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exemption for a renewable two-year 

period. They are: 

Dennis J. Lessard 

James D. Simon 

Robert J. Townsley 

Harry R. Littlejohn 

Wayland O. Timberlake 

Jeffery G. Wuensch 

These exemptions are extended 

subject to the following conditions: (1) 

That each individual have a physical 

examination every year (a) by an 

ophthalmologist or optometrist who 

attests that the vision in the better eye 

continues to meet the standard in 49 

CFR 391.41(b)(10), and (b) by a medical 

examiner who attests that the individual 

is otherwise physically qualified under 

49 CFR 391.41; (2) that each individual 

provide a copy of the ophthalmologist’s 

or optometrist’s report to the medical 

examiner at the time of the annual 

medical examination; and (3) that each 

individual provide a copy of the annual 

medical certification to the employer for 

retention in the driver’s qualification 

file and retain a copy of the certification 

on his/her person while driving for 

presentation to a duly authorized 

Federal, State, or local enforcement 

official. Each exemption will be valid 

for two years unless rescinded earlier by 

FMCSA. The exemption will be 

rescinded if: (1) The person fails to 

comply with the terms and conditions 

of the exemption; (2) the exemption has 

resulted in a lower level of safety than 

was maintained before it was granted; or 

(3) continuation of the exemption would 

not be consistent with the goals and 

objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315. 

Basis for Renewing Exemptions 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31315(b)(1), an 

exemption may be granted for no longer 

than two years from its approval date 

and may be renewed upon application 

for additional two-year periods. In 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315, each of the 6 applicants has 

satisfied the entry conditions for 

obtaining an exemption from the vision 

requirements (64 FR 40404; 64 FR 

66962; 67 FR 10475; 69 FR 8260; 71 FR 

6824; 64 FR 54948; 65 FR 159). Each of 

these 6 applicants has requested 

renewal of the exemption and has 

submitted evidence showing that the 

vision in the better eye continues to 

meet the standard specified at 49 CFR 

391.41(b)(10) and that the vision 

impairment is stable. In addition, a 

review of each record of safety while 

driving with the respective vision 

deficiencies over the past two years 

indicates each applicant continues to 

meet the vision exemption standards. 

These factors provide an adequate basis 

for predicting each driver’s ability to 

continue to drive safely in interstate 

commerce. Therefore, FMCSA 

concludes that extending the exemption 

for each renewal applicant for a period 

of two years is likely to achieve a level 

of safety equal to that existing without 

the exemption. 

Request for Comments 

FMCSA will review comments 

received at any time concerning a 

particular driver’s safety record and 

determine if the continuation of the 

exemption is consistent with the 

requirements at 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315. However, FMCSA requests that 

interested parties with specific data 

concerning the safety records of these 

drivers submit comments by March 10, 

2008. 

FMCSA believes that the 

requirements for a renewal of an 

exemption under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315 can be satisfied by initially 

granting the renewal and then 

requesting and evaluating, if needed, 

subsequent comments submitted by 

interested parties. As indicated above, 

the Agency previously published 

notices of final disposition announcing 

its decision to exempt these 6 

individuals from the vision requirement 

in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10). The final 

decision to grant an exemption to each 

of these individuals was based on the 

merits of each case and only after 

careful consideration of the comments 

received to its notices of applications. 

The notices of applications stated in 

detail the qualifications, experience, 

and medical condition of each applicant 

for an exemption from the vision 

requirements. That information is 

available by consulting the above cited 

Federal Register publications. 

Interested parties or organizations 

possessing information that would 

otherwise show that any, or all of these 

drivers, are not currently achieving the 

statutory level of safety should 

immediately notify FMCSA. The 

Agency will evaluate any adverse 

evidence submitted and, if safety is 

being compromised or if continuation of 

the exemption would not be consistent 

with the goals and objectives of 49 

U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, FMCSA will 

take immediate steps to revoke the 

exemption of a driver. 

Issued on: January 31, 2008. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy and 

Program Development. 

