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interest rate is effective for Military 

Reservist Economic Injury Disaster 

Loans approved on or after January 21, 

2014. 

Military Reservist Loan Program, 

4.000% 

Dated: January 27, 2014. 

James E. Rivera, 

Associate Administrator for Disaster 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02122 Filed 1–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Quiet Aircraft Technology Incentive for 

Commercial Air Tour Operators in 

Grand Canyon National Park 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, Transportation. 

ACTION: Release of FAA-held allocations 

for quiet aircraft technology in Grand 

Canyon National Park. 

SUMMARY: The Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP– 

21) directs the Administrator of the 

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 

and the Secretary of the Interior to 

provide incentives for commercial air 

tour operators in Grand Canyon 

National Park that convert to quiet 

aircraft technology. The FAA holds a 

limited number of flight allocations that 

are authorized under 14 CFR part 93, 

Subpart U, ‘‘Special Flight Rules in the 

Vicinity of Grand Canyon National 

Park.’’ The FAA, in consultation with 

the National Park Service (NPS), intends 

to provide these allocations to 

commercial air tour operators that 

currently hold allocations in proportion 

to the number of quiet aircraft 

technology operations that are flown by 

respective operators in the first six 

months of calendar year 2014. This is a 

one-time release of FAA-held 

allocations that will be available to 

operators for quiet aircraft technology 

flights during the 2014 air tour season 

and beyond. The FAA and NPS are 

continuing to make progress on 

additional quiet aircraft technology 

incentives for commercial air tour 

operators in Grand Canyon National 

Park. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Keith Lusk—Mailing address: Federal 

Aviation Administration, P.O. Box 

92007, Los Angeles, California 90009– 

2007. Telephone: (310) 725–3808. Email 

address: Keith.Lusk@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Authority 

1. Sec. 35001(b)(2) in title V of the 

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st 

Century Act (MAP–21), Public Law 

112–141 signed July 6, 2012, directs the 

Administrator of the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) and the Secretary 

of the Interior to provide incentives for 

commercial air tour operators that 

convert to quiet aircraft technology 

(QT), such as increasing the flight 

allocations for such operators on a net 

basis consistent with section 804(c) of 

the National Parks Air Tour 

Management Act of 2000 (title VIII of 

Pub. L. 106–181), provided that the 

cumulative impact of such operations 

does not increase noise at Grand Canyon 

National Park (‘‘the park’’). Appendix A 

of 14 CFR Part 93, Subpart U, ‘‘Special 

Flight Rules in the Vicinity of Grand 

Canyon National Park,’’ contains 

procedures for determining the QT 

designation for aircraft in the park. 

2. Under 14 CFR Part 93, Subpart U, 

an allocation is defined as authorization 

to conduct a commercial air tour in the 

Grand Canyon National Park Special 

Flight Rules Area (SFRA). Sec. 93.319 

and 93.321 provide for the authorized 

annual number and the management of 

allocations, and Sec. 93.325 requires air 

tour operators to file quarterly reports 

with the FAA and specifies the content 

of those reports. Since the effective date 

of this regulation, a limited number of 

authorized annual allocations have 

reverted from commercial air tour 

operators to the FAA. 

3. This Federal Register Notice 

announces the FAA’s intent, in 

consultation with the NPS, to release 

the allocations it currently holds, 

amounting to 49 allocations in the 

Dragon and Zuni Point corridors of the 

park and 1672 allocations elsewhere in 

the park SFRA, to commercial air tour 

operators that currently hold allocations 

in proportion to the number of QT 

operations that are flown by the 

respective operators in these areas 

during the first six months of calendar 

year 2014. These allocations are within 

the total annual number that are 

authorized to be flown in the Dragon 

and Zuni Point corridors and elsewhere 

in the SFRA, respectively, under 14 CFR 

Part 93, Subpart U. They will be used 

for operations using QT, as defined in 

Appendix A of 14 CFR Part 93, Subpart 

U. 

II. Description of Quiet Aircraft 

Technology Incentive 

1. The FAA currently holds 49 out of 

a total of 44,960 annual allocations 

authorized to be flown by commercial 

air tour operators in the Dragon and 

Zuni Point corridors of the park and 

1672 out of a total of 49,011 annual 

allocations authorized to be flown 

elsewhere in the SFRA. The FAA 

intends to provide these allocations to 

commercial air tour operators that 

currently hold allocations in proportion 

to the number of QT operations that are 

flown by the respective operators in 

these areas of the park during the first 

six months of 2014. Consistent with Sec. 

93.321(b)(4)(ii), allocations provided in 

the Dragon and Zuni Point corridors 

may be transferred for use outside of 

these corridors, while allocations 

provided for use elsewhere in the SFRA 

may not be transferred into the Dragon 

and Zuni Point corridors. 

2. Consistent with the FAA and NPS 

approach to QT incentives, the FAA has 

selected the first six months of calendar 

year 2014 as the basis for the release of 

FAA held allocations to recognize the 

progress made to date by operators that 

have already invested in QT and to 

encourage additional QT operations in 

2014. The FAA will use the first and 

second quarter operator reports required 

under Sec. 93.325 to determine the 

numbers of QT operations by each 

operator in the Dragon and Zuni Point 

corridors and elsewhere in the SFRA, 

respectively. An operation will be 

considered QT if conducted in an 

aircraft that meets the noise limits 

identified in Appendix A of 14 CFR Part 

93, Subpart U. Aircraft meeting those 

noise limits are listed in Appendices I 

and II of FAA Advisory Circular AC– 

93–2, ‘‘Noise Levels for Aircraft Used 

for Commercial Operations in Grand 

Canyon National Park Special Flight 

Rules Area.’’ The FAA’s receipt of the 

second quarter reports, due by the end 

of July, will enable the FAA to complete 

its analysis and provide its allocations 

by September to round out the 2014 air 

tour season. In the FAA’s experience, 

additional allocations have not been 

needed by operators earlier than 

September. This is a one-time release of 

FAA-held allocations that will be 

available to operators for quiet aircraft 

technology flights during the 2014 air 

tour season and beyond. The additional 

allocations and the condition that they 

be used for QT operations will be 

reflected in the operations specifications 

of individual operators. 

