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Dennis W. Helgeson (MN)
Ronnie L. Henry (KS)
Johnny L. Irving (MS)
Kevin L. Jones (SC)
Keith A. Kelley (ME)
David L. Miller (OH)
Earl L. Mokma (MI)
Donald L. Nisbet (WA)
David Perkins (NY)
Harry W. Root (MN)
Paul W. Sorenson (UT)
Randall H. Tempel (MT)
Cory J. Tivnan (WA)
Ricky W. Witt (IA)
John D. Woods (MI)
The drivers were included in Docket
No. FMCSA–2014–0007. Their
exemptions are effective as of August 8,
2016, and will expire on August 8, 2018.
As of August 9, 2016, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following 8 individuals have
satisfied the conditions for obtaining a
renewed exemption from the vision
requirements (77 FR 46793; 77 FR
59245):
Mark S. Berkheimer (PA)
Rici W. Giesseman (OH)
Michael A. Jabro (MI)
Michael M. Martinez (NM)
Buddy W. Myrick (TX)
Alan J. Reynaldos (NJ)
Charles L. Rill, Sr. (MD)
Roger Sulfridge (KY)
The drivers were included in Docket
No. FMCSA–2010–0114. Their
exemptions are effective as of August 9,
2016, and will expire on August 9, 2018.
As of August 18, 2016, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following 32 individuals
have satisfied the conditions for
obtaining a renewed exemption from the
vision requirements (63 FR 66227; 64
FR 16520; 71 FR 14567; 71 FR 30228;
73 FR 28187; 73 FR 35195; 73 FR 35196;
73 FR 35197; 73 FR 35198; 73 FR 35199;
73 FR 35200; 73 FR 35201; 73 FR 38497;
38498; 73 FR 38499; 73 FR 48273; 73 FR
48275; 74 FR 37299; 74 FR 48344; 75 FR
25919; 75 FR 39729; 75 FR 44051; 77 FR
40946; 77 FR 46153; 79 FR 46153):
Catarino Aispuro (OR)
Gary R. Andersen (NE)
Donald L. Carman (OH)
Christopher R. Cone (GA)
Walter O. Connelly (WA)
Armando P. D’Angeli (PA)
Henry L. Donvian (WV)
Roger D. Elders (MI)
James F. Epperson (IN)
Lucious J. Erwin (TX)
Riche Ford (CO)
Kevin K. Friedel (NY)
Steven G. Harter (OR)
George F. Hernandez, Jr. (AZ)
Andrew C. Kelly (WV)
Jason W. King (MT)

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Billy J. Lewis (LA)
Robert W. McMillian (MA)
Richard A. Peterson (OR)
Chad M. Quarles (AL)
Carroll G. Quisenberry (KY)
Ryan J. Reimann (WI)
Jacob H. Riggle (OK)
Brandon J. See (IA)
Ricky L. Shepler (PA)
LeTroy D. Sims (SC)
John L. Stone (PA)
Nils S. Thornberg (OR)
Daniel W. Toppings (WV)
Christopher R. Whitson (NC)
Charles A. Winchell (OK)
Aaron E. Wright (MI)
The drivers were included in Docket
Nos. FMCSA–1999–4334; FMCSA–
2006–24015; FMCSA–2008–0106;
FMCSA–2008–0174; FMCSA–2009–
0154; FMCSA–2010–0082. Their
exemptions are effective as of August
18, 2016, and will expire on August 18,
2018.
As of August 19, 2016, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following 2 individuals have
satisfied the conditions for obtaining a
renewed exemption from the vision
requirements (79 FR 41737; 79 FR
56102):
Leamon V. Manchester (LA)
Leverne F. Schilte, Jr. (OH)
The drivers were included on the
following docket: Docket No. FMCSA–
2014–0008. Their exemptions are
effective as of August 19, 2016 and will
expire on August 19, 2018.
As of August 27, 2016, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following 2 individuals have
satisfied the conditions for obtaining a
renewed exemption from the vision
requirements (77 FR 38381; 77 FR
51846; 79 FR 41740):
Tyrane Harper (AL)
Gregory S. Smith (AR)
The drivers were included on the
following docket: Docket No. FMCSA–
2012–0160. Their exemptions are
effective as of August 27, 2016 and will
expire on August 27, 2018.
As of August 29, 2016, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following 2 individuals have
satisfied the conditions for obtaining a
renewed exemption from the vision
requirements (77 FR 41879; 77 FR
52391; 79 FR 41735):
Ricky W. Goins (TN)
Clayton Schroeder (MN)
The drivers were included on the
following docket: Docket No. FMCSA–
2012–0161. Their exemptions are
effective as of August 29, 2016 and will
expire on August 29, 2018.
In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31315,
each exemption will be valid for two