[FR Doc. E8–2216 Filed 2–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No: FTA–2008–0002] 

National Transit Database: 

Amendments to Urbanized Area 

Annual Reporting Manual 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of 

Proposed Amendments to the 2007 

National Transit Database Urbanized 

Area Annual Reporting Manual. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

interested parties with the opportunity 

to comment on changes to the Federal 

Transit Administration’s (FTA) 2008 

National Transit Database (NTD) 

Urbanized Area Annual Reporting 

Manual (Annual Manual). Pursuant to 

49 U.S.C. 5335, FTA requires recipients 

of FTA Urbanized Area Formula Grants 

to provide an annual report to the 

Secretary of Transportation via the NTD 

reporting system according to a uniform 

system of accounts (USOA). Other 

transit agencies in urbanized areas 

report to the NTD under these 

requirements on a voluntary basis, for 

purposes of including data from their 

transit agencies in the apportionment of 

Urbanized Area Formula Grants. In an 

ongoing effort to improve the NTD 

reporting system and be responsive to 

the needs of the transit agencies 

reporting to the NTD, FTA annually 

refines and clarifies the reporting 

requirements through revisions to the 

Annual Manual. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 10, 2008. FTA will 

consider late filed comments to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

[identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

FTA–2008–0002] at the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal at: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Fax: 202–493–2251. 

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 or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: When submitting 

comments you must use docket number 

FTA–2008–0002. This will ensure that 

your comment is placed in the correct 

docket. If you submit comments by 


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mail, you should submit two copies and 

include the above docket number. Note 

that all comments received will be 

posted, without change, to http:// 

www.regulations.gov including any 

personal identifying information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

program issues, John D. Giorgis, Office 

of Budget and Policy, (202) 366–5430 

(telephone); (202) 366–7989 (fax); or 

john.giorgis@dot.gov (e-mail). For legal 

issues, Richard Wong, Office of the 

Chief Counsel, (202) 366–0675 

(telephone); (202) 366–3809 (fax); or 

richard.wong@dot.gov (e-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The National Transit Database (NTD) 

is the Federal Transit Administration’s 

(FTA’s) primary database for statistics 

on the transit industry. Recipients of 

FTA’s Urbanized Area Formula Program 

(section 5307) and Other Than 

Urbanized Area Formula Program 

(section 5311) are required by statute to 

submit data to the NTD. These data are 

used to ‘‘help meet the needs of... the 

public for information on which to base 

public transportation service 

planning...’’ (49 U.S.C 5335). Other 

transit agencies in urbanized areas 

report to the NTD under these 

requirements on a voluntary basis, for 

purposes of including data from their 

transit agencies in the apportionment of 

Urbanized Area Formula Grants. FTA 

details the NTD reporting requirements 

for urbanized area transit agencies in the 

NTD Urbanized Area Annual Reporting 

Manual (Annual Manual). 

Currently, over 650 transit agencies in 

urbanized areas report to the NTD 

through an Internet-based reporting 

system. Each year, performance data 

from these submissions are used to 

apportion over $4 billion of FTA funds 

under the Urbanized Area Formula 

Grants Program. These data are also 

used in the annual National Transit 

Summaries and Trends report, the 

biennial Conditions and Performance 

Report to Congress, and in meeting 

FTA’s obligations under the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act. 

In an ongoing effort to improve the 

NTD Internet reporting system and to be 

responsive to the needs of the transit 

agencies reporting to the NTD and the 

transit community, FTA annually 

refines and clarifies reporting 

requirements to the NTD. This notice 

provides interested parties with the 

opportunity to comment on changes to 

FTA’s 2008 Annual Manual. For 

purposes of comparison, the 2007 

Annual Manual can be reviewed on the 

NTD Web site, http:// 

www.ntdprogram.gov. 

II. Proposed Changes in the 2008 

Annual Manual 

Contractual Relationship (B–30) Form 

FTA proposes to greatly simplify this 

form so as to reduce the substantial 

confusion that this form has caused 

among reporters in the past. Under 

FTA’s proposal, this form will allow 

reporters to report three types of 

relationships: (1) Traditional purchased 

transportation contracts; (2) taxicab 

contracts for demand response service; 

and (3) pass-through relationships. This 

change responds to the numerous 

difficulties that reporters have had in 

the past in reporting their taxicab 

contracts and pass-through relationships 

on a form that had been designed for 

traditional purchased transportation 

contracts. 

