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Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 198 / Friday, October 10, 2008 / Notices or optometrist’s report to the medical examiner at the time of the annual medical examination; and (3) that each individual provide a copy of the annual medical certification to the employer for retention in the driver’s qualification file and retain a copy of the certification on his/her person while driving for presentation to a duly authorized Federal, State, or local enforcement official. Each exemption will be valid for two years unless rescinded earlier by FMCSA. The exemption will be rescinded if: (1) The person fails to comply with the terms and conditions of the exemption; (2) the exemption has resulted in a lower level of safety than was maintained before it was granted; or (3) continuation of the exemption would not be consistent with the goals and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315. mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Basis for Renewing Exemptions Under 49 U.S.C. 31315(b)(1), an exemption may be granted for no longer than two years from its approval date and may be renewed upon application for additional two year periods. In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315, each of the 15 applicants has satisfied the entry conditions for obtaining an exemption from the vision requirements (63 FR 30285; 63 FR 54519; 63 FR 196; 64 FR 54948; 65 FR 159; 67 FR 67234; 69 FR 62741; 71 FR 62147; 65 FR 20245; 65 FR 57230; 67 FR 57266; 65 FR 33406; 65 FR 57234; 65 FR 66293; 67 FR 67234; 67 FR 46016; 67 FR 57267; 69 FR 53493; 69 FR 62742; 71 FR 62148; 71 FR 6826; 71 FR 19602; 71 FR 32183; 71 FR 41310). Each of these 15 applicants has requested renewal of the exemption and has submitted evidence showing that the vision in the better eye continues to meet the standard specified at 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10) and that the vision impairment is stable. In addition, a review of each record of safety while driving with the respective vision deficiencies over the past two years indicates each applicant continues to meet the vision exemption standards. These factors provide an adequate basis for predicting each driver’s ability to continue to drive safely in interstate commerce. Therefore, FMCSA concludes that extending the exemption for each renewal applicant for a period of two years is likely to achieve a level of safety equal to that existing without the exemption. Request for Comments FMCSA will review comments received at any time concerning a particular driver’s safety record and determine if the continuation of the exemption is consistent with the VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:11 Oct 09, 2008 Jkt 217001 requirements at 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315. However, FMCSA requests that interested parties with specific data concerning the safety records of these drivers submit comments by November 10, 2008. FMCSA believes that the requirements for a renewal of an exemption under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315 can be satisfied by initially granting the renewal and then requesting and evaluating, if needed, subsequent comments submitted by interested parties. As indicated above, the Agency previously published notices of final disposition announcing its decision to exempt these 15 individuals from the vision requirement in 49 CFR 391.41(b)(10). The final decision to grant an exemption to each of these individuals was based on the merits of each case and only after careful consideration of the comments received to its notices of applications. The notices of applications stated in detail the qualifications, experience, and medical condition of each applicant 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: October 2, 2008. Larry W. Minor, Associate Administrator for Policy and Program Development. [FR Doc. E8–24104 Filed 10–9–08; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Transit Administration Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Program, Formerly Alternative Transportation in Parks and Public Lands Program Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT. ACTION: Announcement of project selections. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Transit PO 00000 Frm 00172 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 60399 Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects to be funded under Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 appropriations for the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program (formally the Alternative Transportation in Parks and Public Lands (ATPPL)) program, authorized by Section 3021 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy for Users of 2005 (SAFETEA–LU) and codified in 49 U.S.C. 5320. The Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds capital and planning expenses for alternative transportation systems in parks and public lands. Federal land management agencies and State, tribal and local governments acting with the consent of a Federal land management agency are eligible recipients. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Award recipients who are State, local, or tribal entities may contact the appropriate FTA Regional Administrator (See Appendix A) for grant-specific issues. Award Recipients who are a specific unit of the following Federal land management agencies should work with the contact listed below at their headquarters office to coordinate the availability of funds to that unit. • Bureau of Land Management: Linda Force, Linda_Force@blm.gov, 202–557– 3567. • Fish and Wildlife Service: Nathan Caldwell, nathan_caldwell@fws.gov, 703–358–2376. • Forest Service: Ellen LaFayette, elafayette@fs.fed.us, 703–605–4509. • National Park Service: Kevin Percival, Kevin_Percival@nps.gov, 303– 969–2429. Any other Federal land management agency, as specified by 49 U.S.C. 5320(b)(2), should contact Henrika Buchanan-Smith at (202) 366–2053 for instructions regarding receiving funds. For general information about the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program, please contact Scott Faulk, Office of Program Management, Federal Transit Administration, at (202) 366–2053. