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—Amendments to the International 

Maritime Solid Bulk Cargoes Code 

(IMSBC Code) including evaluation of 

properties of solid bulk cargos. 

—Casualty and incident reports and 

analysis. 

—Stowage of water-reactive materials. 

—Revised Guidelines for packing of 

cargo transport units. 

—Consideration for the efficacy of 

Container Inspection Programme. 

—Installation of equipment for 

detection of radioactive contaminated 

objects in port. 

—Amendments to the International 

Convention for Safe Containers, 1972 

and associated circulars. 

—Amendment to SOLAS to mandate 

enclosed space entry and rescue 

drills. 

—Biennial agenda and provisional 

agenda for DSC 17. 

—Election of Chairman and ViceChairman for 2012. 

—Any other business. 

—Report to the Maritime Safety 

Committee. 

Members of the public may attend the 

two meetings up to the seating capacity 

of the rooms. To facilitate the building 

security process, and to request 

reasonable accommodation, those who 

plan to attend one or all of the four 

meetings should contact the following 

coordinators at least 7 days prior to the 

meetings: 

—For the FAL 37 meeting on August 17, 

2011, contact Mr. David Du Pont, by 

e-mail at David.A.DuPont@uscg.mil, 

by phone at (202) 372–1497, by fax at 

(202) 372–1928, or in writing at 

Commandant (CG–52), U.S. Coast 

Guard, 2100 2nd Street, SW., Stop 

7126, Washington, DC 20593–7126 

not later than August 10, 2011, 7 days 

prior to the meeting. Requests for 

reasonable accommodation made after 

August 10, 2011 might not be able to 

be accommodated. 

—For the DSC 16 meeting on September 

6, 2011, contact LT Elizabeth Newton, 

by e-mail at 

Elizabeth.J.Newton@uscg.mil, by 

phone at (202) 372–1419, by fax at 

(202) 372–1426, or in writing at 

Commandant (CG–52), U.S. Coast 

Guard, 2100 2nd Street, SW., Stop 

7126, Washington, DC 20593–7126 

not later than August 30, 2011, 7 days 

prior to the meeting. Requests for 

reasonable accommodation made after 

August 30 might not be able to be 

accommodated. 

Please note that due to security 

considerations at Coast Guard 

Headquarters in Washington, DC, two 

valid, government issued photo 

identifications must be presented to 

gain entrance to the CG Headquarters 

building. The CG Headquarters building 

is accessible by taxi and privately 

owned conveyance (public 

transportation is not generally 

available). However, parking in the 

vicinity of the building is extremely 

limited. 

Additional information regarding this 

and other IMO SHC public meetings 

may be found at: http://www.uscg.mil/ 

imo. 

Dated: July 18, 2011. 

Greg O’Brien, 

Senior Oceans Policy Advisor, Shipping 

Coordinating Committee, Department of 

State. 

[FR Doc. 2011–18977 Filed 7–26–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

[Docket No. 2011–0786] 

Notice of FAA Intent To Carry Over 

Airport Improvement Program (AIP) 

Entitlement Funds 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: By 12 p.m. prevailing local 

time on Friday, August 12, 2011, airport 

sponsors eligible to receive entitlement 

funds under the Airport Improvement 

Program (AIP) must notify, in writing, 

the designated representative in the 

appropriate FAA Regional or Airports 

District Office if they intend to submit 

a final grant application in support of 

eligible projects with their fiscal year 

2011 and/or prior-year entitlement 

funds. This notice must address all 

entitlement funds apportioned for fiscal 

year 2011, regardless of whether the 

FAA has authority to obligate those 

funds. After that deadline, the FAA will 

carry over all remaining entitlement 

funds, and the funds will not be 

available again until at least the 

beginning of fiscal year 2012. This 

notification requirement does not apply 

to non-primary airports covered by the 

block-grant program. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Frank J. San Martin, Manager, Airports 

Financial Assistance Division, APP– 

500, on (202) 267–3831. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Availability of Documents 

You can get an electronic copy of this 

policy and all other documents in this 

docket using the Internet by: 

(1) Searching the Federal 

eRulemaking portal (http:// 

www.regulations.gov/search); 

(2) Visiting the FAA’s Regulations and 

Policies Web page at http:// 

www.faa.gov/regulations_policies; or 

(3) Accessing the Government 

Printing Office’s Web page at http:// 

www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html. 

