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Camuy, Quebradillas, Isabela, Moca and
Aguadilla in the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis
D. Lo´pez-Rivera, PE, Environmental
Specialist, FHWA Puerto Rico Division
Office, 350 Avenue Carlos Chardo´n
Suite 210, San Juan PR 00918–2161;
Telephone: (787) 766–5600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
FHWA, in cooperation with the Puerto
Rico Highway & Transportation
Authority (PRHTA), will prepare an
environmental impact statement (EIS)
on a proposal for improvements to the
Hatillo–Aguadilla Northwest Corridor in
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. The
proposed project starts at PR–22/PR–2
intersection in the municipality of
Hatillo, and ends at State Road PR–2
between kilometers 128.0 and 130.0 in
the municipality of Aguadilla for a total
length of approximately 45 kilometers.
The main goals of the Northwest
Corridor project are: (1) Complete an
expressway from San Juan to Aguadilla;
(2) provide a more efficient system
linkage in the study corridor; (3)
alleviate local congestion on PR–2 in the
municipalities of Hatillo, Camuy,
Quebradillas, Isabela, Moca, and
Aguadilla; (4) reduce travel time in at
least 20% from Hatillo to Aguadilla; (5)
improve traffic safety conditions from
Hatillo to Aguadilla; (6) reduce the
vehicle operating and maintenance costs
of vehicle owners using the route; (7)
reduce vehicle air emissions; and (8)
promote the socioeconomic
development of the northwest region of
Puerto Rico.
Alternates under consideration
include but are not limited to the
following: (1) Taking no action; (2)
widening the existing four-lane and at
grade intersections to six-lanes and
intersection overpasses at State Road
PR–2; (3) constructing a four-lanes,
limited access highway on new location;
(4) and (5) constructing four-lanes,
limited access highway segments on two
new locations in combination with
widening the existing four-lane and at
grade intersections to six-lanes and
intersection overpasses on other State
Road PR–2 segments; (6) Dynamic Toll
Lanes at State Road PR–2 from Hatillo
to Aguadilla and constructing a four
lanes limited access highway on the
Aguadilla segment. The EIS will be
developed in accordance with 23 U.S.C.
139, 23 CFR 771, and 40 CFR 1500–
1508.
Public involvement will occur
throughout the development of the
environmental studies and the EIS.
These documents will be made available
for review and comments by federal and

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state resource agencies and the public.
Specific efforts to encourage
involvement by, and solicit comments
from, minority and low-income
populations in the project study area
will be made. A series of public
information meetings will be held
during the project study. In addition, a
public hearing will be held after the
completion of the Draft EIS. Public
notice will be given as to the time and
place of all public information meetings
and hearings.
Inquiries related to the Hatillo–
Aguadilla Northwest Corridor Project
EIS can be sent to FHWA at the address
provided above or at http://
www.corredornoroeste.com. To ensure
that the full range of issues related to
this proposed action are addressed and
all significant issues identified,
comments and suggestions are invited
from all interested parties.
The EIS process will conclude with a
Record of Decision selecting either the
no build alternative or a preferred
alternative.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Number 20.205, Highway Research,
Planning and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372
regarding intergovernmental consultation on
Federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Dated: July 29, 2014.
Luis D. Lo´pez-Rivera,
Environmental Specialist, San Juan, Puerto
Rico.
[FR Doc. 2014–18309 Filed 8–1–14; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Information Collection Activities:
Submission for the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
Review; Request for Comment
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of
information collection and solicitation
of public comment.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its
expected burden. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period

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soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on April 30, 2014 (Federal
Register/Vol. 79, No. 83/pp. 24494–
24495).
DATES: Submit comments to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) on or
before September 3, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Kathy Sifrit at the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of
Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–132),
W46–472, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Dr.
Sifrit’s phone number is 202–366–0868
and her email address is kathy.sifrit@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2127—New.
Title: Older Drivers and Navigation
Devices.
Form No.: NHTSA Form 1260.
Type of Review: Regular.
Respondents: Drivers age 60 and older
who have responded to a solicitation for
participation in a study of older drivers
and navigation devices and provided a
phone number or email for contact.
Estimated Number of Respondents: A
maximum of 320 phone conversations
with respondents to a solicitation who
have provided contact information, to
yield 160 participants.
Estimated Time per Response: The
average amount of time to respond to
the questions is estimated at 10 minutes
for each telephone conversation with a
respondent.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 53.33 hours.
Frequency of Collection: The
questions will be presented a single
time.
Abstract: Some older drivers have
difficulty navigating to unfamiliar
places. As a result, they may restrict
their driving thereby decreasing their
quality of life or attempt to drive and
potentially encounter difficulties
including becoming lost and risking
injury or death. A number of electronic
devices have been advanced as means to
prolong older adults’ driving careers.
These include electronic navigation
systems (ENSs), which could aid older
drivers through freeing cognitive
resources otherwise needed for
wayfinding. It is possible, however, that
these systems may increase driver
workload because they cause a
distraction or select a route that is
different than the driver expects. The
purpose of the study is to document
differences in older adults’ driving
performance while they drive to familiar
destinations, unfamiliar destinations
using paper directions, and unfamiliar

