Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 52 / Wednesday, March 18, 2015 / Notices 14229 

Issued On: March 12, 2015. 

T.F. Scott Darling III, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06184 Filed 3–17–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Nineteenth Meeting: RTCA Special 

Committee 225, Rechargeable Lithium 

Battery and Battery Systems 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Meeting Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 225, Rechargeable Lithium 

Battery and Battery Systems. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of the nineteenth 

meeting of the RTCA Special Committee 

225, Rechargeable Lithium Battery and 

Battery Systems. 

DATES: The meeting will be held April 

7–9, 2015 from 9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA Headquarters, 1150 18th Street 

NW., Suite 910, Washington DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

RTCA Secretariat, 1150 18th Street NW., 

Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036, or by 

telephone at (202) 330–0662/(202) 833– 

9339, fax (202) 833–9434, or Web site at 

http://www.rtca.org. In addition, 

Jennifer Iversen may be contacted 

directly at email: jiversen@rtca.org. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

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

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., App.), notice is hereby 

given for a meeting of Special 

Committee 225. The agenda will include 

the following: 

April 7th 

• Introductions and administrative 

items (including DFO & RTCA 

Statement) 

• Review agenda 

• Review and approve summary from 

the last Plenary 

• Review weekly Working Group 

disposition of FRAC comments 

• Review changes made to DO–311A as 

a result of NTSB recommendations 

• Review DO–311A plan 

• Adjourn to working group 

• Review Plenary action items 

April 8th 

• Review agenda, other actions 

• Adjourn to working group 

• Review Plenary action items 

April 9th 

• Review agenda, other actions 

• Finalize plan/future meetings, if 

needed (WG meetings, Plenary 

schedule, PMC meeting) 

• Adjourn to working group 

• Working Group Report 

• Review Plenary action items 

• Approve DO–311A for submission to 

the PMC 

• Adjourn 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

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 March 12, 

2015. 

Mohannad Dawoud, 

Management Analyst, NextGen, Program 

Oversight and Administration, Federal 

Aviation Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06260 Filed 3–17–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

Notice of Applications for Certificates 

of Public Convenience and Necessity 

and Foreign Air Carrier Permits Filed 

Under Subpart B (formerly Subpart Q) 

During the Week Ending February 28, 

2014 

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 302.201 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–2015– 

0041. 

Date Filed: February 25, 2015. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: March 18, 2015. 

Description: Application of Asia 

Atlantic Airlines Co. Ltd. requesting an 

exemption and a foreign air carrier 

permit authorizing it to engage in 

charter foreign air transportation of 

persons, property and mail from any 

point or points in Thailand to any point 

or points in the United States, and 

beyond to the full extent permitted by 

the Air Transport Agreement of 

September 19, 2005 between the 

Government of the United States of 

America and the Government of the 

Kingdom of Thailand (the ‘‘U.S.— 

Thailand Agreement’’). 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2015– 

0043. 

Date Filed: February 26, 2015. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: March 19, 2015. 

Description: Application of 21 Air, 

LLC requesting a certificate of public 

convenience and necessity authorizing 

it to conduct foreign charter air 

transportation of property and mail with 

large aircraft. 

Docket Number: DOT–OST–2015– 

0044. 

Date Filed: February 26, 2015. 

Due Date for Answers, Conforming 

Applications, or Motion to Modify 

Scope: March 19, 2015. 

Description: Application of 21 Air, 

LLC requesting a certificate of public 

convenience and necessity authorizing 

it to conduct interstate charter air 

transportation of property and mail with 

large aircraft. 

Barbara J. Hairston, 

Supervisory Dockets Officer, Docket 

Operations, Federal Register Liaison. 

[FR Doc. 2015–06183 Filed 3–17–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0268] 

Hours of Service of Drivers: Trailways 

Companies, Application for Renewal of 

Exemption 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of application for 

renewal of exemption; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that it has 

received an application from 

Adirondack Trailways, Pine Hill 

Trailways, and New York Trailways 

(‘‘Trailways’’) for a renewal of their 

exemption from the hours-of-service 

(HOS) record of duty status (RODs) 

provision in 49 CFR 395.8(c). Trailways 

currently holds an exemption for the 

period of May 31, 2013 to May 31, 2015. 

FMCSA extended the exemption to 

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include all regular-route passenger 

carriers and their drivers rather than 

limiting it to Trailways’ drivers. The 

renewal of the exemption would allow 

these drivers to perform their daily 

duties without having to record entries 

in the daily log for breaks in driving 

time of 10 minutes or less. Such activity 

would not be considered a change of 

duty status. FMCSA requests public 

comment on Trailways’ application for 

exemption. 