You can also get a copy by sending a 

request to the Federal Aviation 

Administration, Airports Financial 

Assistance Division, Office of Airport 

Planning and Programming, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20591, or by calling 

(202) 267–3831. Make sure to identify 

the docket number, notice number, or 

amendment number of this proceeding. 

Title 49 of the United States Code, 

Chapter 471, allows the FAA to grant 

apportioned or entitlement funds to 

eligible airport sponsors in support of 

eligible projects. Chapter 471 also 

allows the FAA to defer or carry over 

such grants to the following year. In 

such cases, the FAA converts the 

current-year funds to AIP discretionary 

funds, and then protects an equal 

amount of funding to be available to the 

sponsor in the following year, subject to 

legislative action to give the FAA both 

legal authority to issue grants and an 

appropriation of funds. 

Over the five fiscal years from 2003 

through 2007, the FAA converted 

entitlements averaging just over $450 

million annually, representing 

approximately 13 percent of the overall 

amount appropriated for AIP. Beginning 

in fiscal year 2008, that percentage 

increased sharply, to an annual average 

closer to $600 million, representing 

approximately 18 percent of the amount 

appropriated for AIP. 

Chapter 471 requires the FAA to 

establish a deadline for sponsors to 

notify the FAA of their intention to 

request a grant using their available 

entitlement funds. The FAA has 

historically established May 1 as the 

deadline for sponsor notification. By the 

end of July in each of the fiscal years 

from 2006 through 2010, the FAA has 

historically been able to convert at least 

$400 million in entitlement funds based 

on sponsor requests. 

On February 3, 2011, the FAA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register (23 FR 6178), establishing May 

1, 2011 as the notification deadline. 

However, as of July 20, 2011 (with about 

10 weeks remaining in the fiscal year), 

the FAA has been able to convert only 

about $120 million in carryover based 

on sponsor notifications. This 

represents a significantly slower rate of 

carryover conversion. 


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As the end of the fiscal year 

approaches, it will quickly become 

difficult to convert further carryover 

funds to discretionary in sufficient time 

to obligate the funds. The FAA 

recognizes the unique circumstances 

that many sponsors face due to the 

series of short-term extensions of the 

FAA’s authorizing legislation, which 

has prevented the FAA from making 

apportioned AIP funds fully available 

during FY 2011. The FAA also 

recognizes that in many cases, sponsors 

have been awaiting access to the full 

amount of entitlement funds. In other 

cases, sponsors have been waiting in the 

hope of securing AIP discretionary or 

state apportionment funds. 

Therefore, the FAA is hereby 

notifying sponsors about steps required 

to ensure that the FAA has sufficient 

time to carryover and convert remaining 

entitlement funds, due to processes 

required under federal and local laws. 

The FAA is hereby notifying all 

sponsors that by 12 p.m. prevailing local 

time on Friday, August 12, 2011, they 

must submit written notice to the 

appropriate FAA office if they intend to 

submit a final grant application in 

support of eligible projects with its 

fiscal year 2011 or prior-year 

entitlement funds. This notice must 

address all apportioned for fiscal year 

2011, regardless of whether the FAA has 

authority to obligate those funds. After 

that deadline, the FAA will carry over 

all remaining entitlement funds, and the 

funds will not be available again until 

at least the beginning of fiscal year 2012. 

This notification requirement does not 

apply to non-primary airports covered 

by the block-grant program. 

In addition, the FAA is also 

reminding sponsors that the February 3, 

2011 Federal Register notice established 

August 1, 2011 as the deadline to 

submit a grant application. In light of 

the protracted uncertainty about the 

program, the FAA is hereby revising 

that deadline to Friday, August 12, 

2011. The FAA urges sponsors who 

cannot meet this deadline for grant 

applications to contact the designated 

representative in the appropriate 

Airports Regional or District Office. 