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years from the effective date unless
revoked earlier by FMCSA. The
exemption will be revoked if the
following occurs: (1) The person fails to
comply with the terms and conditions
of the exemption; (2) the exemption has
resulted in a lower level of safety than
was maintained prior to being granted;
or (3) continuation of the exemption
would not be consistent with the goals
and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136 and
31315.
Issued on: February 27, 2017.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2017–0002–N–4]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and comment request.
AGENCY:

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), this notice
announces that FRA is forwarding the
proposed Information Collection
Requests (ICRs) abstracted below to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and comment. The
ICRs describe the information
collections and their expected burden.
On October 26, 2016, FRA published a
notice providing a 60-day period for
public comment on the ICRs.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before April 5, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Brogan, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Office of Railroad
Safety, Regulatory Analysis Division,
RRS–21, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Mail Stop 25, Washington,
DC 20590 (Telephone: (202) 493–6292);
or Ms. Kim Toone, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, Office of
Administration, Office of Information
Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington,
DC 20590 (Telephone: (202) 493–6132).
(These telephone numbers are not toll
free.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to issue
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two notices seeking public comment on
information collection activities before
OMB may approve paperwork packages.
44 U.S.C. 3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.5,
1320.8(d)(1), and 1320.12. On October
26, 2016, FRA published a 60-day notice
in the Federal Register soliciting
comment on the ICR for which it is now
seeking OMB approval. See 81 FR
74496. FRA received one comment in
response to this notice relating to OMB
No. 2130–0500, Accident/Incident
Reporting and Recordkeeping, 49 CFR
part 225 (part 225).
The comment came from the
Association of American Railroads
(AAR) in an email letter sent to FRA on
November 29, 2016. In its comment,
AAR stated FRA should take this
opportunity to: (1) Update the rail
equipment accident/incident monetary
reporting threshold (reporting
threshold), so that the information
collected will have practical utility; and
(2) improve the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information collected. At
the time of its comment, AAR noted
FRA last changed the reporting
threshold from $9,900 to $10,500 on
December 24, 2013. See 78 FR 77601.
AAR also cited FRA’s stated intent to
reexamine and amend how it calculates
the reporting threshold because new
data sources and methodologies to
calculate the threshold have become
available since 2006, and updating the
formula to include these advances will
ensure it appropriately reflects changes
in costs, wages, and inflation. See 78 FR
77601, Dec. 24, 2013; 79 FR 77397, Dec.
24, 2014; 80 FR 80683, Dec. 28, 2015;
81 FR 94271, Dec. 23, 2016 for FRA’s
intent to reexamine and amend how it
calculates the reporting threshold. AAR
further stated this inaction has an effect
that compounds over time: Failure to
update the reporting threshold reduces
the utility of the accident count and
other statistics derived from the
accident data railroads report. AAR
noted many in the industry use this data
to compare accident rates across time
and evaluate the state of railroad safety
and to develop and monitor the impact
of initiatives to improve safety. AAR
stated the failure to update the reporting
threshold to take account of inflation
results in artificial increase in accident
rates and, accordingly, FRA should
update the reporting threshold annually.
FRA regularly reviews and amends, if
necessary, its reporting threshold. FRA
annually analyzes any cost increases or
decreases to the reporting threshold
and, under the procedures part 225
appendix B, determines whether any
changes to the reporting threshold are
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threshold for a particular calendar year
(CY). FRA conducted these analyses
between CYs 2014 and 2016 and
determined it was not necessary to
adjust the reporting threshold based
upon any cost increases or decreases.
FRA published final rules for each of
those CYs providing the bases for its
decision and those final rules contained
the data FRA used to reach its
conclusions. See 80 FR 80683, Dec. 28,
2015. In addition, FRA issued a final
rule on December 23, 2016, increasing
the reporting threshold from $10,500 to
$10,700 for CY 2017. See 81 FR 94271.
To ensure the utility and quality of the
information collected under part 225,
FRA continues to evaluate its method
for calculating the reporting threshold
and hopes to publish a proposed rule
amending its method.
Finally, AAR commented that, given
technology available today, FRA should
easily be able to make public the
spreadsheets it uses to calculate cost
and benefit estimates for proposed and
final rules in interactive format (with
underlying formulas in a cellsaccessible format) instead of a hardcoded PDF format. AAR stated this will
greatly facilitate public review and
comment and increase the utility of the
data collected under part 225 at little or
no cost to FRA.
FRA is—and has always been—a
strong believer in transparency and
provides a full explanation for the costs
and benefits of each proposed and final
agency rule in the accompanying
regulatory impact analysis found in the
public docket at https://
www.regulations.gov. The current
format provides all the essential
information to be understood and
replicated by the regulated community
and the general public required by law.
FRA does not believe creating another
format is necessary because of the easy
duplicability of each economic analysis
by industry in a format of their choice
and because FRA’s limited resources
preclude it from providing multiple
formats for the same analysis.
Before OMB decides whether to
approve these proposed collections of
information, it must provide 30 days for
public comment. 44 U.S.C. 3507(b); 5
CFR 1320.12(d). Federal law requires
OMB to approve or disapprove
paperwork packages between 30 and 60
days after the 30-day notice is
published. 44 U.S.C. 3507(b)–(c); 5 CFR
1320.12(d); see also 60 FR 44978, 44983,
Aug. 29, 1995. OMB believes the 30-day
notice informs the regulated community
to file relevant comments and affords
the agency adequate time to digest
public comments before it renders a
decision. 60 FR 44983, Aug. 29, 1995.

