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Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 

below has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval. The ICR describes 

the nature of the information collection 

and its expected cost and burden. The 

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

the following collection of information 

was published on April 29, 2005 [FR 

Vol. 70, No. 82, pages 22388 and 22389]. 

No comments were received. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by November 18, 2005 

attention DOT/OST Desk Officer, Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Torlanda Archer (202) 366–1037, Office 

of International Aviation, Office of the 

Secretary, Department of 

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Public Charter Rules. 

OMB Control Number: 2106–0005. 

Summary: The collection involved 

here under 14 CFR Part 380 requires the 

charter operator, direct air carrier and 

financial institution(s) involved to 

certify that proper financial instruments 

are in place or other arrangements have 

been made to protect the charter 

participants’ funds and that all parties 

will abide by the Department’s Public 

Charter regulations. 

Respondents: Public Charter 

Operators. 

Estimated Total Burden on 

Respondents: 1,290 hours. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the continued collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Office of 

International Aviation, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

Office of International Aviation’s 

estimate of the burden of the current 

information collection; (c) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility and clarity 

of the information being collected; and 

(d) ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Issued in Washington, DC on October 12, 

2005. 

Steven Lott, 

Manager, Strategic Integration, IT Investment 

Management Office. 

[FR Doc. 05–20898 Filed 10–18–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–62–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Participation in the Transportation 

Technology Innovation and 

Demonstration Program 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), United States 

Department of Transportation (U.S. 

DOT). 

ACTION: Notice; request for expression of 

consent to participate. 

SUMMARY: As authorized by section 5508 

of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 

Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A 

Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU), the 

U.S. DOT/FHWA is interested in 

working with eligible State and local 

governments and one or more private 

sector partners to build upon the 

Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure 

Program (ITIP) that began under the 

provisions of section 5117(b)(3) of the 

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 

Century (TEA–21). The SAFETEA–LU 

provides for the extension and further 

expansion of the ITIP program under the 

Transportation Technology Innovation 

and Demonstration Program (TTID), a 

new 2-part program that would advance 

the deployment of an operational 

intelligent transportation infrastructure 

system, through measurement of various 

transportation system parameters, to 

simultaneously aid in local 

transportation planning and analysis 

activities, while also supporting 

national monitoring of traffic congestion 

levels. The purpose of this program is 

threefold: Addressing national, local, 

and commercial data needs through 

enhancement of surveillance and data 

management capabilities in major 

metropolitan areas. This involves 

integration of data from existing 

surveillance infrastructure, and strategic 

deployment of supplemental 

surveillance infrastructure to support 

the provision of both real-time and 

archived roadway system performance 

data. At the national level, the goal is to 

develop an ability to measure the 

operating performance of the roadway 

system across the nation. Made 

available locally, such roadway system 

performance data can be used to assist 

in local system planning, evaluation, 

and management activities. The same 

data that is useful to the public 

transportation agencies also has value 

for commercial traveler information 

purposes. To achieve these objectives, 

the U.S. DOT/FHWA is seeking 

expressions of consent from eligible 

State and/or local transportation 

agencies/organizations interested in 

forming a public-private partnership, 

with a private partner that has either 

been pre-selected, or that will be 

selected, by the U.S. DOT/FHWA, to 

participate in the TTID program. 

DATES: Expressions of consent to 

participate must be received by 4 p.m., 

e.t., February 6, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Expressions of consent to 

participate should be submitted directly 

to the Federal Highway Administration, 

Office of Transportation Management, 

HOTM–1, Attention: Chung Eng, 400 

Seventh St., SW., Room 3404, 

Washington, DC 20590. Material may be 

submitted electronically to: 

chung.eng@fhwa.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Chung Eng, Office of Transportation 

Management (HOTM–1), (202) 366–

8043, or Mr. Wilbert Baccus, Office of 

the Chief Counsel (HCC–40), (202) 366–

0780, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Federal Highway 

Administration, 400 Seventh St., SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are 

from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The ITIP program has its origin in 

section 5117(b)(3) of the TEA–21 (Pub. 

