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Township, Lackawanna County, Pa.
Application for surface water
withdrawal of up to 0.905 mgd.
9. Project Sponsor and Facility:
Peoples Financial Services Corp.
(Tunkhannock Creek), Tunkhannock
Township, Wyoming County, Pa.
Application for surface water
withdrawal of up to 0.990 mgd.
10. Project Sponsor and Facility: Ultra
Resources, Inc. (Pine Creek), Pike
Township, Potter County, Pa.
Modification to increase surface water
withdrawal up to 1.170 mgd (Docket No.
20090332).
Public Hearing—Projects Scheduled for
Rescission Action
1. Project Sponsor and Facility:
Anadarko E&P Company LP (Pine
Creek) (Docket No. 20090304),
Cummings Township, Lycoming
County, Pa.
Opportunity To Appear and Comment
Interested parties may appear at the
above hearing to offer written or oral
comments to the Commission on any
matter on the hearing agenda, or at the
business meeting to offer written or oral
comments on other matters scheduled
for consideration at the business
meeting. The chair of the Commission
reserves the right to limit oral
statements in the interest of time and to
otherwise control the course of the
hearing and business meeting. Written
comments may also be mailed to the
Susquehanna River Basin Commission,
1721 North Front Street, Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania 17102–2391, or submitted
electronically to Richard A. Cairo,
General Counsel, e-mail: [email protected]
or Stephanie L. Richardson, Secretary to
the Commission, e-mail:
[email protected]. Comments mailed
or electronically submitted must be
received prior to December 10, 2010, to
be considered.
Authority: Pub. L. 91–575, 84 Stat. 1509 et
seq., 18 CFR Parts 806, 807, and 808.
Dated: November 15, 2010.
Paul O. Swartz,
Executive Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of Renewed Approval of
Information Collection: High Density
Traffic Airports; Slot Allocation and
Transfer Methods
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
invites public comments about our
intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval to renew an information
collection. The Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day comment period soliciting
comments on the following collection of
information was published on August
27, 2010, vol. 75, no. 166, page 52802–
52803. This information collection is
used to allocate slots and maintain
accurate records of slot transfers at High
Density Traffic Airports. The
information is provided by air carriers
and commuter operators, or other
persons holding a slot at High Density
Airports.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by December 27, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carla Scott on (202) 267–9895, or by email at: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2120–0524.
Title: High Density Traffic Airports;
Slot Allocation and Transfer Methods.
Form Numbers: There are no FAA
forms associated with this information
collection.
Type of Review: Renewal of an
information collection.
Background: The information is
reported to the FAA by air carriers,
commuter operators or others with slots
at high density airports. The
respondents must notify the FAA of: (1)
Requests for confirmation of transferred
slots; (2) slots required to be returned or
slots voluntarily returned; (3) requests
to be included in a lottery for available
slots; (4) usage of slots on a bi-monthly
basis; and (5) requests for short-term use
of off-peak hour slots. The information
is used to allocate and withdraw takeoff
and landing slots at high density
airports, and confirms transfers of slots
made among the operators.
Respondents: Approximately 15 air
carriers and commuter operators.
Frequency: Information is collected
on occasion.
SUMMARY:

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Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 34 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 707
hours.
ADDRESSES: 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/FAA, 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.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for FAA’s
performance; (b) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information collection; and (d)
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 in Washington, DC, on November
19, 2010.
Carla Scott,
FAA Information Collection Clearance
Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services
Division, AES–200.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0379]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Motor Carrier Safety
Assistance Program
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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. The FMCSA

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requests approval to revise and extend
an information collection request (ICR)
entitled, ‘‘Motor Carrier Safety
Assistance Programs (MCSAP).’’ The
information required consists of grant
application preparation, quarterly
reports and electronic data documenting
the results of driver/vehicle inspections
performed by the States. This ICR is
being revised due to an increase in the
estimated number of State inspections
that will be performed annually
resulting in a change to the estimated
burden to perform this activity. On
September 9, 2010, FMCSA published a
Federal Register notice allowing for a
60-day comment period on the ICR. No
comment was received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
December 27, 2010. 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–2010–0379. 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: Mr.
John E. Kostelnik, Office of Safety
Programs, State Programs Division,
Department of Transportation, Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington DC
20590. Telephone: 202–366–5721; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Motor Carrier Safety Assistance
Program.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0010.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: State MCSAP lead
agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
52.
Estimated Time per Response: Grant
application preparation: 79.5 hours
each; quarterly report preparation: 8
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Expiration Date: February 28, 2011.
