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2016. FMCSA evaluated the medical 

records provided by Mr. Banks and 

determined that granting him an 

exemption would achieve an equivalent 

or greater level of safety than would be 

achieved without granting him an 

exemption. 

IV. Basis for Exemption Determination 

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

FMCSA may grant an exemption from 

the diabetes standard in 49 CFR 

391.41(b)(3) if the exemption is likely to 

achieve an equivalent or greater level of 

safety than would be achieved without 

the exemption. The exemption allows 

the applicants to operate CMVs in 

interstate commerce. 

The Agency’s decision regarding these 

exemption applications is based on the 

program eligibility criteria and an 

individualized assessment of 

information submitted by each 

applicant. 

These 41 applicants have had ITDM 

over a range of 1 to 27 years. These 

applicants report no severe 

hypoglycemic reactions resulting in loss 

of consciousness or seizure, requiring 

the assistance of another person, or 

resulting in impaired cognitive function 

that occurred without warning 

symptoms, in the past 12 months and no 

recurrent (two or more) severe 

hypoglycemic episodes in the past five 

years. In each case, an endocrinologist 

verified that the driver has 

demonstrated a willingness to properly 

monitor and manage his/her diabetes 

mellitus, received education related to 

diabetes management, and is on a stable 

insulin regimen. These drivers report no 

other disqualifying conditions, 

including diabetes related 

complications. Each meets the vision 

requirement at 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10). 

The qualifications, experience, and 

medical condition of each applicant 

were stated and discussed in detail in 

the March 8, 2017 Federal Register 

notice (82 FR 13050) and will not be 

repeated in this notice. 

Consequently, FMCSA finds that in 

each case exempting these applicants 

from the diabetes requirement in 49 CFR 

391.41(b)(3) is likely to achieve a level 

of safety equal to that existing without 

the exemption. 

V. Conditions and Requirements 

The terms and conditions of the 

exemption are provided to the 

applicants in the exemption document 

and includes the following: (1) Each 

driver must submit a quarterly 

monitoring checklist completed by the 

treating endocrinologist as well as an 

annual checklist with a comprehensive 

medical evaluation; (2) each driver must 

report within two business days of 

occurrence, all episodes of severe 

hypoglycemia, significant 

complications, or inability to manage 

diabetes; also, any involvement in an 

accident or any other adverse event in 

a CMV or personal vehicle, whether or 

not it is related to an episode of 

hypoglycemia; (3) each driver must 

provide a copy of the ophthalmologist’s 

or optometrist’s report to the Medical 

Examiner at the time of the annual 

medical examination; and (4) each 

driver must provide a copy of the 

annual medical certification to the 

employer for retention in the driver’s 

qualification file, or keeping a copy in 

his/her driver’s qualification file if he/ 

she is self-employed. The driver must 

also have a copy of the exemption when 

driving, for presentation to a duly 

authorized Federal, State, or local 

enforcement official. 

VI. Preemption 

During the period the exemption is in 

effect, no State shall enforce any law or 

regulation that conflicts with this 

exemption with respect to a person 

operating under the exemption. 

VII. Conclusion 

Based upon its evaluation of the 41 

exemption applications, FMCSA 

exempts the following drivers from the 

diabetes requirement in 49 CFR 

391.41(b)(10), subject to the 

requirements cited above: 

Joseph A. Akers (WV) 

Leslie R. Auger (MO) 

Ta Canunpa W. Banks (SD) 

Ralph E. Beard (MI) 

Darrell W. Britnell (NC) 

Paul M. Capeder (MN) 

Robert D. Carnazzo (MA) 

Randall C. Coleman (WA) 

Thomas K. Coleman (NC) 

Mark A. Cologne (LA) 

Christopher J. Comstock (TX) 

Alexander H. Cromartie (PA) 

Michael R. Dark (TX) 

Joseph P. Dellavolpe (NJ) 

Shea E. Durand (NY) 

David L. Farris (KS) 

Donald D. Fown (OH) 

Michael L. Gamache (NH) 

David P. Glaeser (CO) 

Donald J. Gray (CA) 

James E. Guthrie, IV (KY) 

