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search box insert the docket number
FMCSA–2013–0190 and click ‘‘Search.’’
Next, click ‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ and
you will find all documents and
comments related to the proposed
rulemaking.
Issued on: October 24, 2013.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2013–25798 Filed 10–29–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Information Collection Activities:
Submission for the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
Review; Request for Comment
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of
information collection and solicitation
of public comment.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its
expected burden. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on August 5, 2013 (Federal
Register/Vol. 78, No. 150/pp. 47488–
47489).
DATES: Submit comments to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) on or
before November 29, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alan Block at the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of
Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–131),
W46–499, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr.
Block’s phone number is 202–366–6401
and his email address is alan.block@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2127–0667.
Type of Request: Renewal.
Title: Focus Groups for Traffic Safety
Programs, Interventions and
Countermeasures.
Form No.: This collection of
information uses no standard form.
Type of Review: Regular.
Respondents: Each year NHTSA
anticipates conducting 140 focus groups

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annually, or 420 over the three year
period under a renewed clearance.
Likely respondents are licensed drivers
18 years of age and older who have not
participated in a previous focus group
session. In some cases, stakeholders
such as law enforcement and health
officials may participate in the focus
groups. Each respondent would
participate in one focus group.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
There will be an average of 10
participants per focus group, for an
annual total of 1,400 respondents and a
three year total of 4,200 respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: Each
respondent would participate in a single
focus group that would average 80
minutes in duration. Participants will be
recruited by intercept or telephone
using a brief screening questionnaire
estimated to take no more than another
10 minutes, for a total of 90 minutes.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: The total estimated annual
burden would be 140 groups × 10
participants × 90 minutes = 2,100 hours.
Total estimated burden under the three
year period covered by the clearance
would be 6,300 hours.
Frequency of Collection: Focus groups
will be conducted on an as-needed
(periodic) basis during each of the three
years covered by the clearance.
Abstract: The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
proposes to renew its generic clearance
to conduct focus groups. NHTSA
anticipates the need to periodically
conduct focus group sessions to refine
its efforts to reduce traffic injuries and
fatalities. Session participation would
be voluntary and the focus group
participants would receive
remuneration for their involvement. The
respondents would not incur any
reporting cost from the information
collection. The respondents also would
not incur any record keeping burden or
record keeping cost from the
information collection. Focus group
topics will include: Strategic messaging
(e.g., slogans or advertisement concepts
concerning seat belt use, impaired
driving, driver distraction, tire pressure
monitoring), problem identification
(e.g., discussions with high-risk groups
on beliefs, attitudes, driving behaviors,
or reactions to interventions and
countermeasures), and resource
development (e.g., testing materials
designed to communicate essential
information about traffic safety issues
such as vehicle or equipment
performance rating systems). For each
focus group project, NHTSA will submit
an individual Information Collection
Request (ICR) to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)

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detailing the specific nature and
methodology of planned focus group
sessions prior to any collection activity
covered under this generic clearance.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding
the burden estimate, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk
Officer for Department of
Transportation, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, or by
email at [email protected],
or fax: 202–395–5806.
Comments Are Invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department of
Transportation, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30
days of publication of this notice.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued in Washington, DC, on October 25,
2013.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2013–25756 Filed 10–29–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA–2013–0113]

Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping
Requirements
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Request for public comment on
proposed collection of information.
AGENCY:

Before a Federal agency can
collect certain information from the
public, it must receive approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Under procedures established
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, before seeking OMB approval,
Federal agencies must solicit public
comment on proposed collections of
information, including extensions and