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A total of $25,000,000 was appropriated for FTA’s Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, and $807,660 in FY 2007 funds remain available for allocation. Of this amount, $1,250,000 has been reserved for oversight, planning, research, and technical assistance leaving $24,557,660 available for project awards. A total of 84 applicants requested $55.2 million in funding under the program, which was more than twice the amount available for projects. FTA, Department of the E:\FR\FM\10OCN1.SGM 10OCN1 60400 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 198 / Friday, October 10, 2008 / Notices Interior (DOI), and land management agencies’ representatives evaluated the project proposals based on the criteria defined in 49 U.S.C. 5320(g)(2) and detailed in the Notice of Funding Availability published on December 13, 2007. The 52 projects selected for funding in FY 2008 are shown on Table 1 and represent a diverse set of capital and planning projects across the country, ranging from bus purchases to installation of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). Applying for Funds Recipients who are State or local government entities will be required to apply for Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds electronically through FTA’s electronic grant award and management system, TEAM. The content of these grant applications must reflect the approved proposal. (Note: Applications for the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program do not require Department of Labor Certification.) Upon grant award, payments to grantees will be made by electronic transfer to the grantee’s financial institution through the Electronic Clearing House Operation (ECHO) system. Staff in FTA’s Regional offices is available to assist applicants. Recipients who are Federal land management agencies will be required to enter into an interagency agreement with FTA. FTA will administer one interagency agreement with each Federal land management agency receiving funding through the program for all of that agency’s projects. Individual units of Federal land management agencies should work with the contact at their headquarters office listed above to coordinate the availability of funds to that unit. Program Requirements Section 5320 requires funding recipients to meet certain requirements. Requirements that reflect existing statutory and regulatory provisions can be found in the document ‘‘Alternative Transportation in Parks and Public Lands Program: Requirements for Recipients’’ available at https:// www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. These requirements are incorporated into the grant agreements and inter-agency agreements used to fund the selected projects. Pre-Award Authority Pre-award authority allows an agency that will receive a grant or interagency agreement to incur certain project costs prior to receipt of the grant or interagency agreement and retain eligibility of the costs for subsequent reimbursement after the grant or agreement is approved. The recipient assumes all risk and is responsible for ensuring that all conditions are met to retain eligibility, including compliance with federal requirements such as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), SAFETEA–LU planning requirements, and provisions established in the grant contract or Interagency Agreement. This automatic pre-award spending authority, when triggered, permits a grantee to incur costs on an eligible transit capital or planning project without prejudice to possible future Federal participation in the cost of the project or projects. Under the authority provided in 49 U.S.C. 5320(h), FTA is extending pre-award authority for FY 2008 ATTPL projects effective as of October 10, 2008 when the projects were publicly announced. The conditions under which preaward authority may be utilized are specified below: a. Pre-award authority is not a legal or implied commitment that the project(s) will be approved for FTA assistance or that FTA will obligate Federal funds. Furthermore, it is not a legal or implied commitment that all items undertaken by the applicant will be eligible for inclusion in the project(s). b. All FTA statutory, procedural, and contractual requirements must be met. c. No action will be taken by the grantee that prejudices the legal and administrative findings that the Federal Transit Administrator must make in order to approve a project. d. Local funds expended pursuant to this pre-award authority will be eligible for reimbursement if FTA later makes a grant or interagency agreement for the project(s). Local funds expended by the grantee prior to October 10, 2008 will not be eligible for credit toward local match or reimbursement. Furthermore, the expenditure of local funds on activities such as land acquisition, demolition, or construction, prior to the completion of the NEPA process, would compromise FTA’s ability to comply with Federal environmental laws and may render the project ineligible for FTA funding. e. When a grant for the project is subsequently awarded, the Financial Status Report, in TEAM-Web, must indicate the use of pre-award authority, and the pre-award item in the project information section of TEAM should be marked ‘‘yes.’’ Reporting Requirements All recipients must submit quarterly reports to FTA containing the following information: (1) Narrative description of project(s); and, (2) discussion of all budget and schedule changes. The headquarters office for each federal land management agency should collect a quarterly report for each of the projects delineated in the interagency agreement and then send these reports (preferably by e-mail) to Scott Faulk, FTA, scott.faulk@dot.gov; 1200 New Jersey Avenue, Washington, DC 20590. Examples can be found on the program Web site at https://www.fta.dot.gov/ atppl. State and local governments will send this information to FTA for projects that are funded through grants to State and local governments rather than through the interagency agreement. The quarterly reports are due to FTA on the dates noted below: Covering 1st Quarter Report ...................................................................... 