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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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comments by mail or hand delivery, 

submit them in an unbound format, no 

larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for 

copying and electronic filing. If you 

submit comments by mail and would 

like to know that they reached the 

facility, please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed postcard or envelope. FMCSA 

will consider all comments and material 

received during the comment period. 

II. Legal Basis 

FMCSA has authority under 49 U.S.C. 

31136(e) and 31315(b) to grant 

exemptions from Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). FMCSA 

must publish a notice of each exemption 

request in the Federal Register (49 CFR 

381.315(a)). The Agency must provide 

the public an opportunity to inspect the 

information relevant to the application, 

including any safety analyses that have 

been conducted. The Agency must 

provide an opportunity for public 

comment on the request. 

The Agency reviews safety analyses 

and public comments submitted and 

determines whether granting the 

exemption would likely achieve a level 

of safety equivalent to, or greater than, 

the level that would be achieved by the 

current regulation (49 CFR 381.305). 

The Agency must publish its decision in 

the Federal Register (49 CFR 

381.315(b)) with the reasons for denying 

or granting the application and, if 

granted, the name of the person or class 

of persons receiving the exemption and 

the regulatory provision from which the 

exemption is granted. The notice must 

specify the effective period and explain 

the terms and conditions of the 

exemption. The exemption may be 

renewed (49 CFR 381.300(b)). 

III. Applicant’s Request 

The state of Hawaii seeks an 

exemption from the requirements in 49 

CFR 383.113(c) that an applicant for a 

commercial driver’s license (CDL) must 

demonstrate safe on-road driving skills, 

including the ability to choose a safe 

gap for changing lanes, passing other 

vehicles, crossing or entering traffic, and 

the ability to signal appropriately when 

changing direction in traffic (49 CFR 

383.113(c)(2) and (4)). The state of 

Hawaii maintains that the islands of 

Lanai and Molokai do not have at least 

two miles of a straight section of urban 

business street and at least two miles of 

an expressway or highway section with 

multiple lanes going in each direction to 

allow the ability to legally change lanes. 

The state of Hawaii proposes to 

establish a new CDL restriction ‘‘R’’, 

limiting the CDL’s validity to the islands 

of Lanai and Molokai only. These 

restricted CDLs would also have the ‘‘K’’ 

(intrastate) restriction and would be 

applied to drivers who take an 

abbreviated CDL skills test. 

A copy of the State of Hawaii’s 

application for exemption, along with 

supplemental information provided by 

HDOT, is available for review in the 

docket for this notice. 

IV. Request for Comments 

In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 

31315(b), FMCSA requests public 

comment from all interested persons on 

the state of Hawaii’s application for an 

exemption from the CDL regulations in 

49 CFR 383.113(c). All comments 

received before the close of business on 

the comment closing date indicated at 

the beginning of this notice will be 

considered and will be available for 

examination in the docket at the 

location listed under the ADDRESSES

section of this notice. Comments 

received after the comment closing date 

will be filed in the public docket and 

will be considered to the extent 

practicable. In addition to late 

comments, FMCSA will also continue to 

file, in the public docket, relevant 

information that becomes available after 

the comment closing date. Interested 

persons should continue to examine the 

public docket for new material. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18361 Filed 8–24–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2023–0002–N–14] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its 

implementing regulations, FRA seeks 

approval of the Information Collection 

Request (ICR) summarized below. 

Before submitting this ICR to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval, FRA is soliciting public 

comment on specific aspects of the 

activities identified in the ICR. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

24, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed ICR 

should be submitted on regulations.gov 

to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2023– 

2002. All comments received will be 

posted without change to the docket, 

including any personal information 

provided. Please refer to the assigned 

OMB control number (2130–0602) in 

any correspondence submitted. FRA 

will summarize comments received in 

response to this notice in a subsequent 

notice, made available to the public, and 

include them in its information 

collection submission to OMB for 

approval. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Arlette Mussington, Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, at email: 

arlette.mussington@dot.gov or 

telephone: (571) 609–1285 or Ms. 

Joanne Swafford, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, at email: 

joanne.swafford@dot.gov or telephone: 

(757) 897–9908. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA, 

44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its 

implementing regulations, 5 CFR part 

1320, require Federal agencies to 

provide 60-days’ notice to the public to 

allow comment on information 

collection activities before seeking OMB 

approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C. 

3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through 

1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites 

interested parties to comment on the 

following ICR regarding: (1) whether the 

information collection activities are 

necessary for FRA to properly execute 

its functions, including whether the 

activities will have practical utility; (2) 

the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the 

burden of the information collection 

activities, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used to 

determine the estimates; (3) ways for 

FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information being 

collected; and (4) ways for FRA to 

minimize the burden of information 

collection activities on the public, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. See 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1). 

FRA believes that soliciting public 

comment may reduce the administrative 

and paperwork burdens associated with 

the collection of information that 

Federal regulations mandate. In 

summary, comments received will 

advance three objectives: (1) reduce 

reporting burdens; (2) organize 

information collection requirements in a 

‘‘user-friendly’’ format to improve the 

use of such information; and (3) 

accurately assess the resources 

expended to retrieve and produce 


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