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To be assured of timely
consideration, all written comments or
suggestions are requested no later than
February 29, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Written comments or
suggestions should be emailed
([email protected]) or faxed ((202)
647–5947) to Tiffany Prather, Office of
Environmental Policy, Bureau of Oceans
and International Environmental and
Scientific Affairs, U.S. Department of
State, with the subject line ‘‘U.S.-Jordan
Environmental Cooperation Work
Program.’’ If you have access to the
Internet, you may make comments
electronically by going to http://contactus.state.gov/app/ask and searching on
public notice number 7735.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tiffany Prather, telephone (202) 647–
4548.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
United States and Jordan announced the
establishment of the U.S.-Jordan Joint
Forum on Environmental Technical
Cooperation (Joint Forum) when they
signed the U.S.-Jordan Joint Statement
on Environmental Technical
Cooperation (Joint Statement), on
October 24, 2000, along with the U.S.Jordan FTA. The Joint Forum is to meet
regularly and advance environmental
protection in Jordan by developing
environmental technical cooperation
initiatives, which take into account
environmental priorities, and which are
agreed to by the two governments. In
paragraph 4 of the Joint Statement, the
countries identify an initial focus of
technical cooperation on Jordanian
environmental quality issues and the
development and effective
implementation of Jordanian
environmental laws, as defined in
Articles 5.4 and 18.2(a) of the U.S.Jordan FTA.
The Joint Forum has met twice since
2000—in September 2004 and March
2009—and issued two plans for
implementing the Joint Statement. The
first—a Plan of Action—focused on
implementing a strategic vision for
Jordan’s Ministry of Environment,
established in 2002, to promote
sustainable economic growth and
development. The plan outlined
activities to, among other things,
strengthen the Ministry’s capacity for
setting, implementing, and ensuring
compliance with environmental
standards; harness market forces to
protect the environment while bringing
economic benefits; undertake industrial
wastewater treatment and hazardous
waste management for a target region;
seek out economic benefits of
ecotourism; and promote the
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environmental lawmakers and
enforcement officials.
The second, a Work Program for
2008–2011, identifies long-term goals
and specifies activities in four priority
areas. The long-term goals are to
achieve: (1) Compliance with
obligations in Article 5 (Environment) of
the U.S.-Jordan FTA; (2) improved
protection and conservation of the
environment, including natural
resources; (3) transparency and
meaningful public participation in
environmental decision-making; and (4)
a culture of environmental protection
and compliance with environmental
laws through, among other things, the
promotion of economic opportunities,
voluntary measures to enhance
environmental performance, and job
creation. The priority areas are: (1)
Institutional and policy strengthening;
(2) biodiversity conservation and
improved management of protected
areas; (3) improved private sector
environmental performance; and (4)
environmental education, transparency,
and public participation in
environmental decision-making and
enforcement.
For the 2012–2013 Work Program, we
anticipate building upon the
cooperative work initiated under the
previous two plans. We are requesting
suggestions that may be considered for
inclusion in the next Work Program.
Disclaimer: This Public Notice is a
request for comments and suggestions,
and is not a request for applications. No
granting of money is directly associated
with this request for suggestions for the
Work Program. There is no expectation
of resources or funding associated with
any comments or suggestions for the
Work Program.
Dated: January 31, 2012.
George Sibley,
Director, Office of Environmental Policy,
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2012–2624 Filed 2–3–12; 8:45 am]

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Public Availability of the Department of
Transportation FY 2011 Service
Contract Inventory
Department of Transportation.
Notice of Public Availability of
FY 2011 Service Contract Inventories.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In accordance with Section
743 of Division C of the Consolidated
Appropriations Act of 2010 (Pub. L.
111–117), Department of Transportation
is publishing this notice to advise the
public of the availability of the FY 2011

