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program or to fund the implementation 

of that program. 

If questions arise concerning the 

precise relationship of specific 

properties to noise-exposure contours 

depicted on a noise-exposure map 

submitted under section 47503 of the 

Act, it should be noted that the FAA is 

not involved in any way in determining 

the relative locations of specific 

properties with regard to the depicted 

noise contours, or in interpreting the 

noise-exposure maps to resolve 

questions concerning, for example, 

which properties should be covered by 

the provisions of section 47506 of the 

Act. These functions are inseparable 

from the ultimate land use control and 

planning responsibilities of local 

government. These local responsibilities 

are not changed in any way under Part 

150 or through the FAA’s review of 

noise-exposure maps. Therefore, the 

responsibility for the detailed 

overlaying of noise-exposure contours 

onto the map depicting properties on 

the surface rests exclusively with the 

airport operator that submitted those 

maps, or with those public agencies and 

planning agencies with which 

consultation is required under section 

47503 of the Act. The FAA has relied on 

the certification by the airport operator, 

under section 150.21 of FAR Part 150, 

that the statutorily required consultation 

has been accomplished. 

The FAA has formally received the 

noise-compatibility program for Great 

Falls International Airport, also effective 

on February 13, 2007. Preliminary 

review of the submitted material 

indicates that it conforms to the 

requirements for the submittal of noisecompatibility programs, but requires 

further review prior to approval or 

disapproval of the program. The formal 

review period, limited by law to a 

maximum of 180 days, will be 

completed on or before August 13, 2007. 

The FAA’s detailed evaluation will be 

conducted under the provisions of 14 

CFR Part 150, § 150.33. The primary 

considerations in the evaluation process 

are whether the proposed measures may 

reduce the level of aviation safety, 

create an undue burden on interstate or 

foreign commerce, or be reasonably 

consistent with obtaining the goal of 

reducing existing non-compatible land 

uses and preventing the introduction of 

additional non-compatible land uses. 

Interested persons are invited to 

comment on the proposed program with 

specific reference to these factors. The 

FAA will consider, to the extent 

practicable, all comments, other than 

those properly addressed to local landuse authorities. Copies of the noiseexposure maps, the FAA’s evaluation of 

the maps, and the proposed noisecompatibility program are available for 

examination at the following locations: 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports Division, 1601 Lind Avenue, 

SW.; Suite 315, Renton, Washington 

98057–3356. 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Helena Airports District Office, 2725 

Skyway Drive, Suite 2, Helena, MT 

59602. 

Great Falls International Airport, 2800 

Terminal Drive, Great Falls, MT 

59404. 

Issued in Renton, Washington, on February 

13, 2007. 

Donna P. Taylor, 

Manager, Airports Division, Northwest 

Mountain Region. 

[FR Doc. 07–861 Filed 2–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2007–27281] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Extension of Currently Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Request for Extension 

of Currently Approved Information 

Collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for renewal of an 

existing information collection that is 

summarized below under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We are 

required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

April 27, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT DMS Docket Number 

FHWA–2007–27281 by any of the 

following methods: 

• Web Site: http://dms.dot.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments on the DOT electronic docket 

site. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, 

Room PL–401, Washington, DC 20590–

0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Room PL–401 on 

the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 

400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room 401 

on the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 

400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chung Eng, 202–366–8043, Office of 

Transportation Operations, Federal 

Highway Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590. Office 

hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Work Zone Safety and Mobility. 

OMB Control #: 2125–0600. 

Background: As amended on 

September 9, 2004, 23 CFR 630, Subpart 

J ‘‘Work Zone Safety and Mobility’’

requires State and local transportation 

agencies that receive Federal-aid 

highway funding to use available work 

zone information and data to assess and 

manage the work zone impacts of 

highway projects. While this Rule does 

not require the reporting or submission 

of work zone data, it does: 

• Require agencies to use work zone 

data at both the project and process 

levels to manage and improve work 

zone safety and mobility; 

• At the project level, require 

agencies to use field observations, 

available work zone crash data, and 

operational information to manage the 

work zone impacts of individual 

projects; 

• At the process level, require 

agencies to analyze work zone crash and 

operational data from multiple projects 

to improve agency processes and 

procedures, and continually pursue the 

improvement of overall work zone 

safety and mobility; and 

• Recommend that agencies maintain 

elements of the data and information 

resources that are necessary to support 

the use of work zone data for the 

activities above. 

Most of the data needed to conduct 

work zone performance monitoring 

during project implementation as well 

as post-implementation assessments 

should be readily available from preexisting sources. However, data 

collection or data storage and retrieval 

systems may need to be altered to take 

full advantage of available information 

resources. 

Respondents: The State Departments 

of Transportation (or equivalent) in the 

50 States, the District of Columbia, and 

the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. 


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1More detailed information on motorcycle 

crashes can be found in Traffic Safety Facts—

Motorcycles, published by NHTSA and available on 

its Web site at: http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/pdf/ 

nrd-30/NCSA/TSF2005/MotorcyclesTSF05.pdf. 

