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Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), federal 

agencies are required to provide, prior 

to an agency’s submitting a collection to 

OMB for approval, a 60-day notice and 

comment period through publication in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information. 

Dated: September 19, 2023. 

Kenyatta Clay, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20552 Filed 9–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD 

60-Day Notice of Intent To Seek 

Extension of Approval of Collection: 

Waybill Sample 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), the 

Surface Transportation Board (STB or 

Board) gives notice of its intent to seek 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for an extension of 

the collection of Waybill Sample, 

described below. 

DATES: Comments on this information 

collection should be submitted by 

November 21, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all comments to 

Chris Oehrle, PRA Officer, Surface 

Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20423–0001, and to 

PRA@stb.gov. When submitting 

comments, please refer to ‘‘Paperwork 

Reduction Act Comments, Waybill 

Sample.’’ For further information 

regarding this collection, contact Pedro 

Ramirez at (202) 245–0333 or 

pedro.ramirez@stb.gov. If you require an 

accommodation under the Americans 

with Disabilities Act, please call (202) 

245–0245. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Comments 

are requested concerning each 

collection as to (1) whether the 

particular collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the Board, including 

whether the collection has practical 

utility; (2) the accuracy of the Board’s 

burden estimates; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (4) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, when 

appropriate. Submitted comments will 

be included and summarized in the 

Board’s request for OMB approval. 

Subjects: In this notice, the Board is 

requesting comments on the extension 

of the following information collection: 

Description of Collection 

Title: Waybill Sample. 

OMB Control Number: 2140–0015. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension without 

change. 

Respondents: Respondents include 

any railroad that is subject to the 

Interstate Commerce Act and that 

terminated at least 4,500 carloads on its 

line in any of the three preceding years 

or that terminated at least 5% of the 

revenue carloads terminating in any 

state in any of the three preceding years. 

For the purposes of this analysis, the 

Board categorizes railroads required to 

report Waybill Sample data as either 

quarterly or monthly and as either 

sampling their own waybills or having 

a third party conduct their sampling. As 

a result, there are four categories of 

respondents, as shown in Table below. 

TABLE—RESPONDENTS

Categories of respondents Number of 

respondents 

Railroads that conduct their 

own sampling and report 

monthly .............................. 5 

Railroads that conduct their 

own sampling and report 

quarterly ............................ 3 

Railroads that have a third 

party sample their waybills 

and report monthly ............ 2 

Railroads that have a third 

party sample their waybills 

and report quarterly .......... 43 

Total Respondents ........ 53 

Number of Respondents: 53. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

estimated hourly burden for waybill 

samples submitted to the Board varies 

depending on each respondent’s 

particular circumstances. (Note: 

respondents that are identified as 

reporting monthly (Class I carriers) 

report monthly, quarterly, and annually 

(or 17 times per year). All other 

respondents (non-Class I carriers) report 

quarterly and annually (five times a 

year)). 

Frequency of Response: Six 

respondents report monthly; and 46 

other respondents report quarterly. 

Total Burden Hours (annually 

including all respondents): 420 hours. 

This estimated total burden hours is 

shown in the Table below. 

TABLE—TOTAL BURDEN HOURS

Categories of respondents 

Total annual 

hours for 

samples 

submitted 

Railroads that conduct their 

own sampling and report 

monthly .............................. 150 

Railroads that conduct their 

own sampling and report 

quarterly ............................ 20 

Railroads that have a third 

party sample their waybills 

and report monthly ............ 30 

Railroads that have a third 

party sample their waybills 

and report quarterly .......... 220 

Total Annual Burden 

Hours ......................... 420 

Total Annual ‘‘Non-Hour Burden’’ 

Cost: There are no other costs identified 

because filings are submitted 

electronically to the Board. 

Needs and Uses: The Board is, by 

statute, responsible for the economic 

regulation of common carrier rail 

transportation in the United States and 

collects rail-carload waybills for this 

purpose. The Board has authority to 

collect these waybills under 49 U.S.C. 

11144, 11145, and the Board often uses 

the information in rail-carload waybills 

to carry out its responsibilities. 

A rail-carload waybill is a ‘‘document 

or instrument prepared from the bill of 

lading contract or shipper’s instructions 

as to the disposition of the freight, and 

[is] used by the railroad(s) involved as 

the authority to move the shipment and 

as the basis for determining the freight 

charges and interline settlements.’’ 49 

CFR 1244.1(c). From these carload 

waybills, the Board creates an aggregate 

compilation of the sampled waybills of 

all reporting carriers, referred to as the 

Waybill Sample. The Waybill Sample is 

the Board’s principal source of data 

about freight rail shipments. The 

information in the Waybill Sample is 

used by the Board, other federal and 

state agencies, and industry 

stakeholders to monitor traffic flows and 

rate trends in the industry, and to 

develop testimony in Board 

proceedings. The Board’s collection and 

use of this data enables it to meet its 

statutory duty to regulate the rail 

industry. 

The Board makes this submission 

because, under the PRA, a federal 

agency that conducts or sponsors a 

collection of information must display a 

currently valid OMB control number. A 

collection of information, which is 

defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c), includes agency requirements 

that persons submit reports, keep 


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records, or provide information to the 

agency, third parties, or the public. 

Under 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A), federal 

agencies are required to provide, prior 

to an agency’s submitting a collection to 

OMB for approval, a 60-day notice and 

comment period through publication in 

the Federal Register concerning each 

proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information. 

