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§ 391.41(b)(11) states that a person is 

physically qualified to drive a CMV if 

that person first perceives a forced 

whispered voice in the better ear at not 

less than 5 feet with or without the use 

of a hearing aid or, if tested by use of 

an audiometric device, does not have an 

average hearing loss in the better ear 

greater than 40 decibels at 500 Hz, 1,000 

Hz, and 2,000 Hz with or without a 

hearing aid when the audiometric 

device is calibrated to American 

National Standard (formerly ASA 

Standard) Z24.5—1951. 

This standard was adopted in 1970 

and was revised in 1971 to allow drivers 

to be qualified under this standard 

while wearing a hearing aid, 35 FR 

6458, 6463 (Apr. 22, 1970) and 36 FR 

12857 (July 3, 1971). 

On February 1, 2013, FMCSA 

announced in a Notice of Final 

Disposition titled, ‘‘Qualification of 

Drivers; Application for Exemptions; 

National Association of the Deaf,’’ (78 

FR 7479), its decision to grant requests 

from 40 individuals for exemptions 

from the Agency’s physical qualification 

standard concerning hearing for 

interstate CMV drivers. Since that time 

the Agency has published additional 

notices granting requests from hard of 

hearing and deaf individuals for 

exemptions from the Agency’s physical 

qualification standard concerning 

hearing for interstate CMV drivers. 

III. Qualifications of Applicants 

Yunier Alegre 

Mr. Alegre, 33, holds a class E license 

in Florida. 

Kenneth Alston 

Mr. Alston, 33, holds a class D license 

in New Jersey. 

Charles Armand 

Mr. Armand, 39, holds a class A 

license in New Jersey. 

Baldemar Barba 

Mr. Barba, 24, holds a class C license 

in Texas. 

Gary Barber 

Mr. Barber, 70, holds a commercial 

driver’s license in Wisconsin. 

Desmond Dantzler 

Mr. Dantzler, 51, holds a class D 

license in Arizona. 

Jeremy Descloux 

Mr. Descloux, 25, holds an operator’s 

license in Washington. 

Philip Fatigato 

Mr. Fatigato, 28, holds a class D 

license in Illinois. 

William Hoke 

Mr. Hoke, 50, holds a class D license 

in New York. 

Edward Larizza 

Mr. Larizza, 24, holds a class C 

license in California. 

Kevin Maddox 

Mr. Maddox, 58, holds a class AM 

license in Georgia. 

Bikien McKoy 

Mr. McKoy, 48, holds a class A 

license in North Carolina. 

Rage Muse 

Mr. Muse, 33, holds a class A license 

in Minnesota. 

Orlando Padilla 

Mr. Padilla, 47, holds a class E license 

in Florida. 

Michael Paul 

Mr. Paul, 60, holds a class A license 

in Illinois. 

Aaron Pitsker 

Mr. Pitsker, 31, holds a class CM 

license in California. 

Michael Principe 

Mr. Principe, 33, holds a class C 

license in Texas. 

William Rivas 

Mr. Rivas, 31, holds a class C license 

in California. 

Kenneth Salts 

Mr. Salts, 45, holds a class D license 

in Ohio. 

Issac Soto 

Mr. Soto, 32, holds a class D license 

in Illinois. 

Gary Sturdevant 

Mr. Sturdevant, 43, holds a class CM 

license in Texas. 

Richard Taulbee 

Mr. Taulbee, 40, holds a class C 

license in Georgia. 

Matthew Taylor 

Mr. Taylor, 27, holds a class C license 

in Texas. 

IV. Request for Comments 

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

and 31315(b), FMCSA requests public 

comment from all interested persons on 

the exemption petitions described in 

this notice. We will consider all 

comments received before the close of 

business on the closing date indicated 

under the DATES section of the notice. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00904 Filed 1–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[FTA Docket No. FTA 2022–0002] 

National Transit Database Census 

Reporting Clarifications 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice; Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

interested parties with the opportunity 

to comment on changes to the Federal 

Transit Administration’s (FTA) National 

Transit Database (NTD) reporting 

requirements as they relate to Urbanized 

Areas (UZA). Each year, transit systems 

use data from the Census Bureau to 

update their basic information (B–10) 

form indicating what urbanized areas 

and rural areas they serve, and also to 

complete their Federal Funding 

Allocation (FFA–10) form distributing 

their service data across those urbanized 

and rural areas. The Census Bureau is 

expected to define new UZAs based on 

2020 Census data in calendar year 2022. 

FTA proposes that for NTD Report Year 

2021 (RY 2021), transit systems would 

be required to complete a B–10 and 

FFA–10 form based on the UZAs from 

the 2010 Census, as usual. If the Census 

Bureau releases new UZAs prior to 

October 1, 2022, then transit systems 

would be required to complete new B– 

10 and FFA–10 forms as an addendum 

to the annual report at that time. 

DATES: Comments are requested by 

February 18, 2022. FTA will consider all 

comments received before the close of 

business on the comment closing date. 

To the extent practicable, FTA may also 

consider comments received after that 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may file comments 

identified by docket number FTA– 

2022–0002 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Send comments to Docket 

Management Facility; U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 


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• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9:00 

a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Management Facility, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, at (202) 493–2251. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name (Federal Transit 

Administration) and Docket Number 

(FTA–2022–0002) for this notice, at the 

beginning of your comments. If sent by 

mail, submit two copies of your 

comments. 

