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Dated: November 18, 2014. 

Kelly Keiderling, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau 

of Educational and Cultural Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28045 Filed 11–26–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Delegation of Authority No. 378] 

Delegation of the Authority To Make 

Determinations Under 22 U.S.C. 

2656f(d) From the Secretary of State to 

the Under Secretary for Management 

By virtue of the authority vested in 

the Secretary of State by the State 

Department Basic Authorities Act (22 

U.S.C. 2651a) and Section 140 of the 

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, 

1988 and 1989 (Pub. L. 100–204), as 

amended (22 U.S.C. 2656f), I hereby 

delegate to the Under Secretary of State 

for Management, to the extent consistent 

with law, the authority to determine 

whether an individual’s death resulted 

from terrorism or an act of terrorism, for 

the purpose of approving the payment 

of certain death benefits under Sections 

413, 415, and 416 of the Foreign Service 

Act of 1980, as amended (22 U.S.C 3973, 

3975, 3976). 

In exercising the authority delegated 

herein, the Under Secretary will consult 

with relevant Department of State 

offices and bureaus before making the 

determination that a death resulted from 

terrorism or an act of terrorism. 

Notwithstanding this Delegation of 

Authority, the Secretary, the Deputy 

Secretary, or the Deputy Secretary for 

Management and Resources may at any 

time exercise any function delegated by 

this delegation of authority. 

Any act, executive order, regulation or 

procedure affected by this delegation 

shall be deemed to be such act, 

executive order, regulation, or 

procedure as amended from time to 

time. The delegation of authority does 

not revoke, supersede, or otherwise 

affect any other delegation of authority 

to the Under Secretary for Management. 

This delegation of authority shall be 

published in the Federal Register. 

John F. Kerry 

Secretary of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Intelligent Transportation Systems 

Program Advisory Committee; Notice 

of Meeting 

AGENCY: ITS Joint Program Office, Office 

of the Assistant Secretary for Research 

and Technology, U.S. Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

The Intelligent Transportation 

Systems (ITS) Program Advisory 

Committee (ITSPAC) will hold a 

teleconference on December 16, 2014, 

from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. (EST). 

The ITSPAC, established under 

Section 5305 of Public Law 109–59, 

Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 

Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for 

Users, August 10, 2005, and reestablished under Section 53003 of 

Public Law 112–141, Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century, July 6, 

2012, was created to advise the 

Secretary of Transportation on all 

matters relating to the study, 

development, and implementation of 

intelligent transportation systems. 

Through its sponsor, the ITS Joint 

Program Office (JPO), the ITSPAC makes 

recommendations to the Secretary 

regarding ITS Program needs, objectives, 

plans, approaches, content, and 

progress. 

The following is a summary of the 

meeting tentative agenda: (1) Call to 

Order, Welcome, and Roll Call, (2) 

Meeting Work Plan Review, (3) 

Discussion of Potential Study Topics, 

(4) Review Action Items and Next Steps. 

The teleconference will be open to the 

public, but limited conference lines will 

be available on a first-come, first-served 

basis. Members of the public who wish 

to participate in the teleconference must 

submit a request to: Mr. Stephen 

Glasscock, the Committee Designated 

Federal Official, at (202) 366–9126, not 

later than December 9, 2014. In 

addition, for planning purposes, your 

request must also indicate whether you 

wish to present oral statements during 

the teleconference. 

Questions about the agenda or written 

comments may be submitted by U.S. 

Mail to: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Research and Technology, 

ITS Joint Program Office, Attention: 

Stephen Glasscock, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., HOIT, Washington, DC 

20590 or faxed to (202) 493–2027. The 

ITS JPO requests that written comments 

be submitted not later than December 9, 

2014. 

Notice of this teleconference is 

provided in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act and the 

General Services Administration 

regulations (41 CFR part 102–3) 

covering management of Federal 

advisory committees. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on the 21st day 

of November 2014. 

John Augustine, 

Managing Director, ITS Joint Program Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[FHWA Docket no. FHWA–2014–0032] 

Retrospective Regulatory Review— 

State Safety Plan Development and 

Reporting 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration 

(NHTSA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with Executive 

Order 13563, Improving Regulation and 

Regulatory Review, FHWA and NHTSA 

are evaluating their State highway safety 

plan development and reporting 

requirements. As part of this review, 

this notice requests comments on 

actions FHWA and NHTSA could take 

without statutory changes to better 

streamline and harmonize State 

highway safety plan development and 

reporting requirements. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver 

comments to the U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Dockets Management 

Facility, Room W12–140, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 

20590, or fax comments to (202) 493– 

2251. Alternatively, comments may be 

submitted to the Federal eRulemaking 

portal at http://www.regulations.gov. All 

comments must include the docket 

number that appears in the heading of 

this document. All comments received 

will be available for examination and 

copying at the above address from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. Those 

desiring notification of receipt of 

comments must include a selfaddressed, stamped postcard or you 

may print the acknowledgment page 

that appears after submitting comments 

electronically. Anyone is able to search 


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1MAP–21 has been extended to May 31, 2015. A 

new surface transportation authorization may 

impact these rulemakings, including plan and 

reporting requirements. 

