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and within the Alston Avenue median
to a new station that would become the
eastern terminus. The new station
would be located just north of Lawson
Street near the northeast corner of the
North Carolina Central University
campus. Nothing in this notice affects
FTA’s previous decisions, or notice
thereof, for the D–O LRT Project. More
specifically, the statute of limitations for
the approvals documented in the D–O
LRT Project’s February 11, 2016
combined Final Environmental Impact
Statement/Record of Decision expired
on August 1, 2016, as noticed in the
Federal Register on March 2, 2016 (81
FR 10952). This notice only applies to
the discrete actions taken by FTA at this
time, as described below. Final agency
actions: No use determination of
Section 4(f) resources; Section 106
finding of no adverse effect; and an
amended Record of Decision, dated
December 14, 2016. Supporting
Documentation: Supplemental
Environmental Assessment, dated
November 2016.
Lucy Garliauskas,
Associate Administrator Planning and
Environment.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2016–0123]

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping
Requirements: Agency Information
Collection Activity
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Request for public comment on
proposed collection of information.
AGENCY:

Before a Federal agency can
collect certain information from the
public, it must receive approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Under procedures established
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, before seeking OMB approval,
Federal agencies must solicit public
comment on proposed collections of
information, including extensions and
reinstatements of previously approved
collections. This document describes
one collection of information for which
NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before February 21, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Refer to the docket notice
number cited at the beginning of this

