Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 195 / Wednesday, October 8, 2014 / Notices 60889 

Additional Information 

Federal grantees may not use Federal 

funds to develop COMPETES Act 

challenge applications. 

Federal contractors may not use 

Federal funds from a contract to develop 

COMPETES Act challenge applications 

or to fund efforts in support of a 

COMPETES Act challenge submission. 

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719 (America 

COMPETES Act). 

Issued on: September 19, 2014. 

Susan L. Kurland, 

Assistant Secretary of Aviation and 

International Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–23008 Filed 10–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2014–0036] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Reinstatement of a Previously 

Approved Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for extension 

of currently approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for renewal of an 

existing information collection that 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 

December 8, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

2014–0036 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. 

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: 

Mark Glaze, 202 366–4053, Office of 

Natural Environment, Federal Highway 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality 

Improvement (CMAQ) Program. 

OMB Control Number: 2125–0614. 

Background: Section 1113 of the 

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st 

Century Act (MAP–21) calls for an 

Evaluation and Assessment of CMAQ 

Projects. The statute calls for the 

identification and analysis of a 

representative sample of CMAQ projects 

and the development and population of 

a database that describes the impacts of 

the program both on traffic congestion 

levels and air quality. To establish and 

maintain this database, the FHWA is 

requesting States to submit annual 

reports on their CMAQ investments that 

cover projected air quality benefits, 

financial information, a brief 

description of projects, and several 

other factors outlined in the Interim 

Program Guidance for the CMAQ 

program. States are requested to provide 

the end of year summary reports via the 

automated system provided through 

FHWA by the first day of March of each 

year, covering the prior Federal fiscal 

year. 

Respondents: 51 (each State DOT, and 

Washington, DC). 

Frequency: Annually. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 125 hours per annual report. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 6,375 hours. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the U.S. 

DOT’s performance, including whether 

the information will have practical 

utility; (2) the accuracy of the U.S. 

DOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (3) 

ways 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. 

Issued on: October 3, 2014. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–24042 Filed 10–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0196] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; New Information Collection 

Request: FMCSA Annual Grant 

Program Effectiveness Survey 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (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 purpose of this 

information collection is to acquire the 

perspectives of FMCSA State partners 

who support the operation, regulation 

and enforcement of various mutuallybeneficial safety programs. This 

knowledge will improve the Federal 

government’s understanding of the 

effectiveness of commercial motor 

vehicle (CMV) safety related grant 

programs. The FMCSA is interested in 

surveying grant recipients to collect 

information on the strengths, 

weaknesses, and effectiveness of 

FMCSA grant programs with the intent 

of improving our capacity to meet the 

needs of our grantees. FMCSA needs 

this information to support program 

evaluation endeavors, program 

management, and fiscal decision 

making. FMCSA will use the results in 

various analyses conducted by FMCSA 

designed to assess the effectiveness of 

existing rules, grant programs, and 

safety programs. 

DATES: We request your comments on or 

before December 8, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) Docket 

Number FMCSA–2014–0196 using any 

of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 


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• 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., 

Washington, DC 20590–0001 between 

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., e.t., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the exemption process, 

see the Public Participation heading 

below. Note that all comments received 

will be posted without change to 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. 

Please see the Privacy Act heading 

below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for accessing the 

dockets, or go to the street address listed 

above. 

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 signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement for the Federal Docket 

Management System published in the 

Federal Register on January 17, 2008 

(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://

edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8- 

794.pdf. 

Public Participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can obtain electronic submission and 

retrieval assistance and guidelines 

under the ‘‘help’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you 

want FMCSA to notify you that we 

received your comments, please include 

a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print your request on the 

acknowledgement page that appears 

after submitting comments online. 

Comments received after the comment 

closing date will be included in the 

docket and will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Eugene Johnson, Strategic Planning, and 

Program Evaluation Division, Office of 

Policy, Strategic Planning and 

Regulations, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Telephone: (202) 366–5490; email 

Eugene.Johnson@dot.gov. Office hours 

are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

If you have questions on viewing 

material in the docket, contact Docket 

Operations (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Federal Motor 

Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA) 

needs a survey of its State partner-grant 

recipients who support the operation, 

regulation and enforcement of various 

mutually-beneficial safety programs. 

