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Frequency: This information
collection will be a single, nonrecurring
event.
Public Comments Invited
Interested parties are invited to send
comments regarding any aspect of this
information collection, including but
not limited to: (1) The necessity and
utility of the information collection for
the proper performance of the functions
of FMCSA and specifically the
regulatory oversight of small passengertransporting commercial motor vehicle
operations; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
collected information; and (4) ways to
minimize the collection burden without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. Comments submitted in
response to this notice will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB’s clearance of this
information collection. For access to the
docket to read background documents
or comments received, go to http://
dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL–
401 on the plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
Issued on: October 12, 2006
John H. Hill,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6–17451 Filed 10–18–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2006–25853]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Clearance of a New
Information Collection: FMCSA
COMPASS Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The FMCSA invites public
comment on its plan to request the
Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval for a new information
collection (IC). The collection involves
the assessment of FMCSA’s strategic
decision to integrate its Information
Technology (IT) with its business
processes using portal technology to
consolidate its systems and databases
and launch a modernization initiative to
create the FMCSA COMPASS Portal.
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used to assess the satisfaction of
Federal, State and industry customers
with the FMCSA COMPASS Portal.
FMCSA is required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 to publish this
notice in the Federal Register.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before December 18, 2006.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Docket No. FMCSA–2006–
25853. You may mail or hand deliver
comments to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Dockets Management
Facility, Room PL–401, 400 Seventh
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590;
telefax comments to (202) 493–2251; or
submit electronically at http://
dms.dot.gov/submit. You may examine
and copy all comments received at the
above address between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. If you desire your
comment to be acknowledged, you must
include a self-addressed stamped
envelope or postcard or, if you submit
your comments electronically, you may
print the acknowledgment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Bill Coleman, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 400 Seventh
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590;
phone: (202) 366–4440; fax: (202) 493–
0679; e-mail: [email protected].
Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: FMCSA Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment.
OMB Control No: 2126–xxxx.
Background
Title II, section 207 of the EGovernment Act of 2002 requires
Government agencies to improve the
methods by which government
information, including information on
the Internet, is organized, preserved,
and made accessible to the public.
FMCSA has made a strategic decision to
integrate its IT with its business
processes as it consolidates its systems
and databases and launches a
modernization initiative called
COMPASS. COMPASS is FMCSA’s
agency wide initiative to improve its
business processes; integrate them with
the Agency’s information systems; and
make them more seamless, secure, and
supportive of the Agency’s mission of
saving lives in the years to come.
FMCSA’s 21 information systems are
currently operational. However, having
this many stand-alone systems has led
to data quality concerns, a need for
excessive IDs and passwords, and
significant operational and maintenance
costs. Integrating our information

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technologies with our business
processes will, in turn, improve our
operations considerably, particularly in
terms of data quality, ease of use, and
reduction of maintenance costs.
In early 2007, FMCSA will launch the
first of a series of releases of new IT
applications to its Federal, State, and
industry customers. Over the coming
years, more than 15 releases are
planned, with four planned for the next
3 years. These releases will use ‘‘portal
technology’’ to pull together numerous
services and functions on a single
screen and provide tailored services that
seek to meet the needs of specific
constituencies within our customer
universe. The FMCSA COMPASS Portal
will entail considerable expenditure of
Federal Government dollars over the
years and fundamentally impact the
nature of the relationship between the
Agency and its Federal, State, and
industry customers. Consequently, the
Agency intends to conduct regular and
ongoing assessments of customer
satisfaction with COMPASS.
The primary purposes of this
assessment is to determine the extent to
which newly released FMCSA
COMPASS Portal services meet the
needs of Agency customers, identify and
prioritize additional modifications, and
determine the extent that the Portal has
affected FMCSA’s relationships with its
main customer groups. The assessment
will address:
• Overall customer satisfaction;
• Customer satisfaction with specific
items;
• Performance of contractor (for the
system) against established objectives;
• Desired adjustments and
modifications to systems;
• Value of investment to FMCSA and
DOT;
• Features that customers like best;
and
• Customer ideas for improving the
site.
Respondents: Federal, State, and
motor carrier industry customers/users.
Frequency: Three times per year (or
every 120 days).
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 5 minutes per response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 25,105 hours [(5 minutes to
complete survey × 3 times per year/60
minutes × 140,000 annual industry
respondents × .70 (70%) response rate =
24,500) × (5 minutes to complete survey
× 3 times per year/60 minutes × 2,691
State government users × .90 (90%)
response rate) = 25,105]
Public Comments Invited
You are asked to comment on any
aspect of this information collection,

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including: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for FMCSA’s
performance including its utility in
fostering assessment of the portal; (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. The Agency will
summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
Issued on: October 13, 2006.
John H. Hill,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6–17455 Filed 10–18–06; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2006–26072]