2The OECD methodology may be obtained by 

sending a request to jtrc.contact@oecd.org. 

Frequency: Continuous. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: The estimated total annual 

burden for all respondents is 83,200 

hours. This involves responses from 52 

State Departments of Transportation or 

equivalent with an estimated average 

time of 1,600 hours per respondent over 

the course of a year. This estimate only 

includes the burden on the respondents 

to provide information that is not 

usually and customarily collected. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued on: February 20, 2007. 

James R. Kabel, 

Chief, Management Programs and Analysis 

Division. 

[FR Doc. E7–3196 Filed 2–23–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2007–26843] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments for 

New Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the 

information collection request described 

in this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval of a new information 

collection. We published a Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day public 

comment period on this information 

collection on November 24, 2006. We 

are required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

March 28, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments 

within 30 days to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20503, Attention DOT Desk Officer. You 

are asked to comment on any aspect of 

this information collection, including: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways for the FHWA to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

All comments should include the 

Docket number FHWA–2007–26843. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions concerning the FHWA 

Motorcycle Crash Causation Study, 

please contact Carol Tan, Ph.D, Office of 

Safety Research and Development 

(HRDS), at (202) 493–3315, TurnerFairbank Highway Research Center, 

Federal Highway Administration, 6300 

Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101, 

between 9 a.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

For questions concerning the Pilot 

Motorcycle Crash Causes and Outcomes 

Study, please contact Paul J. Tremont, 

Ph.D, Office of Behavioral Safety 

Research, NTI–131, at (202) 366–5588, 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration (NHTSA), 400 Seventh 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590, 

between 7:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Motorcycle Crash Causation 

Study and Pilot Motorcycle Crash 

Causes and Outcomes Study. 

Background: In 2005, 4,553 

motorcyclists were killed and 87,000 

were injured in traffic crashes in the 

United States, increases of 13 percent, 

and 14 percent respectively from 2004. 

Per vehicle mile traveled in 2004, 

motorcyclists were about 34 times more 

likely to die, and 8 times more likely to 

be injured in a motor vehicle crash than 

were passenger car occupants. Per 100 

million miles traveled, in 2004, 

motorcyclist fatalities were 77 percent 

higher than they were in 1994. This 

compares with a decrease of 22 percent 

in fatality rates for occupants in 

passenger vehicles over the same 

period. These data show that the 

motorcycle crash problem is becoming 

more severe.1

Congress has recognized this problem 

and directed the DOT to conduct 

research that will provide a better 

understanding of the causes of 

motorcycle crashes. Specifically, in 

Section 5511 of the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU) 

Pub. L. 109–59, Congress directed the 

Secretary of Transportation to provide 

grants to the Oklahoma Transportation 

Center (OTC) for the purpose of 

conducting a comprehensive, in-depth 

motorcycle crash causation study that 

employs the common international 

methodology for in-depth motorcycle 

crash investigation developed by the 

Organization for Economic Cooperation 

and Development (OECD).2 SAFETEA–

LU authorized $1,408,000 for each of 

fiscal years 2006 and 2007, but provided 

for an equal match by the Grantee 

(Sections 5511 and 5101). The Secretary 

delegated authority to FHWA for the 

Motorcycle Crash Causation Grants 

under Section 5511 (71 FR 30831). 

Coordination of FHWA Main Study and 

NHTSA Pilot Study 

Prior to the SAFETEA–LU directive 

by Congress to administer a full-scale 

study of motorcycle crash causes, 

NHTSA awarded a contract to conduct 

a pilot study of Motorcycle Crash 

Causes and Outcomes. The intent of this 

pilot study is to examine appropriate 

applications of the OECD methodology 

to motorcycle crashes in the United 

States. This pilot test is needed before 

any full-scale study could be conducted 

because the OECD methodology has not 

previously been implemented in the 

United States, and also because this 

methodology incorporates some options 

for collecting crash and control sample 

data that are affected by logistical and 

budget constraints. 

The authorization of funds by 

Congress for a full-scale motorcycle 

crash study provided an opportunity for 

the NHTSA pilot study to become 

closely coordinated with the FHWA 

full-scale study. As a result, the pilot 

study will test the procedures FHWA 

will consider using as it implements the 

OECD methodology. Additionally, it 

may be possible for the pilot study to 

transition directly into the main study, 

thereby allowing the main study to 

avoid many startup costs (e.g., site 

selection, training, coding manual 

development, data form development, 

etc.) that it otherwise would have 

incurred. This will allow the main study 

to capture a larger sample of crashes 

with the available funding. Recognizing 

these advantages, the DOT intends to 

submit a single request to OMB for 

approval of both of these studies. This 

notice is the first step in that combined 

approval request. 

Project Working Group Guidance 

A project working group consisting of 

representatives from the motorcycle 

industry and from the motorcycle 

community was formed to provide input 

into the study design. A working group 

meeting was held in Denver on June 15–

16, 2006. At this meeting, consensus 

was reached that all the relevant OECD 

variables would be captured in both the 


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