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Frequency of Response: The 

information on some DQ documents is 

only provided one time, such as that 

furnished at the time the individual 

applies for employment as a driver. 

Other information must be obtained by 

the motor carrier within 30 days of the 

date the driver begins to drive a CMV 

for the employer. Other information, 

such as the driver’s motor vehicle 

record, is only updated once a year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

18.39 million hours. 

Definitions: N/A. 

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 

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. The Agency will 

summarize or include your comments in 

the request for OMB’s clearance of this 

ICR. 

Issued under the authority delegated in 49 

CFR 1.87. 

Thomas P. Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30516 Filed 12–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2024–0178] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Renewal of an Approved 

Information Collection: Road Test 

Requirement 

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, 

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. FMCSA requests approval to 

renew the ICR titled ‘‘Road Test 

Requirement.’’ This ICR estimates the 

information burden incurred by motor 

carriers associated with the road test 

requirements in two circumstances. The 

first is when the motor carrier hires a 

new driver. The second is when the 

road test is required for individuals 

physically qualified under the Agency’s 

alternative vision standard for the first 

time. In each circumstance, motor 

carriers are required to rate the 

performance of the driver during the test 

on a road test form provided by the 

motor carrier. If the road test is 

successfully completed, the motor 

carrier completes a certificate of driver’s 

road test and provides a copy to the 

driver. The motor carrier retains the 

original signed road test form and the 

original, or a copy, of the signed 

certificate in the driver qualification 

file. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or before January 22, 2025. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Pearlie Robinson, Driver and Carrier 

Operations Division, DOT, FMCSA, 

West Building, 6th Floor, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590–0001; 202–366–4225; 

pearlie.robinson@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Road Test Requirement. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0072. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Motor carriers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,187,668. 

Estimated Time per Response: 33 

minutes. 

Expiration Date: March 31, 2025. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

584,408. 

Background 

This ICR supports the DOT strategic 

goal of safety. Public interest in highway 

safety dictates that employers hire 

drivers who can safely operate CMVs 

amid the various physical and mental 

demands of truck and bus driving. 

Subject to some exceptions, 49 CFR 

391.31 requires a motor carrier to 

conduct a road test when the motor 

carrier hires a new driver. The motor 

carrier is required to rate the 

performance of the driver during the test 

on a road test form provided by the 

motor carrier. If the road test is 

successfully completed, the motor 

carrier completes a certificate of driver’s 

road test and provides a copy to the 

driver. The motor carrier retains the 

original signed road test form and the 

original, or a copy, of the signed 

certificate in the driver qualification 

file. Motor carriers may maintain the 

required road test form and certificate 

electronically or via paper copy. The 

information collected by the motor 

carrier is needed to document the motor 

carrier conducted the road test as 

required and determined the driver can 

operate a CMV safely. The information 

also assists Federal and State safety 

investigators in determining that motor 

carriers fulfilled their regulatory 

requirements when deciding who may 

drive CMVs on their behalf and in 

assessing the qualifications of drivers. 

The ICR estimates the informationcollection (IC) burden incurred by motor 

carriers associated with the § 391.31 

road test in two circumstances. The first 

is when the road test is required by 

§ 391.31 (IC–1); the second is when the 

road test is required as part of the 

alternative vision standard in § 391.44 

(IC–2). However, individuals are 

excepted from the road test requirement 

if they have 3 years of intrastate or 

specific excepted interstate CMV 

driving experience with the vision 

deficiency, hold a valid Federal vision 

exemption, or are medically certified 

under § 391.64(b). Most of the motor 

carrier burden hours and cost for the 

information collection relates to IC–1. 

Renewal of This IC 

The current burden estimate 

associated with this IC, approved by 

OMB on March 28, 2022, is 273,888 

hours. The expiration date of the current 

ICR is March 31, 2025. Through this ICR 

renewal, the Agency requests an 

increase in the burden hours from 

273,888 hours to 584,408 hours. The 

increase is the result of an increase in 

the estimated driver population as well 

as an increase in the expected industry 

growth rate for drivers from 2022 to 

2032. 

On September 13, 2024, FMCSA 

published a Federal Register notice 

allowing for a 60-day comment period 

on this ICR (89 FR 75011). The comment 

period closed on November 12, 2024. 

There were no comments submitted in 

response to that notice. 

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 

FMCSA to enhance the quality, 

usefulness, and clarity of the collected 


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information; and (4) ways that the 

burden could be minimized without 

reducing the quality of the collected 

information. 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. 