James F. Hamilton (SD) 

Paul R. Hanson (MN) 

Jaculyn E. Heck (DE) 

Greg J. Isom (GA) 

Mark J. Johnson (WA) 

Tyson C. Johnson (PA) 

Darrell W. Luck (NC) 

Gregory L. Markin (WI) 

Patrick May (MD) 

Elbert J. Means (SC) 

Peter R. Meyer (WA) 

Andrew R. Morris (WA) 

Timothy A. Parks, Jr. (MD) 

Dennis Pitt (NY) 

Antonio R. Ragin (CT) 

Matthew Reynolds (PA) 

Robert G. Smith (MA) 

Patricia M. Spurgeon (NY) 

Robert M. Sypolt (WV) 

Brandon R. Wedding (OR) 

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

and 31315, each exemption will be valid 

for two years from the effective date 

unless revoked earlier by FMCSA. The 

exemption will be revoked if the 

following occurs: (1) The person fails to 

comply with the terms and conditions 

of the exemption; (2) the exemption has 

resulted in a lower level of safety than 

was maintained prior to being granted; 

or (3) continuation of the exemption 

would not be consistent with the goals 

and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315. 

Issued on: October 18, 2017. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23347 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No. FTA–2017–0010] 

National Transit Database Reporting 

Changes and Clarifications 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Request for Comments. 

SUMMARY: This notice provides 

information on proposed changes and 

clarifications to the National Transit 

Database (NTD) reporting requirements. 

All proposed changes and clarifications 

are proposed to be effective for report 

year 2017 (beginning in September 

2017). 

DATES: Comments are due by December 

26, 2017. FTA will consider late 

comments to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Please identify your 

submission by Docket Number (FTA– 

2017–0010) through one of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Submit electronic comments and other 

data to http://www.regulations.gov. 

• U.S. Mail: Send comments to 

Docket Operations; U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., West Building Room W12– 

140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

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Ground Floor, at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: Fax comments to Docket 

Operations, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, at (202) 493–2251. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name (Federal Transit 

Administration) and Docket Number 

(FTA–2017–0010) for this notice, at the 

beginning of your comments. If sent by 

mail, submit two copies of your 

comments. Due to security procedures 

in effect since October 2001, mail 

received through the U.S. Postal Service 

may be subject to delays. Parties 

submitting comments should consider 

using an express mail firm to ensure 

their prompt filing of any submissions 

not filed electronically or by hand. If 

you wish to receive confirmation that 

FTA received your comments, you must 

include a self-addressed stamped 

postcard. All comments received will be 

posted without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. You 

may review U.S. DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement published in the 

Federal Register on April 11, 2000, at 

65 FR 19477–8 or http://

DocketsInfo.dot.gov. 

Electronic Access and Filing: This 

document and all comments received 

may be viewed online through the 

Federal eRulemaking portal at http://

www.regulations.gov. Electronic 

submission and retrieval help and 

guidelines are available on the Web site. 

It is available 24 hours each day, 365 

days a year. Please follow the 

instructions. An electronic copy of this 

document may also be downloaded 

from the Office of the Federal Register’s 

home page at https://

www.federalregister.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maggie Schilling, National Transit 

Database Program Manager, FTA Office 

of Budget and Policy, (202) 366–2054 or 

margaret.schilling@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Table of Contents 

A. Background and Overview 

B. Clarifications on Reporting Requirements 

Related to the Transit Asset Management 

Program Rule Published in July 2016 

a. Establishes a Definition of Capital 

Responsibility 

b. Clarifies Reporting Deadlines for New 

Assets 

c. Adds Non-Revenue Service/Yard Track 

and Total Track Without Capital 

Replacement Responsibility Category 

C. Additional Guidance on Reportable Safety 

Events 

D. Clarification on Reporting Requirements 

for Job Access and Reverse Commute 

(JARC) Fund Recipients 

E. Guidance on Distinguishing Between 

Commuter and Intercity Service 

F. Change to Reporting Requirements for 

Non-Rail, For-Profit Providers of Public 

Transportation Reporting Directly to the 

NTD 

G. Clarification of Major Mechanical System 

Failures and Other Mechanical System 

Failures Definitions 

A. Background and Overview 

The National Transit Database (NTD) 

