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imported from abroad for temporary 

exhibition within the United States, are 

of cultural significance. The objects are 

imported pursuant to a loan agreement 

with the foreign owner or custodian. I 

also determine that the exhibition or 

display of the exhibit objects at the 

Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, PR, 

from on or about March 21, 2014, until 

on or about July 28, 2014, and at 

possible additional exhibitions or 

venues yet to be determined, is in the 

national interest. I have ordered that 

Public Notice of these Determinations 

be published in the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Julie 

Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 

the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of 

State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The 

mailing address is U.S. Department of 

State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 

5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

Dated: March 4, 2014. 

Evan M. Ryan, 

Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational 

and Cultural Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2014–05129 Filed 3–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8651] 

U.S. Department of State Advisory 

Committee on Private International 

Law (ACPIL)—Online Dispute 

Resolution (ODR) Study Group 

The Office of the Assistant Legal 

Adviser for Private International Law, 

Department of State, hereby gives notice 

that the ACPIL ODR Study Group will 

hold a public meeting. The ACPIL ODR 

Study Group will meet to discuss the 

next session of the UNCITRAL ODR 

Working Group, scheduled for March 

24–28, 2014 in New York. This is not a 

meeting of the full Advisory Committee. 

The UNCITRAL ODR Working Group 

is charged with the development of legal 

instruments for resolving both business 

to business and business to consumer 

cross-border electronic commerce 

disputes. The Working Group is in the 

process of developing generic ODR 

procedural rules for resolution of crossborder electronic commerce disputes, 

along with separate legal instruments 

that may take the form of annexes on 

guidelines and minimum requirements 

for online dispute resolution providers 

and arbitrators, substantive legal 

principles for resolving disputes, and a 

cross-border enforcement mechanism. 

For the reports of the first seven 

sessions of the UNCITRAL ODR 

Working Group—December 13–17, 

2010, in Vienna (A/CN.9/716); May 23– 

27, 2011, in New York (A/CN.9/721); 

Nov. 14–18, 2011, in Vienna (A/CN.9/

739); May 21–25, 2012, in New York 

(A/CN.9/744); November 5–9, 2012, in 

Vienna (A/CN.9/762): May 20–24, 2013, 

in New York (A/CN.9/769); and 

November 18–22, 2014, in Vienna 

(A/CN.9/795)—please follow the 

following link: http://www.uncitral.org/ 

uncitral/commission/working_groups/

3Online_Dispute_Resolution.html. 

Documents relating to the upcoming 

session of the Working Group are 

available on the same link. 

Time and Place: The meeting of the 

ACPIL ODR Study Group will take place 

on Friday March 14 from 12:30 p.m. to 

2:00 p.m. EST at 2430 E Street NW., 

South Building (SA 4) (Navy Hill), 

Room 240. Participants should arrive at 

Navy Hill before 12:15 p.m. for visitor 

screening. Participants will be met at 

the Navy Hill gate at 23rd and D Streets, 

NW., and will be escorted to the South 

Building. Persons arriving later will 

need to make arrangements for entry 

using the contact information provided 

below. If you are unable to attend the 

public meeting and would like to 

participate from a remote location, 

teleconferencing will be available. 

Public Participation: This meeting is 

open to the public, subject to the 

capacity of the meeting room. Access to 

Navy Hill is strictly controlled. For preclearance purposes, those planning to 

attend in person are requested to email 

at PIL@state.gov providing full name, 

address, date of birth, citizenship, 

driver’s license or passport number, 

affiliation, and email address. This will 

greatly facilitate entry. 

A member of the public needing 

reasonable accommodation should 

provide an email requesting such 

accommodation to pil@state.gov no later 

than a week before the meeting. 

Requests made after that date will be 

considered, but might not be able to be 

fulfilled. If you would like to participate 

by telephone, please email pil@state.gov 

to obtain the call-in number and other 

information. 

