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for an exemption from the vision
requirements. That information is
available by consulting the above cited
Federal Register publications.
Interested parties or organizations
possessing information that would
otherwise show that any, or all of these
drivers, are not currently achieving the
statutory level of safety should
immediately notify FMCSA.
The Agency will evaluate any adverse
evidence submitted and, if safety is
being compromised or if continuation of
the exemption would not be consistent
with the goals and objectives of 49
U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, FMCSA will
take immediate steps to revoke the
exemption of a driver.
Issued on: June 19, 2008.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy and
Program Development.
[FR Doc. E8–14763 Filed 6–27–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
Reappointment of Representatives to
the Unified Carrier Registration
Agreement Board of Directors
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: FMCSA announces the
reappointment of four Directors who
serve on the Board of Directors that
governs the Unified Carrier Registration
(UCR) Agreement as the representatives
from each of the four FMCSA service
areas. The Safe, Accountable, Flexible,
Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU)
created the UCR Agreement. Under the
UCR Agreement, for-hire and private
motor carriers, brokers, freight
forwarders, and leasing companies
provide registration and financial
responsibility information and pay
certain fees. The UCR Agreement
replaced the Single State Registration
System (SSRS), which was repealed
January 1, 2007.
DATES: The Directors’ appointments to
the Board are effective beginning on
June 1, 2008. Their terms will expire
May 31, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Julie Otto, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, Office of Safety
Programs (MC–ES), (202) 366–0710,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are
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from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET, Monday
through Friday except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 4305 of SAFETEA–LU (Pub.
L. 109–59, 119 Stat. 1144, Aug. 10,
2005) created, under Title 49 of the U.S.
Code, a new section 14504a titled
‘‘Unified Carrier Registration System
Plan and Agreement.’’ Under the UCR
Agreement, for-hire motor carriers,
motor private carriers, brokers, freight
forwarders, and leasing companies
provide registration and financial
responsibility information and pay
certain fees. The Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors
must issue rules and regulations to
govern the UCR Agreement.
Title 49 U.S.C. 14504a(a)(9) defines
the Unified Carrier Registration Plan as
the organization of State, Federal, and
industry representatives responsible for
developing, implementing, and
administering the UCR Agreement.
Section 14504a(d)(1)(B) directed the
Secretary to establish a Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors
made up of 15 members representing
FMCSA, State government, and the
motor carrier industry.
Section 14504a(d) stipulates that the
Unified Carrier Registration Plan Board
of Directors must consist of
representatives from the following
groups:
• One Director from the U.S.
Department of Transportation, either the
FMCSA Deputy Administrator or such
other Presidential appointee;
• Four Directors, one from each of
FMCSA service areas (as defined by
FMCSA in 71 FR 27778, Jan. 1, 2005),
selected from among the chief
administrative officers of the State
agencies responsible for overseeing the
administration of the UCR agreement;
• Five Directors representing the
State agencies responsible for
overseeing the administration of the
UCR Agreement, selected from among
their professional staffs and nominated
by the National Conference of State
Transportation Specialists (NCSTS), a
non-profit organization founded in 1959
and consisting of State agencies
involved in transportation safety,
insurance, and consumer protection;
and
• Five Directors representing the
motor carrier industry.
Board of Directors
Today’s publication serves as public
notice of the reappointment of the board
members from four FMCSA service
areas to the Unified Carrier Registration
Plan Board of Directors. The four
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members reappointed to the Board
include the following:
Mr. Charles ‘‘Buddy’’ Covert, Director,
Transportation Administration Division,
Public Service Commission of West
Virginia is being reappointed to
represent the FMCSA Eastern service
area. Mr. Covert’s office assists the State
with supporting and promoting a
transportation safety environment that
balances the interests of all parties and
pursues excellence through quality. The
current Transportation Administration
Division consists of the Director’s office
and three operations sections that
include Motor Carrier, Hazardous
Material Registration, and the Coal
Resource Transportation System.
