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MAP–21, there was no requirement for 

a SDLA to submit a Commercial Driver’s 

License Program Plan. 

The spreadsheet was developed by 

FMCSA. The spreadsheet will be sent to 

each SDLA. The SDLA will complete 

the spreadsheet and send directly to 

FMCSA via electronic transmission. 

FMCSA will then review each plan to 

assess each State’s level of compliance 

with the CDL requirements. The 

spreadsheets will then be uploaded into 

FMCSA’s Automated Compliance 

Review System (ACRS). Appropriate 

feedback will be provided from MC–ESL 

to each State after review. 

Title: State Commercial Driver’s 

License Program Plan. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Respondents: State Driver Licensing 

Agencies (SDLAs). 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 51 

State respondents. 

Estimated Time per Response: 40 

hours per SDLA. 

Expiration Date: New collection. 

Frequency of Response: One-time 

effort. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

2,040 hours. 

FMCSA estimates that each SDLA 

would need approximately 40 hours to 

complete the State Commercial Driver’s 

License Program Plan and submit it to 

FMCSA. The Program Plan is completed 

on a one-time basis as required by 

section 32305 of MAP–21. There is no 

continuing information collection 

function associated with submitting this 

Program Plan. The Program Plan asks 

for information which is readily 

available to the filer. 

For the purposes of the CDL program, 

the District of Columbia is considered a 

State. Therefore, there are 51 State 

responses with an estimated 40 hours 

per response to complete and submit the 

Program Plan to FMCSA. 

The FMCSA estimates the SDLAs 

total annual burden is 2,040 hours (51 

responses × 40 hours = 2,040 hours). 

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. 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 

on: November 4, 2014. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology and 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–26850 Filed 11–12–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0167] 

RIN 2126–AB20 

Electronic Logging Devices and Hours 

of Service Supporting Documents; 

Research Report on Attitudes of Truck 

Drivers and Carriers on the Use of 

Electronic Logging Devices and Driver 

Harassment 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of 

Research Report. 

SUMMARY: On March 28, 2014, the 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA) published a 

Supplemental Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (SNPRM) that proposed 

amendments to the Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) to 

establish: Minimum performance and 

design standards for hours-of-service 

(HOS) electronic logging devices (ELDs); 

requirements for the mandatory use of 

these devices by drivers currently 

required to prepare HOS records of duty 

status (RODS); requirements concerning 

HOS supporting documents; and 

measures to address concerns about 

harassment resulting from the 

mandatory use of ELDs. FMCSA 

announces the availability of a new 

report: ‘‘Attitudes of Truck Drivers and 

Carriers on the Use of Electronic 

Logging Devices and Driver 

Harassment.’’ This project surveyed 

drivers on their attitudes regarding 

carrier harassment and examined 

whether reported harassment 

experiences varied due to the hours-ofservice logging method used by the 

driver. The survey is an effort to further 

address the potential for harassment 

associated with ELDs and provides 

results that are consistent with the 

Agency’s discussion of harassment in 

the ELD SNPRM. A copy of the report 

has been placed in the docket 

referenced at the beginning of this 

notice. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

December 15, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Docket Number FMCSA– 

2010–0167 addressing the Research 

Report using any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

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 or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal Holidays. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for 

instructions on submitting comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information concerning this report, 

please contact Mr. Albert Alvarez, 

Research Division of the Office of 

Analysis, Research, and Technology, 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001 or by telephone at 202–385–2377. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

FMCSA encourages you to participate 

by submitting comments and related 

materials pertaining to the report. This 

notice does not extend the earlier 

comment period pertaining to the ELD 

SNPRM published March 28, 2104. 

Submitting Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

notice (FMCSA–2010–0167), indicate 

the specific section of the report to 

which each comment applies, and 

provide a reason for each suggestion or 

recommendation. You may submit your 

comments and material online or by fax, 

mail, or hand delivery, but please use 

only one of these means. FMCSA 

recommends that you include your 

name and a mailing address, an email 

address, or a phone number in the body 

of your document so the Agency can 

contact you if it has questions regarding 

your submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and put the 

docket number, ‘‘FMCSA–2010–0167’’ 

in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box, and click 

‘‘Search.’’ When the new screen 


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appears, click on ‘‘Comment Now!’’ 

button and type your comment into the 

text box in the following screen. Choose 

whether you are submitting your 

comment as an individual or on behalf 

of a third party and then submit. 

If you submit your comments by mail 

or hand delivery, submit them in an 

unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 

11 inches, suitable for copying and 

electronic filing. If you submit 

comments by mail and would like to 

know that they reached the facility, 

please enclose a stamped, self-addressed 

postcard or envelope. 

FMCSA will consider all comments 

and material received during the 

comment period pertaining to the 

report. 

Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, as well as other 

documents available in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and insert 

the docket number, ‘‘FMCSA–2010– 

0167’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box and click 

‘‘Search.’’ Next, click the ‘‘Open Docket 

Folder’’ button and choose the 

document listed to review. If you do not 

have access to the Internet, you may 

view the docket online by visiting the 

Docket Management Facility in Room 

W12–140 on the ground floor of the 

DOT West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, 

between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act 

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), 

DOT solicits comments from the public 

to better inform its rulemaking process. 