Decision That Certain Nonconforming
Motor Vehicles Are Eligible for
Importation
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of decision by NHTSA
that certain nonconforming motor
vehicles are eligible for importation.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: This document announces
decisions by NHTSA that certain motor
vehicles not originally manufactured to
comply with all applicable Federal
motor vehicle safety standards(FMVSS)
are eligible for importation into the
United States because they are
substantially similar to vehicles
originally manufactured for importation
into and/or sale in the United States and
certified by their manufacturers as
complying with the safety standards,
and they are capable of being readily
altered to conform to the standards or
because they have safety features that
comply with, or are capable of being
altered to comply with, all applicable
FMVSS.
DATES: These decisions became effective
on the dates specified in Annex A.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Coleman Sachs, Office of Vehicle Safety
Compliance, NHTSA (202–366–3151).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
Under 49 U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(A), a
motor vehicle that was not originally
manufactured to conform to all
applicable FMVSS shall be refused

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admission into the United States unless
NHTSA has decided that the motor
vehicle is substantially similar to a
motor vehicle originally manufactured
for importation into and sale in the
United States, certified under 49 U.S.C.
30115, and of the same model year as
the model of the motor vehicle to be
compared, and is capable of being
readily altered to conform to all
applicable FMVSS.
Where there is no substantially
similar U.S.-certified motor vehicle, 49
U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(B) permits a
nonconforming motor vehicle to be
admitted into the United States if its
safety features comply with, or are
capable of being altered to comply with,
all applicable FMVSS based on
destructive test data or such other
evidence as NHTSA decides to be
adequate.
Petitions for eligibility decisions may
be submitted by either manufacturers or
importers who have registered with
NHTSA pursuant to 49 CFR Part 592. As
specified in 49 CFR 593.7, NHTSA
publishes notice in the Federal Register
of each petition that it receives, and
affords interested persons an
opportunity to comment on the petition.
At the close of the comment period,
NHTSA decides, on the basis of the
petition and any comments that it has
received, whether the vehicle is eligible
for importation. The agency then
publishes this decision in the Federal
Register.
NHTSA received petitions from
registered importers to decide whether
the vehicles listed in Annex A to this
notice are eligible for importation into
the United States. To afford an
opportunity for public comment,
NHTSA published notice of these
petitions as specified in Annex A. The
reader is referred to those notices for a
thorough description of the petitions.
No substantive comments were received
in response to these notices. Based on
its review of the information submitted
by the petitioners, NHTSA has decided
to grant the petitions.
Vehicle Eligibility Number for Subject
Vehicles
The importer of a vehicle admissible
under any final decision must indicate
on the form HS–7 accompanying entry
the appropriate vehicle eligibility
number indicating that the vehicle is
eligible for entry. Vehicle eligibility
numbers assigned to vehicles admissible
under this decision are specified in
Annex A.
Final Decision
Accordingly, on the basis of the
foregoing, NHTSA hereby decides that

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each motor vehicle listed in Annex A to
this notice, which was not originally
manufactured to comply with all
applicable FMVSS, is either (1)
Substantially similar to a motor vehicle
manufactured for importation into and/
or sale in the United States, and
certified under 49 U.S.C. 30115, as
specified in Annex A, and is capable of
being readily altered to conform to all
applicable FMVSS or (2) has safety
features that comply with, or are
capable of being altered to comply with,
all applicable Federal motor vehicle
safety standards.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30141(a)(1)(A),
(a)(1)(B) and (b)(1); 49 CFR 593.8; delegations
of authority at 49 CFR 1.50 and 501.8.
Issued on: October 13, 2006.
Claude H. Harris,
Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance.

Annex A—Nonconforming Motor
Vehicles Decided to Be Eligible for
Importation
1. Docket No. NHTSA–2006–25398
Nonconforming Vehicles: 1999–2006
Suzuki GXS1300R Motorcycles.
Substantially Similar U.S.-Certified
Vehicles: 1999–2006 Suzuki GXS1300R
Motorcycles.
Notice of Petition Published at: 71 FR
41067 (July 19, 2006).
Vehicle Eligibility Number: VSP–484
(effective date August 29, 2006).
2. Docket No. NHTSA–2006–25516
Nonconforming Vehicles: 1998 Bentley
Azure (Left-Hand and Right-Hand Drive)
Passenger Cars.
Substantially Similar U.S.-Certified
Vehicles: 1998 Bentley Azure (Left-hand
drive) Passenger Cars (Note: Manufacturer
confirmed in writing that non-U.S. certified
RHD vehicles are substantially similar to U.S.
certified LHD model).
Notice of Petition Published at: 71 FR
45104 (August 8, 2006).
Vehicle Eligibility Number: VSP–485
(effective date September 14, 2006).
3. Docket No. NHTSA–2006–25515
Nonconforming Vehicles: 2004 Mercedes
Benz Maybach Passenger Cars.
Substantially Similar U.S.-Certified
Vehicles: 2004 Mercedes Benz Maybach
Passenger Cars.
Notice of Petition Published at: 71 FR
45103 (August 8, 2006).
Vehicle Eligibility Number: VSP–486
(effective date September 14, 2006).
4. Docket No. NHTSA–2006–24965
Nonconforming Vehicles: 2006 Mercedes
Benz Type 463 Short Wheel Base
Gelaendewagen Multipurpose Passenger
Vehicles Manufactured Before September 1,
2006.
Because there are no substantially similar
U.S.-certified versions of the 2006 Mercedes
Benz Type 463 Short Wheel Base
Gelaendewagen Multipurpose Passenger
Vehicles Manufactured Before September 1,

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