60-day Federal Register Notice

25912

Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 89 / Monday, May 10, 2010 / Notices

The medical forms are sent to the
applicant in the applicant’s package.
The applicant takes the forms to the
panel physician to use during the
medical examination. The panel
physician completes the medical
examination and fills out the forms. The
forms are then submitted in hard copy
to the consular officer for processing.
Dated: April 28, 2010.
David T. Donahue,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of
Consular Affairs, Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2010–11002 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4710–06–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0070]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Transportation of Household
Goods; Consumer Protection

jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with NOTICES

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 its
review and approval and invites public
comment. The information collected
will be used to help regulate motor
carriers transporting household goods
for individual shippers.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before July 9, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2010–0070 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington
DC 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., est, Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.

VerDate Mar<15>2010

17:18 May 07, 2010

Jkt 220001

Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this Notice. Note that DOT posts all
comments received without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 20590–
0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. The FDMS is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. If
you want acknowledgement that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
post card or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting them
on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review the DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476). This information is also
available at http://docketsinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
James R. Dubose, Commercial
Enforcement Division, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, West
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: 215–656–7251; e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Motor Carrier Safety
Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–
159, 113 Stat. 1749, December 9, 1999)
(MCSIA) authorized the Secretary of
Transportation to regulate household
goods carriers engaged in interstate
operations for individual shippers. In
earlier legislation, Congress abolished
the Interstate Commerce Commission
and transferred the Commission’s
jurisdiction over household goods
transportation to the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) (ICC Termination
Act of 1995, Pub. L. 104–88). Prior to
FMCSA’s establishment, the Secretary
delegated this household goods
jurisdiction to the Federal Highway
Administration, FMCSA’s predecessor
organization within DOT.
Sections 4202 through 4216 of the
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for

PO 00000

Frm 00084

Fmt 4703

Sfmt 4703

Users (Pub. L. 109–59, 119 Stat. 1144,
Aug. 10, 2005) (SAFETEA–LU)
amended various provisions of existing
law regarding household goods
transportation. It specifically addressed:
definitions (section 4202); payment of
rates (section 4203); registration
requirements for household goods motor
carriers (section 4204); carrier
operations (section 4205); enforcement
of regulations (section 4206); liability of
carriers under receipts and bills of
lading (section 4207); arbitration
requirements (section 4208); civil
penalties for brokers and unauthorized
transportation (section 4209); penalties
for holding goods hostage (section
4210); consumer handbook (section
4211); release of broker information
(section 4212); working group for
Federal-State relations (section 4213);
consumer complaint information
(section 4214); review of liability of
carriers (section 4215); and application
of State laws (section 4216). The
FMCSA regulations that set forth
Federal requirements for movers that
provide interstate transportation of
household goods are found in 49 CFR
part 375, ‘‘Transportation of Household
Goods; Consumer Protection
Regulation.’’
Title: Transportation of Household
Goods; Consumer Protection.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0025.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
individual shippers of household goods.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
6,000 household goods movers.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
from 5 minutes to display assigned U.S.
DOT number in created advertisement
to 12.5 minutes to distribute consumer
publication.
Expiration Date: October 31, 2010.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
5,556,000 hours [Informational
documents provided to prospective
shippers 75,400 hours + written cost
estimates for prospective shippers
4,620,000 hours + service orders, bills of
lading 805,300 hours + in-transit service
notifications 22,600 hours + complaint
and inquiry records, including
establishing records system 32,700
hours = 5,556,000].
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
FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of
the estimated burden; (3) ways for
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected

E:\FR\FM\10MYN1.SGM

10MYN1

Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 89 / Monday, May 10, 2010 / Notices
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. The Agency will
summarize or include your comments in
the request for OMB’s clearance of this
information collection.
Issued on: April 23, 2010.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2010–10940 Filed 5–7–10; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Alternative Transportation in Parks
and Public Lands Program

jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with NOTICES

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), DOT.
ACTION: Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in
Parks Program Announcement of Project
Selections.
SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the
selection of projects funded with Fiscal
Year (FY) 2009 appropriations for the
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks
program (formally the Alternative
Transportation in Parks and Public
Lands (ATPPL)) program, authorized by
Section 3021 of the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity
Act—A Legacy for Users of 2005
(SAFETEA–LU) and codified in 49
U.S.C. 5320. The Paul S. Sarbanes
Transit in Parks program funds capital
and planning expenses for alternative
transportation systems in parks and
public lands. Federal land management
agencies and State, tribal and local
governments acting with the consent of
a Federal land management agency are
eligible recipients.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Project sponsors who are State, local, or
tribal entities may contact the
appropriate FTA Regional
Administrator (See the Appendix to this
Notice) for grant-specific issues. Project
sponsors who are a Federal land
management agency or a specific unit of
a Federal land management agency
should work with the contact listed
below at their headquarters office to
coordinate the availability of funds to
that unit.
• National Park Service: Mark H
Hartsoe, [email protected]; tel:
202–513–7025, fax: 202–371–6675,
mail: 1849 C Street, NW., (MS2420);
Washington, DC 20240–0001.

