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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 66 / Monday, April 7, 2014 / Notices
Hardcopy is preferred; however, the
package also may be transmitted by
email to [email protected]. The
submission period begins on May 1,
2014. Submissions must be sent by
11:59 p.m. Pacific daylight time on
October 31, 2014. The timeliness of
submissions will be determined by the
postmark (if sent in hard copy) or time
stamp of the recipient (if emailed).
Award administrators assume no
responsibility for lost or untimely
submissions for any reason.
Award:
The winner will be announced by the
end of 2014. A trophy with the winner’s
name and date of award will be
displayed at the Department of
Transportation and a display copy of the
trophy will be sent to the winner’s
school/college/university. An additional
plaque or trophy will be awarded to the
individual or team. At the option of the
Secretary, the Department will pay for
invitational travel expenses to
Washington, DC for up to four
representatives of the winning teams to
present their project to Department
officials and receive the award from the
Secretary.
Basis Upon Which the Winners Will
Be Selected:
All submissions will be initially
reviewed by the FAA Centers for
Excellence Program Director upon
receipt to determine if the submissions
meet the eligibility requirements.
Registration packages meeting the
eligibility requirements will be judged
by advisory panels consisting of
academic experts, government officials
including FAA, the Department, and
representatives of the private sector. The
advisory panels will select the most
highly qualified submissions and
present them to the Secretary of the
Department, who will select the
winning entrant.
Submissions will be judged against
other submissions from the same
division on the following criteria:
Technical Merit:
• Has the submission presented a
clear understanding of the associated
problems?
• Has the submission developed a
logical and workable solution and
approach to solving the problem/s?
• What are the most significant
aspects of this concept?
• Has the submission clearly
described the breadth of impact of the
innovation?
Originality:
• Is this concept new or a variation of
an existing idea, and in what way(s)?
• How is this work unique?

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• Was the concept developed
independently or in cooperation with
others?
Impact:
• To what extent will this project
make a significant impact and/or
contribution to the future of the aviation
and aerospace environment?
Practicality:
• Who directly benefits from this
work?
• Can this program or activity be
implemented in a practical fashion?
• What are the costs anticipated to be
incurred and saved by executing this
concept?
Measurability:
• How has this individual/group
measured the impact on the aviation
environment?
• To what extent does the innovation
result in measurable improvements?
Applicability:
• Can this effort be scaled?
• Is this work specific to one region,
various regions, or to the entire nation?
All factors are important and will be
given consideration, but the advisory
panels will give the ‘‘technical merit’’
factor the most weight in the screening
process. The Secretary retains sole
discretion to select the winning entrant.
Additional Information:
Federal grantees may not use Federal
funds to develop COMPETES Act
challenge applications.
Federal contractors may not use
Federal funds from a contract to develop
COMPETES Act challenge applications
or to fund efforts in support of a
COMPETES Act challenge submission.
Issued On: April 1, 2014.
Susan L. Kurland,
Assistant Secretary of Aviation and
International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2014–07699 Filed 4–4–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2013–0349]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a Currently
Approved Information Collection
Request: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits
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

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the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The FMCSA
requests approval to revise and extend
an ICR entitled, ‘‘Hazardous Materials
Safety Permits.’’ This ICR requires
companies holding permits to develop
communications plans that allow for the
periodic tracking of the shipments. A
record of the communications that
includes the time of the call and
location of the shipment may be kept by
either the driver (e.g., recorded in the
log book) or the company. The motor
carrier or driver must maintain a record
of the communications for at least six
months after the initial acceptance of a
shipment of hazardous material for
which a safety permit is required.
DATES: Please send your comments by
May 7, 2014. 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–2013–0349. 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 oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov, 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: Mr.
Paul Bomgardner, Hazardous Materials
Division, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, West Building 6th
Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–493–0027; email
[email protected]. Office hours
are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0030.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved ICR.
Respondents: Motor carriers subject to
the Hazardous Materials Safety Permit.
requirements in 49 CFR Part 385
Subpart E.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,382.

