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DATES: The RERC meeting will be held 

on Monday, April 20, 2015, from 9:00 

a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Tuesday, April 21, 

2015, from 8:30 a.m. to noon CDT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West 

End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37402, and 

will be open to the public. Anyone 

needing special access or 

accommodations should let the contact 

below know at least a week in advance. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth 

Keel, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT– 

9 D, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902, (865) 

632–6113. 

Dated: March 30, 2015. 

Joseph J. Hoagland, 

Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, 

Tennessee Valley Authority. 

[FR Doc. 2015–07661 Filed 4–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8120–08–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2015–0083] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection: 

Licensing Applications for Motor 

Carrier Operating Authority 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

information. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for its 

review and approval. The FMCSA seeks 

approval to revise an ICR titled, 

‘‘Licensing Applications for Motor 

Carrier Operating Authority,’’ that is 

used by for-hire motor carriers of 

regulated commodities, motor passenger 

carriers, freight forwarders, property 

brokers, and certain Mexico-domiciled 

motor carriers to register their 

operations with the FMCSA. The agency 

invites public comment on the ICR. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before June 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) Docket 

Number FMCSA–2015–0083 using any 

of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 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. e.t., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number. 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 

below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for accessing the 

dockets, or go to the street address listed 

above. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

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 DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement for the Federal Docket 

Management System published in the 

Federal Register on January 17, 2008 

(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://

edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8- 

794.pdf. 

Public Participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can obtain electronic submission and 

retrieval help and guidelines under the 

‘‘help’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you 

want us to notify you that we received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. Comments received 

after the comment closing date will be 

included in the docket and will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Vivian Oliver, Transportation Specialist, 

Office of Information Technology, 

Information Technology Operations 

Division, Department of Transportation, 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, 6th Floor, West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., 

Washington DC 20590, Telephone 

Number (202) 366–2974; Email Address 

vivian.oliver@dot.gov. Office hours are 

from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal 

Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The FMCSA is 

authorized to register certain for-hire 

Mexico-domiciled long-haul motor 

carriers of regulated commodities under 

the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902 and 

the North American Free Trade 

Agreement (NAFTA) motor carrier 

access provision. The Form OP–1(MX) 

is used by FMCSA to register those 

Mexico-domiciled motor carriers. It 

requests information on the applicant’s 

identity, location, familiarity with safety 

requirements, and type of proposed 

operations. This ICR is being revised 

due to a Final Rule titled, ‘‘the Unified 

Registration System,’’ (78 FR 52608), 

dated August 23, 2013, that will 

incorporate all registration form 

requirements included in this ICR, 

except the Form OP–1(MX), into the 

Form MCSA–1 in the OMB Control 

Number 2126–0051, ‘‘FMCSA 

Registration/Updates,’’ ICR effective 

October 23, 2015. The Form OP–1(MX) 

was excluded from the Form MCSA–1 

because its information collection 

requirements are beyond the scope of 

the Unified Registration System Final 

Rule. 

Title: Licensing Applications for 

Motor Carrier Operating Authority. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0016. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Certain Mexicodomiciled motor carriers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

12. 

Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours 

to complete Form OP–1 (MX). 

Expiration Date: October 31, 2015. 

Frequency of Response: Other (as 

needed). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 48 

hours [12 annual Form OP-(MX) 

responses x 4 hours to complete each 

response = 48]. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the performance of 

FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of 

the estimated burden; (3) ways for the 

FMCSA to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the collected 

information; and (4) ways that the 

burden could be minimized without 

reducing the quality of the information 


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collected. The Agency will summarize 

or include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this ICR. 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 

on: March 26, 2015. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology and 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–07675 Filed 4–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2012–0004, Notice 2] 

Decision That Nonconforming 2012 

McLaren MP4–12C Passenger Cars Are 

Eligible for Importation 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Grant of petition. 

SUMMARY: This document announces a 

decision by the National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration that 

certain 2012 McLaren MP4–12C 

passenger cars (PCs) that were not 

originally manufactured to comply with 

all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle 

Safety Standards (FMVSS) are eligible 

for importation into the United States 

because they are substantially similar to 

vehicles originally manufactured for 

importation into and sale in the United 

States that were certified by their 

manufacturer as complying with the 

safety standards (the U.S. certified 

version of the 2012 McLaren MP4–12C 

PC), and they are capable of being 

readily altered to conform to the 

standards. 

DATES: This decision became effective 

on March 26, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: For further information 

contact George Stevens, Office of 

Vehicle Safety Compliance, NHTSA 

(202–366–5308). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under 49 U.S.C 30141(a)(1)(A), a 

motor vehicle that was not originally 

manufactured to conform to all 

applicable FMVSS shall be refused 

admission into the United States unless 

NHTSA has decided that the motor 

vehicle is substantially similar to a 

motor vehicle originally manufactured 

for importation into and sale in the 

United States, certified as required 

under 49 U.S.C. 30115, and of the same 

model year as the model of the motor 

vehicle to be compared, and is capable 

of being readily altered to conform to all 

applicable FMVSS. 