DATES: If granted, this exemption would 

be effective during the period of May 31, 

2015 to May 31, 2017. Comments must 

be received on or before April 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA– 

2012–0268 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• 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., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal Holidays. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Each submission must include the 

Agency name and the docket number for 

this notice. Note that DOT posts all 

comments received without change to 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information included in a 

comment. Please see the Privacy Act 

heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to www.regulations.gov at 

any time or visit 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., ET, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. The online Federal document 

management system is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. If 

you want acknowledgment that we 

received your comments, please include 

a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard or print the acknowledgment 

page that appears after submitting 

comments on-line. 

Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 

U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments 

from the public to better inform its 

rulemaking process. DOT posts these 

comments, without edit, including any 

personal information the commenter 

provides, to www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Pearlie Robinson, FMCSA Driver and 

Carrier Operations Division; Office of 

Carrier, Driver and Vehicle Safety 

Standards; Telephone: 202–366–4325. 

Email: MCPSD@dot.gov. If you have 

questions on viewing or submitting 

material to the docket, contact Docket 

Services, telephone (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Trailways’ Application for Exemption 

The HOS rule in 49 CFR 395.8(c) 

requires every commercial motor 

vehicle (CMV) driver to record his or 

her duty status for each 24-hour period 

using methods described in that section. 

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

FMCSA may grant an exemption from 

the HOS requirements for up to 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 procedures for 

requesting an exemption (including 

renewals) are prescribed in 49 CFR part 

381. 

Trailways offers scheduled passengercarrier service throughout New York 

State and to the nearby Canadian cities 

of Montreal and Toronto. Trailways and 

all other regular route passenger carriers 

and their drivers were granted 

exemptions for the period May 31, 2013 

to May 31, 2015. Trailways’ initial 

application for relief from the HOS 

RODs rule was submitted in 2012; a 

copy of the application is in the docket 

identified at the beginning of this 

notice. The 2012 application describes 

fully the nature of Trailways’ 

operations. 

Trailways’ application for a renewal 

of the exemption is for fixed-route 

carriers and their drivers who are often 

away from the controls of the vehicle for 

less than 10 minutes to assist passengers 

or make passenger pick-ups and dropoffs along the route. Trailways’ advised 

that until March 2011 they and other 

motor carriers had been operating in 

accordance with a 1996 interpretation of 

49 CFR 395.8(c) issued by the Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA). The 

1996 interpretation allowed regularroute passenger carrier CMV drivers not 

to record a location entry on the driver’s 

RODS for non-driving periods of less 

than 10 minutes. The RODS simply 

showed the stop as driving time. In 

March 2011, New York State officials 

began enforcing the rule literally, 

requiring that a change in duty status be 

entered on the log any time the driver 

leaves the operating controls of the 

CMV. Trailways was concerned that the 

violations would have a negative effect 

on the companies’ and the drivers’ 

Compliance Safety Accountability 

ratings, as well as schedules and 

passenger service because of the delays 

needed to make the entries. 

Trailways therefore requested that 

their drivers with regularly scheduled 

routes be exempted from changing their 

duty status from ‘‘driving’’ to ‘‘on-duty 

not driving’’ when making stops of less 

than 10 minutes. 

Trailways noted that the exemption 

would reduce the amount of total time 

a driver can drive in a duty period. 

Without the exemption, the times 

drivers spend at stops to load 

passengers, freight, etc. would be logged 

as on-duty/not driving, increasing the 

driving time available, but creating an 

additional administrative distraction 

every time the driver leaves the 

controls, regardless of the reason or the 

limited amount of time away from the 

vehicle controls. Trailways further 

advised that its carriers provide flag 

stops and that having to update the log 

at each flag stop increases the length of 

time the motorcoach may delay traffic 

while waiting for the pick-up and/or 

discharge of passengers and luggage, 

and then waiting for the driver to 

update the log. According to Trailways, 

in many instances the large number of 

brief stops will not fit on the log if the 

driver makes all of the required entries. 

Trailways noted that the maximum 

possible driving time would be reduced 

and that traffic congestion could be 

reduced. FMCSA believes this would 

ensure that operations under the 

exemption would be at least as safe as 

operations that comply with the 

requirements on change of duty status. 

As in 2013, FMCSA would apply the 

exemption, if granted, to all regularroute for-hire passenger-carrier drivers 

because they presumably operate in 

much the same manner as Trailways. 

Including all such drivers in the 

exemption will preclude the need for 

other carries to file identical exemption 

requests, and will provide for consistent 

enforcement because the same 

provisions would be applied to all 

similar scenarios involving brief stops 

by drivers of these carriers during their 

regular-route operations. 

A copy of Trailways’ exemption 

application is available for review in the 

docket for this notice. 