The FAA is also notifying sponsors 

who have requested but not received 

AIP discretionary funding in fiscal year 

2011 that they must contact the 

designated representative in the 

appropriate Airports District Office or 

Regional Office. The FAA will advise 

such sponsors if it is unlikely that the 

FAA can fulfill those funding requests 

in fiscal year 2011, enabling such 

sponsors to make timely decisions about 

their fiscal year 2011 entitlement funds. 

In the absence of either a final grant 

application or written notification from 

the sponsor stating their intent to use 

fiscal year 2011 entitlement funds, the 

FAA will carry over all remaining 

entitlement funds, and the funds will 

not be available again until at least the 

beginning of fiscal year 2012. 

Issued in Washington, DC on July 22, 2011. 

Frank J. San Martin, 

Manager, Airports Financial Assistance 

Division, Office of Airport Planning and 

Programming. 

[FR Doc. 2011–18943 Filed 7–26–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Section 5309 Discretionary Bus and 

Bus Facilities Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of FTA 

Bus and Bus Facilities Program Funds: 

Solicitation of Project Proposals for 

Veterans Transportation and 

Community Living Initiative grants. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) announces the 

availability of discretionary Section 

5309 Bus and Bus Facilities grant funds 

in support of the Federal Interagency 

Coordinating Council on Access and 

Mobility’s (CCAM or Coordinating 

Council) Veterans Transportation and 

Community Living Initiative (VTCLI or 

Initiative). This grant opportunity will 

be funded using $30 million in 

unallocated Discretionary Bus and Bus 

Facilities Program funds, authorized by 

49 U.S.C. 5309(b) of the Safe, 

Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy For 

Users (SAFETEA–LU), Public Law 109– 

59, August 10, 2005. 

This VTCLI grant opportunity makes 

funds available to local governmental 

agencies to finance capital costs of 

implementing, expanding, or increasing 

access to local One-Call/One-Click 

Transportation Resource Centers. These 

Centers simplify access to transportation 

for the public by connecting customers 

in one place to rides and transportation 

options provided in their locality by a 

variety of transportation providers and 

programs. This notice includes 

priorities established by the 

Coordinating Council’s partnership for 

these discretionary funds, the criteria 

the interagency review panel will use to 

identify meritorious projects for 

funding, and describes how to apply. 

Additionally, the Department of 

Veterans Affairs (VA) will make 

mobility management training 

assistance and support available to 

Veteran’s Affairs networks in 

communities selected for award. The 

Department of Labor (DOL) will make 

social communication technologies and 

training available to selected grantees in 

order to actively engage veterans, 

military service personnel and families 

as well as others in the community in 

the development of plans to better 

respond to the transportation needs of 

veterans and military service families. 

This announcement is available on 

the FTA’s Web site, on the Veterans 

Transportation and Community Living 

initiative Web page at: http:// 

www.fta.dot.gov/veterans. FTA will 

announce final selections on its Web 

site and in the Federal Register. A 

synopsis of this announcement will be 

posted in the FIND module of the 

government-wide electronic grants Web 

site at http://www.grants.gov. Proposals 

must be submitted to FTA, 

electronically, through the 

GRANTS.GOV ‘‘APPLY’’ function. 

DATES: Complete proposals for the 

discretionary Veterans Transportation 

and Community Living grants must be 

submitted by September 16, 2011. The 

proposals must be submitted 

electronically through the 

GRANTS.GOV Web site. Applicants 

who have not already done so should 

initiate the process of registering on the 

GRANTS.GOV site immediately to 

ensure completion of registration before 

the deadline for submission. 

ADDRESSES: Proposals must be 

submitted electronically at http:// 

www.grants.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general program information, as well as 

proposal-specific questions, please send 

an e-mail to 

VeteransTransportation@dot.gov or 

contact Doug Birnie, (202) 366–1666, or, 

Pamela Brown, (202) 493–2503. A TDD 

is available at 1–800–877–8339 (TDD/ 

FIRS). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

I. Funding Opportunity Description 

II. FTA and Other Partnership Award 

Information 

III. Eligibility Information 

IV. Proposal Submission Information 

V. Proposal Review, Selection and 

Notification 

VI. Award Administration 

VII. Agency Contacts 


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