Thomas P. Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30517 Filed 12–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket Number FRA–2010–0029] 

The National Railroad Passenger 

Corporation’s Request for Amendment 

to Its Positive Train Control Type 

Approval and System Certification 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of availability and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: This document provides the 

public with notice that, on December 

11, 2024, the National Railroad 

Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) 

submitted a request for amendment 

(RFA) to its Positive Train Control Type 

Approval and System Certification in 

order to add Amtrak AMT–27, which 

includes instructions for testing signal 

apparatuses and signal systems. As this 

RFA may involve a request for FRA’s 

approval of proposed material 

modifications to an FRA-certified 

positive train control (PTC) system, FRA 

is publishing this notice and inviting 

public comment on Amtrak’s RFA to its 

Positive Train Control Type Approval 

and System Certification. 

DATES: FRA will consider comments 

received by January 13, 2025. FRA may 

consider comments received after that 

date to the extent practicable and 

without delaying implementation of 

valuable or necessary modifications to a 

PTC system. 

ADDRESSES: Comments: Comments may 

be submitted by going to https://

www.regulations.gov and following the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and the 

applicable docket number. The relevant 

PTC docket number for this host 

railroad is Docket No. FRA–2010–0029. 

For convenience, all active PTC dockets 

are hyperlinked on FRA’s website at 

https://railroads.dot.gov/researchdevelopment/program-areas/traincontrol/ptc/railroads-ptc-dockets. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov; this includes any 

personal information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gabe Neal, Staff Director, Signal, Train 

Control, and Crossings Division, 

telephone: 816–516–7168, email: 

Gabe.Neal@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In general, 

title 49 United States Code (U.S.C.) 

section 20157(h) requires FRA to certify 

that a host railroad’s PTC system 

complies with title 49 Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) part 236, subpart I, 

before the technology may be operated 

in revenue service. Before making 

certain changes to an FRA-certified PTC 

system or the associated FRA-approved 

PTCSP, a host railroad must submit, and 

obtain FRA’s approval of, an RFA to its 

PTCSP under 49 CFR 236.1021. 

Under 49 CFR 236.1021(e), FRA’s 

regulations provide that FRA will 

publish a notice in the Federal Register 

and invite public comment in 

accordance with 49 CFR part 211, if an 

RFA includes a request for approval of 

a material modification of a signal or 

train control system. Accordingly, this 

notice informs the public that, on 

December 11, 2024, Amtrak submitted 

an RFA to its Positive Train Control 

Type Approval and System Certification 

in order to add Amtrak AMT–27, which 

includes instructions for testing signal 

apparatuses and signal systems. That 

RFA is available in Docket No. FRA– 

2010–0029. 

Interested parties are invited to 

comment on Amtrak’s RFA to its 

Positive Train Control Type Approval 

and System Certification by submitting 

written comments or data. During FRA’s 

review of Amtrak’s RFA, FRA will 

consider any comments or data 

submitted within the timeline specified 

in this notice and to the extent 

practicable, without delaying 

implementation of valuable or necessary 

modifications to a PTC system. See 49 

CFR 236.1021; see also 49 CFR 

236.1011(e). Under 49 CFR 236.1021, 

FRA maintains the authority to approve, 

approve with conditions, or deny a 

railroad’s RFA to its PTCSP at FRA’s 

sole discretion. 

Privacy Act Notice 

In accordance with 49 CFR 211.3, 

FRA solicits comments from the public 

to better inform its decisions. DOT posts 

these comments, without edit, including 

any personal information the 

commenter provides, to https://

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

https://www.transportation.gov/privacy. 

See https://www.regulations.gov/ 

privacy-notice for the privacy notice of 

regulations.gov. To facilitate comment 

tracking, we encourage commenters to 

provide their name, or the name of their 

organization; however, submission of 

names is completely optional. If you 

wish to provide comments containing 

proprietary or confidential information, 

please contact FRA for alternate 

submission instructions. 

Issued in Washington, DC 

John Karl Alexy, 

Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety 

& Chief Safety Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–30601 Filed 12–20–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) is publishing the names 

of one or more persons that have been 

placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated 

Nationals and Blocked Persons List 

(SDN List) based on OFAC’s 

determination that one or more 

applicable legal criteria were satisfied. 

All property and interests in property 

subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these 

persons are blocked, and U.S. persons 

are generally prohibited from engaging 

in transactions with them. 

DATES: This action was issued on 

December 17, 2024. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for relevant dates. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

OFAC: Associate Director for Global 

Targeting, 202–622–2420; or Assistant 

Director for Sanctions Compliance, 202– 

622–2490 or https://ofac.treasury.gov/ 

contact-ofac. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Availability 

The SDN List and additional 

information concerning OFAC sanctions 

programs are available on OFAC’s 

website: https://ofac.treasury.gov. 

Notice of OFAC Action 

On December 17, 2024, OFAC 

determined that the persons identified 

below meet one or more of the criteria 


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