57546 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 182 / Tuesday, September 21, 2010 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation 

[DOT Docket No. DOT–OST–2010–0074] 

The Future of Aviation Advisory 

Committee (FAAC) Environment 

Subcommittee; Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Office of the Secretary 

of Transportation. 

ACTION: The Future of Aviation 

Advisory Committee (FAAC) 

Environment Subcommittee; Notice of 

Federal Advisory Committee Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Transportation (DOT), Office of the 

Secretary of Transportation, announces 

a meeting of the FAAC Environment 

Subcommittee, which will be held at 

InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Hotel, 

Field Room, 5300 North River Road, 

Rosemont, IL 60018. This notice 

announces the date, time, and location 

of the meeting, which will be open to 

the public. The purpose of the FAAC is 

to provide advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary of Transportation to 

ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. 

aviation industry and its capability to 

manage effectively the evolving 

transportation needs, challenges, and 

opportunities of the global economy. 

The Environment Subcommittee is 

charged with examining steps and 

strategies that can be taken by aviationsector stakeholders and the Federal 

Government to reduce aviation’s 

environmental footprint and foster 

sustainability gains in cost-effective 

ways. This includes consideration of 

potential approaches to promote 

effective international actions through 

the International Civil Aviation 

Organization. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 5, 2010, from 10:30 a.m. to 3 

p.m., Central Daylight Time (CDT). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the InterContinental Chicago O’Hare 

Hotel, Field Room, 5300 North River 

Road, Rosemont, IL 60018. Rosemont is 

located in the Chicago, IL, metropolitan 

area. 

Public Access: The meeting is open to 

the public. (See below for registration 

instructions.) 

Public Comments: Persons wishing to 

offer written comments and suggestions 

concerning the activities of the advisory 

committee or Environment 

Subcommittee should file comments in 

the Public Docket (Docket Number 

DOT–OST–2010–0074 at http:// 

www.regulations.gov) or alternatively 

through the FAAC@dot.gov e-mail. If 

comments and suggestions are intended 

specifically for the Environment 

Subcommittee, the term ‘‘Environment’’ 

should be listed in the subject line of 

the message. To ensure such comments 

can be considered by the subcommittee 

before its October 5, 2010, meeting, 

public comments must be filed by 5 

p.m., Eastern Daylight Time on Friday, 

October, 1, 2010. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Under section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2), we are giving notice of a meeting of 

the Environment Subcommittee of the 

Future of Aviation Advisory Committee 

taking place on October 5, 2010, from 

10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. CDT, at the 

InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Hotel, 

Field Room, 5300 North River Road, 

Rosemont, IL 60018. The agenda 

includes— 

1. Discussion of operational and 

technology improvements, sustainable 

alternative fuels, and harmonized 

domestic and global efforts that can 

contribute to reducing aviation carbon 

emissions. 

2. Consideration of public comments. 

3. Identification of environmental 

options for presentation at the next 

meeting of the full committee. 

Registration 

The meeting room can accommodate 

up to 20 members of the public. Persons 

desiring to attend must pre-register 

through e-mail to FAAC@dot.gov. The 

term ‘‘Registration: Environment’’ 

should be listed in the subject line of 

the message and admission will be 

limited to the first 20 persons to preregister and receive a confirmation of 

their pre-registration. The last day for 

registration is October 1, 2010. 

Minutes of the meeting will be taken 

and will be made available to the 

public. 

Requests for Special Accommodation 

The DOT is committed to providing 

equal access to this meeting for all 

participants. If you need alternative 

formats or services because of a 

disability, please send a request to 

FAAC@dot.gov with the term ‘‘Special 

Accommodations’’ listed in the subject 

line of the message by close of business 

Friday, October 1, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Camille Mittelholtz, Deputy Director, 

Office of Safety, Energy, and 

Environment, Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590; 

telephone (202) 366–4861; fax (202) 

366–7638; Camille.Mittelholtz@dot.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

16, 2010. 

Pamela Hamilton-Powell, 

Designated Federal Official, Future of 

Aviation Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23504 Filed 9–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket No. FRA 2010–0005–N–18] 

Notice and Request for Comments 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and Request for 

Comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the Information 

Collection Requirements (ICRs) 

abstracted below have been forwarded 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

ICRs describes the nature of the 

information collection and their 

expected burden. The Federal Register 

notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on the following 

collection of information was published 

on July 13, 2010 (75 FR 40021). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 21, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Robert Brogan, Office of Safety, 

Planning and Evaluation Division, RRS– 

21, Federal Railroad Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 

17, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: 

(202) 493–6292), or Ms. Kimberly 

Toone, Office of Information 

Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 

SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 

20590 (telephone: (202) 493–6132). 