Data from the public is requested 

pursuant to Public Law 99–399 

(Omnibus Diplomatic Security and 

Antiterrorism Act of 1986), as amended; 

Public Law 107–56 (USA PATRIOT 

Act); and Executive Order 13356. The 

purpose of the collection is to validate 

the identity of individuals who enter 

Department facilities. The data will be 

entered into the Visitor Access Control 

System (VACS–D) database. Please see 

the Security Records System of Records 

Notice (State-36) at http://

www.state.gov/documents/organization/

103419.pdf for additional information. 

Dated: February 24, 2014. 

Michael Dennis, 

Attorney-Adviser, Office of Private 

International Law. Office of the Legal Adviser 

Department of State 

[FR Doc. 2014–05128 Filed 3–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation 

Requirements for the DOT Data 

Innovation Challenge 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice . 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719 (America 

COMPETES Act). 

Award Approving Official: Anthony 

Foxx, Secretary of Transportation. 

SUMMARY: Informed decision making, 

based on sound data and analysis is a 

cornerstone of crafting effective 

transportation policies and guiding 

efficient investment decisions with 

scarce public resources. Web-based 

tools, visualizations, and mobile 

applications can help uncover 

actionable information for making better 

informed decisions—both by the public 

and policy makers. This challenge will 

focus on developing tools to address 

three areas: (1) Safety, (2) 

Transportation Access, and (3) Traffic 

Management and Congestion. 

Do you have what it takes to create 

innovative tools to address our Nation’s 

transportation challenges or 

revolutionize the way Americans see 

and understand the transportation 

system they use every day? The United 

States Department of Transportation 

(U.S. DOT) wants to see what you can 

do! 

DATES: Entries must be submitted by 

5:00 p.m. on April 30, 2014 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephanie Gidigbi, 202–366–6837, 

stephanie.gidigbi@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Subject of Challenge Competition: 

Your challenge is to create a web-based 

tool, data visualization, mobile app, or 

other innovative use of technology to 

address systemic challenges by 

accessing publicly-available Federal 

and/or local DOT datasets. The 

application/tool will help the public 

and policy makers understand 


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transportation challenges in three main 

areas: 

• Safety—develop tools to address 

and/or identify safety concerns and 

challenges 

• Transportation Access—develop 

tools to show how transportation 

connects people to jobs, school, 

housing, and community resources 

• Traffic Management and 

Congestion—develop tools to 

understand and reduce traffic and 

congestion 

Eligibility: The Challenge is open only 

to: (1) Persons who are at least eighteen 

(18) years old at the time of entry who 

are either citizens or legal residents of 

the United States; (2) teams of eligible 

individuals; and (3) corporations or 

organizations, including nonprofit 

organizations, that are incorporated in 

the United States (including the District 

of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. 

Virgin Islands, Guam, and American 

Samoa). Individuals submitting entries 

on behalf of corporations, nonprofit or 

groups of individuals (such as an 

academic class or other team) must meet 

the eligibility requirements for 

individual contestants. An individual 

may join more than one team, 

corporation or nonprofit organization. 

Candidates may not be a Federal entity 

or Federal employee acting within the 

scope of employment. Employees of the 

U.S. Department of Transportation are 

not eligible. The Challenge is subject to 

all applicable federal laws and 

regulations. Participation constitutes 

Contestant’s full and unconditional 

agreement to these Official Rules and 

administrative decisions, which are 

final and binding in all matters related 

to the Challenge. Eligibility for a prize 

award is contingent upon fulfilling all 

requirements set forth herein. 

The following additional rules apply: 

1. All decisions by the U.S. DOT are 

final and binding in all matters related 

to the challenge. Potential winners must 

continue to comply with all terms and 

conditions of these Official Rules and 

winning is contingent upon fulfilling all 

requirements. The potential winners 

will be notified by email, telephone, or 

mail after the date of the judging. The 

potential winner(s) will be required to 

sign and return to U.S. DOT, within ten 

(10) days of the date notice is sent, an 

Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability/

Publicity Release (except where 

prohibited) in order to claim any 

recognition. In the event that a potential 

winner of a Challenge recognition is 

disqualified for any reason, U.S. DOT 

may award the applicable recognition to 

an alternate winner. Submission Rights. 

Each Contestant grants to the U.S. DOT 

and others acting on behalf of the U.S. 

