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Aviation Administration or other United
States Federal Government entities are
required to identify themselves. The
proposed collection of information will
be used to positively identify the user
requesting access and create a user
account.
The identification of the requesting
user is based on answers provided via
a web interface that are matched against
sources such as public records, mobile
accounts, credit reporting bureaus and
other available data. If a positive
identification is made some of the
collected information is used to create a
user account to allow the user access to
the requested web application.
Respondents: Any un-credentialed
individual who requests a user account
to access web applications published by
the FAA or other U.S. Federal
Government entity that is integrated
with the MyAccess program.
Frequency: The collection is done one
time for each new account request.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: ∼0.07 hours (∼4 minutes).
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
∼0.07 hours (∼4 minutes).
Issued in Oklahoma City, OK, March 15th,
2022.
Christopher K. Brimage,
Information Technology Specialist, Enterprise
Search & Integration Services Branch (ADE–
330)—Solution Delivery Directorate, AIT,
AFN, FAA, USDOT.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2021–0189]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection: Hours of
Service (HOS) of Drivers Regulations
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (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 FMCSA requests approval to renew
an ICR titled, ‘‘Hours of Service (HOS)
of Drivers Regulations.’’ The HOS

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regulations require a motor carrier to
install, and requires each of its drivers
subject to the record of duty status
(RODS) rule to use, an electronic logging
device (ELD) to report the driver’s
RODS. The RODS is critical to FMCSA’s
safety mission because it helps
enforcement officials determine if
commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers are complying with the HOS
rules limiting driver on-duty and
driving time and requiring periodic offduty time.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received on or before May 18, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2021–0189 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,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 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, 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. To be sure someone is there to
help you, please call (202) 366–9317 or
(202) 366–9826 before visiting Dockets
Operations.
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
rulemaking 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.dot.gov/privacy.
Public Participation: The Federal
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hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘FAQ’’ 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: Ms.
Pearlie Robinson, FMCSA Driver and
Carrier Operations Division, DOT,
FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: 202–366–4225.
Email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On December 16, 2015, the final rule
titled ‘‘Electronic Logging Devices and
Hours of Service Supporting
Documents’’ was published (80 FR
78292). It became effective February 16,
2016. The FMCSA established
minimum performance and design
standards for ELDs and mandated use of
these devices by drivers who are subject
to the HOS reporting requirements.
Drivers using compliant automatic onboard recorders had until December 16,
2019, to replace the devices with ELDs.
As a condition of receiving certain
federal grants, States agree to adopt and
enforce the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations, including the HOS rules, as
State law. As a result, State enforcement
inspectors use the RODS and supporting
documents to determine whether CMV
drivers are complying with the HOS
rules. In addition, FMCSA uses the
RODS during on-site and offsite
investigations of motor carriers. And,
Federal and State courts rely upon the
RODS as evidence of driver and motor
carrier violations of the HOS
regulations. This information collection
supports the DOT’s Strategic Goal of
Safety because the information helps the
agency ensure the safe operation of
CMVs in interstate commerce on our
Nation’s highways.
Renewal of This Information Collection
(IC)
The current IC burden estimate of the
HOS rules, approved by OMB on July
31, 2019, is 41.04 million hours. The
expiration date of the current ICR is July
31, 2022. Through this ICR renewal,
FMCSA requests a revision of the
paperwork burden of 2126–0001. The
agency requests an increase in the