was established by Congress to be the 

Nation’s primary source for information 

and statistics on the transit systems of 

the United States. Recipients and 

beneficiaries of grants from the Federal 

Transit Administration (FTA) under the 

Urbanized Area Formula Grants 

Program (§ 5307) or Other than 

Urbanized Area (Rural) Formula 

Program (§ 5311) are required to submit 

data to the NTD. Additionally, all other 

recipients of grants from FTA that own, 

operate, or manage assets used in public 

transportation are required to report 

data related to their asset inventory, 

condition assessments, and state of good 

repair performance targets data to the 

NTD. 

In July 2012, the Moving Ahead for 

Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP– 

21) amended § 5335 authorizing the 

collection of an expanded asset 

inventory and condition information 

through the NTD. The updated asset 

inventory and condition reporting 

requirements were published in the 

Federal Register in July 2016. 

The final NTD asset inventory 

reporting guidance specifies that service 

vehicles and administrative or 

maintenance facilities are reportable if 

the agency has full or partial capital 

responsibility for the asset; however, the 

updated guidance did not define capital 

responsibility as it relates to the NTD 

reporting requirements. This notice 

corrects that oversight and clarifies the 

term capital responsibility. It also 

provides clarification on when a new 

asset is reportable to the NTD and 

proposes additional granularity to track 

reporting. 

In addition, FTA is seeking comment 

on five additional pieces of proposed 

guidance for inclusion in the NTD 

Reporting Manual. First is an update to 

the definition of a reportable event for 

monthly safety reporting. Second is a 

clarification on reporting requirements 

for recipients of JARC funds. Third is 

additional guidance on distinguishing 

between commuter and intercity 

service. Fourth is an adjustment to the 

reporting requirements for non-rail, forprofit providers of public transportation. 

Fifth is a proposed update to the 

definition of major mechanical system 

failures and other mechanical system 

failures and solicits comment on 

improvements to these data points. The 

solicitation for comment on 

improvements to the mechanical system 

failures data points are for information 

only purposes, but may be used to 

inform a future notice. These changes 

are discussed in greater detail in the 

sections following. 

All proposed changes and 

clarifications will be effective for report 

year 2017, that begins in September 

2017. 

B. Clarifications on Reporting 

Requirements Related to the Transit 

Asset Management Program Rule 

Published in July 2016 

(a) Beginning in report year 2018, all 

NTD reporters are required to report 

additional asset inventory information 

with their annual report. The guidance 

published with the final asset inventory 

reporting requirements specified that 

service vehicles and administrative or 

maintenance facilities are reportable if 

the agency has full or partial capital 

responsibility for the asset; however, the 

guidance did not specifically define 

capital responsibility. 

FTA is proposing that for purposes of 

the NTD Report, an agency has direct 

capital responsibility for an asset if any 

of the following are true: 

1. The agency owns the asset, 

2. the agency jointly owns the asset 

with another entity, or 

3. The agency is responsible for 

replacing, overhauling, refurbishing or 

conducting major repairs on an asset, or 

the cost of those activities are itemized 

as a capital line item in their budget. 

Performing minimal preventive 

maintenance work on an asset, like 

cleaning, does not in itself indicate 

direct capital responsibility for the 

asset. An infrastructure asset itemized 

as a capital line item in the budget does 

not necessarily mean an agency has 

direct capital responsibility; an agency 

must also have management or oversight 

responsibilities for the line item project. 

(b) The guidance published with the 

final asset inventory reporting 

requirements did not clearly state when 

an asset that is under construction or 

final assembly becomes reportable to the 

NTD. FTA is proposing that an agency 

is required to report a new asset to the 

NTD asset inventory in the fiscal year 

that the agency begins using the asset 

for public transportation service. 

Agencies would not be required to 

report assets that are being assembled, 

nor those assets under construction, nor 

assets that are in testing. 


