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National Defense Authorization Act,
Public Law 113–66 (the NDAA), I
hereby delegate to the Assistant
Secretary of State for International
Security and Nonproliferation, to the
extent authorized by law, the authority
under Section 1204 of the NDAA to
provide concurrence on proposed
assistance by the Department of Defense
pursuant to that Section.
Any act, executive order, regulation or
procedure subject to, or affected by, this
delegation shall be deemed to be such
act, executive order, regulation or
procedure as amended from time to
time.
Notwithstanding this delegation of
authority, the Secretary, the Deputy
Secretary, or the Deputy Secretary for
Management and Resources may at any
time exercise any authority or function
delegated by this delegation of
authority.
This delegation of authority shall be
published in the Federal Register.
Dated: April 4, 2014.
John F. Kerry,
Secretary of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 8711]

Notice of Receipt of an Application by
Otay Water District for Issuance of a
Presidential Permit Authorizing the
Construction, Connection, Operation,
and Maintenance of a Cross-Border
Pipeline Facility for the Importation of
Desalinated Water on the Border of the
United States and Mexico
AGENCY:

Dated: April 24, 2014.
Michael Brennan,
Energy Officer, Office of Europe, Western
Hemisphere and Africa, Bureau of Energy
Resources, U.S. Department of State.

ACTION:

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Department of State.
Notice of Receipt of an
Application by Otay Water District for
Issuance of a Presidential Permit
Authorizing the Construction,
Connection, Operation, and
Maintenance of a Cross-border Pipeline
Facility for the Importation of
Desalinated Water on the Border of the
United States and Mexico.
Notice is hereby given that on
November 25, 2013, the Department of
State (DOS) received notice from the
Otay Water District (‘‘Otay Water’’) that
it seeks a Presidential Permit
authorizing the construction,
connection, operation, and maintenance
of a cross-border pipeline facility for the
importation of desalinated seawater on
the border of the United States and
Mexico in San Diego County, California.
The Department will be working with
Otay Water to conduct environmental

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analyses consistent with the National
Environmental Policy Act (‘‘NEPA’’)
and the California Environmental
Quality Act (‘‘CEQA’’) for the Otay Mesa
Conveyance System Project that would
convey desalinated seawater from the
new border crossing approximately four
miles northeast to Otay Water’s Roll
Reservoir in San Diego County (‘‘the
Project’’). The Project would provide a
new water supply source from the U.S.Mexico border to Otay Water’s potable
water system and ultimately delivered
to end-user customers in the United
States which Otay Water contends will
reduce the strain and demand on the
overall region’s limited water supply.’’
Under E.O. 11423, as amended, the
Secretary of State is designated and
empowered to receive all applications
for Presidential Permits for the
construction, connection, operation, or
maintenance at the borders of the
United States of facilities for the
exportation or importation of water or
sewage to or from a foreign country. The
Department of State has the
responsibility to determine whether
issuance of a new Presidential Permit in
light of Otay Water’s application would
serve the U.S. national interest.
Otay Water’s application is available
at http://www.state.gov/e/enr/applicant.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Office of Environmental Quality,
Oceans, Environment and Science
Bureau (OES/EQT), Department of State,
2201 C St. NW., Ste. 2727, Washington,
DC 20520, Attn: Mary Hassell, Tel: 202–
736–7428.

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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

