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Attachment B2 30-Day FR Notice TPMS-ORRC Revision
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 78 / Tuesday, April 25, 2017 / Notices

Ebony Coleman,
Designated Federal Officer, Office of the U.S.
Global AIDS Coordinator and Health
Diplomacy, Department of State.
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Applying the fatality rate and injury
rate to the probable number of fatalities
and injuries predicted to occur at each
of the 44,591 identified crossings, and
the predicted cost of the associated
injuries and fatalities, FRA calculates
the NSRT is 14,723. Accordingly, this
updated NSRT value will serve as one
threshold of permissible risk for quiet
zones established across the nation
pursuant to 49 CFR part 222.

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Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–1999–6439, Notice No. 25]

Adjustment of Nationwide Significant
Risk Threshold
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of Adjustment of
Nationwide Significant Risk Threshold.
AGENCY:

Under title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations, Use of Locomotive Horns at
Public Highway-Rail Grade Crossings,
FRA is updating the Nationwide
Significant Risk Threshold (NSRT). This
action is needed to ensure the public
has the proper permissible risk
threshold to evaluate risk resulting from
prohibiting routine locomotive horn
sounding at highway-rail grade
crossings located in quiet zones. This is
the seventh update to the NSRT and it
is increasing from 14,347 to 14,723.
DATES: The effective date of this notice
is April 25, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Ron Ries, Office of Railroad Safety,
FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, (202) 493–6299,
[email protected]; or Ms. Kathryn
Gresham, Office of Chief Counsel, FRA,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, (202) 493–6038,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

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nationwide where train horns are
routinely sounded. FRA developed this
risk index to serve as one threshold of
permissible risk for quiet zones
established across the nation under 49
CFR part 222, Use of Locomotive Horns
at Public Highway-Rail Grade Crossings.
Thus, a community trying to establish
and/or maintain its quiet zone, under 49
CFR part 222, can compare the Quiet
Zone Risk Index calculated for its
specific crossing corridor to the NSRT to
determine whether sufficient measures
have been taken to compensate for the
excess risk that results from prohibiting
routine sounding of the locomotive
horn. In the alternative, a community
can establish its quiet zone in
comparison to the Risk Index With
Horns, which is defined in 49 CFR 222.9
as a measure of risk to the motoring
public when locomotive horns are
routinely sounded at every public
highway-rail grade crossing within a
quiet zone.
FRA has periodically updated the
NSRT since 2006. FRA last updated the
NSRT in 2013, when FRA calculated the
NSRT to be 14,347. 78 FR 70623, Nov.
26, 2013.
New NSRT

Background
The NSRT is an average of the risk
indexes for gated public crossings

Using collision data over a 5-year
period from 2011 to 2015, FRA has
recalculated the NSRT based on
formulas identified in 49 CFR part 222,
appendix D. In making this
recalculation, FRA noted the total
number of gated crossings nationwide
where train horns are routinely sounded
was 44,591.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

SUMMARY:

National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2016–0123]

Reports, Forms and Record Keeping
Requirements Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, DOT.

AGENCY:

Patrick T. Warren,
Acting Administrator.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

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In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collections
and their expected burden.

Comments must be submitted on
or before May 25, 2017.

DATES:

Send comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,

ADDRESSES:

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Department’’) as set forth in Title 22 of
the United States Code, in particular
Section 2656 of that Title, and
consistent with the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, as amended (5 U.S.C.
Appendix). The approval of this Charter
by the Under Secretary for Management
constitutes a determination by the
Secretary of State that this Committee
Charter is in the public interest in
connection with the performance of
duties of the Department.
The previous Charter for the Board
was established on March 6, 2015. In
accordance with Public Law 92–463,
Section 14, it has been formally
determined to be in the public interest
to continue the Charter for another two
years.
The Charter renewal was approved on
April 5, 2017.
For further information about the
Board, please contact Dr. Ebony
Coleman, Designated Federal Officer for
the Board, Office of the U.S. Global
AIDS Coordinator and Health
Diplomacy at [email protected].

