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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary of
Transportation
[DOT Docket No. DOT–OST–2010–0074]

The Future of Aviation Advisory
Committee (FAAC) Environment
Subcommittee; Notice of Meeting
U.S. Department of
Transportation, Office of the Secretary
of Transportation.
ACTION: The Future of Aviation
Advisory Committee (FAAC)
Environment Subcommittee; Notice of
Federal Advisory Committee Meeting.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Transportation (DOT), Office of the
Secretary of Transportation, announces
a meeting of the FAAC Environment
Subcommittee, which will be held at
InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Hotel,
Field Room, 5300 North River Road,
Rosemont, IL 60018. This notice
announces the date, time, and location
of the meeting, which will be open to
the public. The purpose of the FAAC is
to provide advice and recommendations
to the Secretary of Transportation to
ensure the competitiveness of the U.S.
aviation industry and its capability to
manage effectively the evolving
transportation needs, challenges, and
opportunities of the global economy.
The Environment Subcommittee is
charged with examining steps and
strategies that can be taken by aviationsector stakeholders and the Federal
Government to reduce aviation’s
environmental footprint and foster
sustainability gains in cost-effective
ways. This includes consideration of
potential approaches to promote
effective international actions through
the International Civil Aviation
Organization.

SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held on
October 5, 2010, from 10:30 a.m. to 3
p.m., Central Daylight Time (CDT).
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the InterContinental Chicago O’Hare
Hotel, Field Room, 5300 North River
Road, Rosemont, IL 60018. Rosemont is
located in the Chicago, IL, metropolitan
area.
Public Access: The meeting is open to
the public. (See below for registration
instructions.)
Public Comments: Persons wishing to
offer written comments and suggestions
concerning the activities of the advisory
committee or Environment
Subcommittee should file comments in
the Public Docket (Docket Number
DOT–OST–2010–0074 at http://
www.regulations.gov) or alternatively

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through the [email protected] e-mail. If
comments and suggestions are intended
specifically for the Environment
Subcommittee, the term ‘‘Environment’’
should be listed in the subject line of
the message. To ensure such comments
can be considered by the subcommittee
before its October 5, 2010, meeting,
public comments must be filed by 5
p.m., Eastern Daylight Time on Friday,
October, 1, 2010.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background

Registration
The meeting room can accommodate
up to 20 members of the public. Persons
desiring to attend must pre-register
through e-mail to [email protected]. The
term ‘‘Registration: Environment’’
should be listed in the subject line of
the message and admission will be
limited to the first 20 persons to preregister and receive a confirmation of
their pre-registration. The last day for
registration is October 1, 2010.
Minutes of the meeting will be taken
and will be made available to the
public.
Requests for Special Accommodation
The DOT is committed to providing
equal access to this meeting for all
participants. If you need alternative
formats or services because of a
disability, please send a request to
[email protected] with the term ‘‘Special
Accommodations’’ listed in the subject
line of the message by close of business
Friday, October 1, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Camille Mittelholtz, Deputy Director,
Office of Safety, Energy, and
Environment, Office of the Secretary of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590;

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16, 2010.
Pamela Hamilton-Powell,
Designated Federal Official, Future of
Aviation Advisory Committee.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. FRA 2010–0005–N–18]

Under section 10(a)(2) of the Federal
Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.
2), we are giving notice of a meeting of
the Environment Subcommittee of the
Future of Aviation Advisory Committee
taking place on October 5, 2010, from
10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. CDT, at the
InterContinental Chicago O’Hare Hotel,
Field Room, 5300 North River Road,
Rosemont, IL 60018. The agenda
includes—
1. Discussion of operational and
technology improvements, sustainable
alternative fuels, and harmonized
domestic and global efforts that can
contribute to reducing aviation carbon
emissions.
2. Consideration of public comments.
3. Identification of environmental
options for presentation at the next
meeting of the full committee.

