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if the U.S. citizen has lost his or her 

nationality by voluntarily performing an 

expatriating act with the intention of 

relinquishing United States nationality. 

Methodology: The information is 

collected in person, by fax, or via mail. 

The Bureau of Consular Affairs is 

currently exploring options to make this 

information collection available 

electronically. 

Dated: September 2, 2010. 

James Pettit, 

Managing Director, Overseas Citizens 

Services, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24992 Filed 10–4–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

Notice of Informational Filing 

In accordance with Section 236.913 of 

Title 49 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR), notice is hereby 

given that the Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA) has received an 

informational filing from the Northeast 

Illinois Regional Commuter Railroad 

Corporation (Metra) to permit phased 

revenue testing of the railroad’s 

processor-based train control system. 

The informational filing is described 

below, including the requisite docket 

number where the informational filing 

and any related information may be 

found. The document is also available 

for public inspection. 

Northeast Illinois Regional Commuter 

Railroad Corporation 

[Docket Number FRA–2008–0057] 

Metra has submitted an informational 

filing to FRA to permit phased revenue 

testing of the railroad’s processor-based 

train control system identified as 

Electronic Train Management System 

(ETMS). The informational filing 

addresses the requirements under 49 

CFR 236.913(j)(1). 

Specifically, the informational filing 

contains a description of the ETMS 

product, an operational concepts 

document, and a test plan. A temporary 

waiver petition to support phased 

revenue testing of ETMS was submitted 

separately. The ETMS is a locomotivecentric, non-vital system designed to be 

overlaid on existing methods of 

operation and to provide an improved 

level of railroad safety through 

enforcement of a train’s authority limits 

and both permanent and temporary 

speed restrictions. 

Metra desires to commence phased 

revenue testing as soon as practicable, 

contingent upon FRA’s acceptance and 

approval of their informational filing. 

Metra intends to test ETMS on its Joliet 

Sub-District between Chicago Terminal 

and Joliet, Illinois, and its Beverly SubDistrict between Gresham Junction and 

Western Avenue Junction. 

Interested parties are invited to 

participate in these proceedings by 

submitting written views, data, or 

comments. All communications 

concerning these proceedings should 

identify the appropriate docket number 

(Docket Number FRA–2008–0057) and 

may be submitted by one of the 

following methods: 

• Web site: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Operations Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FRA does not anticipate scheduling a 

public hearing in connection with these 

proceedings since the facts do not 

appear to warrant a hearing. If any 

interested party desires an opportunity 

for oral comment, they should notify 

FRA, in writing, before the end of the 

comment period and specify the basis 

for their request. 

Communications received within 30 

days of the date of this notice will be 

considered by FRA before final action is 

taken. Comments received after this 

period will be considered as far as 

practicable. All written communications 

concerning these proceedings are 

available for examination during regular 

business hours (9 a.m.–5 p.m.) at the 

DOT Docket Management Facility, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Room W12– 

140, in Washington DC. All documents 

in the public docket are also available 

for inspection and copying on the 

internet at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of any written 

communications and comments 

received into any of our dockets by 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review the DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or at 

http://dot.gov/privacy.html. 

Issued in Washington, DC on September 

28, 2010. 

Robert C. Lauby, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for 

Regulatory and Legislative Operations. 

[FR Doc. 2010–25013 Filed 10–4–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

RTCA Government/Industry Air Traffic 

Management Advisory Committee 

(ATMAC) 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Government/ 

Industry Air Traffic Management 

Advisory Committee (ATMAC) 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Government/Industry Air Traffic 

Management Advisory Committee 

(ATMAC) 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

October 28, 2010, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA Headquarters, Colson Board 

Room, 1828 L Street, NW., Suite 805, 

Washington, DC 20036 

METRO: Red Line—Farragut North 

Station (Use L Street Exit) Blue/Orange 

Line—Farragut West Station (Use 18th 

Street Exit). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

RTCA Secretariat, 1828 L Street, NW., 

Suite 805, Washington, DC, 20036; 

telephone (202) 833–9339; fax (202) 

833–9434; Web site http://www.rtca.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a) (2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is 

hereby given for the Air Traffic 

Management Advisory Committee 

meeting. The agenda will include: 

• Opening Plenary (Welcome and 

Introductions). 

• Consideration for approval of 

Interim Recommendations from the 

Trajectory Operations (Tops) Work 

Group providing guidance to SC–214 

related to the development of standards 

for Air Traffic Control Data 

Communications. 

• FAA response on remaining gaps 

identified by the ATMAC between the 

TF5 recommendations and the FAA’s 

NextGen Implementation Plan. 

• Closing Plenary (Adjourn). 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairmen, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

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wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

29, 2010. 

