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Comments must be received on
or before March 23, 2006.
ADDRESSEES: You may send comments,
identified by Docket No. FAA–2005–
22997, using any of the following
methods:
• DOT Docket Web site: Go to
https://dms.dot.gov and follow the
instructions for sending your comments
electronically.
• Government-wide rulemaking Web
site: Go to https://www.regulations.gov
and follow the instructions for sending
your comments electronically.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building,
Room PL–401, Washington, DC 20590–
001.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Hand Delivery: Room PL–401 on
the plaza level of the Nassif Building,
400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington,
DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael E. Dostert, FAA, Propulsion/
Mechanical Systems Branch (ANM–
112), Transport Airplane Directorate,
Aircraft Certification Service, 1601 Lind
Avenue, SW., Renton, Washington
98055–4056; telephone (425) 227–2132,
facsimile (425) 227–1320; e-mail:
mike.dostert@faa.gov.
DATES:
Comments Invited
Interested parties are invited to
submit comments on the report.
Commenters must submit comments to
an address specified above. The FAA
will consider all communications
received on or before the closing date
for comments.
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Discussion
The FAA commissioned the Sandia
National Laboratories to perform an
independent study on the effectiveness
of ignition source prevention measures
in airplane fuel tanks. Sandia National
Laboratories documented the results of
its study in a technical report titled
‘‘Assessment of the Effectiveness of
Special Federal Aviation Regulation
(SFAR) 88 Airworthiness Directives
(ADs) in Preventing Ignition Sources.’’
This report supports the FAA’s NPRM
(published on November 23, 2005 (70
FR 10922)) that proposes to require
operators and design approval holders
of transport category airplanes to reduce
fuel tank flammability exposure, which,
in combination with previous ignition
source minimization, would greatly
reduce the chances of a catastrophic fuel
tank explosion.
The report is currently undergoing a
peer review, as required by the Office of
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Management and Budget’s ‘‘Final
Information Quality Bulletin for Peer
Review.’’ The FAA will add the report
of the peer review to the public docket
and make it available for public
comment.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 9,
2006.
Anthony F. Fazio,
Director, Office of Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2006–23598]
Notice of Request for Comments on
Extension of a Currently Approved
Collection of Information: Inspection,
Repair, and Maintenance
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: 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
review and approval. The ICR describes
a currently approved information
collection activity and its expected cost
and burden. On October 19, 2005,
FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice allowing for a 60-day comment
period on the ICR. No comments were
received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
March 17, 2006. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act
quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/
FMCSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Jeffrey Van Ness, (202) 366–8802,
Vehicle and Roadside Operations
Division (MC–PSV), Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to
5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Inspection, Repair, and
Maintenance.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0003.
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Type of Request: Renewal of an
existing information collection.
Background: The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) is authorized
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502
to prescribe requirements for
qualifications and maximum hours-ofservice of employees, and safety and
equipment standards for motor carriers
that operate commercial motor vehicles
(CMVs) in interstate commerce. Under
49 U.S.C. 31136, the Secretary also has
authority to prescribe regulations to
ensure that CMVs are maintained,
equipped, loaded and operated safely;
and under 49 U.S.C. 31143 to establish
standards for annual or more frequent
inspections of CMVs under the
provisions of U.S.C. 31142. The
Secretary’s authority to establish
improved standards or methods to
ensure brakes and brake systems of
CMVs are inspected by appropriate
employees and maintained properly is
provided under 49 U.S.C. 31137(b).
Motor carriers must maintain, or
require maintenance of, records
documenting the inspection, repair and
maintenance activities performed on
their owned and leased vehicles. There
are no prescribed forms to meet these
requirements. Electronic recordkeeping
is allowed (See 49 CFR 390.31(d)).
Documents requiring a signature must
be capable of replication (i.e.,
photocopy, facsimile, etc.) in such form
that will provide an opportunity for
signature verification upon demand. If
computer records are used, all of the
relevant data on the original documents
must be included in the electronic
transmission for the records to be valid.
The records are used by the FMCSA and
its representatives to verify motor
carriers’ compliance with the
inspection, repair, and maintenance
standards in 49 CFR part 396 of the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations (FMCSRs).
Respondents: Motor carriers, and
commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
678,535 motor carriers.
