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control exemption in Docket No. FD
36708.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the
exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
may be filed at any time. The filing of
a petition to revoke will not
automatically stay the effectiveness of
the exemption. Petitions for stay must
be filed no later than September 1, 2023
(at least seven days before the
exemption becomes effective).
All pleadings, referring to Docket No.
FD 36707, must be filed with the
Surface Transportation Board either via
e-filing on the Board’s website or in
writing addressed to 395 E Street SW,
Washington, DC 20423–0001. In
addition, a copy of each pleading must
be served on WIM’s representative, John
K. Fiorilla, Dyer & Peterson, PC, 605
Main Street, Suite 104, Riverton, NJ
08077–1440.
According to WIM, this action is
categorically excluded from
environmental review under 49 CFR
1105.6(c) and from historic preservation
reporting requirements under 49 CFR
1105.8(b).
Board decisions and notices are
available at www.stb.gov.
Decided: August 21, 2023.
By the Board, Mai T. Dinh, Director, Office
of Proceedings.
Kenyatta Clay,
Clearance Clerk.
[FR Doc. 2023–18270 Filed 8–24–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Docket No. FAA–2022–1711]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of Renewed Approval of
Information Collection: Carbon
Offsetting and Reduction Scheme for
International Aviation (CORSIA)
Monitoring, Reporting, and Verification
(MRV) Program
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
invites public comments about our
intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for a renewed information
collection. The Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day comment period soliciting

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comments on the following collection of
information was published on January
25, 2023. FAA received two comments
to this notice. The collection involves a
request that airplane operators subject to
the applicability of Annex 16, Volume
IV of the Convention on Civil Aviation
(hereinafter the ‘‘Chicago Convention’’)
submit electronically an Emissions
Monitoring Plan (EMP), an annual
Emissions Report (ER), and an optional
annual ER CORSIA Eligible Fuels
Annex (CEFA) to the FAA. The
information to be collected is necessary
because FAA will use the information to
fulfill the United States’ responsibilities
under the Chicago Convention.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by September 25, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kevin Partowazam by email at:
[email protected]; phone:
202–267–3563.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for FAA’s
performance; (b) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information collection; and (d)
ways that the burden could be
minimized without reducing the quality
of the collected information.
OMB Control Number: 2120–0790.
Title: CORSIA Monitoring, Reporting,
and Verification (MRV) Program.
Form Numbers: 1. Emissions
Monitoring Plan (EMP) Template; 2.
Emissions Report (ER) Template; 3. ER
CORSIA Eligible Fuels Annex (CEFA).
Type of Review: Clearance of a
renewal of an information collection.
Background: The Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
collection of information was published
on January 25, 2023 (88 FR 4878). FAA
received two comments in response to
this notice.
The CORSIA MRV Program is a
voluntary program for certain U.S. air
carriers and commercial operators
(collectively referred hereinafter as
‘‘operators’’) to submit certain airplane
CO2 emissions data to the FAA to enable

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the United States to establish uniformity
with ICAO Standards And
Recommended Practices (SARPs) for
CORSIA, which were adopted in June
2018, as Annex 16, Volume IV to the
Chicago Convention. The United States
supported the decision to adopt the
CORSIA SARPs based on the
understanding that CORSIA is the
exclusive market-based measure
applying to international aviation, and
that CORSIA will ensure fair and
reciprocal commercial competition by
avoiding a patchwork of country- or
regionally-based regulatory measures
that are inconsistently applied,
bureaucratically costly, and
economically damaging. Furthermore,
continued U.S. support for CORSIA
assumes a high level of participation by
other countries, particularly by
countries with significant aviation
activity, as well as a final CORSIA
package that is acceptable to, and
implementable by, the United States.
Under CORSIA, all ICAO Member
States whose airplane operators
undertake international flights were
required to develop an MRV system for
CO2 emissions from those international
flights starting January 1, 2019. The
FAA’s CORSIA MRV Program is
intended to be the United States’ MRV
system for monitoring, reporting, and
verification of U.S. airplane operator
CO2 emissions from international
flights. Operators that are subject to the
applicability of CORSIA will submit
their EMPs, ERs, and optional ER CEFAs
electronically.1
Each document use Microsoft Excelbased templates and can be transmitted
via email. EMPs that are submitted by
operators will be used as a collaborative
tool between the operator and FAA to
document a given operator’s chosen fuel
use monitoring procedures. FAA will
retain a copy of the EMP and will share
with ICAO a list of operators that submit
EMPs. FAA will not submit any specific
EMPs from U.S. operators to ICAO.
Large operators, i.e., those emitting
500,000 metric tons or more of CO2 per
1 CORSIA applies to airplane operators that
produce annual CO2 emissions greater than 10,000
tonnes (i.e., 10,000 metric tons) from international
flights, excluding emissions from excluded flights.
The following activities are excluded CORSIA:
—Domestic flights;
—Humanitarian, medical, and firefighting
operations, including flight(s) preceding or
following a humanitarian, medical, or firefighting
flight provided such flight(s) were conducted with
the same airplane, were required to accomplish the
related humanitarian, medical, or firefighting
activities or to reposition thereafter the airplane for
its next activity;
—Operations using an airplane with a maximum
certificated take-off mass equal to or less than 5,700
kg;
—Operations on behalf of the military.

