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Estimated Annual Frequency per
Response: Once per information
collection request.
Estimated Average Burden Hours per
Response: 15 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 2,500 hours.
Request for Comments
TVA will make comments submitted
in response to this notice, including
names and addresses where provided, a
matter of public record. TVA will
summarize the comments and include
them in the request for OMB approval.
We are requesting comments on all
aspects of this generic clearance request,
including: (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Burden means the total time, effort, or
financial resources expended by persons to
generate, maintain, retain, disclose or
provide information to or for a Federal
agency. This includes the time needed to
review instructions; to develop, acquire,
install and utilize technology and systems for
the purpose of collecting, validating and
verifying information, processing and
maintaining information, and disclosing and
providing information; to train personnel and
to be able to respond to a collection of
information, to search data sources, to
complete and review the collection of
information; and to transmit or otherwise
disclose the information.
Andrea S. Brackett,
Director, TVA Cybersecurity.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration

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[Docket No. 2019–0640]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of Renewed Approval of
Information Collection: Air Taxi and
Commercial Operator Airport Activity
Survey
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.

AGENCY:

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Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
invites public comments about our
intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval to renew an information
collection. The collection involves
requesting that small on-demand
operators voluntarily provide the
number of revenue passengers that
boarded their aircraft at each airport
annually. This information is used in
determining an airport’s category and
eligibility for federal funding on an
annual basis. It is not available through
any other federal data source.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by October 21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Please send written
comments:
By Electronic Docket:
www.regulations.gov (2019–0640).
By mail: Luis Loarte, FAA, 800
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC 20591.
By fax: 202–267–5257.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Luis
Loarte by email at: Luis.Loarte@faa.gov;
phone: 202–267–9622.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for FAA’s
performance; (b) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (c) ways for FAA to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information collection; and (d)
ways that the burden could be
minimized without reducing the quality
of the collected information. The agency
will summarize and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
OMB Control Number: 2120–0067.
Title: Air Taxi and Commercial
Operator Airport Activity Survey.
Form Numbers: FAA Form 1800–31.
Type of Review: Clearance of a
renewal of an information collection.
Background: The data collected
through this survey is the only source of
data for charter and nonscheduled
passenger data by Part 135 operator (air
taxis). The data received on the form
(either paper or signed electronic copy)
is then incorporated into the Air Carrier
Activity Information System which is
used to determine whether an airport is
eligible for Airport Improvement
Program funds and for calculating
primary airport sponsor apportionment
as specified by title 49 United Stated
Code (U.S.C.), section 47114. The data
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collected on the form includes
passenger enplanements by carrier and
by airport. Passengers traveling on air
taxis would be overlooked entirely if
this passenger survey were not
conducted. As a result, many airports
would not receive their fair share of
funds since there is currently no other
source for this type of charter activity.
On average, approximately 100
operators respond each year, reporting a
total 1.1 million passengers. This data is
important to those airports that struggle
to meet the 2,500 and 10,000 passenger
levels and could not do so without the
reporting of the charter passengers.
Respondents: The voluntary survey is
sent through the U.S. Postal Service to
approximately 190 small on-demand
operators (certificated under Federal
Aviation Regulation Part 135) that have
reported activity in the last three years.
The form is also available on the FAA
website. Beginning with the calendar
year 2019 data, operators will be able to
access the form, electronically sign and
submit it to the FAA.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 1.5 hours per respondent.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: On
average, approximately 100 respondents
submit an annual response. The
cumulative total annual burden is
estimated to be 150 hours.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 16,
2019.
Luis Loarte,
Senior Airport Planner, Office of Airports/
Airport Planning and Environmental
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2019–0004–N–13]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, FRA seeks
approval of the Information Collection
Requests (ICRs) abstracted below. Before
submitting these ICRs to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval, FRA is soliciting public