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notice and send your comments by any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
• Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE.,
Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number. 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 discussion
below. We will consider all comments
received before the close of business on
the comment closing date indicated
above. To the extent possible, we will
also consider comments filed after the
closing date.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or to
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays. Telephone:
(202) 366–9826.
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 in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000, (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you
may visit http://www.dot.gov/
privacy.html.
Confidential Business Information: If
you wish to submit any information
under a claim of confidentiality, you
should submit three copies of your
complete submission, including the
information you claim to be confidential
business information, to the Chief
Counsel, NHTSA, at 1200 New Jersey
Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590. In
addition, you should submit two copies,
from which you have deleted the
claimed confidential business
information, to Docket Management at
the address given above. When you send
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claimed to be confidential business
information, you should include a cover
letter setting forth the information
specified in our confidential business
information regulation (49 CFR part
512).
John
Kindelberger, Office of Regulatory
Analysis and Evaluation, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., NSA–310,
Washington, DC 20590. Mr.
Kindelberger’s phone number is 202–
366–4696 and his email address is
john.kindelberger@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for
approval, it must publish a document in
the Federal Register providing a 60-day
comment period and otherwise consult
with members of the public and affected
agencies concerning each proposed
collection of information. The OMB has
promulgated regulations describing
what must be included in such a
document. Under OMB’s regulations (at
5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask
for public comment on the following: (i)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(ii) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (iii) How to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (iv)
How to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on those who
are to respond, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submissions of responses. In
compliance with these requirements,
NHTSA asks public comment on the
following proposed collection of
information:
Title: Tire Pressure Monitoring
System—Outage Rates and Repair Costs
Study (TPMS–ORRC)
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
OMB Clearance Number: 2127–0626
Form Number: Previously approved
survey forms NHTSA 1273/1274/1275/
1276. NHTSA 1273 and 1274 will be
modified under this revised request.
Required Expiration Date of
Approval: Three years from the date of
approval by OMB.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Abstract. Improperly inflated tires
pose a safety risk, increasing the chance
of skidding, hydroplaning, longer
stopping distances, and crashes due to
flat tires and blowouts. Section 13 of the
Transportation Recall Enhancement,
Accountability, and Documentation
(TREAD) Act, which Congress passed on
November 1, 2000, directed NHTSA to
conduct rulemaking actions to revise
and update the Federal motor vehicle
safety standards for tires, to improve
labeling on tires, and to require a system
in new motor vehicles that warns the
operator when a tire is significantly
underinflated.
Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems
(TPMS) were mandated in Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
No. 138, so that drivers are warned
when the pressure in one or more of the
vehicle’s tires has fallen to 25 percent or
more below the placard pressure, or a
minimum level of pressure specified in
the standard, whichever pressure is
higher, and may be informed about
which of the four tires is underinflated.
As of September 1, 2007, after a phasein period beginning on October 5, 2005,
TPMS was required on all new light
vehicles (i.e., passenger cars, trucks,
multipurpose passenger vehicles, and
buses with a gross vehicle weight rating
of 10,000 pounds or less, except those
vehicles with dual wheels on an axle).
Executive Order 12866 requires
Federal agencies to evaluate their
existing regulations and programs and
measure their effectiveness in achieving
their objectives. Since the phase-in of
TPMS, there has been only one
evaluation of TPMS. The TPMS–SS
(OMB #2127–0626) was conducted in
2011, as a special study through the
infrastructure of the National
Automotive Sampling System (NASS),
to collect nationally representative data
on how effective TPMS was in reducing
underinflation in the on-road fleet of
passenger vehicles. Analysis of the
survey results indicated that direct
TPMS is 55.6-percent effective at
preventing severe underinflation as
defined in FMVSS No. 138. However,
effectiveness was substantially lower in
vehicles that were 6–7 years old at the
time of the survey. One explanation as
to why this is true was the possibility
that the drivers of these older vehicles
were not taking all the maintenance
actions (e.g., adding TPMS sensors to
new replacement tires, replacing nonfunctioning sensors on current tires,
having the system properly re-set when
needed) that were needed to insure the
vehicles had functioning TPMS.
Relevant data are needed to examine
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done to increase it. This was the original
goal of the TPMS–ORRC and is still a
goal.
Additionally, on December 4, 2015,
President Obama signed the Fixing
America’s Surface Transportation
(FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114–94) into law.
An amendment (Section 24115) directs
the Secretary of Transportation to
update the standard on tire pressure
monitoring systems, FMVSS No. 138, to
ensure that they cannot be overridden,
reset or recalibrated in a way that will
prevent the system from identifying a
tire that is significantly underinflated.
The Act also states that the revised
requirements shall not contain any
provision that has the effect of
prohibiting the availability of direct or
indirect tire pressure monitoring
systems. Data are needed to help inform
the required rulemaking. For this
purpose, the design of the TPMS–ORRC
field survey has been changed from a
convenience sample to a probability
sample, allowing nationally
representative estimates; this revision
also adds a module for indirect TPMS.
Description of the Likely Respondents
(Including Estimated Number, and
Proposed Frequency of Response to the
Collection of Information)
This information collection seeks
revision of the following survey
component:
Field Survey of Drivers and Vehicles.
The previously approved Field
Survey component of the TPMS–ORRC
has not yet been conducted. In this
revision, we add a module to check tire
pressure for vehicles with indirect
TPMS (about five percent of the relevant
fleet), change to a probability sample,
and reduce the overall sample to 6300
to keep the burden similar. A survey of
a probability sample, conducted in
twenty-four nationwide geographic
primary sampling units that were
previously selected and weighted for
national representation in NHTSA’s
Crash Investigation Sampling System,
will collect 6,300 inspections of eligible
passenger vehicles, and interview
drivers of these vehicles. Focus will be
on assessing the operating status of the
TPMS in these vehicles and
interviewing drivers with and without
operating TPMSs, regarding their
knowledge about, and habits related to,
the TPMS in their vehicle. Also, drivers
of vehicles with indirect TPMS
(expected to be about five percent of
surveyed drivers) will be interviewed
with a brief set of questions and
recording of tire pressures. We also plan
to offer a voluntary check for
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participation. The overall sample has
been reduced from 7,000 to 6,300 to
keep the burden essentially the same in
light of the added module and also to
adhere to the survey budget. The change
from convenience sample to probability
sample, using the 24 Primary Sampling
Units of NHTSA’s Crash Investigation
Sampling System, will allow
statistically nationally representative
estimates, which were not possible
under the convenience sample. Data
collection is expected to take place
beginning in June, 2017, and last five
months, at fueling stations (individual
stations will only be visited for a short
time as the survey moves from site to
site).
The two following survey components
of this survey have previously been
approved and conducted:
Suppliers Survey. In the previously
approved information collection, major
suppliers of TPMS sensors and systems
were voluntarily surveyed in 2016 with
a focus on TPMS repair and
maintenance issues, as well as cost
factors. Results will be reported with the
results of the driver survey.
Repair Facilities Survey. In the
previously approved information
collection, a sample of repair/
maintenance facilities (e.g., automobile
dealerships, tire chain stores, small
service stations with attached repair
shops) was surveyed with 100
completed respondents in 2016 in a
Computer-Assisted Telephone Interview
(CATI), with the option of responding
by mail. Focus was on assessing the
lifespan of TPMS, common sources of
TPMS malfunction, typical costs to
repair/replace malfunctioning systems,
and the factors considered by customers
when deciding whether to repair or
replace TPMSs that are not working.
Results will be reported with the results
of the driver survey.
Estimate of the Total Reporting and
Recordkeeping Burden Resulting from
the Collection of Information: The total
revised reporting and recordkeeping
burden resulting from this collection of
information is estimated to be 1,352
hours, as outlined below.
Field Survey of Drivers and Vehicles.
NHTSA estimates that the time to
collect vehicle and driver data will be
about 10 minutes, on average, for each
interview for the 6,300 survey
respondents. Some additional time was
spent on a previous pilot study under
the current approval, and some time
will be needed to conduct a new pilot
study on the revised survey, and to
describe the study to drivers who are
approached but are either ineligible or
prefer not to become participants in the
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respondent burden hours is estimated to
be 1,300 hours. The respondents would
not incur any reporting or record
keeping costs from the information
collection. For the driver survey,
respondents will be asked questions
regarding their TPMS, and all responses
will be provided spontaneously. For the
vehicle inspection, data will be obtained
via observation.
Suppliers Survey. NHTSA estimates
the average time to collect data
(previously approved and completed)
on the cost of TPMS parts and systems
from suppliers (respondents and nonrespondents) as about 6 hours total. The
respondents did not incur any reporting
or record keeping costs from the
information collection. Information was
only requested about records that the
respondents already were keeping for
their own purposes.
Repair Facilities Survey. NHTSA
estimates the average time to collect
data (previously approved and