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year, will gather data through a ‘‘fuel
use monitoring method.’’ Small
operators, i.e., those emitting less than
500,000 metric tons of CO2 per year, can
use a simplified monitoring method.
Annual ERs that are submitted to FAA
by operators and verifiers will be used
to document each operators’
international emissions. FAA will use
the ERs, and optional ER CEFAs, to
calculate aggregated emissions data for
all U.S. operators. FAA will submit the
aggregated emissions data to ICAO to
demonstrate U.S. implementation of
CORSIA.
Respondents: Respondents will be
airplane operators subject to the
applicability of Annex 16, Volume IV of
the Chicago Convention. FAA expects
between 42 and 50 operators to submit
an EMP and ER. Some additional
operators could submit an EMP and ER
over time based on their international
aviation activities.
Frequency: An EMP is a one-time
submission. An ER and optional ER
CEFA is an annual submission.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response:
—For an EMP (one-time submission),
FAA expects that filling and
submitting an EMP could on average
take approximately 28.6 hours.
—For an ER (annual submission), FAA
expects that the reporting burden
could be approximately 68 hours per
operator using a Fuel Use Monitoring
Method, inclusive of approximately 8
hours per operator that chooses to
voluntarily submit an optional ER
CEFA. FAA expects the reporting
burden could be approximately 21.5
hours per operator for operators using
a simplified Monitoring Method,
inclusive of approximately 4 hours
per operator that chooses to
voluntarily submit an optional ER
CEFA.

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Estimated Total Annual Burden:
Based on the above, FAA expects that
the annual submission of an EMP and
ER, including optional ER CEFA, could
take approximately 37.5 to 115.5 hours
for each of the 42–50 operators.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 21,
2023.
Julie Marks,
Executive Director (Acting), Office of
Environment and Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2023–0185]

Commercial Driver’s License: State of
Hawaii; Application for Exemption
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:

FMCSA announces that it has
received an application from the state of
Hawaii to exempt specified portions of
the CDL skills test for drivers on the
islands of Lanai and Molokai due to the
lack of highway infrastructure to allow
completion of the full skills test.
Regulations require a CDL applicant to
possess and demonstrate specific onroad safe driving skills, including the
ability to choose a safe gap for changing
lanes, passing other vehicles, and
crossing or entering traffic and the
ability to signal appropriately when
changing direction in traffic. The state
of Hawaii proposes to issue a restricted
CDL to drivers who pass a limited CDL
skills test in which the driver would not
be required to demonstrate the ability to
perform those on-road skills. FMCSA
requests public comment on the
applicant’s request for exemption.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before September 25, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Number
FMCSA–2023–0185 by any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
www.regulations.gov. See the Public
Participation and Request for Comments
section below for further information.
• Mail: Dockets Operations, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. E.T., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
• Fax: (202) 493–2251.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number
(FMCSA–2023–0185) for this notice.
Note that DOT posts all comments
received without change to
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
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comments, go to www.regulations.gov at
any time or visit the ground level of the
West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. 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 49
U.S.C. 31315(b), DOT solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
exemption 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 https://
www.transportation.gov/privacy, the
comments are searchable by the name of
the submitter.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Richard Clemente, Driver and Carrier
Operations Division; Office of Carrier,
Driver and Vehicle Safety Standards,
FMCSA, at (202) 366–2722 or
[email protected]. If you have
questions on viewing or submitting
material to the docket, contact Dockets
Operations at (202) 366–9826.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Public Participation and Request for
Comments
FMCSA encourages you to participate
by submitting comments and related
materials.
Submitting Comments
If you submit a comment, please
include the docket number for this
notice (FMCSA–2023–0185), indicate
the specific section of this document to
which the comment applies, and
provide a reason for suggestions or
recommendations. You may submit
your comments and material online or
by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but
please use only one of these means.
FMCSA recommends that you include
your name and a mailing address, an
email address, or a phone number in the
body of your document so the Agency
can contact you if it has questions
regarding your submission.
To submit your comment online, go to
www.regulations.gov and put the docket
number ‘‘FMCSA–2023–0185’’ in the
keyword box, and click ‘‘Search.’’ Next,
sort the results by ‘‘Posted (NewerOlder),’’ choose the first notice listed,
click the ‘‘Comment’’ button, and type
your comment into the text box on the
following screen. Choose whether you
are submitting your comment as an
individual or on behalf of a third party
and then submit. If you submit your

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