1992 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 9 / Wednesday, January 14, 2009 / Proposed Rules 

Dated: January 8, 2009. 

James E. Link, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–607 Filed 1–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

10 CFR Part 431 

[Docket No. EERE–2008–BT–STD–0015] 

RIN 1904–AB86 

Energy Efficiency Program for 

Consumer Products: Public Meeting 

and Availability of the Framework 

Document for Walk-In Coolers and 

Walk-In Freezers; Date Change; 

Correction 

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; date change; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register on January 6, 2009, of a public 

meeting and availability of the 

framework document regarding energy 

conservation standards for walk-in 

coolers and walk-in freezers. This notice 

corrects the date of the public meeting, 

the date of the deadline for requesting 

to speak at the public meeting, and the 

date of the deadline for submitting 

written comments on the framework 

document. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charles Llenza, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy, Building 

Technologies, EE–2J, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–2192. e-mail: 

Charles.Llenza@ee.doe.gov. 

Michael Kido, U.S. Department of 

Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 

GC–72, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585–0121. 

Telephone: (202) 586–8145. e-mail: 

Michael.Kido@hq.doe.gov. 

Date Change/Corrections 

In the Federal Register of January 6, 

2009, FR Doc. E8–31405, on page 411, 

the following correction is made to the 

DATES section: 

DATES: The Department will hold a 

public meeting on Wednesday, February 

4, 2009, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in 

Washington, DC. Any person requesting 

to speak at the public meeting should 

submit such request along with a signed 

original and an electronic copy of the 

statement to be given at the public 

meeting before 4 p.m., Wednesday, 

January 28, 2009. Written comments on 

the framework document are welcome, 

especially following the public meeting, 

and should be submitted by Thursday, 

February 12, 2009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As noted 

above, DOE will hold a public meeting 

on Wednesday, February 4, 2009, in 

Washington, DC, the purpose of the 

meeting is to discuss the analyses 

presented and issues identified in the 

Framework Document. For additional 

information regarding the document and 

the meeting, the agency refers readers to 

the prior January 6, 2009 notice. 74 FR 

411. 

The Department welcomes all 

interested parties, whether or not they 

participate in the public meeting, to 

submit written comments regarding 

matters addressed in the Framework 

Document, as well as any other related 

issues by February 12, 2009. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 8, 

2009. 

David E. Rodgers, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Energy 

Efficiency, Office of Technology 

Development, Energy Efficiency and 

Renewable Energy. 

[FR Doc. E9–591 Filed 1–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

SMALL BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION 

13 CFR Part 120 

RIN 3245–AF83 

Business Loan Program Regulations: 

Incorporation of London Interbank 

Offered Rate (LIBOR) Base Rate and 

Secondary Market Pool Interest Rate 

Changes 

AGENCY: U.S. Small Business 

Administration (SBA). 

ACTION: Interim Final Rule, notice of 

reopening of comment period. 

SUMMARY: SBA is reopening the 

comment period for an additional 90 

days. 

DATES: Comments on the interim final 

rule on Business Loan Program 

Regulations: Incorporation of London 

Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) Base 

Rate and Secondary Market Pool Interest 

Rate Changes, must be received on or 

before April 14, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by 3245–AF83, by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Mail, Hand Delivery/Courier: Grady 

Hedgespeth, Director, Office of 

Financial Assistance, U.S. Small 

Business Administration, 409 3rd Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20416. 

All comments will be posted on 

http://www.regulations.gov. If you wish 

to include within your comment 

confidential business information (CBI) 

as defined in the Privacy and Use 

Notice/User Notice at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, and you do not 

want that information disclosed, you 

must submit the comments by either 

Mail or Hand Delivery and you must 

address the comment to Grady 

Hedgespeth, Director, Office of 

Financial Assistance. In the submission, 

you must highlight the information that 

you consider to be CBI and explain why 

you believe this information should be 

held confidential. SBA will make a final 

determination, in its discretion, of 

whether information is CBI and, 

therefore, the comments will not be 

published. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Grady Hedgespeth, Director, Office of 

Financial Assistance, 202–205–7562, or 

grady.hedgespeth@sba.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

November 13, 2008, SBA published in 

the Federal Register an interim final 

rule permanently adding a base rate of 

LIBOR for lenders to use when pricing 

7(a) loans and allowing for secondary 

market loan pools to be formed with 

weighted average coupon rates. (73 FR 

67099). This rule was added to help 

ensure continued availability of capital 

to small businesses and to improve 

liquidity in and efficiency of the 

secondary market for SBA loans. The 

original comment period ended on 

December 15, 2008. SBA is reopening 

the comment period for a limited time 

until April 14, 2009 in order to solicit 

additional comments as our lending 

partners and secondary market 

participants continue to implement the 

two changes allowed in the interim final 

rule. Some SBA partners are still 

updating their systems to incorporate 

LIBOR based loans. SBA’s recently 

published Procedural Notice No. 5000– 

1081: One Month LIBOR Plus 3 Percent 

Allowed as SBA Base Rate (Nov. 14, 

2008) and SBA Information Notice: 

Implementation of SBA’s Addition of 

LIBOR Plus 3 Percent as a Base Rate 

(Nov. 20, 2008), both of which can be 

found at http://www.sba.gov. 

