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Budget (OMB). You may submit
comments by the following methods:
• E-mail:
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov. You
must include the DS form number,
information collection title, and OMB
control number in the subject line of
your message.
• Fax: 202–395–5806. Attention: Desk
Officer for Department of State.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Direct requests for additional
information regarding the collections
listed in this notice, including requests
for copies of the information collection
and supporting documents, to Nicholas
Memos, PM/DDTC, SA–1, 12th Floor,
Directorate of Defense Trade Controls,
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, U.S.
Department of State, Washington, DC,
20522–0112, who may be reached via
phone at (202) 663–2829, or via e-mail
at memosni@state.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are
soliciting public comments to permit
the Department to:
• Evaluate whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of our
functions.
• Evaluate the accuracy of our
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used.
• Enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected.
• Minimize the reporting burden on
those who are to respond, including the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of technology.
Abstract of proposed collections: The
export, temporary import, and
temporary export of defense articles,
defense services and related technical
data are licensed by the Directorate of
Defense Trade Controls in accordance
with the International Traffic in Arms
Regulations (22 CFR parts 120–130) and
Section 38 of the Arms Export Control
Act. Persons desiring to engage in the
export or temporary import of defense
articles, defense services, and related
technical data must submit an
application or written request to
conduct the transaction to the
Department to obtain a decision
whether it is in the interests of U.S.
foreign policy and national security to
approve the transaction. Additionally,
registered manufacturers and exporter
must maintain records of defense trade
activities for five years.
Methodology: These forms/
information collections may be sent to
the Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls via the following methods:
electronically, mail, or personal
delivery.
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Dated: September 29, 2011.
Robert S. Kovac,
Managing Director of Defense Trade Controls,
Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2011–0279]
[FR Doc. 2011–26943 Filed 10–17–11; 8:45 am]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Emergency Approval of a
New Information Collection:
Motorcoach Passenger and Driver
Survey: Motorcoach Safety and PreTrip Safety Awareness and Emergency
Preparedness Information
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 7649]
Culturally Significant Objects Imported
for Exhibition Determinations:
‘‘Projects 96: Haris Epaminonda’’
Notice is hereby given of the
following determinations: Pursuant to
the authority vested in me by the Act of
October 19, 1965 (79 Stat. 985; 22 U.S.C.
2459), Executive Order 12047 of March
27, 1978, the Foreign Affairs Reform and
Restructuring Act of 1998 (112 Stat.
2681, et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 6501 note, et
seq.), Delegation of Authority No. 234 of
October 1, 1999, Delegation of Authority
No. 236–3 of August 28, 2000 (and, as
appropriate, Delegation of Authority No.
257 of April 15, 2003), I hereby
determine that the objects to be
included in the exhibition ‘‘Projects 96:
Haris Epaminonda’’ imported from
abroad for temporary exhibition within
the United States, are of cultural
significance. The objects are imported
pursuant to a loan agreement with the
foreign owner or custodian. I also
determine that the exhibition or display
of the exhibit objects at The Museum of
Modern Art, New York, NY, from on or
about November 17, 2011, until on or
about February 20, 2012, and at possible
additional exhibitions or venues yet to
be determined, is in the national
interest. I have ordered that Public
Notice of these Determinations be
published in the Federal Register.
SUMMARY:
For
further information, including a list of
the exhibit objects, contact Julie
Simpson, Attorney-Adviser, Office of
the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of
State (telephone: 202–632–6467). The
mailing address is U.S. Department of
State, SA–5, L/PD, Fifth Floor (Suite
5H03), Washington, DC 20522–0505.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dated: October 12, 2011.
J. Adam Ereli,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau
of Educational and Cultural Affairs,
Department of State.
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
information.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) described
below will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
emergency approval. FMCSA requests
approval of this ICR by 30 days from the
publication of this notice. The purpose
of this information collection is to
assess the current levels of voluntary
compliance by motorcoach operators to
provide pre-trip safety awareness and
emergency preparedness information to
passengers and to obtain passenger
opinions of the implementation of the
pre-trip program and any recommended
improvements. The Department of
Transportation (DOT) and FMCSA will
use this data to further inform future
policy and regulatory decisions, as well
as other initiatives to improve
motorcoach safety in the United States.
DATES: Please send your comments by
November 17, 2011.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2011–0297. Interested persons
are invited to submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget. Comments
should be addressed to the attention of
the Desk Officer, Department of
Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, and sent via
electronic mail to https://
www.regulations.gov or faxed to (202)
395–7245, or mailed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dee
Williams, Office of Policy, Plans, and
Regulations, Strategic Planning and
Program Evaluation Division Chief, U.S.
SUMMARY:
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Department of Transportation, Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
6th Floor, West Building, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC
20590–0001. Telephone: (202) 493–
0192; E-mail Address:
dee.williams@dot.gov. Office hours are
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Motorcoach Passenger and
Driver Survey: Motorcoach Safety and
Pre-Trip Safety Awareness and
Emergency Preparedness Information.
