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8. Project Sponsor: Weaverland Valley 

Authority. Project Facility: Blue Ball 

Water System, East Earl Township, 

Lancaster County, Pa. Application for 

groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.144 

mgd (30-day average) from Well 4 as 

well as recognizing historic withdrawals 

from wells 1, 2 and 3. 

Commission-Initiated Project Approval 

Modifications 

9. Project Sponsor and Facility: 

Municipal Authority of the Borough of 

Mansfield, Richmond Township, Tioga 

County, Pa. Conforming the 

grandfathered amount with the 

forthcoming determination for a 

withdrawal from Webster Reservoir up 

to 0.311 mgd (30-day average) (Docket 

No. 20130609). 

10. Project Sponsor and Facility: 

Williamsport Municipal Water 

Authority, Williamsport City, Lycoming 

County, Pa. Conforming the 

grandfathered amounts with the 

forthcoming determination for 

withdrawals (30-day averages) from 

Well 3 up to 0.940 mgd, from Well 4 up 

to 0.940 mgd, from Well 5 up to 2.141 

mgd, from Well 6 up to 0.687 mgd, from 

Well 7 up to 2.254 mgd, from Well 8 up 

to 0.987 mgd, from Well 9 up to 0.800 

mgd, from Mosquito Creek up to 6.833 

mgd, and from Hagermans Run up to 

4.926 mgd (Docket No. 20110628). 

Project Approval Tabled 

11. Project Sponsor and Facility: 

Pennsylvania State University, College 

Township, Centre County, Pa. 

Applications for renewal of 

groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.960 

mgd (30-day average) from Well UN–37 

and consumptive use of up to 0.960 mgd 

(peak day) (Docket No. 19890106–1). 

Project Withdrawn 

12. Project Sponsor and Facility: 

Beech Resources, LLC (Lycoming 

Creek), Lycoming Township, Lycoming 

County, Pa. Application for surface 

water withdrawal of up to 1.500 mgd 

(peak day). 

Project Terminated 

13. Project Sponsor and Facility: City 

of Aberdeen, Harford County, Md. 

Modifications to extend the approval 

term of the consumptive use, surface 

water withdrawal, and out-of-basin 

diversion approval (Docket No. 

20021210) to allow additional time for 

evaluation of the continued use of the 

source for the Aberdeen Proving 

Ground-Aberdeen Area. 

(Authority: Pub. L. 91–575, 84 Stat. 1509 et 

seq., 18 CFR parts 806, 807, and 808.) 

Dated: June 24, 2021. 

Jason E. Oyler, 

General Counsel and Secretary to the 

Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2021–0006–N–6] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its 

implementing regulations, FRA seeks 

approval of the Information Collection 

Request (ICR) abstracted below. Before 

submitting this ICR to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval, FRA is soliciting public 

comment on specific aspects of the 

activities identified in the ICR. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before August 

30, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed ICR 

should be submitted on regulations.gov 

to the docket, Docket No. FRA 2021– 

0006. All comments received will be 

posted without change to the docket, 

including any personal information 

provided. Please refer to the assigned 

OMB control number in any 

correspondence submitted. FRA will 

summarize comments received in 

response to this notice in a subsequent 

notice and include them in its 

information collection submission to 

OMB for approval. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Hodan Wells, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, at email: 

hodan.wells@dot.gov or telephone: (202) 

493–0440. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA, 

44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its 

implementing regulations, 5 CFR part 

1320, require Federal agencies to 

provide 60-days’ notice to the public to 

allow comment on information 

collection activities before seeking OMB 

approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C. 

3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through 

1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites 

interested parties to comment on the 

following ICR regarding: (1) Whether the 

information collection activities are 

necessary for FRA to properly execute 

its functions, including whether the 

activities will have practical utility; (2) 

the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the 

burden of the information collection 

activities, including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used to 

determine the estimates; (3) ways for 

FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information being 

collected; and (4) ways for FRA to 

minimize the burden of information 

collection activities on the public, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. See 44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1). 

FRA believes that soliciting public 

comment may reduce the administrative 

and paperwork burdens associated with 

the collection of information that 

Federal regulations mandate. In 

summary, FRA reasons that comments 

received will advance three objectives: 

(1) Reduce reporting burdens; (2) 

organize information collection 

requirements in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ format 

to improve the use of such information; 

and (3) accurately assess the resources 

expended to retrieve and produce 

information requested. See 44 U.S.C. 

3501. 

The summary below describes the ICR 

that FRA will submit for OMB clearance 

as the PRA requires: 

Title: Hours of Service Regulations. 

OMB Control Number: 2130–0005. 