Request for Comments 

In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) 

and 31315(b)(4), FMCSA requests public 

comment on the Trailways’ application 

for an exemption from certain 

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1On November 4, 2013, the company changed its 

name from DriveCam, Inc. to Lytx, Inc.). 

provisions of the driver’s record of duty 

status rules in 49 CFR part 395. The 

Agency will consider all comments 

received by close of business on April 

17, 2015. Comments will be available 

for examination in the docket at the 

location listed under the ADDRESSES

section of this notice. The Agency will 

consider to the extent practicable 

comments received in the public docket 

after the closing date of the comment 

period. 

Extent of the Exemption 

The exemption would be restricted to 

drivers employed by Trailways and 

other regular-route for-hire passengercarrier drivers. Instead of complying 

with the provisions in 49 CFR 395.8(c), 

these drivers would be exempted from 

changing their duty status from 

‘‘driving’’ to ‘‘on-duty not driving’’ 

when making stops of less than 10 

minutes. These drivers must comply 

with all other applicable provisions of 

the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations (49 CFR parts 350–399). 

Terms of the Exemption 

Period of the Exemption 

The limited exemption from the HOS 

RODs requirements of 49 CFR 395.8(c) 

is proposed to be effective from 12:01 

a.m. on May 31, 2015, through 11:59 

p.m. on May 31, 2017. 

Preemption 

In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 

31315(d), during the period this 

exemption would be in effect, no State 

may enforce any law or regulation that 

conflicts with or is inconsistent with the 

exemption with respect to a firm or 

person operating under the exemption. 

Notification to FMCSA 

Trailways and other regular-route forhire passenger-carriers would be 

required to notify FMCSA within 5 

business days of any accident (as 

defined in 49 CFR 390.5), involving any 

of the motor carrier’s CMVs operating 

under the terms of this exemption. The 

notification must include the following 

information: 

a. Date of the accident, 

b. City or town, and State, in which 

the accident occurred, or closest to the 

accident scene, 

c. Driver’s name and driver’s license 

number and State of issuance, 

d. Vehicle number and State license 

plate number, 

e. Number of individuals suffering 

physical injury, 

f. Number of fatalities, 

g. The police-reported cause of the 

accident, 

h. Whether the driver was cited for 

violation of any traffic laws or motor 

carrier safety regulations, and 

i. The driver’s total driving time and 

total on-duty time period prior to the 

accident. 

Reports filed under this provision 

shall be emailed to MCPSD@dot.gov. 

Termination 

FMCSA does not believe the drivers 

covered by this exemption will 

experience any deterioration of their 

safety record. However, should this 

occur, FMCSA will take all steps 

necessary to protect the public interest, 

including revocation or restriction of the 

exemption. The FMCSA will 

immediately revoke or restrict the 

exemption for failure to comply with its 

terms and conditions. 

Issued on: March 11, 2015. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0312] 

Parts and Accessories Necessary for 

Safe Operation; Exemption Renewal 

for Lytx, Inc. 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of exemption; 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA renews Lytx, Inc.’s 

(Lytx) (previously DriveCam, Inc.) 1

exemption which allows the placement 

of video event recorders within the 

swept area of the windshields on 

commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). 

Motor carriers may continue to use the 

video event recorders mounted in the 

windshield area to increase safety 

through (1) identification and 

remediation of risky driving behaviors 

such as distracted driving and 

drowsiness; (2) enhanced monitoring of 

passenger behavior for CMVs in 

passenger service; and (3) enhanced 

collision review and analysis. The 

Agency has concluded that granting this 

exemption renewal will maintain a level 

of safety that is equivalent to or greater 

than the level of safety achieved without 

the exemption. However, the Agency 

requests comments and information on 

the exemption, especially from anyone 

who believes this standard will not be 

maintained. 

DATES: This decision is effective March 

18, 2015. Comments must be received 

on or before April 17, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) number FMCSA–2008– 

0312 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, DOT Building, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Instructions: Each submission must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number for this notice. For detailed 

instructions on submitting comments 

and additional information on the 

exemption process, see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading below. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

see the ‘‘Privacy Act’’ heading for 

further information. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or to Room W12– 

140, DOT Building, New Jersey Avenue 

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

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. The Federal 

Docket Management System (FDMS) is 

available 24 hours each day, 365 days 

each year. If you want 

acknowledgement that we received your 

comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments on-line. 

Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 

U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments 

from the public to better inform its 

rulemaking process. DOT posts these 

comments, without edit, including any 

personal information the commenter 

provides, to www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Luke Loy, Vehicle and Roadside 

Operations Division, Office of Bus and 

Truck Standards and Operations, MC– 

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