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Unit
measured

Rail measures

Temporal

Secondary strategic
goal

Description
The annual gross tonnage of freight
shipped in the project area. Gross tons
include freight cargo minus tare weight
of the rail cars. This measures the volume of freight a railroad ships in a year.
This measure can be useful for projects
that are anticipated to increase freight
shipments.
The number of annual automobile crossings that are eliminated at an at-grade
crossing as a result of a new grade
separation.
Count of the annual passenger boardings
and alightings at stations within the
project area.
Point-to-point travel times between predetermined station stops within the
project area. This measure demonstrates how track improvements and
other upgrades improve operations on a
rail line. It also helps make sure the railroad is maintaining the line after project
completion.
If a project is upgrading a line to accommodate heavier rail cars (typically an increase from 263,000 lb. rail cars to
286,000 lb. rail cars).
The number of track miles that exist within
the project area. This measure can be
beneficial for projects building sidings or
sections of additional main line track on
a railroad.

Gross Ton ................

Gross Tons

Annual .........

Economic Competitiveness.

State of Good Repair

Rail Track Grade
Separation.

Count ...........

Annual .........

Economic Competitiveness.

Safety ......................

Passenger Counts ...

Count ...........

Annual .........

Economic Competitiveness.

State of Good Repair

Travel Time ..............

Time/Trip .....

Annual .........

Economic Competitiveness.

Quality of Life ..........

Track weight capacity.

Yes/No ........

One Time ....

State of Good Repair

Economic Competitiveness.

Track Miles ...............

Miles ............

One Time ....

State of Good Repair

Economic Competitiveness.

G. Federal Awarding Agency Contacts
For further information concerning
this Notice, please contact the FRA
NOFO Support program staff via email
at [email protected].
H. Other Information

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Primary strategic
goal

All information submitted as part of
or in support of any application shall
use publicly available data or data that
can be made public and methodologies
that are accepted by industry practice
and standards, to the extent possible. If
the application includes information the
applicant considers to be a trade secret
or confidential commercial or financial
information, the applicant must do the
following: (1) Note on the front cover
that the submission ‘‘Contains
Confidential Business Information
(CBI)’’; (2) mark each affected page
‘‘CBI’’; and (3) highlight or otherwise
denote the CBI portions.
The DOT regulations implementing
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
are found at 49 CFR part 7 subpart C—
Availability of Reasonably Described
Records under the Freedom of
Information Act which sets forth rules
for FRA to make requested materials,
information and, records publicly
available under FOIA. Unless prohibited
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released in response to FOIA or
Congressional requests.
In addition, following the completion
of the selection process and
announcement of awards, FRA may
publish a list of all applications
received along with the names of the
applicant organizations and funding
amounts requested. Except for
information withheld under the
previous paragraph, FRA may also make
application narratives publicly available
or share application information within
DOT or with other Federal agencies if
FRA determines that sharing is relevant
to the respective program’s objectives.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Jennifer Mitchell,
Deputy Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2003–0002–N–16]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), 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) summarized 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 in the ICR.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on regulations.gov
to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2023–
0002. All comments received will be
posted without change to the docket,
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including any personal information
provided. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number (2130–0552) in
any correspondence submitted. FRA
will summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice, made available to the public, and
include them in its information
collection submission to OMB for
approval.
Ms.
Arlette Mussington, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or
telephone: (571) 609–1285 or Ms.
Joanne Swafford, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or telephone:
(757) 897–9908.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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, 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:
Respondent
universe

CFR section

Total annual responses

Average time
per response
(seconds)

Total annual
burden hours
(hours)

Total cost
equivalent in
U.S. dollar

(A)

(B)

(C = A * B)

(D = C *
wage rates) 1

229.21(a–b)—Daily inspection—Written report ............................

The burden for this requirement is covered under OMB Control No. 2130–0004 under § 229.137
and § 229.139.

229.137(d)—Defective, unsanitary toilet facility; use in trailing
position—Tagging.
229.137(e)—Defective, sanitary toilet facility; use in switching,
transfer service—Tagging.
229.139(d)—Switching or transfer service—defective locomotive
toilet facility—Notation on daily inspection report.

784 railroads ........

11,700 tags .....................

90

292.50

$19,392.75

784 railroads ........

7,956 tags .......................

90

198.90

13,187.07

784 railroads ........

93,600 notations .............

30

780.00

51,714.00

Total .......................................................................................

784 railroads ........

113,256 responses .........

N/A

1,271

84,294

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
113,256.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
1,271 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $84,294.

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Title: Locomotive Cab Sanitation.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0552.
Abstract: FRA’s locomotive cab
sanitation standards, 49 CFR 229.137
and 229.139, prescribe minimum
standards for the locomotive cab
sanitation compartment, including the
toilet facility. FRA uses the information
collection associated with these
provisions to promote rail safety and
locomotive crew member health by
ensuring crew member access to a
functioning and sanitary toilet facility
and that railroads timely repair
defective and unsanitary conditions in
the sanitation compartment.
In this 60-day notice, FRA has made
a minor adjustment of less than one
hour due to a rounding error.
Additionally, FRA is updating the
respondent universe from 746 railroads
in the previous ICR to 784 railroads to
reflect the changes that were made to
the 2022 Railroad Classification Data.
Type of Request: Extension without
change (with changes in estimates) of a
currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 784 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Reporting Burden:

1 Totals may not add due to rounding. The dollar
equivalent cost is derived from the 2022 Surface
Transportation Board Full Year Wage A&B data
series using the burdened hourly wage of employee
groups, 400 (Maintenance of Equipment & Stores)
$67.11, and 600 (Transportation, Train & Engine)
$63.07. The wage rate is shared with group 400
accounting for 80% and group 600 accounting for
20%. The total burden wage rate (Straight time plus
75%) used in the table is $63.30. 80% of $67.11 =
$53.69, 20% of $63.07 = $12.61 for a total of $66.30
hourly burdened wage rate.

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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 that does
not display a currently valid OMB
control number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Christopher S. Van Nostrand,
Acting Deputy Chief Counsel.

AGENCY:

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Federal Transit Administration
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
METRO Blue Line Extension Light Rail
Transit Project
Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS).
The Federal Transit
Administration (FTA), as lead Federal

SUMMARY:

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