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previously granted by letter dated 

September 18, 2020, related to the 

coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID–19) 

public health emergency. See https://

www.regulations.gov/document/FRA2020-0060-0005. 

In support of its petition, APTA notes 

that the Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention guidance on social 

distancing, as well as avoiding crowds 

and poorly ventilated spaces are 

expected to remain in place for the 

foreseeable future and that commuter 

railroads are still operating with muchreduced workforces as a result of 

COVID–19 (over 12,000 commuter rail 

employees have tested positive and/or 

self-quarantined over the last 17 

months). 

APTA requests that FRA extend the 

existing relief previously granted in 

FRA’s September 18, 2020, letter for one 

year. 

A copy of the petition, as well as any 

written communications concerning the 

petition, is available for review online at 

www.regulations.gov (Docket Number 

FRA–2020–0060). 

Interested parties are invited to 

participate in these proceedings by 

submitting written views, data, or 

comments. If any interested parties 

desire an opportunity for oral comment 

and a public hearing, they should notify 

FRA, in writing, before the end of the 

comment period and specify the basis 

for their request. 

All communications concerning these 

proceedings should identify the 

appropriate docket number and may be 

submitted at http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Communications received by 

September 9, 2021 will be considered by 

FRA before final action is taken. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered if practicable. Anyone 

can search the electronic form of any 

written communications and comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the document, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). Under 5 

U.S.C. 553(c), the U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) solicits comments 

from the public to better inform its 

processes. 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 

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

See also https://www.regulations.gov/ 

privacy-notice for the privacy notice of 

regulations.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

John Karl Alexy, 

Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, 

Chief Safety Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18242 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2021–0027] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; National 911 Profile 

Database 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments on a request for extension of 

a currently-approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), this notice announces that the 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

abstracted below will be submitted to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its expected burden. 

NHTSA is requesting an extension of its 

information collection to continue to 

collect and aggregate information from 

State-level reporting entities that can be 

used to measure the progress of 911 

authorities across the country in 

upgrading and enhancing their existing 

operations. A Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following information 

collection was published on April 19, 

2021. No comments were received. 

DATES: Comments to this notice must be 

submitted on or before September 24, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing burden, should 

be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget at 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

To find this particular information 

collection, select ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or 

use the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or access to 

background documents, contact Ms. 

Laurie Flaherty, Coordinator, National 

911 Program, Office of Emergency 

Medical Services, National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, NPD–400, Room 

W44–322, Washington, DC 20590. Ms. 

Flaherty’s phone number is (202) 366– 

2705 and her email address is 

laurie.flaherty@dot.gov. Please identify 

the relevant collection of information by 

referring to its OMB Control Number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal 

agency must receive approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) before it collects certain 

information from the public and a 

person is not required to respond to a 

collection of information by a Federal 

agency unless the collection displays a 

valid OMB control number. In 

compliance with these requirements, 

this notice announces that the following 

information collection request will be 

submitted OMB. 

Title: National 911 Profile Database. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0679. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Type of Request: Request for 

extension of a currently-approved 

information collection. 

Type of Review Requested: Regular. 

Length of Approval Requested: Three 

years. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: The National 911 Program 

is housed within NHTSA’s Office of 

Emergency Medical Services, which has 

a mission to provide coordination in 

assessing, planning, developing, and 

promoting comprehensive, evidencebased emergency medical services and 

911 systems. Pursuant to 47 U.S.C. 942, 

Coordination of 911, E911, and Next 

Generation 911 implementation, the 

National 911 Program exists to 

coordinate 911 efforts, collect and create 

resources for State and local 911 

agencies, and to oversee a grant 

program, specifically to upgrade the 

nation’s outdated 911 infrastructure. 

NHTSA is requesting an extension of 

its information collection, carried out 

under 47 U.S.C. 942(a)(3)(B), to 

continue to collect and aggregate 

information from State-level reporting 

entities that can be used to measure the 

progress of 911 authorities across the 

country in upgrading and enhancing 

their existing operations and migrating 

to more advanced—digital, internetProtocol-enabled—emergency networks. 

The data will be maintained in a 

‘‘National 911 Profile Database.’’ The 

National 911 Profile Database maintains 

State-specific and benchmarking data, 

which is later analyzed by the 911 

Program for trends and findings. 

Collecting and sharing nationwide 911 


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1May 2019 National Occupational Employment 

and Wage Estimates by ownership, Federal, State, 

and local government, including governmentowned schools and hospitals and the U.S. Postal 

Service, at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/ 

999001.htm#11-0000 (BLS code 11–3010). 