2Highway Safety Improvement Program, Notice 

of Proposed Rulemaking, 79 FR 17464, March 28, 

2014, Docket ID: FHWA–2013–0019; National 

Performance Management Measures: Highway 

Safety Improvement Program, Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking, 79 FR 13846, March 11, 2014, Docket 

ID: FHWA–2013–0020; Uniform Procedures for 

State Highway Safety Grant Programs, Interim Final 

Rule, 78 FR 4986, January 23, 2013, Docket ID: 

NHTSA–2013–0001. 

the electronic form of all comments in 

any one of our dockets by the name of 

the individual submitting the comment 

(or signing the comment, if submitted 

on behalf of an association, business, or 

labor union). Anyone may review DOT’s 

complete Privacy Act Statement in the 

Federal Register published on April 11, 

2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, Pages 

19477–78), or you may visit http://

dms.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

questions about the program discussed 

herein, contact Melonie Barrington, 

FHWA Office of Safety, (202) 366–8029, 

or via email at Melonie.Barrington@

dot.gov; or Barbara Sauers, NHTSA 

Office of Regional Operations and 

Program Delivery, (202) 366–0144, or 

via email at Barbara.Sauers@dot.gov. 

For legal questions, please contact 

William Winne, Attorney-Advisor, 

FHWA Office of the Chief Counsel, 

(202) 366–1397, or via email at 

William.winne@dot.gov; or Jin H. Kim, 

Attorney-Advisor, NHTSA Office of the 

Chief Counsel, (202) 366–1834, or via 

email at Jin.Kim@dot.gov. Business 

hours for the DOT are from 8:00 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Access and Filing 

You may submit or retrieve comments 

online through the Federal eRulemaking 

portal at: www.regulations.gov. The Web 

site is available 24 hours each day, 365 

days each year. Electronic submission 

and retrieval help and guidelines are 

available under the help section of the 

Web site. 

An electronic copy of this document 

may also be downloaded from Office of 

the Federal Register’s Web site at: http:// 

www.archives.gov/federal_register and 

the Government Printing Office’s Web 

site at: http://www.gpoaccess.gov. 

Background 

On January 18, 2011, President 

Obama issued Executive Order 13563, 

which outlined a plan to improve 

regulation and regulatory review (76 FR 

3821). Executive Order 13563 reaffirms 

and builds upon governing principles of 

contemporary regulatory review, 

including Executive Order 12866, 

Regulatory Planning and Review (58 FR 

51735), by requiring Federal agencies to 

design cost-effective, evidence-based 

regulations that are compatible with 

economic growth, job creation, and 

competitiveness. The President’s plan 

recognizes that these principles should 

not only guide the Federal government’s 

approach to new regulations, but to 

existing ones as well. To that end, 

Executive Order 13563 requires agencies 

to retrospectively review existing 

significant rules to determine if they are 

outmoded, ineffective, insufficient, or 

excessively burdensome. Accordingly, 

FHWA and NHTSA are soliciting public 

comment on their State highway safety 

plan development and reporting 

requirements. 

The FHWA’s Highway Safety 

Improvement Program (HSIP) and 

NHTSA’s State Highway Safety Grant 

Programs share a common goal—to save 

lives on our Nation’s roadways—and 

have related performance goals and 

measures. These programs have 

complementary but distinctly different 

focus areas and administrative and 

operational procedures and 

requirements. The HSIP primarily 

addresses infrastructure-related projects 

and strategies. The NHTSA’s Highway 

Safety Grant Programs focus on driver 

behavior projects and strategies. Both 

programs contribute to the goals and 

objectives of the Strategic Highway 

Safety Plan (SHSP), but they do so in 

different ways based on different 

statutory authority. One notable 

particular is that the statute governing 

the NHTSA grant program requires State 

highway safety activities to be under the 

direct auspices of the Governor, giving 

rise to unique issues, considerations, 

and responsibilities under that program. 

The HSIP projects and State Highway 

Safety Plan (HSP) must be coordinated 

with the SHSP. The SHSP is a high level 

document that uses comprehensive, 

statewide data to establish safety goals 

and objectives, and emphasis areas. It is 

a multiyear strategic planning 

document, not an annual 

implementation plan of projects and 

strategies. It identifies the emphasis 

areas the State intends to pursue to 

reduce fatalities and serious injuries, 

but not the specific projects or 

strategies, timing, or funding. 

The funding for individual project 

and strategy implementation is 

contained in the Statewide 

Transportation Improvement Program 

for the HSIP and the annual HSP for 

NHTSA’s Highway Safety Grant 

Programs. Following the 

implementation period, the State then 

reports on progress to implement the 

projects and strategies and the extent to 

which they contribute to achieving the 

State’s safety goals and targets. 

The HSIP and NHTSA’s Highway 

Safety Grant Programs were updated by 

the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 

21st Century Act (MAP–21) (Pub. L. 

112–141) 1 and are the subject of several 

rulemakings.2 Members of the public are 

encouraged to review those rulemakings 

and submit comments to the docket 

associated with each rulemaking. 