2nd Quarter Report ..................................................................... 3rd Quarter Report ...................................................................... 4th Quarter Report ...................................................................... mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Quarter October 1–December 31 ............................................................. January 1–March 31 ................................................................... April 1–June 30 ........................................................................... July 1–September 31 .................................................................. In order to allow FTA to compute aggregate program performance measures as required by the President’s Management Agenda, FTA requests that all recipients of funding for capital projects under the Paul S. Sarbanes VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:11 Oct 09, 2008 Jkt 217001 Transit in Parks program submit the following information annually: • Annual visitation to the land unit; • Annual number of persons who use the alternative transportation system (ridership/usage); PO 00000 Frm 00173 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Due date January 31 April 30. July 31. October 31. • An estimate of the number of vehicle trips mitigated based on alternative transportation system usage and the typical number of passengers per vehicle; • Cost per passenger; and, E:\FR\FM\10OCN1.SGM 10OCN1 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 198 / Friday, October 10, 2008 / Notices • A note of any special services offered for those systems with higher costs per passenger but more amenities. State and local government entities should submit this information as part of their fourth quarter report through FTA’s TEAM grants management system. Federal land management agencies should also send this information as part of their fourth quarter report. Examples can be found on the program Web site at https:// www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. mstockstill on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Oversight Recipients of FY 2008 Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds will be required to certify that they will comply with all applicable Federal and FTA programmatic requirements. FTA direct grantees will complete this certification as part of the annual Certification and Assurances package, and Federal Land Management Agency recipients will complete the certification by signing the interagency agreement. This certification is the basis for oversight reviews conducted by FTA. The Secretary of Transportation and FTA have elected not to apply the triennial review requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5307(h)(2) to Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program recipients that are other Federal agencies. Instead, working with the existing oversight systems at the Federal Land Management Agencies, FTA will perform periodic reviews of specific projects funded by the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program. These reviews will ensure that projects meet the basic statutory, administrative, and regulatory requirements as stipulated by this notice and the certification. To the extent possible, these reviews will be coordinated with other reviews of the VerDate Aug<31>2005 20:11 Oct 09, 2008 Jkt 217001 60401 project. FTA direct grantees of Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds (State, local and tribal government entities) will be subject to all applicable triennial, State management, civil rights, and other reviews. Marisol Simon, FTA Regional Administrator, 200 West Adams Street, Suite 320, Chicago, IL 60606–5232, (312) 353–2789. Issued in Washington, DC, this 6th day of October, 2008. James S. Simpson, Administrator. Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Robert Patrick, FTA Regional Administrator, 819 Taylor Street, Room 8A36, Ft. Worth, TX 76102, (817) 978–0550. Appendix A—FTA Regional Offices Region VI Region I Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. Richard Doyle, FTA Regional Administrator, Kendall Square, 55 Broadway, Suite 920, Cambridge, MA 02142–1093, (617) 494–2055. Region VII Region II New Jersey, and New York. Brigid Hynes-Cherin, FTA Regional Administrator, One Bowling Green, Room 429, New York, NY 10004–1415, (212) 668–2170. Region VIII Region III Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Letitia Thompson, FTA Regional Administrator, 1760 Market Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103–4124, (215) 656–7100. Region IV Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgin Islands. Yvette Taylor, FTA Regional Administrator, 230 Peachtree St., NW., Suite 800, Atlanta, GA 30303, (404) 865–5600. Region V Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. PO 00000 Frm 00174 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Mokhtee Ahmad, FTA Regional Administrator, 901 Locust Street, Suite 404, Kansas City, MO 64106, (816) 329– 3920. Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. Terry Rosapep, FTA Regional Administrator, 12300 West Dakota, Suite 310, Lakewood, CO 80228–2583, (720) 963–3300. Region IX American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Leslie Rogers, FTA Regional Administrator, 201 Mission Street, Room 1650, San Francisco, CA 94105–1839, (415) 744– 3133. Region X Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Richard F. Krochalis, FTA Regional Administrator, Jackson Federal Building, 915 Second Avenue, Suite 3142, Seattle, WA 98174–1002, (206) 220–7954. 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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration


Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks Program, Formerly Alternative 
Transportation in Parks and Public Lands Program

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.

ACTION: Announcement of project selections.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Transit 
Administration (FTA) announces the selection of projects to be funded 
under Fiscal Year (FY) 2008 appropriations for the Paul S. Sarbanes 
Transit in Parks program (formally the Alternative Transportation in 
Parks and Public Lands (ATPPL)) program, authorized by Section 3021 of 
the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act--A 
Legacy for Users of 2005 (SAFETEA-LU) and codified in 49 U.S.C. 5320. 
The Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds capital and 
planning expenses for alternative transportation systems in parks and 
public lands. Federal land management agencies and State, tribal and 
local governments acting with the consent of a Federal land management 
agency are eligible recipients.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Award recipients who are State, local, 
or tribal entities may contact the appropriate FTA Regional 
Administrator (See Appendix A) for grant-specific issues. Award 
Recipients who are a specific unit of the following Federal land 
management agencies should work with the contact listed below at their 
headquarters office to coordinate the availability of funds to that 
unit.
     Bureau of Land Management: Linda Force, Linda_
Force@blm.gov, 202-557-3567.
     Fish and Wildlife Service: Nathan Caldwell, nathan_
caldwell@fws.gov, 703-358-2376.
     Forest Service: Ellen LaFayette, elafayette@fs.fed.us, 
703-605-4509.
     National Park Service: Kevin Percival, Kevin_
Percival@nps.gov, 303-969-2429.

Any other Federal land management agency, as specified by 49 U.S.C. 
5320(b)(2), should contact Henrika Buchanan-Smith at (202) 366-2053 for 
instructions regarding receiving funds. For general information about 
the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program, please contact Scott 
Faulk, Office of Program Management, Federal Transit Administration, at 
(202) 366-2053.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    A total of $25,000,000 was appropriated for FTA's Paul S. Sarbanes 
Transit in Parks program in Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, and $807,660 in FY 
2007 funds remain available for allocation. Of this amount, $1,250,000 
has been reserved for oversight, planning, research, and technical 
assistance leaving $24,557,660 available for project awards. A total of 
84 applicants requested $55.2 million in funding under the program, 
which was more than twice the amount available for projects. FTA, 
Department of the

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Interior (DOI), and land management agencies' representatives evaluated 
the project proposals based on the criteria defined in 49 U.S.C. 
5320(g)(2) and detailed in the Notice of Funding Availability published 
on December 13, 2007.
    The 52 projects selected for funding in FY 2008 are shown on Table 
1 and represent a diverse set of capital and planning projects across 
the country, ranging from bus purchases to installation of Intelligent 
Transportation Systems (ITS).

Applying for Funds

    Recipients who are State or local government entities will be 
required to apply for Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds 
electronically through FTA's electronic grant award and management 
system, TEAM. The content of these grant applications must reflect the 
approved proposal. (Note: Applications for the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit 
in Parks program do not require Department of Labor Certification.) 
Upon grant award, payments to grantees will be made by electronic 
transfer to the grantee's financial institution through the Electronic 
Clearing House Operation (ECHO) system. Staff in FTA's Regional offices 
is available to assist applicants.
    Recipients who are Federal land management agencies will be 
required to enter into an interagency agreement with FTA. FTA will 
administer one interagency agreement with each Federal land management 
agency receiving funding through the program for all of that agency's 
projects. Individual units of Federal land management agencies should 
work with the contact at their headquarters office listed above to 
coordinate the availability of funds to that unit.