Electronic Access and Filing: This 

document and all comments received 

may be viewed online through the 

Federal eRulemaking portal at http://

www.regulations.gov or at the street 

address listed above. Electronic 

submission and retrieval help and 

guidelines are available on the website. 

It is available 24 hours each day, 365 

days a year. Please follow the 

instructions. An electronic copy of this 

document may also be downloaded 

from the Office of the Federal Register’s 

home page at https://

www.federalregister.gov. 

Privacy Act: Except as provided 

below, all comments received into the 

docket will be made public in their 

entirety. The comments will be 

searchable 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 should not include 

information in your comment that you 

do not want to be made public. You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78) or at https://

www.transportation.gov/privacy. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Coleman, National Transit 

Database Program Manager, FTA Office 

of Budget and Policy, (202) 366–5333, 

thomas.coleman@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Transit Database (NTD) is the 

Federal Transit Administration’s 

(FTA’s) primary database for statistics 

on the transit industry. Each year, 

transit systems use data from the Census 

Bureau to update their basic information 

(B–10) form indicating what urbanized 

areas and rural areas they serve, and 

also to complete their Federal Funding 

Allocation (FFA–10) form distributing 

their service data across those urbanized 

and rural areas. In implementing the 

2010 Census, FTA required transit 

systems to complete only one FFA–10 

form for the 2011 annual report (76 FR 

30997). Transit systems were not 

required to complete an FFA–10 form 

based on the UZA definitions from the 

2000 Census. Instead, transit systems 

filled out one FFA–10 form for their 

2011 annual report during the summer 

of 2012, following the release of the 

2010 Census UZA definitions in spring 

2012. 

In 2021, the Census Bureau 

announced that the new UZA 

definitions from the 2020 Census will 

not be released until summer 2022 or 

later. These UZA definitions are 

necessary for the NTD to create 

apportionment files. Federal law 

requires FTA to use the most recent 

urbanized area definitions from the 

Census Bureau (49 U.S.C. 5302(23)) in 

formula funding apportionments. 

For the 2021 annual report, NTD 

reporters have already begun 

completing an initial FFA–10 and B–10 

forms using existing 2010 Census 

definitions. For Report Year 2021, FTA 

proposes to require transit systems to 

submit the B–10 and FFA–10 forms 

using 2010 Census data by the normal 

NTD annual report deadline. If the 

Census Bureau releases new urbanized 

area definitions prior to October 1, 2022, 

FTA would require transit operators to 

submit new B–10 and FFA–10 forms 

using 2020 Census data as an addendum 

to the annual report. Collecting this 

addendum based on 2020 Census data is 

necessary to allow FTA to meet the UZA 

definition found in 49 U.S.C. 5302(23) 

and produce apportionment data files 

that support the apportionment of 

formula funds. If the Census Bureau 

releases new urbanized area definitions 

on or after October 1, 2022, then FTA 

would not require the form addendum 

and would instead integrate the new 

urbanized area definitions into the 2022 

reporting process. 

To minimize reporting burden, transit 

operators will not have to fill in the 

addendum from scratch. The addendum 

will pull in as much data as possible 

from the initial FFA–10 and B–10 forms 

completed using 2010 Census UZA 

definitions, based on unchanged or 

minimally changed UZA boundaries. 

Nuria I. Fernandez, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2022–00851 Filed 1–18–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2018–0105; Notice 2] 

BMW of North America, LLC, Grant of 

Petition for Decision of 

Inconsequential Noncompliance 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Grant of petition. 

SUMMARY: BMW of North America, LLC 

(BMW), a subsidiary of BMW AG, has 

determined that certain model year 

(MY) 2019 BMW F750 GS and F850 GS 

motorcycles do not fully comply with 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 

(FMVSS) No. 205, Glazing Materials. 

BMW filed a noncompliance report 

dated October 19, 2018. BMW 

subsequently petitioned NHTSA on 

October 29, 2018, for a decision that the 

subject noncompliance is 

inconsequential as it relates to motor 

vehicle safety. This document 

announces the grant of BMW’s petition. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Leroy Angeles, Office of Vehicle Safety 

Compliance, the National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

telephone (202) 366–5304, 

Leroy.Angeles@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Overview 

BMW has determined that certain MY 

2019 BMW F750 GS and F850 GS 

motorcycles do not fully comply with 

paragraph S6.3 of FMVSS No. 205, 

Glazing Materials (49 CFR 571.205). 

BMW filed a noncompliance report 

dated October 19, 2018, pursuant to 49 

CFR part 573, Defect and 

Noncompliance Responsibility and 

Reports. BMW subsequently petitioned 

NHTSA on October 29, 2018, for an 

exemption from the notification and 

remedy requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

Chapter 301 on the basis that this 

noncompliance is inconsequential as it 

relates to motor vehicle safety, pursuant 

to 49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and 30120(h) and 

49 CFR part 556, Exemption for 

Inconsequential Defect or 

Noncompliance. 

Notice of receipt of BMW’s petition 

was published with a 30-day public 

comment period, on February 27, 2020, 

in the Federal Register (85 FR 11447). 

No comments were received. To view 

the petition and all supporting 

documents log onto the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) website at 

https://www.regulations.gov/. Then 

follow the online search instructions to 


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