This knowledge will improve the 

Federal government’s understanding of 

the effectiveness of commercial motor 

vehicle (CMV) safety related grant 

programs. The FMCSA is interested in 

surveying grant recipients to collect 

information on the strengths, 

weaknesses, and effectiveness of 

FMCSA grant programs. 

In 2009, the Government 

Accountability Office (GAO) issued a 

final report on a FMCSA grant program 

called Performance Registration 

Information System Management 

PRISM. The GAO reported was entitled, 

‘‘Motor Carrier Safety: Commercial 

Vehicle Registration Program Has Kept 

Carriers from Operating, but 

Effectiveness Is Difficult to Measure, 

GAO–09–495.’’ The GAO recommended 

FMCSA measure the PRISM program’s 

effectiveness when the number of States 

that have the ability to deny, suspend, 

or revoke registrations of CMVs 

operated by OOS carriers is sufficient to 

make such measurements meaningful. 

The authority to require Federal 

Agencies to monitor grants is 2 CFR 

Chapter I, and Chapter II Parts 200, 215, 

220, 225, and 230 Uniform 

Administrative Requirements, Cost 

Principles, and Audit Requirements for 

Federal Awards. OMB Circular A–110, 

Reports and Records, sections 50 

through 53 set forth the procedures for 

monitoring and reporting on the 

recipient’s financial and program 

performance and the necessary standard 

reporting forms. 

The Agency proposes to collect the 

data for this project via electronic mail 

surveys and conduct clarifying 

interviews as appropriate. The 

information collection supports the 

DOT’s Strategic Goal of Safety, and will 

help confirm whether the program(s) 

improve public health and safety by 

reducing transportation-related fatalities 

and injuries. Therefore, the purpose of 

this ICR is to conduct a survey using 

Form MCSA–5888 to evaluate the 

effectiveness of FMCSA’s grant 

programs through the use of in-person 

interviews and electronic surveys. The 

survey will not be statistical in nature, 

as the intention is to receive the 

comments of all affected state partners. 

The survey will not exceed 30 questions 

and the complexity of the question 

structure will be Likert scale and short 

responses. The decision to use the 

Likert scale over the ordinal scale is the 

numbers in the ordinal level indicate 

the relative position of items, but not 

the magnitude of difference that you get 

from the Likert scale. For example, the 

survey will present a question like ‘‘The 

grant funding provided in support of 

your program is adequate to meet all 

aspects of the mission.’’ The response 

options may include: 

1. Strongly disagree 

2. Disagree 

3. Neural 

3. Agree 

4. Strongly agree 

5. Not Applicable 

The Agency will use this information 

to establish a baseline of our grant 

programs from the grantee’s perspective 

for use in future grant-related decision 

making, to include: (1) Assessing the 

impacts of proposed rules, (2) 

identifying potential improvements in 

its grant supported safety programs, and 

(3) complement future budget and 

resource related decisions. 

Title: FMCSA Annual Grant Program 

Effectiveness Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX. 

Type of Request: New information 

collection. 

Respondents: State Grant Recipients. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 50 

State Respondents. 

Estimated Time per Response: 45 

minutes per response. 

Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new 

ICR. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 49 

hours [(50 electronic mail-in 

respondents × 45 minutes/60 minutes) + 

(15 State personnel interviews × 45 

minutes/60 minutes) = 49]. Minutes per 

response = 48.75 rounded to 49.] 

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, 

usefulness, and clarity of the collected 

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. 


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Issued under the authority delegated in 49 

CFR 1.87 on: September 30, 2014. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Information Technology and Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–23994 Filed 10–7–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0335] 

Parts and Accessories Necessary for 

Safe Operation; Application for an 

Exemption From Dealers Choice 

Truckaway System, Inc. 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of application for 

exemption; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA requests public 

comment on an application for 

exemption from Dealers Choice 

Truckaway System, Inc. (Truckmovers) 

to allow the use of plastic blocks to 

build up the height of the front end of 

a towed vehicle in driveaway-towaway 

operations. The Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) permit the 

use of ‘‘hardwood blocks of good 

quality’’ for this purpose but the use of 

materials other than hardwood blocks is 

not addressed. Truckmovers believes 

the use of ultra-high molecular 

polyethylene plastic blocks will 

maintain a level of safety that is 

equivalent to the level of safety 

achieved without the exemption. 

