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V. Projections and Effects of Policies and 

Measures 

VI. Vulnerability Assessment, Climate 

Change Impacts, and Adaptation 

Measures 

VII. Financial Resources and Transfer of 

Technology 

VIII. Research and Systematic Observation 

IX. Education, Training, and Public 

Awareness 

In keeping with UNFCCC guidelines, 

the fifth CAR will provide an inventory 

of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions and 

sinks and an estimate of the effects of 

mitigation policies and measures on 

future emissions levels. It will describe 

domestic programs as well as U.S. 

involvement in international efforts, 

including technology programs and 

associated contributions and funding. In 

addition, the text will include a 

discussion of national circumstances 

that affect U.S. vulnerability and 

responses to climate change. 

Public Input Process 

This Federal Register notice solicits 

contributions and comments on all 

matters to be covered in the fifth U.S. 

CAR and in particular, on issues related 

to non-federal, state, regional, local, and 

private sector actions to address climate 

change. Comments may be submitted to 

using the e-mail address above or by 

mail to the contact listed above. 

The U.S. will release the draft text of 

the fourth CAR for review and comment 

in the fall of 2009. Comments on that 

document will be due within 30 days of 

release. Because of the time constraints 

on completing and printing the final 

text, a longer review period will not be 

possible. 

We invite input on all aspects of the 

document currently under development. 

Comments received in response to this 

Federal Register notice will be 

considered in the preparation of the 

draft of the fifth national 

communication. 

You may view the fourth U.S. Climate 

Action Report on the Internet at: 

http://unfccc.int/national_reports/ 

annex_i_natcom/submitted_natcom/ 

items/3625.php. 

Dated: July 23, 2009. 

Trigg Talley, 

Office Director, Office of Global Change, 

Bureau of Oceans and International, 

Environmental and Scientific Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. E9–18230 Filed 7–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4710–09–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. DOT–OST–2008–0038] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; New Information Collection: 

Survey of Over-the-Road Bus 

Companies About Accessible 

Transportation for Individuals With 

Disabilities 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Office of the Secretary, 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. The new information 

collection is associated with a required 

review pursuant to the Americans with 

Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), 

implementing regulations for a Survey 

Over-the-Road Bus (OTRB) Companies 

located at subpart H of 49 CFR part 37. 

The collected information would assist 

DOT with any decision to modify or 

retain the requirements contained in the 

ADA regulations. On April 22, 2008, the 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA) published a 

Federal Register notice (at 73 FR 21685) 

allowing for a 60-day comment period 

on a new ICR involving OTRBs. Two 

comments were received on this issue. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

August 31, 2009. OMB must receive 

your comments by this date in order to 

act quickly on the ICR. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should 

reference Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number DOT– 

OST–2008–0038. 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 DOT FMCSA 

Desk Officer via electronic mail at 

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. 

Peter Chandler, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, Office of 

Enforcement and Compliance, 

Commercial Passenger Carrier Safety 

Division, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

(202) 366–5763, or e-mail 

peter.chandler@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Survey of Over-the-Road Bus 

Companies About Accessible 

Transportation for Individuals With 

Disabilities. 

Type of Information Collection 

Request: New information collection. 

Respondents: Private entities that 

operate over-the-road buses (OTRBs) are 

primarily in the business of transporting 

people, and whose operations affect 

commerce. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,800. 

Estimated Time per Response: The 

estimated average burden per response 

is 15 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 950 

hours [(3,800 responses × 15 minutes 

per response)/60 minutes = 950 hours, 

or 1,900 if conducted twice a year]. 

Frequency of Response: This 

proposed information collection is 

planned to be conducted only once or 

twice a year. A decision to request the 

information for a second time would be 

based upon the number of responses 

and the content of such responses to the 

initial request. 

Background: On September 28, 1998, 

DOT issued final regulations, in 

response to the Americans with 

Disabilities Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101– 

336, 104 Stat. 327, 42 U.S.C. 12101– 

12213 and 47 U.S.C. 225 and 611), 

which required the accessibility of new 

OTRBs and accessible OTRB service. 

The regulations require commercial 

OTRB operators to ensure that 

passengers with disabilities can use 

OTRBs. DOT is required by 49 CFR 

37.215 to review the various 

requirements within the ADA 

regulations for OTRB companies. As 

part of this review, DOT is required to 

consider certain factors including the 

percentage of accessible ORTBs in the 

fleets of OTRB companies, the success 

of such companies at meeting the 

requests of passengers with disabilities 

for accessible OTRBs in a timely 

manner, ridership of OTRBs by 

passengers with disabilities, volume of 

complaints by passengers with 

disabilities, and the cost and service 

impacts of these requirements. After the 

review, DOT is required to decide 

whether it is appropriate to somehow 

revise the ADA regulations for OTRB 

companies (i.e., whether certain 

provisions of the ADA regulations 

should be removed, modified, or made 

more stringent). 