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burden hours from 41.04 million hours
to 50.37 million hours. The increase is
the result of the increase in estimated
driver population as well as the increase
in expected industry growth rate for
drivers from 2020 to 2030. Two types of
information are collected under this IC:
(1) Drivers’ RODS commonly referred to
as a logbook, and (2) supporting
documents, such as gasoline and toll
receipts, that motor carriers use to verify
accuracy of RODS and document
expense deductions for income tax
filing purposes. The use of ELDs
reduces the driver’s time to input duty
status from 6.5 minutes to 2 minutes.
This IC includes only the estimate of 2
minutes for drivers and motor carriers.
Title: Hours of Service (HOS) of
Drivers Regulations.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0001.
Type of Request: Renewal of an
information collection.
Respondents: Motor Carriers of
Property and Passengers, Drivers of
CMVs.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4.24 million CMV drivers; 602,542
Motor Carriers.
Estimated Time per Response: CMV
drivers using technology: 2 minutes.
Motor Carriers: 2 minutes.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2022.
Frequency of Response: Drivers: 240
days per year; Motor carriers 240 days
per year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
50.37 million hours.
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 the
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 information
collected. The agency will summarize or
include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this ICR.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR
1.87 on:
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
Announcement of Fiscal Year 2021
Grants for Buses and Bus Facilities
Program Project Selections
Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice; announcement of project
selections. Grants for Buses and Bus
Facilities Program.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Department of
Transportation’s (DOT) Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) announces the
allocation of $409,274,220 to projects
under the Fiscal Year (FY) 2021 Grants
for Buses and Bus Facilities Program
(Buses and Bus Facilities Program) and
provides administrative guidance on
project implementation.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Successful applicants should contact
the appropriate FTA Regional Office for
information regarding applying for the
funds or program-specific information.
A list of Regional Offices can be found
at www.transit.dot.gov/. Unsuccessful
applicants may contact Tom Wilson,
Office of Program Management at (202)
366–5279, email: Thomas.Wilson@
dot.gov within 30 days of this
announcement to arrange a proposal
debriefing. A TDD is available at 1–800–
877–8339 (TDD/FIRS).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal
public transportation law (49 U.S.C.
5339(b)) authorizes FTA to make
competitive grants for buses and bus
facilities. Federal public law (49 U.S.C.
5338(a)(2)(M)) authorized $289,044,179
in FY 2021 funds for the Grants for
Buses and Bus Facilities Program. The
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021,
appropriated an additional
$125,000,000 for the Grants for Buses
and Bus Facilities Program. After the
oversight takedown of $4,455,331, FTA
is announcing the availability of
$409,588,848 for the Grants for Buses
and Bus Facilities Program.
On September 20, 2021, FTA
published a Notice of Funding
Opportunity (NOFO) (86 FR 52291)
announcing the availability of
$409,588,848 in competitive funding
under the Buses and Bus Facilities
Program. These funds will provide
financial assistance to states and eligible
public agencies to replace, rehabilitate,
purchase, or lease buses, vans, and
related equipment, and for capital
projects to rehabilitate, purchase,
construct, or lease bus-related facilities.
In response to the NOFO, FTA received
303 eligible project proposals totaling
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approximately $2.56 billion in Federal
funds. Project proposals were evaluated
based on each applicant’s
responsiveness to the program
evaluation criteria outlined in the
NOFO.
Based on the criteria in the NOFO,
FTA is funding 70 projects, as shown in
Table 1, for a total of $409,274,220.
Recipients selected for competitive
funding are required to work with their
FTA Regional Office to submit a grant
application in FTA’s Transit Award
Management System (TrAMS) for the
projects identified in the attached table
to quickly obligate funds. Grant
applications must only include eligible
activities applied for in the original
project application. Funds must be used
consistent with the competitive
proposal and for the eligible capital
purposes described in the NOFO.
In cases where the allocation amount
is less than the proposer’s total
requested amount, recipients are
required to fund the scalable project
option as described in the application.
If the award amount does not
correspond to the scalable option, the
recipient should work with the Regional
Office to reduce scope or scale the
project such that a complete phase or
project is accomplished. Recipients may
also provide additional local funds to
complete a proposed project. A
discretionary project identification
number has been assigned to each
project for tracking purposes and must
be used in the TrAMS application.
Selected projects are eligible to incur
costs under pre-award authority no
earlier than the date projects were
publicly announced. Pre-award
authority does not guarantee that project
expenses incurred prior to the award of
a grant will be eligible for
reimbursement, as eligibility for
reimbursement is contingent upon other
requirements, such as planning and
environmental requirements, having
been met. For more about FTA’s policy
on pre-award authority, please see the
current FTA Apportionments,
Allocations, and Program Information
and Interim Guidance at https://
www.transit.dot.gov/funding/
apportionments. Post-award reporting
requirements include submission of
Federal Financial Reports and Milestone
Progress Reports in TrAMS (see FTA
Circular 5010.1E). Recipients must
comply with all applicable Federal
statutes, regulations, executive orders,
FTA circulars, and other Federal
requirements in carrying out the project
supported by the FTA grant. FTA
emphasizes that recipients must follow
all third-party procurement
requirements set forth in Federal public

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