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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: November 20, 2020.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2020–0029]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments for a
New Information Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The FHWA invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of
Management and Budget’s (OMB)
approval for a new information
collection, which is summarized below
under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We
are required to publish this notice in the
Federal Register by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
January 25, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID 2020–0029
by any of the following methods:
Website: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received go to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S.
Department of Transportation, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carolyn Winborne-James, 202–493–
0353, Department of Transportation,
Federal Highway Administration, Office
of Real Estate Services, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Title: FHWA Excellence in Right-ofWay Awards.
Background: In 1995, the Federal
Highway Administration established the
biennial Excellence in Right-of-Way
Awards Program to recognize partners,
projects, and processes that use FHWA
funding sources to go beyond regulatory
compliance and achieve Right-of-Way
excellence. Excellence in Right-of-Way
awardees have contributed to
outstanding innovations that enhance
the right-of-way professional’s ability to
meet the challenges associated with
acquiring real property for Federal-aid
projects.
Similarly, FHWA established the
Excellence in Right-of-Way Awards
Program to honor the use of innovative
practices and outstanding achievements
associated with highway improvement
projects as it relates to the Right-of-Way
program. The goal of the program is to
showcase exemplary and innovative
projects, programs, initiatives, and
practices that successfully integrate the
consideration of the Right-of-Way
program along with the association of
the acquisition of land required to
construct transportation facilities.
Award: Anyone can nominate a
project, process, person or group that
has used Federal Highway
Administration funding sources to make
an outstanding contribution to
transportation and the Right-of-Way
field. The nominator is responsible for
submitting an application form that
summarizes the outstanding
accomplishments of the entry. FHWA
will use the collected information to
evaluate, showcase, and enhance the
public’s knowledge on addressing rightof-way challenges on transportation
projects. Nominations will be reviewed
by an independent panel of judges from
varying backgrounds. It is anticipated
that awards will be given every two
years. The winners will be presented
awards at the completion of the process.
Respondents: Anyone who has used
Federal Highway funding sources in the
fifty states, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico.
Frequency: The information will be
collected biennially.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 6 hours per respondent per
application.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: It is expected that the
respondents will complete
approximately 50 applications for an
estimated total of 600 annual burden
hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
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necessary for the FHWA’s performance;
(2) the accuracy of the estimated
burdens; (3) ways for the FHWA to
enhance the quality, usefulness, and
clarity of the collected information; and
(4) ways that the burden could be
minimized, including the use of
electronic technology, without reducing
the quality of the collected information.
The agency will summarize and/or
include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: November 20, 2020.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2020–0202]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Motor Carrier
Records Change Form
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for its
review and approval and invites public
comment. The purpose of this ICR
titled, ‘‘Motor Carrier Records Change
Form,’’ is to collect information
required by the Office of Registration
(MC–RS) to process name changes,
address changes, and reinstatements of
operating authority for motor carriers,
freight forwarders, and brokers.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before January 25, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2020–0202 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Operations; U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
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Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading
below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008.
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal website. If you want
us to notify you that we received your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Secrist, Chief, Office of Registration &
Safety Information, West Building 6th
Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
(202) 385–2367; email jeff.secrist@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: The Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
registers for-hire motor carriers under 49
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under 49 U.S.C. 13903, and property
brokers under 49 U.S.C. 13904. Each
registration is effective from the date
specified under 49 U.S.C. 13905(c). 49
CFR part 365.413, ‘‘Procedures for
changing the name or business form of
a motor carrier, freight forwarder, or
property broker,’’ states that motor
carriers, forwarders, and brokers must
submit the required information to
FMCSA’s Office of Registration (MC–
RS) requesting the change. 49 CFR
360.3(f) mentions fees that FMCSA
collects for ‘‘petition for reinstatement
of revoked operating authority,’’ but
does not provide any specifics for the
content that petition should take.
Motor carriers, freight forwarders, and
property brokers are required to use
Form MCSA–5889 to request a name or
address change and to request
reinstatement of a revoked operating
authority. Respondents can submit the
form online through the Licensing and
Insurance (L&I) website, by fax, or by
mail. According to data collected
between 2017 and 2019, annually, 1%
of forms are submitted by mail; 32% are
submitted by fax; and 67% are
submitted online. The information
collected is then entered in the L&I
database by FMCSA staff.
