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Total
annual
responses

Average
time per
response

Total
annual
burden
hours

Wage
rates 4

(A)

(B)

(C = A *
B)

(D = C *
wage rates)

2 reports ................

4 hours .................

8 hours

90.19

721.52

Respondent
universe

CFR section

—(b)(3) Status report to FRA of implementation of improvements in the improvement
plan.

32 passenger rail operations ....

Total cost
equivalent
U.S. D

270.409 Requirements for an FRMP plan (Previously reported under 2130–0633)

—(a) through (d)— New FRMP plan as part
of an SSP containing the following elements:.
• Analysis of fatigue risk • Mitigation
strategies
• Evaluation—processes to monitor the
overall effectiveness of the FRMP
• FRMP implementation plan
—Initial meeting with FRA to review FRMP
plan.
—Amendments to FRMP plans already approved (§ 270.405(c)(2)).

1 new passenger rail operation

0.33 plans ..............

78 hours ...............

25.74
hours

90.19

2,321.49

1 new passenger rail operation

0.33 meetings ........

16 hours ...............

90.19

476.20

32 passenger rail operations ....

2 amended plans ...

40 hours ...............

5.28
hours
80 hours

90.19

7,215.20

Appendix B to 270
—Additional documents provided to FRA
upon request.
Totals 5 .....................................................

32 passenger rail operations +
1 new passenger rail operation.

4 documents ..........

15 minutes ...........

1 hour

90.19

90.19

33 Passenger rail operations ...

233 responses .......

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

1,781
hours

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

164,516.50

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
233.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
1,781 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $164,516.50.
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.)

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4 The dollar equivalent cost is derived from the
2024 Surface Transportation Board Full Year Wage
A&B data series using employee group 200
(Professional & Administrative) hourly wage rate of
$51.54 and employee group 100 (Executives,
Officials, & Staff Assistants) hourly wage rate of
$69.27. The total burden wage rate (straight time
plus 75%) used in the table is $90.19 ($51.54 × 1.75
= $90.19) and $121.22 ($69.27 × 1.75 = $121.22).
5 Totals may not add up due to rounding.

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Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2026–1585]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Federal Railroad

Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork

Christopher S. Van Nostrand,
Deputy Chief Counsel.

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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
13, 2026.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on https://
www.regulations.gov to Docket No.
FRA–2026–1585. All comments
received will be posted without change
to the docket, including any personal
information provided. Please refer to the

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assigned OMB control number (2130–
0610) 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Joanne Swafford, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or telephone:
(757) 897–9908.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
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
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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:
Title: Risk Reduction Program.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0610.
Abstract: In 2020, FRA issued a final
rule 1 that requires each Class I freight
railroad and each freight railroad with
inadequate safety performance (ISP) to
develop and implement a Risk
Reduction Program (RRP) to improve
the safety of its operations. Class II and
III freight railroads may also voluntarily
comply with the RRP rule by
establishing and implementing an RRP
meeting the regulatory requirements.2 A
railroad that volunteers for RRP must
continue to comply with the rule’s
requirements for a minimum period of
5 years.3

An RRP is a comprehensive, systemoriented approach to safety that
determines a railroad operation’s level
of risk by identifying and analyzing
applicable hazards, and developing
plans to mitigate, if not eliminate, that
risk. An RRP must also include a
Fatigue Risk Management Program
(FRMP) component.4 The purpose of an
FRMP is to improve railroad safety
through structured, systematic, and
proactive processes and procedures that
a railroad develops and implements to
identify and mitigate the effects of
fatigue on its employees.5 Each railroad
has flexibility to tailor an RRP to its
specific railroad operations. Each
railroad must implement its RRP under
a written, FRA-approved RRP plan and
conduct an annual internal assessment
of its RRP, with FRA also auditing
railroads’ RRPs. The information
collected under this regulation will be
used by railroads to improve safety
through structured, proactive processes
that systematically evaluate railroad
safety hazards on their systems and
manage the risks associated with those
hazards to help reduce the number and
rates of railroad accidents/incidents,
injuries, and fatalities. FRA will also use
the collected information to audit
railroads’ RRPs and otherwise ensure
compliance with the requirements of the
RRP rule.
In this 60-day notice, FRA made
multiple adjustments to the previously
approved burden hours. While some
reported burden hours have increased,
the overall burden hours have decreased
from the previously approved 60,860
hours to 31,192 hours. In general, the
revised estimates reflect that the
estimated number of ISP rail operations

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1 85 FR 9262 (Feb. 18, 2020).
2 49 CFR 271.15 and 49 U.S.C. 20156(a)(4).

4 87 FR 35660 (June 13, 2022).

3 49 CFR 271.15.

5 49 CFR 271.603.

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has decreased from 15 to 2, the
estimated number of voluntarily
compliant railroads has increased from
0 to 10, and that all Class I railroads
have RRP plans in place and FRA does
not anticipate any new Class I railroads
beginning operations in the 3-year
period of this information collection.
Furthermore, under § 271.107, which
requires a safety outreach program, FRA
determined that the previously reported
burden was over-estimated because it
included burdens that were already
accounted for in the rulemaking
economic analysis. Specifically, the
burden hours included time spent by
railroad personnel involved in safety
outreach activities (e.g., reading emails,
watching education videos, etc.). For
this submission, the burden hours are
therefore reduced from 44,333 hours to
50 hours. This more accurately reflects
time a railroad spends on managing the
safety outreach program and RRP safety
communications (e.g., developing
outreach materials such as emails,
pamphlets, and videos) to railroad
personnel.
To more effectively manage its ICRs,
FRA is also incorporating into this ICR
the burden hours under 49 CFR 271.609,
Requirements for an FRMP Plan,
currently reported under 2130–0633,
Fatigue Risk Management Program. The
table below details the specific
paperwork requirements and associated
burden hours added for § 271.609.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: Business
(Railroads).
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.

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Total Estimated Annual Responses:
426.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
31,192 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $2,812,135.77.
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.)
Christopher S. Van Nostrand,
Deputy Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2026–16593 Filed 8–13–26; 8:45 am]
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6 The dollar equivalent cost is derived from the
2024 Surface Transportation Board Full Year Wage
A&B data series using employee group 200
(Professional & Administrative) hourly wage rate of
$51.54 and employee group 300 (Maintenance of
Way & Structures) hourly wage rate of $41.21. The
total burden wage rate (straight time plus 75%)
used in the table is $90.19 ($51.54 × 1.75 = $90.19)
and $72.12 ($41.21 × 1.75 = $72.12).
7 Totals may not add up due to rounding.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets

OFAC: Associate Director for Global
Targeting, 202–622–2420; Assistant
Director for Sanctions Compliance, 202–
622–2490 or https://ofac.treasury.gov/
contact-ofac.

Control, Treasury.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Office of Foreign Assets Control
Notice of OFAC Sanctions Action

ACTION: Notice.

Electronic Availability

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of the

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) is publishing the names
of one or more persons that have been
placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons List
(SDN List) based on OFAC’s
determination that one or more
applicable legal criteria were satisfied.
All property and interests in property
subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these
persons are blocked, and U.S. persons
are generally prohibited from engaging
in transactions with them.

The SDN List and additional
information concerning OFAC sanctions
programs are available on OFAC’s
website: https://ofac.treasury.gov.
Notice of OFAC Actions
On August 7, 2026, OFAC determined
that the property and interests in
property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of
the following persons are blocked under
the relevant sanctions authorities listed
below.
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DATES: This action was issued on
August 7, 2026. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION for relevant dates.

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