DOT, a royalty-free non-exclusive 

worldwide license to use, copy for use, 

distribute, perform publicly, and 

display publicly all parts of the 

Submission for the purposes of the 

Challenge until one year after the 

announcement of winners. This license 

includes posting or linking to the 

Submission on the official U.S. DOT 

Web site and making it available for use 

by the public. 

2. Entry Conditions and Release. By 

entering, each Contestant agrees to: (a) 

Comply with and be bound by these 

Official Rules and the decisions of the 

U.S. DOT and/or the Challenge judges 

which are binding and final in all 

matters relating to this Challenge; (b) 

release and hold harmless the U.S. DOT 

and the Federal Government and its 

related entities, including any other 

organizations responsible for 

sponsoring, fulfilling, administering, 

advertising or promoting the Challenge, 

and all of their respective past and 

present officers, directors, employees, 

agents and representatives (collectively, 

the ‘‘Released Parties’’) from and against 

any and all claims, expenses, and 

liability, whether direct or indirect, 

including but not limited to negligence 

and damages of any kind to persons and 

property, including but not limited to 

invasion of privacy (under 

appropriation, intrusion, public 

disclosure of private facts, false light in 

the public eye or other legal theory), 

defamation, slander, libel, violation of 

right of publicity, infringement of 

trademark, copyright or other 

intellectual property rights, property 

damage, a third party’s unauthorized 

use of the Submission beyond the oneyear license granted in the Submission 

rights, loss of profits, or death or 

personal injury arising out of or relating 

to a Contestant’s entry, creation of an 

entry or submission of an entry, 

participation in the Challenge, 

acceptance or use or misuse of prize 

(including any travel or activity related 

thereto) and/or the broadcast, 

transmission, performance, exploitation 

or use of entry; and, (c) indemnify, 

defend and hold harmless the U.S. DOT 

against any and all claims, expenses, 

and liabilities (including reasonable 

attorney’s fees) arising out of or relating 

to a Contestant’s participation in the 

Challenge and/or Contestant’s 

acceptance, use or misuse of a prize or 

recognition. 

3. Publicity. Except where prohibited, 

participation in the Challenge 

constitutes Contestant’s consent to U.S. 

DOT’s and its agents’ use of Contestant’s 

name, likeness, photograph, voice, 

opinions, and/or hometown and state 

for promotional purposes in any media, 

worldwide, without further payment or 

consideration. 

4. General Conditions. The U.S. DOT 

reserves the right to cancel, suspend 

and/or modify the Challenge, or any 

part of it for any reason, including if any 

fraud, technical failures or any other 

factor beyond the U.S. DOT’s reasonable 

control impairs the integrity or proper 

functioning of the Challenge, as 

determined by the U.S. DOT in its sole 

discretion. The U.S. DOT reserves the 

right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify 

any individual or Contestant it finds to 

be tampering with the entry process or 

the operation of the Challenge or to be 

acting in violation of these Official 

Rules or any other promotion or in a 

disruptive manner. Any attempt by any 

person to deliberately undermine the 

legitimate operation of the Challenge 

may be in violation of criminal and civil 

law, and, should such an attempt be 

made, the U.S. DOT reserves the right to 

seek damages from any such person to 

the fullest extent permitted by law. The 

U.S. DOT’s failure to enforce any term 

of these Official Rules shall not 

constitute a waiver of that provision. 

The U.S. DOT is not responsible for, nor 

are they required to count, incomplete, 

late, misdirected, damaged, unlawful or 

illicit votes, including those secured 

through payment, votes achieved 

through automated means or by 

registering more than one email account 

and name, using another Contestant’s 

email account and name, as well as 

those lost for technical reasons or 

otherwise. 

