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1. Semi-annual program and financial
reports, which include a description of
program activities implemented in the
course of the six-month period and an
accounting of expenditures.
2. A final program and financial
report no more than 90 days after the
expiration date of the award.
3. Grantees will be required to
provide reports analyzing their
evaluation findings to the Bureau in
their regular program reports. (Please
refer to IV. Application and Submission
Instructions (IV.3.d.3) above for Program
Monitoring and Evaluation information.
All data collected, including survey
responses and contact information, must
be maintained for a minimum of three
years and provided to the Bureau upon
request.
All reports must be sent to the ECA
Grants Officer and ECA Program Officer
listed in the final assistance award
document.
Organizations awarded grants will be
required to maintain specific data on
program participants and activities in an
electronically accessible database format
that can be shared with the Bureau as
required. As a minimum, the data must
include the following:
(1) Name, address, contact
information and biographic sketch of all
persons who travel internationally on
funds provided by the grant.
(2) Itineraries of international and
domestic travel, providing dates of
travel and cities in which any exchange
experiences take place. Final schedules
for in-country and U.S. activities must
be received by the ECA Program Officer
at least three work days prior to the
official opening of the activity.
VII. Agency Contacts
For questions about this
announcement, contact: Thomas
Johnston, Office of Citizen Exchanges,
ECA/PE/C/NEA–AF, Room 216, U.S.
Department of State, SA–44, 301 4th
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20547,
Telephone: (202) 453–8162; Fax: (202)
453–8168; e-mail: [email protected].
Correspondence with the Bureau
concerning this RFGP should reference
the title and number ECA/PE/C/NEA–
AF–07–20.
Please read the complete
announcement before sending inquiries
or submitting proposals. Once the RFGP
deadline has passed, Bureau staff may
not discuss this competition with
applicants until the proposal review
process has been completed.
VIII. Other Information
Notice
The terms and conditions published
in this RFGP are binding and may not

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be modified by any Bureau
representative. Explanatory information
provided by the Bureau that contradicts
published language will not be binding.
Issuance of the RFGP does not
constitute an award commitment on the
part of the Government. The Bureau
reserves the right to reduce, revise, or
increase proposal budgets in accordance
with the needs of the program and the
availability of funds. Awards made will
be subject to periodic reporting and
evaluation requirements per section VI.3
above.
Dated: February 27, 2007.
Dina Habib Powell,
Assistant Secretary for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Executive Committee of the Aviation
Rulemaking Advisory Committee;
Meeting
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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Attendance is open to the interested
public but limited to the space
available. The FAA will arrange
teleconference service for individuals
wishing to join in by teleconference if
we receive notice by April 4.
Arrangements to participate by
teleconference can be made by
contacting the person listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
Callers outside the Washington
metropolitan area are responsible for
paying long-distance charges.
The public must arrange by April 4 to
present oral statements at the meeting.
The public may present written
statements to the executive committee
by providing 25 copies to the Executive
Director, or by bringing the copies to the
meeting.
If you are in need of assistance or
require a reasonable accommodation for
this meeting, please contact the person
listed under the heading FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Issued in Washington, DC, February 26,
2007.
Pamela Hamilton-Powell,
Executive Director, Aviation Rulemaking
Advisory Committee.
[FR Doc. E7–3801 Filed 3–5–07; 8:45 am]
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SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice
to advise the public of a meeting of the
Executive Committee of the Aviation
Rulemaking Advisory Committee.
DATES: The meeting will be on April 11,
2007, at 10 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place
at the Federal Aviation Administration,
800 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20591, 10th floor,
MacCracken Room.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gerri Robinson, Federal Aviation
Administration, 800 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591,
telephone (202) 267–9678; fax (202)
267–5075; e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
Executive Committee of the Aviation
Rulemaking Advisory Committee taking
place on April 11, 2007, at the Federal
Aviation Administration, 800
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20591. The agenda
includes:
• ISO Feedback
• Future taskings of ARAC
• Issue Area Status Reports from
Assistant Chairs
• Remarks from other EXCOM members

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–26971]

Notice of Request for Comments on
Renewal of a Currently Approved
Information Collection: Medical
Qualification Requirements
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; request for information.
AGENCY:

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
review and approval. This information
collection pertains to the requirements
set forth in 49 CFR parts 391 and 398
for the following activities: (1) A
medical examination form and
certificate to be completed by a licensed
medical examiner; (2) The submission
of an application to FMCSA for the
Agency to resolve conflicts of medical
evaluations between medical examiners;
(3) A driver qualification (DQ) file for:
(a) Motor carriers to include the medical
certificate; (b) motor carriers of migrant
workers to include a doctor’s certificate