L. 105–178, as amended by title IX of 

Pub. L. 105–206), which required 

private technology commercialization 

initiatives as part of a program to 

‘‘advance the deployment of an 

operational intelligent transportation 

infrastructure system for the 

measurement of various transportation 

system activities to aid in the 

transportation planning and analysis 

while making a significant contribution 

to the ITS program.’’ To that end, the 

U.S. DOT/FHWA retained a private 

sector Consortium consisting of Signal 

Corporation (now a part of General 

Dynamics); Traffic.com; Michael Baker 

Jr., Inc.; L.R Kimball & Associates, Inc.; 

and PB Farradyne, Inc. to experiment 

with the collection and archiving of 

performance monitoring data that would 

ultimately be used to measure national 

system performance while also using 

this data for commercial traveler 

information purposes. The successful 

testing of this public-private partnership 

in the two pilot cities of Pittsburgh and 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania led to a $50 

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1A copy of the current task order contract may 

be obtained by contacting Chung Eng at (202) 366–

8043 or chung.eng@fhwa.dot.gov. 

million expansion of the ITIP program 

to accommodate up to 25 additional 

deployments in pre-selected 

deployment areas with a pared down 

Consortium consisting of Traffic.com as 

lead partner, and General Dynamics. 

Progress to date on the ITIP program 

expansion is as follows: 

• $28 million committed to 14 

expansion deployment areas: 

(a) 4—Fully Operational: Chicago, 

Providence, Tampa, Boston. 

(b) 8—Partially Deployed: Detroit, Los 

Angeles, Oklahoma City, Phoenix, St. 

Louis, San Diego, San Francisco, 

Washington DC Region. 

(c) 2—Design In Progress: Baltimore, 

Seattle. 

• 5 deployment areas are in 

negotiations with the Consortium, 

including Las Vegas, Miami, New York, 

Orlando, and Salt Lake City. 

• 8 deployment areas opted out of the 

original program, including 

Birmingham, Cincinnati/Northern 

Kentucky, Cleveland, Dallas/Ft. Worth, 

Denver, Houston, Indianapolis, and 

Portland (OR). 

• $22 million remains available under 

the current contract with the 

Consortium, enough to accommodate 11 

additional eligible areas. 

The completed and planned 

deployments in each metropolitan area 

feature the following: 

• Public-private partnership for the 

provision of data services to the public 

agency partners; 

• Up to 100 sensors deployed in each 

metropolitan area, primarily along 

freeways and other major arterials, 

capable of providing data on volume, 

speed, lane occupation, and limited 

vehicle classification; 

• Archived database function; 

• Commercialization component to 

enable self sufficiency; 

• Free Web-based access to real-time 

as well as archived data for public 

agency stakeholders; 

• Free Web-based basic traffic 

condition information to the general 

public (http://www.traffic.com); 

• Additional value-added commercial 

services available on a fee basis; 

• Private funding contribution toward 

infrastructure; 

• Firm, fixed price contract where the 

private partner owns, operates, and 

maintains the system; 

• Integration of at least one legacy 

system (e.g. the Pennsylvania DOT’s 

Traffic Operations Center in Pittsburgh); 

• Sharing of gross revenues to 

support system enhancements; and 

• Reliability performance measure 

calculations and reports provided on a 

monthly basis. 

In section 5508 of the SAFETEA–LU 

(Pub. L. 109–59; 119 Stat. 1144; Aug. 10, 

2005), Congress extended the existing 

relationship with the TEA–21 

Consortium in Part I, and further 

expanded the existing program by 

providing the opportunity to participate 

in Part II, of the new 2-part TTID 

program. 

Solicitation of Interest 

This notice solicits expressions of 

consent to participate in the 2-part TTID 

program, which is described in greater 

detail below. For the purpose of this 

notice, an ‘‘expression of consent to 

participate’’ is defined to mean a 

commitment to enter into negotiations 

for possible participation in the 

program. The legislation identifies 

specific ‘‘deployment’’ and ‘‘congested’’

areas that will have the opportunity to 

participate in the enhanced program 

and requires that these eligible areas 

express consent to participate, or 

establish a date by which they will 

consent to participate within the first 

180 days after enactment of the 

SAFETEA–LU (by February 6, 2006). 