Additionally, procedures for weighted 

average coupon pools were recently 

released by SBA. SBA Procedural Notice 


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No. 5000–1086: Initiative to Facilitate 

the Sale of SBA 7(a) Loans on the 

Secondary Market (Dec. 17, 2008), 

which can be found at http:// 

www.sba.gov. SBA would like to ensure 

that lenders and secondary market 

participants are afforded an opportunity 

to comment on the interim final rule as 

they fully implement these program 

changes. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 634. 

Eric Zarnikow, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Capital 

Access. 

[FR Doc. E9–430 Filed 1–13–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8025–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

23 CFR Part 511 

[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–2006–24219] 

RIN 2125–AF19 

Real-Time System Management 

Information Program 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking 

(NPRM); request for comments. 

SUMMARY: Section 1201 of the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (SAFETEA–LU) requires the 

Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) 

to establish a Real-Time System 

Management Information Program that 

provides, in all States, the capability to 

monitor, in real-time, the traffic and 

travel conditions of the major highways 

of the United States and to share that 

data with State and local governments 

and with the traveling public. This 

proposed rule would establish 

minimum parameters and requirements 

for States to make available and share 

traffic and travel conditions information 

via real-time information programs. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 14, 2009. Late-filed 

comments will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver 

comments to the U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Management 

Facility, Room W12–140, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 

20590, or fax comments to (202) 493– 

2251. Comments may be submitted 

electronically to the Federal 

eRulemaking portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov. All comments 

should include the docket number that 

appears in the heading of this 

document. All comments received will 

be available for examination and 

copying at the above address from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. Those 

desiring notification of receipt of 

comments must include a selfaddressed, stamped postcard or you 

may print the acknowledgment page 

that appears after submitting comments 

electronically. Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments in 

any one of our dockets by the name of 

the individual submitting the comment 

(or signing the comment, if submitted 

on behalf of an association, business, or 

labor union). You may review DOT’s 

complete Privacy Act Statement in the 

Federal Register published on April 11, 

2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, Pages 

19477–78) or you may visit http:// 

DocketsInfo.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Robert Rupert, FHWA Office of 

Operations, (202) 366–2194, or via email at robert.rupert@dot.gov; or, Mr. 

James Pol, U.S. DOT ITS Joint Program 

Office, (202) 366–4374, or via e-mail at 

james.pol@dot.gov. For legal questions, 

please contact Ms. Lisa MacPhee, 

Attorney Advisor, FHWA Office of the 

Chief Counsel, (202) 366–1392, or via email atlisa.macphee@dot.gov. Office 

hours for the FHWA are from 7:45 a.m. 

to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access and Filing 

You may submit or retrieve comments 

online through the Federal eRulemaking 

portal at: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Electronic submission and retrieval help 

and guidelines are available under the 

help section of the Web site. The 

Federal eRulemaking portal is available 

24 hours each day, 365 days each year. 

Please follow the instructions. An 

electronic copy of this document may 

also be downloaded by accessing the 

Office of the Federal Register’s home 

page at http://www.archives.gov or the 

Government Printing Office’s Web page 

at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/nara. 

A Brief Description of the Proposed 

Rule 

The FHWA proposes to require that 

each State establish a real-time 

information program that would provide 

traffic and travel conditions reporting 

and support other efforts related to 

congestion relief. The provision of 

traffic and travel conditions reporting to 

other agencies and to travelers would 

enable agencies to communicate the 

operational characteristics within their 

State or metropolitan area. Such 

information would disclose the 

presence and severity of congestion and 

other travel impedances that limit 

traveler mobility and the efficient 

movement of goods. 

These proposed regulations would not 

impose any requirement for a State to 

apply any particular technology, any 

particular technology-dependent 

application, or any particular business 

approach for establishing a real-time 

information program. States and other 

public agencies instead would be 

encouraged to consider any salient 

technology, technology-dependent 

application, and business approach 

options that yield information products 

consistent with the requirements set 

forth in this proposed rule. States will 

be encouraged to work with value added 

information providers to establish realtime information programs. Value added 

information providers presently and in 

the future will create information 

products for commercial use, for sale to 

a customer base, or for other commercial 

enterprise purposes. Based upon this 

proposed rule, such products could be 

derived from information from public 

sector sources in addition to the private 

sector’s own capabilities for creating 

information content. 

The FHWA proposes to require realtime information programs to be capable 

of delivering traffic and travel 

conditions on: traffic incidents that 

block roadway travel, roadway weather 

conditions, and construction activities 

affecting travel conditions. Those realtime information programs that deliver 

traffic and travel conditions for 

Metropolitan Areas exceeding a 

population of 1 million inhabitants also 

would provide travel times for highway 

segments. 

The FHWA proposes to require 

general uniformity among the real-time 

information programs to ensure 

consistent service to travelers and to 

other agencies. The table below 

identifies the proposed traffic and travel 

condition categories and characteristics: 


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