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destinations using an ENS. The project
will include participants who are
experienced in using navigation devices
to explore the effects of familiarity using
an ENS on driving performance, and
will then assess the benefits of
providing training in using an ENS to
older adults. Each driver who meets
study inclusion criteria based on
responses to the proposed questions
will be asked if he or she wishes to
participate. Volunteer participants will
complete an evaluation session
conducted by a driver rehabilitation
specialist (DRS) to determine their
fitness to drive. In the first segment of
the study, participants will complete
multiple on-the-road drives using no
directional aid, turn-by-turn directions
on paper, or an ENS. After participants
have finished the driving tasks, they
will complete an ENS destination entry
task. In the next segment of the study,
participants will receive training in ENS
use before completing the drives, with
a DRS assessing driver performance on
each drive. The proposed questions are
needed to allow research staff to ensure
that prospective participants meet study
inclusion criteria and facilitate their
study participation. NHTSA will use
findings from this study to develop
recommendations to health care
providers and to the public regarding
safety consequences of older drivers’
use of ENSs, with the ultimate goal of
reducing injuries and loss of life on the
highway.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding
the burden estimate, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk
Officer for Department of
Transportation, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, or by
email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov,
or fax: 202–395–5806.
Comments Are Invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department of
Transportation, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30
days of publication of this notice.

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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 30,
2014.
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2014–18317 Filed 8–1–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 278X); Docket
No. AB 55 (Sub-No. 728X)]

Central of Georgia Railroad
Company—Abandonment Exemption—
in Montgomery County, Ala.; CSX
Transportation, Inc.—Discontinuance
of Service Exemption—in Montgomery
County, Ala.
Central of Georgia Railroad Company
(CGA), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Norfolk Southern Railway Company,
and CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT)
(collectively, applicants) have jointly
filed a verified notice of exemption
under 49 CFR pt. 1152 subpart F—
Exempt Abandonments and
Discontinuances of Service for (1) CGA
to abandon a total of 2.12 miles of CGA
railroad line extending between
Milepost H 411.50 and Milepost H
413.62, in the City of Montgomery,
Montgomery County, Ala. (the Line);
and (2) CSXT to discontinue service
over approximately 0.55 miles of the
Line, between Milepost H 413.07 and
Milepost H 413.62. The Line traverses
United States Postal Service Zip Codes
36104 and 36107.
Applicants have certified that (1) no
local traffic has moved over the Line for
at least two years; (2) no overhead traffic
has moved over the Line for at least two
years, and if there were any overhead
traffic, it could be rerouted over other
lines; (3) no formal complaint filed by
a user of rail service on the Line (or by
a state or local government entity acting
on behalf of such user) regarding
cessation of service over the Line either
is pending with the Surface
Transportation Board (Board) or with
any U.S. District Court or has been
decided in favor of complainant within
the two-year period; and (4) the
requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7(c)
(environmental report), 49 CFR 1105.11
(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12
(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR
1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental
agencies) have been met.
As a condition to these exemptions,
any employee adversely affected by the
abandonment or discontinuance shall be
protected under Oregon Short Line

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Railroad—Abandonment Portion
Goshen Branch Between Firth &
Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville
Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979). To
address whether this condition
adequately protects affected employees,
a petition for partial revocation under
49 U.S.C. 10502(d) must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of
intent to file an offer of financial
assistance (OFA) has been received,
these exemptions will be effective on
September 3, 2014, unless stayed
pending reconsideration. Petitions to
stay that do not involve environmental
issues,1 formal expressions of intent to
file an OFA under 49 CFR
1152.27(c)(2),2 and trail use/rail banking
requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be
filed by August 14, 2014. Petitions to
reopen or requests for public use
conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must
be filed by August 25, 2014, with the
Surface Transportation Board, 395 E
Street SW., Washington, DC 20423–
0001.
A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to applicants’
representatives: William A. Mullins
(representing CGA), Baker & Miller
PLLC, 2401 Pennsylvania Avenue NW.,
Suite 300, Washington, DC 20037; and
Louis E. Gitomer (representing CSXT),
Law Offices of Louis E. Gitomer, LLC,
600 Baltimore Avenue, Suite 301,
Towson, MD 21204.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemptions
are void ab initio.
Applicants have filed a combined
environmental and historic report that
addresses the effects, if any, of the
abandonment and discontinuance on
the environment and historic resources.
OEA will issue an environmental
assessment (EA) by August 8, 2014.
Interested persons may obtain a copy of
the EA by writing to OEA (Room 1100,
Surface Transportation Board,
Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by
calling OEA at (202) 245–0305.
Assistance for the hearing impaired is
available through the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339. Comments on
environmental and historic preservation
matters must be filed within 15 days
1 The Board will grant a stay if an informed
decision on environmental issues (whether raised
by a party or by the Board’s Office of Environmental
Analysis (OEA) in its independent investigation)
cannot be made before the exemption’s effective
date. See Exemption of Out-of-Serv. Rail Lines, 5
I.C.C. 2d 377 (1989). Any request for a stay should
be filed as soon as possible so that the Board may
take appropriate action before the exemption’s
effective date.
2 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which is currently set at $1,600. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).

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