Ms. Sandy Bowling, Supervisor of
Insurance and Safety Section, Indiana
Department of Revenue, Motor Carrier
Services Division is being reappointed
to represent the FMCSA Midwestern
service area. Ms. Bowling has been with
the Motor Carrier Services Division for
23 years. She is responsible for issuing
U.S. Department of Transportation
(USDOT) numbers, UCR registration,
intrastate operating authority, intrastate
household goods and passenger
authority, and insurance filings. Ms.
Bowling’s division also created the UCR
registration system on behalf of the UCR
Board. Ms. Bowling is responsible for all
maintenance and reporting for the UCR
registration system.
Ms. Angel Oliver, Supervisor,
Credentialing Unit, Motor Carrier
Division, Texas Department of
Transportation (TxDOT) is being
reappointed to represent the FMCSA
Southern service area. The Motor
Carrier Division is responsible for
administering UCR in Texas and
providing credentials to intrastate and
interstate for-hire motor carriers. Ms.
Oliver has been with TxDOT for 20
years.
Mr. Frank LaQua, Motor Carrier
Services Manager, North Dakota
Department of Transportation is being
reappointed to represent the Western
service area. Mr. LaQua has been with
the North Dakota Department of
Transportation for 23 years, serving 15
of those years as Manager of Motor
Carrier Services. Mr. LaQua is
responsible for North Dakota’s
International Fuel Tax Agreement
(IFTA), International Registration Plan
(IRP), and UCR program areas and is
North Dakota’s IRP and IFTA
Commissioner.
Board Member Term Limits
The four Directors who are
reappointed in this notice as members
of the Board will serve a term of 3 years,
expiring on May 31, 2011.
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Issued on: June 18, 2008.
William A. Quade,
Associate Administrator for Enforcement and
Program Delivery.
[FR Doc. E8–14755 Filed 6–27–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
U.S. Maritime Administration
Availability of a Draft Environmental
Assessment
[Docket No. 2008–0060]
U.S. Department of
Transportation, U.S. Maritime
Administration.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
the U.S. Maritime Administration is
issuing a Draft Programmatic
Environmental Assessment (EA) for the
Removal of Non-Retention Vessels from
National Defense Reserve Fleet (NDRF)
Sites for Disposal. The Draft EA has
been prepared pursuant to the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) (U.S.C. 4231 et seq.) in
accordance with the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ)
regulations for implementing the
procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR
1500–1508). The Maritime
Administration invites comments on the
Draft EA.
The purpose of the Programmatic EA
is to evaluate the potential
environmental impacts from and
alternatives to the Removal of NonRetention Vessels from National Defense
Reserve Fleet Sites for Disposal
proposed by the Maritime
Administration. The Maritime
Administration is charged with
disposing of obsolete ‘‘non-retention’’
U.S. government-owned merchant type
vessels of 1,500 gross tons or more per
Section 203 of the Federal Property and
Administrative Services Act of 1949, as
amended (40 U.S.C. 548 (2008)). Nonretention vessels are vessels that have
been determined by the Maritime
Administration to be of insufficient
value for commercial or military
operation by the Federal Government to
merit further preservation. 46 U.S.C.
57102 (2008). The Maritime
Administration’s non-retention ships
are located at three fleet anchorages in
the James River, Virginia; Beaumont,
Texas; and Suisun Bay, California.
The Maritime Administration is
proposing to tow obsolete vessels from
these three fleet anchorages either to
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one of seven Maritime Administrationapproved or provisionally approved
recycling facilities across the United
States, or to various locations (to be
determined on a case-by-case basis) to
be used as artificial reefs, or sold for
reuse as limited by applicable law, or to
be donated for use as memorials and
museums, or to be used by the U.S.
Navy in at-sea training exercises
referred to as Sinking Exercises, or
SINKEX, during which the Navy fires
live munitions at the vessel to give
trainees a better sense of the capabilities
of Navy weaponry. Following the use of
live fire, vessels are allowed to sink to
the sea bottom.
DATES: Written comments on this Draft
Programmatic EA will be accepted on or
before August 14, 2008.
Address for Further Information: To
send comments or for more information,
contact: Carolyn E. Junemann, U.S.
Maritime Administration, Office of
Environment, 1200 New Jersey Ave.,
SE., W25–217, Washington, DC 20590,
or e-mail: Carolyn.junemann@dot.gov.