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Therefore, respondents should submit
their respective comments to OMB
within 30 days of publication to best
ensure they have full effect. 5 CFR
1320.12(c); see also 60 FR 44983, Aug.
29, 1995.
The summary below describes the ICR
and its expected burden. FRA is
submitting the new request for clearance
by OMB as the PRA requires.
Title: Accident/Incident Reporting
and Recordkeeping.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0500.
Abstract: The collection of
information is necessary due to the
railroad accident/incident reporting
regulations in part 225 requiring
railroads to submit and/or maintain a
variety of reports. These include: (1)
Monthly reports summarizing
collisions, derailments, and certain
other accidents/incidents involving
equipment damages above a
periodically revised dollar threshold;
and (2) monthly reports relating to
certain highway-rail grade crossing
accidents/incidents and casualties
arising from the operation of the
railroad to passengers, employees, and
other persons. Other reports are
required annually or occasionally.
Because the reporting requirements and
the information needed regarding each
category of accident/incident are
unique, FRA requires a different form
for each category.
Type of Request: Extension with
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): FRA F 6180.54; 55; 55A; 56;
57; 78; 81; 97; 98; 99; 107; 150.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
109,430.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
46,577 hours.
Title: Railroad Communications.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0524.
Abstract: FRA’s railroad
communications regulations (49 CFR
part 220) prescribe minimum
requirements governing the use of
wireless communications in connection
with railroad operations. In addition,
the regulations set forth prohibitions,
restrictions, and requirements that
apply to the use of personal and
railroad-supplied cellular telephones
and other electronic devices. If these
minimum requirements are met,
railroads may adopt additional or more
stringent requirements.
Type of Request: Extension with
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
12,433,554.