(These telephone numbers are not tollfree.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), Public Law No. 104–13, Section 

2, 109 Stat. 163 (1995) (codified as 

revised at 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), and its 

implementing regulations, 5 CFR Part 

1320, require Federal agencies to issue 

two notices seeking public comment on 

information collection activities before 

OMB may approve paperwork packages. 

44 U.S.C. 3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.5, 

1320.8(d)(1), 1320.12. On July 13, 2010, 

FRA published a 60-day notice in the 

Federal Register soliciting comment on 

ICRs for which the agency was seeking 

OMB approval. 75 FR 40021. FRA 


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received no comments in response to 

this notice. 

Before OMB decides whether to 

approve a proposed collection of 

information, it must provide 30 days for 

public comment. 44 U.S.C. 3507(b); 5 

CFR 1320.12(d). Federal law requires 

OMB to approve or disapprove 

paperwork packages between 30 and 60 

days after the 30-day notice is 

published. 44 U.S.C. 3507 (b)–(c); 5 CFR 

1320.12(d); see also 60 FR 44978, 44983, 

Aug. 29, 1995. OMB believes that the 

30-day notice informs the regulated 

community to file relevant comments 

and affords the agency adequate time to 

digest public comments before it 

renders a decision. 60 FR 44983, Aug. 

29, 1995. Therefore, respondents should 

submit their respective comments to 

OMB within 30 days of publication to 

best ensure having their full effect. 5 

CFR 1320.12(c); see also 60 FR 44983, 

Aug. 29, 1995. 

The summary below describes the 

nature of the information collection 

requirements (ICRs) and the expected 

burden, and are being submitted for 

clearance by OMB as required by the 

PRA. 

Title: Causal Analysis and 

Countermeasures to Reduce Rail-Related 

Suicides. 

OMB Control Number: 2130–0572. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

Change of a Previously Approved 

Information Collection. 

Affected Public: 280 Railroad 

Personnel/Members of the Public/ 

Affected Families and Friends. 

Abstract: Pedestrian trespassing on 

railroad property resulting in serious 

injury or death is one of the two most 

serious safety problems (the second 

being grade crossing collisions) facing 

the railroad industry and its regulators 

not only in the United States but also in 

other countries. It is widely believed in 

this country that the reported 

prevalence and incidence of railway 

suicide vastly under-represents the 

nature and extent of the problem. There 

is no central reporting system within the 

railroad industry or the suicide 

prevention field that provides verifiable 

information about how many trespass 

deaths are accidental vs. intentional. 

Therefore, there are no verifiable 

measures of the extent of rail-related 

suicides in the United States. While 

railroad companies must report trespass 

incidents resulting in serious injury or 

death to the U.S. Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), injuries or deaths 

that are ruled by a medical examiner or 

coroner to be intentional are not 

reported. Preliminary figures from 2006 

indicate there were approximately 500 

deaths and 360 injuries reported to the 

FRA—an increase of 100 incidents over 

the previous year—but suicides are not 

represented in these numbers. 

Unverifiable estimates from a number of 

sources range from 150 to more than 300 

suicides per year on the U.S. railways. 

Like any other incident on the rail 

system, a suicide on the tracks results in 

equipment and facility damage, delays 

to train schedules, and trauma to 

railroad personnel involved in the 

incidents. As a result, FRA last year 

awarded a grant for the first phase of a 

5-year project to reduce suicides on the 

rail system to the Railroad Research 

Foundation (part of the Association of 

American Railroads) and its 

subcontractor, the American 

Association of Suicidology (AAS). In the 

course of five years, the research 

project’s goals include: 

• A prevalence assessment to 

determine verifiable numbers of 

suicides on the rail system, 

• Development of a standardized 

reporting tool for industry use, 

• A causal analysis and root cause 

analysis of suicide incidents that occur 

during the grant cycle, and 

• Design and implementation of 

suicide prevention measures for the 

Nation’s rail system to reduce suicide 

injuries and deaths. 