2Table 1 at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ 

ecec.t01.htm. 

statistics helps the 911 community 

better understand the state of the 

industry. The National 911 Profile 

Database enables voluntary submission 

of data by State and territorial 911 

agencies via annual data submission. 

The information to be collected includes 

data useful for evaluating the status of 

911 programs across the country, along 

with their progress in implementing 

upgraded and advanced systems and 

capabilities. The data elements involved 

will fall within two major categories: 

Baseline and progress benchmarks. 

• ‘‘Baseline’’ data elements reflect the 

current status and nature of 911 

operations from State to State. These 

elements are largely descriptive in 

nature, are intended to provide a general 

view of existing 911 services across the 

country, and are grouped within five 

categories: Total 911 Calls and Call 

Type, Number of Public Safety 

Answering Points (PSAPs) and 

Equipment Positions, Emergency 

Medical Dispatch and Operations, CallHandling Quality Assurance, and 

Minimum Training Requirements. 

• ‘‘Progress benchmarks’’ reflect the 

status of State efforts to implement 

advanced next generation 911 systems 

and capabilities. As titled, these data 

elements are largely implementation or 

deployment benchmarks against which 

progress can be measured, and include: 

Planning, Procurement, Transition, 

Operations, and Maturity Level. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information: To support NHTSA’s 

mission to save lives, the National 911 

Program develops, collects, and 

disseminates information concerning 

practices, procedures, and technology 

used in the provision of 911 services; 

and to support 911 Public Safety 

Answering Points (PSAPs) and related 

State and local public safety agencies’ 

911 technological and operational 

upgrades. 

The technology impacting 911 

services continues to evolve 

substantially. Both public and private 

sectors have increasingly focused on 

addressing the need to upgrade and 

enhance the technology utilized by 911 

services across the Nation. In addition, 

it is essential that emergency responders 

are able to coordinate and collaborate 

with 911 agencies via comprehensive 

and seamless emergency 

communication systems as they update 

their own part of the emergency 

communications network. This 

information collection supports efforts 

to upgrade 911 services by providing 

up-to-date information to State and local 

public safety entities to allow them to 

adequately gauge progress toward 

implementing more current and 

advanced 911 systems in a comparative 

fashion. While the National 911 

Program will benefit from this 

information, it is anticipated that the 

greatest benefit will accrue to the State 

and local public safety community faced 

with the challenge of migrating to the 

next generation of 911 services and 

technology as they strive to respond to 

emergencies. 

The National 911 Profile Database is 

used to follow the progress of 911 

authorities in enhancing their existing 

systems and implementing nextgeneration networks to more current 

functionality. The data in this national 

profile has been used and will continue 

to be used to accurately measure and 

depict the current status and 

capabilities of 911 systems across the 

United States, as well as progress made 

in implementing advanced technologies 

and operations—known as Next 

Generation (NG) 911. Assessments, 

based upon the data collected, will help 

draw attention to key roadblocks as well 

as solutions in NG911 implementation 

processes. Analysis of the data will also 

help target possible future activities and 

resources consistent with the goals of 

the program. The information collected 

will be available in aggregated form to 

national, Federal, State and local 

stakeholders in the public safety 

community. This information collection 

supports NHTSA’s mission to save lives, 

prevent injuries and reduce economic 

costs due to road traffic crashes by 

ensuring emergency responses to 

crashes of all nature (e.g. planes, trains, 

and automobiles) and maximizing the 

chances of survival for crash victims. 

60-Day Notice 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day comment period soliciting public 

comments on the following information 

collection was published on April 19, 

2021(86 FR 20431). No comments were 

received. 

Affected Public: State 911 agency 

administrators. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

56. 

Frequency: Annual. 

Number of Responses: 56. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: NHTSA estimates that 

submitting responses to the questions 

included in the proposed survey 

instrument utilizing the Web-based tool 

would require an average of 98 hours 

per State entity to collect, aggregate and 

submit. Estimating the maximum 

number of respondents at 56 (the fifty 

States, the District of Columbia, and five 

U.S. Territories), this would result in a 

total burden of 5,488 hours (98 hours × 

56 respondents). 

