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that own, operate, or manage public
transportation capital assets. It is a
framework for transit agencies to
monitor and manage public
transportation assets, improve safety,
increase reliability and performance,
and establish performance measures in
order to help agencies keep their
systems operating smoothly and
efficiently. Transit agencies are required
to develop TAM plans and submit their
performance measures and targets to the
National Transit Database.
Respondents: All recipients and subrecipients of chapter 53 funds that own,
operate, or manage public transportation
capital assets.
Respondents: All recipients and subrecipients of chapter 53 funds that own,
operate, or manage public transportation
capital assets.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 2,878.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses: 987.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
404,233.
Frequency: Annual.
Nadine Pembleton,
Director Office of Management Planning.
[FR Doc. 2019–22742 Filed 10–17–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
[FTA Docket No. FTA 2019–0024]

Agency Information Collection Activity
Under OMB Review
AGENCY:

Federal Transit Administration,

DOT.
ACTION:

Notice of request for comments.

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to
request the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to approve the extension
of a currently approved information
collection:

SUMMARY:

49 U.S.C. 5307 Urbanized Area
Formula Program
Comments must be submitted
before December 17, 2019.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that your
comments are not entered more than
once into the docket, submit comments
identified by the docket number by only
one of the following methods:
1. Website: www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments on the U.S. Government
electronic docket site. (Note: The U.S.
DATES:

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Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s)
electronic docket is no longer accepting
electronic comments.) All electronic
submissions must be made to the U.S.
Government electronic docket site at
www.regulations.gov. Commenters
should follow the directions below for
mailed and hand-delivered comments.
2. Fax: 202–366–7951.
3. Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Docket Operations, M–30,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001.
4. Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Docket Operations, M–30,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name and docket number for this
notice at the beginning of your
comments. Submit two copies of your
comments if you submit them by mail.
For confirmation that FTA has received
your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Note that
all comments received, including any
personal information, will be posted
and will be available to internet users,
without change, to www.regulations.gov.
You may review DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published April 11, 2000, (65
FR 19477), or you may visit
www.regulations.gov. Docket: For access
to the docket to read background
documents and comments received, go
to www.regulations.gov at any time.
Background documents and comments
received may also be viewed at the U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Docket
Operations, M–30, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara
Clark, Office of Program Management
(202) 366–2623 or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested
parties are invited to send comments
regarding any aspect of this information
collection, including: (1) The necessity
and utility of the information collection
for the proper performance of the
functions of the FTA; (2) the accuracy
of the estimated burden; (3) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the collected information; and (4)
ways to minimize the collection burden
without reducing the quality of the
collected information. Comments
submitted in response to this notice will

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be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval of this
information collection.
Title: 49 U.S.C. 5307 Urbanized Area
Formula Program (OMB Number: 2132–
0502).
Background: The Urbanized Area
Formula Funding program (49 U.S.C.
5307) makes federal resources available
to urbanized areas and to governors for
transit capital and operating assistance
in urbanized areas and for
transportation-related planning. An
urbanized area is an incorporated area
with a population of 50,000 or more that
is designated as such by the U.S.
Department of Commerce, Bureau of the
Census. Funding is made available to
designated recipients that are public
bodies with the legal authority to
receive and dispense federal funds.
Governors, responsible local officials
and publicly owned operators of transit
services shall designate a recipient to
apply for, receive, and dispense funds
for urbanized areas. The governor or
governor’s designee acts as the
designated recipient for urbanized areas
between 50,000 and 200,000. For
urbanized areas with 200,000 in
population and over, funds are
apportioned and flow directly to a
designated recipient selected locally to
apply for and receive Federal funds. For
urbanized areas under 200,000 in
population, the funds are apportioned to
the governor of each state for
distribution. Eligible activities include:
Planning, engineering, design and
evaluation of transit projects and other
technical transportation-related studies;
capital investments in bus and busrelated activities such as replacement,
overhaul and rebuilding of buses, crime
prevention and security equipment and
construction of maintenance and
passenger facilities; and capital
investments in new and existing fixed
guideway systems including rolling
stock, overhaul and rebuilding of
vehicles, track, signals,
communications, and computer
hardware and software. In addition,
associated transit improvements and
certain expenses associated with
mobility management programs are
eligible under the program. All
preventive maintenance and some
Americans with Disabilities Act
complementary paratransit service costs
are considered capital costs.
Respondents: State or local
governmental entities that operates a
public transportation service.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 6,240.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
117,000 hours.