This request to the Office of 

Management and Budget is for reapproval in order to complete Phase II 

of the project, the causal analysis. In 

order to understand as much as possible 

about people who intend to die by 

placing themselves in the path of a 

train, and therefore to design prevention 

strategies, AAS has been conducting 60 

psychological autopsies over the course 

of two years on people who die by railrelated suicide. Psychological autopsy is 

a recognized and accepted method for 

obtaining information about physical, 

emotional and circumstantial 

contributors to a person’s death. The 60 

psychological autopsies for the FRA 

project involve interviews with 

informants to these incidents including 

family members and friends, employers 

and co-workers, and rail personnel 

involved in the incidents. 

After conducting a root cause analysis 

of this data, AAS will then work with 

the industry to design, pilot test and 

implement effective countermeasures 

with the goal of reducing deaths, 

injuries and psychological trauma. 

Form Number(s): FRA F 6180.125A; 

FRA F 6180.125B. 

Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 537 

hours. 

Title: Confidential Close Call 

Reporting System Evaluation-Related 

Interview Data Collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2130–0574. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

Previously Approved Collection. 

Affected Public: Rail Employees and 

Key Non-railroad Stakeholders. 

Abstract: In the U.S. railroad industry, 

injury rates have been declining over 

the last 25 years. Indeed, the industry 

incident rate fell from a high of 12.1 

incidents per 100 workers per year in 

1978 to 3.66 in 1996. As the number of 

incidents has decreased, the mix of 

causes has also changed toward a higher 

proportion of incidents that can be 

attributed to human and organizational 

factors. This combination of trends— 

decrease in overall rates but increasing 

proportion of human factors-related 

incidents—has left safety managers with 

a need to shift tactics in reducing 

injuries to even lower rates than they 

are now. 

In recognition of the need for new 

approaches to improving safety, FRA 

has instituted the Confidential Close 

Call Reporting System (C3RS). The 

operating assumption behind C3RS is 

that by assuring confidentiality, 

employees will report events which, if 

dealt with, will decrease the likelihood 

of accidents. C3RS, therefore, has both a 

confidential reporting component, and a 

problem analysis/solution component. 

C3RS is expected to affect safety in two 

ways. First, it will lead to problem 

solving concerning specific safety 

conditions. Second, it will engender an 

organizational culture and climate that 

supports greater awareness of safety and 

a greater cooperative willingness to 

improve safety. 

If C3RS works as intended, it could 

have an important impact on improving 

safety and safety culture in the railroad 

industry. While C3RS has been 

developed and implemented with the 

participation of FRA, railroad labor, and 

railroad management, there are 

legitimate questions about whether it is 

being implemented in the most 

beneficial way, and whether it will have 

its intended effect. Further, even if C3RS 

is successful, it will be necessary to 

know if it is successful enough to 

implement on a wide scale. To address 

these important questions, FRA is 

implementing a formative evaluation to 

guide program development, a 

summative evaluation to assess impact, 

and a sustainability evaluation to 

determine how C3RS can continue after 

the test period is over. The evaluation 

is needed to provide FRA with guidance 

as to how it can improve the program, 

and how it might be scaled up 

throughout the railroad industry. 

Program evaluation is an inherently 

data driven activity. Its basic tenet is 

that as change is implemented, data can 

be collected to track the course and 


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consequences of the change. Because of 

the setting in which C3RS is being 

implemented, that data must come from 

the railroad employees (labor and 

management) who may be affected. 

Critical data include beliefs about safety 

and issues related to safety, and 

opinions/observations about the 

operation of C3RS. 

The ongoing study is a five-year 

demonstration project to improve rail 

safety, and is designed to identify safety 

issues and propose corrective action 

based on voluntary reports of close calls 

submitted to the Bureau of 

Transportation Statistics. Because of the 

innovative nature of this program, FRA 

is implementing an evaluation to 

determine whether the program is 

succeeding, how it can be improved 

and, if successful, what is needed to 

spread the program throughout the 

railroad industry. Interviews to evaluate 

the close call reporting system will be 

conducted with two groups: (1) Key 

stakeholders to the process (e.g., FRA 

officials, industry labor, and carrier 

management within participating 

railroads); and (2) Employees in 

participating railroads who are eligible 

to submit close call reports to the 

Confidential Close Call Reporting 

System. Different questions will be 

addressed to each of these two groups. 

Interviews will be semi-structured, with 

follow-up questions asked as 

appropriate depending on the 

respondent’s initial answer. 

