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corridor alternatives, including an 

assessment of existing and potentially 

expanded transportation infrastructure 

needed to support additional capacity, 

improve travel times, and accommodate 

maintenance activities, while 

considering financial viability and 

environmental responsibility. The Tier 1 

Bay Crossing Study EIS identified 

Corridor 7 as the Preferred Corridor 

Alternative that best meets the Tier 1 

Study Purpose and Need. FHWA 

concurred with the selection of Corridor 

7 and issued a ROD for the Tier 1 Bay 

Crossing Study EIS on April 14, 2022. 

The ROD, together with the Tier 1 Bay 

Crossing Study EIS pursuant to 49 

U.S.C. 304a(b), 23 U.S.C. 139(n)(2), and 

23 CFR 771.124, identifies and 

discusses all such factors that FHWA 

and MDTA balanced in making the 

decision for the Tier 1 EIS study. The 

ROD concludes the Tier 1 NEPA process 

by formally selecting Corridor 7 as the 

Selected Corridor Alternative that 

would advance into a future Tier 2 

NEPA study. 

The Selected Corridor Alternative, 

Corridor 7, is a two-mile wide corridor 

that follows the existing road network 

along US 50/301 from west of the 

Severn River on the Western Shore of 

the Chesapeake Bay to the US 50/301 

split on the Eastern Shore. This location 

includes the existing William Preston 

Lane Jr. Memorial (Bay) Bridge. The 

analysis of traffic, engineering, cost, and 

environmental considerations indicated 

that Corridor 7 would have substantial 

advantages over the other Corridor 

Alternatives Retained for Analysis 

(CARA), Corridors 6 and 8. The selected 

alternative identifies the general 

(corridor) location for future 

improvements. The specific alignment 

of a potential new crossing has not been 

defined in the Tier 1 Bay Crossing 

Study. The FHWA and MDTA would 

need to complete a Tier 2 NEPA 

engineering and environmental study 

before any construction could occur. 

The actions by FHWA on this study, 

and the laws under which such actions 

were taken, are described in the 

combined Tier 1 Final EIS and ROD and 

in other documents completed as part of 

the study. The Tier 1 Final EIS and ROD 

and other documents related to study 

approvals are available on the Bay 

Crossing Study website provided in the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice, or by 

contacting FHWA or MDTA at the 

addresses provided in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section of this 

notice. 

This notice applies to all Federal 

agency decisions as of the issuance date 

of this notice, and all laws under which 

such actions were taken, including but 

not limited to: 

1. General: National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) [42 U.S.C. 4321– 

4351]; Federal-Aid Highway Act [23 

U.S.C. 109, 23 U.S.C. 128, and 23 U.S.C. 

139]. 

2. Air: Clean Air Act [42 U.S.C. 7401– 

7671(q)]. 

3. Land: Section 6(f) of the Land and 

Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965 

[16 U.S.C. 4601]; Section 4(f) of the 

Department of Transportation Act of 

1966 [49 U.S.C. 303]; Farmland 

Protection Policy Act [7 U.S.C. 4201– 

4209]. 

4. Wildlife: Endangered Species Act 

[16 U.S.C. 1531–1544 and Section 

1536]; Fish and Wildlife Coordination 

Act [16 U.S.C. 661–667(d)]; Migratory 

Bird Treaty Act [16 U.S.C. 703–712]. 

5. Historic and Cultural Resources: 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act of 1966 [54 U.S.C. 

306108]. 

6. Social and Economic: Civil Rights 

Act of 1964 [42 U.S.C. 2000(d)– 

2000(d)(1)]; Uniform Relocation 

Assistance and Real Property 

Acquisition Act of 1970 [42 U.S.C. 61]. 

7. Wetlands and Water Resources: 

Clean Water Act [33 U.S.C. 1251–1376]. 

8. Hazardous Materials: 

Comprehensive Environmental 

Response, Compensation, and Liability 

Act [42 U.S.C. 9601–9675]. 

9. Executive Orders: E.O. 11514 

Protection and Enhancement of 

Environmental Quality; E.O. 11988 

Floodplain Management; E.O. 11990 

Protection of Wetlands; E.O. 12898 

Federal Actions to Address 

Environmental Justice in Minority 

Populations and Low-Income 

Populations; E.O. 13112 Invasive 

Species; E.O. 13175 Consultation and 

Coordination with Indian Tribal 

Governments; E.O. 13186 

Responsibilities of Federal Agencies to 

Protect Migratory Birds. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning 

and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12372 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

program.) 

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). 

Issued on: April 22, 2022. 

Gregory Murrill, 

Division Administrator, Baltimore, Maryland. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09150 Filed 4–28–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–RY–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket Number MARAD–2022–0093] 

Request for Comments on the Renewal 

of a Previously Approved Information 

Collection: Mariner Cadet TrainingAgreements, Compliance Reporting, 

and Audits 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration 

(MARAD) invites public comments on 

our intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for a currently approved 

emergency information collection. 

Before a Federal agency can collect 

certain information from the public, it 

must receive approval from OMB. 

Under procedures established by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before seeking OMB approval, Federal 

agencies must solicit public comment 

on proposed collection of information, 

including extensions and reinstatements 

of previously approved collections. This 

document described a collection of 

information for which MARAD intends 

to seek OMB approval. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket Number 

MARAD–2022–0093 by any one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Search 

MARAD–2022–0093 and follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: The Docket 

Management Facility is in the West 

Building, Ground Floor of the U.S. 

Department of Transportation. The 

Docket Management Facility location 

address is U.S. Department of 

Transportation, MARAD–2022–0093, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West 

Building, Room W12–140, Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except on 

Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this rulemaking. 

