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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.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719 (America
COMPETES Act).
Issued on: September 19, 2014.
Susan L. Kurland,
Assistant Secretary of Aviation and
International Affairs.
[FR Doc. 2014–23008 Filed 10–7–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2014–0036]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Request for
Reinstatement of a Previously
Approved Information Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of request for extension
of currently approved information
collection.
AGENCY:

The FHWA invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval for renewal of an
existing information collection that is
summarized below under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We are
required to publish this notice in the
Federal Register by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
December 8, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
2014–0036 by any of the following
methods:
Web site: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received go to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: Go to 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,
West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S.
Department of Transportation, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.

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and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mark Glaze, 202 366–4053, Office of
Natural Environment, Federal Highway
Administration, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:
Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement (CMAQ) Program.
OMB Control Number: 2125–0614.
Background: Section 1113 of the
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century Act (MAP–21) calls for an
Evaluation and Assessment of CMAQ
Projects. The statute calls for the
identification and analysis of a
representative sample of CMAQ projects
and the development and population of
a database that describes the impacts of
the program both on traffic congestion
levels and air quality. To establish and
maintain this database, the FHWA is
requesting States to submit annual
reports on their CMAQ investments that
cover projected air quality benefits,
financial information, a brief
description of projects, and several
other factors outlined in the Interim
Program Guidance for the CMAQ
program. States are requested to provide
the end of year summary reports via the
automated system provided through
FHWA by the first day of March of each
year, covering the prior Federal fiscal
year.
Respondents: 51 (each State DOT, and
Washington, DC).
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 125 hours per annual report.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 6,375 hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the U.S.
DOT’s performance, including whether
the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the U.S.
DOT’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; (3)
ways to enhance the quality, usefulness,
and clarity of the collected information;
and (4) ways that the burden could be
minimized, including the use of
electronic technology, without reducing
the quality of the collected information.
The agency will summarize and/or
include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.

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Issued on: October 3, 2014.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014–24042 Filed 10–7–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0196]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection
Request: FMCSA Annual Grant
Program Effectiveness Survey
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (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 its
review and approval and invites public
comment. The purpose of this
information collection is to acquire the
perspectives of FMCSA State partners
who support the operation, regulation
and enforcement of various mutuallybeneficial safety programs. This
knowledge will improve the Federal
government’s understanding of the
effectiveness of commercial motor
vehicle (CMV) safety related grant
programs. The FMCSA is interested in
surveying grant recipients to collect
information on the strengths,
weaknesses, and effectiveness of
FMCSA grant programs with the intent
of improving our capacity to meet the
needs of our grantees. FMCSA needs
this information to support program
evaluation endeavors, program
management, and fiscal decision
making. FMCSA will use the results in
various analyses conducted by FMCSA
designed to assess the effectiveness of
existing rules, grant programs, and
safety programs.
DATES: We request your comments on or
before December 8, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2014–0196 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
SUMMARY:

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• 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 20590–0001 between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 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 may 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 assistance and guidelines
under the ‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want FMCSA to notify you that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print your request on the
acknowledgement 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Eugene Johnson, Strategic Planning, and
Program Evaluation Division, Office of
Policy, Strategic Planning and
Regulations, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey
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Telephone: (202) 366–5490; email
[email protected]. Office hours
are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
If you have questions on viewing
material in the docket, contact Docket
Operations (202) 366–9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Federal Motor
Carriers Safety Administration (FMCSA)
needs a survey of its State partner-grant
recipients who support the operation,
regulation and enforcement of various
mutually-beneficial safety programs.
This knowledge will improve the
Federal government’s understanding of
the effectiveness of commercial motor
vehicle (CMV) safety related grant
programs. The FMCSA is interested in
surveying grant recipients to collect
information on the strengths,
weaknesses, and effectiveness of
FMCSA grant programs.
In 2009, the Government
Accountability Office (GAO) issued a
final report on a FMCSA grant program
called Performance Registration
Information System Management
PRISM. The GAO reported was entitled,
‘‘Motor Carrier Safety: Commercial
Vehicle Registration Program Has Kept
Carriers from Operating, but
Effectiveness Is Difficult to Measure,
GAO–09–495.’’ The GAO recommended
FMCSA measure the PRISM program’s
effectiveness when the number of States
that have the ability to deny, suspend,
or revoke registrations of CMVs
operated by OOS carriers is sufficient to
make such measurements meaningful.
The authority to require Federal
Agencies to monitor grants is 2 CFR
Chapter I, and Chapter II Parts 200, 215,
220, 225, and 230 Uniform
Administrative Requirements, Cost
Principles, and Audit Requirements for
Federal Awards. OMB Circular A–110,
Reports and Records, sections 50
through 53 set forth the procedures for
monitoring and reporting on the
recipient’s financial and program
performance and the necessary standard
reporting forms.
The Agency proposes to collect the
data for this project via electronic mail
surveys and conduct clarifying
interviews as appropriate. The
information collection supports the
DOT’s Strategic Goal of Safety, and will
help confirm whether the program(s)
improve public health and safety by
reducing transportation-related fatalities
and injuries. Therefore, the purpose of
this ICR is to conduct a survey using
Form MCSA–5888 to evaluate the
effectiveness of FMCSA’s grant
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survey will not be statistical in nature,
as the intention is to receive the
comments of all affected state partners.
The survey will not exceed 30 questions
and the complexity of the question
structure will be Likert scale and short
responses. The decision to use the
Likert scale over the ordinal scale is the
numbers in the ordinal level indicate
the relative position of items, but not
the magnitude of difference that you get
from the Likert scale. For example, the
survey will present a question like ‘‘The
grant funding provided in support of
your program is adequate to meet all
aspects of the mission.’’ The response
options may include:
1. Strongly disagree
2. Disagree
3. Neural
3. Agree
4. Strongly agree
5. Not Applicable
The Agency will use this information
to establish a baseline of our grant
programs from the grantee’s perspective
for use in future grant-related decision
making, to include: (1) Assessing the
impacts of proposed rules, (2)
identifying potential improvements in
its grant supported safety programs, and
(3) complement future budget and
resource related decisions.
Title: FMCSA Annual Grant Program
Effectiveness Survey.
OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Respondents: State Grant Recipients.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 50
State Respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: 45
minutes per response.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new
ICR.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 49
hours [(50 electronic mail-in
respondents × 45 minutes/60 minutes) +
(15 State personnel interviews × 45
minutes/60 minutes) = 49]. Minutes per
response = 48.75 rounded to 49.]
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 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.