DOT has an information collection to 

cover this paperwork burden under 


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OMB Control Number 2100–0019 to 

provide the Agency with data for use in 

its review of the ADA related 

requirements and to monitor 

compliance by OTRB companies. Such 

data are reported to FMCSA as the 

agency delegated by DOT for this 

purpose. DOT needs additional data 

from OTRB companies so that it can 

conduct an effective review and make 

an informed regulatory policy decision 

on whether there is a need to revise, 

modify or remove any of the ADA 

regulations involving OTRBs. 

Specifically, data about bus fleet 

accessibility, fulfillment of accessible 

bus requests, and ridership and volume 

of complaints by passengers with 

disabilities, are needed from OTRB 

companies. 

DOT needs the new data to conduct 

the required review of the various 

requirements within the ADA 

regulations for OTRB companies. The 

Department, however, would need 

FMCSA to send letters to approximately 

3,800 registered OTRB companies that 

will be asked to complete and submit an 

enclosed form or make an on-line data 

submission via a customized Web site. 

As noted above, FMCSA published 

inadvertently a notice in the Federal 

Register with a 60-day public comment 

period to announce this new proposed 

ICR on April 22, 2008. Two comments 

were received. Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc. 

and the American Bus Association 

questioned FMCSA’s authority to 

publish this new ICR when DOT had the 

authority to do so under OMB Control 

Number 2100–0019. While this new 

information collection request seeks 

different data from DOT’s OMB Control 

Number 2100–0019 Information 

Collection, the initial 60-day Federal 

Register notice on this issue should 

have been published by DOT, rather 

than by FMCSA. It is true that FMCSA 

would administer this new information 

collection upon OMB approval, but the 

Department and FMCSA determined 

that the new information collection 

request should be issued by DOT since 

it has the statutory authority to conduct 

the required review under the ADA 

regulations. 

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 DOT’s 

functions; (2) the accuracy of the 

estimated burden; (3) ways for the DOT 

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 in Washington, DC, on July 22, 

2009. 

Patricia Lawton, 

DOT PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–18013 Filed 7–29–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–9X–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2009–0084] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Notice of Request for 

Renewal of a Previously Approved 

Information Collection Titled: Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA) State 

Reports for American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA) 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for information 

collection that is summarized below 

under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 

published a Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day public comment period 

on this information collection on May 

27, 2009. We are required to publish 

this notice in the Federal Register by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

August 31, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

FHWA–2009–0084, 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 20590–0001. 

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: 

Karen White, 202–366–9474, Office of 

Policy and Governmental Affairs, HPTS, 

Federal Highway Administration, 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 7:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) State Reports 

for American Recovery and 

Reinvestment Act (ARRA), OMB Control 

#2125–0623. 

Background: The American Recovery 

and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), 

provides the State Departments of 

Transportation and Federal Lands 

Agencies with $27.5 billion for highway 

infrastructure investment. With these 

funds also comes an increased level of 

data reporting with the stated goal of 

improving transparency and 

accountability at all levels of 

government. According to President 

Obama ‘‘Every American will be able to 

hold Washington accountable for these 

decisions by going online to see how 

and where their tax dollars are being 

spent.’’ The Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA) in concert with 

the Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation (OST) and the other 

modes within the U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) will be taking the 

appropriate steps to ensure that this 

accountability and transparency is in 

place for all infrastructure investments. 

The reporting requirements of the 

ARRA, are covered in Sections 1201, 

1512 and 1609. Section 1201(c)(1) 

stipulates that ‘‘notwithstanding any 

other provision of law each grant 

recipient shall submit to the covered 

agency (FHWA) from which they 

received funding periodic reports on the 

use of the funds appropriated in this Act 

for covered programs. Such reports shall 

be collected and compiled by the 

covered agency (FHWA) and 

transmitted to Congress. Covered 

agencies (FHWA) may develop such 

reports on behalf of grant recipients 

(States) to ensure the accuracy and 

consistency of such reports.’’ 

Section 1512 of the ARRA requires 

‘‘any entity that receives recovery funds 

directly from the Federal Government 

(including recovery funds received 

through grant, loan, or contract) other 

than an individual,’’ including States, to 

provide regular ‘‘Recipient Reports.’’ 

Section 1609 references the National 

Environmental Policy Act of January 1, 

1970. The ARRA legislation requires 

that ‘‘The President shall report to the 

Senate Environment and Public Works 

Committee and the House National 

Resources Committee every 90 days 

* * * the status and progress of projects 

and activities funded by this Act with 


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