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(1) Procurement of goods and
services—$70,079; and
(2) Procurement of construction
services—$7,804,000.
B. Sub-Central Government Entities
listed in the U.S. Schedule to Annex
13A, Schedule 1, Section B:
(1) Procurement of goods and
services—$554,000; and
(2) Procurement of construction
services—$7,804,000.
C. Other Entities listed in the U.S.
Schedule to Annex 13A, Schedule 1,
Section C:
(1) Procurement of goods and
services—$624,000;

(2) Procurement of construction
services—$7,804,000.
Ronald Kirk,
United States Trade Representative.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Finance Docket No. 35314]

Massachusetts Coastal Railroad,
LLC—Acquisition—CSXT
Transportation, Inc.
A decision was served in this
proceeding on December 21, 2009, and
was published in the Federal Register
on December 23, 2009. Appendix A to

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the decision set forth the procedural
schedule for this proceeding. The eighth
date listed in Appendix A (referring to
Responses to comments, etc.)
inadvertently referenced ‘‘March 13,
2010.’’ The correct date is February 12,
2010.
Please correct your copies of the
decision accordingly. All other
information remains unchanged. A
corrected copy of Appendix A follows
this notice.
Board decisions and notices are
available on our Web site at http://
www.stb.dot.gov.
Decided: December 23, 2009.
By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.

APPENDIX A: PROCEDURAL SCHEDULE
November 24, 2009 ...........................................................
December 8, 2009 .............................................................
December 23, 2009 ...........................................................
January 6, 2010 .................................................................
January 11, 2010 ...............................................................
January 18, 2010 ...............................................................
January 25, 2010 ...............................................................
February 12, 2010 ..............................................................
TBD ....................................................................................
March 29, 2010 ..................................................................
April 28, 2010 .....................................................................

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Telephone: 202–366–2646 or E-mail:
[email protected]. Copies of this
collection also can be obtained from that
office.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Maritime Administration

Maritime Administration (MARAD)

[DOCKET NO. MARAD–2009–0147]

Title of Collection: Merchant Marine
Medals and Awards.
Type of Request: Extension of
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2133–0506.
Form Numbers: None.
Expiration Date of Approval: Three
years from date of approval by the
Office of Management and Budget.
Summary of Collection of
Information: This information collection
of information provides a method of
awarding merchant marine medals and
decorations to masters, officers, and
crew members of U.S. ships in
recognition of their service in areas of
danger during the operations by the
Armed Forces of the United States in
World War II, Korea, Vietnam, and
Operation Desert Storm.

Information Collection Available for
Public Comments and
Recommendations
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.

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Application, Motion for Protective Order, and Petition Suggesting Procedural Schedule filed.
Protective Order Issued.
Board notice of acceptance of application published in the FEDERAL REGISTER.
Notices of intent to participate in this proceeding due.
Discovery requests due to Applicants.
Responses to discovery due.
All comments, protests, requests for conditions, and any other evidence and argument in opposition to the application, including filings of DOJ and DOT, due.
Responses to comments, protests, requests for conditions, and other opposition due.
Applicants’ rebuttal in support of the application due.
A public hearing or oral argument may be held.
Final decision to be served.
Final decision to become effective.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the Maritime
Administration’s (MARAD’s) intention
to request extension of approval for
three years of a currently approved
information collection.
DATES: Comments should be submitted
on or before March 1, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patricia Ann Thomas, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.

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Need and Use of the Information:
This information is used by MARAD
personnel to process and verify requests
for service awards.
Description of Respondents: Master,
officers and crew members of U.S.
ships.
Annual Responses: 700 responses.
Annual Burden: 700 hours.
Comments: Comments should refer to
the docket number that appears at the
top of this document. Written comments
may be submitted to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. DOT Dockets, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Comments also
may be submitted by electronic means
via the Internet at http://
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp.
Specifically address whether this
information collection is necessary for
proper performance of the functions of
the agency and will have practical
utility, accuracy of the burden
estimates, ways to minimize this
burden, and ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected. All
comments received will be available for

