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The RERC meeting will be held
on Monday, April 20, 2015, from 9:00
a.m. to 4:45 p.m. and Tuesday, April 21,
2015, from 8:30 a.m. to noon CDT.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, 2100 West
End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37402, and
will be open to the public. Anyone
needing special access or
accommodations should let the contact
below know at least a week in advance.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Beth
Keel, 400 West Summit Hill Drive, WT–
9 D, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902, (865)
632–6113.
DATES:

Dated: March 30, 2015.
Joseph J. Hoagland,
Vice President, Stakeholder Relations,
Tennessee Valley Authority.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2015–0083]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection:
Licensing Applications for Motor
Carrier Operating Authority
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
information.
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 its
review and approval. The FMCSA seeks
approval to revise an ICR titled,
‘‘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.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before June 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2015–0083 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.

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• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading
below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
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, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
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 complete Privacy Act
Statement for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Vivian Oliver, Transportation Specialist,
Office of Information Technology,
Information Technology Operations
Division, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 6th Floor, West

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Building, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE.,
Washington DC 20590, Telephone
Number (202) 366–2974; Email Address
vivian.oliver@dot.gov. Office hours are
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: The FMCSA is
authorized to register certain for-hire
Mexico-domiciled long-haul motor
carriers of regulated commodities under
the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902 and
the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) motor carrier
access provision. The Form OP–1(MX)
is used by FMCSA to register those
Mexico-domiciled motor carriers. It
requests information on the applicant’s
identity, location, familiarity with safety
requirements, and type of proposed
operations. This ICR is being revised
due to a Final Rule titled, ‘‘the Unified
Registration System,’’ (78 FR 52608),
dated August 23, 2013, that will
incorporate all registration form
requirements included in this ICR,
except the Form OP–1(MX), into the
Form MCSA–1 in the OMB Control
Number 2126–0051, ‘‘FMCSA
Registration/Updates,’’ ICR effective
October 23, 2015. The Form OP–1(MX)
was excluded from the Form MCSA–1
because its information collection
requirements are beyond the scope of
the Unified Registration System Final
Rule.
Title: Licensing Applications for
Motor Carrier Operating Authority.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0016.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Certain Mexicodomiciled motor carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
12.
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
to complete Form OP–1 (MX).
Expiration Date: October 31, 2015.
Frequency of Response: Other (as
needed).
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 48
hours [12 annual Form OP-(MX)
responses x 4 hours to complete each
response = 48].
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 information

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collected. The Agency will summarize
or include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this ICR.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: March 26, 2015.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology and
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2012–0004, Notice 2]

Decision That Nonconforming 2012
McLaren MP4–12C Passenger Cars Are
Eligible for Importation
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Grant of petition.
AGENCY:

This document announces a
decision by the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration that
certain 2012 McLaren MP4–12C
passenger cars (PCs) that were not
originally manufactured to comply with
all applicable Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standards (FMVSS) are eligible
for importation into the United States
because they are substantially similar to
vehicles originally manufactured for
importation into and sale in the United
States that were certified by their
manufacturer as complying with the
safety standards (the U.S. certified
version of the 2012 McLaren MP4–12C
PC), and they are capable of being
readily altered to conform to the
standards.

SUMMARY:

This decision became effective
on March 26, 2015.
ADDRESSES: For further information
contact George Stevens, Office of
Vehicle Safety Compliance, NHTSA
(202–366–5308).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:

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Background
Under 49 U.S.C 30141(a)(1)(A), a
motor vehicle that was not originally
manufactured to conform to all
applicable FMVSS shall be refused
admission into the United States unless
NHTSA has decided that the motor
vehicle is substantially similar to a
motor vehicle originally manufactured
for importation into and sale in the
United States, certified as required
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vehicle to be compared, and is capable
of being readily altered to conform to all
applicable FMVSS.
Petitions for eligibility decisions may
be submitted by either manufacturers or
importers who have registered with
NHTSA pursuant to 49 CFR part 592. As
specified in 49 CFR 593.7, NHTSA
publishes notice in the Federal Register
of each petition that it receives, and
affords interested persons an
opportunity to comment on the petition.
At the close of the comment period,
NHTSA decides, on the basis of the
petition and any comments that it has
received, whether the vehicle is eligible
for importation. The agency then
publishes this decision in the Federal
Register.
J.K. Technologies, LLC, of Baltimore,
Maryland (‘‘JK’’) (Registered Importer#
RI–90–006), petitioned NHTSA to
decide whether 2012 McLaren MP4–12C
PCs are eligible for importation into the
United States. NHTSA published a
notice of the petition on March 3, 2014
(79 FR 11869) to afford an opportunity
for public comment. The reader is
referred to that notice for a thorough
description of the petition.
Comments
On March 27, 2014, NHTSA received
a request from McLaren Automotive Inc.
(McLaren), the vehicle’s original
manufacturer, to extend the comment
period by two weeks. NHTSA approved
this request to allow McLaren additional
time to respond to the issues presented
in the petition.
McLaren submitted its comments on
April 15, 2014. In its comments,
McLaren stated that while it agreed that
the U.S. and the non-U.S. versions of
the vehicle are ‘‘substantially similar’’
within the meaning of section
30141(a)(1)(A)(i), it strongly disputed
JK’s assertions that the non-U.S. version
could be readily altered to comply with
all applicable FMVSS. McLaren
elaborated by presenting detailed
reasons for its assertions with respect to
specific FMVSS.
On May 21, 2014, NHTSA forwarded
McLaren’s comments to JK and asked
that it respond by June, 4, 2014. By
letter dated June 10, 2014, JK requested
a 45 day extension in order to gather
engineering data to adequately address
the concerns raised by McLaren.
NHTSA approved JK’s request for this
extension and JK responded on July 29,
2014.
A summary of McLaren’s comments,
JK’s responses, and the conclusions that
NHTSA has reached with regard to the
issues raised by the parties is set forth
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Comments and Conclusions
NHTSA has reviewed the petition,
McLaren’s comments and JK’s responses
to those comments, and has concluded
that the vehicles covered by the petition
are capable of being readily altered to
comply with all applicable FMVSS.
However, NHTSA has also decided that
an RI who imports or modifies one of
these vehicles must include in the
statement of conformity and associated
documents (referred to as a ‘‘conformity
package’’) it submits to NHTSA under
49 CFR 592.6(d) specific proof to
confirm that the vehicle was
manufactured to conform to, or was
successfully altered to conform to, each
of the following standards:
FMVSS No. 101, Controls and
displays; McLaren commented that the
necessary reprogramming to achieve
conformity to the standard can only be
performed with a tool available only to
authorized McLaren dealers that can
only be operated by an authorized
McLaren entity using a recognized
username and password. McLaren
claimed that the tool is not offered for
sale to non-McLaren affiliated entities.
JK responded that the reprogramming
equipment it used to modify the vehicle
to the standard is available in Europe
and that it validated the programs and
encryption codes on a U.S. version of
the vehicle.
NHTSA has decided that a
description of how the programming
changes were completed and how
compliance with the standard was
verified must be included in each
conformity package. Photographs,
printouts, and/or screenshots, as
practicable, must also be submitted as
proof that the reprogramming was
carried out.
FMVSS No. 108, Lamps, reflective
devices, and associated equipment;
McLaren commented that in addition to
the modifications described in the
petition, ‘‘a completely new US vehicle
[wiring] harness would be required.’’
Moreover, as it contended with regard to
FMVSS No. 101, McLaren asserted that
reprogramming ‘‘can only be performed
using an approved McLaren tool’’ which
the manufacturer claimed is ‘‘only
available to authorized McLaren
dealers’’ and ‘‘can only be used by an
authorized McLaren entity with the use
of a username and password.’’
JK responded that it has ‘‘a USA
version vehicle for these programs and
encryption codes,’’ and that it will
replace or add wiring harnesses as
necessary.
NHTSA has decided that a
description of how the programming
changes were completed and how

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