This notice does not affect those 

deployment areas that have already 

received prior funding through the ITIP 

program. The process and method for 

submitting expressions of consent is set 

forth in the Instructions to Respondents 

section below. 

Part I of the TTID program provides 

for the selection, under the current task 

order contract 1 with the Consortium, of 

up to 11 metropolitan areas to receive 

Federal grants of no more than $2 

million each. Part II will expand the 

program by the U.S. DOT/FHWA 

awarding contracts on a competitive 

basis for the deployment of systems in 

selected congested areas, with consent 

from the affected State DOT’s. Part II 

currently has funding to support the 

selection of no more than 3 

metropolitan areas to receive Federal 

grants of no more than $2 million each, 

but may receive additional funding 

through future appropriations. The 

focus in both Part I and Part II of the 

TTID program is to enhance existing 

surveillance infrastructure in 

participating areas through integration, 

along with strategic deployment of 

supplemental surveillance 

infrastructure. The enhanced 

surveillance infrastructure and 

performance data generated will be used 

to: (1) Aid the public sector partner in 

carrying out system management 

activities including operations, 

planning, analysis, and maintenance; (2) 

support provision of basic traveler 

information to the public at no cost to 

the public; (3) provide opportunities for 

commercialization of other Advanced 

Traveler Information Services (ATIS); 

and (4) support submittal of data and 

system performance measure reports to 

the U.S. DOT/FHWA on a monthly 

basis. 

U.S. DOT/FHWA Objectives 

The U.S. DOT/FHWA will provide 

funding under the 2-part TTID program 

to: 

• Build, enhance, and/or integrate 

intelligent transportation infrastructure 

in major metropolitan areas to enable 

and help manage the continuous 

monitoring of the roadway system for 

purposes of providing real-time as well 

as archived data to aid in the operation, 

planning, analysis, and maintenance 

activities of the U.S. DOT/FHWA and 

State and local agencies; 

• Enhance the quality, availability, 

and accessibility of transportation 

system performance data to enable the 

calculation of mobility performance and 

system reliability measures while 

satisfying system operational needs at 

the same time; 

• Provide to the U.S. DOT/FHWA 

specified performance data and reports; 

• Provide a traveler information 

service that includes free public access 

to basic traveler information, and 

supports provision of a 511 based 

telephone service; 

• Realize and publicize the benefits of 

regionally integrated and interoperable 

intelligent transportation infrastructure 

capable of supporting regional as well as 

national needs; 

• Provide private technology 

commercialization initiatives to 

generate revenues that will be 

reinvested in the intelligent 

transportation infrastructure system; 

• Aggregate data into reports for 

multipoint data distribution techniques; 

and 

• With respect to Part I of the TTID 

program, use an advanced information 

system designed and monitored by an 

entity with experience with the 

Department of Transportation in the 

design and monitoring of high 

reliability, mission critical voice and 

data systems. 

Funding 

The U.S. DOT/FHWA will select up to 

11 metropolitan areas to participate in 

Part I, and up to 3 metropolitan areas to 

participate in Part II. A total of up to $2 

million in Federal funds per 

metropolitan area will be made 

available to the consenting metropolitan 

areas selected. For Part I, the Federal 

funding will be made available to the 

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2A copy of ‘‘The 2005 Urban Mobility Report’’ is 

available from the Texas Transportation Institute at 

the following URL: http://mobility.tamu.edu/ums/. 

selected partnerships through an 

existing contract involving the 

Consortium. For Part II, the Federal 

funding will be made available to the 

selected partnerships through 

competitive awards to one or more 

private partners to be selected by the 

U.S. DOT/FHWA, with appropriate 

input and consent from the selected 

metropolitan areas. 