Form MCSA–5889 enables FMCSA to
maintain up-to-date records so that the
Agency can recognize the entity in
question in case of enforcement actions
or other procedures required to ensure
that the carrier is fit, willing, and able
to provide for-hire transportation
services, and so that entities whose
operating authority has been revoked
can resume operation if they are not
otherwise blocked from doing so. This
multi-purpose form, filed by registrants
on a voluntary, as-needed basis,
simplifies the process of gathering the
information needed to process the
entities’ requests in a timely manner,
with the least amount of effort for all
parties involved.
To reduce burden on respondents,
increase consistency among FMCSA
forms, and to ensure regulatory
compliance, FMCSA removed and
added the following questions from the
currently approved Form MCSA–5889:
1. Added a Yes/No question: ‘‘Do you
currently have, or have you had within
the last three years of the date of this
application, relationships involving
common stock, common ownership,
common management, common control
or familial relationships with any
FMCSA-regulated entities?’’ The
purpose of this is to close the affiliation
disclosure loophole. If the respondent
answers ‘‘Yes’’, they must then report
the affiliate’s USDOT number, MC/FF/
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as name (if applicable), and current
safety rating.
2. Added the Applicant’s Oath. The
applicant must read the oath, print their
name and title, and sign the form. The
purpose of this addition is to increase
accountability and make Form MCSA–
5889 consistent with similar FMCSA
forms.
3. Removed one question asking
whether the applicant or its
representative completed the form. This
was removed because the information is
not necessary.
4. Removed three questions: Name,
title, and signature. This was done
because, with the addition of the
Applicant’s Oath, these questions
became redundant.
The form prompts users to report the
following data points (whichever are
relevant to their records change
request):
1. Requestor’s fax number, email
address, and applicant’s oath.
2. Entity’s legal/doing business as
names, USDOT number, docket MC/
MX/FX number, current street address,
and phone numbers.
3. Affiliations with FMCSA-licensed
entities.
4. Requested changes to the entity’s
address.
5. Requested changes to the entity’s
name and/or ownership, management or
control.
6. Type(s) of operating authority the
entity wishes to reinstate.
7. Credit card information (name,
number, expiration date, address, date)
if filing a name change or reinstatement.
Title: Motor Carrier Records Change
Form.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0060.
Type of Request: Revision.
Respondents: For-hire motor carriers,
brokers, and freight forwarders.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
27,122.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes per response.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2021.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
6,781 hours [27,122 responses × 0.25
hours per response].
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
necessary for the performance of
FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of
the estimated burden; (3) ways for
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
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summarize or include your comments in
the request for OMB’s clearance of this
information collection.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87.
Tom Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[DOT–OST–2020–0237]

Workshop on GPS Jamming and
Spoofing in the Maritime Environment
Office of the Assistant
Secretary of Transportation for Research
and Technology (OST–R), U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

The purpose of this notice is
to inform the public that DOT, through
the Office of the Assistant Secretary for
Research and Technology (OST–R) and
the Maritime Administration (MARAD),
will host a workshop on Global
Positioning System (GPS) jamming and
spoofing in the maritime environment
on December 3, 2020. The workshop
will focus on:
• How positioning, navigation, and
timing (PNT) supports maritime
applications;
• What happens when PNT is denied,
disrupted, or manipulated in a maritime
environment; and
• Options to reduce operational
impact and increase PNT resiliency.
This DOT Workshop will be held
virtually and is open to the general
public by registration only. For those
who would like to attend the workshop,
we request that you register no later
than November 30, 2020. Please use the
following link to register: https://volpeevents.webex.com/volpe-events/
onstage/g.php?MTID
=e8d794472bbf3089c77da9ac1c31efdc2.
You must include:
• Name
• Organization
• Telephone number
• Mailing and email addresses
• Country of citizenship
Several days before the workshop, an
email containing the agenda, dial-in
number, and WebEx information will be
provided. DOT is committed to
providing equal access to this workshop
for all participants. If you need
alternative formats or services because
of a disability, please contact Elliott
Baskerville (contact information listed
below) with your request by the close of
business on November 27, 2020.