The confidentiality of the interview 

data is protected by the Privacy Act of 

1974. FRA fully complies with all laws 

pertaining to confidentiality, including 

the Privacy Act. Thus, information 

obtained by or acquired by FRA’s 

contractor, the Volpe Center, from key 

stakeholders and railroad employees 

will be used strictly for evaluation 

purposes. None of the information that 

might be identifying will be 

disseminated or disclosed in any way. 

In addition, the participating railroad 

sites involved will require Volpe to 

establish a non-disclosure agreement 

that prohibits disclosure of company 

confidential information without the 

carrier’s authorization. Also, the 

information is protected under the 

Department of Transportation regulation 

Title 49 CFR Part 9,which is in part 

concerned with the Department 

involvement in proceedings between 

private litigants. According to this 

statute, if data are subpoenaed, Volpe 

and Volpe contractors can not ‘‘provide 

testimony or produce any material 

contained in the files of the Department, 

or disclose any information or produce 

any material acquired as part of the 

performance of that employee’s official 

duties or because of that employee’s 

official duty status’’ unless authorized 

by agency counsel after determining 

that, in legal proceedings between 

private litigants, such testimony would 

be in the best interests of the 

Department or that of the United States 

Government if disclosed. Finally, the 

name of those interviewed will not be 

requested. 

Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 242 

hours 

Addressee: Send comments regarding 

this information collection to the Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20503, Attention: FRA Desk Officer. 

Comments may also be sent 

electronically via e-mail to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs 

(OIRA) at the following address: 

oira_submissions@omb.eop.gov. 

Comments are invited on the 

following: Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Department, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

Department’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed information collection; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 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. 

A comment to OMB is best assured of 

having its full effect if OMB receives it 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

15, 2010. 

Kimberly Coronel, 

Director, Office of Financial Management. 

[FR Doc. 2010–23478 Filed 9–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

Environmental Impact Statement: U.S. 

64/Corridor K. The Project Begins on 

U.S. 64 From West of the Ocoee River 

to State Route 68 Near Ducktown in 

Polk County, TN 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI). 

SUMMARY: The Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) is issuing this 

notice to advise the public that an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

will be prepared for a proposed highway 

project in Polk County, Tennessee. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Charles J. O’Neill, Planning and 

Program Management Team Leader, 

Federal Highway Administration, 

Tennessee Division Office, Address: 404 

BNA Drive, Suite 508, Nashville, 

Tennessee 37217, Telephone: (615) 781– 

5770, E-mail: Charles.ONeill@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA, in cooperation with the 

Tennessee Department of 

Transportation, will prepare an EIS for 

the proposed U.S. 64/Appalachian 

Development Corridor K project from 

west of the Ocoee River to State Route 

68 near Ducktown, a distance of 

approximately 20 miles. The southern 

boundary of the Corridor K project 

study area is along the TennesseeGeorgia state line. The northern 

boundary, in general, is along the 

Hiwassee River and Ocoee River 

watershed boundary. A NOI for the 

same project corridor was previously 

published on August 28, 1999 and then 

rescinded on May 21, 2008 due to the 

decision that a new EIS was needed to 

include and evaluate new information 

and a new economic development 

study. 

Alternatives to be considered include: 

(1) No-build; (2) a Transportation 

System Management (TSM) alternative; 

(3) a transit alternative; (4) one or more 

build alternatives that could include 

constructing a roadway on a new 

location, upgrading existing U.S. 64, or 

a combination of both, and (5) other 

alternatives that may arise from public 

input. Public scoping meetings will be 

held for the project corridor. As part of 

the scoping process, federal, state, and 

local agencies and officials; private 

organizations; citizens; and interest 

groups will have an opportunity to 

identify issues of concern and provide 

input on the purpose and need for the 

project, range of alternatives, 

methodology, and the development of 

the EIS. A Coordination Plan has been 

developed to include the public in the 

project development process. This plan 

utilizes the following outreach efforts to 

provide information and solicit input: 

Coordination through a Citizens 

Resource Team, newsletters, an Internet 

Web site, e-mail and direct mail, 

informational meetings and briefings, 

public hearings, and other efforts as 

necessary and appropriate. A public 

hearing will be held upon completion of 

the Draft EIS and public notice will be 

given of the time and place of the 

hearing. The Draft EIS will be available 


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