30-day Federal Register Notice

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• Mail: Send comments to the Docket
Management Facility; U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590.
• Fax: Fax comments to the Docket
Management Facility at 202–493–2251.
• Hand Delivery: Bring comments to
the Docket Management Facility in
Room W12–140 of the West Building
Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Privacy: We will post all comments
we receive, without change, to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information you provide.
Using the search function of our docket
Web site, anyone can find and read the
comments received into any of our
dockets, including the name of the
individual sending the comment (or
signing the comment for an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19477–78).
Docket: To read background
documents or comments received, go to
http://www.regulations.gov at any time
or to the Docket Management Facility in
Room W12–140 of the West Building
Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Hawks, Office of the Chief
Counsel, Federal Aviation
Administration, 800 Independence
Avenue SW., Washington, DC 20591;
telephone: (202) 267–7143; email:
rob.hawks@faa.gov. This notice is
published pursuant to 14 CFR 11.85.

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Issued in Washington, DC, on May 17,
2012.
Lirio Liu,
Acting Director, Office of Rulemaking.

Petition for Exemption
Docket No.: FAA–2002–13734.
Petitioner: Republic Airline, Inc.
Section of 14 CFR Affected: 14 CFR
93.123.
Description of Relief Sought: Republic
Airline Inc. (Republic) requests an
exemption from the slot limit for Ronald
Reagan Washington National Airport
(DCA) set forth in § 93.123(a). This
exemption would permit Republic to
continue to operate one slot, which it
currently uses for nonstop service
between DCA and Milwaukee County’s
General Mitchell International Airport.
On June 14, 2010, the FAA renewed
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30, 2012. That grant of exemption stated
the FAA would publish any future
extension petitions to permit the public
to comment on the continued public
interest served by this exemption.
Specifically, the FAA requests
comments focus on three issues: (1)
Whether the FAA should extend the
exemption to Republic for a period of at
least 2 years; (2) whether the FAA
should permit the exemption to retire
according to its terms; and (3) whether
the FAA should permit the exemption
to retire and grant a similar exemption
to another carrier following a lottery
among interested new entrant or limited
incumbent carriers as defined in 14 CFR
93.123. The FAA will review all
comments received and may publish an
additional notice.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0135]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection:
Licensing Applications for Motor
Carrier Operating Authority
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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 seeks
approval to extend an ICR entitled,
‘‘Licensing Applications for Motor
Carrier Operating Authority,’’ that is
used by for-hire motor carriers of
regulated commodities, motor passenger
carriers, freight forwarders, property
brokers, and certain Mexico-domiciled
motor carriers to register their
operations with the FMCSA. The agency
invites public comment on the ICR. On
March 14, 2012, FMCSA published a
Federal Register notice allowing for a
60-day comment period on the ICR. No
comments were received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
June 25, 2012. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act
quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
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System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2012–0135. Interested persons
are invited to submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget. Comments
should be addressed to the attention of
the Desk Officer, Department of
Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, and sent via
electronic mail to
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed
to (202) 395–6974, or mailed to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102,
725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC
20503.
Ms.
Denise Ryan, Transportation Specialist,
Office of Information Technology,
Information Technology Operations
Division, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 6th Floor, West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, Telephone
Number (202) 493–0242; Email Address
denise.ryan@dot.gov. Office hours are
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Applications for Motor Carrier
Operating Authority.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0016.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers, motor
passenger carriers, freight forwarders,
brokers, and certain Mexico-domiciled
motor carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
37,239.
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
to complete Form OP–1 (MX); and 2
hours to complete Forms OP–1, OP–
1(FF), OP–1(P).
Expiration Date: September 30, 2012.
Frequency of Response: Other (as
needed).
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
74,556 hours [71,400 hours for Form
OP–1 + 2,000 hours for Form OP–1(P)
+ 1,000 hours for Form OP–1(FF) + 140
hours for Form OP–1(MX) + 16 hours
for OP–1(NNA) = 74,556].
Background: The FMCSA is
authorized to register for-hire motor
carriers of regulated commodities under
the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902;
freight forwarders under the provisions
of 49 U.S.C. 13903; property brokers
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13904;
and certain Mexican motor carriers
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902