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Dated: January 31, 2012.
Ames Owens,
Associate Director of Commercial Services
Management.
[FR Doc. 2012–2566 Filed 2–3–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2011–0386]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of a Currently
Approved Information Collection:
Motor Carrier Identification Report
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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Service Contract Inventory. This
inventory provides information on
service contract actions over $25,000
that were made in FY 2011. The
information is organized by function to
show how contracted resources are
distributed throughout the agency. The
inventory has been developed in
accordance with guidance issued on
November 5, 2010 by the Office of
Management and Budget’s Office of
Federal Procurement Policy (OFPP).
OFPP’s guidance is available at http://
www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/
omb/procurement/memo/servicecontract-inventories-guidance11052010.pdf. Department of
Transportation has posted its inventory
and a summary of the inventory and the
Service Contract Inventory Analysis
Report on the Department of
Transportation’s homepage at the
following link: http://www.dot.gov/ost/
m60/serv_contract_inv_2011.htm.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Questions regarding the service contract
inventory should be directed to Ames
Owens in the Senior Procurement
Executive office at (202) 366–9614 or
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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 to extend an ICR entitled,
Motor Carrier Identification Report,’’
which is used to identify FMCSA
regulated entities, to help prioritize the
agency’s activities, to aid in assessing

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the safety outcomes of those activities,
and for statistical purposes.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before April 6, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2011–0386 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,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 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 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
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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.
Ms.
Vivian Oliver, Transportation Specialist,
Office of Information Technology,
Operations Division, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
(202) 366–2974; email address:
[email protected]. Office hours are
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Title 49, United States
Code Section 504(b)(2) provides the
Secretary of Transportation (Secretary)
with authority to require carriers,
lessors, associations, or classes of these
entities to file annual, periodic, and
special reports containing answers to
questions asked by the Secretary. The
Secretary may also prescribe the form of
records required to be prepared or
compiled and the time period during
which records must be preserved (See
§ 504(b) (1) and (d)). The FMCSA will
use this data to administer its safety
programs by establishing a database of
entities that are subject to its
regulations. This database necessitates
that these entities notify the FMCSA of
their existence. For example, under 49
CFR 390.19(a), FMCSA requires all
motor carriers beginning operations to
file a Form MCS–150 entitled, Motor
Carrier Identification Report.’’ This
report is filed by all motor carriers
conducting operations in interstate or
international commerce before
beginning operations. It asks the
respondent to provide the name of the
business entity that owns and controls
the motor carrier operation, address and
telephone of principal place of business,
assigned identification number(s), type
of operation, types of cargo usually
transported, number of vehicles owned,
term leased and trip leased, driver
information, and certification statement
signed by an individual authorized to
sign documents on behalf of the
business entity.
The Department of Transportation
(DOT) and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2002
(DOT Appropriations Act) (Pub. L. 107–
87, 115 Stat. 833) directed the agency to
issue an interim final rule (IFR) to
ensure that new entrant motor carriers
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On June 30, 2004, the agency issued
a final rule entitled, ‘‘Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Regulations: Hazardous
Materials Safety Permits,’’ (69 FR 39350)
which required all HM carriers (both
interstate and intrastate) to complete
and file the Form MCS–150B entitled,
‘‘Combined Motor Carrier Identification
Report and HM Permit Application,’’ to
obtain a safety permit to transport
hazardous materials. The safety program
under 49 CFR 390.19(a) also requires all
HM permitted carriers to complete Form
MCS–150B in place of the current Form
MCS–150 to ‘‘renew’’ both their permit
and their DOT numbers according to the
DOT number renewal schedule.
On December 17, 2008, FMCSA
issued a final rule entitled,
‘‘Requirements for Intermodal
Equipment Providers and for Motor
Carriers and Drivers Operating
Intermodal Equipment,’’ (73 FR 76794)
which required all intermodal
equipment providers to complete Form
MCS–150C entitled, ‘‘Intermodal
Equipment Provider Identification
Report’’ in order to register with the
Agency and receive a USDOT number.
FMCSA now regulates intermodal
equipment providers and requires them
to complete Form MCS–150C, instead of
the current Form MCS–150. In addition,
intermodal equipment providers must
complete Form MCS–150C to update
their USDOT number record according
to the USDOT number update schedule
in 49 CFR 390.19.
Title: Motor Carrier Identification
Report.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0013.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
447,109.
Estimated Time per Response: To
complete Form MCS–150—20 minutes
and 7.5 minutes for the biennial update.
To complete Form MCS–150B (HM
Permit Application), interstate carriers
that have already completed the Form
MCS–150 will need 6 minutes and
intrastate carriers that have never
completed a Form MCS–150 will need
about 16 minutes and 5 minutes for the
biennial update. Form MCS–150C—
Intermodal Equipment Providers will
need 20 minutes the first time they file
this report and 7.5 minutes for the
biennial update.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2012.
Frequency of Response: Biennially.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
93,792 hours [93,534 hours for Form
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150B + 9 hours for Form MCS–150C =
93,792 hours].
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection request,
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 request.
Issued on: January 25, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012–2507 Filed 2–3–12; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2011–0381]