Federal funding for the TTID program 

shall be used to support: 

1. Creation of a process and 

mechanism to collect, integrate, archive, 

manage, and report new and existing 

transportation data for mobility and 

performance monitoring, planning, 

evaluation, and other similar purposes; 

2. Creation of a data repository of new 

and existing real-time traveler 

information for dissemination to the 

traveling public through a variety of 

delivery mechanisms, including support 

for a 511 based telephone service, and 

free public access to basic traveler 

information, and commercial traveler 

information services; 

3. Creation of a regional 

transportation information system that 

integrates and supplements existing 

surveillance infrastructure to support 

public sector transportation 

management needs and private sector 

commercialization; and 

4. Accommodation/integration of 

existing transportation data collection, 

archival, and dissemination 

mechanisms. 

There will be a twenty percent 

matching share ($500,000 match 

required if full $2 million in federal 

funds is provided) that must be from 

non-federally derived funding sources, 

as required in sections 5508 of 

SAFETEA–LU and 5117(b)(3) of TEA–

21. For the purposes of this program, 

this matching share must consist of a 

cash contribution to the project. The 

non-federally derived funding may 

come from State, local government, or 

private sector partners. 

Note: Funding identified to support 

continued operations, maintenance, and 

management of the system will not be 

considered as part of the partnership’s costshare contribution. 

The U.S.DOT/FHWA and the 

Comptroller General of the United 

States will have the right to access all 

documents pertaining to the use of 

Federal funds and non-Federal 

contributions. Non-Federal partners 

must maintain sufficient documentation 

to substantiate these costs. Such items 

as direct labor, fringe benefits, material 

costs, consultant costs, public 

involvement costs, subcontractor costs, 

and travel costs should be included in 

that documentation. 

Eligibility 

Eligible Areas Defined 

• Group A: Deployment areas in 

active negotiations under current 

contract. 

• Group B: Deployment areas that had 

previously opted out of the ITIP 

program. 

• Group C: Newly eligible congested 

areas. 

TABLE I.—ELIGIBLE AREAS

Group A * Group B Group C 

1 Las Vegas .................................................................. 1 Birmingham ................................................................ 1 Albany. 

2 Miami .......................................................................... 2 Cincinnati ................................................................... 2 Atlanta. 

3 New York/Northern New Jersey ** ............................. 3 Cleveland ................................................................... 3 Austin. 

4 Orlando ...................................................................... 4 Dallas/Fort Worth ....................................................... 4 Burlington. 

5 Salt Lake City ............................................................. 5 Denver ....................................................................... 5 Charlotte. 

6 Houston ...................................................................... 6 Columbus, OH. 

7 Indianapolis ................................................................ 7 Greensboro. 

8 Portland, OR .............................................................. 8 Hartford. 

9 Jacksonville. 

10 Kansas City. 

11 Louisville. 

12 Milwaukee. 

13 Minneapolis/St. Paul. 

14 Nashville. 

15 New Orleans. 

16 Norfolk (Virginia Beach). 

17 Raleigh/Durham. 

18 Richmond. 

19 Sacramento. 

20 San Jose. 

21 Tucson. 

22 Tulsa. 

* Group A areas will be given first priority for participation in Part I. 

** New Jersey had previously opted not to participate, but will have an opportunity to express consent as part of the New York/Northern New 

Jersey metropolitan area if New York does not execute a local agreement with the Consortium under the current contract by February 6, 2006. 

Eligibility Summary 

• Current Contract—Continuity of the 

current contract will be maintained 

during the 180 day period. Accordingly, 

Group A areas may proceed as normal 

during this period to negotiate and 

execute a local agreement with the 

Consortium any time through February 

6, 2006, and begin deployment under 

the terms of the current contract. 

• Part I—Group A areas unable to 

execute a local agreement with the 

Consortium by February 6, 2006, may 

maintain eligibility by expressing 

consent to participate or establishing a 

date by which they will consent to 

participate by February 6, 2006. Group 

B and Group C areas may also express 

consent to participate or establish a date 

by which they will consent to 

participate in Part I by February 6, 2006. 

In selecting consenting areas to 

participate in Part I, first priority will be 

given to Group A areas. Groups B and 

C will receive equal priority. Priority 

within individual groups will be based 

on congestion rankings contained in 

‘‘The 2005 Urban Mobility Report’’ 2

developed by the Texas Transportation 

Institute. Rankings for the eligible areas 

are shown in Table II below. All Groups 

proceed with the understanding that 

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distribution of available funding to the 

selected consenting areas from all 

Groups will begin immediately after 

February 6, 2006. Those areas that 

choose to establish a date beyond 

February 6, 2006, by which they will 

consent to participate will be 

accommodated only as remaining 

funding permits when consent to 

participate is actually provided. 

