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Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 209 / Tuesday, October 28, 2008 / Notices
Dated: October 22, 2008.
Elizabeth A. Davidson,
Reports Clearance Officer, Social Security
Administration.
[FR Doc. E8–25691 Filed 10–27–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Notice of Intent To Request Approval
From the Office of Management and
Budget of a New Information
Collection Activity, Request for
Comments; National Flight Attendant
Duty/Rest/Fatigue Field Study
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In response to a Congressional
directive to conduct a flight attendant
fatigue study, FAA’s Civil Aerospace
Medical Institute, will initiate a
comprehensive analysis of fatigue in
flight attendants across a range of
operational conditions.
DATES: Please submit comments by
November 28, 2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carla Mauney on (202) 267–9895, or by
e-mail at: Carla.Mauney@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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SUMMARY:
Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
Title: National Flight Attendant Duty/
Rest/Fatigue Field Study.
Type of Request: New collection.
OMB Control Number: 2120–XXXX.
Forms(s): There are no FAA forms
associated with this collection.
Affected Public: A total of 210
Respondents.
Frequency: The information will be
collected daily for one month.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: Approximately 45 minutes
per response.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours: An
estimated 4,725 hours.
Abstract: In response to a
Congressional directive to conduct a
flight attendant fatigue study, FAA’s
Civil Aerospace Medical Institute, will
initiate a comprehensive analysis of
fatigue in flight attendants across a
range of operational conditions. The
specific goals of this project are to
systematically assess activity patterns,
fatigue, and performance on- and offduty in 210 flight attendants of various
levels of seniority from US-based
network, low-cost, and regional carriers
embarking on domestic and extended
international flights.
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Send comments to the FAA
at the following address: Ms. Carla
Mauney, Room 712, Federal Aviation
Administration, IT Enterprises Business
Services Division, AES–200, 800
Independence Ave., SW., Washington,
DC 20591.
Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Department’s estimates of the
burden of the proposed information
collection; ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to
be collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
ADDRESSES:
Issued in Washington, DC, on October 20,
2008.
Carla Mauney,
FAA Information Collection Clearance
Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services
Division, AES–200.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Deadline for Notification of Intent To
Use the Airport Improvement Program
(AIP) Sponsor, Cargo, and Nonprimary
Entitlement Funds for Fiscal Year 2009
Federal Aviation
Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA) announces
February 2, 2009, as the deadline for
each airport sponsor to notify the FAA
whether or not it will use its fiscal year
2009 entitlement funds available under
Public Law No. 110–330 to accomplish
Airport Improvement Program (AIP)eligible projects that the sponsor
previously identified through the
Airports Capital Improvement Plan
(ACIP) process during the preceding
year. If a sponsor does not declare their
intention regarding the use of fiscal year
2009 entitlement funds by February 2,
2009, FAA will be unable to take the
necessary actions to designate these as
‘‘protected’’ carryover funds; these
funds will not be carried over without
a legislative enactment that provides an
additional AIP authorization and an
extension of the FAA’s spending
authority from the Airport and Airway
Trust Fund beyond March 31, 2009.
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Mr.
Frank J. San Martin, Manager, Airports
Financial Assistance Division, APP–
500, on (202) 267–3831.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title 49 of the United States Code,
section 47105(f), provides that the
sponsor of each airport to which funds
are apportioned shall notify the
Secretary by such time and in a form as
prescribed by the Secretary, of the
sponsor’s intent to apply for the funds
apportioned to it (entitlements). This
notice applies only to those airports that
have had entitlement funds apportioned
to them, except those nonprimary
airports located in designated Block
Grant States. Sponsors intending to
apply for any of their available
entitlement funds, including those
unused from prior years, shall submit by
February 2, 2009, a written indication to
the designated Airports District Office
(or Regional Office in regions without
Airports District Offices) that they will
advertise, bid, and submit an
application prior to February 11, 2009,
or by the date established by the
designated Airport District or Regional
Office.
This notice is promulgated to
expedite and prioritize the grant-making
process. In the past when there has been
full-year funding for AIP, the FAA has
established a deadline of May 1 for an
airport sponsor to declare that it will
defer use of its entitlement funding.
Considering that Congress has
authorized the AIP program only until
March 31, 2009, i.e. into the middle of
a fiscal year, and uncertainty about
additional statutory action before the
end of the fiscal year, the FAA is
establishing February 2, 2009, as the
deadline for each airport sponsor to
notify the FAA whether or not it will
use its fiscal year 2009 entitlement
funds.
The AIP grant program is operating
under the requirements of Public Law
110–329, the ‘‘Consolidated Security,
Disaster Assistance, and Continuing
Appropriations Act, 2009’’, which is a
continuing resolution through March 6,
2009, and Public Law 110–330, the
‘‘Federal Aviation Administration
Extension Act of 2008, Part II’’, enacted
on September 30, 2008, which amends
49 U.S.C. 48103, to extend AIP for a sixmonth period beginning October 1, 2008
and ending on March 31, 2009. The
FAA’s expenditure authority from the
Airport and Airway Trust Fund will
expire on March 31, 2009, in the
absence of an additional statutory
extension. Therefore, to avoid the risk of
not being able to carryover funds should
an additional extension not be enacted,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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and to allow at least three days for
accounting processing time, AIP funds
should be obligated in FAA’s
accounting records on or before March
3, 2009.