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(c) The new track inventory form, 

which will be implemented in report 

year 2018, includes two track types: 

Tangent and curve. Agencies are asked 

to report a sum of all track in these two 

categories. The guidance does not 

indicate whether non-revenue or yard 

track should be included in these two 

categories. It also does not allow 

agencies to separate out the total track 

without capital replacement 

responsibility. To clarify the reporting 

requirement and ensure that the Transit 

Asset Management (TAM) Program 

infrastructure performance restrictions 

metric (% of track segments under 

performance restriction) only includes 

track used in revenue service for which 

an agency has capital replacement 

responsibility, FTA is proposing the 

addition of two additional track 

categories. Under this proposal, 

agencies would report: (1) Total inservice tangent track, (2) total in-service 

curved track and (3) total non-revenue/ 

yard track (includes all non-revenue/ 

yard track regardless of capital 

replacement responsibility) and (4) total 

in-service track with no capital 

replacement responsibility. The TAM 

performance restriction calculation 

would exclude all track in the third and 

fourth categories. In addition to these 

four categories, agencies would also 

report total track under performance 

restriction. This number would be used 

with the total in-service track minus the 

total in-service track with no capital 

replacement responsibility to calculate 

the percent of track segments under 

performance restriction. 

C. Additional Guidance on Reportable 

Safety Events 

FTA is proposing the following 

update to a reportable safety event. 

Although FTA is not changing the 

thresholds for a reportable event, FTA is 

clarifying the sorts of locations where a 

reportable event may occur. The 

primary change is the addition of safety 

reporting for events occurring on transit 

infrastructure. For example, a substation 

may not be part of the transit right-ofway, but FTA has always intended that 

a safety event occurring at a substation 

outside the right-of-way should be 

reportable. The current definition can be 

found in the 2016 NTD Safety Reporting 

Manual found on the NTD Web site: 

www.transit.dot.gov/ntd. 

The proposed definition of a 

reportable safety event is below: 

A safety or security event occurring: 

—On transit right-of-way or 

infrastructure 

—at a transit revenue facility 

—at a maintenance facility or rail yard 

—during a transit-related maintenance 

activity, or 

—involving a transit revenue vehicle 

Excluded from this event reporting 

requirement are: 

—Events that occur off transit property 

where affected persons, vehicles, or 

objects come to rest on transit 

property after the event 

—occupational safety events occurring 

in administrative buildings 

—deaths that are a result of illness or 

other natural causes, outside of a 

reportable event 

—other events (assault, robbery, nontransit vehicle collisions etc.) 

occurring at bus stops or shelters that 

are not on transit-controlled property 

—collisions that occur while travelling 

to or from a transit-related 

maintenance activity 

—collisions involving a supervisor car, 

or other transit service vehicle 

operating on public roads 

D. Clarifications on Reporting 

Requirements for JARC Recipients 

Prior to 2012, the JARC Program was 

a stand-alone grant program which did 

not carry an NTD reporting requirement. 

MAP–21, however, repealed the JARC 

Program as a stand-alone program, and 

instead made JARC projects eligible 

activities under the Urbanized Area 

Formula Program and the Rural Areas 

Formula Program. All recipients and 

beneficiaries of these programs are 

required to report to the NTD, however, 

FTA does not currently provide any 

guidance on reporting requirements for 

recipients and subrecipients of the 

programs that only support JARC 

projects, and which do not provide any 

public transportation services. 

FTA is proposing to exempt from 

NTD reporting any subrecipient that 

only receives FTA money for 5307 or 

5311 funded JARC projects, and does 

not have any transit operating or capital 

expenses from any funding source. 

E. Guidance on Distinguishing Between 

Commuter and Intercity Service 

The definition of public 

transportation at 49 U.S.C 5302 

excludes intercity passenger rail 

operated by Amtrak and intercity bus 

service. In a Federal Register Notice 

published on Tuesday, August 19, 2014 

(FTA–2014–0006), FTA provided 

additional guidance on the definitions 

of commuter rail and commuter bus and 

established that service provided by 

these modes could be considered public 

transportation, and not intercity 

transportation, if at least 50% of 

passengers make a return trip on the 

same day across all service runs for one 

year. 