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comment on specific aspects of the
activities identified below.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
21, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the ICRs activities by mail to either:
Ms. Hodan Wells, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, Office of
Railroad Safety, Regulatory Analysis
Division, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590; or
Ms. Kim Toone, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Office of Information
Technology, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Commenters requesting FRA to
acknowledge receipt of their respective
comments must include a self-addressed
stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments
on OMB Control Number 2130–XXXX,’’
(the relevant OMB control number for
each ICR is listed below) and should
also include the title of the ICR.
Alternatively, comments may be faxed
to 202–493–6216 or 202–493–6497, or
emailed to Ms. Wells at hodan.wells@
dot.gov, or Ms. Toone at kim.toone@
dot.gov. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number in any
correspondence submitted. FRA will
summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice and include them in its
information collection submission to
OMB for approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Hodan Wells, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Office of Railroad

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and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information that
Federal regulations mandate. In
summary, FRA reasons that comments
received will advance three objectives:
(1) Reduce reporting burdens; (2)
organize information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (3) accurately assess the resources
expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
The summaries below describe the
ICRs that FRA will submit for OMB
clearance as the PRA requires:
Title: Filing of Dedicated Cars.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0502.
Abstract: Title 49 CFR part 215
contains freight car safety standards,
including conditions for freight cars in
dedicated service. ‘‘Dedicated service’’
means the exclusive assignment of
railroad cars to the transportation of
freight between specified points under
the conditions listed in 49 CFR 215.5(d),
including stenciling, or otherwise
displaying, in clear legible letters on
each side of the car body, the words
’’Dedicated Service.’’ The railroad must
notify FRA in writing that the cars are
to be operated in dedicated service.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
collection.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 746 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion/monthly.
Reporting Burden:

Respondent universe
(railroads)

Total annual responses

Average time per
responses

746 railroads ........................

4 notifications .......................

1 hour ................

CFR section
215.5(d)(6)—Dedicated Service—Notification to
FRA.

Safety, Regulatory Analysis Division,
Federal Railroad Administration, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590 (telephone: (202) 493–0440) or
Ms. Kim Toone, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Office of Information
Technology, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590
(telephone: (202) 493–6132).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days’ notice to the public to
allow comment on information
collection activities before seeking OMB
approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C.
3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through
1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites
interested parties to comment on the
following ICRs regarding: (1) Whether
the information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (2)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (3) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (4) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
FRA believes that soliciting public
comment may reduce the administrative

Total annual
burden hours

Total cost
equivalent 1

4

$304

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 4.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 4
hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $304.
Title: Rear End Marking Devices.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0523.
Abstract: Title 49 CFR part 221
contains requirements for rear end
marking devices. Railroads must give
FRA a detailed description of the type
of marking devices used for any
locomotive operating singly or for cars

or locomotives operating at the end of
a train (trailing end) to ensure they meet
minimum standards for visibility and
display. Specifically, part 221 requires
railroads to furnish a certification that
each device has been tested in
accordance with current ‘‘Guidelines for
Testing of Rear End Marking Devices.’’
Additionally, part 221 requires railroads
to furnish detailed test records, which
include the names of testing
organizations, description of tests,
number of samples tested, and the test

results, to demonstrate compliance with
the performance standard.
Type of Request: Extension with
change (revised estimates) of a currently
approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 746 railroads +
24 manufacturers.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Reporting Burden:

1 Throughout the tables in this document, the
dollar equivalent cost is derived from the Surface

Transportation Board’s Full Year Wage A&B data
series using the appropriate employee group hourly

wage rate that includes 75-percent overhead
charges.

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CFR section

Respondent universe

Total annual responses

Average time per
responses

221.14 and Appendix A—Marking Devices, and
Procedures for Approval of Rear End Marking.

746 railroads + 24 manufacturers.

2 requests/submissions .......

1 hour ................