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and the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) motor carrier
access provisions. The forms used to
apply for registration authority with the
FMCSA are: Form OP–1 for motor
property carriers and brokers; Form OP–
1(P) for motor passenger carriers; Form
OP–1(FF) for freight forwarders; and
Form OP–1(MX) for certain Mexican
motor carriers. These forms request
information on the applicant’s identity,
location, familiarity with safety
requirements, and type of proposed
operations. There are some differences
on the forms due to specific statutory
standards for registration of the different
types of transportation entities.
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 FMCSA to perform its
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for 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: May 11, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA 2012–0074]

Improvements to the Compliance,
Safety, Accountability (CSA) Motor
Carrier Safety Measurement System
(SMS)
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; extension of comment
period.
AGENCY:

On March 27, 2012, FMCSA
announced planned improvements to
the Carrier Safety Measurement System
(SMS). A preview of these
improvements and their potential effects
on a motor carrier’s status has been
available to motor carriers and law
enforcement since publication of the
notice. The system changes were
scheduled to be implemented for use in
prioritizing FMCSA and State
intervention resources and made
available to the public on the SMS
public Web site in July 2012. However,
based on feedback received by the
Agency, FMCSA extends the comment

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period for motor carriers and law
enforcement to July 30, 2012.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 30, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System Number FMCSA–
2012–0074 by 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 Management Facility,
(M–30), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Ground
Floor, Room 12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: Same as mail
address above, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202–366–9329.
To avoid duplication, please use only
one of these four methods. All
submissions must include the Agency
name and docket number for this notice.
See the ‘‘Public Participation’’ heading
below for instructions on submitting
comments and additional information.
Note that all comments received,
including any personal information
provided, will be posted without change
to http://www.regulations.gov. 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 at any time or to
Room W12–140 on the ground floor of
the DOT Headquarters Building at 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
ET, Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s Privacy Act System of
Records Notice for the DOT Federal
Docket Management System published
in the Federal Register on January 17,
2008 (73 FR 3316).
Public Participation: The http://
www.regulations.gov Web site is
generally available 24 hours each day,
365 days each year. You can get
electronic submission and retrieval help
and guidelines under the ‘‘help’’ section
of the http://www.regulations.gov Web
site. Comments received after the
comment closing date will be included
in the docket, and will be considered to
the extent practicable.

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Mr.
Bryan Price, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1000 Liberty
Avenue, Suite 1300, Pittsburgh, PA
15222, Telephone 412–395–4816, EMail: bryan.price@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
27, 2012, (77 FR 18298), FMCSA
published a notice announcing changes
to the Agency’s Safety Measurement
System and a preview period for law
enforcement and motor carriers to assess
the impact of the changes. We provided
a 60-day period for initial comments
from motor carriers and law
enforcement that would have expired on
May 29, 2012. However, based on
feedback received by the Agency, this
comment period is being extended 60
days to July 30, 2012. Once the preview
is complete an additional opportunity
will be provided for public review and
comment.
The improvements proposed include:
(1) Changes to the SMS methodology
that find higher risk carriers while
addressing industry biases; (2) Better
applications of SMS results for Agency
interventions by more effectively
identifying safety sensitive carriers (i.e.,
passenger carriers transporting people
and carriers hauling hazardous
materials (HM)), so that such firms can
be selected for CSA interventions at
more stringent levels; and, (3) More
specific fact-based displays of SMS
results on the SMS Web site.
This extension will provide motor
carriers with additional time to preview
how the improvements impact their
individual safety data in SMS. Motor
carriers will have additional time to take
action related to their data in the SMS,
and additional time to provide
comments to the Agency. The data
preview may be found at http://
csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/. During the extended
preview period, FMCSA will be
conducting additional outreach to
further explain the proposed changes to
SMS and to encourage additional motor
carriers to view the preview site and to
provide comments. As part of these
outreach efforts, FMCSA plans to offer
a series of webinars related to the
proposed SMS improvements and the
data preview site. Details regarding the
date and time of these webinars, and
how to register, will be posted to the
above Web site.
During the data preview period, the
Agency requests comments on the
impacts of the changes.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Issued: May 17, 2012.
William Quade,
Associate Administrator for Enforcement.
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