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meet minimum Federal standards for
the preparation, adoption, and
implementation of emergency
preparedness plans connected with the
operation of passenger trains, including
freight railroads hosting operations of
rail passenger service. To help ensure
compliance with the regulations, FRA
requires railroads to conduct
operational tests of their personnel
responsible for implementing the
emergency preparedness plans.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
69,670.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
21,470 hours.
Title: Locomotive Cab Sanitation
Standards.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0552.
Abstract: FRA’s locomotive cab
sanitation standards, 49 CFR 229.137
and 229.139, prescribe minimum
standards for locomotive cab sanitation
facilities. FRA uses the information
collection associated with these
provisions to promote rail safety and the
health of railroad workers by ensuring
that all locomotive crew members have
access to functioning and hygienic
toilet/sanitary facilities as needed and to
ensure railroads timely repair defective
locomotive sanitary facilities.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
113,256.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
1,272 hours.
Title: Locomotive Crashworthiness.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0564.
Abstract: FRA’s Locomotive
Crashworthiness Design Requirements
(49 CFR part 229, subpart D) prescribe
minimum crashworthiness standards for
locomotives. These crashworthiness
standards are intended to help protect
locomotive cab occupants in the event
of a collision or other accident involving
a locomotive. FRA uses the information
collection associated with Subpart D to
ensure railroads use locomotives that
meet the prescribed minimum
performance standards and design load
requirements for newly manufactured
and re-manufactured locomotives.
Type of Request: Extension with
change (revised estimates) of a currently
approved information collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
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Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
501.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
6,470 hours.
Title: Critical Incident Stress Plans.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0602.
Abstract: FRA issued its Critical
Incident Stress Plans Final Rule (49 CFR
part 272) on March 25, 2014. See 79 FR
16218. Part 272 requires Class I,
intercity passenger, and commuter
railroads to develop, and submit to FRA
for approval, critical incident stress
plans that, among other things, provide
appropriate support services be offered
to their employees who are affected by
a critical incident as defined at 49 CFR
272.9. FRA uses the information
collected to ensure railroads meet the
minimum standards of Part 272.
Type of Request: Extension with
change (revised estimates) of a currently
approved information collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads)/Rail Labor Unions.
Form(s): N/A.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
663.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 314
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.
John Seguin,
Acting Chief Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary of
Transportation
Transportation Infrastructure
Financing and Innovation Act (TIFIA)
Program; Agency Information
Collection Activities and Request for
Comments
Office of the Secretary of
Transportation, DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Transportation (DOT) has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to renew an existing information
collection. The information collection is
used to allow entities to apply for TIFIA
credit assistance and assists the DOT in
evaluating projects and project sponsors
for program eligibility and
creditworthiness.

SUMMARY:

Written comments should be
submitted by June 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be submitted to the attention of the
DOT/OST Desk Officer, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503 or by
email at OIRA_submission@
omb.eop.gov with the associated OMB
Control Number 2105–0569.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The
TIFIA program manager via email at
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501–3521) and OMB regulations at 5
CFR part 1320 provide that an agency
may not conduct or sponsor a collection
of information unless it displays a
currently valid OMB control number.
Until OMB approves a collection of
information, you are not obligated to
respond. In order to obtain and renew
an OMB control number, Federal
agencies are required to seek public
comment on information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d) and 1320.12(a)).
As required at 5 CFR 1320.8(d), DOT
published a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register on March 24, 2017 (82 FR
15101), and the comment period ended
May 23, 2017. DOT received no
comments. DOT now requests
comments on the following subjects:
Comments are invited on: (a) The need
for the proposed collection of
information for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
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whether the information will have
practical utility; (b) 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; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways 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.
The following information pertains to
this request:
Title: Transportation Infrastructure
Financing and Innovation Act program
or TIFIA program.

Form: The forms for the letter of
interest and application are available for
review at http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ipd/
tifia/guidance_applications/tifia_
applications.htm.
OMB Control Number: 2105–0569.
Abstract: The TIFIA program provides
Federal credit assistance in the form of
direct loans, loan guarantees, and
standby lines of credit to eligible surface
transportation projects. This
information collection relates to the
collection of information from entities
interested in TIFIA credit assistance and
assists DOT in evaluating projects and
project sponsors for program eligibility
and creditworthiness. DOT is required
by 23 U.S.C §§ 601–609 to solicit a letter
of interest and an application from each
interested applicant for TIFIA credit

assistance. DOT will use the collected
information to evaluate and select
recipients for credit assistance.
Applicants may be asked to provide
additional supporting evidence or to
quantify details during the review and
negotiation process on a case-by-case
basis.
Description of Respondents: State and
local governments, transit agencies,
freight and commuter railroad
companies, special authorities, special
districts, and private entities.
Estimated Total Annual Number of
Responses: 50 letters of interest and 50
applications.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 6,000 hours.
The estimated burdens are itemized in
the following table:
B. Number of
responses

A. Type of response
Letter of Interest ..........................................................................................................................
Application ...................................................................................................................................

Frequency of Collection: One time.
Issued in Washington, DC on May 25,
2017.
Claire Barrett,
Departmental Chief Privacy & Information
Governance Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Internal Revenue Service
Proposed Collection; Comment
Request for Form 15597
Internal Revenue Service,
Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of the
Treasury, as part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, invites the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on proposed
and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
Currently, the IRS is soliciting
comments concerning Form 15597,
Foreclosure Sale Purchaser Contact
Information Request.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before July 31, 2017 to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments
to Laurie Brimmer, Internal Revenue

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Service, room 6526, 1111 Constitution
Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224.
Requests for additional information or
copies of the form and instructions
should be directed to LaNita Van Dyke,
at Internal Revenue Service, room 6526,
1111 Constitution Avenue NW.,
Washington, DC 20224, or through the
internet at [email protected]
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Foreclosure Sale Purchaser
Contact Information Request.
OMB Number: 1545–2199.
Form Number: Form 15597.
Abstract: Form 15597, Foreclosure
Sale Purchaser Contact Information
Request, is information requested of
individuals or businesses that have
purchased real property at a third party
foreclosure sale. If the IRS has filed a
‘‘Notice of Federal Tax Lien’’ publically
notifying a taxpayer’s creditors that the
taxpayer owes the IRS a tax debt, AND
a creditor senior to the IRS position later
forecloses on their creditor note (such as
the mortgage holder of a taxpayers
primary residence) THEN the IRS tax
claim is discharged or removed from the
property (if the appropriate foreclosure
rules are followed) and the foreclosure
sale purchaser buys the property free
and clear of the IRS claim EXCEPT that
the IRS retains the right to ‘‘redeem’’ or
buy back the property from the
foreclosure sale purchaser w/in 120
days after the foreclosure sale.
Collection of this information is
authorized by 28 U.S.C. 2410 and IRC
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50

C. Hours per
response
20
100

D. Total hours
(column B ×
column C
1,000
5,000

Current Actions: There are no changes
made to the burden previously reported
to OMB. This is for renewal purposes
only.
Type of Review: Extension of a
previously approved collection.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households, Business or other for-profit
groups, Not-for-profit institutions,
Farms, Federal Government, State,
Local, or Tribal Governments.
Estimated Number of Responses: 150.
Estimated Time Per Respondent: 4.08
hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 613.
The following paragraph applies to all
of the collections of information covered
by this notice:
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless the collection of information
displays a valid OMB control number.
Books or records relating to a collection
of information must be retained as long
as their contents may become material
in the administration of any internal
revenue law. Generally, tax returns and
tax return information are confidential,
as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103.
Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval. All
comments will become a matter of
public record. Comments are invited on:
(a) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the

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