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Notice and Request for Comments
Federal Railroad
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice and Request for
Comments.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Requirements (ICRs)
abstracted below have been forwarded
to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and comment. The
ICRs describes the nature of the
information collection and their
expected burden. The Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published
on July 13, 2010 (75 FR 40021).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before October 21, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Brogan, Office of Safety,
Planning and Evaluation Division, RRS–
21, Federal Railroad Administration,
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop
17, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone:
(202) 493–6292), or Ms. Kimberly
Toone, Office of Information
Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave.,
SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC
20590 (telephone: (202) 493–6132).
(These telephone numbers are not tollfree.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Public Law No. 104–13, Section
2, 109 Stat. 163 (1995) (codified as
revised at 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR Part
1320, require Federal agencies to issue
two notices seeking public comment on
information collection activities before
OMB may approve paperwork packages.
44 U.S.C. 3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.5,
1320.8(d)(1), 1320.12. On July 13, 2010,
FRA published a 60-day notice in the
Federal Register soliciting comment on
ICRs for which the agency was seeking
OMB approval. 75 FR 40021. FRA
SUMMARY:

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received no comments in response to
this notice.
Before OMB decides whether to
approve a proposed collection of
information, it must provide 30 days for
public comment. 44 U.S.C. 3507(b); 5
CFR 1320.12(d). Federal law requires
OMB to approve or disapprove
paperwork packages between 30 and 60
days after the 30-day notice is
published. 44 U.S.C. 3507 (b)–(c); 5 CFR
1320.12(d); see also 60 FR 44978, 44983,
Aug. 29, 1995. OMB believes that the
30-day notice informs the regulated
community to file relevant comments
and affords the agency adequate time to
digest public comments before it
renders a decision. 60 FR 44983, Aug.
29, 1995. Therefore, respondents should
submit their respective comments to
OMB within 30 days of publication to
best ensure having their full effect. 5
CFR 1320.12(c); see also 60 FR 44983,
Aug. 29, 1995.
The summary below describes the
nature of the information collection
requirements (ICRs) and the expected
burden, and are being submitted for
clearance by OMB as required by the
PRA.
Title: Causal Analysis and
Countermeasures to Reduce Rail-Related
Suicides.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0572.
Type of Request: Extension without
Change of a Previously Approved
Information Collection.
Affected Public: 280 Railroad
Personnel/Members of the Public/
Affected Families and Friends.
Abstract: Pedestrian trespassing on
railroad property resulting in serious
injury or death is one of the two most
serious safety problems (the second
being grade crossing collisions) facing
the railroad industry and its regulators
not only in the United States but also in
other countries. It is widely believed in
this country that the reported
prevalence and incidence of railway
suicide vastly under-represents the
nature and extent of the problem. There
is no central reporting system within the
railroad industry or the suicide
prevention field that provides verifiable
information about how many trespass
deaths are accidental vs. intentional.
Therefore, there are no verifiable
measures of the extent of rail-related
suicides in the United States. While
railroad companies must report trespass
incidents resulting in serious injury or
death to the U.S. Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), injuries or deaths
that are ruled by a medical examiner or
coroner to be intentional are not
reported. Preliminary figures from 2006
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FRA—an increase of 100 incidents over
the previous year—but suicides are not
represented in these numbers.
Unverifiable estimates from a number of
sources range from 150 to more than 300
suicides per year on the U.S. railways.
Like any other incident on the rail
system, a suicide on the tracks results in
equipment and facility damage, delays
to train schedules, and trauma to
railroad personnel involved in the
incidents. As a result, FRA last year
awarded a grant for the first phase of a
5-year project to reduce suicides on the
rail system to the Railroad Research
Foundation (part of the Association of
American Railroads) and its
subcontractor, the American
Association of Suicidology (AAS). In the
course of five years, the research
project’s goals include:
• A prevalence assessment to
determine verifiable numbers of
suicides on the rail system,
• Development of a standardized
reporting tool for industry use,
• A causal analysis and root cause
analysis of suicide incidents that occur
during the grant cycle, and
• Design and implementation of
suicide prevention measures for the
Nation’s rail system to reduce suicide
injuries and deaths.
This request to the Office of
Management and Budget is for reapproval in order to complete Phase II
of the project, the causal analysis. In
order to understand as much as possible
about people who intend to die by
placing themselves in the path of a
train, and therefore to design prevention
strategies, AAS has been conducting 60
psychological autopsies over the course
of two years on people who die by railrelated suicide. Psychological autopsy is
a recognized and accepted method for
obtaining information about physical,
emotional and circumstantial
contributors to a person’s death. The 60
psychological autopsies for the FRA
project involve interviews with
informants to these incidents including
family members and friends, employers
and co-workers, and rail personnel
involved in the incidents.
After conducting a root cause analysis
of this data, AAS will then work with
the industry to design, pilot test and
implement effective countermeasures
with the goal of reducing deaths,
injuries and psychological trauma.
Form Number(s): FRA F 6180.125A;
FRA F 6180.125B.
Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 537
hours.
Title: Confidential Close Call
Reporting System Evaluation-Related
Interview Data Collection.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0574.