DOT posts these comments, without 

edit, including any personal information 

the commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

www.dot.gov/privacy. 

II. The Research Report 

This research report, titled, ‘‘Attitudes 

of Truck Drivers and Carriers on the Use 

of Electronic Logging Devices and 

Driver Harassment,’’ examines the 

nature of harassment as viewed by truck 

drivers who are required to record their 

hours of service for the purposes of 

Federal reporting regulations. As it 

examines their perceptions, this 

research also reviews: 

• Whether drivers’ experiences and 

interactions with their carriers fall into 

the category of harassment. 

• If these experiences occur with any 

regularity (once or twice a month or 

more). 

• Whether these interactions are 

made possible as a result of the carrier 

using HOS data collected via an ELD 

and whether it was a standalone ELD or 

part of a comprehensive system that 

included ELD capability. 

These experiences and perceptions 

are reviewed both for truck drivers and 

for carrier personnel who manage truck 

drivers. The data collected from carrier 

personnel is similar to that collected 

from the drivers; that is, carriers were 

asked about the regularity of specific 

interactions with drivers at their firm, 

and whether the drivers might consider 

such actions (if they occur) harassment. 

Drivers are analyzed according to the 

systems they used for logging their HOS 

(i.e., paper or ELD). Carrier personnel 

are also considered according to the 

primary HOS logging method used by 

their company. 

Additional data was collected 

regarding attitudes about ELDs, 

reactions to definitions of harassment 

and coercion developed by the FMCSA, 

ways in which drivers are compensated 

and evaluated, and profiles of both the 

drivers and the carrier companies. 

For the complete report, visit docket 

number FMCSA–2010–0167 or http://

www.fmcsa.dot.gov/safety/researchand-analysis/publications. 

Issued on: November 5, 2014. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Information Technology and Chief 

Information Officer. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Section 4(f) Evaluation for the I–20 

East Transit Initiative Heavy Rail 

Transit Extension in DeKalb County, 

Georgia 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

and section 4(f) evaluation. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) and the 

Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit 

Authority (MARTA) intend to prepare 

an Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) and an evaluation per 49 U.S.C. 

303 and 23 CFR part 774 (‘‘Section 4(f)’’) 

for MARTA’s I–20 East Heavy Rail 

Transit (HRT) Extension project, which 

would extend the existing Blue Line 

from the Indian Creek MARTA Station 

to the Mall at Stonecrest in eastern 

DeKalb County. The EIS and Section 4(f) 

Evaluation will be prepared in 

accordance with regulations 

implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 

Section 4(f), as well as FTA’s 

regulations and guidance implementing 

NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500 through 1508 

and 23 CFR 771.105). 

The extension of the existing MARTA 

Blue Line HRT was selected as a 

component of a multimodal Locally 

Preferred Alternative (LPA) resulting 

from the I–20 East Transit Initiative 

Detailed Corridor Analysis (DCA) 

completed in April 2012. The LPA also 

includes new Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) 

service along I–20 between downtown 

Atlanta and a new station at Wesley 

Chapel Road, east of I–285 in DeKalb 

County. The NEPA analysis for the BRT 

project is being advanced separately in 

an Environmental Assessment (EA). 

The FTA originally published a NOI 

to perform federal environmental review 

for the entire I–20 East Transit Initiative 

LPA on August 28, 2012 (77 FR 52128). 

Project scoping activities for the I–20 

East Transit Initiative LPA occurred in 

September 2012. In today’s issue of the 

Federal Register, FTA is rescinding the 

August 28, 2012 NOI and issuing this 

notice to advise interested agencies and 

the public regarding updates to the 

Purpose and Need of the LPA that have 

occurred since the scoping activities. 

Specifically, the Purpose and Need for 

both the HRT Extension project and the 

BRT project have been revised to reflect 

their distinct and independent utility. 

The revised Purpose and Need for the 

HRT Extension project is presented later 

in this Notice. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of the Proposed Project and 

Study Area 

The first phase of the I–20 East 

Transit Initiative was the two year-long 

DCA. This DCA built upon a number of 

transit studies previously completed in 

the corridor and identified and 

evaluated transit improvements in the I– 

20 East Corridor from downtown 

Atlanta to the Mall at Stonecrest in 

eastern DeKalb County. The result of the 

DCA was the selection of a multimodal 

LPA comprised of an extension of the 

existing Blue heavy rail transit (HRT) 

line from MARTA’s Indian Creek 

Station to the Mall at Stonecrest in 

eastern DeKalb County and new BRT 

service along I–20 between downtown 

Atlanta and a new station at Wesley 

Chapel Road, east of I–285 in DeKalb 

County. 

The EIS, which focuses on the HRT 

Extension, has a study area that extends 

from the MARTA Indian Creek Station 


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