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federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Dated: December 20, 2007.
Stephen Boch,
Major Project Oversight Manager, Olympia,
WA.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–0083]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of a Currently
Approved Information Collection:
Transportation of Hazardous Materials,
Highway Routing
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
information.

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AGENCY:

SUMMARY: 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
review and approval. The FMCSA
requests approval to extend an existing
information collection entitled
‘‘Transportation of Hazardous Materials,
Highway Routing,’’ which requires
States and Indian tribes to identify
designated/restricted routes and
restrictions or limitations affecting how
motor carriers may transport certain
hazardous materials on the highway. On
October 30, 2007, FMCSA published a
Federal Register notice allowing for a
60-day comment period on the ICR. No
comment was received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
February 4, 2008. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference DOT Docket No. FMCSA–
2007–0083. You may submit comments
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
James O. Simmons, Hazardous Materials
Division, phone (202) 366–6121; FAX
(202) 366–3921; or e-mail
james.simmons@dot.gov; Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, DOT,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are

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from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Maintenance and Repair
Reimbursement Pilot Program

Title: Transportation of Hazardous
Materials, Highway Routing.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0014.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: The reporting burden is
shared by the 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, American
Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, and
the Virgin Islands.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
53.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2007.
Frequency of Response: There is one
response annually from approximately
53 respondents.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13
hours [53 respondents × 1 response × 15
minutes per response/60 minutes =
13.25 hours, rounded to 13 hours].
Background: The data for the
Transportation of Hazardous Materials;
Highway Routing designations are
collected under authority of 49 U.S.C.
5112 and 5125. That authority places
responsibility on the Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) to specify
and regulate standards for establishing,
maintaining, and enforcing routing
designations.
Under 49 CFR 397.73, the
Administrator has the authority to
request that each State and Indian tribe,
through its routing agency, provide
information identifying hazardous
materials routing designations within
their jurisdictions. That information is
collected and consolidated by the
FMCSA and published annually in
whole, or as updates, in the Federal
Register.
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 collected
information.
Issued on: December 18, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
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Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of extension of
application deadline.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration
is hereby giving notice that the closing
date for filing applications to enroll in
the Maintenance and Repair
Reimbursement Pilot Program is
extended until February 15, 2008. The
notice announcing the initial
application deadline was published in
the Federal Register on July 2, 2007 (72
FR 36103). An extension to October 30,
2007 was previously published in the
Federal Register on July 30, 2007 (72 FR
41581–01). A subsequent extension to
December 30, 2007 was published in the
Federal Register on October 30, 2007
(72 FR 61421–01).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean
E. McKeever, Associate Administrator
for Business and Workforce
Development, Maritime Administration,
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington,
DC 20590; phone: (202) 366–5737; fax:
(202) 366–3511; or e-mail:
Jean.McKeever@dot.gov.

Section
3517 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007
(Pub. L. 109–163) requires a person who
is awarded a Maritime Security Program
(‘‘MSP’’) agreement to also enter into an
agreement with the Maritime
Administration to perform maintenance
and repair (‘‘M&R’’) work in United
States shipyards as a condition of the
MSP award. The Maritime
Administration’s M&R regulations do
not apply the M&R condition to
contractors who have already been
awarded an M&R agreement. Thus, the
Maritime Administration’s M&R
regulations make the M&R obligation
mandatory on new awardees, including
transferees, of MSP agreements, and
voluntary for existing MSP contractors.
The M&R regulations were published
in the Federal Register on February 6,
2007 (72 FR 5342–01), but did not
specify a time period for submitting
applications. The deadline for applying
for the M&R program is being extended
to accommodate one or more carriers
that are considering submitting
applications, but need additional time
to make a decision.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66)
Dated: December 27, 2007.

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