VerDate Mar<15>2010

17:18 May 07, 2010

Jkt 220001

• Fish and Wildlife Service: Nathan
Caldwell, [email protected],
tel: 703–358–2205, fax: 703–358–2517,
mail: 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room 634;
Arlington, VA 22203.
• Forest Service: Floyd Thompson,
[email protected], tel: 202–205–
1423, mail: 1400 Independence Avenue,
SW.; Washington, DC 20250–1101.
• Bureau of Land Management:
Victor F. Montoya,
[email protected], tel: 202–912–
7041, mail: 1620 L Street, WO–854,
Washington, DC 20036.
For general information about the
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks
program, please contact Kimberly
Sledge, Office of Program Management,
Federal Transit Administration, at
[email protected], 202–366–
2053.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A total of $26,900,000 was
appropriated for FTA’s Paul S. Sarbanes
Transit in Parks program in Fiscal Year
(FY) 2009. Of this amount, a minimum
of $24,801,473 is available for project
awards; $134,500 is reserved for
oversight activities; $1,500,000 is
reserved for planning, research, and
technical assistance; and $464,027 will
be added to available FY 2010
appropriations for the program. A total
of 80 applicants requested $69.0
million, more than twice the amount
available in FY 2009 for projects,
indicating high competition for funds.
Both the U.S. Department of Interior and
DOT review committees evaluated the
project proposals based on the criteria
defined in 49 U.S.C. 5320(g)(2). Final
selections were made through a
collaborative process.
The goals of the program are to
conserve natural, historical, and cultural
resources; reduce congestion and
pollution; improve visitor mobility and
accessibility; enhance visitor
experience; and ensure access to all,
including persons with disabilities
through alternative transportation
projects. The projects selected to use FY
2009 funding represent a diverse set of
capital and planning projects across the
country, ranging from bus purchases to
installation of Intelligent Transportation
Systems (ITS) and are listed in Table 1.
Applying For Funds
Recipients who are State or local
government entities will be required to
apply for Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in
Parks program funds electronically
through FTA’s electronic grant award
and management system, TEAM. These
entities are assigned discretionary
project IDs as shown in Table 1 of this
notice. The content of these grant

PO 00000

Frm 00085

Fmt 4703

Sfmt 4703

25913

applications must reflect the approved
proposal. (Note: Applications for the
Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks
program do not require Department of
Labor Certification.) Upon grant award,
payments to grantees will be made by
electronic transfer to the grantee’s
financial institution through FTA’s
Electronic Clearing House Operation
(ECHO) system. Staff in FTA’s Regional
offices are available to assist applicants.
Recipients who are Federal land
management agencies will be required
to enter into an interagency agreement
with FTA. FTA will administer one
interagency agreement with each
Federal land management agency
receiving funding through the program
for all of that agency’s projects.
Individual units of Federal land
management agencies should work with
the contact at their headquarters office
listed above to coordinate the
availability of funds to that unit.
Program Requirements
Section 5320 requires funding
recipients to meet certain requirements.
Requirements that reflect existing
statutory and regulatory provisions can
be found in the document ‘‘Alternative
Transportation in Parks and Public
Lands Program: Requirements for
Recipients’’ available at http://
www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. These
requirements are incorporated into the
grant agreements and inter-agency
agreements used to fund the selected
projects.
Pre-Award Authority
Pre-award authority allows an agency
that will receive a grant or interagency
agreement to incur certain project costs
prior to receipt of the grant or
interagency agreement and retain
eligibility of the costs for subsequent
reimbursement after the grant or
agreement is approved. The recipient
assumes all risk and is responsible for
ensuring that all conditions are met to
retain eligibility, including compliance
with Federal requirements such as the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), SAFETEA–LU planning
requirements, and provisions
established in the grant contract or
Interagency Agreement. This automatic
pre-award spending authority, when
triggered, permits a grantee to incur
costs on an eligible transit capital or
planning project without prejudice to
possible future Federal participation in
the cost of the project or projects. Under
the authority provided in 49 U.S.C.
5320(h), FTA is extending pre-award
authority for FY 2009 ATTPL projects
effective April 5, 2010 when the projects
were publicly announced.

E:\FR\FM\10MYN1.SGM

10MYN1