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act,
44 U.S.C. chap. 35, as amended; and 49 CFR
1.95
Steven K. Smith,
Acting Associate Administrator, National
Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
Advisory Committee Charter Renewals
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee ACT (FACA), 5 U.S.C. App.
2, and after consultation with the
General Services Administration, the
Secretary of Veterans Affairs has
determined that the following Federal
advisory committee is vital to the
mission of the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) and renewing its charter
would be in the public interest.
Consequently, the charter for the
following Federal advisory committee is
renewed for a two-year period,
beginning on the dates listed below:

SUMMARY:

Committee description

MyVA Advisory Committee .............

Provides advice on matters affecting the MyVA Initiative and VA’s
ability to rebuild trust with Veterans and other stakeholders, improve service delivery with a focus on Veteran outcomes, and set
the course for longer-term excellence and reform of VA.

Charter renewed on

Committee description

Veterans’ Advisory Committee on
Education.

Authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 3692. Provides advice on the administration of education and training programs for Veterans and Servicepersons, Reservists, and dependents of Veterans under Chapters
30, 32, 35, and 36 of Title 38, and Chapter 1606 of Title 10, United
States Code.
Authorized by 38 U.S.C. § 545. Provides advice on structural safety
in the construction and remodeling of VA facilities, and to recommend standards for use by VA in the construction and alteration
of facilities.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeffrey Moragne, Committee
Management Office, Department of
Veterans Affairs, Advisory Committee
Management Office (00AC), 810
Vermont Avenue NW., Washington, DC

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October 31, 2016.

for a two-year period, beginning on the
dates listed below:

Committee name

Advisory Committee on Structural
Safety of Department of Veterans
Affairs Facilities.

Department of Veterans Affairs.

Notice of Advisory Committee
Charter renewals.

ACTION:

Committee name

The Secretary has also renewed the
charters for the following statutorily
authorized Federal advisory committees

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completed) on the types and costs of
repairing TPMS as about 20 minutes for
each interview for each of 100
completed respondents or 33 hours.
Time spent on explaining the survey to
telephone respondents who were either
not eligible or preferred not to
participate is estimated at 13 hours.
Consequently, the total respondent
burden hours is estimated to be 46
hours. The respondents did not incur
any reporting or record keeping costs
from the information collection.
Information was only requested about
records that the respondents already
were keeping for their own purposes.

Charter renewed on

20420; telephone (202) 266–4660; or
email at Jeffrey.Moragne@va.gov. To
view a copy of a VA Federal advisory
committee charter, visit http://
www.va.gov/advisory.

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September 25, 2016.

December 14, 2016.

Dated: December 16, 2016.
Jelessa M. Burney,
Federal Advisory Committee Management
Officer.
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