III. Environmental Considerations 

As provided in MAP–21, the 

cumulative impact of operations using 

FAA-held allocations does not increase 

noise at the park. The 49 FAA 

allocations in the Dragon and Zuni 

Point corridors are 0.1% of the total 

44,960 allocations authorized in those 

corridors. The 1672 FAA allocations 

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comprise 3.4% of the total 49,011 

allocations authorized elsewhere in the 

SFRA. In addition, there are 254,013 air 

tour operations authorized as of 2013 

under contract with the Hualapai tribe 

that are exempt from allocations— 

bringing the total authorized number of 

air tour operations in the park to 

347,984. The 1721 total FAA allocations 

are 0.5% of the total 347,984 authorized 

air tour operations. Analysis shows that 

such a small number of QT operations 

on existing routes will not cumulatively 

increase noise at the park and will not 

diminish the substantial restoration of 

natural quiet. The provision of FAAheld allocations to commercial air tour 

operators through amendments to their 

operations specifications is categorically 

excluded from more detailed 

environmental review. 

Issued in Hawthorne, CA on: January 28, 

2014. 

Dale Bouffiou, 

Deputy Regional Administrator, WesternPacific Region, Federal Aviation 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–02184 Filed 1–31–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA 2014–0011–N–1] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

its implementing regulations, the 

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 

hereby announces that it is seeking 

renewal of the following currently 

approved information collection request 

(ICR). Before submitting this ICR for 

clearance by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), FRA is soliciting 

public comment on specific aspects of 

the activities identified below. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than April 4, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on any or all of the following proposed 

activities by mail to either: Mr. Robert 

Brogan, Office of Safety, Planning and 

Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 17, 

Washington, DC 20590, or Ms. Kimberly 

Toone, Office of Information 

Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. 

SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 

20590. Commenters requesting FRA to 

acknowledge receipt of their respective 

comments must include a self-addressed 

stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments 

on OMB control number 2130–0552.’’ 

Alternatively, comments may be 

transmitted via facsimile to (202) 493– 

6216 or (202) 493–6497, or via email to 

Mr. Brogan at Robert.Brogan@dot.gov, or 

to Ms. Toone at Kim.Toone@dot.gov. 

Please refer to the assigned OMB control 

number in any correspondence 

submitted. FRA will summarize 

comments received in response to this 

notice in a subsequent notice and 

include them in its information 

collection submission to OMB for 

approval. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Robert Brogan, Office of Planning and 

Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 17, 

Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202) 

493–6292) or Ms. Kimberly Toone, 

Office of Information Technology, RAD– 

20, Federal Railroad Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 35, 

Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202) 

493–6132). (These telephone numbers 

are not toll-free.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), Public Law 104–13, sec. 2, 109 

Stat. 163 (1995) (codified as revised at 

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 for 

comment on information collection 

activities before seeking approval for 

reinstatement or renewal by OMB. 44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 

1320.10(e)(1), 1320.12(a). Specifically, 

FRA invites interested respondents to 

comment on the following summary of 

proposed information collection 

activities regarding (i) whether the 

information collection activities are 

necessary for FRA to properly execute 

its functions, including whether the 

activities will have practical utility; (ii) 

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; (iii) ways for 

FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information being 

collected; and (iv) ways for FRA to 

minimize the burden of information 

collection activities on the public by 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology (e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses). See 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)(i)–(iv); 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)(1)(i)–(iv). FRA believes that 

soliciting public comment will promote 

its efforts to reduce the administrative 

and paperwork burdens associated with 

the collection of information mandated 

by Federal regulations. In summary, 

FRA reasons that comments received 

will advance three objectives: (i) Reduce 

reporting burdens; (ii) ensure that it 

organizes information collection 

requirements in a ‘‘user friendly’’ format 

to improve the use of such information; 

and (iii) accurately assess the resources 

expended to retrieve and produce 

information requested. See 44 U.S.C. 

3501. 

Below are brief summaries of three 

currently approved information 

collection activities that FRA will 

submit for clearance by OMB as 

required under the PRA: 

Title: Locomotive Cab Sanitation 

Standards 

OMB Control Number: 2130–0552 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection 

Abstract: The collection of 

information is used by FRA to promote 

rail safety and the health of railroad 

workers by ensuring that all locomotive 

crew members have access to toilet/

sanitary facilities—on as needed basis— 

which are functioning and hygienic. 

Also, the collection of information is 

used by FRA to ensure that railroads 

repair defective locomotive toilet/

sanitary facilities within 10 calendar 

days of the date on which these units 

becomes defective. 

Form Number(s): N/A. 

Affected Public: Businesses. 

Frequency of Submission: One-time. 

Respondent Universe: 744 railroads. 

Reporting Burden: 

CFR section Respondent universe Total annual responses 

Average time 

per response 

(seconds) 

Total annual 

burden hours 

229.137 (d)—Defective Locomotive Toilet Facility—Tagging.744 railroads .......................... 11,700 tags/notices ................ 90 293 

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