5. Limitations of Liability. The 

Released Parties are not responsible for: 

(1) Any incorrect or inaccurate 

information, whether caused by 

Contestants, printing errors or by any of 

the equipment or programming 

associated with or utilized in the 

Challenge; (2) technical failures of any 

kind, including, but not limited to 

malfunctions, interruptions, or 

disconnections in phone lines or 

network hardware or software; (3) 

unauthorized human intervention in 

any part of the entry process or the 

Challenge; (4) technical or human error 

which may occur in the administration 

of the Challenge or the processing of 

entries; or, (5) any injury or damage to 

persons or property which may be 

caused, directly or indirectly, in whole 

or in part, from Contestant’s 

participation in the Challenge or receipt 

or use or misuse of any prize. If for any 

reason a Contestant’s entry is confirmed 

to have been erroneously deleted, lost, 

or otherwise destroyed or corrupted, 

Contestant’s sole remedy is another 

entry in the Challenge. No more than 


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the stated number of prizes will be 

awarded. 

6. Original Work, Plagiarism, and 

Copyright. Contestant(s) warrants that 

he or she or they is/are the sole author 

and owner of the Submission, and that 

the Submission is wholly original with 

the Contestant, and that it does not 

infringe any copyright or any other 

rights of any third party of which 

Contestant is aware. 

7. PRIVACY. Any personal 

information provided to the U.S. DOT 

and ChallengePost by registering or 

submitting through the U.S. DOT 

electronic mail system is used only to 

communicate on matters regarding the 

submission and/or the Challenge. 

Information is not collected for 

commercial marketing. Candidates may 

not be a Federal entity or Federal 

employee acting within the scope of 

employment. 

At least one individual from each 

team may travel to Washington, DC, to 

accept the award. Only the individual 

who makes the submission on behalf of 

an organization may receive the award. 

The submitting individual may 

designate, within 10 business days 

following notification of award, another 

person to whom to re-direct the award. 

Submission Requirements 

Your submission is due by 5:00 p.m. 

ET, on Wednesday, April 30, 2014. Your 

submission must use publicly available 

data. You must not provide any 

information that is a trade secret or 

confidential business information. 

Federal DOT datasets are available at 

http://www.dot.gov/data and other 

Federal data can be found at http://

catalog.data.gov. In addition, some state 

and local data can be found at http://

states.data.gov, http://counties.data.gov, 

or http://cities.data.gov. You may use 

any other publically available data sets 

as well. 

A submission package will consist of 

the following: 

A full description of the application, 

device, product, or visualization tool 

(the ‘‘Concept’’) that addresses at least 

one of the three challenges outlined 

above for this specific challenge (Safety, 

Transportation Access, Traffic 

Management and Congestion) with 

elements outlined in the Submission 

Content Below (not to exceed 6000 

words): 

i. Description of the user or users; 

ii. Explanation of the Concept’s value 

to the user and society as a whole; 

iii. Description of the conditions 

under which the Concept is useful; 

iv. Description of the ways in which 

the Concept is innovative: how it differs 

from past and current practices, 

technologies, tools and applications; 

v. Explanation of the process by 

which the application or visualization 

tool would be implemented and widely 

adopted. Discuss any other risks, costs 

or challenges in making the utilization 

and/or adoption of the tools or 

applications widespread, and how they 

could be overcome; 

vi. Submissions must include a link to 

a working tool (via the web with a URL 

or mobile app store) or a video of the 

tool in action; and should illustrate or 

otherwise support the Concept 

described in the Submission 

Description. 

The Submission should also include a 

summary (not to exceed 650 words, in 

12-point Arial normal font, doublespaced, in PDF format) of the solution 

submitted that discusses: 

i. How it meets the judging criteria; 

ii. Data sets used to develop the 

solution; and, 

iii. Intended audience/users. 

Note: Submissions that do not conform to 

these requirements may be considered 

ineligible. This eligibility decision is at the 

sole discretion of the U.S. DOT. Contestants 

waive the right to protest. The U.S. DOT 

makes no warranties to protect proprietary 

information or trade secrets if they are 

featured in the submission. It is 

recommended that entrants consider the 

content of their submissions prior to making 

their submittal. 

Any elements of the Challenge 

described in the ‘‘details’’ section of this 

Challenge and posted on dot.gov are 

wholly incorporated as part of the rules 

of this contest. 

The Submission must be written in 

English, and be no longer than 6000 

words. Some or all of the submission 

must be sent to datachallenge@dot.gov 

with the subject line ‘‘Innovation 

Challenge.’’ The Submission Summary 

should be included in the body of the 

email and must not exceed 650 words. 

