64026 Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 207 / Friday, October 25, 2013 / Notices 

Burden Hours per Respondent: 80.3. 

Total burden hours: 4417. 

Total Annualized Capital/Startup 

Costs: n/a. 

Total Annual Costs: $121,409. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Comments should be sent to Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attn.: OMB Desk Officer for Education, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Room 10235, Washington, DC 20503, 

(202) 395–7316. 

Dated: October 22, 2013. 

Kim A. Miller, 

Management Analyst, Office of Policy, 

Planning, Research, and Communication. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25249 Filed 10–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7036–01–P 

NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

Arts Advisory Panel Meeting 

AGENCY: National Endowment for the 

Arts, National Foundation on the Arts 

and Humanities. 

ACTION: Notice of Meeting 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463), as amended, notice is 

hereby given that thirteen meetings of 

the Arts Advisory Panel to the National 

Council on the Arts will be held at the 

Nancy Hanks Center, 1100 Pennsylvania 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20506 as 

follows (ending time is approximate): 

Opera (application review): This 

meeting will be closed. 

Dates: November 12, 2013. 10:00 a.m. 

to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time in Room 716. 

(Note—this meeting replaces the 

meeting on October 31, 2013, which has 

been cancelled.) 

Arts Education (application review): 

This meeting will be closed. 

Dates: November 14, 2013 in Room 

714. 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Music (application review): This 

meeting will be virtual and will be 

closed. 

Dates: November 13, 2013. 1:00 p.m. 

to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Theater and Musical Theater 

(application review): This meeting will 

be virtual and will be closed. 

Dates: November 14, 2013. 3:00 p.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Theater and Musical Theater 

(application review): This meeting will 

be virtual and will be closed. 

Dates: November 18, 2013. 3:00 p.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Music (application review): This 

meeting will be closed. 

Dates: November 19, 2013. 9:00 a.m. 

to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time in room 714. 

Music (application review): This 

meeting will be closed. 

Dates: November 20, 2013. 9:00 a.m. 

to 3:00 p.m. Eastern time in room 714. 

Local Arts Agencies (application 

review): This meeting will be virtual 

and will be closed. 

Dates: November 21, 2013. 3:00 p.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Presenting and Muiltidisciplinary 

Works (application review): This 

meeting will be virtual and will be 

closed. 

Dates: November 21, 2013. 3:00 p.m. 

to 5:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Dance (application review): This 

meeting will be virtual and will be 

closed. 

Dates: November 22, 2013. 12:30 p.m. 

to 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Dance (application review): This 

meeting will be virtual and will be 

closed. 

Dates: November 22, 2013. 2:30 p.m. 

to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Theater and Musical Theater 

(application review): This meeting will 

be virtual and will be closed. 

Dates: November 25, 2013. 12:00 p.m. 

to 2:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

Theater and Musical Theater 

(application review): This meeting will 

be virtual and will be closed. 

Dates: November 25, 2013. 2:00 p.m. 

to 4:00 p.m. Eastern time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Further information with reference to 

these meetings can be obtained from Ms. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, Office of 

Guidelines & Panel Operations, National 

Endowment for the Arts, Washington, 

DC 20506; plowitzk@arts.gov, or call 

202/682–5691. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

closed portions of meetings are for the 

purpose of Panel review, discussion, 

evaluation, and recommendations on 

financial assistance under the National 

Foundation on the Arts and the 

Humanities Act of 1965, as amended, 

including information given in 

confidence to the agency. In accordance 

with the determination of the Chairman 

of February 15, 2012, these sessions will 

be closed to the public pursuant to 

subsection (c)(6) of section 552b of Title 

5, United States Code. 

Dated: October 21, 2013. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, 

Panel Coordinator, National Endowment for 

the Arts. 

[FR Doc. 2013–25104 Filed 10–24–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7537–01–P 

NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION 

SAFETY BOARD 

Investigative Hearing 

On Wednesday, November 6, 2013, 

and Thursday, November 7, 2013, the 

National Transportation Safety Board 

(NTSB) will convene an investigative 

hearing to gather additional factual 

information for the ongoing 

investigation into two Metro-North 

Railroad accidents that occurred in May 

2013. The NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. 

Hersman will preside over the 

Investigative Hearing. 

On Friday, May 17, 2013, at 6:01 p.m. 

eastern daylight time, eastbound MetroNorth Railroad passenger train 1548, 

(departing Grand Central Station, NY 

toward New Haven, CT) derailed near 

milepost 53.3 on track number 4 and 

was struck by westbound Metro-North 

Railroad passenger train 1581 (departing 

New Haven toward Grand Central 

Station). As a result of the collision, 73 

passengers, two engineers, and a 

conductor were transported to local 

hospitals with injuries. Metro-North 

estimated there were about 250 

passengers on each train at the time of 

the accident. Metro-North estimated 

damage at $18.5 million. 

On Tuesday, May 28, 2013, at 11:57 

a.m. eastern daylight time, Metro-North 

Railroad passenger train 1559, traveling 

westbound at 70 mph, struck and killed 

a track foreman working on the MetroNorth New Haven Line, Subdivision 7, 

in West Haven, CT. The accident 

occurred at milepost 69.58 on main 

track 1. The track foreman’s planned 

work for the day consisted of relocating 

rail segments from main track 1 to 

industrial track 5 between control 

points 266 and 271 near the West Haven 

Station using a locomotive crane. There 

were two rail traffic controllers (RTCs) 

assigned to Division G, the Division 

where the track foreman was working: 

(1) A qualified RTC and (2) a student 

RTC, who was training under the 

mentorship of the qualified RTC. The 

student RTC was receiving on-the-job 

training and was the RTC who applied 

the blocking devices for this work crew 

and issued the working authority, thus 

taking the track out-of-service. 

As a result of the West Haven 

accident, on June 17, 2013, the Board 

released an urgent recommendation to 

Metro-North to require redundant 

protection, such as shunting, for 

maintenance-of-way work crews who 

depend on the train dispatcher to 

control access to occupied sections of 

track. A shunt is a device that crews can 

attach to the rails in a work zone to alert 


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