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Washington, DC 20503, Attention:
NHTSA Desk Officer.
For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact John
Kindelberger, Office of Regulatory
Analysis and Evaluation, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., NSA–310,
Washington, DC 20590. Mr.
Kindelberger’s telephone number is
202–366–4696.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Before a
Federal agency can collect certain
information from the public, it must
receive approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB). In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request has been
forwarded to OMB. A Federal Register
notice requesting comments on the
following information collection was
published on December 21, 2016 (81 FR
93728). The agency received no
comments on that notice.
Title: Tire Pressure Monitoring
System—Outage Rate and Repair Costs
(TPMS–ORRC).
OMB Number: 2127–0626.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Abstract: Improperly inflated tires
pose a safety risk, increasing the chance
of skidding, hydroplaning, longer
stopping distances, and crashes due to
flat tires and blowouts. Section 13 of the
Transportation Recall Enhancement,
Accountability, and Documentation
(TREAD) Act, which Congress passed on
November 1, 2000, directed NHTSA to
conduct rulemaking actions to revise
and update the Federal motor vehicle
safety standards for tires, to improve
labeling on tires, and to require a system
in new motor vehicles that warns the
operator when a tire is significantly
underinflated.
Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems
(TPMS) were mandated in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
No. 138, so that drivers are warned
when the pressure in one or more of the
vehicle’s tires has fallen to 25 percent or
more below the placard pressure, or a
minimum level of pressure specified in
the standard, whichever pressure is
higher, and may be informed about
which of the four tires is underinflated.
As of September 1, 2007, after a phasein period beginning on October 5, 2005,
TPMS was required on all new light
vehicles (i.e., passenger cars, trucks,
multipurpose passenger vehicles, and
buses with a gross vehicle weight rating
of 10,000 pounds or less, except those
vehicles with dual wheels on an axle).
Executive Order 12866 requires
Federal agencies to evaluate their

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existing regulations and programs and
measure their effectiveness in achieving
their objectives. Since the phase-in of
TPMS, there has been only one
evaluation of TPMS. The TPMS–SS
(OMB #2127–0626) was conducted in
2011, as a special study through the
infrastructure of the National
Automotive Sampling System (NASS),
to collect nationally representative data
on how effective TPMS was in reducing
underinflation in the on-road fleet of
passenger vehicles. Analysis of the
survey results indicated that direct
TPMS is 55.6-percent effective at
preventing severe underinflation as
defined in FMVSS No. 138. However,
effectiveness was substantially lower in
vehicles that were 6–7 years old at the
time of the survey. One explanation as
to why this is true was the possibility
that the drivers of these older vehicles
were not taking all the maintenance
actions (e.g., adding TPMS sensors to
new replacement tires, replacing nonfunctioning sensors on current tires,
having the system properly re-set when
needed) that were needed to insure the
vehicles had functioning TPMS.
Relevant data are needed to examine
why the effectiveness of TPMSs in older
vehicles is reduced and what can be
done to increase it. This was the original
goal of the TPMS–ORRC and is still a
goal.
Additionally, on December 4, 2015,
the Fixing America’s Surface
Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114–
94) was signed into law. An amendment
(Section 24115) directs the Secretary of
Transportation to update the standard
on tire pressure monitoring systems,
FMVSS No. 138, to ensure that they
cannot be overridden, reset or
recalibrated in a way that will prevent
the system from identifying a tire that is
significantly underinflated. The Act also
states that the revised requirements
shall not contain any provision that has
the effect of prohibiting the availability
of direct or indirect tire pressure
monitoring systems. Data are needed to
help inform the required rulemaking.
For this purpose, the design of the
TPMS–ORRC field survey has been
changed from a convenience sample to
a probability sample, allowing
nationally representative estimates; this
revision also adds a module for indirect
TPMS.
Affected Public: Individuals and
businesses.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,352 hours.
Comments are Invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including: Whether the information will

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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.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended
and 49 CFR 1.95.
Joseph M. Kolly,
Acting Associate Administrator, National
Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Sanctions Actions Pursuant to the
Foreign Narcotics Kingpin Designation
Act
Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
SUB-AGENCY:

The U.S. Department of the
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) is publishing the names
of two entities whose property and
interests in property are blocked
pursuant to the Foreign Narcotics
Kingpin Designation Act (Kingpin Act).
DATE: OFAC’s actions described in this
notice were effective on April 20, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
OFAC: Associate Director for Global
Targeting, tel.: 202–622–2420; Assistant
Director for Licensing, tel.: 202–622–
2480, Assistant Director for Regulatory
Affairs, tel.: 202–622–4855, Assistant
Director for Sanctions Compliance &
Evaluation, tel.: 202–622–2490; or the
Department of the Treasury’s Office of
the General Counsel: Office of the Chief
Counsel (Foreign Assets Control), tel.:
202–622–2410 (not toll free numbers).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:

Electronic Availability
The Specially Designated Nationals
and Blocked Persons List (SDN List) and
additional information concerning
OFAC sanctions programs are available
on OFAC’s Web site (http://
www.treasury.gov/ofac).
Notice of OFAC Actions
On April 20, 2017, OFAC’s Acting
Director determined that the property
and interests in property of the
following persons are blocked.

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