A copy of the Draft Programmatic EA
can be obtained or viewed online at
https://www.regulations.gov. The files
are in a portable document format (pdf);
in order to review or print the
document, users need to obtain a free
copy of Acrobat Reader. The Acrobat
Reader can be obtained from https://
www.adobe.com/prodindex/acrobat/
readstep.html.
Copies of the Draft Programmatic EA
will also be available for public review
during normal business hours at the
following locations: Beaumont Public
Library, 801 Pearl St, Beaumont, TX
77701; Surry Public Library, 11640
Rolfe Hwy., Surry, VA 23882; Virgil I.
Grissom Public Library, 366 DeShazor
Drive, Newport News, VA 23608; and
Benicia Public Library, 150 E L St.,
Benicia, CA 94510.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
mission of the Maritime Administration
is to strengthen the U.S. maritime
transportation system, including
infrastructure, industry, and labor, to
meet the economic and security needs
of the United States, and to promote the
development and maintenance of an
adequate, well-balanced U.S. merchant
marine, sufficient to carry the nation’s
domestic waterborne commerce and a
substantial portion of its waterborne
foreign commerce, and capable of
service as a naval and military auxiliary
in time of war or national emergency.
The Maritime Administration also seeks
to ensure that the United States
maintains adequate shipbuilding and
repair services, efficient ports, effective
intermodal water and land
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transportation systems, and reserve
shipping capacity for use in time of
national emergency.
The Maritime Administration is
charged with disposing of obsolete
‘‘non-retention’’ U.S. governmentowned merchant type vessels of 1,500
gross tons or more per Section 203 of
the Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act of 1949, as amended (40
U.S.C. 548 (2008)). Non-retention
vessels are vessels that have been
determined by the Maritime
Administration to be of insufficient
value for commercial or military
operation by the Federal Government to
merit further preservation by the
Federal Government. 46 U.S.C. 57102
(2008). The Maritime Administration’s
non-retention ships are located at three
fleet anchorages in the James River,
Virginia; Beaumont, Texas; and Suisun
Bay, California.
Ongoing maintenance of nonretention vessels is limited to that
which is necessary to maintain the
integrity of the hull and keeping the
established preservation systems in
good order. The majority of nonretention NDRF vessels are
systematically being recycled. However,
some vessels have been loaned to other
Government agencies, sold for reuse in
accordance with applicable law, used as
artificial reefs, used as museums, and
used for military and civilian training.
All of the vessels to be removed are
obsolete non-retention vessels that
Congress has directed the Maritime
Administration to dispose of under the
Merchant Marine Act of 1936, as
amended.
The Maritime Administration
continues to consider domestic
dismantling (recycling) as the
predominant means of vessel disposal,
but continually evaluates alternative
means of disposal such as artificial
reefing, sale for reuse, deep-water
sinking through the Navy’s SINKEX
Program, and donations to historic
organizations when possible.
Domestic recyclers of obsolete NDRF
vessels are required to follow all
Federal, state, and local laws and
regulations governing worker safety and
environmental protection. Specific
authority to pay for recycling provided
in the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2001
(Pub. L. 106–259 § 8136), was enacted
on August 9, 2000, and included a
budget for the accelerated recycling of
those vessels in the ‘‘worst condition.’’
All other alternatives for disposal are
required to be in accordance with all
federal, state, and local laws and
regulations. Selection of recycling
facilities was included in the 2000
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[Notices]
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[FR Doc No: E8-14755]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Reappointment of Representatives to the Unified Carrier
Registration Agreement Board of Directors
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: FMCSA announces the reappointment of four Directors who serve
on the Board of Directors that governs the Unified Carrier Registration
(UCR) Agreement as the representatives from each of the four FMCSA
service areas. The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) created the
UCR Agreement. Under the UCR Agreement, for-hire and private motor
carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies provide
registration and financial responsibility information and pay certain
fees. The UCR Agreement replaced the Single State Registration System
(SSRS), which was repealed January 1, 2007.
