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Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Telephone: 202–366–4325; email 

buz.schultz@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Report by SDLAs on the Annual 

Number of Entry-Level CDL Applicants 

and Related Data. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX. 

Type of Request: New information 

collection. 

Respondents: State Driver Licensing 

Agencies (SDLAs). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 51 

respondents (a report from the SDLA of 

each State and the District of Columbia). 

Estimated Number of Responses: 51 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 19 

hours and 30 minutes. 

Form Number: MCSA–5894, ‘‘Request 

for Data to State Driver Licensing 

Agencies’’ 

Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new 

information collection. 

Frequency of Response: One-time. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 995 

hours (51 respondents × 19 hours and 

30 minutes per respondent, rounded). 

Background 

On July 6, 2012, the President signed 

legislation titled ‘‘Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP– 

21).’’ Section 32304 of MAP–21 (49 

U.S.C. 31305(c)) provides that the 

Secretary of Transportation must issue 

final regulations establishing minimum 

entry-level training requirements for 

individuals before obtaining a CDL for 

the first time or prior to upgrading from 

one class of CDL to another. The Agency 

is required to develop instruction and 

behind-the-wheel training that will be 

effective in providing entry-level CDL 

drivers the knowledge and skills they 

need to operate a commercial motor 

vehicle safely. 

On September 18, 2014, Advocates for 

Highway and Auto Safety, the 

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, 

and Citizens for Reliable and Safe 

Highways sued FMCSA and DOT in the 

United States Court of Appeals for the 

District of Columbia Circuit (Case no. 

14–1183). The plaintiffs petitioned for 

an order of mandamus compelling DOT 

to publish a final rule on entry-level 

driver training within 180 days. While 

as of this date the court has not ruled 

on the petition, the court could order 

that a notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM) and final rule be drafted 

according to a highly expedited 

schedule. Obtaining this data would 

help address this urgent legal issue in a 

timely manner. 

FMCSA has taken numerous steps 

toward satisfying the section 32304 

mandate. The Agency has conducted 

two public listening sessions in 

conjunction with industry trade shows 

and engaged its Motor Carrier Safety 

Advisory Committee to provide 

recommendations to support the 

rulemaking. FMCSA learned that there 

is not agreement among stakeholders 

about how to satisfy the statutory 

mandate. 

Next, FMCSA commissioned a neutral 

convener to analyze the feasibility of 

conducting a negotiated rulemaking 

(Reg Neg) to develop the regulations (5 

U.S.C. 581–590). Based upon the 

convener’s recommendation, FMCSA, 

on December 10, 2014, published notice 

of its intent to establish an Entry-Level 

Driver Training Advisory Committee 

(ELDTAC) to negotiate proposed 

regulations to implement section 32304. 

On February 12, 2015, the Agency 

published notice of the first meeting of 

the ELDTAC, which was held on 

February 26–27, 2015 (80 FR 7814). The 

FMCSA is currently engaged in regular 

negotiations with the ELDTAC expected 

to go through May 2015 with a target 

date for publication of an NPRM of 

October 15, 2015 (Id. at 7815). 

Despite these efforts and the urgent 

nature and schedule of the negotiations, 

FMCSA lacks certain data that is crucial 

to its efforts to satisfy the MAP–21 

mandate—for example, the number of 

individuals who would require entrylevel CDL driver training annually. 

Given that this rulemaking will likely be 

considered ‘‘significant’’ within the 

meaning of E. O. 12988, obtaining this 

data is crucial to developing an NPRM 

and the required cost-benefit analysis. 

The data, combined with other data in 

the Agency’s possession, will also be 

central to the ability of ELDTAC to build 

consensus among the various 

stakeholders. 

The only known source of the number 

of individuals who obtain their first and 

upgraded CDL each year is the 50 States 

and the District of Columbia. The only 

way the Agency can obtain this 

information is by asking the SDLAs to 

report it to FMCSA. 