Purpose of This Notice 

The FHWA recently published two 

NPRMs related to HSIP and NHTSA 

issued an interim final rule related to 

the Highway Safety Grant Programs in 

2013. The Agencies are reviewing these 

programs from a Retrospective 

Regulatory Review perspective to 

explore ways to more proactively 

coordinate their highway safety 

programs. We are seeking input on 

actions FHWA and NHTSA could take 

to address potentially duplicative State 

highway safety planning and reporting 

requirements in order to streamline and 

harmonize these programs, to the extent 

possible in view of the separate 

statutory authority and focus of the two 

programs. 

The FHWA and NHTSA are seeking 

comments from all interested parties to 

help evaluate potential future courses of 

action. 

Questions 

1. How do State offices currently 

collect and report data to FHWA and 

NHTSA? Are any elements of these 

information collections or reports 

duplicative? If yes, what are those 

duplicative requirements and are there 

ways to streamline them? 

2. Are there changes FHWA and 

NHTSA should make to the HSIP and 

the HSP reporting processes to reduce 

burdens from duplicative reporting 

requirements, improve safety outcomes, 

and promote greater coordination 

among State agencies responsible for 

highway safety, consistent with the 

underlying statutory authority of these 

two grant programs? 

3. Would States prefer to combine 

plans and reports for the HSIP and HSP 

into a single report for FHWA and 

NHTSA? Would States find a single 

report useful for these complementary 

but distinctly different programs? 

4. Are there any State legal or 

organizational barriers to combining 

plans and reports for the HSIP and HSP 

to FHWA and NHTSA? To what extent 

does the location of the State recipient 


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of the Federal funds from FHWA and 

NHTSA, within the State’s 

organizational structure, add to or 

reduce the burdens of consolidated plan 

development or reporting? 

5. Are there SHSP requirements with 

higher costs than benefits? If so, what 

are those requirements and are there 

ways to improve them or should they be 

eliminated? 

6. Are there changes FHWA should 

make to the SHSP guidance to promote 

coordination among State agencies 

responsible for highway safety? 

Dated: November 6, 2014. 

Gregory G. Nadeau, 

Acting Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration. 

David J. Friedman, 

Deputy Administrator, National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0406] 

Commercial Driver’s License 

Standards: Application for Exemption; 

C.R. England, Inc. 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of application for 

exemption; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that C.R. 

England, Inc. (C.R. England) has applied 

for an exemption from the Federal 

minimum training conditions in 49 CFR 

383.25(a)(1) that require a commercial 

learner’s permit (CLP) holder to always 

be accompanied by a commercial 

driver’s license (CDL) holder with the 

proper CDL class and endorsements 

seated in the front seat of the vehicle 

while the CLP holder performs behindthe-wheel training on public roads or 

highways. C.R. England requests an 

exemption to allow CLP holders who 

have passed the CDL skills test but not 

yet received the CDL document to drive 

a commercial motor vehicle without 

being accompanied by a CDL holder, 

provided the driver has documentation 

of passing the skills test. C.R. England 

believes that the exemption, if granted, 

would allow such a driver to operate 

more freely and in a way that benefits 

the driver, the carrier, and the economy 

as a whole. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System Number FMCSA– 

2014–0406 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• 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 

see the Privacy Act heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to 

www.regulations.gov at any time and in 

the box labeled ‘‘SEARCH for’’ enter 

FMCSA–2014–0406 and click on the tab 

labeled ‘‘SEARCH.’’ 

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. 

Public Participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can get 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs. 

Pearlie Robinson, 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 the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations. FMCSA must publish a 

notice of each exemption request in the 

Federal Register (49 CFR 381.315(a)). 

The Agency must provide the public 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)) with the reason for the 

grant or denial, and, if granted, the 

specific person or class of persons 

receiving the exemption, and the 

regulatory provision or provisions from 

which exemption is granted. The notice 

must also 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 381.300(b)). 

Request for Exemption 

C.R. England is a carrier that 

transports temperature–sensitive freight. 

It provides CDL training for its drivers 

in partnership with Premier Truck 

Driving Schools in five locations (Burns 

Harbor, IN; Dallas, TX; Fontana, CA; 

Richmond, IN; and Salt Lake City, UT). 

C.R. England seeks an exemption from 

49 CFR 383.25(a)(1) that would allow 

CLP holders who have successfully 

passed a CDL skills test and are thus 

eligible to receive a CDL to drive a truck 

without a CDL holder being present. 

This would allow a CLP holder to 

participate in a revenue-producing trip 

back to his or her State of domicile to 

obtain the CDL document, as the CDL 

can only be issued by the State of 

domicile in accordance with Part 383. 

C.R. England advises that FMCSA is 

aware of the trucking industry’s need for 

qualified and well-trained drivers to 

meet increasing shipping demands. C.R. 

England believes that 49 CFR 

383.25(a)(1) limits its ability to 

effectively and efficiently recruit, train, 

and employ new entrants to the 

industry. Prior to the implementation of 

section 385.25(a)(1), States routinely 

issued temporary CDLs to drivers who 

passed the CDL skills test. The 

temporary CDL allowed C.R. England 


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