Petitions for eligibility decisions may 

be submitted by either manufacturers or 

importers who have registered with 

NHTSA pursuant to 49 CFR part 592. As 

specified in 49 CFR 593.7, NHTSA 

publishes notice in the Federal Register 

of each petition that it receives, and 

affords interested persons an 

opportunity to comment on the petition. 

At the close of the comment period, 

NHTSA decides, on the basis of the 

petition and any comments that it has 

received, whether the vehicle is eligible 

for importation. The agency then 

publishes this decision in the Federal 

Register. 

J.K. Technologies, LLC, of Baltimore, 

Maryland (‘‘JK’’) (Registered Importer# 

RI–90–006), petitioned NHTSA to 

decide whether 2012 McLaren MP4–12C 

PCs are eligible for importation into the 

United States. NHTSA published a 

notice of the petition on March 3, 2014 

(79 FR 11869) to afford an opportunity 

for public comment. The reader is 

referred to that notice for a thorough 

description of the petition. 

Comments 

On March 27, 2014, NHTSA received 

a request from McLaren Automotive Inc. 

(McLaren), the vehicle’s original 

manufacturer, to extend the comment 

period by two weeks. NHTSA approved 

this request to allow McLaren additional 

time to respond to the issues presented 

in the petition. 

McLaren submitted its comments on 

April 15, 2014. In its comments, 

McLaren stated that while it agreed that 

the U.S. and the non-U.S. versions of 

the vehicle are ‘‘substantially similar’’ 

within the meaning of section 

30141(a)(1)(A)(i), it strongly disputed 

JK’s assertions that the non-U.S. version 

could be readily altered to comply with 

all applicable FMVSS. McLaren 

elaborated by presenting detailed 

reasons for its assertions with respect to 

specific FMVSS. 

On May 21, 2014, NHTSA forwarded 

McLaren’s comments to JK and asked 

that it respond by June, 4, 2014. By 

letter dated June 10, 2014, JK requested 

a 45 day extension in order to gather 

engineering data to adequately address 

the concerns raised by McLaren. 

NHTSA approved JK’s request for this 

extension and JK responded on July 29, 

2014. 

A summary of McLaren’s comments, 

JK’s responses, and the conclusions that 

NHTSA has reached with regard to the 

issues raised by the parties is set forth 

below. 

Comments and Conclusions 

NHTSA has reviewed the petition, 

McLaren’s comments and JK’s responses 

to those comments, and has concluded 

that the vehicles covered by the petition 

are capable of being readily altered to 

comply with all applicable FMVSS. 

However, NHTSA has also decided that 

an RI who imports or modifies one of 

these vehicles must include in the 

statement of conformity and associated 

documents (referred to as a ‘‘conformity 

package’’) it submits to NHTSA under 

49 CFR 592.6(d) specific proof to 

confirm that the vehicle was 

manufactured to conform to, or was 

successfully altered to conform to, each 

of the following standards: 

FMVSS No. 101, Controls and 

displays; McLaren commented that the 

necessary reprogramming to achieve 

conformity to the standard can only be 

performed with a tool available only to 

authorized McLaren dealers that can 

only be operated by an authorized 

McLaren entity using a recognized 

username and password. McLaren 

claimed that the tool is not offered for 

sale to non-McLaren affiliated entities. 

JK responded that the reprogramming 

equipment it used to modify the vehicle 

to the standard is available in Europe 

and that it validated the programs and 

encryption codes on a U.S. version of 

the vehicle. 

NHTSA has decided that a 

description of how the programming 

changes were completed and how 

compliance with the standard was 

verified must be included in each 

conformity package. Photographs, 

printouts, and/or screenshots, as 

practicable, must also be submitted as 

proof that the reprogramming was 

carried out. 

FMVSS No. 108, Lamps, reflective 

devices, and associated equipment; 

McLaren commented that in addition to 

the modifications described in the 

petition, ‘‘a completely new US vehicle 

[wiring] harness would be required.’’ 

Moreover, as it contended with regard to 

FMVSS No. 101, McLaren asserted that 

reprogramming ‘‘can only be performed 

using an approved McLaren tool’’ which 

the manufacturer claimed is ‘‘only 

available to authorized McLaren 

dealers’’ and ‘‘can only be used by an 

authorized McLaren entity with the use 

of a username and password.’’ 

JK responded that it has ‘‘a USA 

version vehicle for these programs and 

encryption codes,’’ and that it will 

replace or add wiring harnesses as 

necessary. 

NHTSA has decided that a 

description of how the programming 

changes were completed and how 


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