For traditional purchased 

transportation contracts and taxicab 

contracts the simplified form will make 

it clear to transit agencies that they are 

to report: (1) The vehicles and 

maintenance facilities that may be 

provided to, or nominally leased to, the 

seller; (2) the number of months the 

contract was operated in the past year; 

(3) the number of vehicles or rail 

passenger cars operated during 

maximum service by the seller of 

service; (4) the fare revenues accrued 

under the service; (5) whether the fare 

revenues are retained by the seller, or 

returned to the purchasing transit 

agency; (6) the contract administration 

expenses incurred by the purchasing 

transit agency; and (7) all other costs 

incurred by the purchasing agency to 

support the contract, such as fuel, 

maintenance, insurance, and marketing 

costs. 

The new option for taxicab contracts 

will relieve agencies of the requirement 

to provide detailed asset data on the A–

30 form for these services. This will 

effectively make taxicab a third Type of 

Service under the NTD. 

The new option for pass-through 

relationships will greatly simplify the 

reporting of these relationships for 

transit agencies. A transit agency 

reporting a pass-through relationship 

will need to report: (1) The nature of the 

pass-through (e.g. grant monies or 

vehicles); (2) contact information for the 

recipient of the pass-through; and (3) 

whether the reporting transit agency is 

including service provided the recipient 

of the pass-through on the reporting 

transit agency’s NTD report, or if the 

reporting transit agency is expecting the 

recipient of the pass-through to provide 

its own NTD report. In many cases, a 

transit agency that is a direct recipient 

of an Urbanized Area Formula Grant 

passes through the monies provided by 

the grant or vehicles funded by the grant 

to some other transit agency. In the past, 

this has created a great deal of 

confusion, and this proposal should 

provide significant clarity to the 

reporting requirements. 

Funds Expended and Earned (F–10) 

Form 

FTA currently requires transit 

agencies to identify funds earned from 

various types of dedicated taxes 

(specifically, income, sales, property, 

gasoline, and other taxes; as well as 

regular tolls, high-occupancy tolls, and 

other dedicated revenues) from various 

types of sources (each of the above 

generated from independent political 

entities, local governments, and state 

governments, respectively) and to 

specify how much of each of these were 

expended on operations and how much 

of each of these were expended on 

capital. FTA proposes to eliminate this 

requirement at the level of individual 

types of taxes, and to only report the 

total revenue earned from each type of 

dedicated tax from each type of source. 

FTA proposes to only require transit 

agencies to separate funds earned and 

spent on operations from funds earned 

and spent on capital in the context of 

fare revenues, total directly-generated 

revenues (e.g. parking and advertising 

revenues), contributed services (e.g. 

services provided directly by another 

government body), the various sources 

of Federal funds, total state government 

revenues, total local government 

revenues, and total revenues from 

independent political entities. 

Additionally, FTA proposes to 

simplify this form by only making the 

option to report revenue from 

independent political entities available 

to those transit agencies that qualify as 

such entities, by virtue of having their 

own tax-raising authority. 

Bonds and Loans 

FTA proposes to eliminate the 

requirement to report Bond and Loan 

payments separately for each category of 

funding. Instead, FTA proposes 

simplified bond and loan reporting that 

would require transit agencies to report: 

(1) Year-beginning principal 

outstanding; (2) new bonds and loans 

(new principal); (3) total interest paid; 

(4) total principal repaid; and (5) total 

year-end principal outstanding. 

Uses of Capital (F–20) Form 

FTA proposes to reduce the reporting 

requirements by no longer requiring 

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capital spending on Fare Revenue 

Collection Equipment and 

Communication and Information 

Systems. FTA proposes to replace these 

two categories with a single category for 

reporting capital expenditures on 

Intelligent Transportation Systems 

(ITS.) 

Operating Expenses (F–30) Form 

FTA proposes to reduce the reporting 

requirements by combining separate 

reporting for Fuels and Lubricants and 

for Tires and Lubes into reporting for a 

single category of Fuels and Lubes. 

Additionally, FTA proposes to combine 

separate reporting for Taxes and for 

Miscellaneous Expenses into a single 

category for Miscellaneous Expenses. 

FTA proposes these changes to reduce 

the reporting burden of the NTD. 

Additionally, FTA proposes to 

simplify this form by limiting the 

operating functions for which a number 

of object classes can be reported. 