Sponsors have three options available
to them regarding AIP grants during this
period. First, sponsors may elect to
make an application for a grant based on
entitlements currently available to them.
Sponsors that elect to take such a grant
must submit grant applications to the
FAA no later than February 11, 2009, in
order to meet the March 3, 2009
obligation deadline. Second, sponsors
may elect to wait until after the
February 2, 2009 notification date for
protection of carryover entitlements.
However, if a sponsor does not declare
their intention regarding the use of
fiscal year 2009 entitlement funds by
the February 2, 2009 deadline, FAA will
be unable to take the necessary actions
to designate these as ‘‘protected’’
carryover funds, and these funds would
not be carried over without a legislative
enactment that provides additional AIP
authorization for fiscal year 2009 and
extends the FAA’s spending authority
from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund
beyond March 31, 2009. Third, sponsors
may elect to declare their intention to
carryover the entitlements prior to the
February 2, 2009 deadline through
sending an acceptable written
notification of such intention by
February 2, 2009. Unused carryover
entitlements that have been deferred
will be available in fiscal year 2010 as
provided in current law. FAA will then
issue discretionary grants from the
deferred entitlement funds pursuant to
the authority and limitations in section
471 17(f).
If a statutory extension beyond March
31, 2009 of the AIP program and the
FAA’s authority to make expenditures
from the Trust Fund is enacted,
additional entitlement funds may be
available to sponsors. In that case,
airport sponsors who did not previously
declare their intention to carryover the
entitlements must provide a written
indication to the designated Airports
District Office (or Regional Office in
regions without Airports District
Offices) that they will either carryover
or use their fiscal year 2009 entitlements
by May 1, 2009.
SUMMARY: The Board will meet with
Christensen Associates at 10 a.m. on
Thursday, November 6, 2008, in the
Hearing Room on the first floor of the
Board’s headquarters in Washington,
DC. The purpose of the meeting will be
to discuss Christensen Associates’
independent study entitled Report to
the U.S. STB on Competition and
Related Issues in the U.S. Freight
Railroad Industry. The report assesses
the current state of competition in the
United States freight railroad industry.
The meeting will be open for public
observation but not public participation.
DATES: The meeting will take place on
Thursday, November 6, 2008, beginning
at 10 a.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
the Hearing Room on the first floor of
the Board’s headquarters at Patriot’s
Plaza, 395 E Street, SW., Washington,
DC 20423–0001.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: A.
Dennis Watson, Office of Public
Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and
Compliance, Telephone: (202) 245–
0234, FIRS: (800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
September 2007, the Board awarded a
contract to Christensen Associates to
conduct an independent study that
provides a comprehensive analysis of a
wide range of issues including
competition, capacity, and the interplay
between the two. The report also
includes an examination of various
regulatory policy alternatives that could
lead to changes in the Board’s regulatory
approach if necessary.
The Board will release the report to
the public in early November and will
solicit written public comments at that
time.
This action will not significantly
affect either the quality of the human
environment or the conservation of
energy resources.
Issued in Washington, DC on October 21,
2008.
Benito DeLeon,
Director, FAA Office of Airport Planning and
Programming.
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Dated: October 23, 2008.
By the Board, Anne K. Quinlan, Acting
Secretary.
Anne K. Quinlan,
Acting Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Surface Transportation Board
Office of Foreign Assets Control
[STB Ex Parte No. 680]
Additional Designation of Entities
Pursuant to Executive Order 13382
Study of Competition in the Freight
Railroad Industry
AGENCY:
Surface Transportation Board.
Notice of board meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control
(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the names of
four newly-designated entities whose
property and interests in property are
blocked pursuant to Executive Order
13382 of June 28, 2005, ‘‘Blocking
Property of Weapons of Mass
Destruction Proliferators and Their
Supporters.’’
DATES: The designation by the Director
of OFAC of the four entities identified
in this notice pursuant to Executive
Order 13382 is effective on October 22,
2008.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Assistant Director, Compliance
Outreach & Implementation, Office of
Foreign Assets Control, Department of
the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220,
tel.: (202) 622–2490.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic and Facsimile Availability
This document and additional
information concerning OFAC are
available from OFAC’s web site (https://
www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/
ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour
fax-on demand service, tel.: (202) 622–
0077.
Background
On June 28, 2005, the President,
invoking the authority, inter alia, of the
International Emergency Economic
Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706)
(‘‘IEEPA’’), issued Executive Order
13382 (70 FR 38567, July 1, 2005) (the
‘‘Order’’), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern
daylight time on June 29, 2005. In the
Order, the President took additional
steps with respect to the national
emergency described and declared in
Executive Order 12938 of November 14,
1994, regarding the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction and the
means of delivering them.
