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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 

information collection. 

Issued on: April 23, 2010. 

Terry Shelton, 

Associate Administrator for Research and 

Information Technology. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Alternative Transportation in Parks 

and Public Lands Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in 

Parks Program Announcement of Project 

Selections. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) announces the 

selection of projects funded with Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2009 appropriations for the 

Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks 

program (formally the Alternative 

Transportation in Parks and Public 

Lands (ATPPL)) program, authorized by 

Section 3021 of the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act—A Legacy for Users of 2005 

(SAFETEA–LU) and codified in 49 

U.S.C. 5320. The Paul S. Sarbanes 

Transit in Parks program funds capital 

and planning expenses for alternative 

transportation systems in parks and 

public lands. Federal land management 

agencies and State, tribal and local 

governments acting with the consent of 

a Federal land management agency are 

eligible recipients. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Project sponsors who are State, local, or 

tribal entities may contact the 

appropriate FTA Regional 

Administrator (See the Appendix to this 

Notice) for grant-specific issues. Project 

sponsors who are a Federal land 

management agency or a specific unit of 

a Federal land management agency 

should work with the contact listed 

below at their headquarters office to 

coordinate the availability of funds to 

that unit. 

• National Park Service: Mark H 

Hartsoe, Mark_H_Hartsoe@nps.gov; tel: 

202–513–7025, fax: 202–371–6675, 

mail: 1849 C Street, NW., (MS2420); 

Washington, DC 20240–0001. 

• Fish and Wildlife Service: Nathan 

Caldwell, Nathan_Caldwell@fws.gov, 

tel: 703–358–2205, fax: 703–358–2517, 

mail: 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room 634; 

Arlington, VA 22203. 

• Forest Service: Floyd Thompson, 

Fthompson02@fs.fed.us, tel: 202–205– 

1423, mail: 1400 Independence Avenue, 

SW.; Washington, DC 20250–1101. 

• Bureau of Land Management: 

Victor F. Montoya, 

Victor_Montoya@blm.gov, tel: 202–912– 

7041, mail: 1620 L Street, WO–854, 

Washington, DC 20036. 

For general information about the 

Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks 

program, please contact Kimberly 

Sledge, Office of Program Management, 

Federal Transit Administration, at 

kimberly.sledge@dot.gov, 202–366– 

2053. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A total of $26,900,000 was 

appropriated for FTA’s Paul S. Sarbanes 

Transit in Parks program in Fiscal Year 

(FY) 2009. Of this amount, a minimum 

of $24,801,473 is available for project 

awards; $134,500 is reserved for 

oversight activities; $1,500,000 is 

reserved for planning, research, and 

technical assistance; and $464,027 will 

be added to available FY 2010 

appropriations for the program. A total 

of 80 applicants requested $69.0 

million, more than twice the amount 

available in FY 2009 for projects, 

indicating high competition for funds. 

Both the U.S. Department of Interior and 

DOT review committees evaluated the 

project proposals based on the criteria 

defined in 49 U.S.C. 5320(g)(2). Final 

selections were made through a 

collaborative process. 

The goals of the program are to 

conserve natural, historical, and cultural 

resources; reduce congestion and 

pollution; improve visitor mobility and 

accessibility; enhance visitor 

experience; and ensure access to all, 

including persons with disabilities 

through alternative transportation 

projects. The projects selected to use FY 

2009 funding represent a diverse set of 

capital and planning projects across the 

country, ranging from bus purchases to 

installation of Intelligent Transportation 

Systems (ITS) and are listed in Table 1. 

Applying For Funds 

Recipients who are State or local 

government entities will be required to 

apply for Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in 

Parks program funds electronically 

through FTA’s electronic grant award 

and management system, TEAM. These 

entities are assigned discretionary 

project IDs as shown in Table 1 of this 

notice. The content of these grant 

applications must reflect the approved 

proposal. (Note: Applications for the 

Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks 

program do not require Department of 

Labor Certification.) Upon grant award, 

payments to grantees will be made by 

electronic transfer to the grantee’s 

financial institution through FTA’s 

Electronic Clearing House Operation 

(ECHO) system. Staff in FTA’s Regional 

offices are available to assist applicants. 

Recipients who are Federal land 

management agencies will be required 

to enter into an interagency agreement 

with FTA. FTA will administer one 

interagency agreement with each 

Federal land management agency 

receiving funding through the program 

for all of that agency’s projects. 

Individual units of Federal land 

management agencies should work with 

the contact at their headquarters office 

listed above to coordinate the 

availability of funds to that unit. 

Program Requirements 

Section 5320 requires funding 

recipients to meet certain requirements. 

