For an EMP (one-time submission), 

FAA expects that filling and 

submitting an EMP could on average 

take approximately 28.6 hours. 

—For an ER (annual submission), FAA 

expects that the reporting burden 

could be approximately 68 hours per 

operator using a Fuel Use Monitoring 

Method, inclusive of approximately 8 

hours per operator that chooses to 

voluntarily submit an optional ER 

CEFA. FAA expects the reporting 

burden could be approximately 21.5 

hours per operator for operators using 

a simplified Monitoring Method, 

inclusive of approximately 4 hours 

per operator that chooses to 

voluntarily submit an optional ER 

CEFA. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

Based on the above, FAA expects that 

the annual submission of an EMP and 

ER, including optional ER CEFA, could 

take approximately 37.5 to 115.5 hours 

for each of the 42–50 operators. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 21, 

2023. 

Julie Marks, 

Executive Director (Acting), Office of 

Environment and Energy. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18319 Filed 8–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2023–0185] 

Commercial Driver’s License: State of 

Hawaii; Application for Exemption 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of application for 

exemption; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that it has 

received an application from the state of 

Hawaii to exempt specified portions of 

the CDL skills test for drivers on the 

islands of Lanai and Molokai due to the 

lack of highway infrastructure to allow 

completion of the full skills test. 

Regulations require a CDL applicant to 

possess and demonstrate specific onroad safe driving skills, including the 

ability to choose a safe gap for changing 

lanes, passing other vehicles, and 

crossing or entering traffic and the 

ability to signal appropriately when 

changing direction in traffic. The state 

of Hawaii proposes to issue a restricted 

CDL to drivers who pass a limited CDL 

skills test in which the driver would not 

be required to demonstrate the ability to 

perform those on-road skills. FMCSA 

requests public comment on the 

applicant’s request for exemption. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before September 25, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) Number 

FMCSA–2023–0185 by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. See the Public 

Participation and Request for Comments 

section below for further information. 

• Mail: Dockets Operations, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building, Ground Floor, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m. E.T., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

Each submission must include the 

Agency name and the docket number 

(FMCSA–2023–0185) for this notice. 

Note that DOT posts all comments 

received without change to 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information included in a 

comment. Please see the Privacy Act 

heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to www.regulations.gov at 

any time or visit the ground level of the 

West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. To be sure 

someone is there to help you, please call 

(202) 366–9317 or (202) 366–9826 

before visiting Dockets Operations. 

Privacy Act: In accordance with 49 

U.S.C. 31315(b), DOT solicits comments 

from the public to better inform its 

exemption process. DOT posts these 

comments, without edit, including any 

personal information the commenter 

provides, to www.regulations.gov. As 

described in the system of records 

notice DOT/ALL 14–FDMS, which can 

be reviewed at https://

www.transportation.gov/privacy, the 

comments are searchable by the name of 

the submitter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Richard Clemente, Driver and Carrier 

Operations Division; Office of Carrier, 

Driver and Vehicle Safety Standards, 

FMCSA, at (202) 366–2722 or 

richard.clemente@dot.gov. If you have 

questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, contact Dockets 

Operations at (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

FMCSA encourages you to participate 

by submitting comments and related 

materials. 

Submitting Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

notice (FMCSA–2023–0185), indicate 

the specific section of this document to 

which the comment applies, and 

provide a reason for suggestions or 

recommendations. You may submit 

your comments and material online or 

by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but 

please use only one of these means. 

FMCSA recommends that you include 

your name and a mailing address, an 

email address, or a phone number in the 

body of your document so the Agency 

can contact you if it has questions 

regarding your submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

www.regulations.gov and put the docket 

number ‘‘FMCSA–2023–0185’’ in the 

keyword box, and click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, 

sort the results by ‘‘Posted (NewerOlder),’’ choose the first notice listed, 

click the ‘‘Comment’’ button, and type 

your comment into the text box on the 

following screen. Choose whether you 

are submitting your comment as an 

individual or on behalf of a third party 

and then submit. If you submit your 


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