Program Requirements

    Section 5320 requires funding recipients to meet certain 
requirements. Requirements that reflect existing statutory and 
regulatory provisions can be found in the document ``Alternative 
Transportation in Parks and Public Lands Program: Requirements for 
Recipients'' available at https://www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. These 
requirements are incorporated into the grant agreements and inter-
agency agreements used to fund the selected projects.

Pre-Award Authority

    Pre-award authority allows an agency that will receive a grant or 
interagency agreement to incur certain project costs prior to receipt 
of the grant or interagency agreement and retain eligibility of the 
costs for subsequent reimbursement after the grant or agreement is 
approved. The recipient assumes all risk and is responsible for 
ensuring that all conditions are met to retain eligibility, including 
compliance with federal requirements such as the National Environmental 
Policy Act (NEPA), SAFETEA-LU planning requirements, and provisions 
established in the grant contract or Interagency Agreement. This 
automatic pre-award spending authority, when triggered, permits a 
grantee to incur costs on an eligible transit capital or planning 
project without prejudice to possible future Federal participation in 
the cost of the project or projects. Under the authority provided in 49 
U.S.C. 5320(h), FTA is extending pre-award authority for FY 2008 ATTPL 
projects effective as of October 10, 2008 when the projects were 
publicly announced.
    The conditions under which pre-award authority may be utilized are 
specified below:
    a. Pre-award authority is not a legal or implied commitment that 
the project(s) will be approved for FTA assistance or that FTA will 
obligate Federal funds. Furthermore, it is not a legal or implied 
commitment that all items undertaken by the applicant will be eligible 
for inclusion in the project(s).
    b. All FTA statutory, procedural, and contractual requirements must 
be met.
    c. No action will be taken by the grantee that prejudices the legal 
and administrative findings that the Federal Transit Administrator must 
make in order to approve a project.
    d. Local funds expended pursuant to this pre-award authority will 
be eligible for reimbursement if FTA later makes a grant or interagency 
agreement for the project(s). Local funds expended by the grantee prior 
to October 10, 2008 will not be eligible for credit toward local match 
or reimbursement. Furthermore, the expenditure of local funds on 
activities such as land acquisition, demolition, or construction, prior 
to the completion of the NEPA process, would compromise FTA's ability 
to comply with Federal environmental laws and may render the project 
ineligible for FTA funding.
    e. When a grant for the project is subsequently awarded, the 
Financial Status Report, in TEAM-Web, must indicate the use of pre-
award authority, and the pre-award item in the project information 
section of TEAM should be marked ``yes.''

Reporting Requirements

    All recipients must submit quarterly reports to FTA containing the 
following information:
    (1) Narrative description of project(s); and,
    (2) discussion of all budget and schedule changes.

The headquarters office for each federal land management agency should 
collect a quarterly report for each of the projects delineated in the 
interagency agreement and then send these reports (preferably by e-
mail) to Scott Faulk, FTA, scott.faulk@dot.gov; 1200 New Jersey Avenue, 
Washington, DC 20590. Examples can be found on the program Web site at 
https://www.fta.dot.gov/atppl. State and local governments will send 
this information to FTA for projects that are funded through grants to 
State and local governments rather than through the interagency 
agreement. The quarterly reports are due to FTA on the dates noted 
below:

------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Quarter                   Covering             Due date
------------------------------------------------------------------------
1st Quarter Report.............  October 1-December  January 31
                                  31.
2nd Quarter Report.............  January 1-March 31  April 30.
3rd Quarter Report.............  April 1-June 30...  July 31.
4th Quarter Report.............  July 1-September    October 31.
                                  31.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

