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chose to develop the model contracts as 

informational guides, rather than 

prescriptive templates, for State and 

local governments entering into P3 

transactions. 

About the Toll Concessions Model P3 

Contract Guide 

The Toll Concessions Model P3 

Contract Guide focuses on issues critical 

to achieving public sector objectives and 

protecting the interest of the taxpaying 

and traveling public. The Core Guide 

discusses seven specific issues, per the 

following Table of Contents: 

1. Introduction 

2. Tolling Regulation 

3. Benefit-Sharing 

4. Supervening Events 

5. Changes in Equity Interests 

6. Change in Law 

7. Defaults, Early Termination, and 

Compensation 

8. Handback 

The FHWA is not accepting any 

further comments on the Core Guide, 

which was published on September 10, 

2014, and can be found on the Docket 

(FHWA–2014–0006) and at http://

www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/pdfs/p3/model_

p3_core_toll_concessions.pdf. 

There are, of course, many substantive 

P3 contract provisions in addition to the 

seven discussed in the Core Guide. With 

today’s publication of the draft 

Addendum, FHWA proposes to 

complete the Toll Concessions Guide 

with the following chapter topics: 

9. Construction Performance Security 

10. Insurance 

11. Lenders Rights and Direct Agreement 

12. Department step-in 

13. Performance Standards and NonCompliance Points 

14. Consumer Protections 

15. Federal Requirements 

16. Governmental Approvals and Permits 

17. Utilities and Third Party Rights 

18. Financial Model Adjustments 

19. Department and Developer Changes 

20. Additional Capacity Construction 

Requirements 

21. Nature of Proprietary Interest 

22. Contract Term 

23. Developer Indemnities 

24. Dispute Resolution 

25. Intellectual Property 

26. Amendments to Key Developer 

Documents 

27. Assignment 

28. General Provisions 

The Draft Addendum also includes 

the Glossary of Terms developed for the 

Core Guide. Comments suggesting 

changes to glossary terms will be 

evaluated in light of their impact on the 

entire Toll Concessions Guide. 

The Draft Addendum can be found on 

the Docket (FHWA–2014–0006) and at 

the following link: http://

www.fhwa.gov/ipd/pdfs/p3/model_p3_

toll_concessions_addendum.pdf. 

In coming months, FHWA will 

publish a draft guide to availability 

payment concessions, in which 

government appropriations are the 

source of compensation to the private 

sector partner. The use of availability 

payments in P3 transactions is 

increasing, and many provisions in the 

Toll Concessions Model P3 Contract 

Guide will be germane to the 

Availability Payment Concessions 

Model P3 Contract Guide, which will be 

published from the start as a single, 

complete draft. Similar to the toll 

guides, FHWA will invite public 

comments on the Availability Payment 

Concessions Model P3 Contract Guide. 

Authority: Section 1534 (d) of Moving 

Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century, 

MAP–21, enacted October 1, 2012. 

Issued on: December 1, 2014. 

Gregory G. Nadeau, 

Acting Administrator, Federal Highway 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00552 Filed 1–15–15; 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), 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. On October 8, 2014, 

FMCSA published a notice in the 

Federal Register allowing for a 60-day 

comment period on this ICR. The 

agency received no comments in 

response to that notice. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

February 17, 2015. OMB must receive 

your comments by this date in order to 

act on the ICR. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should 

reference Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2014–0196. Interested persons 

are invited to submit written comments 

on the proposed information collection 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget. Comments 

should be addressed to the attention of 

the Desk Officer, Department of 

Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, and sent via 

electronic mail to oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395– 

6974, or mailed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

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: 

Title: FMCSA Annual Grant Program 

Effectiveness Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX. 

Type of Request: New 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: 63 

hours [(50 electronic mail-in 


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respondents × 45 minutes/60 minutes) + 

(50 State personnel interviews × 30 

minutes/60 minutes) = 63]. Minutes per 

response = 62.5 rounded to 63.] 

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. Neutral 

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. 

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 FMCSA to perform its 

functions; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (3) ways for the 

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. 

Issued under the authority delegated in 49 

CFR 1.87 on January 5, 2015. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Information Technology and Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2015–00607 Filed 1–15–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0297] 

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption 

Applications; Vision 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of final disposition. 

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its 

decision to exempt 12 individuals from 

the vision requirement in the Federal 

Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 

(FMCSRs). They are unable to meet the 

vision requirement in one eye for 

various reasons. The exemptions will 

enable these individuals to operate 

commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in 

interstate commerce without meeting 

the prescribed vision requirement in 

one eye. The Agency has concluded that 

granting these exemptions will provide 

a level of safety that is equivalent to or 

greater than the level of safety 

maintained without the exemptions for 

these CMV drivers. 

DATES: The exemptions were granted 

November 22, 2014. The exemptions 

expire on November 22, 2016. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elaine M. Papp, R.N., Chief, Medical 

Programs Division, (202) 366–4001, 

fmcsamedical@dot.gov, FMCSA, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W64– 

224, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. If you have questions 

on viewing or submitting material to the 

docket, contact Docket Services, 

telephone (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Electronic Access 

You may see all the comments online 

through the Federal Document 

Management System (FDMS) at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http://

www.regulations.gov and/or Room 

W12–140 on the ground level of the 

West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE., Washington, DC, 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. Background 

On October 22, 2014, FMCSA 

published a notice of receipt of 

exemption applications from certain 

individuals, and requested comments 

from the public (79 FR 63211). That 

notice listed 12 applicants’ case 

histories. The 12 individuals applied for 

exemptions from the vision requirement 

in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10), for drivers who 

operate CMVs in interstate commerce. 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, 

FMCSA may grant an exemption for a 2- 


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