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continued airworthiness of aircraft, and 

certification of pilots, mechanics, and 

others in safety related positions, 

publishes proposed non-regulatory 

documents that are available for public 

comment on the Internet at http:// 

www.faa.gov/aircraft/draft_docs/. 

DATES: We must received comments on 

or before the due date for each 

document as specified on the Web site. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments on 

proposed documents to the Federal 

Aviation Administration at the address 

specified on the Web site for the 

document being commented on, to the 

attention of the individual and office 

identified as point of contact for the 

document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: See 

the individual or FAA office identified 

on the Web site for the specified 

document. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Final 

advisory circulars, other policy 

documents, and technical standard 

orders (TSOs) are available on FAA’s 

Web site, including final documents 

published by the Aircraft Certification 

Service on FAA’s Regulatory and 

Guidance Library (RGL) at http:// 

rgl.faa.gov/. 

Comments Invited 

When commenting on draft ACs, 

other policy documents or proposed 

TSOs, you should identify the 

document by its number. The Aviation 

Safety organizations, will consider all 

comments received on or before the 

closing date before issuing a final 

document. You can obtain a paper copy 

of the draft document or proposed TSO 

by contacting the individual or FAA 

office responsible for the document as 

identified on the Web site. You will find 

the draft ACs, other policy documents 

and proposed TSOs on the ‘‘Aviation 

Safety Draft Documents Open for 

Comment’’ Web site at http:// 

www.faa.gov/aircraft/draft_docs/. For 

Internet retrieval assistance, contact the 

AIR Internet Content Program Manager 

at 202–267–8361. 

Background 

We do not publish an individual 

Federal Register Notice for each 

document we make available for public 

comment. On the Web site, you may 

subscribe to our service for e-mail 

notification when new draft documents 

are made available. Persons wishing to 

comment on our draft ACs, other policy 

documents and proposed TSOs can find 

them by using the FAA’s Internet 

address listed above. This notice of 

availability and request for comments 

on documents produced by Aviation 

Safety will appear again in 30 days. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 2, 

2007. 

Frank Paskiewicz, 

Manager, Production and Airworthiness 

Division, Aircraft Certification Service. 

[FR Doc. 07–1719 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement: 

Clackamas County, Oregon 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration, Oregon Department of 

Transportation, and Clackamas County, 

Oregon. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) is issuing this 

notice of intent to advise agencies and 

the public that an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) will be prepared to 

assess the impacts of a proposed 

transportation project on Harmony Road 

in Clackamas County, Oregon. 

DATES: A public scoping meeting will be 

held on Wednesday, May 9, 2007 at the 

Sunnybrook Service Center Auditorium, 

9101 SE., Sunnybrook Blvd., Clackamas, 

OR 97015. The public scoping meeting 

will include an open house from 4 p.m. 

to 7 p.m. and informational 

presentations at 4:30, 5, 5:30, 6, and 

6:30 p.m. The informational 

presentation will be followed by a 

question and answer period. An agency 

scoping meeting will be held on May 10, 

2007 at the Oregon Department of 

Transportation, 123 NW Flanders, Room 

344, Portland, OR 97209. The agency 

scoping meeting will be from 2:30 P.M. 

to 4:30 P.M. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Graham, P.E., Operations Engineer, 

Federal Highway Administration, 530 

Center Street NE., Suite 100, Salem, OR 

97301, Telephone: (503) 587–4727 or 

Ron Weinman, Principal Transportation 

Planner, Clackamas County, 9101 SE., 

Sunnybrook Blvd., Clackamas, OR 

97015, Telephone: (503) 353–4533. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA, in cooperation with the Oregon 

Department of Transportation (ODOT), 

and Clackamas County Department of 

Transportation and Development, will 

prepare an EIS on a proposal to improve 

the transportation system in the SE 

Harmony Road corridor, from SE 82th 

Avenue to State Highway 224 

(approximately 1.5 miles). The project 

will consider alignment and 

improvement options on SE Harmony 

Road and intersections at SE Railroad 

Avenue/SE Linwood Avenue and SE 

Lake Road/SE International Way. In 

addition, the project study will consider 

alignment options for the extension of 

SE Sunnybrook Boulevard west of SE 

82nd Avenue and its western terminus. 

