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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 8938] 

Culturally Significant Objects Imported 

for Exhibition Determinations: 

‘‘Display of Sixteen Hellenistic Silver 

Objects From the Republic of Italy, 

Sicily Region’’ Exhibition 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

following determinations: Pursuant to 

the authority vested in me by the Act of 

October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C. 

2459), Executive Order 12047 of March 

27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and 

Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat. 

2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et 

seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of 

October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority 

No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as 

appropriate, Delegation of Authority No. 

257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby 

determine that the objects to be 

included in the exhibition ‘‘Display of 

Sixteen Hellenistic Silver Objects from 

the Republic of Italy, Sicily Region,’’ 

imported from abroad for temporary 

exhibition within the United States, are 

of cultural significance. The objects are 

imported pursuant to a loan agreement 

with the foreign owner or custodian. I 

also determine that the exhibition or 

display of the exhibit objects at The 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 

New York, from on or about December 

1, 2014, until on or about December 1, 

2018, and at possible additional 

exhibitions or venues yet to be 

determined, is in the national interest. 

I have ordered that Public Notice of 

these Determinations be published in 

the Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, including a list of 

the exhibit objects, contact Julie 

Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of 

the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of 

State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The 

mailing address is U.S. Department of 

State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 

5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505. 

Dated: October 29, 2014. 

Kelly Keiderling, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Seventh Meeting: RTCA Tactical 

Operations Committee (TOC) 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Seventh meeting notice of RTCA 

Tactical Operations Committee. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of the seventh 

meeting of the RTCA Tactical 

Operations Committee. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

November 20th from 9:00 a.m.–1:00 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting is being held 

virtually. Any members of the public 

interested in participating virtually are 

required to pre-register no later than 

November 14, 2014 by contacting Trin 

Mitra via the email tmitra@rtca.org. 

Please provide the following 

information: 

• Name 

• Organization 

• Phone number and Email address 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

RTCA Secretariat, 1150 18th Street NW., 

Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036, or by 

telephone at (202) 833–9339, fax at (202) 

833–9434, or Web site at http://

www.rtca.org or Trin Mitra, TOC 

Secretary, tmitra@rtca.org, 202–330– 

0655. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

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

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., App.), notice is hereby 

given for a meeting of the RTCA Tactical 

Operations Committee. The agenda will 

include the following: 

November 20th 

• Opening of Meeting/Introduction of 

TOC Members—Co Chairs Jim Bowman 

and Dale Wright 

• Official Statement of Designated 

Federal Official—Elizabeth Ray 

• Approval of September 3, 2014 

Meeting Summary 

• Kickoff New TOC Tasks 

• Status of Existing and Potential 

TOC Tasks 

• Update briefing on TBFM 

• Update briefing on NSAAP 

• Discussion on UAS/Commercial 

Space 

• Overview of RTCA/IATA 

Partnership 

• Anticipated Issues for TOC 

consideration and action at the next 

meeting 

• Other business 

• Adjourn 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 29th 

2014. 

Mohannad Dawoud, 

Management Analyst, NextGen, Program 

Oversight and Administration, Federal 

Aviation Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0322] 

Hours of Service of Drivers: 

Application of B.R. Kreider & Son, Inc. 

for Exemption From the 12-Hour Limit 

on the Duty Day of Short-Haul Drivers 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of application for 

exemption; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that it has 

received an application from B.R. 

Kreider & Son, Inc., (Kreider) for an 

exemption from the requirement that 

drivers of commercial motor vehicles 

(CMVs) must be released from work 

within 12 consecutive hours in order to 

take advantage of the exception to the 

record of duty status (RODS) rule for 

short-haul operations. Drivers qualifying 

for the short-haul exception are subject 

to the hours of service limits but are not 

required to maintain a RODS during the 

duty day. Kreider asks that its drivers be 

allowed to operate under the short-haul 

exception when their duty day exceeds 

12 hours, and states that the same level 

of safety would be achieved with the 

exemption in place as would be 

achieved without the exemption. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 5, 2014 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System Number FMCSA– 

2014–0322 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

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• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• 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. 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 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

also see the Privacy Act heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to 

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for accessing the 

dockets, or go to the street address listed 

above. 

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 a Privacy Act notice regarding 

our public dockets in the January 17, 

2008, issue of the Federal Register (73 

FR 3316). 

Public participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can obtain electronic submission and 

retrieval help and guidelines under the 

‘‘help’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you 

want us to notify you that we received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print 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. 