Specifically, FTA proposes to make the 

following changes for reporting of 

directly operated services: (1) Eliminate 

reporting of the Fuels and Lubes object 

classes under the Non-Vehicle 

Maintenance and General 

Administration operating functions; (2) 

eliminate reporting of the Utilities 

object class under the Non-Vehicle 

Maintenance operating function; (3) 

only permit the Casualty and Liability 

and Miscellaneous Expenses object 

classes to be reported under the General 

Administration operating function. 

Operating Expenses Summary (F–40) 

Form 

FTA proposes to eliminate collecting 

Funds Not Applied, Depreciation, and 

Amortization of Intangibles. The NTD 

does not collect intangible assets, so 

these data are not necessary. 

FTA proposes to stop collecting 

Interest Expenses, as this information 

will now be collected with other 

information relating to bonds and loans, 

as described in this Notice. 

FTA proposes to stop collecting 

information on lease agreements on this 

form. Leases should already be collected 

as part of the cost of purchased 

transportation. 

FTA proposes to continue collecting 

information on reconciling items on this 

form, but will require an explanation of 

all reconciling items. 

Operator’s Wages (F–50) Form 

FTA proposes to discontinue this 

form. FTA already collects data on 

employees, and employee hours on the 

R–10 Form, and FTA already collects 

data on employees’ pay and benefits on 

the F–10 Form. Discontinuing this form 

will mean that FTA will no longer 

collect the hours and expenditures on 

employees based on Platform Time, 

Straight Time Allowance, Premium 

Time, and Non-Operating Work Time. 

FTA is proposing this change to reduce 

the reporting burden of the NTD. 

Service (S–10) Form 

For Motorbus and Trolleybus services, 

FTA proposes to change the categories 

currently labeled Total Actual Hours 

and Total Actual Miles. These categories 

have caused a great deal of confusion in 

the past, as despite their names, transit 

agencies were to report on these lines 

only Revenue Hours and Miles plus 

Deadhead Hours and Miles; all other 

hours and miles were to be excluded. 

FTA proposes to make reporting much 

more intuitive by replacing these 

categories with Deadhead Hours and 

Deadhead Miles. Transit agencies will 

be required to report actual deadhead 

hours and miles in these categories. 

Additionally, FTA proposes to eliminate 

the reporting of Charter Service Hours 

and of School Bus Hours. Transit 

agencies should not be conducting 

school bus service, transit agencies that 

do so are not eligible to report to the 

NTD. Charter service among transit 

agencies is intended to be very small, 

and is to be reported to FTA’s Charter 

Registration Web site, in accordance 

with 49 CFR Part 604. Instead, FTA will 

simplify reporting by adding new 

categories for Other Hours and Other 

Miles. Transit agencies should report 

miles and hours for maintenance, 

training, charter service, and any other 

non-revenue and non-deadhead service 

on these lines. For reference, FTA 

proposes to add an automaticallycalculated line to the form that will 

show transit agencies the total hours 

and miles being reported. 

For rail service, FTA proposes to 

make similar changes: (1) Changing 

Total Train Hours and Total Train Miles 

to Deadhead Train Hours and Deadhead 

Train Miles; (2) changing Total 

Passenger Car Hours and Total 

Passenger Car Miles to Deadhead 

Passenger Car Hours and Deadhead 

Passenger Car Miles; (3) adding lines for 

Other Train Hours and Other Train 

Miles; (4) adding lines for Other 

Passenger Car Hours and Other 

Passenger Car Miles; and (5) adding 

automatically-calculated reference lines 

for Total Train Hours, Total Train Miles, 

Total Passenger Car Hours, and Total 

Passenger Car Miles. 

For demand response service, FTA 

proposes similar changes for directly 

operated and purchased transportation 

services: (1) Changing Total Actual 

Vehicle Hours and Total Actual Vehicle 

Miles to Deadhead Hours and Deadhead 

Miles; (2) eliminating Charter Service 

Hours and School Bus Hours; (3) adding 

Other Vehicle Hours and Other Vehicle 

Miles; and (4) adding automaticallycalculated reference lines for Total 

Vehicle Hours and Total Vehicle Miles. 

