30990 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 103 / Friday, May 27, 2011 / Notices 

Department of Transportation 

Office of the Secretary 

Applications for Certificates of Public 

Convenience and Necessity and 

Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed Under 

Subpart B (Formerly Subpart Q) During 

the Week Ending April 30, 2011 

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–2011– 

0088. 

Date Filed: April 27, 2011. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: May 18, 2011. 

Description: Application of Exec 

Direct Aviation Services Ltd. requesting 

an exemption and a foreign air carrier 

permit to provide charter foreign air 

transportation of property and mail 

between Jamaica and the United States 

via intermediary points, and to points 

beyond the United States. 

Renee V. Wright, 

Program Manager, Docket Operations, 

Federal Register Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2011–13184 Filed 5–26–11; 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 opportunity 

for; (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 

501C(6) or 501C(3) tax-exempt 

organizations, to compete for 

participation in OSDBU’s Small 

Business Transportation Resource 

Center (SBTRC) program in the West 

Central Region. 

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, and 

manage 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–SBTRC2011–3. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 20.910 

Assistance to small and disadvantaged 

businesses. 

Type of Award: Cooperative 

Agreement Grant. 

Award Ceiling: $135,000. 

Award Floor: $135,000. 

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 June 17, 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 June 

30, 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 


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