OMB Control Number: 2126–XXXX.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Respondents: Motorcoach passengers
and drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,050 respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Form Numbers: Form MCSA–5868,
Motorcoach Passenger Survey: Pre-Trip
Safety Awareness and Emergency
Preparedness Information—To collect
motorcoach passengers’ responses
during five one-shot in-person survey
events.
Form MCSA–5869, Motorcoach Driver
Survey: Pre-Trip Safety Awareness and
Emergency Preparedness Information—
To collect motorcoach drivers’
responses during five one-shot inperson survey events.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new
information collection.
Frequency of Response: One-time.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 175
hours [1,050 respondents × 10 minutes/
60 minutes = 175 hours].
Background
Due to several recent fatal motorcoach
crashes, Congress, DOT, specifically
FMCSA, and other Federal oversight
agencies, including the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), are
increasing their scrutiny over the
motorcoach industry and the
enforcement of and compliance with the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations (FMCSRs). NTSB issued a
Safety Recommendation to DOT, H–99–
08, requiring motorcoach operators to
provide passengers with pre-trip safety
awareness information. This
recommendation resulted from NTSB’s
investigation of two motorcoach crashes
from the late 1990s which revealed that
passengers felt a general sense of panic
not knowing what to do on a
motorcoach in the case of an emergency.
The intent of the recommendation is to
empower passengers to take their
personal safety into their own hands in
the event of an imminent hazard or
emergency situation. To address the
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recommendations issued by NTSB,
FMCSA formed a work group that
included representatives from the
motorcoach industry, motorcoach
manufacturers, insurance industry,
safety consulting industry, trade
associations, State agencies, and other
Federal regulatory agencies. The work
group decided to address the
recommendation by having the
motorcoach industry provide pre-trip
safety briefings on a voluntary basis.
FMCSA is concerned about the
accuracy of self-reported data provided
by motorcoach operators and requires
third party validation of industry efforts
to provide this information to
passengers, as well as the effectiveness
of the means by which the information
is being provided. Currently,
compliance is measured during
FMCSA’s National Passenger Carrier
Strike Forces. The data received from
these Strike Forces has shown increased
adoption levels, however this data is
based solely on input from the
motorcoach companies and not actual
passengers. FMCSA would like to verify
that voluntary compliance continues to
increase, using different sources, and
also collect information on the
effectiveness of compliance. FMCSA
intends to use this data to address
passenger concerns and to provide
NTSB and Congress with additional
data on voluntary compliance levels.
The goals and objectives of this
survey are to assess the current levels of
voluntary compliance by motorcoach
operators and to obtain passenger
opinions of the implementation of the
pre-trip safety awareness and emergency
preparedness information. This will
help eliminate any self-reporting biases
by the motorcoach companies; and
determine whether the pre-trip safety
information is being provided and if it
is effective. The Form MCSA–5868 will
be used to survey motorcoach
passengers and the Form MCSA–5869
will be used to survey motorcoach
drivers. The DOT and FMCSA will use
this data to further inform future policy
and regulatory decisions, as well as
other initiatives to improve motorcoach
safety in the United States.
Public Comments Invited
The Agency requests emergency
processing of this information request.
The information collection is essential
to FMCSA’s safety mission: to reduce
crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving
large trucks and buses. Expedited
review is necessary so FMCSA can use
the results to further inform
Departmental and Agency efforts
currently underway to improve
passenger safety. In light of recent fatal
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crashes, FMCSA believes delay in
collection of this information could
result in harm to motorcoach passenger
safety. 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 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: October 12, 2011.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
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Federal Transit Administration
Notice To Rescind Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement for the Metro Gold Line
Foothill Extension, Azusa to Montclair
in Los Angeles and San Bernardino
Counties, CA
AGENCY:
Federal Transit Administration,
DOT.
Rescind Notice of Intent to
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement.
ACTION:
The Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) and the Metro
Gold Line Foothill Extension
Construction Authority (the
Construction Authority) are issuing this
notice to advise the public that the
Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for proposed improvements in the Metro
Gold Line Foothill Extension Transit
Corridor from Azusa to Montclair is
being rescinded.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Ray Tellis, Team Leader, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Office, Federal Transit
Administration, 888 South Figueroa
Street, Suite 1850, Los Angeles, CA
90017, phone (213) 202–3950, e-mail
ray.tellis@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FTA,
in cooperation with the Construction
Authority, published a NOI in the
Federal Register on December 27, 2010
(Volume 75, Number 247) to prepare an
EIS for the Metro Gold Line Foothill
Extension from Azusa to Montclair
Project per 23 U.S.C. 139. The Build
Alternative is a Light Rail Transit (LRT)
system that would begin at the current
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2011-0279]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Approval of a
New Information Collection: Motorcoach Passenger and Driver Survey:
Motorcoach Safety and Pre-Trip Safety Awareness and Emergency
Preparedness Information
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for information.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA
announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below
will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
emergency approval. FMCSA requests approval of this ICR by 30 days from
the publication of this notice. The purpose of this information
collection is to assess the current levels of voluntary compliance by
motorcoach operators to provide pre-trip safety awareness and emergency
preparedness information to passengers and to obtain passenger opinions
of the implementation of the pre-trip program and any recommended
improvements. The Department of Transportation (DOT) and FMCSA will use
this data to further inform future policy and regulatory decisions, as
well as other initiatives to improve motorcoach safety in the United
States.