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Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes. The communication between
motor carriers and their drivers must
take place at least two times per day. It
is estimated that it will take 5 minutes
to maintain a daily communication
record for each driver.
Expiration Date: May 31, 2014.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
967,000 hours [11.6 million trips × 5
minutes/60 minutes per record =
966,666.66 rounded to 967,000].
Background
The Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) is responsible for
implementing regulations to issue safety
permits for transporting certain
Hazardous Materials (HM) in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.
The HM Safety Permit regulations (49
CFR part 385, Subpart E) require carriers
to complete a ‘‘Combined Motor Carrier
Identification Report and HM Permit
Application’’ (Form MCS–150B). The
HM Safety Permit regulations also
require carriers to have a security
program. As part of the HM Safety
Permit regulations, carriers are required
to develop and maintain route plans so
that law enforcement officials can verify
the correct location of the HM shipment.
The FMCSA requires companies
holding permits to develop a
communications plan that allows for the
periodic tracking of the shipment. This
information covers the record of
communications that includes the time
of the call and location of the shipment.
The records must be kept by either the
driver (e.g., recorded in the log book) or
the company for at least six months after
the initial acceptance of a shipment of
hazardous material for which a safety
permit is required.
Comments From the Public

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General Summary
FMCSA received three comments to
the 60-day Federal Register notice
published on December 10, 2013 (78 FR
74222) regarding the Agency’s
Information Collection Activities;
Revision of a Currently-Approved
Information Collection Request:
Hazardous Materials Safety Permits.
Comments were received from Boyle
Transportation, a business consultant
and engineer, and Landstar
Transportation Logistics. Comments and
responsive considerations are as
follows:
Boyle Transportation commented that
it is necessary to track shipments more
than two times a day; tracking
technologies are widely available in the
industry and carriers should maintain

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fully staffed operations center to
monitor shipments. FMCSA responded
that the requirements stated in 49 CFR
385.415(c)(1) are a minimum
requirement for Hazardous Materials
Safety Permits (HMSP) carriers and
carriers are encouraged to use state-ofthe art monitoring and tracking devices.
The business consultant and engineer
stated that we should start taking a
stand against pollution. There was no
return address in the comment for
FMCSA to send a response, and the
comment is beyond the scope of this
ICR.
Landstar Transportation Logistics asks
that if a carrier is using a satellite
tracking system to monitor a hazardous
materials load, FMCSA should
eliminate the redundant requirement for
operators to make specific contact with
the carrier at the beginning and end of
each duty tour, and at the pickup and
delivery of each permitted load. FMCSA
responded that the requirement is not
viewed as redundant and the
requirements stated in 49 CFR
385.415(c)(1) are a basic and minimum
requirement for all HMSP carriers and
carriers are encouraged to use state-ofthe-art tracking devices, but their use is
not required.
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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: March 31, 2014.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0096]

Commercial Driver’s License:
Commonwealth of Virginia,
Department of Motor Vehicles;
Application for Exemption
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

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Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.

ACTION:

FMCSA announces that it has
received an application from the
Commonwealth of Virginia Department
of Motor Vehicles (Virginia DMV) for a
limited exemption from the Agency’s
commercial driver’s license (CDL)
regulation. Section 383.77(b)(1) allows a
State to waive the CDL skills test
described in 49 CFR 383.113 for
applicants regularly employed or
previously employed within the last 90
days in a military position requiring
operation of a commercial motor vehicle
(CMV). Virginia DMV proposes that it be
allowed to extend the 90-day timeline to
one year following the driver’s
separation from military service.
Virginia DMV believes the 90-day
timeframe is too short to take advantage
of the waiver for many of the qualified
discharged veterans reentering and
settling into civilian life. FMCSA
requests public comment on Virginia
DMV’s application for exemption. In
addition, because the issues concerning
the Virginia DMV request could be
applicable in each of the States, FMCSA
requests public comment whether the
exemption, if granted, should cover all
State Driver’s Licensing Agencies
(SDLAs).

SUMMARY:

Comments must be received on
or before May 7, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System Number FMCSA–
2014–0096 by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
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
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
DATES:

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