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Respondents: Medical examiners:
Advanced Practice Nurses (APNs),
Doctors of Chiropractic (DCs), Doctors of
Osteopathy (DOs), Medical Doctors
(MDs), and Physician Assistants (PAs)
who are currently performing FMCSA
physical examinations of CMV drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4,300 respondents [4,000 respondents
for the survey + 300 respondents (150
medical examiners + 150 drivers per onsite observation) = 4,300 respondents].
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes to complete the survey and 5
minutes each for the medical examiner
and driver to complete the observation
consent forms.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new
information collection.
Frequency of Response: This is a onetime survey.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
2,025 hours. The estimated annual
burden is 2,000 hours for the
completion of the survey based on the
following requirement for statistical
significance: 800 responses from each of
at least five of the medical examiner
professional categories; [4,000
respondents per survey × 30 minutes/60
minutes per respondent = 2,000 hours].
Observation consent forms—The
estimated annual burden is 25 hours for
the completion of the observation
consent forms based on the following
requirement for statistical significance:
[300 respondents (150 medical
examiners + 150 drivers) × 5 minutes/
60 minutes per on-site observation = 25
hours]. The estimated total annual
burden is 2,025 hours [2,000 hours for
completion of the survey + 25 hours for
completion of the observation consent
forms = 2,025 hours].
Background
FMCSA estimates that there are
approximately four to five million active
interstate drivers subject to FMCSA’s
medical standards. Interstate CMV
drivers are required to have a medical
examination every two years at a
minimum or more frequently at the
discretion of the medical examiner. A
medical certificate is typically valid for
two years after the date of examination,
so it is estimated that a minimum of two
to three million medical examinations
are conducted each year. In the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Pub. L. 109–59,
119 Stat. 1144; August 10, 2005)
Congress supports comprehensive
improvements in the FMCSA medical
program, including improving the
quality of the interstate CMV driver
physical qualification examination.
There has been no research to date that
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captures the decisionmaking and
performance of medical examiners who
determine the physical qualifications of
CMV drivers operating throughout the
United States. In addition, there has
been no systematic consideration of
medical examiner perceptions of
difficulties or uncertainties associated
with the examination process.
A Working Integrated Product Team
(WIPT) of medical examiner peers
experienced in conducting CMV driver
physical qualification examinations will
review the methodology and materials
for the study, and data gained from 150
direct observations of physical
examinations of CMV drivers. Results of
the Medical Examiner Performance
Study would ultimately be used to
develop recommendations for
improving the overall physical
qualification process and achieve
FMCSA’s goals of reducing crash rates,
injuries, and fatalities involving large
trucks and buses.
This initiative is separate from the
earlier National Registry of Certified
Medical Examiner survey announced on
September 29, 2005 (70 FR 56964), the
primary intent of which is to identify
those tasks most critical to competent
job performance via a role delineation
study.
Public Comments Invited: We
particularly request comments on: The
necessity of the collection of
information for FMCSA to meet its goal
of reducing truck and bus 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: March 20, 2007.
Rose A. McMurray,
Chief Safety Officer, Assistant Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research & Innovative Technology
Administration
[Docket: OST–2007–26835]
Agency Information Collection;
Activity Under OMB Review; Report of
Passengers Denied Confirmed
Space—BTS Form 251
Research & Innovative
Technology Administration (RITA),
AGENCY:
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Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13, (44 U.S.C. 3501 et
seq.) this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request,
abstracted below, is being forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget
for extension of currently approved
Report of Passengers Denied Confirmed
Space. Earlier, a Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day comment period was
published on January 19, 2007 (72 FR
2591). The agency did not receive any
comments to its previous notice.
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by May 2, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Bernie Stankus, Office of Airline
Information, RTS–42, Room 4125, RITA,
BTS, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001,
Telephone Number (202) 366–4387, Fax
Number (202) 366–3383 or e-mail
bernard.stankus@dot.gov.
Comments: Comments should be sent
to OMB at the address that appears
below and should identify the
associated OMB Approval Number
2138–0018 and Docket 26835.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No. 2138–0018
Title: Report of Passengers Denied
Confirmed Space.
Form No.: BTS Form 251.
Type Of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Large certificated and
foreign air carriers.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Number of Responses: 400 (annual).
Total Annual Burden: 1,670 hours.
Needs and Uses: BTS Form 251 is a
one-page report on the number of
passengers denied boarding (voluntarily
and involuntarily), whether the bumped
passengers were provided alternate
transportation and/or compensation,
and the amount of the payment. U.S.
and foreign air carriers that operate
scheduled passenger service with large
aircraft (over 60-seats) must submit
Form 251. In addition, carriers report
data from inbound international flights
because the protections of 14 CFR Part
250 Oversales do not apply to these
flights. The report allows the
Department to monitor the effectiveness
of its oversales rule and take
enforcement action when necessary.