Once selected for participation in Part 

I, the selected metropolitan areas must 

establish a partnership and execute a 

partnership agreement with the 

Consortium within 180 days of being 

notified by the FHWA of selection, or 

forfeit the right to participate in Part I. 

Selected metropolitan areas must be 

willing to work within the current 

contractual mechanism for the initial 

deployments. This will involve the 

following: 

1. The FHWA has a contractual 

arrangement with the Consortium in the 

form of a task order under the DOT’s 

Information Technology Omnibus 

Procurement (ITOP) program to develop 

and deploy systems in up to 25 

metropolitan areas. Since this program 

extension is basically a continuation of 

the current ITOP task order, the Federal 

funds provided will continue to be 

made available to the selected 

partnerships through this arrangement. 

Note: This involves direct payment to the 

Consortium of the Federal funds to be 

provided; and 

2. The selected metropolitan areas are 

expected to negotiate their own 

partnership agreements with the 

Consortium to address any specific 

needs beyond those included in the 

ITOP task order, including the 

facilitation of their financial 

contribution and accommodation of the 

work to be performed. This will include 

a commitment to share existing 

surveillance data with the Consortium 

and to provide access to rights-of-way 

for the installation of additional 

surveillance infrastructure by the 

Consortium. The ITOP task order(s), 

including payment schedule, will be 

adjusted as necessary to reflect the 

agreements that have been individually 

negotiated between the selected 

metropolitan areas/States and the 

private partner. Information on ITOP 

can be found at the following URL: 

http://www.gsa.gov/Portal/gsa/ep/ 

channelView.do?pageTypeId=8199&

channelPage=/ep/channel/

gsaOverview.jsp&channelId=-15642. 

• Part II—Group A areas unable to 

execute a local agreement with 

Traffic.com by February 6, 2006, may 

also express consent to participate or 

establish a date by which they will 

consent to participate in Part II by 

February 6, 2006. Group B and Group C 

areas may also express consent to 

participate or establish a date by which 

they will consent to participate in Part 

II by February 6, 2006. No preference 

will be given to any Groups in the 

selection of Part II participants. Rather, 

selection will be prioritized based on 

congestion rankings contained in ‘‘The 

2005 Urban Mobility Report’’ developed 

by the Texas Transportation Institute. 

Rankings for the eligible areas are 

shown in Table II. Once selected for 

participation in Part II, the selected 

metropolitan areas will be asked to 

provide appropriate input to a Federal 

competitive process for the selection of 

a private partner. The selected 

metropolitan areas will also need to 

negotiate a separate partnership 

agreement with the chosen private 

partner to address any specific needs 

beyond those included in the Federal 

contract, including the facilitation of 

their financial contribution and 

accommodation of the work to be 

performed. Federal funding will be 

made available to the selected 

partnerships through the Federal 

contract with the chosen private 

partner. 

Eligible areas may express consent to 

participate as follows: only for Part I; 

only for Part II; or for both Part I and 

Part II of the program. Eligible areas 

expressing consent to participate only 

for Part I or only for Part II will receive 

consideration only for the part 

indicated. Those eligible areas that 

express consent to participate for both 

Part I and Part II proceed with the 

understanding that a single area will 

ultimately be eligible to participate in 

only one part of the program. Once 

selected to participate in one part of 

ITIP, an eligible area will receive no 

further consideration for participation 

in the other part. Any eligible area that 

expresses consent to participate for both 

parts, and whose ranking makes them 

candidates for selection for both parts at 

the same time, will be given the choice 

of participating in one or the other. 

TABLE II.—CONGESTION RANKINGS

(BASED ON DATA FROM ‘‘THE 2005 

URBAN MOBILITY REPORT’’ DEVELOPED BY THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE) 

Rank/Metro area Rank/Metro area 

1 Atlanta .................... 19 Salt Lake City 

(Group A). 