Frequency of Response: Annual and
on occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
59,093,244. Adjustments from the
October 19, 2005, Federal Register
notice reflect that FMCSA needs to
correct several arithmetic errors made in
computing burden estimates in the past,
primarily for computing burden
estimates for the driver-vehicle
inspection report. In addition, 325,795
interstate motor carriers operate one
CMV only, and thus are not required to
prepare daily driver vehicle inspection
reports. Consequently, these carriers are
no longer included in the computation
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of burden hours relating to: (a) The
Certification of Corrective Action, and
(b) the Review and Signature of Driver
Vehicle Inspection Reports. These
differences, in aggregate, total
24,294,988 burden hours.
We particularly request comments on:
Whether the collection of information is
necessary for FMCSA to meet its goal of
reducing truck crashes and its
usefulness to this goal; the accuracy of
the estimate of the burden of the
information collection; ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
using automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Issued on: February 9, 2006.
Annette M. Sandberg,
Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2005–23470]
Model Specifications for Breath
Alcohol Ignition Interlock Devices
(BAIIDs)
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Request for comments.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice seeks comments
about what revisions are needed for the
Model Specifications for Breath Alcohol
Ignition Interlock Devices (Model
Specifications) published by the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) in the Federal
Register on April 7, 1992 (57 FR 11772).
Model specifications are guidelines for
the performance and testing of breath
alcohol ignition interlock devices
(BAIIDs). These devices are designed to
prevent a driver from starting a motor
vehicle when the driver’s breath alcohol
content (BrAC) is at or above a set
alcohol level. Because changes may be
necessary after more than 13 years of
experience with this technology,
NHTSA is seeking comments regarding
the need for revisions to the model
specifications.
DATES: Written comments may be
submitted to this agency and must be
received by April 17, 2006.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
the docket number and be submitted
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(preferably in two copies) to: Docket
Management, Room PL–401, 400
Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC
20590. Alternatively, you may submit
your comments electronically by logging
onto the Docket Management System
(DMS) Web site at https://dms.dot.gov.
Click on ‘‘Help & Information’’ or
‘‘Help/Info’’ to view instructions for
filing your comments electronically.
Regardless of how you submit your
comments, you should mention the
Docket number of this document. You
may call the docket at (202) 366–9324.
Docket hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
James F. Frank, Office of Research &
Technology (NTS–131), National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 366–5593.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April
24, 1991 (56 FR 18857), NHTSA issued
a notice and request for comments on
proposed Model Specifications for
Breath Alcohol Ignition Interlock
Devices. BAIIDs are breath alcohol test
instruments designed to allow a driver
to start a motor vehicle when his/her
BrAC is below a set alcohol level;
conversely, the devices are designed to
prevent a driver from starting a motor
vehicle when his/her BrAC is at or
above the set alcohol level.
As explained in the April 1991 notice,
a number of States passed laws
authorizing the use of ‘‘certified’’
BAIIDs, giving those States the
responsibility for developing
certification standards and test
procedures. Consequently, a number of
States and manufacturers of these
ignition interlock devices requested that
the Federal government develop and
issue certification standards for BAIIDs.
After receiving and considering
comments, NHTSA adopted and
published model specifications for
BAIIDs in the Federal Register on April
7, 1992 (57 FR 11772).
Since publication, many States have
incorporated these model specifications,
or some variation of them, into their
State certification requirements, thereby
serving the purpose for which they were
originally intended. Forty-three States
allow the use of BAIIDs, and they are
currently being used in connection with
sanctions for Driving While Intoxicated
(DWI). Persons required to use BAIIDs
are either under the supervision of a
responsible state agency (e.g., a Motor
Vehicle Administration) and/or under
direct court supervision.
The experience of the last 13 years
has shown that the issuance of model
specifications and test procedures for
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BAIIDs has served to encourage a degree
of consistency among the States while at
the same time providing sufficient
flexibility for States to address their
individual needs or legislative
requirements. The model specifications
and test procedures were drafted in
such a way to enable States to adopt
them with minimal effort. However, the
ignition interlock industry has matured,
the technology has changed, and the
technical and social environments have
changed in the past 13 years. Therefore,
it is NHTSA’s view that revisions to the
model specifications are appropriate.
NHTSA has not prepared a proposal
for revised model specifications for
BAIIDs at this time. Rather, NHTSA
invites all interested parties to submit
comments on what revisions are needed
to update the model specifications.
