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in interpreting the noise exposure maps 

to resolve questions concerning, for 

example, which properties should be 

covered by the provisions of section 

47506 of the Act. These functions are 

inseparable from the ultimate land use 

control and planning responsibilities of 

local government. These local 

responsibilities are not changed in any 

way under part 150 or through FAA’s 

review of noise exposure maps. 

Therefore, the responsibility for the 

detailed overlaying of noise exposure 

contours onto the map depicting 

properties on the surface rests 

exclusively with the airport operator 

that submitted those maps, or with 

those public agencies and planning 

agencies with which consultation is 

required under section 47503 of the Act. 

The FAA has relied on the certification 

by the airport operator, under section 

150.21 of part 150, that the statutorily 

required consultation has been 

accomplished. 

Copies of the full noise exposure map 

documentation and of the FAA’s 

evaluation of the maps are available for 

examination at the following locations: 

Federal Aviation Administration, 

Western-Pacific Region, Airports 

Division, 15000 Aviation Boulevard, 

Room 3012, Hawthorne, California 

90261. 

Federal Aviation Administration, San 

Francisco Airports District Office, 

1000 Marina Boulevard, Suite 220, 

Brisbane, California 94005–1835. 

San Francisco International Airport, 

Bureau of Planning and 

Environmental Affairs, Attention: 

Audrey Park, Senior Environmental 

Planner, 710 North McDonnell Road, 

3rd Floor, San Francisco, California 

94128. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Issued in Hawthorne, California on January 

29, 2016. 

Mark A. McClardy, 

Manager, Airports Division, AWP–600, 

Western-Pacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02668 Filed 2–9–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Buy America Waiver Notification 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

information regarding FHWA’s finding 

that a Buy America waiver is 

appropriate for the use of non-domestic 

Ferryboat Propulsion System (propeller, 

shafting, and reducing gear) for MV 

Matanuska ferry in the State of Alaska. 

DATES: The effective date of the waiver 

is February 11, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about this notice, please 

contact Mr. Gerald Yakowenko, FHWA 

Office of Program Administration, (202) 

366–1562, or via email at gerald.

yakowenko@dot.gov. For legal 

questions, please contact Mr. Jomar 

Maldonado, FHWA Office of the Chief 

Counsel, (202) 366–1373, or via email at 

jomar.maldonado@dot.gov. Office hours 

for the FHWA are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access 

An electronic copy of this document 

may be downloaded from the Federal 

Register’s Web site at http:// 

www.archives.gov/, Government 

Printing Office’s Web site at http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov. 

Background 

The FHWA’s Buy America policy in 

23 CFR 635.410 requires a domestic 

manufacturing process for any steel or 

iron products (including protective 

coatings) that are permanently 

incorporated in a Federal-aid 

construction project. The regulation also 

provides for a waiver of the Buy 

America requirements when the 

application would be inconsistent with 

the public interest or when satisfactory 

quality domestic steel and iron products 

are not sufficiently available. This 

notice provides information regarding 

FHWA’s finding that a Buy America 

waiver is appropriate for use of a nondomestic Ferryboat Propulsion System 

(propeller, shafting, and reducing gear) 

for MV Matanuska ferry in the State of 

Alaska. 

In accordance with Division K, 

section 122 of the ‘‘Consolidated and 

Further Continuing Appropriations Act 

of 2015’’ (PL 113–235), FHWA 

published a notice of intent to issue a 

waiver on its Web site (https:// 

www.fhwa.dot.gov/construction/

contracts/waivers.cfm?id=116) on 

December 8, 2015. The FHWA received 

no comments in response to the 

publication. Based on all the 

information available to the agency, 

FHWA concludes that there are no 

domestic manufacturers of Ferryboat 

Propulsion System (propeller, shafting, 

and reducing gear). 

In accordance with the provisions of 

section 117 of the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act: A Legacy for Users, Technical 

Corrections Act of 2008 (Pub. L. 110– 

244, 122 Stat. 1572), FHWA is providing 

this notice as its finding that a waiver 

of Buy America requirements is 

appropriate. The FHWA invites public 

comment on this finding for an 

additional 15 days following the 

effective date of the finding. Comments 

may be submitted to FHWA’s Web site 

via the link provided to the waiver page 

noted above. 

Authority: (23 U.S.C. 313; PL 110–161, 23 

CFR 635.410) 

Issued on: February 4, 2016. 

Gregory G. Nadeau, 

Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02655 Filed 2–9–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2016–0002] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments on 

the Renewal of a Previously Approved 

Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for a new information 

collection, which is summarized below 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 

are required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

April 11, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID 2016–0002 

by any of the following methods: 

Web site: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 


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Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pamela Woodruff, 202–366–1607, Office 

of Civil Rights, Federal Highway 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. 

SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Federal-Aid Highway 

Construction Equal Employment 

Opportunity. 