Robert F. Schultz, FMCSA Driver and 

Carrier Operations Division; Office of 

Carrier, Driver and Vehicle Safety 

Standards; Telephone: 202–366–4325. 

Email: MCPSD@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

FMCSA has authority under 49 U.S.C. 

31136(e) and 31315 to grant exemptions 

from certain parts of the Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Regulations. Before doing 

so, the Agency must provide an 

opportunity for public comment. The 

Agency is required to publish a notice 

of each exemption request in the 

Federal Register (49 CFR 381.315(a)), 

providing the public an opportunity to 

inspect the information relevant to the 

application, including any safety 

analyses that have been conducted, and 

an opportunity to comment on the 

request. FMCSA must review the safety 

analyses and public comments 

submitted and determine 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 Agency must publish 

its decision in the Federal Register (49 

CFR 381.315(b)) and state the reasons 

for denying or granting the application. 

If the exemption is granted, the notice 

must include the name of the person or 

entity, or class of persons, receiving the 

exemption, and the regulation from 

which the exemption is granted. The 

notice must also specify the effective 

period of the exemption and state the 

terms and conditions of the exemption, 

if any. The exemption may be renewed 

(49 CFR 381.300(b)). 

The hours-of-service (HOS) rules (49 

CFR part 395) require operators of CMVs 

to maintain a RODS on board the CMV 

at all times (§ 395.8(a)). However, the 

HOS rules provide an exception to this 

requirement for qualifying CMV drivers 

engaged in short-haul operations 

(§ 395.1(e)). Section 395.1(e) states in 

pertinent part: ‘‘(e) Short-haul 

operations—(1) 100 air-mile radius 

driver. A driver is exempt from 

[maintaining a RODS] if: (i) The driver 

operates within a 100 air-mile radius of 

the normal work reporting location; (ii) 

The driver . . . returns to the work 

reporting location and is released from 

work within 12 consecutive hours; 

(iii)(A) A property-carrying commercial 

motor vehicle driver has at least 10 

consecutive hours off duty separating 

each 12 hours on duty; . . . (iv)(A) A 

property-carrying commercial motor 

vehicle driver does not exceed [11 

hours] driving . . . following 10 

consecutive hours off duty; . . . and (v) 

The motor carrier that employs the 

driver maintains and retains for a period 

of 6 months accurate and true time 

records showing: (A) The time the 

driver reports fur duty each day; (B) The 

total number of hours the driver is on 

duty each day; (C) The time the driver 

is released from duty each day . . .’’ 

A driver who expects to qualify for 

the short-haul exception does not 

maintain a RODS on board the CMV. 

However, if the driver discovers later in 

the day that he or she is not going to 

qualify for the short-haul exception, the 

driver must immediately begin to 

prepare a RODS for the day. The RODS 

must cover the entire day, even if the 

driver has to record retroactively 

changes in duty status that occurred 

earlier in the day. See Q.21 under 49 

CFR 395.1 at http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/ 

regulations/title49/part395?guidance. 

Request for Exemption 

Kreider is an interstate motor carrier 

engaged in the short-haul transportation 

of materials such as topsoil, fill, and 

stone. Kreider drivers do not go beyond 

a 100 air-mile radius of their normal 

work-reporting location during their 

duty day. Kreider states that its drivers 

make frequent deliveries during their 

duty day, and thus are ‘‘in and out of 

the truck all day long.’’ Kreider states 

that it is often not possible for its CMV 

drivers to complete their duty day 

within the 12-hour limit. The applicant 

believes that it is impractical to require 

these drivers to prepare a RODS when 

this occurs. Kreider states that the 12- 

hour requirement ‘‘affects the driver’s 

pay, production rates and makes for a 

very sloppy log book with so many lines 

between driving and on duty.’’ It 

believes that the same level of safety 

would be achieved with this exemption 

in place as would be achieved in the 

absence of the exemption. A copy of the 

applicants’ application for exemption is 

available for review in the docket for 

this notice. 

Request for Comments 

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

and 31315(b)(4), FMCSA requests public 

comment on this application for an 

exemption from § 395.1(e)(1)(ii) so that 

its CMV drivers who are not released 

from duty within 12 consecutive hours 

can qualify for the short-haul exception. 

The Agency will consider all 

comments received by close of business 

on December 5, 2014. Comments will be 

available for examination in the docket 

at the location listed under the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. The 

Agency will consider to the extent 

practicable comments received in the 

public docket after the closing date of 

the comment period. 

Issued on: October 27, 2014. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

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