Abstract: FRA’s hours of service 

recordkeeping regulations (49 CFR part 

228), amended as mandated by the Rail 

Safety Improvement Act of 2008, 

include substantive hours of service 

requirements for train employees (i.e., 

locomotive engineers and conductors) 

providing commuter and intercity rail 

passenger transportation (e.g., maximum 

on-duty periods, minimum off-duty 

periods, and other limitations). The 

regulations also require railroads to 

evaluate passenger train employee work 

schedules for risk of employee fatigue 

and implement measures to mitigate the 

risk, and to submit to FRA for approval 

certain schedules and mitigation plans. 

Finally, the regulations include 

recordkeeping and reporting provisions 

requiring railroads to keep hours of 

service records, and report excessive 

service, for train employees, signal 

employees, and dispatching service 

employees on both freight and 

passenger railroads. 

FRA uses the information collected to 

verify that railroads do not require or 

allow their employees to exceed 

maximum on-duty periods, and ensure 

that they abide by minimum off-duty 

periods, and adhere to other limitations 


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in this regulation, to enhance rail safety 

and reduce the risk of accidents/ 

incidents caused, or contributed to, by 

train employee fatigue. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

change (with changes in estimates) of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses (railroads 

and signal contractors). 

Form(s): FRA F 6180.3. 

Respondent Universe: 796 railroads, 

signal contractors and subcontractors. 

Frequency of Submission: On 

occasion. 

Reporting Burden: 

CFR section 1 Respondent universe 

Total annual responses Average time per responses Total annual 

burden hours 

Total cost 

equivalent 2

228.11—Hours of duty records ................ 796 railroads/signal 

contractors & subcontractors.

17,448,669 (electronic records) + 

918,351 (paper 

records).

3 minutes (electronic records) + 8 

minutes (paper 

records).

994,880 $77,043,507 

228.17—Dispatchers record of train 

movements.

65 dispatch offices .. 285,000 cumulative 

train-movement 

tracking.

1 hour ..................... 285,000 22,070,400 

228.19(g)–(h)—Monthly reports of excess 

service—Exception (FRA F 6180.3).

796 railroads/signal 

contractors & subcontractors.

1,750 reports .......... 1 hour ..................... 1,750 135,520 

228.103/.107—Construction of employees’ sleeping quarters—Petition request to FRA to allow construction 

near work areas.

796 railroads/signal 

contractors & subcontractors.

2 petition waivers .... 24 hours .................. 48 3,717 

228.207(b)—Training—Initial training— 

New employees and supervisors.

671 railroads ........... 250 training records 2 minutes ................ 8 620 

—(c) Refresher training—System audits 

for irregularities by railroads and contractors.

796 railroads/signal 

contractors & subcontractors.

796 audits and 

records.

2 hours .................... 1,592 123,284 

228.407(a)—Analysis of work schedules—Railroads’ analysis of one cycle 

of work schedules of employees engaged in commuter or intercity passenger transportation.

34 railroads ............. 3 analyses .............. 2 hours .................... 6 465 

—(b) Submissions of certain work schedules and any fatigue mitigation plans 

and determinations of operational necessity or declarations.

34 railroads ............. 3 fatigue mitigation 

plans.

20 hours .................. 60 4,646 

—(b) Submissions to FRA for review and 

approval.

34 railroads ............. 1 submission ........... 1 hour ..................... 1 77 

—(d) Analysis of certain later changes in 

work schedules—Analyses and mitigation plans—Resubmission to FRA for 

approval.

34 railroads ............. 1 analysis or plan ... 1 hour ..................... 1 9,647 

228.411—Training programs on fatigue 

and related topics (e.g., rest, alertness, 

changes in rest cycles, etc.).

34 railroads ............. 34 railroads ............. 2 hours .................... 68 5,266 

—(e) Records of training on fatigue and 

related topics.

34 railroads ............. 5,539 records .......... 1 minute .................. 92 7,124 

228.411(f)—Conditional exclusion—Written declaration to FRA by tourist, scenic, historic, or excursion railroads 

seeking exclusion.

83 railroads ............. 1 written declaration 1 hour ..................... 1 77 

Totals 3 .............................................. 796 railroads/signal 

contractors & subcontractors.

18,660,400 responses.N/A .......................... 1,283,507 99,404,352 

1The current inventory exhibits a total burden of 3,421,290 hours while the total burden of this notice is 1,283,507 hours. FRA determined 

many of the estimates were initial estimates, outdated, or duplicates. Moreover, other estimates were not derived from PRA requirements, thus 

leading to the increased figures in the current inventory, which were decreased accordingly in this notice. 2The dollar equivalent cost is derived from the Surface Transportation Board’s 2020 Full Year Wage A&B data series using the appropriate 

employee group hourly wage rate that includes a 75-percent overhead charge. 3Totals may not add due to rounding. 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 

18,660,400. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden: 

1,283,507 hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour 

Dollar Cost Equivalent: $99,404,352. 

Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR 

1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA 

informs all interested parties that a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, conduct, or sponsor a collection of 

information that does not display a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

Brett A. Jortland, 

Acting Chief Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2021–13787 Filed 6–28–21; 8:45 am] 

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