While the involuntarily denied-boarding
rate has decrease from 4.38 per 10,000
passengers in 1980 to 1.04 for the nine
months ended September 2006, the rate
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is up from the 0.89 attained for the nine
months ended September 2005. The
publishing of the carriers’ individual
denied boarding rates has negated the
need for more intrusive regulation. The
rate of denied boarding can be examined
as a continuing fitness factor. This rate
provides an insight into a carrier’s
customer service policy and its
compliance disposition. A rapid
sustained increase in the rate of denied
boarding often is an indicator of
operational difficulty. Because the rate
of denied boarding is released quarterly,
travelers and travel agents can select
carriers with low bumping incidents
when booking a trip. This information is
available in the Air Travel Consumer
Report at: https://
airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/reports/
index.htm. The Air Travel Consumer
Report is also sent to newspapers,
magazines, and trade journals. Without
Form 251, the Department would be
unable to determining the effectiveness
of the oversales rule.
The Confidential Information
Protection and Statistical Efficiency Act
of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires
a statistical agency to clearly identify
information it collects for non-statistical
purposes. BTS hereby notifies the
respondents and the public that BTS
uses the information it collects under
this OMB approval for non-statistical
purposes including, but not limited to,
publication of both Respondent’s
identity and its data, submission of the
information to agencies outside BTS for
review, analysis and possible use in
regulatory and other administrative
matters.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Donald W. Bright,
Assistant Director, Airline Information,
Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[STB Docket No. AB–290 (Sub-No. 279X)]
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The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Pacific Railway Company—
Abandonment Exemption—in Scott
County, TN
The Cincinnati, New Orleans and
Texas Pacific Railway Company
(CNOTP), a wholly owned subsidiary of
Norfolk Southern Railway Company,
has filed a notice of exemption 1 under
1 Pursuant to 49 CFR 1152.50(d)(2), the railroad
must file a verified notice with the Board at least
50 days before the abandonment or discontinuance
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49 CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt
Abandonments to abandon a 12.44-mile
line of railroad between milepost NR
0.00 at New River and milepost NR
12.44 at Sterling, in Scott County, TN.2
The line traverses United States Postal
Service Zip Code 37841, and includes
the former stations of Highway Jct.,
Pemberton, Hunter, Slick Rock,
Brimstone, and Sterling.3
CNOTP has certified that: (1) No local
traffic has moved over the line for at
least 2 years; (2) no overhead traffic has
moved over the line for at least 2 years
and overhead traffic, if there were any,
could be rerouted over other lines; (3)
no formal complaint filed by a user of
rail service on the line (or by a State or
local government entity acting on behalf
of such user) regarding cessation of
service over the line either is pending
with the Surface Transportation Board
(Board) or with any U.S. District Court
or has been decided in favor of
complainant within the 2-year period;
and (4) the requirements at 49 CFR
1105.7 (environmental reports), 49 CFR
1105.8 (historic reports), 49 CFR
1105.11 (transmittal letter), 49 CFR
1105.12 (newspaper publication), and
49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to
governmental agencies) have been met.
is to be consummated. CNOTP initially indicated in
its notice of exemption a proposed consummation
date of May 1, 2007, but because the verified notice
was filed on March 13, 2007, consummation may
not take place prior to May 2, 2007. CNOTP has
been informed by a Board staff member that
consummation may not take place until May 2,
2007.
2 In its verified notice of exemption filed on
March 13, 2007, CNOTP also requested
abandonment of a second line segment located
between milepost NR 215.30 at Helenwood and
milepost NR 218.60 at New River, in Scott County,
a distance of 3.30 miles. By letters filed on March
20, 2007, and on March 21, 2007, CNOTP requests
that the Board amend its notice. CNOTP indicates
that, in its notice of exemption and environmental
report, CNOTP stated that it did not have fee title
to the entire right-of-way of the line. CNOTP states
that the line segment between mileposts NR 215.30
and NR 218.60 is leased from the Trustees of the
Cincinnati Southern Railway (CSR). According to
CNOTP, the Trustees hold the CSR property on
behalf of its owner, the City of Cincinnati, OH.
CNOTP states that the Trustees are not required to
file with the Board for authority to abandon this
line segment or any other part of their line because
the City, the Trustees, and CSR have never held
themselves out as a common carrier to provide rail
service nor have they operated any part of their
line, but have always leased it to CNOTP.
Accordingly, CNOTP’s request to amend its March
13, 2007 notice of exemption will be granted.
However, CNOTP has been notified that the request
to discontinue the line segment between mileposts
NR 215.30 and NR 218.60 requires a separate notice
of exemption to be filed, accompanied by the
appropriate filing fee. Therefore, a decision on the
discontinuance will be handled in a separate
decision.
3 In another letter also filed on March 21, 2007
(March 21 letter), CNOTP clarified the Zip Codes
and stations for the line segment that is being
abandoned.
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As a condition to this exemption, any
employee adversely affected by the
abandonment shall be protected under
Oregon Short Line R. Co.—
Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C. 91
(1979). To address whether this
condition adequately protects affected
employees, a petition for partial
revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)
must be filed.
