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result in holes in the fuselage exceeding
CFR-specified dimensions.
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Federal Railroad Administration

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[Docket No. FRA–2010–0005–N–20]

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request

Federal Highway Administration

Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.

AGENCY:

Rescind Notice of Intent to
prepare an EIS.

ACTION:

This notice rescinds the
Notice of Intent for preparing an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for proposed highway, State Route 15, to
provide a connection between Interstate
10 and U.S. 98 near Beaumont,
Harrison, George, Greene, Jackson,
Perry, and Stone Counties, Mississippi.
The original Notice of Intent for this EIS
process was published in the Federal
Register on May 28, 2009.

SUMMARY:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Claiborne Barnwell, Project
Development Team Leader, Federal
Highway Administration, Mississippi
Division, 100 West Capitol Street, Suite
1026, Jackson, Mississippi 39269,
Telephone: (601) 965–4217.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
The Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA) in cooperation with the
Mississippi Department of
Transportation (MDOT) initiated an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
with a Notice of Intent May 28, 2009, to
provide a connector road between
Interstate 10 and U.S. 98.
Due to funding constraints this Notice
of Intent is rescinded.
Andrew H. Hughes,
Division Administrator, Mississippi Federal
Highway Administration, Jackson,
Mississippi.
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Federal Railroad
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

Mississippi Division; Rescinding the
Notice of Intent for an Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS): Harrison,
George, Greene, Jackson, Perry, and
Stone Counties, Mississippi

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

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 collections and their
expected burdens. The Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collections of information was
published on October 18, 2010 (75 FR
63889).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 27, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Brogan, Office of Planning and
Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal
Railroad Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 25,
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 toll-free.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Public Law 104–13, § 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 October 18,
2010, FRA published a 60-day notice in
the Federal Register soliciting comment
on ICRs that the agency was seeking
OMB approval. 75 FR 63889. FRA
received no comments after issuing this
notice. Accordingly, DOT announces
that these information collection
activities have been re-evaluated and
certified under 5 CFR 1320.5(a) and
forwarded to OMB for review and
approval pursuant to 5 CFR 1320.12(c).
SUMMARY:

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Before OMB decides whether to
approve these proposed collections 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. The proposed requirements are
being submitted for clearance by OMB
as required by the PRA.
Title: Safety Integration Plans.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0557.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): N/A.
Abstract: The Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) and the Surface
Transportation Board (STB), working in
conjunction with each other, issued
joint final rules establishing procedures
for the development and
implementation of safety integration
plans (‘‘SIPs’’ or ‘‘plans’’) by a Class I
railroad proposing to engage in certain
specified merger, consolidation, or
acquisition of control transactions with
another Class I railroad, or a Class II
railroad with which it proposes to
amalgamate operations. The scope of the
transactions covered under the two
rules is the same. FRA uses the
information collected, notably the
required SIPs, to maintain and promote
a safe rail environment by ensuring that
affected railroads (Class Is and some
Class IIs) address critical safety issues
unique to the amalgamation of large,
complex railroad operations.
Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 528
hours.
Title: Locomotive Crashworthiness.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0564.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): N/A.
Abstract: In a final rule published
June 28, 2006, the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) issued