Additionally, FTA proposes to institute 

simplified reporting for demand 

response services provided through 

taxicabs. This simplified report would 

not require the reporting of Deadhead 

Hours, Deadhead Miles, Other Hours, 

and Other Miles. 

For vanpool service, FTA proposes 

similar changes: (1) Eliminating Charter 

Service Hours and School Bus Hours; (2) 

adding Other Vehicle Hours and Other 

Vehicle Miles; and (3) adding 

automatically-calculated reference lines 

for Total Vehicle Hours and Total 

Vehicle Miles. FTA also proposes to 

eliminate collecting information on 

deadhead for vanpool services, as 

vanpools do not have deadhead, except 

in rare circumstances where the vanpool 

has an employee driver. In these rare 

cases, deadhead miles and hours would 

be reported under Other Hours and 

Other Miles. FTA also proposes to stop 

collecting Time Service Begins and 

Time Service Ends for vanpool services. 

For jitney and pu ́ blico services, FTA 

proposes similar changes: (1) 

Eliminating Charter Service Hours and 

School Bus Hours; (2) adding Other 

Vehicle Hours and Other Vehicle Miles; 

and (3) adding automatically-calculated 

reference lines for Total Vehicle Hours 

and Total Vehicle Miles. FTA also 

proposes to stop collecting information 

on deadhead for jitney and pu ́ blico, as 

the nature of these services being run by 

owner-operated vehicles makes 

collecting deadhead information overly 

burdensome. FTA proposes to reduce 

reporting burden for these services by 

simply collecting hours and miles as 

being either Revenue Hours and Miles 

or as Other Hours and Miles. 

FTA proposes similar changes for 

ferryboat and aerial tramway services: 

(1) Changing Total Actual Vehicle Hours 

and Total Actual Vehicle Miles to 

Deadhead Hours and Deadhead Miles; 

(2) eliminating Charter Service Hours; 

(3) adding Other Vehicle Hours and 

Other Vehicle Miles; and (4) adding 

automatically-calculated reference lines 

for Total Vehicle Hours and Total 

Vehicle Miles. Additionally, FTA 

proposes to drop to reporting of peak 

data on service times and vehicles in 

operation for these services. 

For heavy rail, light rail, and 

commuter rail systems, in 2007 FTA 

introduced a requirement for these 

systems agencies to report Average 

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Actual Passenger Car Revenue Miles by 

four time categories: Weekday a.m. 

Peak, Weekday Midday, Weekday p.m. 

Peak and Weekday Other. FTA proposes 

to exempt rail systems with 9 or fewer 

rail vehicles operated in maximum 

services from this requirement, so as to 

reduce the reporting burden on these 

small systems. 

Employee Resources (R–10) Form 

FTA proposes to add reporting of Paid 

Non-Work Hours to this form. This data 

was previously reported on the F–50 

Form, which is being dropped. 

Maintenance Performance (R–20) Form 

FTA proposes to drop the reporting 

requirement for Total Labor Hours for 

Inspection and Maintenance. This 

information is already reported in the 

R–10 Form. 

FTA also proposes to require that this 

form be completed by transit agencies 

for purchased transportation service (it 

is currently only required for directly 

operated services). These data would 

produce a clear picture of the role of 

maintenance breakdowns in transit 

service. 

Energy Consumption (R–30) Form 

FTA proposes to drop the lines on 

this form for certain rarely-used fuels, 

specifically, Methanol, Bunker Fuel, and 

Grain Additive. These fuels will still be 

reportable under the Other Fuels 

category. 

FTA also proposes to require that this 

form be completed for purchased 

transportation services (it is currently 

only required for directly operated 

services). These data would support the 

significant public interest in the fuel 

needs and emissions of transit services. 

Stations and Maintenance Facilities (A–

10) Form 

FTA proposes to expand some of the 

reporting requirements for stations. 

Currently, FTA requires transit agencies 

to only report how many of their 

stations are multi-modal. FTA proposes 

to begin requiring transit agencies to 

specify the nature of the multi-modal 

services at each station. Transit agencies 

will be able to group together similar 

stations, as is done for asset reporting on 

revenue vehicles. For example, a transit 

agency will be able to report that it has 

10 stations that are multi-modal with 

light rail and motorbus service. In 

addition to reporting the transit modes 

providing service at each station, FTA 

proposes to have transit agencies 

indicate if the transit station has 

Intercity Bus, Amtrak, Airport, Seaport, 

Car Rental, Bicycle Rental, or Parking 

Lot facilities. 