Provided no formal expression of
intent to file an offer of financial
assistance (OFA) has been received, this
exemption will be effective on May 2,
2007, unless stayed pending
reconsideration.4 Petitions to stay that
do not involve environmental issues,5
formal expressions of intent to file an
OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),6 and
trail use/rail banking requests under 49
CFR 1152.29 must be filed by April 12,
2007. Petitions to reopen or requests for
public use conditions under 49 CFR
1152.28 must be filed by April 23,
2007,7 with: Surface Transportation
Board, 395 E Street, SW., Washington,
DC 20423–0001.
A copy of any petition filed with the
Board should be sent to CNOTP’s
representative: James R. Paschall, Senior
General Attorney, Norfolk Southern
Corporation, Three Commercial Place,
Norfolk, VA 23510.
If the verified notice contains false or
misleading information, the exemption
is void ab initio.
CNOTP has filed environmental and
historic reports which address the
effects, if any, of the abandonment on
the environment and historic resources.
SEA will issue an environmental
assessment (EA) by April 6, 2007.
Interested persons may obtain a copy of
the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100,
Surface Transportation Board,
Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by
4 On March 15, 2007, Seaside Holdings, Inc.
(Seaside), filed a notice of intent to file an OFA to
purchase both line segments. However, because
CNOTP has now amended its March 13, 2007
notice, only one line segment between mileposts
NR 0.00 and NR 12.44 is being abandoned. The
Board will address Seaside’s request for this line
segment, and any other requests that may be timely
filed, in a separate decision.
5 The Board will grant a stay if an informed
decision on environmental issues (whether raised
by a party or by the Board’s Section of
Environmental Analysis (SEA) in its independent
investigation) cannot be made before the
exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any
request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible
so that the Board may take appropriate action before
the exemption’s effective date.
6 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing
fee, which currently is set at $1,300. See 49 CFR
1002.2(f)(25).
7 CNOTP, in its March 21 letter, states that at least
one parcel of the right-of-way is held by CNOTP by
easement. Therefore, CNOTP contends that it does
not have a continuous right-of-way that can be
conveyed for public use.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research & Innovative Technology Administration
[Docket: OST-2007-26835]
Agency Information Collection; Activity Under OMB Review; Report
of Passengers Denied Confirmed Space--BTS Form 251
AGENCY: Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), Bureau
of Transportation Statistics (BTS), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public
Law 104-13, (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request, abstracted below, is being forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget for extension of currently approved
Report of Passengers Denied Confirmed Space. Earlier, a Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was published on January
19, 2007 (72 FR 2591). The agency did not receive any comments to its
previous notice.
DATES: Written comments should be submitted by May 2, 2007.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bernie Stankus, Office of Airline
Information, RTS-42, Room 4125, RITA, BTS, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001, Telephone Number (202) 366-4387, Fax Number
(202) 366-3383 or e-mail bernard.stankus@dot.gov.
Comments: Comments should be sent to OMB at the address that
appears below and should identify the associated OMB Approval Number
2138-0018 and Docket 26835.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Approval No. 2138-0018
Title: Report of Passengers Denied Confirmed Space.
Form No.: BTS Form 251.
Type Of Review: Extension of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Large certificated and foreign air carriers.
Number of Respondents: 100.
Number of Responses: 400 (annual).
Total Annual Burden: 1,670 hours.
Needs and Uses: BTS Form 251 is a one-page report on the number of
passengers denied boarding (voluntarily and involuntarily), whether the
bumped passengers were provided alternate transportation and/or
compensation, and the amount of the payment. U.S. and foreign air
carriers that operate scheduled passenger service with large aircraft
(over 60-seats) must submit Form 251. In addition, carriers report data
from inbound international flights because the protections of 14 CFR
Part 250 Oversales do not apply to these flights. The report allows the
Department to monitor the effectiveness of its oversales rule and take
enforcement action when necessary. While the involuntarily denied-
boarding rate has decrease from 4.38 per 10,000 passengers in 1980 to
1.04 for the nine months ended September 2006, the rate
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is up from the 0.89 attained for the nine months ended September 2005.
The publishing of the carriers' individual denied boarding rates has
negated the need for more intrusive regulation. The rate of denied
boarding can be examined as a continuing fitness factor. This rate
provides an insight into a carrier's customer service policy and its
compliance disposition. A rapid sustained increase in the rate of
denied boarding often is an indicator of operational difficulty.
Because the rate of denied boarding is released quarterly, travelers
and travel agents can select carriers with low bumping incidents when
booking a trip. This information is available in the Air Travel
Consumer Report at: https://airconsumer.ost.dot.gov/reports/index.htm.
The Air Travel Consumer Report is also sent to newspapers, magazines,
and trade journals. Without Form 251, the Department would be unable to
determining the effectiveness of the oversales rule.
The Confidential Information Protection and Statistical Efficiency
Act of 2002 (44 U.S.C. 3501 note), requires a statistical agency to
clearly identify information it collects for non-statistical purposes.
BTS hereby notifies the respondents and the public that BTS uses the
information it collects under this OMB approval for non-statistical
purposes including, but not limited to, publication of both
Respondent's identity and its data, submission of the information to
agencies outside BTS for review, analysis and possible use in
regulatory and other administrative matters.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Donald W. Bright,
Assistant Director, Airline Information, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics.
[FR Doc. E7-6056 Filed 3-30-07; 8:45 am]
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