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Aviation Administration or other United 

States Federal Government entities are 

required to identify themselves. The 

proposed collection of information will 

be used to positively identify the user 

requesting access and create a user 

account. 

The identification of the requesting 

user is based on answers provided via 

a web interface that are matched against 

sources such as public records, mobile 

accounts, credit reporting bureaus and 

other available data. If a positive 

identification is made some of the 

collected information is used to create a 

user account to allow the user access to 

the requested web application. 

Respondents: Any un-credentialed 

individual who requests a user account 

to access web applications published by 

the FAA or other U.S. Federal 

Government entity that is integrated 

with the MyAccess program. 

Frequency: The collection is done one 

time for each new account request. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: ∼0.07 hours (∼4 minutes). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

∼0.07 hours (∼4 minutes). 

Issued in Oklahoma City, OK, March 15th, 

2022. 

Christopher K. Brimage, 

Information Technology Specialist, Enterprise 

Search & Integration Services Branch (ADE– 

330)—Solution Delivery Directorate, AIT, 

AFN, FAA, USDOT. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05742 Filed 3–17–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2021–0189] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Renewal of an Approved 

Information Collection: Hours of 

Service (HOS) of Drivers Regulations 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (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 and invites public comment. 

The FMCSA requests approval to renew 

an ICR titled, ‘‘Hours of Service (HOS) 

of Drivers Regulations.’’ The HOS 

regulations require a motor carrier to 

install, and requires each of its drivers 

subject to the record of duty status 

(RODS) rule to use, an electronic logging 

device (ELD) to report the driver’s 

RODS. The RODS is critical to FMCSA’s 

safety mission because it helps 

enforcement officials determine if 

commercial motor vehicle (CMV) 

drivers are complying with the HOS 

rules limiting driver on-duty and 

driving time and requiring periodic offduty time. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or before May 18, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) Docket 

Number FMCSA–2021–0189 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 Operations; U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001 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, 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. To be sure someone is there to 

help you, please call (202) 366–9317 or 

(202) 366–9826 before visiting Dockets 

Operations. 

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. 

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 

‘‘FAQ’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal website. 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. 

Pearlie Robinson, FMCSA Driver and 

Carrier Operations Division, DOT, 

FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590. Telephone: 202–366–4225. 

Email: MCPSD@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On December 16, 2015, the final rule 

titled ‘‘Electronic Logging Devices and 

Hours of Service Supporting 

Documents’’ was published (80 FR 

78292). It became effective February 16, 

2016. The FMCSA established 

minimum performance and design 

standards for ELDs and mandated use of 

these devices by drivers who are subject 

to the HOS reporting requirements. 

Drivers using compliant automatic onboard recorders had until December 16, 

2019, to replace the devices with ELDs. 

As a condition of receiving certain 

federal grants, States agree to adopt and 

enforce the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations, including the HOS rules, as 

State law. As a result, State enforcement 

inspectors use the RODS and supporting 

documents to determine whether CMV 

drivers are complying with the HOS 

rules. In addition, FMCSA uses the 

RODS during on-site and offsite 

investigations of motor carriers. And, 

Federal and State courts rely upon the 

RODS as evidence of driver and motor 

carrier violations of the HOS 

regulations. This information collection 

supports the DOT’s Strategic Goal of 

Safety because the information helps the 

agency ensure the safe operation of 

CMVs in interstate commerce on our 

Nation’s highways. 

Renewal of This Information Collection 

(IC) 

The current IC burden estimate of the 

HOS rules, approved by OMB on July 

31, 2019, is 41.04 million hours. The 

expiration date of the current ICR is July 

31, 2022. Through this ICR renewal, 

FMCSA requests a revision of the 

paperwork burden of 2126–0001. The 

agency requests an increase in the 


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burden hours from 41.04 million hours 

to 50.37 million hours. The increase is 

the result of the increase in estimated 

driver population as well as the increase 

in expected industry growth rate for 

drivers from 2020 to 2030. Two types of 

information are collected under this IC: 

(1) Drivers’ RODS commonly referred to 

as a logbook, and (2) supporting 

documents, such as gasoline and toll 

receipts, that motor carriers use to verify 

accuracy of RODS and document 

expense deductions for income tax 

filing purposes. The use of ELDs 

reduces the driver’s time to input duty 

status from 6.5 minutes to 2 minutes. 

This IC includes only the estimate of 2 

minutes for drivers and motor carriers. 

Title: Hours of Service (HOS) of 

Drivers Regulations. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0001. 

Type of Request: Renewal of an 

information collection. 