FTA reviews all requests to report 

new service to the NTD, as services 

excluded from the definition of public 

transportation are not permitted to 

report to the NTD on a voluntary basis. 

When FTA deems it necessary, it will 

require the agency to conduct a 

passenger survey test of whether 50% of 

passengers are making a return trip on 

the same day. However, FTA proposes 

that such a survey must meet the 

following requirements: 

1. The agency must conduct the 

survey over a 12-month period, to 

account for seasonal variations in 

passenger behavior. 

2. The agency must include the entire 

length of each route in the survey. 

3. The survey must determine that at 

least 50% of passengers on each route 

make a return trip on the same day, with 

95% confidence. 

4. A qualified statistician must 

approve the survey/sampling 

methodology and certify that the results 

give the required level of confidence. 

If at least 50% of all passengers 

surveyed on a route made a return trip 

on the same day, or reported their 

intention to do so, then FTA will permit 

the agency to report that route to the 

NTD. 

Current NTD reporting guidance does 

not address the questions of commuter 

vs intercity service for ferryboats. 

Although all ferryboats that permit 

walk-on passengers are included in the 

definition of public transportation, the 

NTD Reporting Manual only allows 

ferryboat service outside the boundaries 

of an urbanized area to be deemed 

‘‘attributable’’ to that urbanized area for 

commuter ferryboat services. Intercity 

ferryboat services are not permitted to 

deem their service outside the 

boundaries of an urbanized area as 

attributable to that area. Thus, FTA is 

proposing a uniform use of the 50% 

same day return trip policy to determine 

whether Ferryboat (FB) service is 

commuter or intercity for the purposes 

of inclusion in NTD. In addition, FTA 

is proposing a requirement for all new 

commuter rail, commuter bus or 

ferryboat service to survey for routes 

with a maximum one-way trip time 

exceeding 90 minutes to establish that at 

least 50% of all passengers on the route 

made a return trip on the same day. For 

new commuter rail, commuter bus, or 

ferryboat routes being proposed for 

reporting to the NTD, FTA may, at its 

discretion, presume that those with 

100% one-way trip times of 90 minutes 

or less are commuter services, without 

requiring a passenger survey. 


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F. Change to Reporting Requirements 

for Non-Rail For-Profit Providers of 

Public Transportation 

FTA currently has 18 non-rail, forprofit providers of public transportation 

that report directly to the NTD. One of 

these reporters raised the concern that 

providing the detailed financial 

information required of full reporters to 

the NTD may compromise their ability 

to successfully compete for business. 

They requested that FTA consider 

reducing the financial reporting 

requirements for for-profit providers to 

mirror those of reduced reporters to 

address their concern. FTA is seeking 

comment on the proposal to allow nonrail, for-profit providers of public 

transportation the option to report to the 

NTD as a reduced reporter. Of the 18 

non-rail, for-profit providers referenced 

above, ten already meet the current 

reduced reporting threshold. This 

proposal would provide the flexibility 

to report as a reduced reporter for the 

remaining 8 agencies. 

As a reduced reporter, these agencies 

would no longer be required to report 

passenger miles traveled (PMT). Such 

data previously reported by these 

agencies would not be available for use 

in the Urbanized Area Formula (UAF) 

apportionment. If the local urbanized 

area has more than 200,000 in 

population, this may reduce their local 

urbanized area’s UAF apportionment. If 

the local urbanized area has fewer than 

200,000 in population, this may impact 

the local urbanized area’s eligibility for 

Small Transit Intensive Cities (STIC) 

funds in the UAF apportionment. 

FTA would amend current reporting 

forms to allow ferry providers to 

continue to report fixed guideway 

directional route miles (DRM) or fixed 

guideway vehicle revenue miles (VRM) 

for continued use in the State of Good 

Repair Formula Apportionment. 

G. Clarification of Mechanical System 

Failures Definitions 

FTA has received feedback from the 

transit industry that the current 

definitions of major mechanical system 

failures and other mechanical system 

failures do not provide sufficient detail 

or clarity to allow for a useful analysis 

of the data. This information is 

currently collected from each agency by 

mode. The current definitions can be 

found in the 2017 NTD Policy Manual 

or the glossary on the NTD Web site: 

www.transit.dot.gov/ntd. Major 

mechanical system failures and other 

mechanical system failures are only 

reported by full reporters to the NTD; 

reduced reporters and capital asset-only 

reporters do not currently report these 

data. 

