Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program, 538-539 [E7-25555]

Download as PDF 538 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 2 / Thursday, January 3, 2008 / Notices federal programs and activities apply to this program.) Dated: December 20, 2007. Stephen Boch, Major Project Oversight Manager, Olympia, WA. [FR Doc. E7–25164 Filed 1–2–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–22–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration [Docket No. FMCSA–2007–0083] Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently Approved Information Collection: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT. ACTION: Notice and request for information. pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES 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 FMCSA requests approval to extend an existing information collection entitled ‘‘Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing,’’ which requires States and Indian tribes to identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions or limitations affecting how motor carriers may transport certain hazardous materials on the highway. On October 30, 2007, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day comment period on the ICR. No comment was received. DATES: Please send your comments by February 4, 2008. OMB must receive your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR. ADDRESSES: All comments should reference DOT Docket No. FMCSA– 2007–0083. You may submit 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. James O. Simmons, Hazardous Materials Division, phone (202) 366–6121; FAX (202) 366–3921; or e-mail james.simmons@dot.gov; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, DOT, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:29 Jan 02, 2008 Jkt 214001 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing. OMB Control Number: 2126–0014. Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information collection. Respondents: The reporting burden is shared by the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, and the Virgin Islands. Estimated Number of Respondents: 53. Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes. Expiration Date: February 28, 2007. Frequency of Response: There is one response annually from approximately 53 respondents. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13 hours [53 respondents × 1 response × 15 minutes per response/60 minutes = 13.25 hours, rounded to 13 hours]. Background: The data for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials; Highway Routing designations are collected under authority of 49 U.S.C. 5112 and 5125. That authority places responsibility on the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to specify and regulate standards for establishing, maintaining, and enforcing routing designations. Under 49 CFR 397.73, the Administrator has the authority to request that each State and Indian tribe, through its routing agency, provide information identifying hazardous materials routing designations within their jurisdictions. That information is collected and consolidated by the FMCSA and published annually in whole, or as updates, in the Federal Register. 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 collected information. Issued on: December 18, 2007. Terry Shelton, Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology. [FR Doc. E7–25579 Filed 1–2–08; 8:45 am] Frm 00095 Fmt 4703 Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation. ACTION: Notice of extension of application deadline. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration is hereby giving notice that the closing date for filing applications to enroll in the Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program is extended until February 15, 2008. The notice announcing the initial application deadline was published in the Federal Register on July 2, 2007 (72 FR 36103). An extension to October 30, 2007 was previously published in the Federal Register on July 30, 2007 (72 FR 41581–01). A subsequent extension to December 30, 2007 was published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2007 (72 FR 61421–01). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean E. McKeever, Associate Administrator for Business and Workforce Development, Maritime Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC 20590; phone: (202) 366–5737; fax: (202) 366–3511; or e-mail: Jean.McKeever@dot.gov. Section 3517 of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007 (Pub. L. 109–163) requires a person who is awarded a Maritime Security Program (‘‘MSP’’) agreement to also enter into an agreement with the Maritime Administration to perform maintenance and repair (‘‘M&R’’) work in United States shipyards as a condition of the MSP award. The Maritime Administration’s M&R regulations do not apply the M&R condition to contractors who have already been awarded an M&R agreement. Thus, the Maritime Administration’s M&R regulations make the M&R obligation mandatory on new awardees, including transferees, of MSP agreements, and voluntary for existing MSP contractors. The M&R regulations were published in the Federal Register on February 6, 2007 (72 FR 5342–01), but did not specify a time period for submitting applications. The deadline for applying for the M&R program is being extended to accommodate one or more carriers that are considering submitting applications, but need additional time to make a decision. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (Authority: 49 CFR 1.66) Dated: December 27, 2007. BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P PO 00000 Maritime Administration Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM 03JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 2 / Thursday, January 3, 2008 / Notices By Order of the Maritime Administrator. Murray A. Bloom, Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration. [FR Doc. E7–25555 Filed 1–2–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–81–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Surface Transportation Board [STB Docket No. AB–55 (Sub-No. 675X)] CSX Transportation, Inc.— Abandonment Exemption—in Ware County, GA pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES CSX Transportation, Inc. (CSXT), has filed a notice of exemption 1 under 49 CFR part 1152 subpart F-Exempt Abandonments to abandon a 1.08-mile rail line on CSXT’s Southern Region, Jacksonville Division, Fitzgerald Subdivision, between mileposts AP 588.84 and AP 587.76 in Waycross, Ware County, GA. The line traverses United States Postal Service Zip Codes 31501 and 31503. CSXT has certified that: (1) No local traffic has moved over the line for at least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on the line can 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 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. 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 OFA has been received, this exemption will be effective on February 2, 2008, unless stayed pending reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do not involve environmental issues,2 1 CSXT also filed a petition seeking exemption from the offer of financial assistance provisions of 49 U.S.C. 10904. The merits of the petition will be addressed in a separate decision. 2 The Board will grant a stay if an informed decision on environmental issues (whether raised VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:29 Jan 02, 2008 Jkt 214001 formal expressions of intent to file an OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),3 and trail use/rail banking requests under 49 CFR 1152.29 must be filed by January 14, 2008. Petitions to reopen or requests for public use conditions under 49 CFR 1152.28 must be filed by January 23, 2008, with the Surface Transportation Board, 395 E Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423–0001. A copy of any petition filed with the Board should be sent to CSXT’s representative: Louis E. Gitomer, 600 Baltimore Ave., Suite 301, Towson, MD 21204. If the verified notice contains false or misleading information, the exemption is void ab initio. CSXT has filed both an environmental report and a historic report that address the effects, if any, of the abandonment on the environment and historic resources. SEA will issue an environmental assessment (EA) by January 8, 2008. Interested persons may obtain a copy of the EA by writing to SEA (Room 1100, Surface Transportation Board, Washington, DC 20423–0001) or by calling SEA, at (202) 245–0305. [Assistance for the hearing impaired is available through the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339.] Comments on environmental and historic preservation matters must be filed within 15 days after the EA becomes available to the public. Environmental, historic preservation, public use, or trail use/rail banking conditions will be imposed, where appropriate, in a subsequent decision. Pursuant to the provisions of 49 CFR 1152.29(e)(2), CSXT shall file a notice of consummation with the Board to signify that it has exercised the authority granted and fully abandoned the line. If consummation has not been effected by CSXT’s filing of a notice of consummation by January 3, 2009, and there are no legal or regulatory barriers to consummation, the authority to abandon will automatically expire. Board decisions and notices are available on our Web site at https:// www.stb.dot.gov. Decided: December 27, 2007. 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. 3 Each OFA must be accompanied by the filing fee, which currently is set at $1,300. See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25). PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 539 By the Board, Joseph H. Dettmar, Acting Director, Office of Proceedings. Vernon A. Williams, Secretary. [FR Doc. E7–25486 Filed 1–2–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4915–01–P DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Internal Revenue Service Open Meeting of the Area 7 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (Including the States of Alaska, California, Hawaii, and Nevada) Internal Revenue Service (IRS), Treasury. ACTION: Notice of meeting. AGENCY: SUMMARY: An open meeting of the Area 7 committee of the Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be conducted (via teleconference). The Taxpayer Advocacy Panel (TAP) is soliciting public comments, ideas, and suggestions on improving customer service at the Internal Revenue Service. The TAP will use citizen input to make recommendations to the Internal Revenue Service. DATES: The meeting will be held Wednesday, February 20, 2008. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janice Spinks at 1–888–912–1227 or 206–220–6096. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is hereby given pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. (1988) that an open meeting of the Area 7 Taxpayer Advocacy Panel will be held Wednesday, February 20, 2008, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time via a telephone conference call. The public is invited to make oral comments. Individual comments will be limited to 5 minutes. If you would like to have the TAP consider a written statement, please call 1–888–912–1227 or 206– 220–6096, or write to Janice Spinks, TAP Office, 915 2nd Avenue, MS W– 406, Seattle, WA 98174. Due to limited conference lines, notification of intent to participate in the telephone conference call meeting must be made with Janice Spinks. Miss Spinks can be reached at 1–888–912–1227 or 206– 220–6096, or you can contact us at https://www.improveirs.org. The agenda will include the following: Various IRS issues. Dated: December 20, 2007. Sandra L. McQuin, Acting Director, Taxpayer Advocacy Panel. [FR Doc. E7–25534 Filed 1–2–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4830–01–P E:\FR\FM\03JAN1.SGM 03JAN1