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Date and Time: December 3, 2020,
from 1:00–5:00 p.m. (EST).
Location: This workshop will be held
virtually.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elliott Baskerville, Office of Positioning,
Navigation, and Timing & Spectrum
Management, Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC
20590, 202–366–5284,
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. Overview
Accurate and reliable PNT
capabilities are essential for the safety
for all modes of transportation and will
become increasingly important for
automated vessels. The primary and
most recognizable PNT service
supporting critical infrastructure is GPS.
However, because GPS relies on signals
broadcast from the satellite
constellation, its signals are low power
at the receiver and are thus vulnerable
to intentional and unintentional
disruption, such as jamming and
spoofing. GPS ‘‘jamming’’ involves the
use of a device to block or interfere with
GPS signals; ‘‘spoofing’’ is deceiving a
GPS device through fake signals. Both
phenomena undermine the reliability of
GPS and may have adverse
consequences for maritime safety and
commerce.
Jamming has long been a threat to
GPS due to the weak signal power from
the GPS satellites. North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO) military drills in
the Baltic Sea last year, with 40,000
troops and all 29 Nations participating,
experienced GPS jamming. Spoofing
was considered an unrealistic threat for
many years because it is complicated to
perform. However, high-profile
demonstrations at the University of
Texas that spoofed a drone and a
sophisticated yacht brought spoofing
into the public eye in 2012–2013, a little
more than a decade after DOT’s Volpe
National Transportation Systems Center
(Volpe Center) issued its report,
‘‘Vulnerability Assessment of the
Transportation Infrastructure Relying on
the Global Positioning System’’ (August
2001; available at: https://
rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/8435).
A likely GPS spoofing attack occurred
in the Black Sea in 2017, where over 20
ships erroneously reported their GPS
positions as being inland at an airport.
The number of separate vessels that
reported the same false position and the
characteristic jumping between the false
and true position of the ships is strong
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More recently, incidents of GPS
spoofing have been occurring around
the world, particularly in maritime
environments. The U.S. Government
provides advisories of GPS interference
through the Maritime Security
Communications with Industry (MSCI)
portal, at https://www.maritime.dot.gov/
msci/2020-016-various-gps-interference.
Much of global trade is conducted by
waterways, where ports are often
congested and visibility is variable. In a
maritime environment, GPS not only
provides positioning information, but
also provides inputs to speed, heading,
steering, radar and target information,
Electronic Chart Display Information
System (ECDIS), Under Keel Clearance
(UKC), and the Automatic Identification
System (AIS). Being able to detect when
spoofing is occurring is vital, since over
50% of all casualties at sea occur due to
navigation issues. When GPS jamming
and spoofing is detected, the goal is for
ships to immediately switch to other
navigation tools. It is therefore critical to
use complementary PNT technologies to
ensure PNT resiliency.
Consistent with these concerns, on
February 12, 2020, President Trump
issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13905,
Strengthening National Resilience
through Responsible Use of Positioning,
Navigation, and Timing Services. The
goal is to foster the responsible use of
PNT services by critical infrastructure
owners and operators (including the
transportation sector) to strengthen
national resilience. E.O. 13905 seeks to
ensure that disruption or manipulation
of PNT services does not undermine the
reliability or efficiency of critical
infrastructure by:
• Raising awareness of the extent to
which critical infrastructure depends on
PNT services;
• Ensuring that critical infrastructure
can withstand disruption or
manipulation of PNT services; and
• Engaging the public and private
sectors to promote responsible use of
PNT services.
In accordance with Section 4(g) of
E.O. 13905, DOT is conducting a pilot
program to inform the development of
the relevant PNT profile and research
and development (R&D) opportunities.
The DOT pilot program, led by OST–R
and MARAD, is focused on addressing
GPS jamming and spoofing impacts to
maritime vessels through stakeholder
engagement and evaluating
complementary PNT technologies that
can be adopted to mitigate the impacts
during these threat scenarios. The DOT
pilot program will be conducted
through stakeholder engagement and
evaluation of complementary PNT
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