Requirements that reflect existing 

statutory and regulatory provisions can 

be found in the document ‘‘Alternative 

Transportation in Parks and Public 

Lands Program: Requirements for 

Recipients’’ available at http:// 

www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. These 

requirements are incorporated into the 

grant agreements and inter-agency 

agreements used to fund the selected 

projects. 

Pre-Award Authority 

Pre-award authority allows an agency 

that will receive a grant or interagency 

agreement to incur certain project costs 

prior to receipt of the grant or 

interagency agreement and retain 

eligibility of the costs for subsequent 

reimbursement after the grant or 

agreement is approved. The recipient 

assumes all risk and is responsible for 

ensuring that all conditions are met to 

retain eligibility, including compliance 

with Federal requirements such as the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), SAFETEA–LU planning 

requirements, and provisions 

established in the grant contract or 

Interagency Agreement. This automatic 

pre-award spending authority, when 

triggered, permits a grantee to incur 

costs on an eligible transit capital or 

planning project without prejudice to 

possible future Federal participation in 

the cost of the project or projects. Under 

the authority provided in 49 U.S.C. 

5320(h), FTA is extending pre-award 

authority for FY 2009 ATTPL projects 

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The conditions under which preaward authority may be utilized are 

specified below: 

a. Pre-award authority is not a legal or 

implied commitment that the project(s) 

will be approved for FTA assistance or 

that FTA will obligate Federal funds for 

those projects. Furthermore, it is not a 

legal or implied commitment that all 

items undertaken by the applicant will 

be eligible for inclusion in the project(s). 

b. All FTA statutory, procedural, and 

contractual requirements must be met. 

c. No action will be taken by the 

grantee that prejudices the legal and 

administrative findings that the Federal 

Transit Administrator must make in 

order to approve a project. 

d. Local funds expended pursuant to 

this pre-award authority will be eligible 

for reimbursement if FTA later makes a 

grant or interagency agreement for the 

project(s). Local funds expended by the 

grantee prior to the April 5, 2010 public 

announcement will not be eligible for 

credit toward local match or 

reimbursement. Furthermore, the 

expenditure of local funds on activities 

such as land acquisition, demolition, or 

construction, prior to the completion of 

the NEPA process, would compromise 

FTA’s ability to comply with Federal 

environmental laws and may render the 

project ineligible for FTA funding. 

e. When a grant for the project is 

subsequently awarded, the Financial 

Status Report in TEAM–Web must 

indicate the use of pre-award authority, 

and the pre-award item in the project 

information section of TEAM should be 

marked ‘‘yes.’’ 

Reporting Requirements 

All recipients must submit quarterly 

reports to FTA containing the following 

information: 

(1) Narrative description of project(s); 

and, 

(2) discussion of all budget and 

schedule changes. 

The headquarters office for each 

Federal land management agency 

should collect a quarterly report for 

each of the projects delineated in the 

interagency agreement and then send 

these reports (preferably by e-mail) to 

Kimberly Sledge, FTA, 

kimberly.sledge@dot.gov; 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, Washington, DC 20590. 

Examples can be found on the program 

Web site at http://www.fta.dot.gov/ 

atppl. State and local governments will 

send this information to FTA for 

projects that are funded through grants 

to State and local governments rather 

than through the interagency agreement. 

The quarterly reports are due to FTA on 

the dates noted below: 

Quarter Covering Due date 

1st Quarter Report ........................................................ October 1–December 31 .................................................................. January 31 

2nd Quarter Report ...................................................... January 1–March 31 ........................................................................ April 30 

3rd Quarter Report ....................................................... April 1–June 30 ................................................................................ July 31 

4th Quarter Report ....................................................... July 1–September 31 ....................................................................... October 31 

In order to allow FTA to compute 

aggregate program performance 

measures FTA requests that all 

recipients of funding for capital projects 

under the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in 

Parks program submit the following 

information annually: 

• Annual visitation to the land unit; 

• Annual number of persons who use 

the alternative transportation system 

(ridership/usage); 

• An estimate of the number of 

vehicle trips mitigated based on 

alternative transportation system usage 

and the typical number of passengers 

per vehicle; 

• Cost per passenger; and, 

• A note of any special services 

offered for those systems with higher 

costs per passenger but more amenities. 

State and local government entities 

should submit this information as part 

of their fourth quarter report through 

FTA’s TEAM grants management 

system. 

Federal land management agencies 

should also send this information as 

part of their fourth quarter report 

(preferably by e-mail), to Kimberly 

Sledge, FTA, kimberly.sledge@dot.gov; 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., E46–303, 

Washington, DC 20590. Examples can 

be found on the program Web site at 

http://www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. 