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Total Estimated Annual Responses: 2.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 2
hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $152.
Title: System Safety Program.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0599.
Abstract: FRA uses the collection of
information to ensure that commuter
and intercity passenger railroads
establish and implement System Safety
Programs (SSPs) to improve the safety of
their operations and to ensure
compliance with the rule. Each railroad

will use its SSP/SSP Plan to proactively
identify and mitigate or eliminate
hazards and the resulting risk on its
system at an early stage to reduce the
number of railroad accidents, incidents,
and associated injuries, fatalities, and
property damage. A railroad has the
flexibility to tailor an SSP to its specific
operations. An SSP will be
implemented when FRA approves a
railroad’s submitted SSP Plan. Under
this information collection, FRA will
audit a railroad’s compliance with its

Total annual
burden hours
2

Total cost
equivalent
$152

SSP Plan. FRA will use the information
to ensure and enforce compliance with
this new regulation.
Type of Request: Extension with
change (revised estimates) of a currently
approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 33 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion/monthly.
Reporting Burden:

Respondent universe

Total annual responses

Average time per
response

270.103—System Safety Program Plan (SSP
Plan)—Comprehensive written SSP Plan that
meets all of this section’s requirements.
—Records of system safety training for employees/contractors/others.
—(q)(1) Performance of risk-based hazard
analyses and furnishing of RR results of
risk-based hazard analyses upon request
of FRA/participating part 212 States.
—(q)(2) Identification and implementation of
risk mitigation methods and furnishing of
descriptions of RR’s specific risk mitigation
methods that address hazards upon request of FRA/participating part 212 States.
—(r)(1) Performance of technology analysis
and furnishing of results of railroad’s technology analysis upon request of FRA/participating part 212 States.
270.107(a)—Consultation requirements—RR
consultation with its directly affected employees on SSP Plan.
—(a)(3)(ii) RR notification to directly affected
employees of preliminary meeting at least
60 days before being held.
—(b) RR consultation statements that includes service list with name & contact information for labor organization chairpersons & non-union employees who participated in process.
—Copies of consultations statements by RR
to service list individuals.
270.201(b)—SSP Plan found deficient by FRA
and requiring amendment.
—Review of amended SSP Plan found deficient and requiring further amendment.
—Reopened review of initial SSP Plan approval for cause stated.
270.203—Retention of SSP Plans—Retained
copies of SSP Plans.
270.303—Annual internal SSP assessments/reports conducted by RRs.
—Certification of results of RR internal assessment by chief safety official.
270.305—External safety audit—RR submission
of improvement plans in response to results of
FRA audit.
—Improvement plans found deficient by FRA
and requiring amendment.
—RR status report to FRA of implementation
of improvements set forth in the improvement plan.
Appendix B—Additional documents provided to
FRA upon request.

33 railroads ..........................

9 plans .................................

40 hours ............

360

$32,976

33 railroads ..........................

495 records ..........................

15 seconds ........

2

152

33 railroads ..........................

33 analyses results ..............

20 hours ............

660

50,160

33 railroads ..........................

33 mitigation methods descriptions.

10 hours ............

330

25,080

33 railroads ..........................

33 results of technology
analysis.

10 hours ............

330

25,080

33 railroads ..........................

11 consults (w/labor union
reps.).

1 hour ................

11

836

33 railroads ..........................

11 notices ............................

30 minutes .........

6

456

33 railroads ..........................

11 statements ......................

1 hour ................

11

836

33 railroads ..........................

11 copies .............................

1 minute ............

.18

14

33 railroads ..........................

4 amended plans .................

30 hours ............

120

9,120

33 railroads ..........................

1 further amended plan .......

20 hours ............

20

1,520

33 railroads ..........................

1 amended plan ...................

30 hours ............

30

2,280

33 railroads ..........................

15 copies .............................

10 minutes .........

3

228

33 railroads ..........................

16 evaluations/reports .........

2 hours ..............

32

2,432

33 railroads ..........................

33 certification statements ...

2 hours ..............

66

7,590

33 railroads ..........................

6 plans .................................

12 hours ............

72

8,280

33 railroads ..........................

2 amended plans .................

10 hours ............

20

1,520

33 railroads ..........................

2 reports ..............................

4 hours ..............

8

608

33 railroads ..........................

4 documents ........................

15 minutes .........

1

76

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Total annual responses

Average time per
response

Appendix C—Written requests by RRs to file required submissions electronically.

33 railroads ..........................

7 written requests ................

15 minutes .........

2

152

33 railroads ..........................

738 replies/responses .........

N/A ....................

2,084

169,396

Totals .............................................................