Public Comments Invited 

The Agency requests emergency 

processing of this information request 

valid for 180 days (44 U.S.C. 3507(j)(2)) 

based on its determination as required 

under the Paperwork Reduction Act and 

its implementing regulations as follows: 

The information collection is 

‘‘essential’’ to FMCSA’s safety mission: 

to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities 

involving large trucks and buses (44 

U.S.C. 3507(j)(1)(A)(ii), 5 CFR 

1320.13(a)(1)(ii)). Expedited review is 

necessary to minimize public harm that 

is reasonably likely to result if normal 

clearance processes are followed 

resulting from the operation of trucks 

and motor coaches by individuals 

lacking appropriate driver training that 

would be required by this rulemaking 

(44 U.S.C. 3507(j)(1)(B)(i), 5 CFR 

1320.13(a)(2)(i)). In addition, use of the 

normal clearance process is reasonably 

likely to cause a ‘‘court-ordered 

deadline to be missed’’ (44 U.S.C. 

3507(j)(1)(B)(iii), 5 CFR 

1320.13(a)(2)(iii)). This ICR is narrowly 

focused and practical steps have been 

taken to obtain this information in the 

past, as described in this notice above 

to minimize its burden on the SDLAs it 

would apply to (5 CFR 1320.13(c)). 

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 

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 collected 

information. 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 

on March 31, 2015. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2015–07808 Filed 4–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Limitation on Claims Against Proposed 

Public Transportation Projects 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces final 

environmental actions taken by the 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 

for projects in the Cities of San 

Bernardino and Redlands, CA, and the 

Cities of Santa Ana and Garden Grove, 

CA. The purpose of this notice is to 

announce publicly the environmental 

decisions by FTA on the subject projects 

and to activate the limitation on any 

claims that may challenge these final 

environmental actions. 

DATES: By this notice, FTA is advising 

the public of final agency actions 

subject to Section 139(l) of Title 23, 

United States Code (U.S.C.). A claim 

seeking judicial review of FTA actions 

announced herein for the listed public 


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transportation projects will be barred 

unless the claim is filed on or before 

September 3, 2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy-Ellen Zusman, Assistant Chief 

Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312) 

353–2577 or Terence Plaskon, 

Environmental Protection Specialist, 

Office of Environmental Programs, (202) 

366–0442. FTA is located at 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 

20590. Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. 

to 5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that FTA has taken final 

agency actions by issuing certain 

approvals for the public transportation 

projects listed below. The actions on the 

projects, as well as the laws under 

which such actions were taken, are 

described in the documentation issued 

in connection with the projects to 

comply with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and 

in other documents in the FTA 

administrative record for the projects. 

Interested parties may contact either the 

project sponsor or the relevant FTA 

Regional Office for more information on 

each project. Contact information for 

FTA’s Regional Offices may be found at 

http://www.fta.dot.gov. 

This notice applies to all FTA 

decisions on the listed projects as of the 

issuance date of this notice and all laws 

under which such actions were taken, 

including, but not limited to, NEPA [42 

U.S.C. 4321–4375], Section 4(f) of the 

Department of Transportation Act of 

1966 [49 U.S.C. 303], Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act [16 

U.S.C. 470f], and the Clean Air Act [42 

U.S.C. 7401–7671q]. This notice does 

not, however, alter or extend the 

limitation period for challenges of 

project decisions subject to previous 

notices published in the Federal 

Register. The projects and actions that 

are the subject of this notice are: 

1. Project name and location: 

Redlands Passenger Rail Project, Cities 

of San Bernardino and Redlands, CA. 

Project sponsor: San Bernardino 

Association of Governments (SANBAG). 

Project description: The proposed 

project would create new passenger rail 

operations along an approximately ninemile corridor from the E Street Station 

and San Bernardino Transit Center in 

Downtown San Bernardino to the 

University of Redlands, east of 

Downtown Redlands. Final agency 

actions: Section 4(f) determination; 

Section 106 finding of no adverse effect; 

project-level air quality conformity; and 

Final Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report/Record of 

Decision, dated February 17, 2015. 