Oversight 

Recipients of FY 2009 Paul S. 

Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds 

will be required to certify that they will 

comply with all applicable Federal and 

FTA programmatic requirements. FTA 

direct grantees will complete this 

certification as part of the annual 

Certification and Assurances package, 

and Federal Land Management Agency 

recipients will complete the 

certification by signing the interagency 

agreement. This certification is the basis 

for oversight reviews conducted by 

FTA. 

The Secretary of Transportation and 

FTA have elected not to apply the 

triennial review requirements of 49 

U.S.C. 5307(h)(2) to Paul S. Sarbanes 

Transit in Parks program recipients that 

are other Federal agencies. Instead, 

working with the existing oversight 

systems at the Federal Land 

Management Agencies, FTA will 

perform periodic reviews of specific 

projects funded by the Paul S. Sarbanes 

Transit in Parks program. These reviews 

will ensure that projects meet the basic 

statutory, administrative, and regulatory 

requirements as stipulated by this notice 

and the certification. To the extent 

possible, these reviews will be 

coordinated with other reviews of the 

project. FTA direct grantees of Paul S. 

Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds 

(State, local and tribal government 

entities) will be subject to all applicable 

triennial, State management, civil rights, 

and other reviews. 

Issued in Washington, DC, this 4 day of 

May 2010. 

Peter Rogoff, 

Administrator. 


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Appendix 

FTA Regional and Metropolitan Offices 

Richard H. Doyle, Regional Administrator, Region 1–Boston, Kendall 

Square, 55 Broadway, Suite 920, Cambridge, MA 02142–1093, Tel. 

617–494–2055.

Robert C. Patrick, Regional Administrator, Region 6–Ft. Worth, 819 

Taylor Street, Room 8A36, Ft. Worth, TX 76102, Tel. 817–978–0550. 

States served: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

Rhode Island, and Vermont.

States served: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and 

Texas. 

Brigid Hynes-Cherin, Regional Administrator, Region 2–New York, One 

Bowling Green, Room 429, New York, NY 10004–1415, Tel. 212– 

668–2170.

Mokhtee Ahmad, Regional Administrator, Region 7–Kansas City, MO, 

901 Locust Street, Room 404, Kansas City, MO 64106, Tel. 816– 

329–3920. 

States served: New Jersey, New York States served: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. 

New York Metropolitan Office, Region 2–New York, One Bowling 

Green, Room 428, New York, NY 10004–1415, Tel. 212–668–2202.

Letitia Thompson, Regional Administrator, Region 3–Philadelphia, 1760 

Market Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103–4124, Tel. 215– 

656–7100.

Terry Rosapep, Regional Administrator, Region 8–Denver, 12300 West 

Dakota Ave., Suite 310, Lakewood, CO 80228–2583, Tel. 720–963– 

3300. 

States served: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and District of Columbia.States served: Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, 

and Wyoming. 

Philadelphia Metropolitan Office, Region 3–Philadelphia, 1760 Market 

Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103–4124, Tel. 215–656–7070.

Washington, DC Metropolitan Office, 1990 K Street, NW., Room 510, 

Washington, DC 20006, Tel. 202–219–3562.

Yvette Taylor, Regional Administrator, Region 4–Atlanta, 230 Peachtree Street, NW., Suite 800, Atlanta, GA 30303, Tel. 404–865–5600.Leslie T. Rogers, Regional Administrator, Region 9–San Francisco, 

201 Mission Street, Room 1650, San Francisco, CA 94105–1926, 

Tel. 415–744–3133. 

States served: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North 

Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgin Islands.

States served: American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, 

Nevada, and the Northern Mariana Islands. 

Los Angeles Metropolitan Office, Region 9–Los Angeles, 888 S. 

Figueroa Street, Suite 1850, Los Angeles, CA 90017–1850, Tel. 

213–202–3952. 

Marisol Simon, Regional Administrator, Region 5–Chicago, 200 West 

Adams Street, Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60606, Tel. 312–353–2789.

Rick Krochalis, Regional Administrator, Region 10–Seattle, Jackson 

Federal Building, 915 Second Avenue, Suite 3142, Seattle, WA 

98174–1002, Tel. 206–220–7954. 

States served: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin.States served: Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. 

Chicago Metropolitan Office, Region 5–Chicago, 200 West Adams 

Street, Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60606, Tel. 312–353–2789.