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Diabetes Mellitus
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA).
ACTION: Notice of applications for
exemption from the diabetes mellitus
requirement; request for comments.
AGENCY:

FMCSA announces receipt of
applications from nineteen individuals
for exemption from the prohibition
against persons with insulin-treated
diabetes mellitus (ITDM) operating
commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in
interstate commerce. If granted, the
exemptions would enable these
individuals with ITDM to operate CMVs
in interstate commerce.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before March 7, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket No. FMCSA–
2011–0381 using any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• 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: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200

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New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
• Fax: 1–(202) 493–2251.
Instructions: Each submission must
include the Agency name and the
docket numbers for this notice. 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 for
further information.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The
Federal Docket Management System
(FDMS) is available 24 hours each day,
365 days each year. If you want
acknowledgment that we received your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT’s Privacy Act
Statement for the FDMS published in
the Federal Register on January 17,
2008 (73 FR 3316), or you may visit
http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/
E8-785.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elaine M. Papp, Chief, Medical
Programs Division, (202) 366–4001,
[email protected], FMCSA,
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W64–
224, Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315,
FMCSA may grant an exemption from
the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations for a 2-year period if it finds
‘‘such exemption would likely achieve a
level of safety that is equivalent to or
greater than the level that would be
achieved absent such exemption.’’ The
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period. The nineteen individuals listed
in this notice have recently requested
such an exemption from the diabetes
prohibition in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(3),
which applies to drivers of CMVs in
interstate commerce. Accordingly, the
Agency will evaluate the qualifications
of each applicant to determine whether
granting the exemption will achieve the
required level of safety mandated by the
statutes.
Qualifications of Applicants
Roger L. Arcand, Jr.
Mr. Arcand, 48, has had ITDM since
2007. His endocrinologist examined him
in 2011 and certified that he has had no
severe hypoglycemic reactions resulting
in loss of consciousness, requiring the
assistance of another person, or
resulting in impaired cognitive function
that occurred without warning in the
past 12 months and no recurrent (2 or
more) severe hypoglycemic episodes in
the last 5 years. His endocrinologist
certifies that Mr. Arcand understands
diabetes management and monitoring,
has stable control of his diabetes using
insulin, and is able to drive a CMV
safely. Mr. Arcand meets the vision
requirements of 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10).
His optometrist examined him in 2011
and certified that he does not have
diabetic retinopathy. He holds a Class
10 operator’s license from Rhode Island.
Marsha M. Colberg
Ms. Colberg, 61, has had ITDM since
2010. Her endocrinologist examined her
in 2011 and certified that she has had
no severe hypoglycemic reactions
resulting in loss of consciousness,
requiring the assistance of another
person, or resulting in impaired
cognitive function that occurred without
warning in the past 12 months and no
recurrent (2 or more) severe
hypoglycemic episodes in the last 5
years. Her endocrinologist certifies that
Ms. Colberg that she understands
diabetes management and monitoring,
has stable control of her diabetes using
insulin, and is able to drive a CMV
safely. Ms. Colberg meets the vision
requirements of 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10).
Her optometrist examined her in 2011
and certified that she does not have
diabetic retinopathy. She holds a Class
A CDL from Washington.
Robert D. Crissinger
Mr. Crissinger, 60, has had ITDM
since 2010. His endocrinologist
examined him in 2011 and certified that
he has had no severe hypoglycemic
reactions resulting in loss of
consciousness, requiring the assistance
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