Truckmovers is requesting the 

temporary exemption in advance of 

petitioning FMCSA to conduct a 

rulemaking to amend 49 CFR 

393.71(k)(4) to allow the use of vehicle 

support blocks made of any suitable 

material to support the weight of 

vehicles when towing multiple vehicles 

in driveaway-towaway operations. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 7, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA– 

2014–0335 using any of the following 

methods: 

• Web site: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

on the Federal electronic docket site. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, DOT Building, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., MondayFriday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number for this notice. For detailed 

instructions on submitting comments 

and additional information on the 

exemption process, see the ‘‘Public 

Participation’’ heading below. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

see the ‘‘Privacy Act’’ heading for 

further information. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or to Room W12– 

140, DOT Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19476) or you may visit http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Public participation: The http://

www.regulations.gov Web site is 

generally available 24 hours each day, 

365 days each year. You may find 

electronic submission and retrieval help 

and guidelines under the ‘‘help’’ section 

of the http://www.regulations.gov Web 

site as well as the DOT’s http://

docketsinfo.dot.gov Web site. If you 

would like notification that we received 

your comments, please include a self 

addressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard or print the acknowledgment 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Luke W. Loy, Vehicle and Roadside 

Operations Division, Office of Bus and 

Truck Standards and Operations, MC– 

PSV, (202) 366–0676; Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, 

DC 20590–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Section 4007 of the Transportation 

Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA– 

21) [Pub. L. 105–178, June 9, 1998, 112 

Stat. 401] amended 49 U.S.C. 31315 and 

31136(e) to provide authority to grant 

exemptions from the Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). 

On August 20, 2004, FMCSA published 

a final rule (69 FR 51589) implementing 

section 4007. Under this rule, FMCSA 

must publish a notice of each exemption 

request in the Federal Register (49 CFR 

381.315(a)). The Agency must provide 

the public with an opportunity to 

inspect the information relevant to the 

application, including any safety 

analyses that have been conducted. The 

Agency must also provide an 

opportunity for public comment on the 

request. 

The Agency reviews the safety 

analyses and the public comments and 

determines whether granting the 

exemption would likely achieve a level 

of safety equivalent to or greater than 

the level that would be achieved by the 

current regulation (49 CFR 381.305). 

The decision of the Agency must be 

published in the Federal Register (49 

CFR 381.315(b)). If the Agency denies 

the request, it must state the reason for 

doing so. If the decision is to grant the 

exemption, the notice must specify the 

person or class of persons receiving the 

exemption and the regulatory provision 

or provisions from which an exemption 

is granted. The notice must specify the 

effective period of the exemption (up to 

2 years) and explain the terms and 

conditions of the exemption. The 

exemption may be renewed (49 CFR 

381.315(c) and 49 CFR 381.300(b)). 

Truckmovers Application for 

Exemption 

Truckmovers applied for an 

exemption from 49 CFR 393.71(k)(4) to 

allow the use of plastic support blocks 

in lieu of hardwood blocks to increase 

the height of a towed vehicle in 

driveaway-towaway operations. A copy 

of the application is included in the 

docket referenced at the beginning of 

this notice. 

In its application, Truckmovers states 

that without the proposed exemption it 

will not be able to utilize plastic support 

blocks because 49 CFR 393.71(k)(4) 

specifically identifies the use of 

hardwood blocks to build up the height 

of the front end of a towed vehicle in 

driveaway-towaway operations. 

Truckmovers provided information 

regarding the development of ultra-high 

molecular polyethylene plastic blocks 

with a compression rating of 3,300 psi, 

which can withstand extreme heat and 

cold. These plastic blocks are not 

susceptible to decomposition and 

erosion like wood blocks, allowing for 

their re-use. The high compression 


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