To improve current reporting 

guidance, FTA proposes adding 

language specifically excluding failures 

caused by collision, natural disaster, or 

vandalism to the current definitions. 

FTA seeks comment on this proposed 

change. The amended definitions are 

below: 

Proposed definition of major 

mechanical system failure: 

A failure of some mechanical element 

of the revenue vehicle that is not caused 

by a collision, natural disaster, or 

vandalism and prevents the vehicle 

from completing a scheduled revenue 

trip or from starting the next scheduled 

revenue trip because actual movement 

is limited or the vehicle is unsafe. 

Proposed definition of other 

mechanical system failure: 

A failure of some other mechanical 

element of the revenue vehicle that is 

not caused by a collision, natural 

disaster, or vandalism, but, because of 

local agency policy, prevents the 

revenue vehicle from completing a 

scheduled revenue trip or from starting 

the next scheduled revenue trip even 

though the vehicle is physically able to 

continue in revenue service. 

In addition to the proposed definition 

changes, FTA seeks additional feedback 

on the current utility of the major 

mechanical system failures and other 

mechanical system failures data points. 

As an example, one of the primary 

concerns expressed to FTA by 

stakeholders is that the current 

definition of other mechanical system 

failures cannot be used for comparative 

purposes because it is heavily 

dependent on local policy decisions. 

FTA would like to improve the utility 

of these data points to: (1) Inform transit 

stakeholders on mechanical 

performance; (2) allow for better 

comparative analysis of the data; and, 

(3) provide better insight on transit state 

of good repair. At this time, FTA is not 

formally proposing changes to these 

data points beyond the definition 

adjustments addressed above; however, 

two scenarios are outlined below. FTA 

welcomes input from stakeholders on 

these scenarios and welcomes 

additional direction on how these data 

points may be adjusted to best 

accomplish the stated goals. 

Input received from this notice may 

be used to inform a future proposal to 

adjust the definition or collection 

method of these data points. 

The scenarios described below are for 

public comment only. At this time, FTA 

is not formally proposing these changes. 

FTA seeks feedback on the following 

scenarios: 

(1) Collection of the major mechanical 

system failures by fleet rather than by 

mode. This would improve the 

granularity of the major mechanical 

systems failure data by collecting the 

information at the vehicle fleet level. It 

would provide a more robust and 

granular data set for major mechanical 

system failures and allow stakeholders 

to look at mechanical failure data by 

vehicle type. However, improving the 

granularity of the data could also 

increase the reporting burden for some 

agencies. To help offset this increase, 

FTA asks stakeholders to consider 

discontinuing the collection of other 

mechanical system failures. 

(2) Adjust the definition of other 

mechanical system failure to the 

following: All non-major failures of a 

mechanical element of the revenue 

vehicle requiring a work order that are 

not caused by a collision, natural 

disaster, or vandalism. 

This adjustment would provide a 

more standard and comprehensive look 

at the other mechanical system failures 

data. The new definition would allow 

for better comparison across transit 

agencies by focusing the outcome of this 

data point on a system failure rather 

than a local policy decision to remove 

the vehicle from service. 

In addition to the scenarios discussed 

above, FTA welcomes additional 

comment and input on how these data 

points may be adjusted to benefit the 

transit industry and transit stakeholders. 

FTA specifically requests that agencies 

provide comment on the anticipated 

impact on reporting burden for the 

scenarios above as well as the 

anticipated reporting burden for any 

additional suggestions provided to 

improve the utility of these data points. 

K. Jane Williams, 

Acting Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23380 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No. FTA–2017–0014] 

Notice of Proposed Buy America 

Waiver for Motor Brakes and 

Machinery Brakes for the SE 3rd 

Avenue Bascule Bridge Modification in 

Fort Lauderdale, Florida 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of proposed Buy America 

waiver and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) received a request 


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