Frequency of Response: 1 grant
application annually; 4 quarterly reports
annually; and approximately 3.4 million
total inspections and data uploads
annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
13,550 hours. The methods used to
calculate the hours necessary to prepare
grant applications, upload data, and
prepare quarterly reports are based on
interviews with the State and Federal
personnel charged with those
responsibilities. The information
required to prepare the applications for
grants and the subsequent reports is
based on general information ordinarily
maintained by the States in the general
course of business, and only simple
computations are required to determine
burden hours. The grant applications
and reports are submitted by the 50
States, four Territories, Puerto Rico, and
the District of Columbia. Each entity
submits one grant request per year and
four quarterly reports. About 3.4 million
inspection reports are uploaded each
year.
The figures reflect only 20 percent of
the total estimated hours to perform the
activities, since MCSAP reimburses 80
percent of the eligible costs incurred in
the administration of an approved plan
as set forth in 49 CFR 350.303, 350.309
and 350.311. Labor hours are estimated
and an average hourly rate for
professional personnel is applied. The
four territories of American Samoa,
Guam, U.S. Virgin Islands and the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands receive 100 percent Federal
funding for their MCSAP activities;
therefore they are not included in the
computation of burden.
Background: Sections 401 through
404 of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act of 1982 (STAA) (Pub. L.
97–424) established a program of
financial assistance to the States to
implement programs to enforce: (a)
Federal rules, regulations, standards,
and orders applicable to commercial
motor vehicle safety; and (b) compatible
State rules, regulations, standards and
orders. This grant-in-aid program is
known as the Motor Carrier Safety
Assistance Program (MCSAP). Section
402(c) of the STAA requires that the
Secretary of Transportation (Secretary),
on the basis of reports submitted by the
States and the Secretary’s own
inspections, make a continuing
evaluation of the manner in which each
State is carrying out its approved safety
enforcement plan. The STAA’s MCSAP
provisions are codified at 49 U.S.C.
31102.
The Transportation Equity Act for the
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178) further revised MCSAP by
broadening its purpose beyond
enforcement activities and programs by
requiring participating States to assume
greater responsibility for improving
motor carrier safety. Section 4003 of
TEA–21 required States to develop
performance-based plans reflecting
national priorities and performance
goals, revised the MCSAP funding
distribution formula, and created a new
incentive funding program. As a result,
States have greater flexibility in
designing programs to address national
and State goals of reducing the number
and severity of commercial motor
vehicle (CMV) crashes.
The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and
Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU) (Pub.
L. 109–59) amended 49 U.S.C.
31102(b)(1) to modify and augment the
conditions a State must meet to qualify
for basic program funds under the
MCSAP. The statute requires a State to
document in its State Commercial
Vehicle Safety Plan (CVSP) its
commitment to meet the following
additional conditions:
• Deploy technology to enhance the
efficiency and effectiveness of CMV
safety programs;
• Include, in both the training manual
for the licensing examination to drive a
non-CMV and the training manual for
the licensing examination to drive a
CMV, information on best practices for
driving safely in the vicinity of nonCMVs and CMVs;
• Conduct comprehensive and highly
visible traffic enforcement and CMV
safety inspection programs in high-risk
locations and corridors; and
• Except in the case of an imminent
or obvious safety hazard, ensure that an
inspection of a vehicle transporting
passengers for a motor carrier of
passengers is conducted at a station,
terminal, border crossing, maintenance
facility, destination, or other location
where a motor carrier may make a
planned stop.
Additionally, section 4106 of
SAFETEA–LU amended 49 U.S.C.
31102(c) to provide that States may use
a portion of MCSAP basic grant funds to
conduct documented enforcement of
State traffic laws—both laws and
regulations designed to promote the safe
operation of CMVs and laws and
regulations relating to non-CMVs, when
necessary to promote the safe operation
of CMVs.
In order for FMCSA to evaluate
program effectiveness, it is necessary for
the State to provide and maintain
information concerning past, present
and future program activity. The Final
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the changes to MCSAP made by
SAFETEA–LU was published in the
Federal Register on July 5, 2007 (72 FR
36769) . The State’s grant application,
known as the CVSP, must contain the
information required by 49 CFR
350.201, 350.211 and 350.213. This
information is necessary to enable
FMCSA to determine whether a State
meets the statutory and administrative
criteria to be eligible for a grant. It is
necessary that a State’s work activities
and accomplishments be reported so
that FMCSA can monitor and evaluate
a State’s progress under its approved
plan and make the determinations and
decisions required by 49 CFR350.205
and 350.207. The FMCSA is required to
determine whether each State’s efforts
meet the intended objectives of its plan.
In the event of nonconformity with any
approved plan and failure on the part of
a State to remedy deficiencies, FMCSA
is required to take action to cease
Federal participation in that State’s
plan.