2 Houston .................. 20 Las Vegas (Group 

A). 

3 Dallas / Fort Worth .. 21 Cincinnati. 

4 Orlando (Group A) 22 Columbus, OH. 

TABLE II.—CONGESTION RANKINGS

(BASED ON DATA FROM ‘‘THE 2005 

URBAN MOBILITY REPORT’’ DEVELOPED BY THE TEXAS TRANSPORTATION INSTITUTE)—Continued 

Rank/Metro area Rank/Metro area 

5 San Jose ................ 23 Raleigh / Durham. 

6 Miami (Group A) .... 24 Birmingham. 

7 Denver ................... 25 Greensboro *. 

8 Austin ..................... 26 Norfolk (Virginia 

Beach). 

9 New York (Group 

A).

27 Milwaukee. 

10 Minneapolis / St. 

Paul.

28 New Orleans. 

11 Charlotte .............. 29 Kansas City. 

12 Louisville .............. 30 Richmond. 

13 Sacramento .......... 31 Hartford. 

14 Portland, OR ........ 32 Albany. 

15 Indianapolis .......... 33 Tulsa. 

16 Nashville .............. 34 Cleveland. 

17 Tucson ................. 35 Burlington*. 

18 Jacksonville ..........

* Data for Greensboro and Burlington were 

appended to the report. 

Instructions to Respondents 

Expressions of consent to participate 

should be in the form of a written letter 

and must be submitted by the State DOT 

for the respective eligible areas. Local 

transportation agencies/organizations 

that are interested in participating in the 

program should coordinate with their 

respective State DOT’s to submit a joint 

expression of consent. Only one 

expression of consent will be accepted 

from each eligible area. It is understood 

that an expression of consent to 

participate is merely a commitment to 

enter into negotiations for possible 

participation in the program. 

Expressions of consent should include 

the following: 

• Identify the eligible area 

represented and the agency/organization 

or agencies/organizations involved. 

Joint expressions of consent should 

identify the lead agency/organization; 

• Provide an expression of consent to 

participate, or a date by which consent 

to participate will be provided, in one 

of the following: only in Part I; only in 

Part II; or in both Part I and Part II; 

• Provide a statement to the effect 

that the purpose of the program is 

understood; 

• Acknowledge understanding that 

the following commitments are 

necessary in order to participate: 

1. Satisfy the non-Federal match 

requirement (80/20 Federal/nonFederal); 

2. Work with private partner toward 

achievement of program objectives; 

3. Share existing surveillance data 

with private partner; 

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4. Provide access to rights-of-way for 

installation of additional surveillance 

infrastructure by the private partner. 

• Identify a point of contact along 

with appropriate contact information. 

For those areas that do not have any 

interest in participating in either part of 

the program, we ask that the appropriate 

State DOT submit a simple letter 

response identifying the area, and 

including a statement similar to the 

following: ‘‘We understand the purpose 

of the U.S. DOT’s Transportation 

Technology Innovation and 

Demonstration Program, and do not 

wish to participate in either part of this 

program.’’

Information Sessions: Two 

information sessions will be available to 

interested transportation agencies/ 

organizations from the eligible areas to 

address any questions or concerns 

relating to participation in the program. 

The information sessions will be 

conducted via video conferencing with 

linkages to appropriate local FHWA 

Division Offices. Times and locations 

for the sessions are as follows: 

Session 1: 11/8/05 (2 p.m. ET) Session 2: 11/10/05 (1 p.m. ET) 

FHWA division offices Address FHWA division offices Address 

Arizona ........................ One Arizona Center, Suite 410, 400 East Van 

Buren St., Phoenix, AZ 85004–2285.

Alabama ..................... 500 Eastern Blvd., Suite 200, Montgomery, 

AL 36117–2018. 

California ..................... 650 Capitol Mall, Suite 4–100, Sacramento, 

CA 95814.

Connecticut ................ 628–2 Hebron Ave., Suite 303, Glastonbury, 

CT 06033–5007. 