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Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. The ICR described the nature of
the information collection and its
expected burden. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on November 15, 2013
(Federal Register/Vol. 78, No. 221/pp.
68902–68903).
DATES: Submit comments to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) on or
before June 2, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Kathy Sifrit, Contracting Officer’s
Technical Representative, Office of
Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–132),
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., W46–472, 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: Physical Fitness and Driving
Performance.
Form No.: NHTSA Form 1227.
Type of Review: Regular.
Respondents: Drivers age 70 and older
who have responded to a solicitation for
participation in a study of aging,
physical fitness, and driving safety and
have initiated a phone call expressing
their interest in study participation.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
An estimated that 270 respondents who
contact researchers in response to
descriptive solicitations.
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated time to respond to questions
in the telephone conversations is 15
minutes for each conversation with a
respondent.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 67.5 hours.
Frequency of Collection: The
questions will be presented a single
time.
Abstract: Older adults comprise an
increasing proportion of the (driving)
population and there is concern about
the consequences of declining physical
abilities such as strength, flexibility, and
range of motion on the safe operation of
motor vehicles. Previous research
indicates that gains in physical fitness
improve a number of abilities important
for safe driving. NHTSA needs to learn
more about these relationships between
fitness and driving performance to
support the development of
recommendations and educational
materials aimed at improving older
driver safety. The objective in this
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physical activity and physical fitness
training on the driving performance of
adults 70 and older. The National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) proposes to collect
information from licensed older drivers
about their driving habits and levels of
physical activity in order to determine
whether they are eligible to participate
in a study of the effects of physical
activity on driving performance. Drivers
will volunteer for the study by
responding to flyers posted at a
community center, and/or
announcements in newsletters and on
community listserves, and/or sign-ups
at a weekly farmer’s market and other
local events. Interested older drivers
will contact a designated research team
member through a toll-free number.
Researchers will ask drivers a brief (<15
minutes) series of questions to
determine eligibility to participate in
the study, then describe the proposed
study to respondents who qualify. Each
driver who meets study inclusion
criteria will then be asked if he or she
wishes to participate. If yes, a project
assistant will ask for a description of the
car in order to identify it and install a
data collection system that will collect
driving data necessary for the study.
The questions will allow research staff
to ensure that prospective participants
meet study inclusion criteria, are able
and willing to wear fitness monitors to
measure physical activity levels, and
facilitate installing data collection
instruments in each participant’s
vehicle. Analyses of these fitness/
activity level and driving data will
provide information about whether
people age 70 and older who participate
in regular physical activity perform
better in a driving evaluation and/or
drive more than do healthy, sedentary
drivers of a similar age; whether
particular physical training activities
relate to improved functioning in
specific driving tasks; and the extent to
which driving performance and/or
exposure of sedentary older adults will
improve, following participation in
physical activity. NHTSA will use the
information to inform recommendations
to the public regarding how improved
physical fitness can result in better
driving performance for the purpose 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
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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.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued in Washington, DC, on April 28,
2014.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. FD 35812]

Central Puget Sound Regional Transit
Authority—Acquisition Exemption—
Certain Assets of City of Tacoma in
Pierce County, Wash.
The Central Puget Sound Regional
Transit Authority (Sound Transit), a
noncarrier, has filed a verified notice of
exemption under 49 CFR 1150.31 to
acquire from the City of Tacoma the
physical assets and right-of-way of an
approximately one-mile segment of the
rail line commonly known as the
Mountain Division, approximately
located between milepost 1.0, at the
BNSF Railway Company mainline near
the Port of Tacoma, and milepost 1.99,
at East D Street in the City of Tacoma,
Pierce County, Wash. (the Tacoma
Dome Segment). According to Sound
Transit, the City of Tacoma, through its
Department of Public Utilities, d/b/a
Tacoma Rail, operates rail service over
the Tacoma Dome Segment pursuant to
an operating agreement with the General
Government of the City of Tacoma,
another subdivision of the city that
owns the real property and physical
assets comprising the Tacoma Dome
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would not acquire any right or
obligation to provide freight service on
the Tacoma Dome Segment and that
Tacoma Rail would retain the exclusive,
permanent right to operate freight
service on the Tacoma Dome Segment to
all existing and new customers, even
after Sound Transit acquires the Tacoma
Dome Segment.1
Sound Transit states that it is in the
final stage of negotiating a Purchase and
Sale Agreement and Joint Use
Agreement for the Tacoma Dome
Segment with the City of Tacoma.
According to Sound Transit, it is
acquiring the Tacoma Dome Segment for
the purpose of providing wholly
intrastate passenger commuter rail
operations and would not acquire any
freight operating rights. Sound Transit
also states that no interchange
agreements, and no limitation on any
future interchange agreements, are being
imposed in connection with the
proposed transaction.
Sound Transit certifies that, because it
will conduct no freight operations on
the line segment being acquired, its
revenues from freight operations will
not result in the creation of a Class I or
Class II carrier.
Sound Transit states that it expects to
consummate the proposed transaction
on or as soon as practicable after the
effective date of the exemption, May 15,
2014 (30 days after the exemption is
filed).
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the
exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
may be filed at any time. The filing of
a petition to revoke will not
automatically stay the effectiveness of
the exemption. Petitions to stay must be
filed no later than May 8, 2014 (at least
seven days before the exemption
becomes effective).
An original and ten copies of all
pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD
35812, must be filed with the Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001. In
addition, a copy of each pleading must
be served on Charles A. Spitulnik,
Kaplan Kirsch & Rockwell LLP, 1001
Connecticut Avenue NW., Suite 800,
Washington, DC 20036.
Board decisions and notices are
available on our Web site at
www.stb.dot.gov.
Decided: April 28, 2014.
1 A motion to dismiss the notice of exemption on
grounds that the transaction does not require
authorization from the Board was concurrently filed
with this notice of exemption. The motion to
dismiss will be addressed in a subsequent Board
decision.

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