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reinstatements of previously approved
collections.
This document describes the
collection of information for which
NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before December 30, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA–2013–0113 using any of the
following methods:
Electronic submissions: Go to http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility,
M–30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 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 number 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.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form for all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comments (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
19477–78) or you may visit http://
DocketsInfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Russell Pierce, Contracting Officer’s
Technical Representative, Office of
Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–132),
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., W46–472, Washington, DC
20590. Dr. Pierce’s phone number is
(202) 366–5599 and his email address is
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for
approval, it must publish a document in
the Federal Register providing a 60-day
comment period and otherwise consult
with members of the public and affected
agencies concerning each proposed
collection of information. The OMB has
promulgated regulations describing
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document. Under OMB’s regulations (at
5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask
for public comment on the following:
(i) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(ii) the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(iii) how to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(iv) how to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
In compliance with these
requirements, NHTSA asks public
comment on the following proposed
collection of information:
Medical Review Guidelines and
Medical Advisory Board Practices
Type of Request—New Information
Collection.
OMB Clearance Number—None.
Form Number—NHTSA 1228.
Requested Expiration Date of
Approval—3 years from date of
approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information—The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
proposes to collect information from an
individual in the Medical Review
Department in each of the 50 State
Driver Licensing Agencies and The
District of Columbia about their State’s
driver medical review structure and
processes. The information collected
will be used to produce a short narrative
describing each State’s medical review
structure and processes, plus several
appendices with tables displaying each
individual State’s responses to the
questions, and totals for each response.
Data will be collected, according to each
respondent’s preference, via a Microsoft
Word document distributed and
collected via email or a print version
distributed and collected via US mail,
and the responses will consist primarily
of checkbox response types and fill-inthe-blank options when non-standard
checkboxes are selected. Additionally,
survey respondents will be provided
with a short narrative that describes
their State’s medical review processes,
and asked to review and edit/update the
narrative as necessary to ensure its
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Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information—NHTSA was established
to reduce the number of deaths, injuries,
and economic losses resulting from
motor vehicle crashes on the Nation’s
highways. As part of this statutory
mandate, NHTSA is authorized to
conduct research as a foundation for the
development of motor vehicle standards
and traffic safety programs.
As our population ages, age-related
impairments in safe driving abilities
will become more prevalent. The private
automobile remains by far the most
often used and most preferred means of
meeting community mobility needs
among older adults. Along with the
increase in the number of older drivers,
an increase in the driving exposure of
older adults is likely, both in terms of
the frequency of their trips and the
distances they drive. In addition, due to
increased physical frailty, older
individuals are also most likely to be
seriously injured or killed in an
automotive crash. Therefore, driver
medical review practices are likely to
assume a more prominent role in the
years ahead.
Medical review guidelines and
practices can help evaluate drivers
referred to a State motor vehicle
licensing agency for reexamination due
to concerns about unsafe driving
performance possibly resulting from
suspected age or medical condition
related impairments in visual, physical,
or mental abilities. Society has an
interest in ensuring that these medical
review guidelines and practices are in
place and are effective in reducing
motor vehicle crashes, injury, and
death. This data collection will provide
NHTSA with an accurate description of
current medical review practices across
the country. This is a necessary first
step in identifying which structures and
processes work best.
Description of the Likely Respondents
(Including Estimated Number, and
Proposed Frequency of Response to the
Collection of Information)—
TransAnalytics (NHTSA’s Contractor)
plans to enlist the assistance of the
American Association of Motor Vehicle
Administrators (AAMVA) to identify the
most appropriate contact in each State,
for distribution of the survey and the
narrative summary for review and
update.
Estimate of the Total Annual
Reporting and Record Keeping Burden
Resulting from the Collection of
Information—There will be
approximately 70 questions on the
survey requiring checkbox responses,
and an occasional fill-in-the-blank
response required when ‘‘other’’ is

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checked. We estimate the time to
complete the survey for the medical
review contact in each State to be 2.5
hours. Additionally, we estimate 2.5
hours of time for each medical review
contact to review and edit the narrative
describing their State’s medical review
structure and process. This estimate
includes the time that may be required
to respond to telephone contacts made
by TransAnalytics if necessary, to
follow-up or clarify survey responses.
The total estimated annual burden will
be 255 hours (5 hours for each
respondent, 50 States + Washington,
DC). Survey respondents will incur no
costs from the data collection and will
incur no record keeping burden and no
record keeping cost from the
information collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued on October 25, 2013.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2013–25793 Filed 10–29–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. AB 314 (Sub-No. 6X)]