Note: All comments received will be 

posted without change to 

www.regulations.gov including any personal 

information provided. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the Department’s 

performance; (b) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (c) ways for the 

Department to enhance the quality, 


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utility and clarity of the information 

collection; and (d) ways that the burden 

could be minimized without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

Electronic Access and Filing 

A copy of the notice may be viewed 

online at www.regulations.gov using the 

docket number listed above. A copy of 

this notice will be placed in the docket. 

Electronic retrieval help and guidelines 

are available on the website. It is 

available 24 hours each day, 365 days 

each year. An electronic copy of this 

document may also be downloaded 

from the Office of the Federal Register’s 

website at www.FederalRegister.gov and 

the Government Publishing Office’s 

website at www.GovInfo.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Wahler, Director of Maritime 

Labor and Training, (202) 366–5469 or 

via email at EMBARC@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Mariner Cadet TrainingAgreements, Compliance Reporting, and 

Audits. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0553. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

Previously Approved Information 

Collection. 

Abstract: In accordance with its 

delegation of authority at 49 CFR 

1.93(a), and pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 

50101(a)(4), the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD) is charged 

with ensuring that the United States 

Merchant Marine is manned with 

trained and efficient citizen personnel. 

Furthermore, 46 U.S.C. 51322 requires 

MARAD to protect cadet mariners from 

sexual assault onboard vessels and in so 

doing, to set sexual assault policy and 

to conduct random and targeted 

unannounced checks of commercial 

vessels. 

MARAD needs to obtain information 

from commercial vessel operators in 

order to meet its statutory objective of 

setting sexual assault policy and 

monitoring compliance that is essential 

to meeting its mission of ensuring a 

well-trained U.S. Merchant Marine. 

The Maritime Administration 

(MARAD) requests comment on 

MARAD’s intention to seek approval 

from OMB to reinstate without 

modification a previously approved 

collection of information concerning 

vessel operator acceptance of MARAD 

safety and security tenets, compliance 

reporting and compliance assessment 

requirements. MARAD, in consultation 

with operators of commercial vessels of 

the United States, established criteria 

that vessel operators must meet in order 

to participate in the Sea Year program 

of the United States Merchant Marine 

Academy (USMMA) that address sexual 

harassment, sexual assault, and other 

inappropriate conduct; and a process for 

verifying compliance with the criteria. 

Accordingly, on December 15, 2021, 

MARAD published on its website 

agency guidance entitled Every Mariner 

Builds a Respectful Culture (EMBARC). 

Embedded within EMBARC is a process 

that MARAD will use to verify 

compliance. The EMBARC Standards 

enumerate new sexual assault and 

sexual harassment (SASH) prevention 

and response safety measures that 

MARAD requires commercial vessel 

operators to meet before they are 

approved to carry cadets from the 

USMMA for training purposes. Along 

with the EMBARC Standards, MARAD 

also published a self-assessment 

checklist, and a statement of compliance 

that vessel operators are required to 

submit prior to Sea Year participation. 

The EMBARC Standards include 

immediate, intermediate and long-term 

action items that all vessel operators 

providing training platforms for cadet 

mariners should implement. The totality 

of these efforts will help strengthen the 

maritime industry’s efforts to prevent 

and respond to incidents of sexual 

violence and sexual harassment and 

other forms of misconduct and help 

ensure a safer training environment for 

all cadets. 

The information to be collected will 

be used by MARAD to confirm the 

acceptance of MARAD sexual assault 

policies by commercial vessel operators 

and it will help establish a process to 

oversee and monitor continued 

compliance through reporting and 

auditing of commercial vessel operators 

in this initial enrollment and 

subsequent Sea Years. 

Respondents: Vessel Owners and 

Operators. 

Affected Public: Captains, Mates, 

Chief Operating Officers, Chief 

Executive Officers, Operations 

Managers, Clerical and typists. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 35 

per collection.* 

Estimated Number of Responses: 428. 

Estimated Hours per Response: 2–6. 

Annual Estimated Total Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,615. 

Frequency of Response: 2 per year. 

* Some respondents will have to 

respond more than once. 

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; and 

49 CFR 1.93.) 

By Order of the Acting Maritime 

Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09180 Filed 4–28–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2022–0030] 

Agency Request for Information; State 

Electronic Data Collection Grant 

Program 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: This notice requests 

information from interested parties to 

assist the agency to develop and 

implement a new discretionary grant 

program to increase the number of 

States, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes 

electronically transferring their motor 

vehicle crash data to the National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration 

(NHTSA). The Bipartisan Infrastructure 

Law (BIL), enacted as the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), 

establishes a new program called the 

State electronic data collection program. 

Specifically, section 24108(d)(2) 

mandates that NHTSA provide grants to 

States to upgrade and standardize their 

State crash data systems to enable 

electronic data collection, intrastate data 

sharing, and electronic data transfers to 

NHTSA to increase the accuracy, 

timeliness, and accessibility of the data 

including data relating to fatalities 

involving vulnerable road users. 

Ultimately, the grants will support an 

increased capacity of the NHTSA data 

systems, including the Fatality Analysis 

Reporting System (FARS), the Crash 

Reporting Sampling System (CRSS), and 

the Crash Investigation Sampling 

System (CISS), and make State crash 

data accessible to the public. NHTSA 

seeks comments from all interested 

parties, including State crash data 

owners, highway safety offices, law 

enforcement, and other stakeholders to 

help inform NHTSA’s development of a 

grant program. This grant program is to 

modernize State data collection systems 

and to enable full electronic data 

transfer. All comments should be 

submitted via docket number NHTSA– 

2022–0030. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 31, 2022. 


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