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comprehensive standards for locomotive
crashworthiness. These crashworthiness
standards are intended to help protect
locomotive cab occupants in the event
of a locomotive collision. The collection
of information is used by FRA to ensure
that locomotive manufacturers and
railroads meet minimum performance
standards and design load requirements
for newly manufactured and remanufactured locomotives in order to
help protect locomotive cab occupants
in the event that one of these covered
locomotives collides with another
locomotive, the rear of another train, a
piece of on-track equipment, a shifted
load on a freight car on an adjacent
parallel track, or a highway vehicle at a
rail-highway grade crossing.
Annual Estimated Burden Hours:
6,544 hours.
Title: Safety Appliance Concern
Recommendation Report; Guidance
Checklist Forms.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0565.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): FRA F 6180.4(a)–(q).
Abstract: In an ongoing effort to
conduct more thorough and more
effective inspections of railroad freight
equipment and to further enhance safe
rail operations, FRA has developed a
safety concern recommendation report
form, and a group of guidance checklist
forms that facilitate railroad, rail car
owner, and rail equipment manufacturer
compliance with agency Railroad Safety
Appliance Standards regulations. In lieu
of completing an official inspection
report (Form FRA F 6180.96), which
takes subject railroad equipment out of
service and disrupts rail operations,
Form FRA F 6180.4a enables Federal
and State safety inspectors to report to
agency headquarters systemic or other
safety concerns. FRA headquarters
safety specialists can then contact
railroads, car owners, and equipment
manufacturers to address the reported
issue(s) and institute necessary
corrective action(s) in a timely fashion
without unnecessarily having to take
affected rail equipment out of service,
unless deemed defective. Forms FRA F
6180.4(b)–(q) are used in conjunction
with the Special Inspection of Safety
Appliance Equipment form (Form FRA
F 6180.4) to assist Federal Motive,
Power, and Equipment (MP&E) field
inspectors in ensuring that critical
sections of 49 CFR part 231 (Railroad
Safety Appliance Standards), pertaining
to various types of freight equipment,
are complied with through use of a
check-off list. By simplifying their
demanding work, check-off lists for 16
essential sections of part 231 ensure that

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FRA MP&E field personnel completely
and thoroughly inspect each type of
freight car for compliance with its
corresponding section in part 231. The
Guidance Checklist forms may later be
used by state field inspectors as well.
FRA believes that this collection of
information will result in improved
construction of newly designed freight
cars and improved field inspections of
all freight cars currently in use. This, in
turn, will serve to reduce the number of
accidents/incidents and corresponding
injuries and fatalities that occur every
year due to unsafe or defective
equipment that was not promptly
repaired/replaced.
Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 168
hours.
Title: Passenger Train Emergency
Systems.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0576.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Abstract: The collection of
information is due to passenger train
emergency regulations set forth in 49
CFR part 238 to further the safety of
passenger train occupants through both
enhancements and additions to FRA’s
existing requirements. The collection of
information is used by FRA, railroad
employees, rescue workers, and the
public. Emergency responders use the
information collected to be able to
quickly find and understand how to
operate passenger cars’ emergency
windows, doors, and roof hatches so
that they can successfully perform their
jobs and save lives. The information
collected is used by train passengers to:
(1) Recognize and immediately report
potential emergencies train crew
members; (2) recognize hazards; (3)
recognize and know how and when to
operate appropriate emergency-related
features and equipment, such as fire
extinguishers, train doors, and
emergency exits; and (4) recognize the
potential special needs of fellow
passengers, such as children, the
elderly, and disabled, during an
emergency; and (5) know how to
quickly and safely evacuate the train in
the event of an emergency, such as a
collision, derailment, explosion, fire, or
some other unanticipated occurrence.
Luminescent or lighted emergency exit
markings are used by train passengers
and emergency responders to determine
where the closest and most accessible
emergency exit is located as well as how
to operate the emergency exit
mechanisms. Records of the inspection,
maintenance, and repairs of emergency
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efficiency tests are used by FRA
inspectors to monitor railroads’
regulatory compliance with this Part.
Addressee: Send comments regarding
these information collections to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street, NW.,
Washington, DC, 20503, Attention: FRA
Desk Officer, or via e-mail to OMB at the
following address:
[email protected].
Comments are invited on the
following: Whether the proposed
collections of information are 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 estimates of the burden of
the proposed information collections;
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collections 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 December 21,
2010.
Kimberly Coronel,
Director, Office of Financial Management,
Federal Railroad Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2010–0173; Notice 1]

Notice of Receipt of Petition for
Decision That Nonconforming 1991
Rice Beaufort Double Trailers Are
Eligible for Importation
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of petition for
decision that nonconforming 1991 Rice
Beaufort Double trailers are eligible for
importation.
AGENCY:

This document announces
receipt by the National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) of a
petition for a decision that 1991 Rice
Beaufort Double trailers that were not
originally manufactured to comply with
all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards (FMVSS) are eligible

SUMMARY:

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