Respondents: Motor Carriers of 

Property and Passengers, Drivers of 

CMVs. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

4.24 million CMV drivers; 602,542 

Motor Carriers. 

Estimated Time per Response: CMV 

drivers using technology: 2 minutes. 

Motor Carriers: 2 minutes. 

Expiration Date: July 31, 2022. 

Frequency of Response: Drivers: 240 

days per year; Motor carriers 240 days 

per year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

50.37 million hours. 

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 

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: 

Thomas P. Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05728 Filed 3–17–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Announcement of Fiscal Year 2021 

Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities 

Program Project Selections 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice; announcement of project 

selections. Grants for Buses and Bus 

Facilities Program. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) announces the 

allocation of $409,274,220 to projects 

under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Grants 

for Buses and Bus Facilities Program 

(Buses and Bus Facilities Program) and 

provides administrative guidance on 

project implementation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Successful applicants should contact 

the appropriate FTA Regional Office for 

information regarding applying for the 

funds or program-specific information. 

A list of Regional Offices can be found 

at www.transit.dot.gov/. Unsuccessful 

applicants may contact Tom Wilson, 

Office of Program Management at (202) 

366–5279, email: Thomas.Wilson@

dot.gov within 30 days of this 

announcement to arrange a proposal 

debriefing. A TDD is available at 1–800– 

877–8339 (TDD/FIRS). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal 

public transportation law (49 U.S.C. 

5339(b)) authorizes FTA to make 

competitive grants for buses and bus 

facilities. Federal public law (49 U.S.C. 

5338(a)(2)(M)) authorized $289,044,179 

in FY 2021 funds for the Grants for 

Buses and Bus Facilities Program. The 

Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, 

appropriated an additional 

$125,000,000 for the Grants for Buses 

and Bus Facilities Program. After the 

oversight takedown of $4,455,331, FTA 

is announcing the availability of 

$409,588,848 for the Grants for Buses 

and Bus Facilities Program. 

On September 20, 2021, FTA 

published a Notice of Funding 

Opportunity (NOFO) (86 FR 52291) 

announcing the availability of 

$409,588,848 in competitive funding 

under the Buses and Bus Facilities 

Program. These funds will provide 

financial assistance to states and eligible 

public agencies to replace, rehabilitate, 

purchase, or lease buses, vans, and 

related equipment, and for capital 

projects to rehabilitate, purchase, 

construct, or lease bus-related facilities. 

In response to the NOFO, FTA received 

303 eligible project proposals totaling 

approximately $2.56 billion in Federal 

funds. Project proposals were evaluated 

based on each applicant’s 

responsiveness to the program 

evaluation criteria outlined in the 

NOFO. 

Based on the criteria in the NOFO, 

FTA is funding 70 projects, as shown in 

Table 1, for a total of $409,274,220. 

Recipients selected for competitive 

funding are required to work with their 

FTA Regional Office to submit a grant 

application in FTA’s Transit Award 

Management System (TrAMS) for the 

projects identified in the attached table 

to quickly obligate funds. Grant 

applications must only include eligible 

activities applied for in the original 

project application. Funds must be used 

consistent with the competitive 

proposal and for the eligible capital 

purposes described in the NOFO. 

In cases where the allocation amount 

is less than the proposer’s total 

requested amount, recipients are 

required to fund the scalable project 

option as described in the application. 

If the award amount does not 

correspond to the scalable option, the 

recipient should work with the Regional 

Office to reduce scope or scale the 

project such that a complete phase or 

project is accomplished. Recipients may 

also provide additional local funds to 

complete a proposed project. A 

discretionary project identification 

number has been assigned to each 

project for tracking purposes and must 

be used in the TrAMS application. 

Selected projects are eligible to incur 

costs under pre-award authority no 

earlier than the date projects were 

publicly announced. Pre-award 

authority does not guarantee that project 

expenses incurred prior to the award of 

a grant will be eligible for 

reimbursement, as eligibility for 

reimbursement is contingent upon other 

requirements, such as planning and 

environmental requirements, having 

been met. For more about FTA’s policy 

on pre-award authority, please see the 

current FTA Apportionments, 

Allocations, and Program Information 

and Interim Guidance at https://

www.transit.dot.gov/funding/ 

apportionments. Post-award reporting 

requirements include submission of 

Federal Financial Reports and Milestone 

Progress Reports in TrAMS (see FTA 

Circular 5010.1E). Recipients must 

comply with all applicable Federal 

statutes, regulations, executive orders, 

FTA circulars, and other Federal 

requirements in carrying out the project 

supported by the FTA grant. FTA 

emphasizes that recipients must follow 

all third-party procurement 

requirements set forth in Federal public 


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