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Frequency: Annual.
Nadine Pembleton,
Director Office of Management Planning.
[FR Doc. 2019–22744 Filed 10–17–19; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2019–0103]

Audi of America; Receipt of Petition for
Temporary Exemption From FMVSS
No. 111
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of receipt of petition for
temporary exemption from FMVSS No.
111, ‘‘Rear Visibility’’; request for
comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
procedures in 49 CFR part 555, Audi of
America (‘‘Audi’’) has petitioned
NHTSA for a temporary exemption of
vehicles from the requirements in
FMVSS No. 111 that passenger cars,
MPVs, and light trucks be equipped
with an outside mirror on the driver’s
side that meets certain field-of-view and
mounting requirements. Instead of being
equipped with FMVSS No. 111compliant outside mirrors that would
provide the required view to the rear,
the vehicles, if exempted, would be
equipped with a Camera Monitor
System (CMS) that, according to Audi,
provides the driver with a videogenerated image on a monitor. Audi
states that the video-generated image
meets the standard’s field-of-view
requirements that apply to outside
mirrors on the driver’s side. Audi
submitted its petition on the basis that
an exemption is needed to facilitate the
development and field evaluation of a
new motor vehicle safety feature (the
CMS) and that that feature provides a
level of safety at least equal to the level
of safety would be provided if the
vehicle were equipped with FMVSScompliant outside mirrors. NHTSA is
publishing this document in accordance
with statutory and administrative
provisions, and requests comments on
the petition. NHTSA has made no
judgment on the merits of the petition.
DATES: Comments on this petition must
be submitted by November 18, 2019.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Daniel Koblenz, Office of Chief Counsel,
Telephone: 202–366–2992, Facsimile:
202–366–3820 or Markus Price, Office
of Crash Avoidance Standards,
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Telephone: 202–366–1810, Facsimile:
202–493–2990. The mailing address for
these officials is: National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590.
This document by any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
M–30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground
Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
Regardless of how you submit your
comments, please mention the docket
number of this document.
You may also call the Docket at 202–
366–9826.
Instructions: For detailed instructions
on submitting comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process,
see the Public Participation heading of
the Supplementary Information section
of this document. Note that all
comments received will be posted
without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
decision-making process. DOT posts
these comments, without edit, including
any personal information the
commenter provides, to
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
www.transportation.gov/privacy. In
order to facilitate comment tracking and
response, the agency encourages
commenters to provide their name, or
the name of their organization; however,
submission of names is completely
optional. Whether or not commenters
identify themselves, all timely
comments will be fully considered.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to
www.regulations.gov, or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Background

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a. FMVSS No. 111 Outside Mirror
Requirement
b. Statutory Authority and Regulatory
Requirements
II. Summary of Petition
a. Recent CMS-Related Regulatory
Activities
b. Description of the CMS
c. Documentation Establishing Innovative
Nature of the CMS
d. The CMS Provides a Level of Safety at
Least Equivalent to the Level of Safety
Established by Compliance With FMVSS
No. 111, and Is in the Public Interest
e. Substantiation That an Exemption
Would Facilitate Audi’s Development
and Field Evaluation of the CMS
III. Requests for Comment
IV. Completeness and Comment Period

I. Background
a. FMVSS No. 111 Outside Mirror
Requirement
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standard (FMVSS) No. 111, ‘‘Rear
Visibility,’’ sets out requirements to
ensure that passenger cars,
Multipurpose Passenger Vehicles
(MPVs), trucks, and buses, school buses,
and low-speed vehicles provide drivers
with ‘‘a clear and reasonably
unobstructed view to the rear’’ of the
vehicle. To this end, FMVSS No. 111,
S5.2 requires that passenger cars must
be equipped with an outside rearview
mirror on the driver’s side. This mirror
must provide the driver with a specified
minimum field of view, be of unit
magnification, and must be mounted
according to certain specifications.1
Similarly, FMVSS No. 111 S6 requires
that MPVs, trucks, and buses (other than
a school bus) with a Gross Vehicle
Weight Rating of 4,536 kg or less be
equipped with outside mirrors to
provide rear visibility. Vehicles subject
to S6 are required either to use ‘‘mirrors
that conform to the requirements of
S5,’’ 2 or to be equipped with mirrors on
both sides of the vehicle which meet
specified criteria for size and placement.
Currently, FMVSS No. 111 does not
permit compliance with either S5.2 or
S6 through equipment other than ‘‘an
outside mirror.’’ 3
b. Statutory Authority and Regulatory
Requirements
The National Traffic and Motor
Vehicle Safety Act (Safety Act), codified
1 S5.2 requires that vehicles be equipped with a
driver side outside mirror.
2 Note that S5 includes both an inside (S5.1) and
outside (S5.2) mirror requirement.
3 NHTSA notes, however, that FMVSS does not
prohibit the use of other technologies (such as
cameras) alongside mirrors, so long as compliant
required mirrors are present. NHTSA recently
published an ANPRM seeking comment on whether
the agency should consider amending FMVSS No.
111 to permit cameras as a compliance option in
lieu of mirrors. See 84 FR 54533.

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