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Type of Request: Revision of a
Previously Approved Collection.
Affected Public: Rail Employees and
Key Non-railroad Stakeholders.
Abstract: In the U.S. railroad industry,
injury rates have been declining over
the last 25 years. Indeed, the industry
incident rate fell from a high of 12.1
incidents per 100 workers per year in
1978 to 3.66 in 1996. As the number of
incidents has decreased, the mix of
causes has also changed toward a higher
proportion of incidents that can be
attributed to human and organizational
factors. This combination of trends—
decrease in overall rates but increasing
proportion of human factors-related
incidents—has left safety managers with
a need to shift tactics in reducing
injuries to even lower rates than they
are now.
In recognition of the need for new
approaches to improving safety, FRA
has instituted the Confidential Close
Call Reporting System (C3RS). The
operating assumption behind C3RS is
that by assuring confidentiality,
employees will report events which, if
dealt with, will decrease the likelihood
of accidents. C3RS, therefore, has both a
confidential reporting component, and a
problem analysis/solution component.
C3RS is expected to affect safety in two
ways. First, it will lead to problem
solving concerning specific safety
conditions. Second, it will engender an
organizational culture and climate that
supports greater awareness of safety and
a greater cooperative willingness to
improve safety.
If C3RS works as intended, it could
have an important impact on improving
safety and safety culture in the railroad
industry. While C3RS has been
developed and implemented with the
participation of FRA, railroad labor, and
railroad management, there are
legitimate questions about whether it is
being implemented in the most
beneficial way, and whether it will have
its intended effect. Further, even if C3RS
is successful, it will be necessary to
know if it is successful enough to
implement on a wide scale. To address
these important questions, FRA is
implementing a formative evaluation to
guide program development, a
summative evaluation to assess impact,
and a sustainability evaluation to
determine how C3RS can continue after
the test period is over. The evaluation
is needed to provide FRA with guidance
as to how it can improve the program,
and how it might be scaled up
throughout the railroad industry.
Program evaluation is an inherently
data driven activity. Its basic tenet is
that as change is implemented, data can
be collected to track the course and