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
738.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
2,084 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $169,396.
Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR
1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA
informs all interested parties that it may
not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Brett A. Jortland,
Acting Chief Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2019–0004–N–12]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, this notice
announces that FRA is forwarding the
Information Collection Requests (ICRs)
abstracted below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICRs describe
the information collections and their
expected burden. On June 14, 2019,
FRA published a notice providing a 60day period for public comment on the
ICRs.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
September 20, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the ICRs to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725 17th
Street NW, Washington, DC 20503,
Attention: FRA Desk Officer. Comments
may also be sent via email to OMB at

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the following address: oira_
submissions@omb.eop.gov.
Mr.
Robert Brogan, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, Office of Railroad
Safety, Regulatory Analysis Division,
Federal Railroad Administration, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Room W33–497,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202)
493–6292); or Ms. Kim Toone,
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, Office of Information
Technology, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Room W34–212,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202)
493–6132).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to issue
two notices seeking public comment on
information collection activities before
OMB may approve paperwork packages.
See 44 U.S.C. 3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8
through 1320.12. On June 14, 2019, FRA
published a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register soliciting comment on the ICRs
for which it is now seeking OMB
approval. See 84 FR 27833. FRA
received and reviewed the comments
submitted in response to this notice.
On August 7, 2019, Ms. Sarah
Yurasko, of the Association of American
Railroads (AAR) sent a comment on
behalf of its member railroads regarding
FRA’s Crossing Inventory renewal
information collection (Part 234; OMB
No. 2130–0017). Ms. Yurasko noted that
AAR and its member railroads ‘‘have
worked diligently with FRA since the
2015 publication of the Highway-Rail
Crossing Inventory Final Rule to ensure
that the information reported via the
U.S. Crossing Inventory forms is
accurate.’’ She noted that ‘‘both
railroads and State entities access the
site to report information under their
respective purviews, and unfortunately,
there have been several instances in
which a state has over-written railroadprovided information in one of the
railroad fields.’’ She observed that such
errors lead to confusion, administrative
burden to remediate, and ‘‘potential
FRA enforcement activity.’’ AAR and its
member railroads are urging FRA to
amend its system to lock-off designated
sections of the U.S. DOT Crossing
Inventory Form to the railroad, and
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other designated sections to the state
entity. Ms. Yurasko advocated that there
are several sections of the Inventory
Form which both the railroad and the
state entity should be able to modify
and that, in these instances, ‘‘the form
should allow all parties to see who
made the most recent update to the
information in the form.’’ Ms. Yurasko
included a color-coded copy of the
Inventory Form (FRA F 6180.71) to
illustrate the categorization of fields that
railroads and the state entity would
each complete.
The accuracy and reliability of the
data that railroads and state entities
provide on the FRA Inventory Form is
vital to FRA and to its mission of
promoting and enhancing national rail
safety, particularly at grade crossings.
Before FRA issued the Crossing
Inventory final rule in 2015, FRA
solicited comment and feedback on
sections of the Inventory Form that the
railroads and state entities would
complete. Accordingly, in its March 29,
2013, comments on the proposed
Crossing Inventory rule, AAR
recommended FRA limit access to
certain specified data fields to either the
railroad or state entity to prevent
submission of erroneous information by
the other entity. The Crossing Inventory
system is designed to allow users to
view previously submitted Inventory
Forms, which can then be used to
determine when revised Inventory
Forms were submitted and whether the
railroad or state entity submitted them.
However, FRA will consider Ms.
Yurasko’s recommendations on behalf
of the AAR and its member railroads to
lock certain sections of the Inventory
Form to prevent over-writing by another
entity.
Before OMB decides whether to
approve these proposed collections of
information, it must provide 30 days for
public comment. Federal law requires
OMB to approve or disapprove
paperwork packages between 30 and 60
days after the 30-day notice is
published. 44 U.S.C. 3507(b)–(c); 5 CFR
1320.12(d); see also 60 FR 44978, 44983,
Aug. 29, 1995. OMB believes the 30-day
notice informs the regulated community
to file relevant comments and affords
the agency adequate time to digest
public comments before it renders a
decision. 60 FR 44983, Aug. 29, 1995.

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