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the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimate of the burden 

of the proposed information collection; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record on 

the docket. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 30, 

2015. 

Blane Workie, 

Assistant General Counsel for Aviation 

Enforcement and Proceedings. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02405 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee Meeting on Transport 

Airplane and Engine Issues 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

public meeting via teleconference of the 

FAA’s Aviation Rulemaking Advisory 

Committee (ARAC) Transport Airplane 

and Engine (TAE) Subcommittee to 

discuss TAE issues. 

DATES: The teleconference is scheduled 

for Tuesday, February 24, 2015, starting 

at 7:30 a.m. PST/10:30 a.m. EST. The 

public must make arrangements by 

February 20, 2015, to present oral 

statements at the meeting. 

ADDRESSES: N/A. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ralen Gao, Office of Rulemaking, ARM– 

209, FAA, 800 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20591, Telephone 

(202) 267–3168, FAX (202) 267–5075, or 

email at ralen.gao@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

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

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463; 5 U.S.C. app. 2), notice is given of 

an ARAC Subcommittee meeting via 

teleconference to be held February 24, 

2015. 

The agenda for the meeting is as 

follows: 

• Engine Harmonization Working 

Group—Vote on Bird Ingestion 

Tasking Report 

• Avionics System Harmonization 

Working Group—Phase 2 Low Speed 

Alerting Response to FAA request for 

clarification 

• Proposed tasking on Transport 

Airplane Crashworthiness and 

Ditching Evaluation 

• Materials Flammability Working 

Group—new tasking 

• Transport Airplane Metallic and 

Composite Structures Working 

Group—new tasking 

• Any other business 

Participation is open to the public, 

but will be limited to the availability of 

teleconference lines. 

To participate, please contact the 

person listed in FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT by email or phone 

for the teleconference call-in number 

and passcode. Please provide the 

following information: Full legal name, 

country of citizenship, and name of 

your industry association, or applicable 

affiliation. If you are participating as a 

public citizen, please indicate so. 

Anyone calling from outside the 

Arlington, VA, metropolitan area will be 

responsible for paying long-distance 

charges. 

The public must make arrangements 

by February 20, 2015, to present oral or 

written statements at the meeting. 

Written statements may be presented to 

the Subcommittee by providing a copy 

to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section. Copies of 

the documents to be presented to the 

Subcommittee may be made available 

by contacting the person listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section. 

If you need assistance or require a 

reasonable accommodation for the 

meeting or meeting documents, please 

contact the person listed in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section. 

Issued in Washington, DC on February 3, 

2015. 

Lirio Liu, 

Designated Federal Officer, Aviation 

Rulemaking Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02416 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

National Aging and Disability 

Transportation Center (NADTC) Under 

FTA’s Technical Assistance Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; Request for Proposals 

(RFP). 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) is soliciting 

proposals under the Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century Act’s 

Section 5314 Technical Assistance and 

Standards Development Program from 

national non-profit organizations for a 

cooperative agreement to fund a 

National Aging and Disability 

Transportation Center (NADTC). FTA is 

releasing this notice of funding 

availability to promote the availability 

and accessibility of transportation 

options that serve the needs of people 

with disabilities, seniors and caregivers 

with a focus on effectively leveraging 

MAP–21 Section 5310 (5310) Enhanced 

Mobility of Seniors and Individuals 

with Disabilities Formula Grants and 

other transit investments. The NADTC 

builds upon twenty-five years of 

investment in accessible transportation 

training and technical assistance that 

improves mobility for seniors and 

individuals with disabilities throughout 

the country by removing barriers to 

transportation services and expanding 

community transportation mobility 

options. 

DATES: Complete proposals must be 

submitted electronically by 11:59 p.m., 

Eastern Time on March 31, 2015. All 

proposals must be submitted 

electronically through the 

‘‘GRANTS.GOV’’ APPLY function. 

Interested organizations that have not 

already done so should initiate the 

process of registering on the 

GRANTS.GOV site immediately to 

ensure completion of registration before 

the deadline for submission. 

ADDRESSES: Proposals must be 

submitted electronically to http://

www.Grants.Gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general program information, as well as 

proposal-specific questions, please send 

an email to Hendrik.opstelten@dot.gov 

or call Rik Opstelten at (202)–366–8094. 

A TDD is available at 1–800–877–8339 

(TDD/FIRS). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Overview 

The Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA) is soliciting proposals to create a 

technical assistance center called the 

National Aging and Disability 

Transportation Center (NADTC). The 

need for accessible transportation that 

supports independent community living 

is growing in the United States. The 

U.S. Census Bureau American 

Community Survey in 2012 estimates 

that over 12 percent of the U.S. 

population (38 million) living in the 

community has a disability—up 2 

percent from 2009. As people age, some 

will acquire a disability. For the fastest 

growing population in the U.S., older 


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adults over 65 (over 42 million people), 

the disability rate for those seniors 

living in the community was 36 percent 

in 2012. By 2030, people over 65 are 

expected to comprise 20 percent of the 

US population—72.1 million people. 

Employment and poverty rates also 

disproportionately negatively affect 

people with disabilities. More resources 

are needed to help communities build 

ladders of opportunity so everyone can 

have access to a job, healthcare, a home 

in the community of their choice, 

recreation/leisure opportunities and 

education. Our communities greatly 

benefit by ensuring full inclusion for 

everyone regardless of their age, 

disability, income, and education level. 