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[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 2 (Thursday, January 3, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Pages 538-539]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25555]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration


Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice of extension of application deadline.

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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration is hereby giving notice that the 
closing date for filing applications to enroll in the Maintenance and 
Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program is extended until February 15, 2008. 
The notice announcing the initial application deadline was published in 
the Federal Register on July 2, 2007 (72 FR 36103). An extension to 
October 30, 2007 was previously published in the Federal Register on 
July 30, 2007 (72 FR 41581-01). A subsequent extension to December 30, 
2007 was published in the Federal Register on October 30, 2007 (72 FR 
61421-01).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean E. McKeever, Associate 
Administrator for Business and Workforce Development, Maritime 
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC 20590; phone: 
(202) 366-5737; fax: (202) 366-3511; or e-mail: Jean.McKeever@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3517 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007 (Pub. L. 109-163) requires a 
person who is awarded a Maritime Security Program (``MSP'') agreement 
to also enter into an agreement with the Maritime Administration to 
perform maintenance and repair (``M&R'') work in United States 
shipyards as a condition of the MSP award. The Maritime 
Administration's M&R regulations do not apply the M&R condition to 
contractors who have already been awarded an M&R agreement. Thus, the 
Maritime Administration's M&R regulations make the M&R obligation 
mandatory on new awardees, including transferees, of MSP agreements, 
and voluntary for existing MSP contractors.
    The M&R regulations were published in the Federal Register on 
February 6, 2007 (72 FR 5342-01), but did not specify a time period for 
submitting applications. The deadline for applying for the M&R program 
is being extended to accommodate one or more carriers that are 
considering submitting applications, but need additional time to make a 
decision.

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66)

    Dated: December 27, 2007.


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    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Murray A. Bloom,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-25555 Filed 1-2-08; 8:45 am]
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