64000 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 207 / Monday, October 27, 2014 / Notices 

Affairs at the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB). You may submit 

comments by the following method: 

• Email: oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov. You must include the DS 

form number, information collection 

title, and the OMB control number in 

the subject line of your message. 

• Fax: 202–395–5806. Attention: Desk 

Officer for Department of State. 

You must include the DS form 

number, information collection title, 

and the OMB control number in the 

subject line of your message. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Direct requests for additional 

information regarding the collection 

listed in this notice, including requests 

for copies of the proposed collection 

instrument and supporting documents, 

to the Office of Passport Services, who 

may be reached at passportstudy@

state.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

• Title of Information Collection: 

Passport Demand Forecasting Study. 

• OMB Control Number: 1405–0177. 

• Type of Request: Revision of a 

Currently Approved Collection. 

• Originating Office: Bureau of Consular 

Affairs, Office of Passport Services 

(CA/PPT). 

• Form Number: SV2012–0006. 

• Respondents: A national 

representative sample of US citizens, 

nationals, and any other categories of 

individuals that are entitled to a US 

passport product. 

• Estimated Number of Respondents: 

4,000 survey respondents monthly. 

• Estimated Number of Responses: 

48,000 survey responses annually. 

• Average Time per Response: 

Approximately 10 minutes per 

survey. 

• Total Estimated Burden Time: 8,000 

hours. 

• Frequency: Monthly. 

• Obligation to Respond: Voluntary. 

We are soliciting public comments to 

permit the Department to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

information collection is necessary for 

the proper functions of the Department. 

• Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the time and cost burden for 

this proposed collection, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used. 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected. 

• Minimize the reporting burden on 

those who are to respond, including the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted in 

response to this Notice are public 

record. Before including any detailed 

personal information, you should be 

aware that your comments as submitted, 

including your personal information, 

will be available for public review. 

Abstract of Proposed Collection 

The Secretary of State is authorized to 

issue U.S. passports under 22 U.S.C. 

211a. The Department of State, Passport 

Services administers the U.S. passport 

issuance program and operates passport 

agencies and application adjudication 

centers throughout the United States. As 

part of the Intelligence Reform and 

Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the 

Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative 

required the Secretary of Homeland 

Security and the Secretary of State to 

implement a plan to require all U.S. 

citizen and non-citizen nationals to 

present a passport and/or other 

sufficient documentation when entering 

the U.S. from abroad. This resulted in 

an increase in demand for U.S. 

passports. 

The Passport Demand Forecasting 

Study requests information from the 

public about the demand for U.S. 

passports, anticipated travel, and the 

demographic profile of the respondent. 

This voluntary survey is conducted on 

a monthly basis using responses from a 

randomly selected but nationally 

representative sample of U.S. nationals 

ages 18 and older. The information 

obtained from the survey is used to 

monitor and project the demand for U.S. 

passport books and U.S. passport cards. 

The Passport Demand Forecasting 

Survey aids the Department of State, 

Passport Services in making decisions 

about staffing, resource allocation, and 

budget. 

Methodology 

The Passport Demand Forecasting 

Study uses monthly surveys that will 

gather data from a national 

representative sample of U.S. citizens 

and nationals. Survey delivery 

methodologies can include mail, 

internet/web, telephone, and mix-mode 

surveys to ensure the CA/PPT reaches 

the appropriate audience and leverages 

the best research method to obtain valid 

responses. The survey data will cover an 

estimated 48,000 respondents annually. 

Dated: October 8, 2014. 

Brenda S. Sprague, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Passport 

Services, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25473 Filed 10–24–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Intent To Rule on Request To 

Release Airport Property at the Paris 

Cox Field Airport at Paris, Texas 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Request to Release 

Airport Property 

SUMMARY: The FAA proposes to rule and 

invite public comment on the release of 

land at the Paris Cox Field Airport 

under the provisions of Section 125 of 

the Wendell H. Ford Aviation 

Investment Reform Act for the 21st 

Century (AIR 21). 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 26, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on this 

application may be mailed or delivered 

to the FAA at the following address: 

Mr. Ed Agnew, Manager Federal 

Aviation Administration Southwest 

Region, Airports Division, Texas 

Airports Development Office, ASW– 

650 Fort Worth, Texas 76137 

In addition, one copy of any 

comments submitted to the FAA must 

be mailed or delivered to the Mr. Shawn 

Napier, Director of Engineering, 

Planning, and Development, at the 

following address: 

P.O. Box 9037 

Paris, TX 75461 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Anthony Mekhail, Program Manager, 

Federal Aviation Administration, Texas 

Airports Development Office, ASW– 

650, 2601 Meacham Boulevard, Fort 

Worth, Texas 76137, Telephone: (817) 

222–5663, email: Anthony.Mekhail@

faa.gov, fax: (817) 222–5989. The 

request to release property may be 

reviewed in person at this same 

location. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA 

invites public comment on the request 

to release property at the Paris Cox Field 

Airport under the provisions of the AIR 

21. 

The following is a brief overview of 

the request: 

The City of Paris requests the release 

of 12.662 acres of property within the 

Paris Cox Field Airport. The land was 

acquired by a Deed of Release from the 

United States of America . The property 

to be released will be sold to the AgPro 

Inc. and revenues shall be used for the 

operation and maintenance at the 

airport. 

Any person may inspect the request 

in person at the FAA office listed above 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 


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In addition, any person may, upon 

request, inspect the application, notice 

and other documents relevant to the 

application in person at the Paris Cox 

Field Airport, telephone number (903) 

784–9292. 