Colorado ...................... 12300 West Dakota Ave., Suite 180, Lakewood, CO 80228.Florida ........................ 545 John Knox Rd., Suite 200, Tallahassee, 

FL 32303. 

Kansas ......................... 6111 SW 29th Street, Suite 100, Topeka, KS 

66614–4271.

Georgia ....................... 61 Forsyth St., SW., Suite 17T100, Atlanta, 

GA 30303–3104. 

Louisiana ..................... 5304 Flanders Dr., Suite A, Baton Rouge, LA 

70808–4348.

Indiana ........................ 575 N. Pennsylvania St., Rm 254, Indianapolis, IN 46204–1576. 

Minnesota .................... Galtier Plaza, 380 Jackson St., Suite 500, St. 

Paul, MN 55101–2904.

Kentucky ..................... 330 W. Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601–

1922. 

Missouri ....................... 209 Adams St., Jefferson City, MO 65101–

3203.

New Jersey ................ 840 Bear Tavern Rd., Suite 310, West Trenton, NJ 08628–1019. 

Nevada ........................ 705 North Plaza St., Suite 220, Carson City, 

NV 89701–0602.

New York .................... Leo W. O’Brien Fed. Bldg., Rm 719, Clinton 

Ave. and North Pearl St., Albany, NY 

12207. 

Oklahoma .................... 300 N. Meridian, Suite 105 S, Oklahoma City, 

OK 73107–6560.

North Carolina ............ 310 New Bern Ave., Suite 410, Raleigh, NC 

27601–1441. 

Oregon ......................... The Equitable Center, Suite 100, 530 Center 

Street, NE., Salem, OR 97301–3740.

Ohio ............................ 200 North High St., Room 328, Columbus, 

OH 43215. 

Texas ........................... Federal Office Building, 300 East Eighth St., 

Room 826, Austin, TX 78701–3233.

Tennessee .................. 640 Grassmere Park Ro., Suite 112, Nashville, TN 37211–3568. 

Utah ............................. 2520 West 4700 South, Suite 9A, Salt Lake 

City, UT 84118–1847.

Vermont ...................... Federal Building, 87 State St., Montpelier, VT 

05602–2954. 

Washington .................. Suite 501, Evergreen Plaza, 711 South Capitol Way, Olympia, WA 98501–1284.Virginia ....................... 400 North 8th St., Room 750, Richmond, VA 

23240. 

Wisconsin .................... Highpoint Office Park, 567 D’Onofrio Dr., 

Madison, WI 53719–2814.

Authority: Sec. 5117(b)(3) of Public Law 

105–178, as amended by title IX of Public 

Law 105–206; and Sec. 5508 of Public Law 

109–59 (119 Stat. 1144). 

Issued on: October 13, 2005. 

J. Richard Capka, 

Acting Federal Highway Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2005–22530] 

Submission for Office of Management 

and Budget Approval and Public 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Request for public comments 

and Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) approval of an existing 

collection. 

SUMMARY: This notice seeks comments 

from the public regarding the need for 

FMCSA to collect paperwork 

information that relates to a motor 

carrier’s responsibility for ensuring that 

employees safely maintain and operate 

its commercial motor vehicles. This 

notice is published (pursuant to the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995) to 

measure the need for the proposed 

paperwork collection, to find ways to 

minimize the burden on motor carriers, 

to find ways to enhance the quality of 

information collected, and to verify the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden (measured in work hours) on 

motor carriers. This is a request to 

continue the collection of information 

already approved under OMB Control 

Number 2126–0003, which is scheduled 

to expire on December 31, 2005, and to 

renew that approval. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before December 19, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments to the docket by any of the 

following methods: 

• Mail: Dockets Facility, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Room 

PL–401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. Anyone 

wanting confirmation of mailed 

comments must include a self-addressed 

stamped postcard. 

• Hand delivery or courier: Room PL–

401 on plaza level of the Nassif 

Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington DC. The Dockets Facility is 

open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except on Federal 

holidays. 

• Web site: Go to http://dms.dot.gov, 

click on ‘‘Comments/Submissions’’ and 

follow instructions at the site. 

All written comments should identify 

the docket number and notice number 

stated in the heading of this notice.