Information from certain schedules 

contained in these reports is available at 

the Board’s website at www.stb.gov by 

navigating to ‘‘Reports & Data’’ and 

clicking on ‘‘Economic Data.’’ 

Information in these reports is not 

available from any other source. 

Dated: September 19, 2023. 

Kenyatta Clay, 

Clearance Clerk. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20553 Filed 9–21–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket Number: 2023–1724] 

Airport Investment Partnership 

Program 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of application 

of Avon Park Executive Airport (AVO), 

Avon Park Florida; commencement of 

60-day public review and comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The FAA has accepted for 

review the application for Avon Park 

Executive Airport’s (AVO) participation 

in the Airport Investment Partnership 

Program (AIPP), under the terms and 

conditions of the AIPP and the FAA’s 

Notice of AIPP Application Procedures. 

The filing date for AVO’s application is 

noted as July 7, 2023. The City of Avon 

Park, the airport sponsor, selected 

Florida Airport Management as the 

private operator and negotiated a draft 

agreement for FAA review. The FAA 

has determined that the final 

application is substantially complete 

and accepted for review. The 

determination that the application is 

substantially complete results in the 

commencement of the FAA’s review 

and is not an approval or disapproval of 

the proposed privatization application. 

The FAA is seeking information and 

comments from interested parties on the 

final application. The FAA will review 

the application, public comments, and 

any other relevant additional 

submission by the applicant or the 

public and issue a decision approving or 

disapproving the application. The AVO 

application is available for public 

review at http://www.regulations.gov. 

The docket number is FAA Docket 

Number 2023–1724. 

DATES: September 22, 2023. Comments 

must be received by November 21, 2023. 

Comments that are received after that 

date will be considered only to the 

extent possible. 

ADDRESSES: You may send written 

comments by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the instructions for sending your 

comments electronically. Docket 

Number: FAA 2023–1724; 

• 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: Deliver to mail 

address above between 9:00 a.m. and 5 

p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays; 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

Identify all transmissions with 

‘‘Docket Number FAA–2023–1724’’ at 

the beginning of the document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heather Haney, Airport Compliance 

Specialist, Airport Compliance and 

Management Analysis Division, ACO– 

100, Federal Aviation Administration, 

800 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20591, telephone (202) 

267–3085; or email Heather.Haney@

faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 49 

U.S.C. 47134 establishes the AIPP and 

authorizes the DOT to grant exemptions 

from certain Federal statutory and 

regulatory requirements for airport 

privatization projects. The application 

procedures require the FAA to publish 

a notice of receipt of the final 

application in the Federal Register and 

accept public comment on the final 

application for a period of 60 days. 

Examining the Application: The final 

application was filed under Docket 

Number FAA–2023–1724. You may 

examine the final application on the 

internet at: http://www.regulations.gov 

or in person at the Docket Operations 

office between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. 

EST, Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The Docket 

Operations Office (800–647–5527) is 

located at the U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. The Docket contains the 

application, the agreements, any 

comments received and other 

information. The City of Avon Park has 

also made copies of the final application 

available at https://www.avonpark.city/ 

airport. 

Title 49 of the U.S.C. 47134 

authorizes the Secretary of 

Transportation, and through delegation, 

the FAA Administrator, to exempt a 

sponsor of a public use airport that has 

received Federal assistance, from certain 

Federal requirements in connection 

with the privatization of the airport by 

sale or lease to a private party. 

Specifically, the Administrator may 

exempt the sponsor from all or part of 

the requirements to use airport revenues 

for airport-related purposes, to pay back 

a portion of Federal grants upon the sale 

or lease of an airport, and to return 

airport property deeded by the Federal 

Government upon transfer of the airport. 

The Administrator is also authorized to 

exempt the private purchaser or lessee 

from the requirement to use all airport 

revenues for airport-related purposes, to 

the extent necessary to permit the 

purchaser or lessee to earn 

compensation from the operations of the 

airport. 

On September 16, 1997, the FAA 

issued a notice of procedures to be used 

in applications for exemption under 

Airport Privatization Pilot Program 

(Notice of final application procedures 

for the Airport Privatization Pilot 

program: Application Procedures, 62 

Federal Register 48693–48708, 

September 16, 1997, as modified, 62 FR 

63211, Nov. 26, 1997). The FAA 

Reauthorization Act of 2018 amended 

Section 47134 by changing the name to 

Airport Investment Partnership 

Program, eliminated limitations on the 

number of airports that could 

participate along with several other 

changes. On April 20, 2021, the FAA 

issued a notice revising the application 

procedures for applying for FAA 

approval of the privatization or partial 

privatization of a federally obligated 

public airport to reflect the provisions of 

the AIPP (86 Federal Register 20586– 

20592, April 20, 2021). A request for 

participation in the Program must be 

initiated by the filing of either a 

preliminary or final application for 

exemption with the FAA. 

The City of Avon Park submitted its 

final application to the Program, for 

Avon Park Executive on July 7, 2023. 

The FAA accepted the final application 

on August 4, 2023. The City intends to 

lease Avon Park Executive Airport (with 

the exception of the City’s utility facility 

and the baseball field, located on airport 

property) in a partnership with Florida 

Airport Management, a private operator, 

for a lease term of 30 years, with a 10- 


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