• Must be in PDF or Microsoft Word 

format 

• Use a font size of no less than 12 

points 

• Have margins no smaller than 1 

inch all around 

Submissions may be updated by the 

submitter until the Challenge 

Submission Period ends. 

Award 

Winners will have their innovation 

featured on the Secretary’s FastLane 

Blog and will receive a letter of 

recognition from the Secretary. 

Following the announcement of the 

award, awardees will be honored by 

Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx 

in a special session where awardees will 

present their Concept for senior officials 

from across the U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Challenge judges, and 

other members of DOT staff. Outside 

guests will also be invited to attend. 

Furthermore, depending upon the 

quality of submissions and subject to 

the Federal Acquisitions Regulations, 

the Department may negotiate licensing 

for the use of intellectual property 

developed by selected submission 

winner(s) beyond the one year royaltyfree nonexclusive worldwide license 

provided under Submission Rights. 

Basis Upon Which the Winner Will Be 

Selected: 

Submission Judging 

Submissions will be scored in each of 

four criteria, as listed below. 

1. Technical and Operational Feasibility 

The successful operation of the 

proposed application or visualization 

tool will depend both upon the 

soundness of the application and tool 

itself and its relationship to the rest of 

the transportation system, and the data 

that is used during its development. 

How plausible is it that this Concept 

could be implemented? What risks or 

challenges exist, and how could they be 

overcome? 

2. Potential for Widespread Adoption 

Widespread adoption of the 

application and/or visualization tool 

will depend upon a system of 

interrelated decisions made by various 

stakeholders in the transportation 

network. Stakeholders’ incentives 

toward action must be aligned with 

their capabilities for adoption to occur. 

How likely is it that this application or 

visualization tool would be widely 

adopted or go viral, if it were 

developed? What are the challenges 

facing broad adoption, and how could 

they be overcome? 

3. Innovation 

To what degree does the tool present 

a novel idea or approach? 

4. Social Benefit 

How much would this idea benefit 

transportation users or society at large? 

Emphasis is on improvements to 

transportation safety, mobility, 

reliability, accessibility and/or 

environmental impact. 

The Submissions will be judged by a 

qualified panel selected by the U.S. 

DOT at its sole discretion. The panel 

will judge the entire Submission on the 

judging criteria identified above in order 

to select five winners. Judges reserve the 

right to withdraw without advance 

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Additional Information: 

Federal grantees may not use Federal 

funds to develop COMPETES Act 

challenge applications. 

Federal contractors may not use 

Federal funds from a contract to develop 

COMPETES Act challenge applications 

or to fund efforts in support of a 

COMPETES Act challenge submission. 

Issued On: February 21, 2014 

Anthony Foxx, 

Secretary of Transportation. 

[FR Doc. 2014–04399 Filed 3–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DOT–OST—2014–0011] 

National Freight Advisory Committee: 

Notice of Public Meeting 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) announces a 

public meeting of its National Freight 

Advisory Committee (NFAC) to provide 

recommendations to the Department as 

it continues to develop the National 

Freight Strategic Plan (Plan). Meetings 

are open to the public and there will be 

a period of time at the end of the second 

day of the meeting for public comment. 

DATES: Dates and Times: The meeting 

will be held on Tuesday, March 25, 

2014, from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., 

Eastern Standard Time and March 26, 

2014 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m., 

Eastern Standard Time. 

Location: The meeting will be held at 

the U.S. Department of Transportation, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tretha Chromey, Designated Federal 

Officer at (202) 366–1999 or freight@

dot.gov or visit the NFAC Web site at 

www.dot.gov/nfac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The NFAC was established 

to provide advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary on matters related to 

freight transportation in the United 

States, including (1) implementation of 

the freight transportation requirements 

of the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 

21st Century Act (MAP–21; Pub. L. 112– 

141); (2) establishment of the National 

Freight Network; (3) development of the 

Plan; (4) development of strategies to 

help States implement State Freight 

Advisory Committees and State Freight 

Plans; (5) development of measures of 

conditions and performance in freight 

transportation; (6) development of 

freight transportation investment, data, 

and planning tools; and (7) legislative 

recommendations. The NFAC operates 

as a discretionary committee under the 

authority of the DOT, established in 

accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), as amended, 5 U.S.C. App. 2. 