A significant project consideration is 

grade separation of the road and the 

Union Pacific rail line at the Harmony 

Road/Linwood Avenue/Railroad 

Avenue intersection. 

Improvements to the corridor are 

considered necessary to enhance safety 

and to reduce congestion associated 

with existing and projected traffic 

demand. Levels of service at 

intersections in the area are currently 

failing and are anticipated to worsen 

without improvements. By 2030, the 

number of households in the study area 

is expected to increase by 24 percent 

and the number of jobs by 43 percent. 

Growth is anticipated in association 

with planned development in and 

around the extension of regional lightrail service to the Clackamas Regional 

Center, which encompasses the 

Harmony Road corridor and is adopted 

in the Metro 2040 Growth Concept. 

The at-grade railroad mainline that 

crosses on the southwest side of the 

Harmony Road/Linwood Avenue/ 

Railroad Avenue intersection is part of 

the future high-speed rail corridor 

between Eugene, OR and Vancouver, 

BC. Operation of high-speed passenger 

trains along this corridor mandates 

grade separation of the rail line and the 

roadway for safety and operational 

purposes. Currently, there are 

approximately 6 passenger trains and 24 

freight trains crossing at this location 

each day, resulting in an average daily 

gate activation time of 150 minutes. 

These train crossings further burden the 

Harmony Road corridor with traffic 

delay. 

The EIS will identify transportation 

needs and deficiencies in the project 

study area, including mobility, access, 

system linkages and continuity, and 

safety. The range of evaluated 

transportation alternatives in the EIS 

will be developed to meet the identified 

project purpose and need. Potential 

alternatives and combinations thereof 

may include but are not limited to: (1) 

Taking no action; (2) adding capacity to 

existing roadways; (3) extending 

Sunnybrook Boulevard to the west of SE 

82nd Avenue and determining its 

alignment and terminus; (4) redesigning 

intersections along Harmony Road at 

Linwood Avenue/Railroad Avenue and 

Lake Road/International Way; (5) grade 

separating the road from the railroad 

crossing at the Harmony Road/Linwood 


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1Highway Statistics is an annual report 

containing analyzed data on motor fuel, motor 

vehicles, driver licensing, highway user taxation, 

State and local highway finance, highway mileage, 

and other selected data. This report has been 

published each year since 1945. It is available at the 

following URL: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohpi/hss. 

Avenue/Railroad Avenue intersection; 

and (6) improving pedestrian and 

bicycle facilities. Design variations of 

potential alternatives will also be 

studied, as appropriate. 

The EIS will be initiated with a 

scoping process. The scoping process 

will include a program of public 

outreach and agency coordination 

conducted over the next several months 

in order to elicit input on project 

purpose and need, potential 

alternatives, significant and 

insignificant issues, and collaborative 

methods of analyzing transportation 

alternatives and environmental impacts. 

In total, the public outreach program 

will include multiple public meetings 

conducted by Clackamas County as well 

as coordination with two stakeholder 

committees—one committee comprised 

of community and technical 

representatives and the other committee 

comprised of policy level 

representatives. A public hearing will be 

held in connection with the release of 

the draft EIS. Public notice will be given 

regarding the time and place of the 

public meetings and hearing. 

An Internet Web site (http:// 

www.harmonyroadea.org) and other 

communication media will be utilized 

throughout the process to provide 

public information and to receive 

comments. All comments and input 

received during the EIS process will be 

considered and documented. 

The FHWA, ODOT, and Clackamas 

County Department of Transportation 

and Development will evaluate 

significant transportation, 

environmental, social, and economic 

impacts of the project alternatives. 

Potential areas of impact include: 

Neighborhoods, Section 4(f) resources, 

environmental justice, and natural 

resources. All impacts will be evaluated 

for both the construction period and 

long-term period of operation. Measures 

to avoid, minimize and mitigate any 

significant adverse impacts will be 

developed. 