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for every driver employed or used by
them; and (c) motor carriers to include
a Skill Performance Evaluation (SPE)
certificate issued to a driver with a limb
disability; and (4) Information collected
from carriers, drivers and interested
parties used in Agency determinations
for granting exemptions from the vision
and diabetes requirements in the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations (FMCSRs). The Agency
published a Federal Register notice
allowing for a 60-day comment period
on the ICR in October 2006 (71 FR
61822, Oct. 19, 2006). The Agency did
not receive any comments in response
to this notice.
DATES: Please send your comments by
April 5, 2007. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act
quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Mary D. Gunnels, Chief, Physical
Qualifications Division, (202) 366–4001,
[email protected], FMCSA,
Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590–0001. Office hours are from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m., ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Medical Qualification
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0006.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Medical Examiners,
Medical Specialists, Physicians,
Licensed Doctors of Medicine, Doctors
of Osteopathy, Physician Assistants,
Advanced Practice Nurses, Doctors of
Chiropractic, motor carriers, and CMV
drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
7,000,000.
Estimated Time per Response: The
following records are included in the IC
pertaining to the Medical Qualifications
Requirements: (1) The Medical
Examination Form and Certificate—
Twenty minutes for a medical examiner
to complete, document, and file the
medical examination report; One
minute for the medical examiner to
complete the medical examiner’s
certificate and furnish one copy to the
person who was examined and one copy
to the motor carrier who employs him
or her; One minute for carriers to file the
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file; (2) Data Resolving Medical
Conflicts—One hour for the Safety
Director of a motor carrier company to
prepare paperwork for each case and an
additional 8 hours to attend any
hearings for resolution of medical
conflict; (3) The SPE Certificate—Fifteen
minutes for a driver to complete an
application for an initial SPE certificate;
Two minutes to complete an application
for a renewal of a SPE certificate; One
minute for carriers to copy and file the
SPE certificate application in the DQ
file; (4) Vision Exemptions—Sixty
minutes for a driver to complete an
application for a vision exemption with
required supporting documents from
carriers and interested parties; (5)
Diabetes Exemptions—Sixty minutes for
a driver to complete a diabetes
exemption with required
documentation; and (6) The Doctor’s
Certificate for Motor Carriers of Migrant
Workers—One minute for a doctor of
medicine or osteopathy to complete a
doctor’s certificate for drivers of motor
carriers of migrant workers; and for
carriers to place the certificate in the DQ
file for every driver employed or used
by them.
Expiration Date: March 31, 2007.
Frequency of Response: Biennially,
and on occasion, more frequently for
drivers who are not eligible to receive a
2-year certificate. There are 7,000,000
drivers subject to the FMCSA medical
standards. A medical certificate usually
is valid for 2 years after the date of
examination. However, drivers with
certain medical conditions must be
certified more frequently than every two
years, so halving the number of drivers
underestimates the total number of
certifications that are conducted
annually. In addition, some employers
require newly hired drivers to obtain a
new medical certification even if the
driver’s current certificate is still valid.
As a result of these exceptions to the
biennial medical certification schedule,
the Agency estimates that the actual
number of medical certifications
conducted annually is 20 percent
greater than would be the case if all
drivers were examined biennially.
Biennial examinations would result in
approximately 3,500,000 medical
examinations per year, but the Agency
estimates that approximately 4,200,000
examinations are conducted annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,541,534 hours [1,540,000 hours for
medical examination form and
certificate (4,200,000 certificates × 22
minutes/60 minutes per hour + 11 hours
for resolution of medical conflicts (3
cases × 1 hour each to prepare, plus 8
hours for one hearing) + 192 hours for
SPE certificates (2,100 certificates × 1

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minute/60 minutes for motor carriers +
1,700 renewals × 2 minutes/60 minutes
+ 400 new × 15 minutes/60 minutes) +
727 hours for vision exemptions (1572
total applicants × .27 or 27 % + 268 new
vision exemptions + 35 hours for motor
carriers motor carriers to retain a copy
in the driver’s DQ file) + 600 hours for
diabetes exemptions (600 applications ×
1 hour) + 3.5 rounded to 4 hours for
doctors certificate for drivers of migrant
workers (100 certificates × 2 minutes/60
minutes) = 1,541,534 hours].
Background
Title 49 U.S.C. 31136 requires the
Secretary of Transportation (Secretary)
to prescribe regulations to ensure that
the physical qualifications of
commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
operators are adequate to enable them to
operate CMVs safely. In addition, 49
U.S.C. 31502 authorizes the Secretary to
prescribe requirements for qualifications
of employees of a motor carrier when
needed to promote safety of operation.
Information about an individual’s
physical condition must be collected in
order for the FMCSA, States and motor
carriers to verify that the individual
meets the physical qualification
standards for CMV drivers set forth in
49 CFR 391.41; and for the FMCSA to
determine whether the individual is
physically able to operate a CMV safely.
This information collection is
comprised of the components listed in
the summary above.
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 FMCSA’s performance;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burden; (3) ways for the 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.
Issued on: February 26, 2007.
Rose A. McMurray,
Assistant Administrator, Chief Safety Officer.
[FR Doc. E7–3803 Filed 3–5–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2006–25004]

Identification of Vehicles: Oregon
Department of Transportation Tax
Credentials Petition for Determination
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

AGENCY:

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