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motor vehicle crashes in the United
States. The collection of interview data
aids in this effort.
Affected Public: Passenger Motor
Vehicle Operators.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
5,807 hours.
Number of Respondents: 13,500.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30
days, to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725–17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attention NHTSA Desk Officer.
Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Departments estimate of the burden
of the proposed information collection;
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A Comment to OMB is most effective if
OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
Marilena Amoni,
Associate Administrator for National Center
for Statistics and Analysis.
[FR Doc. E9–12749 Filed 6–1–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2009–0035]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection
Request: Annual Commercial Motor
Vehicle Driver Survey: Work and
Compensation
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
review and approval. The purpose of
this new information collection is to
acquire general information regarding
the commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
driving population and specific
information on driver work history,

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work scheduling, and compensation.
This information is needed in many
different types of analyses conducted by
the FMCSA and would benefit the
agency in understanding the impacts of
proposed rules and the improvement of
its safety programs. On December 12,
2008, FMCSA published a Federal
Register notice allowing for a 60-day
comment period on the ICR. One
comment was received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
July 2, 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
FMCSA–2008–0035. 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
[email protected], 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: Dr.
Mindy Shalaby, Economist, Analysis
Division, Office of Analysis, Research
and Technology, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Ave., SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: (202) 493–0304; e-mail
[email protected]. Requests for
additional information or copies of the
information collection instrument and
instructions should be directed to Dr.
Michelle Yeh, Engineering Psychologist,
Human Factors Division, Volpe National
Transportation Systems Center, 55
Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02124.
Telephone: (617) 494–3459; e-mail
[email protected]. Office hours are
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Annual Commercial Motor
Vehicle Driver Survey: Work and
Compensation.
OMB Control Number: 2126–XXXX.
Type of Request: New information
collection request.
Respondents: Commercial motor
vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
576 commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes per response.

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Expiration Date: N/A.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 144
hours [576 respondents × 15 minutes/60
minutes per response = 144].
Background: The Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration seeks to
understand the commercial motor
vehicle driving population. Driverrelated factors are an important
consideration in CMV crashes, but there
is no comprehensive nationwide source
of information describing the
population of drivers operating CMVs in
the United States (U.S.). Estimates of the
number of commercial drivers and
particular subsets of drivers (e.g., local,
short-haul, and long-haul) are needed
and would benefit FMCSA in assessing
the impacts of proposed rules and
improvements needed in its safety
programs. In particular, information on
driver work history, work schedule, and
compensation is needed in many
different types of analyses conducted by
FMCSA.
Driver work history addresses how
long a CMV driver has been working in
the industry, his/her level of experience,
and his/her type of experience. These
items include questions regarding driver
tenure with his/her current employer
and the number of past employers to
provide information regarding the driver
turnover rate. The agency would also
collect information under these items
about driver training to understand how
drivers learned to operate their CMVs
and the amount of training that is
ongoing in the industry. The driver
work schedule item examines the issue
of how much drivers work and the
activities in which they are engaged
when they work (e.g., driving time,
loading time, waiting time). FMCSA is
interested in understanding how
drivers’ work schedules are tracked
(e.g., with paper log books or Electronic
On-Board Recorders (EOBRs)). Finally,
driver compensation collects
information on how much drivers earn
and how they are paid (e.g., salary, by
hour, or by mile). This data will allow
FMCSA to estimate an average wage
rate, which can be used to understand
the cost imposed on drivers by current
and proposed regulations.
The goals of this survey are to acquire
general demographic information
regarding the commercial motor vehicle
driving population, and specific
information on driver work history,
work scheduling, and compensation.
Data for this project would be collected
via driver interviews. The results of the
information collection would be
summarized in a report developed for
the FMCSA and made available to the
public.

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Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 104 / Tuesday, June 2, 2009 / Notices
On December 12, 2008, the FMCSA
published a Federal Register notice on
this same topic and provided 60 days
for public comment (73 FR 75793). The
Agency received one comment from the
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers
Association, INC (OOIDA) in response
to the notice. OOIDA expressed support
for the survey and provided several
suggestions on how the survey
questions and methodology for
collecting the data could be improved.
FMCSA will consider these suggestions
during the implementation of the
survey.
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 on: May 26, 2009.
David C. Anewalt,
Acting Associate Administrator, Research
and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E9–12777 Filed 6–1–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Docket No. AB–337 (Sub-No. 6X)]

Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
Corporation–Discontinuance of
Trackage Rights Exemption–in Worth
and Cerro Gordo Counties, IA, and
Freeborn County, MN
Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad
Corporation (DM&E) 1 has filed a
verified notice of exemption under 49
CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt
Abandonments and Discontinuances of
Service to discontinue overhead
trackage rights over approximately 48.2
miles of Union Pacific Railroad
Company (UP) rail lines extending from
milepost 107.0 at Hartland, MN, to
milepost 119.4 at Albert Lea, MN, and
from milepost 251.6 at Albert Lea to
milepost 192.8 at Mason City, IA, (the
Hartland-Mason City Line), in Freeborn
County, MN, and Worth and Cerro
Gordo Counties, IA.2 The line traverses
1 DM&E is a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of
Canadian Pacific Railway Company and is a Class
II rail carrier.
2 DM&E acquired these overhead trackage rights
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United States Postal Service Zip Codes
56042, 56007, 56036, 50459, 50448,
50456 and 50401.
DM&E has certified that: (1) no local
traffic has moved via its trackage rights
over the line for at least 2 years; (2) any
DM&E overhead traffic can be rerouted
over other lines; (3) no formal complaint
filed by a user of DM&E rail service on
the line (or by a State or local
government entity acting on behalf of
such user) regarding cessation of service
over the line either is pending with the
Board or with any U.S. District Court or
has been decided in favor of
complainant within the 2-year period;
and (4) the requirements at 49 CFR
1105.12 (newspaper publication), and
49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to
governmental agencies) have been met.
As a condition to this exemption, any
employee adversely affected by the
discontinuance of service shall be
protected under Oregon Short Line R.
Co.—Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C.
91 (1979). To address whether this
condition adequately protects affected
employees, a petition for partial
revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of
intent to file an offer of financial
assistance (OFA) has been received, this
exemption will be effective on July 2,
2009, unless stayed pending
reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do
not involve environmental issues and
formal expressions of intent to file an
OFA for continued rail service under 49
CFR 1152.27(c)(2) 3 must be filed by
June 12, 2009.4 Petitions to reopen must
be filed by June 22, 2009, with: Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001.
A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to DM&E’s
representative: Thomas J. Litwiler,
Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 29 North Wacker
Drive, Suite 920, Chicago, IL 60606.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio.
Board decisions and notices are
available on our Web site at http://
www.stb.dot.gov.
Decided: May 26, 2009.
Western Transportation Company. See Dakota,
Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corporation—
Acquisition and Operation Exemption—Chicago
and North Western Transportation, Finance Docket
No. 30889 (ICC served Sept. 8, 1986).
3 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which currently is set at $1,500. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).
4 Because this is a discontinuance proceeding and
not an abandonment, trail use/rail banking and
public use conditions are not appropriate. Likewise,
no environmental or historical documentation is
required here under 49 CFR 1105.6(c) and
1105.8(b), respectively.

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By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Kulunie L. Cannon,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. E9–12720 Filed 6–1–09; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Notice of Final Federal Agency Actions
on Proposed Highway in Texas
AGENCY: Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of limitation on claims
for judicial review of actions by FHWA
and other Federal agencies.
SUMMARY: This notice announces actions
taken by the FHWA and other Federal
agencies that are final within the
meaning of 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). The
actions relate to various proposed
highway projects in the State of Texas.
Those actions grant licenses, permits
and approvals for the projects.
DATES: By this notice, the FHWA is
advising the public of final agency
actions subject to 23 U.S.C. 139(l)(1). A
claim seeking judicial review of the
Federal agency actions on any of the
listed highway projects will be barred
unless the claim is filed on or before
November 30, 2009. If the Federal law
that authorizes judicial review of a
claim provides a time period of less
than 180 days for filing such claim, then
that shorter time period still applies.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Salvador Deocampo, District Engineer,
Texas Division, FHWA, J.J. Pickle
Federal Building 300 East 8th Street,
Room 826, Austin, Texas 78701; phone
number 512–536–5950; e-mail:
[email protected].
FHWA Texas Division normal business
hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. (central time)
Monday through Friday. You may also
contact Ms. Dianna Noble, P.E., Director
Environmental Affairs Division, Texas
Department of Transportation, 118 E.
Riverside, Austin, Texas, 78704; phone
number 512–416–2734; e-mail:
[email protected]. Texas
Department of Transportation normal
business hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
(central time) Monday through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby given that the FHWA and other
Federal agencies have taken final agency
actions by issuing licenses, permits, and
approvals for the highway projects in
the State of Texas that are listed below.
The actions by the Federal agencies on
the project, and the laws under which
such actions were taken, are described

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