Accessible public transportation, 

including the over $280 million spent in 

5310 projects is an important enabler of 

the American Dream for many people. 

This center will make a significant 

difference in helping communities 

ensure the contributions of public 

transportation, including high impact 

5310 projects that improve mobility for 

people with disabilities and seniors. 

Ladders of opportunity build upon 

the legacy of United We Ride extending 

coordination to ensure persons of low 

income, disadvantaged communities 

and all groups benefit from coordinated 

planning activities and the resulting 

projects. So, targeting activities to 

address low income seniors, caregivers, 

and people with disabilities or those 

living in communities with limited 

resources, is an important component of 

this center’s efforts. The NADTC will 

carry-out activities that demonstrate 

impact and achieve the below goals: 

• Promoting the essential role of 

accessible public transportation in 

furthering the economic inclusion, 

access to healthcare, links to education, 

connections to recreation/leisure 

activities, and independent living of 

people with disabilities and seniors; 

• Increasing the effectiveness, 

efficiency and quality of coordinated 

human service transportation activities; 

• Ensuring that the planning of 

transportation services for people with 

disabilities, seniors and caregivers is 

done in conjunction with broader 

planning activities at all levels; 

• Highlighting and assisting in the 

development of promising practices, 

including the use of technology, to solve 

transportation challenges, maximizing 

the effectiveness of federal investments 

in specialized transportation services. 

The NADTC will achieve their goals 

through the following functions: 

• Training: Developing training 

materials in accessible transportation for 

people with disabilities and seniors that 

is online and available 24/7; 

• Peer Networks: Encouraging peer 

exchanges through webinars and online 

forums; 

• Product Development: Creating 

high quality useful products on topics 

associated with the above goals; 

• Targeted Technical Assistance: 

Providing targeted technical assistance 

at the state and local level; 

• 800# Information and Referral: 

Supporting an 800# for ad hoc 

information referral and technical 

assistance that tracks trends, connects 

with other I&R resources, helps seniors 

and people with disabilities find a ride, 

and catalogs customer data; 

• Online Tools: Maintaining a 

compelling Web site and online 

presence including a monthly 

newsletter and use of social media to 

promote promising practices; 

• Community Grants: As FTA deems 

feasible and necessary, take some 

portion of overall funding per year to 

provide community grants that enhance 

accessibility and encourage innovation; 

• Outreach: Implementing a yearly 

outreach project to publicize the 

resources, activities and findings of the 

center; 

• Technology: monitor and promote 

emerging technologies that facilitate 

accessibility, wayfinding, scheduling/

dispatching, one call and evolving 

public/private sector partnerships that 

can improve access to transportation 

options and improve mobility; 

• Information Clearinghouse: Acting 

as a clearinghouse for useful and 

promising practices in human services 

transportation and provide online 

access to success stories; 

• Community Accessibility 

Scorecard: Developing and maintaining 

a community accessibility scorecard and 

index to help communities easily assess 

where they are, what needs exist in their 

community and where gaps may exist— 

targeted technical assistance would then 

be available to address these gaps and 

help the community develop a roadmap 

to expanding accessible transportation; 

• Broad Stakeholder Review 

Committees: Ensuring that people with 

disabilities and seniors themselves as 

well as the human services 

organizations that provide services for 

these individuals collaborate along with 

FTA in the work of the center and help 

to oversee and review materials, training 

courses and other activities; 

• Bridging Research to Practice: 

Connecting research to practice by 

bridging the research efforts of 

university transit centers, gerontology 

university programs, university 

disability centers, evolving technology 

initiatives and TRB project findings 

with the training and technical 

assistance activities of the center; 

• Yearly Trends Report: Writing a 

yearly state of accessible transportation 

report that identifies key trends, key 

issues, sustainable solutions and 

recommends areas of focus in accessible 

transportation to support the 

development of the following year’s 

statement of work; 

• Program Evaluation: Supporting a 

robust program evaluation component 

by an outside source that does a yearly 

assessment of the center including 

surveying key stakeholders on the 

utility they derived in working with the 

center; 

FTA intends to fund the NADTC at up 

to $ 2,500,000 for the first year with the 

option to extend for up to four 

additional years. FTA’s decision to 

exercise these options will depend 

upon: 1) Decisions and program 

priorities established by the Secretary of 

Transportation related to the 

implementation of provisions set forth 

in Section 5314, Technical Assistance 

and Standards, of the Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP– 

21); 2) future appropriations; and, 3) 

annual reviews of the NADTC’s 

performance. The announcement below 

connects to the solicitation and 

describes the goals, functional activities, 

and evaluation measures established for 

the NADTC; the proposal submission 

process; and criteria upon which 

proposals will be reviewed. 

This announcement is available on 

the FTA’s Web site at: http://

WWW.FTA.DOT.GOV/GRANTS/

13077.HTML. The funding opportunity 

RFP is posted in the FIND module of the 

government-wide electronic grants Web 

site at http://www.grants.gov. 

Therese McMillan, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02378 Filed 2–5–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[Docket No. FD 35901] 

Paul Didelius—Continuance in 

Control—CCET, LLC 

Paul Didelius (Didelius), an 

individual and noncarrier, has filed a 

verified notice of exemption pursuant to 

49 CFR 1180.2(d)(2) to continue in 

control of CCET, LLC (CCET), a Class III 

rail carrier.1 Didelius owns 100% of 


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