### 79071 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 242 / Friday, December 17, 2010 / Notices

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**Office of the Secretary**

**Notice of Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity**  **and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart B (Formerly Subpart Q)**  **During the Week Ending November 13, 2010** 

The following Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart B (formerly Subpart Q) of the Department of Transportation’s Procedural Regulations ( See 14 CFR 301.201 et
seq. ). The due date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions To Modify Scope are set forth below for each application. Following the Answer period DOT may process the application by expedited procedures. Such procedures may consist of the adoption of a show-cause order, a tentative order, or in appropriate cases a final order without further proceedings.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010–
0279.

Date Filed: November 12, 2010. Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion To Modify Scope: December 3, 2010.

Description: Application of Arik Air Limited requesting a foreign air carrier permit and exemption authority to provide scheduled air transportation of persons, property and mail between Nigeria and the United States.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–1996–
1657.

Date Filed: November 12, 2010. Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion To Modify Scope: December 3, 2010.

Description: Application of Alaska Central Express, Inc. (‘‘Alaska Central’’) requesting fitness determination and reissuance of its certificate of public convenience and necessity to the extent necessary to permit Alaska Central to conduct scheduled interstate passenger operations with aircraft having a maximum passenger capacity of less than 60 seats or a maximum payload capacity of no more than 18,000 pounds, and to reissue its certificate without the condition limiting its passenger authority to charter air transportation.
Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2010–31714 Filed 12–16–10; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION** 

**Office of the Secretary**

**Notice of Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity**  **and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under Subpart B (Formerly Subpart Q)**  **During the Week Ending October 23, 2010** 

The following Applications for Certificates of Public Convenience and Necessity and Foreign Air Carrier Permits were filed under Subpart B (formerly Subpart Q) of the Department of Transportation’s Procedural Regulations ( See 14 CFR 301.201 et
seq. ). The due date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motions To Modify Scope are set forth below for each application. Following the Answer period DOT may process the application by expedited procedures. Such procedures may consist of the adoption of a show-cause order, a tentative order, or in appropriate cases a final order without further proceedings.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010–
0262.

Date Filed: October 20, 2010. Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion To Modify Scope: November 10, 2010.

Description: Application of Dynamic Airways, LLC d/b/a Dynamic Aviation requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity authorizing Dynamic to engage in foreign charter air transportation of persons, property, and mail between any place in the United States and any place outside thereof.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010–
0263.

Date Filed: October 20, 2010. Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion To Modify Scope: November 10, 2010.

Description: Application of City Wings, Inc. requesting authority to operate scheduled passenger service as a commuter air carrier.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010–
0264.

Date Filed: October 22, 2010. Due Date for Answers, Conforming Applications, or Motion To Modify Scope: November 15, 2010.

Description: Application of Whitejet Transportes Aereos Ltda requesting a foreign air carrier permit and exemption authority to engage in charter foreign air transportation of persons, property and mail between any point or points in the United States and any point or points in Brazil to the full extent authorized by Air Transport Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil.

Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2010–31716 Filed 12–16–10; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**Office of the Secretary**

**Aviation Proceedings, Agreements Filed the Week Ending November 6,**  **2010**

The following Agreements were filed with the Department of Transportation under the Sections 412 and 414 of the Federal Aviation Act, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1382 and 1384) and procedures governing proceedings to enforce these provisions. Answers may be filed within 21 days after the filing of the application.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010–
0275.

Date Filed: November 4, 2010. Parties: Members of the International Air Transport Association.

Subject: Mail Vote 649—Resolution 010f. TC3 Within South East Asia Special Passenger Amending Resolution 010f Fares between Chinese Taipel and Viet Nam Memo 1411. Intended effective date: 15 November 2010.

Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2010–31704 Filed 12–16–10; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**Office of the Secretary**

**Aviation Proceedings, Agreements Filed the Week Ending October 30,**  **2010**

The following Agreements were filed with the Department of Transportation under the Sections 412 and 414 of the Federal Aviation Act, as amended (49 U.S.C. 1382 and 1384) and procedures governing proceedings to enforce these provisions. Answers may be filed within 21 days after the filing of the application.

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2010–
0267.

Date Filed: October 25, 2010. Parties: Members of the International Air Transport Association.

Subject: Mail Vote 648—Resolution 010e, TC31 North & Central Pacific, Special Passenger Amending


### 79072 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 242 / Friday, December 17, 2010 / Notices

Resolution, from USA to South East Asia, (Memo 0525), Intended effective date: 1 November 2010.

Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, Docket Operations, Federal Register Liaison.
[FR Doc. 2010–31706 Filed 12–16–10; 8:45 am]

**BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P**

**DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION**

**Office of the Secretary of Transportation** 

**Notice of Funding Availability for the Small Business Transportation**  **Resource Center Program**

**AGENCY :**  Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU), Department of Transportation (DOT).

**ACTION :**  Notice of funding availability.

**SUMMARY :**  The Department of Transportation (DOT), Office of the Secretary (OST), Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) announces the opportunityfor; (1) business centered communitybased organizations; (2) transportationrelated trade associations; (3) colleges and universities; (4) community colleges or; (5) chambers of commerce, registered with the Internal Revenue Service as 501 C(6) or 501 C(3) tax-exempt organizations, to compete for participation in OSDBU’s Small Business Transportation Resource Center (SBTRC) program in the Northeast and Northwest Regions. The Mid Atlantic, South Atlantic, Mid South Atlantic, Southeast, Great Lakes, Central, West Central, Gulf, and Southwest Regions have been previously competed in Fiscal Year
2010.

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, andmanage DOT funded transportationrelated contracts and subcontracts at the federal, state and local levels. Throughout this notice, the term ‘‘ small business ’’ will refer to: 8(a), small disadvantaged businesses (SDB), disadvantaged business enterprises (DBE), women owned small businesses (WOSB), HubZone, service disabled veteran owned businesses (SDVOB), and veteran owned small businesses (VOSB). Throughout this notice,

‘‘transportation-related’’ is defined as the maintenance, rehabilitation, restructuring, improvement, or revitalization of any of the nation’s modes of transportation.

Funding Opportunity Number: USDOT–OST–OSDBU–SBTRC2011–1.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) Number: 20.910 Assistance to small and disadvantaged businesses. Type of Award: Cooperative Agreement Grant.

Award Ceiling: $224,000. Award Floor: $127,000. Program Authority: DOT is authorized under 49 U.S.C. 332(b)(4), (5) & (7) to design and carry out programs to assist small disadvantaged businesses in getting transportation-related contracts and subcontracts; develop support mechanisms, including management and technical services, that will enable small disadvantaged businesses to take advantage of those business opportunities; and to make arrangements to carry out the above
purposes.

**DATES :**  Complete Proposals must be electronically submitted to OSDBU via e-mail on or before January 14, 2011, 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Proposals received after the deadline will be considered non-responsive and will not be reviewed. The applicant is advised to turn on request delivery receipt notification for e-mail submissions. DOT plans to give notice of awards for the competed regions on or before February 11, 2011.

**ADDRESSES :**  Applications must be electronically submitted to OSDBU via e-mail at SBTRC@dot.gov.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  For further information concerning this notice, contact Mr. Arthur D. Jackson, U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., W56–462, Washington, DC, 20590. Telephone: 1–800–532–
1169. E-mail: art.jackson@dot.gov.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :** 
Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1 Background 1.2 Program Description and Goals 1.3 Description of Competition 1.4 Duration of Agreements 1.5 Authority 1.6 Eligibility Requirements 2. Program Requirements 2.1 Recipient Responsibilities 2.2 Office of Small and Disadvantaged

Business Utilization Responsibilities 3. Submission of Proposals

3.1 Format for Proposals 3.2 Address, Number of Copies, Deadline

for Submission 4. Selection Criteria

4.1 General Criteria 4.2 Scoring of Applications 4.3 Conflicts of Interest Format for Proposals—Appendix A

Full Text of Announcement

1. Introduction 1.1 Background

The United States Department of Transportation (DOT) established the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) in accordance with Public Law 95–507, an amendment to the Small Business Act and the Small Business Investment Act of 1958.

The mission of OSDBU at DOT is to ensure that the small and disadvantaged business policies and goals of the Secretary of Transportation are developed and implemented in a fair, efficient and effective manner to serve small and disadvantaged businesses throughout the country. The OSDBU also administers the provisions of Title 49, Section 332, 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) and the development of programs to encourage, stimulate, promote and assist small businesses to become better prepared to compete for,obtain and manage transportationrelated contracts, and subcontracts.

The Regional Partnerships Division of OSDBU, through the SBTRC program allows OSDBU to partner with local organizations to offer a comprehensive delivery system of business training, technical assistance and dissemination of information, targeted towards small business transportation enterprises in their regions. 1.2 Program Description and Goals

The national SBTRC program utilizes Cooperative Agreements with chambers of commerce, trade associations,educational institutions and businesscentered community based organizations to establish SBTRCs to provide business training, technical assistance and information to DOT grantees and recipients, prime contractors and subcontractors. In order to be effective and serve their target