Comments and suggestions are invited 

from all interested parties, to ensure that 

the full range of issues related to this 

project are addressed and all significant 

issues are identified. Comments or 

questions regarding the proposed action 

and the EIS should be directed to the 

FHWA or Clackamas County at the 

address provided above. 

(Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315) 

Dated: April 2, 2007. 

Jeff Graham, 

Operations Engineer, FHWA Oregon Division. 

[FR Doc. E7–6580 Filed 4–6–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–05–22706] 

Motor Vehicle Registration and 

Licensed Driver Information 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On January 6, 2006, the 

FHWA published a notice in the 

Federal Register at 71 FR 969 to solicit 

public comments on the quality, 

timeliness, comprehensiveness, and 

other characteristics of data collected on 

motor vehicle registration and licensed 

driver information. Based on public 

comments received, the FHWA has 

determined to make a change to the 

driver’s license data definition for 

teenage drivers, to eliminate the 

collection of information on disqualified 

commercial drivers licenses, and to 

develop enhanced software to receive 

and process motor vehicle registration 

and licensed driver data more 

efficiently. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ralph Erickson, Office of Highway 

Policy Information, (202) 366–9235, or 

Mr. Wilbert Baccus, Office of Chief 

Counsel, (202) 366–1396, Federal 

Highway Administration, 400 Seventh 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. 

Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 

p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Electronic 

Access and Filing: Internet users may 

access this document, the initial notice, 

and all comments received by the U.S. 

DOT Docket Facility by using the 

Universal Resource Locator (URL) 

http://dms.dot.gov. It is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. 

Electronic submission and retrieval help 

and guidelines are available under the 

help section of the Web site. 

An electronic copy of this document 

may also be downloaded by accessing 

the Office of the Federal Register’s home 

page at http://www.archives.gov and 

from the Government Printing Office’s 

Web page at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ 

nara. 

Background: The FHWA collects and 

publishes motor vehicle registration and 

licensed driver information obtained 

from the States and the District of 

Columbia. This information is collected 

from State departments of transportation 

pursuant to 23 CFR 420.105 and is 

published in Highway Statistics.1

The information in Highway Statistics 

plays a key role in the development of 

Federal highway legislation. The 

information is used in preparing 

legislatively required reports to 

Congress, in evaluating highway safety 

programs, and, in general, as an aid to 

highway planning, programming, 

budgeting, forecasting, and fiscal 

management. This information is also 

used extensively in the evaluation of 

Federal, State, and local highway 

programs. In recent years, FHWA has 

implemented several reassessment 

efforts to assure that Highway Statistics 

data remains up-to-date and relevant for 

current purposes. 

On January 6, 2006, the FHWA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register at 71 FR 969 to solicit public 

comments on the quality, timeliness, 

comprehensiveness, and other 

characteristics of the driver license data. 

Based on the public comments received, 

the FHWA has determined to make a 

change to the data definition of teenage 

driver to reflect more accurately the 

actual number of teens driving, to 

eliminate the collection of information 

on disqualified commercial drivers 

licenses, and to update the software 

used to collect the motor vehicle 

registration and licensed driver 

information from the States. 

Actions Taken to Date 

Teenage Drivers 

In the past, FHWA’s definition of a 

licensed driver has been ‘‘[a] person that 

can drive inclusively between the hours 

of 5 a.m. and Midnight without another 

licensed driver in the vehicle.’’

However, State drivers license laws 

have changed significantly in recent 

years, especially in the area of teenage 

drivers. Now, all 50 States and the 

District of Columbia have some form of 

graduated licensing for teenage drivers. 

Some States prohibit teens from driving 

unless accompanied by a supervisory 

driver. Other States prohibit teens from 

driving during certain hours of the day. 

And still other States may allow 

nighttime teenage driving, but only with 

adult supervision. A full definition of 

Graduated Driver’s License can be found 

in Section 1313.5(d) in the following 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration URL: http://

www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/whatsup/ 

tea21/GrantMan/HTML/

24b_Sec410T21Reg_23CFR1313.html. 

As such, the past FHWA data definition 


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