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Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: September 30, 2014.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014–23994 Filed 10–7–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0335]

Parts and Accessories Necessary for
Safe Operation; Application for an
Exemption From Dealers Choice
Truckaway System, Inc.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:

FMCSA requests public
comment on an application for
exemption from Dealers Choice
Truckaway System, Inc. (Truckmovers)
to allow the use of plastic blocks to
build up the height of the front end of
a towed vehicle in driveaway-towaway
operations. The Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) permit the
use of ‘‘hardwood blocks of good
quality’’ for this purpose but the use of
materials other than hardwood blocks is
not addressed. Truckmovers believes
the use of ultra-high molecular
polyethylene plastic blocks will
maintain a level of safety that is
equivalent to the level of safety
achieved without the exemption.
Truckmovers is requesting the
temporary exemption in advance of
petitioning FMCSA to conduct a
rulemaking to amend 49 CFR
393.71(k)(4) to allow the use of vehicle
support blocks made of any suitable
material to support the weight of
vehicles when towing multiple vehicles
in driveaway-towaway operations.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before November 7, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA–
2014–0335 using any of the following
methods:
• Web site: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
on the Federal electronic docket site.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey

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Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery: Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, DOT Building, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., MondayFriday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number for this notice. 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 for
further information.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov or to Room W12–
140, DOT Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
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 in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476) or you may visit http://
www.regulations.gov.
Public participation: The http://
www.regulations.gov Web site is
generally available 24 hours each day,
365 days each year. You may find
electronic submission and retrieval help
and guidelines under the ‘‘help’’ section
of the http://www.regulations.gov Web
site as well as the DOT’s http://
docketsinfo.dot.gov Web site. If you
would like notification that we received
your comments, please include a self
addressed, stamped envelope or
postcard or print the acknowledgment
page that appears after submitting
comments online.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Luke W. Loy, Vehicle and Roadside
Operations Division, Office of Bus and
Truck Standards and Operations, MC–
PSV, (202) 366–0676; Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 4007 of the Transportation
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21) [Pub. L. 105–178, June 9, 1998, 112
Stat. 401] amended 49 U.S.C. 31315 and
31136(e) to provide authority to grant
exemptions from the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs).
On August 20, 2004, FMCSA published
a final rule (69 FR 51589) implementing
section 4007. Under this rule, FMCSA
must publish a notice of each exemption
request in the Federal Register (49 CFR
381.315(a)). The Agency must provide
the public with an opportunity to
inspect the information relevant to the
application, including any safety
analyses that have been conducted. The
Agency must also provide an
opportunity for public comment on the
request.
The Agency reviews the safety
analyses and the public comments and
determines whether granting the
exemption would likely achieve a level
of safety equivalent to or greater than
the level that would be achieved by the
current regulation (49 CFR 381.305).
The decision of the Agency must be
published in the Federal Register (49
CFR 381.315(b)). If the Agency denies
the request, it must state the reason for
doing so. If the decision is to grant the
exemption, the notice must specify the
person or class of persons receiving the
exemption and the regulatory provision
or provisions from which an exemption
is granted. The notice must specify the
effective period of the exemption (up to
2 years) and explain the terms and
conditions of the exemption. The
exemption may be renewed (49 CFR
381.315(c) and 49 CFR 381.300(b)).
Truckmovers Application for
Exemption
Truckmovers applied for an
exemption from 49 CFR 393.71(k)(4) to
allow the use of plastic support blocks
in lieu of hardwood blocks to increase
the height of a towed vehicle in
driveaway-towaway operations. A copy
of the application is included in the
docket referenced at the beginning of
this notice.
In its application, Truckmovers states
that without the proposed exemption it
will not be able to utilize plastic support
blocks because 49 CFR 393.71(k)(4)
specifically identifies the use of
hardwood blocks to build up the height
of the front end of a towed vehicle in
driveaway-towaway operations.
Truckmovers provided information
regarding the development of ultra-high
molecular polyethylene plastic blocks
with a compression rating of 3,300 psi,
which can withstand extreme heat and
cold. These plastic blocks are not
susceptible to decomposition and
erosion like wood blocks, allowing for
their re-use. The high compression

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