Section 1 of the Order blocks, with
certain exceptions, all property and
interests in property that are in the
United States, or that hereafter come
within the United States or that are or
hereafter come within the possession or
control of United States persons, of: (1)
The persons listed in an Annex to the
Order; (2) any foreign person
determined by the Secretary of State, in
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Deadline for Notification of Intent To Use the Airport
Improvement Program (AIP) Sponsor, Cargo, and Nonprimary Entitlement
Funds for Fiscal Year 2009
AGENCY: Federal Aviation Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announces February
2, 2009, as the deadline for each airport sponsor to notify the FAA
whether or not it will use its fiscal year 2009 entitlement funds
available under Public Law No. 110-330 to accomplish Airport
Improvement Program (AIP)-eligible projects that the sponsor previously
identified through the Airports Capital Improvement Plan (ACIP) process
during the preceding year. If a sponsor does not declare their
intention regarding the use of fiscal year 2009 entitlement funds by
February 2, 2009, FAA will be unable to take the necessary actions to
designate these as ``protected'' carryover funds; these funds will not
be carried over without a legislative enactment that provides an
additional AIP authorization and an extension of the FAA's spending
authority from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund beyond March 31, 2009.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Frank J. San Martin, Manager,
Airports Financial Assistance Division, APP-500, on (202) 267-3831.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title 49 of the United States Code, section 47105(f), provides that
the sponsor of each airport to which funds are apportioned shall notify
the Secretary by such time and in a form as prescribed by the
Secretary, of the sponsor's intent to apply for the funds apportioned
to it (entitlements). This notice applies only to those airports that
have had entitlement funds apportioned to them, except those nonprimary
airports located in designated Block Grant States. Sponsors intending
to apply for any of their available entitlement funds, including those
unused from prior years, shall submit by February 2, 2009, a written
indication to the designated Airports District Office (or Regional
Office in regions without Airports District Offices) that they will
advertise, bid, and submit an application prior to February 11, 2009,
or by the date established by the designated Airport District or
Regional Office.
This notice is promulgated to expedite and prioritize the grant-
making process. In the past when there has been full-year funding for
AIP, the FAA has established a deadline of May 1 for an airport sponsor
to declare that it will defer use of its entitlement funding.
Considering that Congress has authorized the AIP program only until
March 31, 2009, i.e. into the middle of a fiscal year, and uncertainty
about additional statutory action before the end of the fiscal year,
the FAA is establishing February 2, 2009, as the deadline for each
airport sponsor to notify the FAA whether or not it will use its fiscal
year 2009 entitlement funds.
The AIP grant program is operating under the requirements of Public
Law 110-329, the ``Consolidated Security, Disaster Assistance, and
Continuing Appropriations Act, 2009'', which is a continuing resolution
through March 6, 2009, and Public Law 110-330, the ``Federal Aviation
Administration Extension Act of 2008, Part II'', enacted on September
30, 2008, which amends 49 U.S.C. 48103, to extend AIP for a six-month
period beginning October 1, 2008 and ending on March 31, 2009. The
FAA's expenditure authority from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund will
expire on March 31, 2009, in the absence of an additional statutory
extension. Therefore, to avoid the risk of not being able to carryover
funds should an additional extension not be enacted,
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and to allow at least three days for accounting processing time, AIP
funds should be obligated in FAA's accounting records on or before
March 3, 2009.
Sponsors have three options available to them regarding AIP grants
during this period. First, sponsors may elect to make an application
for a grant based on entitlements currently available to them. Sponsors
that elect to take such a grant must submit grant applications to the
FAA no later than February 11, 2009, in order to meet the March 3, 2009
obligation deadline. Second, sponsors may elect to wait until after the
February 2, 2009 notification date for protection of carryover
entitlements. However, if a sponsor does not declare their intention
regarding the use of fiscal year 2009 entitlement funds by the February
2, 2009 deadline, FAA will be unable to take the necessary actions to
designate these as ``protected'' carryover funds, and these funds would
not be carried over without a legislative enactment that provides
additional AIP authorization for fiscal year 2009 and extends the FAA's
spending authority from the Airport and Airway Trust Fund beyond March
31, 2009. Third, sponsors may elect to declare their intention to
carryover the entitlements prior to the February 2, 2009 deadline
through sending an acceptable written notification of such intention by
February 2, 2009. Unused carryover entitlements that have been deferred
will be available in fiscal year 2010 as provided in current law. FAA
will then issue discretionary grants from the deferred entitlement
funds pursuant to the authority and limitations in section 471 17(f).
If a statutory extension beyond March 31, 2009 of the AIP program
and the FAA's authority to make expenditures from the Trust Fund is
enacted, additional entitlement funds may be available to sponsors. In
that case, airport sponsors who did not previously declare their
intention to carryover the entitlements must provide a written
indication to the designated Airports District Office (or Regional
Office in regions without Airports District Offices) that they will
either carryover or use their fiscal year 2009 entitlements by May 1,
2009.
Issued in Washington, DC on October 21, 2008.
Benito DeLeon,
Director, FAA Office of Airport Planning and Programming.
[FR Doc. E8-25712 Filed 10-27-08; 8:45 am]
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