DATES: Please send your comments by November 17, 2011.
ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2011-0297. Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention
of the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, and sent via electronic mail to https://www.regulations.gov or faxed to (202) 395-7245, or mailed to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dee Williams, Office of Policy, Plans,
and Regulations, Strategic Planning and Program Evaluation Division
Chief, U.S.
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Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 6th Floor, West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: (202) 493-0192; E-mail Address:
dee.williams@dot.gov. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Motorcoach Passenger and Driver Survey: Motorcoach Safety
and Pre-Trip Safety Awareness and Emergency Preparedness Information.
OMB Control Number: 2126-XXXX.
Type of Request: New information collection.
Respondents: Motorcoach passengers and drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,050 respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
Form Numbers: Form MCSA-5868, Motorcoach Passenger Survey: Pre-Trip
Safety Awareness and Emergency Preparedness Information--To collect
motorcoach passengers' responses during five one-shot in-person survey
events.
Form MCSA-5869, Motorcoach Driver Survey: Pre-Trip Safety Awareness
and Emergency Preparedness Information--To collect motorcoach drivers'
responses during five one-shot in-person survey events.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new information collection.
Frequency of Response: One-time.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 175 hours [1,050 respondents x 10
minutes/60 minutes = 175 hours].
Background
Due to several recent fatal motorcoach crashes, Congress, DOT,
specifically FMCSA, and other Federal oversight agencies, including the
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), are increasing their
scrutiny over the motorcoach industry and the enforcement of and
compliance with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs).
NTSB issued a Safety Recommendation to DOT, H-99-08, requiring
motorcoach operators to provide passengers with pre-trip safety
awareness information. This recommendation resulted from NTSB's
investigation of two motorcoach crashes from the late 1990s which
revealed that passengers felt a general sense of panic not knowing what
to do on a motorcoach in the case of an emergency. The intent of the
recommendation is to empower passengers to take their personal safety
into their own hands in the event of an imminent hazard or emergency
situation. To address the recommendations issued by NTSB, FMCSA formed
a work group that included representatives from the motorcoach
industry, motorcoach manufacturers, insurance industry, safety
consulting industry, trade associations, State agencies, and other
Federal regulatory agencies. The work group decided to address the
recommendation by having the motorcoach industry provide pre-trip
safety briefings on a voluntary basis.
FMCSA is concerned about the accuracy of self-reported data
provided by motorcoach operators and requires third party validation of
industry efforts to provide this information to passengers, as well as
the effectiveness of the means by which the information is being
provided. Currently, compliance is measured during FMCSA's National
Passenger Carrier Strike Forces. The data received from these Strike
Forces has shown increased adoption levels, however this data is based
solely on input from the motorcoach companies and not actual
passengers. FMCSA would like to verify that voluntary compliance
continues to increase, using different sources, and also collect
information on the effectiveness of compliance. FMCSA intends to use
this data to address passenger concerns and to provide NTSB and
Congress with additional data on voluntary compliance levels.
The goals and objectives of this survey are to assess the current
levels of voluntary compliance by motorcoach operators and to obtain
passenger opinions of the implementation of the pre-trip safety
awareness and emergency preparedness information. This will help
eliminate any self-reporting biases by the motorcoach companies; and
determine whether the pre-trip safety information is being provided and
if it is effective. The Form MCSA-5868 will be used to survey
motorcoach passengers and the Form MCSA-5869 will be used to survey
motorcoach drivers. The DOT and FMCSA will use this data to further
inform future policy and regulatory decisions, as well as other
initiatives to improve motorcoach safety in the United States.
Public Comments Invited
The Agency requests emergency processing of this information
request. The information collection is essential to FMCSA's safety
mission: to reduce crashes, injuries, and fatalities involving large
trucks and buses. Expedited review is necessary so FMCSA can use the
results to further inform Departmental and Agency efforts currently
underway to improve passenger safety. In light of recent fatal crashes,
FMCSA believes delay in collection of this information could result in
harm to motorcoach passenger safety. 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 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: October 12, 2011.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2011-26936 Filed 10-17-11; 8:45 am]
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