See DOT’s NFAC Web site for additional 

information about the committee’s 

activities at www.dot.gov/nfac. 

MAP–21 directs the DOT to develop 

the Plan in consultation with State 

department of transportations and other 

appropriate stakeholders. The Plan must 

include: 

(A) An assessment of the condition 

and performance of the national freight 

network. 

(B) An identification of highway 

bottlenecks on the national freight 

network that create significant freight 

congestion problems, based on a 

quantitative methodology developed by 

the Secretary, which shall, at a 

minimum, include— 

(i) information from the Freight 

Analysis Network of the Federal 

Highway Administration; and 

(ii) to the maximum extent 

practicable, an estimate of the cost of 

addressing each bottleneck and any 

operational improvements that could be 

implemented. 

(C) Forecasts of freight volumes for 

the 20-year period beginning in the year 

during which the Plan is issued. 

(D) An identification of major trade 

gateways and national freight corridors 

that connect major population centers, 

trade gateways, and other major freight 

generators for current and forecasted 

traffic and freight volumes, the 

identification of which shall be revised, 

as appropriate, in subsequent plans. 

(E) An assessment of statutory, 

regulatory, technological, institutional, 

financial, and other barriers to improved 

freight transportation performance 

(including opportunities for overcoming 

the barriers). 

(F) An identification of routes 

providing access to energy exploration, 

development, installation, or production 

areas. 

(G) Best practices for improving the 

performance of the national freight 

network. 

(H) Best practices to mitigate the 

impacts of freight movement on 

communities. 

(I) A process for addressing multistate 

projects and encouraging jurisdictions 

to collaborate. 

(J) Strategies to improve freight 

intermodal connectivity. 

The Plan serves as a document to 

outline a long-term strategy to 

implement the National freight policy. 

The goals of the National freight policy 

are related to economic competitiveness 

and efficiency; congestion; productivity; 

safety, security, and resilience of freight 

movement; infrastructure condition; use 

of advanced technology; performance, 

innovation, competition, and 

accountability in the operation and 

maintenance of the network; and 

environmental impacts. [23 U.S.C. 167] 

Agenda: The two day agenda will 

include: 

(1) Welcome, opening remarks, and 

introductions; 

(2) Update of the Department’s 

National Freight Strategic Plan; 

(3) Discussion on proposed 

recommendations to the DOT on the 

following elements of the Plan: 

• An assessment of statutory, 

regulatory, technological, institutional, 

financial, and other barriers to improved 

freight transportation performance 

(including opportunities for overcoming 

the barriers); 

• Best practices for improving the 

performance of the national freight 

network; and 

• Best practices to mitigate the 

impacts of freight movement on 

communities. 

(4) Public comment, which will occur 

at the end of day 2. 

The meeting agenda will be posted on 

the NFAC Web site at www.dot.gov/nfac 

in advance of the meeting. 

Public Participation: This meeting 

will be open to the public. Members of 

the public who wish to attend in person 

are asked to RSVP to freight@dot.gov 

with your name and affiliation no later 

than March 18, 2014, in order to 

facilitate entry and guarantee seating. 

Services for Individuals with 

Disabilities: The public meeting is 

physically accessible to people with 

disabilities. Individuals requiring 

accommodations, such as sign language 

interpretation or other ancillary aids, are 

asked to notify Ms. Tretha Chromey, at 

(202) 366–1999 or freight@dot.gov five 

(5) business days before the meeting. 

Written comments: Persons who wish 

to submit written comments for 

consideration by the Committee must 

email freight@dot.gov or send them to 

Ms. Tretha Chromey, Designated 

Federal Officer, National Freight 

Advisory Committee, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., W82–320, Washington, DC 

20590 by March 18, 2014 to provide 

sufficient time for review. All other 

comments may be received at any time 

before or after the meeting. 

Dated: March 4, 2014. 

Tretha Chromey, 

Designated Federal Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–05138 Filed 3–7–14; 8:45 am] 

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