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examination at the above address
between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT (or
EST), Monday through Friday, except
Federal Holidays. An electronic version
of this document is available on the
World Wide Web at http://
www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you
may visit http://www.regulations.gov/
search/index.jsp.
Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Murray A. Bloom,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. FHWA–2009–0054]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments for a
New Information Collection, Titled:
Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping
Requirements

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AGENCY: Federal Highway
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Request for comments.
SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval for a new information
collection, which is summarized below
under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We
published a Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day public comment period
on this information collection on
February 26, 2009. We are required to
publish this notice in the Federal
Register by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
January 28, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Docket ID Number FHWA–
2009–0054 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
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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: Ray
Krammes, Ph.D, PE, Acting Director,
Office of Safety Research and
Development, HRDS–07, TurnerFairbank Highway Research Center,
Federal Highway Administration, 6300
Georgetown Pike, McLean, VA 22101,
tel. 202–493–3365 between 8 a.m. and
5:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays, or Paul J.
Tremont, PhD (same address) at 202–
493–3338.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Reports, Forms and
Recordkeeping Requirements.
The FHWA invites public comments
on our intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve a total of 30 field and
laboratory research studies that will
include collections of information from
the general public. These studies will be
conducted over a period not to exceed
3 years with an annual burden of
approximately 2000 hours and a grand
total burden of approximately 6000
hours. These collections are integral to
the performance of various analytical,
field, and laboratory human factors
research projects that FHWA intends to
conduct in support of its mission of
improving safety and increasing
mobility on our Nation’s highways
through National Leadership,
Innovation, and Program Delivery. The
laboratory and field research FHWA
conducts usually involves observations
of driver behavior in controlled
experimental settings. In the field and
laboratory, these studies are nonintrusive, as most data are driver
performance data and are automatically
acquired.
Research Areas and Associated
Collections
The FHWA Office of Safety Research
and Development intends to conduct
analytical, field, and laboratory research
projects focused on highway safety that
will require acquisition of human
performance data from small samples of
the driving public. This research is
directed at human factors issues within
the following broad program areas: (A)

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Infrastructure design including
innovative intersection configurations
and signage and roadway markings; (B)
highway operations; (C) older and
younger driver issues; and (D)
pedestrian and bicyclist concerns. Given
that the focus of the research in the
above areas is on human factors issues,
it will require that data be collected on
a few key demographic variables such as
age, gender, and driving experience,
however such data will not be linked to
personal identifying information. Before
any study is conducted under this
approval request, a thorough review will
be undertaken to ensure such data is not
currently available, and that the
proposed study does not duplicate other
work.
Situations That Require Collections of
Information—Examples From Each
Category
Category A (Infrastructure Design). An
example from Category A would be a
study designed to test an innovative
intersection design such as a Double
Crossover Diamond Interchange (DCD).
This is a highly efficient intersection
design, but if not properly implemented,
it could potentially cause confusion. In
a DCD, drivers cross over to the left side
of the highway, with the result that
opposing traffic is placed on their right
side. When testing DCD
implementations, FHWA needs to know
whether drivers perceive any ambiguity
in the signage, and if they have any
orientation problems seeing opposing
traffic on their right side. Other
innovative intersection designs would
also benefit from similar information
acquired from drivers. Roadway
departure is another problem area that
could benefit from individual driver
data. For example, it would be helpful
to observe drivers’ interactions with
roadway geometry and signage so that
such information can be applied to
design decisions that can lead to
reductions in roadway departures.
Category B (Highway Operations).
One of the many challenges confronting
highway engineers is designing a signal
system that maximizes throughput and
minimizes delay. Excess delay can have
the unintended consequence of
encouraging drivers to run red lights.
This problem can be examined by
observing drivers’ behavior under
differing signaling conditions. However,
direct verbal reports of drivers are often
needed to determine why drivers are
making their decisions. For example
FHWA may learn from questioning
drivers that they would be less likely to
speed up when approaching a signal if
they knew the signal system would
recognize this behavior and respond

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