NHTSA is especially interested in
obtaining comments from interested
parties about the areas listed below.
This notice also invites all interested
parties to offer additional remarks,
suggestions and commentary above and
beyond the areas highlighted below:
(1) Accuracy and precision
requirements. Are the current
specifications for 90% accuracy at
0.01% w/v above the set point in the
unstressed testing conditions, and 90%
accuracy at 0.02% w/v above the set
point in the stressed testing condition
appropriate? Should the new model
specifications change the set point from
0.025% w/v?
(2) Sensor technology. Should the
model specifications limit sensor
technology to alcohol-specific sensors?
The model specifications currently
include performance requirements but
do not address what technology should
be used to satisfy those performance
requirements. In other words, the model
specifications allow semi-conductor
sensors, which were widely used during
the early years after devices were first
introduced into the marketplace.
Alcohol-specific, fuel cell sensors
appear to be more common today, but
it is not clear whether the model
specifications should limit devices to an
alcohol-specific technology. NHTSA
seeks comments regarding the
advantages and disadvantages of
limiting the model specifications to an
alcohol-specific (fuel cell) technology,
or other emerging technologies versus
relying on performance requirements
only.
(3) Sample size requirements. The
model specifications set the minimum
breath sampling size at 1.5 liters.
Informal comments received over the
years have indicated that this
requirement may be too high. NHTSA
will consider lowering the breath
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[FR Doc No: E6-2169]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-23598]
Notice of Request for Comments on Extension of a Currently
Approved Collection of Information: Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: 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 review
and approval. The ICR describes a currently approved information
collection activity and its expected cost and burden. On October 19,
2005, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day
comment period on the ICR. No comments were received.
DATES: Please send your comments by March 17, 2006. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street, NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeffrey Van Ness, (202) 366-8802,
Vehicle and Roadside Operations Division (MC-PSV), Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Inspection, Repair, and Maintenance.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0003.
Type of Request: Renewal of an existing information collection.
Background: The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is
authorized under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502 to prescribe
requirements for qualifications and maximum hours-of-service of
employees, and safety and equipment standards for motor carriers that
operate commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce. Under
49 U.S.C. 31136, the Secretary also has authority to prescribe
regulations to ensure that CMVs are maintained, equipped, loaded and
operated safely; and under 49 U.S.C. 31143 to establish standards for
annual or more frequent inspections of CMVs under the provisions of
U.S.C. 31142. The Secretary's authority to establish improved standards
or methods to ensure brakes and brake systems of CMVs are inspected by
appropriate employees and maintained properly is provided under 49
U.S.C. 31137(b).
Motor carriers must maintain, or require maintenance of, records
documenting the inspection, repair and maintenance activities performed
on their owned and leased vehicles. There are no prescribed forms to
meet these requirements. Electronic recordkeeping is allowed (See 49
CFR 390.31(d)). Documents requiring a signature must be capable of
replication (i.e., photocopy, facsimile, etc.) in such form that will
provide an opportunity for signature verification upon demand. If
computer records are used, all of the relevant data on the original
documents must be included in the electronic transmission for the
records to be valid. The records are used by the FMCSA and its
representatives to verify motor carriers' compliance with the
inspection, repair, and maintenance standards in 49 CFR part 396 of the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs).
Respondents: Motor carriers, and commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 678,535 motor carriers.
Frequency of Response: Annual and on occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 59,093,244. Adjustments from the
October 19, 2005, Federal Register notice reflect that FMCSA needs to
correct several arithmetic errors made in computing burden estimates in
the past, primarily for computing burden estimates for the driver-
vehicle inspection report. In addition, 325,795 interstate motor
carriers operate one CMV only, and thus are not required to prepare
daily driver vehicle inspection reports. Consequently, these carriers
are no longer included in the computation
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of burden hours relating to: (a) The Certification of Corrective
Action, and (b) the Review and Signature of Driver Vehicle Inspection
Reports. These differences, in aggregate, total 24,294,988 burden
hours.
We particularly request comments on: Whether the collection of
information is necessary for FMCSA to meet its goal of reducing truck
crashes and its usefulness to this goal; the accuracy of the estimate
of the burden of the information collection; ways to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including using automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Issued on: February 9, 2006.
Annette M. Sandberg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-2169 Filed 2-14-06; 8:45 am]
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