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service and is excluded from the
requirements of part 215. Railroads use
the required information to provide
identification and control so that
dedicated cars remain in the prescribed
service.
Type of Request: Extension with
change (revised estimates) of a currently
approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 752 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
300,000.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
38,250 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $2,187,900.
Title: Bridge Worker Safety Rules.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0535.
Abstract: Subpart B of 49 CFR part
214 establishes minimum workplace
safety standards for railroad employees
as they apply to railroad bridges.
Specifically, 49 CFR 214.105(c)
establishes standards and practices for
safety net systems. Safety nets and net
installations must be drop-tested at the
job site after initial installation and
before being used as a fall-protection
system, after major repairs, and at 6month intervals if left at one site. If a
drop-test is not feasible and is not
performed, then the railroad or railroad
contractor, or a designated certified
person, must provide written
certification the net complies with the
safety standards of 49 CFR 214.105. FRA
and State inspectors use the information
to enforce Federal regulations. The
information maintained at the job site
promotes safe bridge worker practices.
Type of Request: Extension with
change (revised estimates) of a currently
approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 746 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Responses: 3.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 15
minutes.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $19.
Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR
1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA
informs all interested parties that it may
not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Brett A. Jortland,
Acting Chief Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2019–0004–N–23]

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

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, FRA seeks
approval of the Information Collection
Request (ICR) abstracted below. Before
submitting this ICR to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval, FRA is soliciting public
comment on specific aspects of the
activities identified below.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before February
18, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the ICR activities by mail to: Ms. Kim
Toone, Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Office of Information
Technology, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Commenters requesting FRA to
acknowledge receipt of their respective
comments must include a self-addressed
stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments
on OMB Control Number 2130–0593,’’
and should also include the title of the
ICR. Alternatively, comments may be
faxed to Ms. Toone at Kim.Toone@
dot.gov. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number in any
correspondence submitted. FRA will
summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice and include them in its
information collection submission to
OMB for approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Kim Toone, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Office of Information
Technology, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590,
(telephone: 202–493–6132).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
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1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days’ notice to the public to
allow comment on information
collection activities before seeking OMB
approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C.
3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through
1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites
interested parties to comment on the
following ICR regarding: (1) Whether the
information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (2)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (3) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (4) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
FRA believes that soliciting public
comment may reduce the administrative
and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information that
Federal regulations mandate. In
summary, FRA reasons that comments
received will advance three objectives:
(1) Reduce reporting burdens; (2)
organize information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (3) accurately assess the resources
expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
The summary below describes the ICR
that FRA will submit for OMB clearance
as the PRA requires:
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0593.
Abstract: This collection of
information is necessary to enable FRA
to garner customer and stakeholder
feedback in an efficient, timely manner,
consistent with its commitment to
improving service delivery. The
information collected from FRA’s
customers and stakeholders will help
ensure users have an effective, efficient,
and satisfying experience with FRA’s
programs. This feedback will provide
insights into customer or stakeholder
perceptions, experiences and
expectations, provide an early indicator
of issues with service, and focus
attention on areas where
communication, training or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. This collection
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actionable communications between
FRA and its customers and
stakeholders. It also allows feedback to
contribute directly to the improvement
of program management.
Improving FRA’s programs requires
ongoing assessment of service delivery,
meaning a systematic review of the
operation of a program compared to a
set of explicit or implicit standards as a
means of contributing to the continuous
improvement of the program. FRA will
collect, analyze, and interpret
information gathered through this
generic clearance to identify strengths
and weaknesses of current services and
make improvements in service delivery
based on feedback. The solicitation of
feedback will target areas such as:
timeliness, appropriateness, accuracy of
information, courtesy, efficiency of
service delivery, and resolution of
issues with service delivery. FRA will
assess responses to plan and inform
efforts to improve or maintain the
quality of service offered to the public.
If this information is not collected, vital
feedback from customers and

stakeholders on FRA’s services will be
unavailable.
FRA will only submit a collection for
approval under this generic clearance
under the following conditions:
• The information gathered is only
used internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for public
release;
• The information gathered is not
used to substantially inform significant
policy decisions;
• The information gathered will yield
qualitative information; FRA will not
design the collection or expect it to
yield statistically reliable results or use
it as though the results are generalizable
to the population of study;
• Participation in the collection is
voluntary;
• The collection is low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and is low-cost for both the
respondents and the Federal
Government;

• The collection is non-controversial
and does not raise issues of concern to
other Federal agencies;
• The collection is directed to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the OMB program or may have
experience with the OMB program soon
after receiving the collection; and
• With the exception of information
needed to provide remuneration for
participants of focus groups and
cognitive laboratory studies, personally
identifiable information (PII) is
collected only to the extent necessary
and is not retained by FRA.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a current information
collection.
Affected Public: Individuals and
Households, Businesses and
Organizations, State, Local or Tribal
Governments.
Frequency of Submission: Once per
request.
Reporting Burden:

ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN
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Type of collection

Average
time per
responses
(minutes)

Total annual
responses

Total
annual
burden
hours

1. Surveys, comment cards, interviews, focus groups, and webbased technologies for Customer Service Satisfaction and Delivery for the Office of the Administrator.
2. Surveys, comment cards, interviews, focus groups, and webbased technologies for Customer Service Satisfaction and Delivery for the Office of Railroad Safety, Safety Assurance and Compliance.
3. Surveys, comment cards, interviews, focus groups, and webbased technologies for Customer Service Satisfaction and Delivery for the Office of Railroad Safety, Passenger Rail.
4. Surveys, comment cards, interviews, focus groups, and webbased technologies for Customer Service Satisfaction and Delivery for the Office of Railroad Safety, Safety Analysis.
5. Surveys, comment cards, interviews, focus groups, and webbased technologies for Customer Service Satisfaction and Delivery for the Office of Railroad Policy and Development, Research
and Development and Passenger and Freight Programs.
6. Surveys, comment cards, interviews, focus groups, and webbased technologies for Customer Service Satisfaction and Delivery for the Office of Financial Management and Administration.

350

Annual, periodically ...

10

59

350

Annual, periodically ...

10

59

350

Annual, periodically ...

10

59

350

Annual, periodically ...

10

59

350

Annual, periodically ...

10

59

350

Annual, periodically ...

10

59

Annual Total (estimated) ..............................................................

2,100

....................................

........................

354

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
2,100.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 354.
Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR
1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA
informs all interested parties that it may
not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it

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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.

Office of Foreign Assets Control
Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions

Brett A. Jortland,
Acting Chief Counsel.

Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

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The Department of the
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets

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