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consequences of the change. Because of
the setting in which C3RS is being
implemented, that data must come from
the railroad employees (labor and
management) who may be affected.
Critical data include beliefs about safety
and issues related to safety, and
opinions/observations about the
operation of C3RS.
The ongoing study is a five-year
demonstration project to improve rail
safety, and is designed to identify safety
issues and propose corrective action
based on voluntary reports of close calls
submitted to the Bureau of
Transportation Statistics. Because of the
innovative nature of this program, FRA
is implementing an evaluation to
determine whether the program is
succeeding, how it can be improved
and, if successful, what is needed to
spread the program throughout the
railroad industry. Interviews to evaluate
the close call reporting system will be
conducted with two groups: (1) Key
stakeholders to the process (e.g., FRA
officials, industry labor, and carrier
management within participating
railroads); and (2) Employees in
participating railroads who are eligible
to submit close call reports to the
Confidential Close Call Reporting
System. Different questions will be
addressed to each of these two groups.
Interviews will be semi-structured, with
follow-up questions asked as
appropriate depending on the
respondent’s initial answer.
The confidentiality of the interview
data is protected by the Privacy Act of
1974. FRA fully complies with all laws
pertaining to confidentiality, including
the Privacy Act. Thus, information
obtained by or acquired by FRA’s
contractor, the Volpe Center, from key
stakeholders and railroad employees
will be used strictly for evaluation
purposes. None of the information that
might be identifying will be
disseminated or disclosed in any way.
In addition, the participating railroad
sites involved will require Volpe to
establish a non-disclosure agreement
that prohibits disclosure of company
confidential information without the
carrier’s authorization. Also, the
information is protected under the
Department of Transportation regulation
Title 49 CFR Part 9,which is in part
concerned with the Department
involvement in proceedings between
private litigants. According to this
statute, if data are subpoenaed, Volpe
and Volpe contractors can not ‘‘provide
testimony or produce any material
contained in the files of the Department,
or disclose any information or produce
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duties or because of that employee’s
official duty status’’ unless authorized
by agency counsel after determining
that, in legal proceedings between
private litigants, such testimony would
be in the best interests of the
Department or that of the United States
Government if disclosed. Finally, the
name of those interviewed will not be
requested.
Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 242
hours
Addressee: Send comments regarding
this information collection to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: FRA Desk Officer.
Comments may also be sent
electronically via e-mail to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) at the following address:
[email protected].
Comments are invited on the
following: 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
Department’s 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 best assured of
having its full effect if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Issued in Washington, DC, on September
15, 2010.
Kimberly Coronel,
Director, Office of Financial Management.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
Environmental Impact Statement: U.S.
64/Corridor K. The Project Begins on
U.S. 64 From West of the Ocoee River
to State Route 68 Near Ducktown in
Polk County, TN
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI).
AGENCY:

The Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) is issuing this
notice to advise the public that an

SUMMARY:

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Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
will be prepared for a proposed highway
project in Polk County, Tennessee.
Mr.
Charles J. O’Neill, Planning and
Program Management Team Leader,
Federal Highway Administration,
Tennessee Division Office, Address: 404
BNA Drive, Suite 508, Nashville,
Tennessee 37217, Telephone: (615) 781–
5770, E-mail: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The
FHWA, in cooperation with the
Tennessee Department of
Transportation, will prepare an EIS for
the proposed U.S. 64/Appalachian
Development Corridor K project from
west of the Ocoee River to State Route
68 near Ducktown, a distance of
approximately 20 miles. The southern
boundary of the Corridor K project
study area is along the TennesseeGeorgia state line. The northern
boundary, in general, is along the
Hiwassee River and Ocoee River
watershed boundary. A NOI for the
same project corridor was previously
published on August 28, 1999 and then
rescinded on May 21, 2008 due to the
decision that a new EIS was needed to
include and evaluate new information
and a new economic development
study.
Alternatives to be considered include:
(1) No-build; (2) a Transportation
System Management (TSM) alternative;
(3) a transit alternative; (4) one or more
build alternatives that could include
constructing a roadway on a new
location, upgrading existing U.S. 64, or
a combination of both, and (5) other
alternatives that may arise from public
input. Public scoping meetings will be
held for the project corridor. As part of
the scoping process, federal, state, and
local agencies and officials; private
organizations; citizens; and interest
groups will have an opportunity to
identify issues of concern and provide
input on the purpose and need for the
project, range of alternatives,
methodology, and the development of
the EIS. A Coordination Plan has been
developed to include the public in the
project development process. This plan
utilizes the following outreach efforts to
provide information and solicit input:
Coordination through a Citizens
Resource Team, newsletters, an Internet
Web site, e-mail and direct mail,
informational meetings and briefings,
public hearings, and other efforts as
necessary and appropriate. A public
hearing will be held upon completion of
the Draft EIS and public notice will be
given of the time and place of the
hearing. The Draft EIS will be available

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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