The total labor costs associated with 

the burden hours are estimated by 

finding the average hourly wage and 

multiplying by the number of burden 

hours. Respondents will be State, 

territory, and tribal government 

management personnel. To estimate 

reasonable staff expenses to respond to 

this information collection, the 

Agencies reviewed the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics (BLS) Occupational Outlook 

Handbook and determined that the 

Administrative Services Manager 

description closely aligns with the 

positions of recipient staff responsible 

for completing this request. BLS lists the 

average hourly wage as $46.45.1 Further, 

BLS estimates that State and local 

government wages represent 61.8% of 

total labor compensation costs.2

Therefore, NHTSA estimates the hourly 

labor costs to be $75.16 (46.45 ÷ 0.618). 

The total labor cost based on the 

estimated burden hours is estimated at 

$412,478. The table below provides a 

summary of the estimated burden hours 

and the labor costs associated with 

those burden hours. 

Number of 

respondents 

Annual 

hours per 

respondent 

Average hourly 

compensation 

Estimated annual 

labor 

cost per 

respondent 

Total 

estimated annual 

burden 

hours 

Total estimated 

annual labor costs 

56 .......................................... 98 $75.16 $7,365.68 5,488 $412,478.08 or $412,478. 


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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: 

There are no capital, start-up, or annual 

operation and maintenance costs 

involved in the collection of 

information. The respondents would not 

incur any reporting costs from the 

information collection beyond the labor 

costs associated with the burden hours 

to gather the information, prepare it for 

reporting and then populate the Webbased data collection tool. The 

respondents also would not incur any 

recordkeeping burden or recordkeeping 

costs from the information collection. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspects of this 

information collection, including (a) 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 

1351.29. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18251 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0178] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity: Monthly Certification of Onthe-Job and Apprenticeship Training 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA), is announcing an 

opportunity for public comment on the 

revised collection of certain information 

by the agency. Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, Federal 

agencies are required to publish notice 

in the Federal Register concerning each 

revised collection of information, 

including each proposed revision of a 

currently approved collection, and 

allow 60 days for public comment in 

response to the notice. 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations on the proposed 

collection of information should be 

received on or before October 25, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on the collection of information through 

Federal Docket Management System 

(FDMS) at www.Regulations.gov or to 

Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits 

Administration (20M33), Department of 

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue 

NW, Washington, DC 20420 or email to 

nancy.kessinger@va.gov. Please refer to 

‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0178’’ in any 

correspondence. During the comment 

period, comments may be viewed online 

through FDMS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise 

and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics (008), 1717 H Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20006, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0178’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA of 1995, Federal agencies must 

obtain approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for each 

collection of information they conduct 

or sponsor. This request for comment is 

being made pursuant to Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA. 

With respect to the following 

collection of information, VBA invites 

comments on: (1) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of VBA’s 

functions, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of VBA’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including through the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

the use of other forms of information 

technology. 

Authority: Public Law 115–89 

‘‘Veterans Apprenticeship and Labor 

Opportunity Reform Act’’, 38 U.S.C. 

3002(3)(C), 3032(c), 3233, 3313(g), 3484, 

3534(a), 3680(c), 3687, and 10 U.S.C. 

16131., 38 CFR 21.3131(a), 21.3132(c), 

21.4135(e)(3)(iii), 21.4203(f)(3), 21.4262, 

21.5130, 21.5138, 21.7139(g), and 

21.7639(f), 21.9561(c), 21.9641(g). 

Title: Monthly Certification of OnThe-Job and Apprenticeship Training. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0178. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: Benefits are authorized 

monthly based on the number of hours 

worked by the trainee as verified by the 

training establishment. Unscheduled 

terminations result in the termination of 

benefits. If hours are reduced to less 

than a full-time work schedule, a 

reduction of benefits will occur. Public 

Law 115–89 ‘‘Veterans Apprenticeship 

and Labor Opportunity Reform Act’’ 

(VALOR Act) was signed into law on 

November 21, 2017. Section 3 of this 

law amended 38 U.S.C. 3680(c) to 

eliminate the trainee’s certification 

requirement. As a result, this form is 

only completed, signed, and certified by 

the training establishment to report the 

trainee’s number of hours worked and/ 

or to report the trainee’s date of 

termination. The form no longer 

requires the signature of the trainee. The 

form is then sent to the Regional 

Processing Office (RPO) for processing. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 214,794 

hours. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Respondent: 10 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: Twelve (12) 

Annually per Respondent. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

107,397. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Maribel Aponte, 

VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

Enterprise and Integration/Data Governance 

Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18275 Filed 8–24–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

Advisory Committee on Disability 

Compensation, Notice of Meeting 

The Department of Veterans Affairs 

(VA) gives notice under the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 

2, that a virtual meeting of the Advisory 

Committee on Disability Compensation 

(Committee) will begin and end as 

follows: 


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