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Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad
Company—Abandonment Exemption—
in Linn County, Iowa
Chicago Central & Pacific Railroad
Company (CCP) 1 has filed a verified
notice of exemption under 49 CFR part
1152 subpart F–Exempt Abandonments
to abandon an approximately 0.49-mile
line of railroad extending between
milepost 230.24 and milepost 229.75 in
Cedar Rapids, Linn County, Iowa (the
Line). The Line traverses United States
Postal Service Zip Code 52302.
CCP has certified that: (1) No local
traffic has moved over the Line for at
least two years; (2) there is no overhead
traffic on the Line to be rerouted over
other lines; (3) no formal complaint
filed by a user of rail service on the Line
(or by a state or local government entity
acting on behalf of such user) regarding
cessation of service over the Line either
is pending with the Surface
Transportation Board (Board) or with
any U.S. District Court or has been
decided in favor of complainant within
the two-year period; and (4) the
requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(c)
(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.11
1 CCP is an indirect subsidiary of Canadian
National Railway Company (CNR) and is controlled
by Grand Trunk Corporation, a wholly owned
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(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12
(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR
1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental
agencies) have been met.
As a condition to this exemption, any
employee adversely affected by the
abandonment shall be protected under
Oregon Short Line Railroad—
Abandonment Portion Goshen Branch
Between Firth & Ammon, in Bingham &
Bonneville Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C.
91 (1979). To address whether this
condition adequately protects affected
employees, a petition for partial
revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of
intent to file an offer of financial
assistance (OFA) has been received, this
exemption will be effective on
November 29, 2013, unless stayed
pending reconsideration.2 Petitions to
stay that do not involve environmental
issues,3 formal expressions of intent to
file an OFA under 49 CFR
1152.27(c)(2),4 and trail use/rail banking
requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be
filed by November 12, 2013. Petitions to
reopen or requests for public use
conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must
be filed by November 19, 2013, with the
Surface Transportation Board, 395 E
Street SW., Washington, DC 20423–
0001.
A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to CCP’s
representative: Audrey L. Brodrick,
Fletcher & Sippel LLC, 29 N. Wacker
Dr., Suite 920, Chicago, IL 60606.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio.
CCP has filed a combined
environmental and historic report that
addresses the effects, if any, of the
abandonment on the environment and
historic resources. OEA issued an
environmental assessment (EA) on
October 23, 2013. Interested persons
may obtain a copy of the EA by writing
to OEA (Room 1100, Surface
Transportation Board, Washington, DC
2 This notice was scheduled to be published in
the Federal Register during the time that the agency
was closed due to a lapse in appropriations.
Because publication of this notice has been delayed,
the effective date of the exemption will also be
delayed to provide adequate notice to the public.
3 The Board will grant a stay if an informed
decision on environmental issues (whether raised
by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental
Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation)
cannot be made before the exemption’s effective
date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. Rail Lines, 5
I.C.C. 2d 377 (1989). Any request for a stay should
be filed as soon as possible so that the Board may
take appropriate action before the exemption’s
effective date.
4 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which is currently set at $1,600. See 49 CFR
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20423–0001) or by calling OEA at (202)
245–0305. Assistance for the hearing
impaired is available through the
Federal Information Relay Service at
(800) 877–8339. Comments on
environmental and historic preservation
matters must be filed by November 7,
2013.
Environmental, historic preservation,
public use, or trail use/rail banking
conditions will be imposed, where
appropriate, in a subsequent decision.
Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR
1152.29(e)(2), CCP shall file a notice of
consummation with the Board to signify
that it has exercised the authority
granted and fully abandoned the Line. If
consummation has not been effected by
CCP’s filing of a notice of
consummation by October 30, 2014, and
there are no legal or regulatory barriers
to consummation, the authority to
abandon will automatically expire.
Board decisions and notices are
available on our Web site at
‘‘www.stb.dot.gov.’’
Decided: October 24, 2013.
By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell,
Director, Office of Proceedings.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. FD 35755]

BNSF Railway Company, CBEC
Railway Inc., Iowa Interstate Railroad,
Ltd., and Union Pacific Railroad
Company—Joint Relocation Project
Exemption—In Council Bluffs, Iowa
On September 30, 2013, BNSF
Railway Company (BNSF), CBEC
Railway Inc. (CBEC), Iowa Interstate
Railroad, Ltd. (IAIS), and Union Pacific
Railroad Company (UP) (collectively,
applicants) jointly filed a verified notice
of exemption under 49 CFR 1180.2(d)(5)
to participate in a joint relocation
project in Council Bluffs, Iowa (the
City).
The purpose of the joint relocation
project is to facilitate the reconstruction
of Interstates 80 and 29 in Council
Bluffs. The Council Bluffs Interstate
System (CBIS) Improvements Project is
a public works project initiated by the
Iowa Department of Transportation
(IDOT) that involves the joint relocation
project and an acquisition by IAIS of a
line of railroad owned by BNSF.1
1 Iowa Interstate R.R.—Acquis. Exemption—Line
of BNSF Ry., FD 35751 (filed Aug. 7, 2013). The

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