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improvements to Loop 375 Border
Highway West, in El Paso County,
Texas, is being rescinded.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Gregory S. Punske, P.E., District
Engineer, Federal Highway
Administration, Texas Division, 300
East 8th Street, Room 826, Austin, Texas
78701, Telephone (512) 536–5960.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
September 2007, the Texas Department
of Transportation (TxDOT) and FHWA
announced their intent to prepare an
EIS pursuant to 40 CFR 1508.22 and 43
TAC Sec. 2.5(e)(2) for the proposed
Loop 375 Ce´sar Cha´vez Highway
(Border Highway West Extension) in El
Paso, Texas, to include the Texas, New
Mexico, and Ciudad Jua´rez, Chihuahua
Me´xico border region. The proposed
Border Highway West Extension project
limits extended approximately 13.8
miles to provide a continuous route
from Interstate 10 (I–10) east of State
Highway (SH) 20 (Mesa Street) to
Sunland Park Drive and continued on
Loop 375 to end at United States
Highway (US) 54. The proposed project
was part of an alternate route to provide
congestion relief for I–10, an east-west
facility north of the project. The Loop
375 Border Highway West Extension
Project was originally included in the
Gateway 2030 Metropolitan
Transportation Plan (MTP); and is
currently included in the current
Mission 2035 MTP, a transportation
program adopted by the El Paso
Metropolitan Planning Organization
(MPO) in August of 2010 and approved
for air conformity on January 28, 2011.
The EIS was in the preliminary stages
of development. Two scoping meetings
were held for cooperating and
participating agencies on October 23,
2007 and October 30, 2007 at the El
Paso International Airport Board Room,
6701 Convair Road, El Paso, Texas. In
addition, two public scoping meetings
were held on these same dates at Hilos
de Plata Senior Center and the Westside
Regional Command Center, El Paso,
Texas.
FHWA and TxDOT have decided to
rescind the Notice of Intent because the
Texas Department of Transportation
will be using State funding for the
delivery of the project. A project
containing no Federal funds or Federal
actions is not required to complete
NEPA project approvals. Further, the
project will be broken into several
phases or projects, all to be funded with
State funds and all to have logical
termini and independent utility.
Consequently, the previously proposed
project will undergo several
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environmental process. Comments or
questions concerning the rescission of
this proposed action and the EIS should
be directed to the FHWA at the address
provided above.
Gregory S. Punske,
District Engineer, Austin, Texas.
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BILLING CODE 4910–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2011–0225]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection
Request: Commercial Driver Individual
Differences Study
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 and invites public
comment. The FMCSA requests
approval of a new ICR that is associated
with a study that will be conducted by
a research contractor to investigate the
differences among the characteristics of
individual commercial drivers. This
information collection will aid FMCSA
in developing future safety initiatives by
examining a wide array of driver and
situational factors to determine if they
are associated with increased or
decreased crash and incident
involvement.

SUMMARY:

Comments must be submitted on
or before December 2, 2011.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2011–0225 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
DATES:

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p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading
below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
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 for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Theresa Hallquist, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Office of
Analysis, Research and Technology,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001. Telephone (202) 366–1064 or email [email protected]., Office
hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
purpose of this study is to identify,
verify, quantify, and prioritize
commercial driver risk factors.
Primarily, these are personal factors

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such as demographic characteristics,
medical conditions, personality traits,
and performance capabilities. Risk
factors may also include work
environmental conditions, such as
carrier operations type. The study will
identify risk factors by linking the
characteristics of individual drivers
with their driving records, especially
the presence or absence of DOT
reportable crashes.
Title: Commercial Driver Individual
Differences Study.
OMB Control Number: 2126–XXXX.
Type of Request: New ICR.
Respondents: Commercial motor
vehicle drivers and fleet managers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
21,020.
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated average time per responses
are as follow: 1 hour, 5 minutes for
paper and 1 hour for electronic Form
MCSA–5863, ‘‘Commercial Motor
Vehicle Driver Survey,’’ submissions; 35
minutes for paper and 30 minutes for
electronically Form MCSA–5864,
‘‘Follow-Up Survey of Recent Life
Experiences,’’ submissions; 75 minutes
for paper and 70 minutes for electronic
Driver Survey and Job Descriptive Index
from the Follow-up Survey submissions;
and 10 minutes for the Form MCSA–
5865, ‘‘Fleet Managers Survey,’’
submissions.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new
information collection request.
Frequency of Response: This
information collection will be a single,
nonrecurring event for 16,000 CMV
driver participants and 20 fleet
managers. For at least 5,000 CMV driver
participants, the information collection
will occur twice.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
9,536 hours. 8,822 hours for CMV driver
participants: [16,800 CMV drivers
completing paper Driver Survey × 65
minutes + 4,200 CMV drivers
completing electronic Driver Survey × 1
hour + 4,000 drivers completing paper
Follow-Up Survey × 35 minutes per
driver / 60 minutes + 1,000 drivers
completing electronic Follow-Up
Survey × 30 minutes per driver / 60
minutes + 800 CMV drivers completing
paper Driver Survey and Job Descriptive
Index × 75 minutes per driver / 60
minutes + 200 CMV drivers completing
paper Driver Survey and Job Descriptive
Inde× × 70 minutes per driver / 60
minutes = 26,466 hours/3 years = 8,822
hours] + 714 hours for Carrier
Operations: [20 participating carriers × 2
hours to learn about and agree to
participation + 40 carrier managers
completing IRB training × 2 hours + 20
Managers recruiting and handling data
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hours + 20 Managers completing Fleet
Manager Survey × 10 minutes + Carrier
managers delivering monthly crash
reports to VTTI (20 carriers × 36
months) × 30 minutes / 60 minutes =
2,143/3 years = 714 hours]. 8,822 hours
for CMV driver participants + 714 hours
for Carriers Operations = 9,536 hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
revised information collection request,
including: (1) The necessity and
usefulness of the information collection
for FMCSA to meet its goal in reducing
truck crashes; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burdens; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, usefulness, and clarity of
the collected information; and (4) ways
to minimize the collection burden
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 on: September 23, 2011.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2011–0084]

Hours of Service of Drivers: Western
Pilot Service Application for
Exemption
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:

FMCSA has received an
application from Western Pilot Service
(‘‘Western’’) requesting an exemption
from certain hours-of-service (HOS)
provisions of the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Regulations (FMCSRs). The
exemption request is for Western’s
drivers who transport aviation fuel for
aircraft used in wild-land firefighting
operations. Western specifically
requests an exemption for up to 15
drivers from § 395.3(b)(2), the HOS
prohibition against driving a
commercial motor vehicle (CMV) after
the 70th hour of cumulative on-duty
time in any 8-day period. FMCSA
requests public comment on the
Western application for exemption.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before November 2, 2011.
SUMMARY:

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You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System Number [FMCSA–
2011–0084] by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• 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 or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. E.T., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading
below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
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 (65 FR
19476) or you may visit http://
DocketInfo.dot.gov.
Public participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can get electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket, and we will
consider late comments to the extent
practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Thomas Yager, Chief, FMCSA Driver
ADDRESSES:

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