2. Project name and location: Santa 

Ana-Garden Grove Fixed Guideway 

Project, Cities of Santa Ana and Garden 

Grove, CA. Project sponsor: City of 

Santa Ana, in coordination with the 

Orange County Transportation 

Authority and City of Garden Grove. 

Project description: The proposed 

project is an approximately 4.2-mile 

new streetcar system in Orange County 

running between the Santa Ana 

Regional Transportation Center 

(SARTC) in the City of Santa Ana and 

a new multimodal center at Harbor 

Boulevard/Westminster Avenue in the 

City of Garden Grove. The system 

includes 24 stations, an overhead 

contact system and series of traction 

power substations, and a new 

operations and maintenance facility 

near SARTC. Final agency actions: 

Section 4(f) de minimis impact 

determination; Section 106 finding of no 

adverse effect; project-level air quality 

conformity; and Finding of No 

Significant Impact, dated March 10, 

2015. Supporting documentation: 

Revised Environmental Assessment/

Final Environmental Impact Report, 

dated January 2015. 

Issued on: March 31, 2015. 

Lucy Garliauskas, 

Associate Administrator Planning and 

Environment. 

[FR Doc. 2015–07812 Filed 4–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013 Innovative 

Safety, Resiliency, and All-Hazard 

Emergency; Response and Recovery 

Program Project Selections; Fiscal 

Years 2013 and 2014 Low or No 

Emission Vehicle Deployment Program 

Project Selections; Fiscal Year 2012 

Bus Efficiency Enhancements 

Research and Demonstrations 

Program Project Selections 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Announcement of Research 

Program Project Selections. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s Federal Transit 

Administration announces the selection 

of research projects funded in support of 

three Notice of Funding Availability, as 

authorized under the Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century, and prior 

legislation. 

Innovative Safety, Resiliency, and AllHazard Emergency Response and 

Recovery Program: The U.S. Department 

of Transportation’s (DOT) Federal 

Transit Administration (FTA) 

announces the selection of Innovative 

Safety, Resiliency, and All-Hazard 

Emergency Response and Recovery 

Program (SRER) Program projects (see 

Table 1) with Fiscal Year (FY) 2012 and 

FY 2013 appropriations for FTA’s 

Research, Development, Demonstration 

and Deployment Program. The 

Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2012, Public Law 

112–55 made $25,000,000 available to 

carry out innovative research and 

demonstrations of national significance 

under 49 U.S.C. 5312. Of that amount, 

$20,800,000 was made available for 

innovative safety, resiliency, and allhazards emergency response and 

recovery demonstration projects of 

national significance. An additional 

$8,200,000 in Section 5312 FY 2013 

Research funds was made available for 

the same purpose for a combined 

amount of $29,000,000 in funds was 

made available from Fiscal Years 2012 

and 2013. On October 1, 2013, FTA 

published a Notice of Funding 

Availability (NOFA) (78 FR 60369) 

announcing the availability of funding 

for SRER. These competitive research 

program funds will strengthen 

operational safety of public 

transportation, help transit systems 

better withstand natural disasters and 

other emergencies, and improve 

emergency response capabilities. 

Low or No Emission Vehicle 

Deployment Program: The U.S. 

Department of Transportation’s (DOT) 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) 

announces the selection of Low or No 

Emissions Vehicle Deployment Program 

(LONO) projects (see Table 2) with 

Fiscal Year (FY) 2013 and FY 2014 

appropriations for deployment of low or 

no emission transit buses. The Moving 

Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century 

Act (MAP–21), Public Law 112–141, 

July 6, 2012, amended 49 U.S.C. 5312 to 

add a new paragraph (d)(5) authorizing 

FTA to make grants to finance eligible 

projects under the LONO Program. The 

Consolidated and Further Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2013, (also referred 

to as the Full Year Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2013) Public Law 

113–6, March 26, 2013, made available 

$24,900,000 in FY 2013 (after 

sequestration) funds to carry out the 

LONO Program. Of that amount, 

$21,600,000 was made available for 

transit buses and $3,300,000 was made 

available for supporting facilities and 

related equipment. The Consolidated 


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