    In order to allow FTA to compute aggregate program performance 
measures as required by the President's Management Agenda, FTA requests 
that all recipients of funding for capital projects under the Paul S. 
Sarbanes Transit in Parks program submit the following information 
annually:
     Annual visitation to the land unit;
     Annual number of persons who use the alternative 
transportation system (ridership/usage);
     An estimate of the number of vehicle trips mitigated based 
on alternative transportation system usage and the typical number of 
passengers per vehicle;
     Cost per passenger; and,

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     A note of any special services offered for those systems 
with higher costs per passenger but more amenities.
    State and local government entities should submit this information 
as part of their fourth quarter report through FTA's TEAM grants 
management system. Federal land management agencies should also send 
this information as part of their fourth quarter report. Examples can 
be found on the program Web site at https://www.fta.dot.gov/atppl.

Oversight

    Recipients of FY 2008 Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program 
funds will be required to certify that they will comply with all 
applicable Federal and FTA programmatic requirements. FTA direct 
grantees will complete this certification as part of the annual 
Certification and Assurances package, and Federal Land Management 
Agency recipients will complete the certification by signing the 
interagency agreement. This certification is the basis for oversight 
reviews conducted by FTA.
    The Secretary of Transportation and FTA have elected not to apply 
the triennial review requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5307(h)(2) to Paul S. 
Sarbanes Transit in Parks program recipients that are other Federal 
agencies. Instead, working with the existing oversight systems at the 
Federal Land Management Agencies, FTA will perform periodic reviews of 
specific projects funded by the Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks 
program. These reviews will ensure that projects meet the basic 
statutory, administrative, and regulatory requirements as stipulated by 
this notice and the certification. To the extent possible, these 
reviews will be coordinated with other reviews of the project. FTA 
direct grantees of Paul S. Sarbanes Transit in Parks program funds 
(State, local and tribal government entities) will be subject to all 
applicable triennial, State management, civil rights, and other 
reviews.

    Issued in Washington, DC, this 6th day of October, 2008.
James S. Simpson,
Administrator.

Appendix A--FTA Regional Offices

Region I

    Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and 
Vermont. Richard Doyle, FTA Regional Administrator, Kendall Square, 55 
Broadway, Suite 920, Cambridge, MA 02142-1093, (617) 494-2055.

Region II

    New Jersey, and New York. Brigid Hynes-Cherin, FTA Regional 
Administrator, One Bowling Green, Room 429, New York, NY 10004-1415, 
(212) 668-2170.

Region III

    Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 
and West Virginia. Letitia Thompson, FTA Regional Administrator, 1760 
Market Street, Suite 500, Philadelphia, PA 19103-4124, (215) 656-7100.

Region IV

    Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, 
Puerto Rico, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virgin Islands. Yvette 
Taylor, FTA Regional Administrator, 230 Peachtree St., NW., Suite 800, 
Atlanta, GA 30303, (404) 865-5600.

Region V

    Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Wisconsin. 
Marisol Simon, FTA Regional Administrator, 200 West Adams Street, Suite 
320, Chicago, IL 60606-5232, (312) 353-2789.

Region VI

    Arkansas, Louisiana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas. Robert 
Patrick, FTA Regional Administrator, 819 Taylor Street, Room 8A36, Ft. 
Worth, TX 76102, (817) 978-0550.

Region VII

    Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska. Mokhtee Ahmad, FTA Regional 
Administrator, 901 Locust Street, Suite 404, Kansas City, MO 64106, 
(816) 329-3920.

Region VIII

    Colorado, Montana, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming. 
Terry Rosapep, FTA Regional Administrator, 12300 West Dakota, Suite 
310, Lakewood, CO 80228-2583, (720) 963-3300.

Region IX

    American Samoa, Arizona, California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada, and the 
Northern Mariana Islands. Leslie Rogers, FTA Regional Administrator, 
201 Mission Street, Room 1650, San Francisco, CA 94105-1839, (415) 744-
3133.

Region X

    Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. Richard F. Krochalis, FTA 
Regional Administrator, Jackson Federal Building, 915 Second Avenue, 
Suite 3142, Seattle, WA 98174-1002, (206) 220-7954.
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