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The medical forms are sent to the 

applicant in the applicant’s package. 

The applicant takes the forms to the 

panel physician to use during the 

medical examination. The panel 

physician completes the medical 

examination and fills out the forms. The 

forms are then submitted in hard copy 

to the consular officer for processing. 

Dated: April 28, 2010. 

David T. Donahue, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 

Consular Affairs, Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2010–11002 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0070] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection 

Request: Transportation of Household 

Goods; Consumer Protection 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for its 

review and approval and invites public 

comment. The information collected 

will be used to help regulate motor 

carriers transporting household goods 

for individual shippers. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before July 9, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2010–0070 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 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., est, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal Holidays. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Each submission must include the 

Agency name and the docket number 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, 20590– 

0001 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 acknowledgement that we 

received your comments, please include 

a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 

post card or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting them 

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 on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19476). This information is also 

available at http://docketsinfo.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

James R. Dubose, Commercial 

Enforcement Division, Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Administration, West 

Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Telephone: 215–656–7251; e-mail 

james.dubose@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Motor Carrier Safety 

Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106– 

159, 113 Stat. 1749, December 9, 1999) 

(MCSIA) authorized the Secretary of 

Transportation to regulate household 

goods carriers engaged in interstate 

operations for individual shippers. In 

earlier legislation, Congress abolished 

the Interstate Commerce Commission 

and transferred the Commission’s 

jurisdiction over household goods 

transportation to the U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) (ICC Termination 

Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–88). Prior to 

FMCSA’s establishment, the Secretary 

delegated this household goods 

jurisdiction to the Federal Highway 

Administration, FMCSA’s predecessor 

organization within DOT. 

Sections 4202 through 4216 of the 

Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users (Pub. L. 109–59, 119 Stat. 1144, 

Aug. 10, 2005) (SAFETEA–LU) 

amended various provisions of existing 

law regarding household goods 

transportation. It specifically addressed: 

definitions (section 4202); payment of 

rates (section 4203); registration 

requirements for household goods motor 

carriers (section 4204); carrier 

operations (section 4205); enforcement 

of regulations (section 4206); liability of 

carriers under receipts and bills of 

lading (section 4207); arbitration 

requirements (section 4208); civil 

penalties for brokers and unauthorized 

transportation (section 4209); penalties 

for holding goods hostage (section 

4210); consumer handbook (section 

4211); release of broker information 

(section 4212); working group for 

Federal-State relations (section 4213); 

consumer complaint information 

(section 4214); review of liability of 

carriers (section 4215); and application 

of State laws (section 4216). The 

FMCSA regulations that set forth 

Federal requirements for movers that 

provide interstate transportation of 

household goods are found in 49 CFR 

part 375, ‘‘Transportation of Household 

Goods; Consumer Protection 

Regulation.’’ 

Title: Transportation of Household 

Goods; Consumer Protection. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0025. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Motor carriers and 

individual shippers of household goods. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

6,000 household goods movers. 

Estimated Time per Response: Varies 

from 5 minutes to display assigned U.S. 

DOT number in created advertisement 

to 12.5 minutes to distribute consumer 

publication. 

Expiration Date: October 31, 2010. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

5,556,000 hours [Informational 

documents provided to prospective 

shippers 75,400 hours + written cost 

estimates for prospective shippers 

4,620,000 hours + service orders, bills of 

lading 805,300 hours + in-transit service 

notifications 22,600 hours + complaint 

and inquiry records, including 

establishing records system 32,700 

hours = 5,556,000]. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the performance of 

FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of 

the estimated burden; (3) ways for 

FMCSA to enhance the quality, 

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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. 

[FR Doc. 2010–10940 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

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 

effective April 5, 2010 when the projects 

were publicly announced. 


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