This information collection supports
the DOT Strategic Goal of Safety (i.e.,
reducing commercial truck-related
fatalities) by providing financial and
technical support to State CMV
enforcement efforts.
The FMCSA uses the information in
the CVSP to determine whether a State
has the necessary resources and
authority to undertake the program
intended by Congress. After a grant has
been awarded to a State, a continuing
evaluation of the State’s activities is
performed to determine whether
continued funding is appropriate and if
revisions in the State’s CVSP should be
made. A quarterly report is submitted by
the States using Standard Form PPR
(SF–PPR) along with a narrative
addendum to provide the minimum
necessary information to assist in
appropriate monitoring of a State’s
performance, compared to its CVSP, and
to permit FMCSA to determine whether
the effort of a State is cost efficient and
whether Federal assistance should be
continued. In addition, inspection data
and reports are submitted electronically
by the inspecting officer from the field
to FMCSA at the time of completion of
the inspection.
SAFETEA–LU provides that States
may conduct traffic enforcement
activities against non-CMVs to promote
the safe operation of CMVs. The States
are routinely conducting traffic
enforcement activities on CMVs and are
reimbursed, provided an appropriate
inspection was conducted at the time.
Previously, non-CMV traffic
enforcement was not an eligible MCSAP
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type of enforcement. The number of
non-CMV enforcement activities
conducted by the States is relatively
minimal since SAFETEA–LU limits the
amount of MCSAP grant funding that
may be used for non-CMV traffic
enforcement activities to no more than
five percent of the basic amount a State
receives annually.
The quarterly report is created by the
State and submitted to FMCSA using
inspection data and other information.
The collection of uniform data permits
analysis and comparison of State
programs and facilitates program
administration and reporting (e.g.,
comparison of the data from a single
State to the national average, equipment
violation and out-of-service trends, etc.).
The FMCSA routinely uses quarterly
report information to measure
individual and collective State program
accomplishment and to assist with
future program development.
Description of MCSAP forms:
a. Form MCSAP–1, Motor Carrier
Safety Assistance Program: Use of the
MCSAP–1 form is being discontinued.
States will be required to submit their
grant applications electronically using
grants.gov beginning in Fiscal Year
2011. The SF–424 form (OMB No. 4040–
0004), available via grants.gov, will be
used in place of the previously
approved MCSAP–1 form.
b. Form MCSAP–2, Grant Agreement:
The MCSAP–2 form is the grant
agreement that specifies the total
amount of the State Program, the State
and Federal participating shares, the
period of the grant, and the signatures
of the responsible State official and the
FMCSA State Programs Manager.
c. Form MCSAP–2A, Grant
Amendment for Fiscal Year__: The
MCSAP–2A form is used to modify the
terms of the grant. It is used to increase
or decrease the amount of the grant, or
to extend the period of the grant. It
contains the signatures of the
responsible State official and the
FMCSA State programs Manager.
In addition, the following documents
are provided as part of the CVSP
package:
a. State Training Plan (optional
format): This document is a request for
commercial vehicle training courses. It
is used by the FMCSA’s National
Training Center to more effectively
schedule training courses to meet the
needs of State enforcement agencies.
b. State Certification: The CVSP must
contain a State Certification signed by
the Governor, the State Attorney
General, or other specially designated
State official. The Certification includes
conditions that must be met by the State
to receive MCSAP grant funds.

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Virtually all (99%) of the information
required by the grant is submitted
electronically. This includes over 3.4
million inspection reports, which are
uploaded electronically from laptop
computers at inspection sites in the
field to FMCSA annually. The nearuniversal use of laptops for submitting
these inspection reports has resulted in
a dramatic reduction in the time burden.
The annual CVSPs require signed
certifications by State personnel and
these certification documents are not,
therefore, electronically transmitted.
The FMCSA is the only Federal
agency authorized to enforce safety
regulations applicable to commercial
trucks and buses in interstate
commerce. The type of information to
be gathered from the States through this
information collection is unique to
MCSAP. No duplication was identified
through the rulemaking process to
implement relevant sections of
SAFETEA–LU.
Under MCSAP, grants are extended to
the States predicated on annual
submission of CVSPs. The FMCSA
determined that although monthly or
bimonthly reports are not needed, a
semiannual report would not be
sufficient to allow for timely evaluation
and changes in State program direction.
Therefore, quarterly reports were
determined to be the most appropriate,
considering burden and Federal need. If
the reports were submitted less
frequently, FMCSA would be unable to
exercise appropriate oversight and
administration of the program as
envisioned by the Congress.
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
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: November 18, 2010.
Terry Shelton,
Director, Office of Analysis, Research and
Technology.
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