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Notice of these Determinations be
published in the Federal Register.
For
further information, including a list of
the exhibit objects, contact Ona M.
Hahs, Attorney-Adviser, Office of the
Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
(telephone: 202–632–6473). The mailing
address is U.S. Department of State, SA–
5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite 5H03),
Washington, DC 20522–0505.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dated: December 12, 2012.
J. Adam Ereli,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0209]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Reinstatement With Change
of a Currently-Approved Information
Collection Request: Information
Technology Services Survey Portal
Customer Satisfaction Assessment
(Formerly COMPASS Portal Consumer
Satisfaction Assessment)
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
review and approval and invite public
comment. The collection involves the
assessment of FMCSA’s strategic
decision to integrate its Information
Technology (IT) with its business
processes using portal technology to
consolidate its systems and databases
through the FMCSA Information
Technology Services Survey
modernization initiative. The
information to be collected will be used
to assess the satisfaction of Federal,
State, and industry customers with the
FMCSA Information Technology
Services Survey Portal. The ‘‘COMPASS
Portal Customer Satisfaction
Assessment,’’ ICR is being changed to
the ‘‘Information Technology Services
Survey Portal Customer Satisfaction
Assessment,’’ to reflect the need for a
broader term than ‘‘COMPASS’’ for the
portal.

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Please send your comments by
January 22, 2013. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2012–0209. 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: Ms.
Katherine Sinrud, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–3843; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Information Technology
Services Survey Portal Customer
Satisfaction Assessment.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0042.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection request.
Respondents: Federal, State, and
industry customers/users.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
3,392.
Estimated Time per Response: Five (5)
minutes.
Expiration Date: 11/30/2012.
Frequency of Response: 4 times per
year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 283
hours [91 hours (273 industry user
respondents × 5 minutes/60 minutes to
complete survey × 4 times per year) +
192 hours (575 Federal and State
government respondents × 5 minutes/60
minutes to complete survey × 4 times
per year) = 283].
DATES:

Background
Title II, section 207 of the EGovernment Act of 2002 requires
Government agencies to improve the
methods by which Government
information, including information on
the Internet, is organized, preserved,
and made accessible to the public. To
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a survey on the FMCSA Portal, allowing
users to assess its functionality. This
functionality includes the capability for
Federal, State, and industry users to
access the Agency’s existing safety IT
systems with a single set of credentials
and have easy access to safety data
about the companies that do business
with FMCSA. The IT program will also
focus on improving the accuracy of data
to help ensure information, such as
carrier name and address, is valid and
reliable.
FMCSA’s legacy information systems
are currently operational. However,
having this many stand-alone systems
has led to data quality concerns, a need
for excessive identifications (IDs) and
passwords, and significant operational
and maintenance costs. Integrating our
information technologies with our
business processes will in turn, improve
our operations considerably,
particularly in terms of data quality,
ease of use, and reduction of
maintenance costs.
In early 2007, FMCSA’s IT program
launched a series of releases of a new
FMCSA Portal to its Federal, State and
Industry customers. Over the coming
years, more than 15 releases are
planned. These releases will use portal
technology to fuse and provide
numerous services and functions via a
single user interface and provide
tailored services that seek to meet the
needs of specific constituencies within
our customer universe.
The FMCSA Information Technology
Services Survey Portal will entail
considerable expenditure of Federal
Government dollars over the years and
will fundamentally impact the nature of
the relationship between the Agency
and its Federal, State, and industry
customers. Consequently, the Agency
intends to conduct regular and ongoing
assessments of customer satisfaction
with the Information Technology
Services Survey.
The primary purposes of this
assessment are to:
• Determine the extent to which the
FMCSA Portal functionality continues
to meet the needs of Agency customers;
• Identify and prioritize additional
modifications; and
• Determine the extent that the
FMCSA Portal has impacted FMCSA’s
relationships with its main customer
groups.
The assessment will address:
• Overall customer satisfaction;
• Customer satisfaction against
specific items;
• Performance of systems integrator
against agreed objectives;
• Desired adjustments and
modifications to systems;