For motorbus, trolleybus, and light 

rail service, FTA proposes to ask transit 

agencies to report how many stops and 

how many shelters that they have. 

Previously, FTA only collected the 

number of enclosed stations for each 

mode, which understated the number of 

transit stations for these services. 

Both of these data collections will 

assist FTA in assessing the scope and 

needs of the Nation’s transit systems for 

the biennial Conditions and 

Performance Report to Congress. 

Transit Way Mileage (A–20) Form 

FTA proposes to merge this Form 

with the Fixed Guideway Segments (S–

20) Form, to reduce reporting burden. 

For each segment of rail fixed guideway 

reported on the S–20 form, FTA 

proposes to have transit agencies report 

the construction-type of the segment 

(e.g. exclusive guideway at-grade, atgrade with crossings, non-exclusive atgrade, open-cut, elevated on fill, 

elevated structure, and subway) and the 

number of grade crossings for the 

segment. For each segment of non-rail 

fixed guideway reported on the S–20 

form, FTA proposes to have transit 

agencies report whether the segment is 

exclusive right-of-way or controlledaccess right-of-way. This change will 

simplify the reporting requirements, 

reduce the large number of reporting 

errors made on the A–20 form, and 

reduce the number of forms FTA 

requires of its reporters. 

Revenue Vehicle Inventory (A–30) Form 

FTA proposes to simply collect 

whether the vehicles are compliant with 

the Americans with Disabilities Act 

(ADA Accessible), and to not separately 

collect those vehicles that are ADA 

Accessible by virtue of having lifts and 

those that are ADA Accessible by virtue 

of having ramps or low floors. 

FTA also proposes to stop collecting 

Total Miles on Active Vehicles During 

this Time Period. This information is 

infrequently used and is duplicative of 

information on total miles collected on 

the S–10 Form. Additionally, since the 

A–10 form only collects information on 

vehicles that are active at the end of a 

transit agency’s fiscal year, this 

information cannot be used as a 

measure of total miles from the previous 

year. FTA is retaining collection of 

Average Lifetime Miles per Active 

Vehicle as a measure of asset condition 

and age. 

Federal Funding Allocation (FFA–10) 

Form 

FTA proposes to make this form 

required for all transit agencies serving 

more than one urbanized area, or an 

urbanized area and a non-urbanized 

area. This form is currently required 

only for transit agencies serving an 

urbanized area over 200,000 in 

population and either a non-urbanized 

area or another urbanized area. This 

form is used to allocate service data 

from transit agencies across the various 

urbanized areas (and any non-urbanized 

areas) served by the transit agency for 

purposes of apportioning Urbanized 

Area Formula Grants. With the passage 

of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 

Efficient, Transportation Equity Act: A 

Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU), the 

Urbanized Area Formula Grant formula 

was amended to include grants for 

Small Transit-Intensive Cities (STIC 

Grants.) Prior to SAFETEA–LU service 

data was only used to apportion 

Urbanized Area Formula Grants to 

urbanized areas over 200,000 in 

population. The STIC Grants, however, 

use service data to apportion grants to 

urbanized areas under 200,000 in 

population. Therefore, FTA must 

require the FFA–10 form from transit 

agencies in small urbanized areas, in 

order to ensure to support the accurate 

apportionment of STIC Grants. 

Issued in Washington, DC, this 1st day of 

February 2008. 

James S. Simpson, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E8–2163 Filed 2–6–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Additional Designations of Entities 

Pursuant to Executive Order 13391 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the names of 4 

newly-designated entities and 

individuals whose property and 

interests in property are blocked 

pursuant to Executive Order 13391 of 

November 22, 2005, ‘‘Blocking Property 

of Additional Persons Undermining 

Democratic Processes or Institutions in 

Zimbabwe’’. 

DATES: The designation by the Director 

of OFAC of the four entities and 

individuals identified in this notice, 

pursuant to Executive Order 13391, is 

effective January 30, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Compliance 

Outreach & Implementation, Office of 


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