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Total Estimated Annual Burden:
293,521 hours.
Title: Safety Integration Plans.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0557.
Abstract: FRA and the Surface
Transportation Board, working in
conjunction, issued joint final rules
establishing procedures for a Class I
railroad proposing to undergo certain
specified merger, consolidation, or
acquisition of control transactions with
another Class I railroad, or a Class II
railroad it proposes to amalgamate
operations with, to develop and
implement safety integration plans
(‘‘SIPs’’ or ‘‘plans’’). The scope of the
transactions covered under the two
rules is the same. FRA uses the
information collected, i.e. the required
SIPs, to maintain and promote a safe rail
environment by ensuring affected
railroads (Class Is and some Class IIs)
address critical safety issues unique to
the amalgamation of large, complex
railroad operations.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
60.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 528
hours.
Title: Passenger Train Emergency
Systems.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0576.
Abstract: The collection of
information arises from FRA’s passenger
equipment safety regulations in 49 CFR
part 238. Specifically, FRA rules for
emergency passage through vestibule
and other interior passageway doors and
enhanced emergency egress and rescue
have signage requirements. FRA also
established requirements for lowlocation emergency exit path markings
to assist occupants in reaching and
operating emergency exits, particularly
under conditions of limited visibility.
Moreover, FRA has standards to ensure
emergency lighting systems are
provided in all passenger cars and
enhanced requirements for the
survivability of emergency lighting
systems in new passenger cars. The
purpose of this part is to prevent
collisions, derailments, and other
occurrences involving railroad
passenger equipment that cause injury
or death to railroad employees, railroad
passengers, or the general public and to
mitigate the consequences of such
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Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Railroads.
Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
89,780.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
23,325 hours.
Addressee: Send comments regarding
these information collections to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: FRA
Desk Officer. Comments may also be
sent via email to OMB at the following
address: oira_submissions@
omb.eop.gov.
Comments are invited on the
following: Whether the proposed
collections of information are necessary
for DOT to properly perform its
functions, including: Whether the
information will have practical utility;
the accuracy of DOT’s estimates of the
burden of the proposed information
collections; ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collections of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A comment to OMB is best assured of
having its full effect if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication of this
notice in the Federal Register.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Sarah L. Inderbitzin,
Acting Chief Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
Hazardous Materials: Notice of
applications for special permits
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: List of Applications for Special
Permits.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
procedures governing the application
for, and the processing of, special
permits from the Department of
Transportation’s Hazardous Material
Regulations, notice is hereby given that
the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
has received the application described

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herein. Each mode of transportation for
which a particular special permit is
requested is indicated by a number in
the ‘‘Nature of Application’’portion of
the table below as follows: 1—Motor
vehicle, 2—Rail freight, 3—Cargo vessel,
4—Cargo aircraft only, 5—Passengercarrying aircraft.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before April 5, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Address Comments To:
Record Center, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration, U.S.
Department of Transportation,
Washington, DC 20590.
Comments should refer to the
application number and be submitted in
triplicate. If confirmation of receipt of
comments is desired, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard showing
the special permit number.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Ryan Paquet, Director, Office of
Hazardous Materials Approvals and
Permits Division, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, East Building, PHH–30,
1200 New Jersey Avenue Southeast,
Washington, DC 20590–0001, (202) 366–
4535.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the procedures
governing the application for, and the
processing of, special permits from the
Department of Transportation’s
Hazardous Material Regulations (49 CFR
part 107, subpart B), notice is hereby
given that the Office of Hazardous
Materials Safety has received the
application described herein. Each
mode of transportation for which a
particular special permit is requested is
indicated by a number in the ‘‘Nature of
Application’’ portion of the table below
as follows: 1—Motor vehicle, 2—Rail
freight, 3—Cargo vessel, 4—Cargo
aircraft only, 5—Passenger-carrying
aircraft.
Copies of the applications are
available for inspection in the Records
Center, East Building, PHH–30, 1200
New Jersey Avenue Southeast,
Washington, DC, or at http://
regulations.gov.
This notice of receipt of applications
for special permit is published in
accordance with Part 107 of the Federal
hazardous materials transportation law
(49 U.S.C. 5117(b); 49 CFR 1.53(b)).
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 9,
2017.
Donald Burger,
Chief, Office of the Special Permits and
Approvals.

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