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• Demonstrated value of investment
to FMCSA and DOT;
• Items about the FMCSA Portal that
customers like best;
• Customer ideas for making the
FMCSA Portal better.
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 to perform its
functions; (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: December 10, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–27748]

Entry-Level Driver Training; Public
Listening Session
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of public listening
session.
AGENCY:

FMCSA announces that it will
hold a public listening session to solicit
ideas and information on the issue of
entry-level training for drivers of
commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).
Specifically, the Agency solicits input
on factors, issues, and data it should
consider in anticipation of a rulemaking
to implement the entry-level driver
training (ELDT) provisions in the
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century Act, Public Law 112–141
(MAP–21). Wherever possible, the
Agency requests that participants
indicate whether the ideas identified are
supported by research and data
analyses, including cost/benefit
considerations. The session, which will
be held at the American Bus Association
(ABA) Marketplace meeting in
Charlotte, NC, will allow interested
persons to present comments and
relevant new research on ELDT. All
comments will be transcribed and
placed in the docket referenced above
for FMCSA’s consideration. The entire
day’s proceedings will be webcast.

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The listening session will be
held on Monday, January 7, 2013, from
9:00–11:00 a.m. and from 2:00–4:00
p.m., ET. If all interested in-person
participants have had an opportunity to
comment, the session may conclude
earlier.

DATES:

The listening session will
be held at the Charlotte Convention
Center, 501 S. College Street, Charlotte,
NC 28202, (704) 339–6000, in Room 207
A and B. In addition to attending the
session in person, the Agency offers
several ways to provide comments, as
enumerated below.
Internet Address for Live Webcast.
FMCSA will post specific information
on how to participate via the Internet on
the FMCSA Web site at
www.fmcsa.dot.gov/rules-regulations/
topics/hos/HOS-ListeningSessions.aspx.
You may submit comments bearing
the Federal Docket Management System
(FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA–2007–27748
using any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
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 or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this notice. Note that DOT posts all
comments received, without change, to
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to www.regulations.gov at
any time or visit 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., ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. The on-line Federal document
management system is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. If
you would like acknowledgment that
we received your comments, please
include a self-addressed, stamped
envelope or postcard or print the
acknowledgement page that appears
after submitting comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
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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 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/pdf/E8785.pdf.
For
information concerning the listening
session or the live webcast, please
contact Ms. Shannon L. Watson, Senior
Advisor for Policy, FMCSA, (202) 385–
2395.
If you need sign language assistance
to participate in this HOS listening
session, contact Ms. Watson by
Wednesday, January 2, 2013, to allow us
to arrange for such services. FMCSA
cannot guarantee that interpreter
services requested on short notice will
be provided.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

I. Background
In the early 1980s, the Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) Office
of Motor Carriers, predecessor to the
FMCSA, determined that there was a
need for technical guidance in the area
of truck driver training. Research
showed that few driver training
institutions offered a structured
curriculum or a standardized training
program for any type of CMV driver. A
1995 study entitled ‘‘Assessing the
Adequacy of Commercial Motor Vehicle
Driver Training’’ (the Adequacy Report)
concluded, among other things, that
effective ELDT needs to include behindthe-wheel (BTW) instruction on how to
operate a heavy vehicle.
In 2004, FMCSA implemented a
training rule that focused on areas
unrelated to the hands-on operation of
a CMV, relying instead on the
commercial driver’s license (CDL)
knowledge and skills tests to encourage
training in the operation of CMVs.
These current training regulations cover
four areas: (1) Driver qualifications; (2)
hours of service limitations; (3)
wellness; and (4) whistleblower
protection. In 2005, the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit held that the Agency was
arbitrary and capricious in promulgating
the 2004 rule because it ignored the
BTW training component aspect of the
1995 Adequacy Report.
In 2007, FMCSA published a Notice
of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM)
seeking public comment on enhanced
ELDT requirements (72 FR 73226). In

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