Background: Title 23, Part 140(a), 

requires the FHWA to ensure equal 

opportunity regarding contractors’ 

employment practices on Federal-aid 

highway projects. To carry out this 

requirement, the contractors must 

submit to the State Transportation 

Agencies (STAs) on all work being 

performed on Federal-aid contracts 

during the month of July, a report on its 

employment workforce data. This report 

provides the employment workforce 

data on these contracts and includes the 

number of minorities, women, and nonminorities in specific highway 

construction job categories. This 

information is reported on Form PR– 

1391, Federal-Aid Highway 

Construction Contractors Summary of 

Employment Data. The statute also 

requires the STAs to submit a report to 

the FHWA summarizing the data 

entered on the PR–1391 forms. This 

summary data is provided on Form PR– 

1392, Federal-Aid Highway 

Construction Contractors Summary of 

Employment Data. The STAs and 

FHWA use this data to identify patterns 

and trends of employment in the 

highway construction industry, and to 

determine the adequacy and impact of 

the STA’s and FHWA’s contract 

compliance and on-the-job (OJT) 

training programs. The STAs use this 

information to monitor the contractorsemployment and training of minorities 

and women in the traditional highway 

construction crafts. Additionally, the 

data is used by FHWA to provide 

summarization, trend analyses to 

Congress, DOT, and FHWA officials as 

well as others who request information 

relating to the Federal-aid highway 

construction EEO program. The 

information is also used in making 

decisions regarding resource allocation; 

program emphasis; marketing and 

promotion activities; training; and 

compliance efforts. 

Respondents: 11,077 annual 

respondents for form PR–1391, and 52 

STAs annual respondents for Form PR– 

1392, total of 11,129. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: FHWA estimates it takes 30 

minutes for Federal-aid contractors to 

complete and submit Form PR–1391 

and 8 hours for STAs to complete and 

submit Form PR–1392. 

Estimated Total Amount Burden 

Hours: Form PR–1391–5,539 hours per 

year; Form PR–1392–416 hours per year, 

total of 5,955 hours annually. 

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 FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burdens; (3) ways for the FHWA to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, 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. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

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

and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Dated: February 5, 2016. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collections Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2016–02715 Filed 2–9–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions 

on Proposed Highway in California 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Limitation on Claims 

for Judicial Review of Actions by the 

California Department of Transportation 

(Caltrans), pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA, on behalf of 

Caltrans, is issuing this notice to 

announce actions taken by Caltrans, that 

are final within the meaning of 23 

U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The actions relate to a 

proposed highway safety improvement 

project along State Route 20, in the 

Counties of Yuba and Nevada, State of 

California. Those actions grant licenses, 

permits, and approvals for the project. 

DATES: By this notice, the FHWA, on 

behalf of Caltrans, is advising the public 

of final agency actions subject to 23 

U.S.C. 139(l)(1). A claim seeking 

judicial review of the Federal agency 

actions on the highway project will be 

barred unless the claim is filed on or 

before July 11, 2016. If the Federal law 

that authorizes judicial review of a 

claim provides a time period of less 

than 150 days for filing such claim, then 

that shorter time period still applies. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

Caltrans: Sue Bauer, Branch Chief, 

Caltrans Office of Environmental 

Management, M–1, California 

Department of Transportation, 703 B 

Street, Marysville, CA 95901, Office 

Hours: 8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m., Pacific 

Standard Time, Telephone (530) 741– 

4113, Email: sue_bauer@dot.ca.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective 

July 1, 2007, the Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) assigned, and 

the California Department of 

Transportation (Caltrans) assumed, 

environmental responsibilities for this 

project pursuant to 23 U.S.C. 327. 

Notice is hereby given that the Caltrans 

has taken final agency actions subject to 

23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1) by issuing licenses, 

permits, and approvals for the following 

highway project in the State of 

California. 

The California Department of 

Transportation proposes to improve 

safety along State Route 20 (YUB–20 

p.m. 20.1/21.7 and NEV–20 p.m. 0.0/

0.1) in Yuba and Nevada Counties. The 

scope of work will include: Realignment 

of portions of the existing highway to 

correct non-standard curves and 

improve sight distance, realignment of 

county road connections as necessary 

for proper intersection alignment, 

construction of new drainage systems as 

necessary for new alignment segments, 

drainage improvements as necessary, 

widening highway shoulders, roadway 

signing and striping and adding right 

and left turn pockets at Smartsville 

Road. 

The actions by the Federal agencies, 

and the laws under which such actions 

were taken, are described in the Final 

Environmental Assessment (FEA)/

Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) for the project, approved on 

January 29, 2016, and in other 

documents in the FHWA project 

records. The FEA, FONSI and other 

project records are available by 

contacting Caltrans at the addresses 

provided above. The Caltrans FEA, 

FONSI and other project records can be 

viewed and downloaded from the 

project Web sites at 

www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/

envinternet/yuba.htm 

www.dot.ca.gov/dist3/departments/

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