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[FR Doc. 2010–10924 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket ID FMCSA–2010–0082] 

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption 

Applications; Vision 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of applications for 

exemptions; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces receipt of 

applications from 22 individuals for 

exemption from the vision requirement 

in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations. If granted, the exemptions 

would enable these individuals to 

qualify as drivers of commercial motor 

vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce 

without meeting the Federal vision 

standard. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before June 9, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA– 

2010–0082 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Each submission must include the 

Agency name and the docket ID for this 

Notice. Note: that DOT posts all 

comments received without change to 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information included in a 

comment. Please see the Privacy Act 

heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov at any time or 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

FDMS is available 24 hours each day, 

365 days each year. If you want 

acknowledgment that we received your 

comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments on-line. 

Privacy Act: Anyone may search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or of the person signing the 

comment, if submitted on behalf of an 

association, business, labor union, etc.). 

You may review the DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 

Register published on April 11, 2000 

(65 FR 19476). This information is also 

available at http://www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Mary D. Gunnels, Director, Medical 

Programs, (202) 366–4001, 

fmcsamedical@dot.gov, FMCSA, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Room W64– 

224, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, 

FMCSA may grant an exemption for a 2- 

year period if it finds ‘‘such exemption 

would likely achieve a level of safety 

that is equivalent to, or greater than, the 

level that would be achieved absent 

such exemption.’’ FMCSA can renew 

exemptions at the end of each 2-year 

period. The 22 individuals listed in this 

notice have each requested an 

exemption from the vision requirement 

in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10), which applies 

to drivers of CMVs in interstate 

commerce. Accordingly, the Agency 

will evaluate the qualifications of each 

applicant to determine whether granting 

an exemption will achieve the required 

level of safety mandated by statute. 

Qualifications of Applicants 

Clarke C. Boynton 

Mr. Boynton, age 35, has had 

amblyopia in his left eye since 

childhood. The best corrected visual 

acuity in his right eye is 20/20 and in 

his left eye, 20/70. Following an 

examination in 2009, his 

ophthalmologist noted, ‘‘In my medical 

opinion, Mr. Clarke Boynton has 

sufficient vision to perform the driving 

tasks required to operate a commercial 

vehicle.’’ Mr. Boynton reported that he 

has driven straight trucks for 14 years, 

accumulating 350,000 miles. He holds a 

Class B Commercial Driver’s License 

(CDL) from Massachusetts. His driving 

record for the last 3 years shows no 

crashes and no convictions for moving 

violations in a CMV. 

Clare H. Buxton 

Mr. Buxton, 63, has had a prosthetic 

left eye since 1998. The best corrected 

visual acuity in his right eye is 20/25. 

Following an examination in 2009, his 

optometrist noted, ‘‘Clare has monocular 

vision right eye only, but in my opinion, 

can operate a commercial motor vehicle 

safely.’’ Mr. Buxton reported that he has 

driven tractor-trailer combinations for 

40 years, accumulating 5.2 million 

miles. He holds a Class A CDL from 

Michigan. His driving record for the last 

3 years shows one crash, for which he 

was not cited, and no convictions for 

moving violations in a CMV. 

Raul Charo 

Mr. Charo, 50, has had open angle 

glaucoma in his right eye since 2006. 

The best corrected visual acuity in his 

right eye is 20/60 and in his left eye, 20/ 

20. Following an examination in 2009, 

his ophthalmologist noted, ‘‘In my 

professional opinion, Mr. Charo has 

sufficient vision to perform the driving 

tasks required to operate a commercial 

vehicle.’’ Mr. Charo reported that he has 

driven straight trucks for 22 years, 

accumulating 33,000 miles. He holds a 

Class A CDL from Illinois. His driving 

record for the last 3 years shows no 

crashes and no convictions for moving 

violations in a CMV. 

Lester M. Ellingson, Jr. 

Mr. Ellingson, 66, has had choroidal 

melanoma in his left eye since 2000. 

The best corrected visual acuity in his 

right eye is 20/20 and in his left eye, 20/ 

400. Following an examination in 2009, 

his optometrist noted, ‘‘In my opinion, 

Lester has sufficient vision to operate a 

commercial vehicle.’’ Mr. Ellingson 

reported that he has driven straight 

trucks for 47 years, accumulating 

235,000 miles, tractor-trailer 

combinations for 40 years, accumulating 

960,000 miles and buses for 40 years, 

accumulating 20,000 miles. He holds a 

Class A CDL from North Dakota. His 

driving record for the last 3 years shows 

one crash and one conviction. His 

driving record for the last 3 years shows 

no crashes and one conviction for a 

moving violation, speeding in a CMV. 

He exceeded the speed limit by 10 mph. 

Miguel H. Espinoza 

Mr. Espinoza, 34, has had amblyopia 

in his left eye since 1989. The best 

corrected visual acuity in his right eye 

is 20/20 and in his left eye, 20/150. 

Following an examination in 2009, his 

optometrist noted, ‘‘He has more than 


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