Robert L. Bostiga, 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2010–24994 Filed 10–4–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No FTA–2010–0027] 

National Transit Database: 

Amendments to the Urbanized Area 

Annual Reporting Manual and to the 

Safety and Security Reporting Manual 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Proposed 

Amendments to the 2011 National 

Transit Database Urbanized Area 

Annual Reporting Manual and 

Announcement of Immediate 

Suspension of Collecting Security Data 

on the S&S–50 Form in the Safety and 

Security Module 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

interested parties with the opportunity 

to comment on changes to the Federal 

Transit Administration’s (FTA) National 

Transit Database (NTD) reporting 

requirements, including amendments to 

the 2011 Urbanized Area Annual 

Reporting Manual (Annual Manual). 

Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5335, FTA 

requires recipients or beneficiaries of 

FTA Urbanized Area Formula Grants to 

provide an annual report to the 

Secretary of Transportation via the NTD 

reporting system according to a uniform 

system of accounts (USOA). Other 

transit systems in urbanized areas report 

to the NTD under these requirements on 

a voluntary basis for purposes of 

including data from their NTD reports 

in the apportionment of Urbanized Area 

Formula Grants. In an ongoing effort to 

improve the NTD reporting system and 

be responsive to the needs of the transit 

systems reporting to the NTD, FTA 

annually refines and clarifies the 

reporting requirements through 

revisions to the Annual Manual. 

Additionally, FTA announces that it is 

immediately suspending data collection 

of personal security incidents on the 

S&S–50 Form in the Safety & Security 

Module. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 6, 2010. FTA will 

consider late filed comments to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

[identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

FTA–2010–0027] at the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Fax: 202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: When submitting 

comments, you must use docket number 

FTA–2010–0027. This will ensure that 

your comment is placed in the correct 

docket. If you submit comments by 

mail, you should submit two copies and 

include the above docket number. Note 

that all comments received will be 

posted, without change, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov including any 

personal identifying information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

D. Giorgis, NTD Program Manager, 

Office of Budget and Policy, (202) 366– 

5430 (telephone); (202) 366–7989 (fax); 

or john.giorgis@dot.gov (e-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The National Transit Database (NTD) 

is the Federal Transit Administration’s 

(FTA’s) primary database for statistics 

on the transit industry. Congress 

established the NTD to ‘‘help meet the 

needs of * * * the public for 

information on which to base public 

transportation service planning * * *’’ 

(49 U.S.C. 5335). Currently, over 700 

transit providers in urbanized areas 

report to the NTD through an Internetbased reporting system. Each year, 

performance data from these 

submissions are used to apportion over 

$6 billion of FTA funds under the 

Urbanized Area Formula (Section 5307) 

Grants and the Fixed Guideway 

Modernization Grants Programs. These 

data are made available on the NTD 

Web site at http://www.ntdprogram.gov 

for the benefit of the public, transit 

systems, and all levels of government. 

These data are also used in the annual 

National Transit Summaries and Trends 

report, the biennial Conditions and 

Performance Report to Congress, and in 

meeting FTA’s obligations under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act. Reporting requirements are 

governed by a Uniform System of 

Accounts (USOA) and an Annual 

Reporting Manual that is issued each 

year. Both the USOA and the Annual 

Manual are available for review on the 

NTD Website at http:// 

www.ntdprogram.gov. Additionally, 

urbanized area transit systems also 

make monthly reports to the NTD on 

safety and security incidents through 

the NTD Safety & Security Module. 

II. Proposed Changes in the 2011 

Annual Manual 

FTA proposes several substantive 

changes to the Annual Manual for the 

2011 Report Year: (1) To clarify the 

eligibility of vanpools to be reported to 

the NTD; (2) to redefine several of the 

modes of transportation service; (3) to 

make some definitional clarifications; 

(4) to revise the reporting requirements 

for small transit systems; (5) to add 

financial balance sheet reporting; (6) to 

update the procedures for making 

urbanized area allocations; and (7) to 

establish special procedures for 

handling the release of new urbanized 

area definitions from the Census 

Bureau. 

(1) Eligibility of Vanpools for the NTD 

Currently, FTA requires vanpools to 

have a public sponsor in order to be 

included in the NTD. This does not 

capture vanpool service being provided 

as public transportation by the private 

sector. In other cases, the mere existence 

of a public sponsor for vanpool service 

has allowed some vanpools to be 

reported to the NTD without adequate 

assurances that the vanpool is in fact 

public transportation. 

FTA proposes to change its 

requirements for reporting vanpool 

service to the NTD as follows: To be 

included in the NTD, a sponsor of 

vanpool service must demonstrate: (1) 

That it is open to the public and that 

any vans that are restricted a priori to 

particular employers and which do not 

participate in the ride-matching service 

of the vanpool are excluded from the 

NTD report; (2) that it actively engages 

in the following activities: advertising 

the vanpool service to the public, 

matching interested members of the 

public to vanpools with available seats, 

and reasonable planning to increase its 

service (when funding is available) to 

meet demand from additional riders; (3) 

that the service is open to individuals 

with disabilities, in accordance with the 

Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990; 

and (4) that it has a record-keeping 

system in place to collect and report 

fully-allocated operating costs for the 

service. 

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