Issued in Fort Worth, Texas, on October 15, 

2014. 

Byron K. Huffman, 

Acting Manager, Airports Division. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25517 Filed 10–24–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0010] 

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption 

Applications; Vision 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of final disposition. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its 

decision to exempt 35 individuals from 

the vision requirement in the Federal 

Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 

(FMCSRs). They are unable to meet the 

vision requirement in one eye for 

various reasons. The exemptions will 

enable these individuals to operate 

commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in 

interstate commerce without meeting 

the prescribed vision requirement in 

one eye. The Agency has concluded that 

granting these exemptions will provide 

a level of safety that is equivalent to or 

greater than the level of safety 

maintained without the exemptions for 

these CMV drivers. 

DATES: The exemptions were granted 

September 30, 2014. The exemptions 

expire on September 30, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elaine M. Papp, R.N., Chief, Medical 

Programs Division, (202) 366–4001, 

fmcsamedical@dot.gov, FMCSA, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W64– 

224, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. If you have questions 

on viewing or submitting material to the 

docket, contact Docket Services, 

telephone (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Electronic Access 

You may see all the comments online 

through the Federal Document 

Management System (FDMS) at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http://

www.regulations.gov and/or Room 

W12–140 on the ground level of the 

West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act: Anyone may search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of DOT’s dockets by 

the name of the individual submitting 

the comment (or of the person signing 

the comment, if submitted on behalf of 

an association, business, labor union, or 

other entity). You may review DOT’s 

Privacy Act Statement for the Federal 

Docket Management System (FDMS) 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316). 

II. Background 

On August 29, 2014, FMCSA 

published a notice of receipt of 

exemption applications from certain 

individuals, and requested comments 

from the public (79 FR 51643). That 

notice listed 35 applicants’ case 

histories. The 35 individuals applied for 

exemptions from the vision requirement 

in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10), for drivers who 

operate CMVs in interstate commerce. 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, 

FMCSA may grant an exemption for a 

2-year period if it finds ‘‘such 

exemption would likely achieve a level 

of safety that is equivalent to or greater 

than the level that would be achieved 

absent such exemption.’’ The statute 

also allows the Agency to renew 

exemptions at the end of the 2-year 

period. Accordingly, FMCSA has 

evaluated the 35 applications on their 

merits and made a determination to 

grant exemptions to each of them. 

III. Vision and Driving Experience of 

the Applicants 

The vision requirement in the 

FMCSRs provides: 

A person is physically qualified to 

drive a commercial motor vehicle if that 

person has distant visual acuity of at 

least 20/40 (Snellen) in each eye 

without corrective lenses or visual 

acuity separately corrected to 20/40 

(Snellen) or better with corrective 

lenses, distant binocular acuity of a least 

20/40 (Snellen) in both eyes with or 

without corrective lenses, field of vision 

of at least 70° in the horizontal meridian 

in each eye, and the ability to recognize 

the colors of traffic signals and devices 

showing red, green, and amber (49 CFR 

391.41(b)(10)). 

FMCSA recognizes that some drivers 

do not meet the vision requirement but 

have adapted their driving to 

accommodate their vision limitation 

and demonstrated their ability to drive 

safely. The 35 exemption applicants 

listed in this notice are in this category. 

They are unable to meet the vision 

requirement in one eye for various 

reasons, including prosthetic eye, 

retinal detachment, corneal scar, 

aphakia, exotropia, amblyopia, complete 

loss of vision, cataract, retinal scar, 

esotropia, secondary amblyopia, 

refractive amblyopia, macular 

degeneration, retinal sclopeteria, 

myopic astigmatism, strabismic 

amblyopia, and macular scar. In most 

cases, their eye conditions were not 

recently developed. Twenty-five of the 

applicants were either born with their 

vision impairments or have had them 

since childhood. 

The 10 individuals that sustained 

their vision conditions as adults have 

had it for a range of two to 43 years. 

Although each applicant has one eye 

which does not meet the vision 

requirement in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10), 

each has at least 20/40 corrected vision 

in the other eye, and in a doctor’s 

opinion, has sufficient vision to perform 

all the tasks necessary to operate a CMV. 

Doctors’ opinions are supported by the 

applicants’ possession of valid 

commercial driver’s licenses (CDLs) or 

non-CDLs to operate CMVs. Before 

issuing CDLs, States subject drivers to 

knowledge and skills tests designed to 

evaluate their qualifications to operate a 

CMV. 

All of these applicants satisfied the 

testing requirements for their State of 

residence. By meeting State licensing 

requirements, the applicants 

demonstrated their ability to operate a 

CMV, with their limited vision, to the 

satisfaction of the State. 

While possessing a valid CDL or nonCDL, these 35 drivers have been 

authorized to drive a CMV in intrastate 

commerce, even though their vision 

disqualified them from driving in 

interstate commerce. They have driven 

CMVs with their limited vision in 

careers ranging from 2.5 to 42 years. In 

the past three years, two of the drivers 

were involved in crashes and two were 

convicted for moving violations in a 

CMV. 

The qualifications, experience, and 

medical condition of each applicant 

were stated and discussed in detail in 

the August 29, 2014 notice (79 FR 

51643). 

IV. Basis for Exemption Determination 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, 

FMCSA may grant an exemption from 

the vision requirement in 49 CFR 

391.41(b)(10) if the exemption is likely 

to achieve an equivalent or greater level 


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