DATES: The Directors' appointments to the Board are effective beginning
on June 1, 2008. Their terms will expire May 31, 2011.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Julie Otto, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Office of Safety Programs (MC-ES), (202) 366-
0710, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours
are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 4305 of SAFETEA-LU (Pub. L. 109-59, 119 Stat. 1144, Aug.
10, 2005) created, under Title 49 of the U.S. Code, a new section
14504a titled ``Unified Carrier Registration System Plan and
Agreement.'' Under the UCR Agreement, for-hire motor carriers, motor
private carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and leasing companies
provide registration and financial responsibility information and pay
certain fees. The Unified Carrier Registration Plan Board of Directors
must issue rules and regulations to govern the UCR Agreement.
Title 49 U.S.C. 14504a(a)(9) defines the Unified Carrier
Registration Plan as the organization of State, Federal, and industry
representatives responsible for developing, implementing, and
administering the UCR Agreement. Section 14504a(d)(1)(B) directed the
Secretary to establish a Unified Carrier Registration Plan Board of
Directors made up of 15 members representing FMCSA, State government,
and the motor carrier industry.
Section 14504a(d) stipulates that the Unified Carrier Registration
Plan Board of Directors must consist of representatives from the
following groups:
One Director from the U.S. Department of Transportation,
either the FMCSA Deputy Administrator or such other Presidential
appointee;
Four Directors, one from each of FMCSA service areas (as
defined by FMCSA in 71 FR 27778, Jan. 1, 2005), selected from among the
chief administrative officers of the State agencies responsible for
overseeing the administration of the UCR agreement;
Five Directors representing the State agencies responsible
for overseeing the administration of the UCR Agreement, selected from
among their professional staffs and nominated by the National
Conference of State Transportation Specialists (NCSTS), a non-profit
organization founded in 1959 and consisting of State agencies involved
in transportation safety, insurance, and consumer protection; and
Five Directors representing the motor carrier industry.
Board of Directors
Today's publication serves as public notice of the reappointment of
the board members from four FMCSA service areas to the Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors. The four members reappointed to
the Board include the following:
Mr. Charles ``Buddy'' Covert, Director, Transportation
Administration Division, Public Service Commission of West Virginia is
being reappointed to represent the FMCSA Eastern service area. Mr.
Covert's office assists the State with supporting and promoting a
transportation safety environment that balances the interests of all
parties and pursues excellence through quality. The current
Transportation Administration Division consists of the Director's
office and three operations sections that include Motor Carrier,
Hazardous Material Registration, and the Coal Resource Transportation
System.
Ms. Sandy Bowling, Supervisor of Insurance and Safety Section,
Indiana Department of Revenue, Motor Carrier Services Division is being
reappointed to represent the FMCSA Midwestern service area. Ms. Bowling
has been with the Motor Carrier Services Division for 23 years. She is
responsible for issuing U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT)
numbers, UCR registration, intrastate operating authority, intrastate
household goods and passenger authority, and insurance filings. Ms.
Bowling's division also created the UCR registration system on behalf
of the UCR Board. Ms. Bowling is responsible for all maintenance and
reporting for the UCR registration system.
Ms. Angel Oliver, Supervisor, Credentialing Unit, Motor Carrier
Division, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) is being
reappointed to represent the FMCSA Southern service area. The Motor
Carrier Division is responsible for administering UCR in Texas and
providing credentials to intrastate and interstate for-hire motor
carriers. Ms. Oliver has been with TxDOT for 20 years.
Mr. Frank LaQua, Motor Carrier Services Manager, North Dakota
Department of Transportation is being reappointed to represent the
Western service area. Mr. LaQua has been with the North Dakota
Department of Transportation for 23 years, serving 15 of those years as
Manager of Motor Carrier Services. Mr. LaQua is responsible for North
Dakota's International Fuel Tax Agreement (IFTA), International
Registration Plan (IRP), and UCR program areas and is North Dakota's
IRP and IFTA Commissioner.
Board Member Term Limits
The four Directors who are reappointed in this notice as members of
the Board will serve a term of 3 years, expiring on May 31, 2011.
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Issued on: June 18, 2008.
William A. Quade,
Associate Administrator for Enforcement and Program Delivery.
[FR Doc. E8-14755 Filed 6-27-08; 8:45 am]
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