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described by the applicant the intended
service of the vessel HAPPY ENDINGS
is:
Intended Commercial Use of Vessel:
‘‘Sunset, day and overnight captained
charters.’’
Geographic Region: ‘‘Florida.’’
The complete application is given in
DOT docket MARAD–2012–0090 at
https://www.regulations.gov. Interested
parties may comment on the effect this
action may have on U.S. vessel builders
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this notice and the vessel name in order
for MARAD to properly consider the
comments. Comments should also state
the commenter’s interest in the waiver
application, and address the waiver
criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR Part 388.
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electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
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Christine Gurland,
Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA)
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[Docket No. NHTSA–2012–0046]
Proposed Information Collection
Submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB); Request for
Comments
ACTION:
Notice and request for comment.
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
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U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below is being submitted to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its
expected burden. A Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
information collection was published on
April 30, 2012 (77 FR 25533).
DATES: Send comments on or before
October 12, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention:
NHTSA Desk Officer.
Comments are invited on the
following:
i. 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;
ii. The accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection;
iii. Ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
iv. 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gayle Dalrymple (NVS–123), U.S.
Department of Transportation, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone (202)
366–5559. Email address:
gayle.dalrymple@dot.gov.
For access to the docket to read
background documents, go to https://
www.regulations.gov or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Recruitment of human subjects
for observational experiments regarding
keyless ignition controls, gear selection
controls and audible warnings.
OMB Control Number: Not assigned.
Type of Request: New Information
Collection.
Abstract: Pursuant to 49 U.S.C.
Section 30111(a), the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
(by delegation from the Secretary of
Transportation) is directed to prescribe
Federal motor vehicle safety standards
(FMVSSs). Human factors observational
experiments are proposed to support the
current agency regulatory efforts that
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contemplate revising FMVSS No. 114
(Docket No. NHTSA–2011–0174 RIN
2127–AK88).
The first experiment will examine
factors contributing to driver errors in
the use of keyless ignition and gear
selection controls using a driving
simulator (simulator experiment), and
the second experiment will evaluate the
lack of effectiveness in current audible
warnings designed to prevent rollaways
related to leaving propulsion systems
operative when the driver leaves the
vehicle (rollaway warning experiment).
The simulator experiment will be
conducted in a laboratory setting and
participants will be recruited through
email. The rollaway warning
experiment will be conducted in a
public parking lot using face-to-face
recruitment of participants.
Before these experiments are
conducted, information about the
participants will be collected in order to
balance the participants between
younger and older age groups, genders,
and previous driving experience with
keyless ignition. The Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Age Lab (Age
Lab), under contract with the Volpe
National Transportation Systems Center
(Volpe Center), which is an element of
the U.S. Department of Transportation
(U.S. DOT), Research and Innovative
Technology Administration (RITA),
would collect the participant
information and conduct this research
under an Inter-Agency Agreement (IAA)
between Volpe Center and NHTSA.
Affected Public: Participants for the
simulator experiment will be selected
from a list of individuals in the Boston
area who have indicated to the Age Lab
that they would like to participate in
these types of experiments. Participants
for the rollaway warning experiment
will be drawn from passers-by.
All participants, regardless of which
experiment they participate in, will be
asked the same recruiting questions.
Number of Respondents: 375
respondents, including 135 for the
simulator experiment and 240 for the
rollaway experiment.
Number of Responses: One response
per respondent for a total of 375
responses.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 18.75
hours. This estimate is based on three
minutes per respondent to consider and
respond to the 9 to 11 recruitment
questions (375 participants × 0.05 hours
(i.e., 3 minutes)).
Frequency of Collection: One time.
On April 30, 2012, NHTSA published
a notice announcing the proposed
collection of information and providing
a 60-day comment period (77 FR 25533).
The agency received one comment from
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the Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers (Alliance). The Alliance
offered detailed comments on the
collection of information and the
associated experiments. An extensive
discussion of the Alliance comments
and the changes NHTSA has made to
the information collection and ICR
package as a result can be found in the
supporting statement that will be placed
in the docket for this notice.
Christopher J. Bonanti,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
[Docket No. FD 35522] 1
CSX Transportation, Inc.—Acquisition
of Operating Easement—Grand Trunk
Western Railroad Company
AGENCY:
Surface Transportation Board,
DOT.
Decision No. 2; Notice of
Acceptance of Primary Application and
Related Filings; Issuance of Procedural
Schedule.
ACTION:
CSX Transportation, Inc.
(CSXT) and Grand Trunk Western
Railroad Company (GTW) have agreed
to exchange perpetual rail operating
easements over certain parts of each
other’s lines. GTW has agreed to grant
CSXT an easement over a GTW line
between Munster, Ind., and Elsdon, Ill.
(Elsdon Line), over which GTW would
retain local and overhead trackage
rights. CSXT also has agreed to convey
local and overhead trackage rights over
that line to various GTW affiliates and
a CSXT affiliate. In exchange for that
easement, CSXT has agreed to grant
GTW an easement over a CSXT line
between Leewood, Tenn., and Aulon,
Tenn., over which CSXT would retain
local and overhead trackage rights.
In this docket, CSXT has filed an
application for authority to acquire an
easement from GTW, and in the
embraced Docket Nos. FD 35522 (SubNo. 1) and (Sub-No. 2), the CSXT
affiliate and the various GTW affiliates,
respectively, seek authority to acquire
trackage rights over that line.
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SUMMARY:
1 This decision also embraces Baltimore & Ohio
Chicago Terminal Railroad Co.—Trackage Rights
Exemption—CSX Transportation, Inc., FD 35522
(Sub-No. 1) and Chicago, Central & Pacific Railroad
Co., Elgin, Joliet & Eastern Railroad Co., Illinois
Central Railroad Co., and Wisconsin Central Ltd.—
Trackage Rights Exemption—CSX Transportation,
Inc., FD 35522 (Sub-No. 2).
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In this decision, the Surface
Transportation Board (Board) accepts
for consideration CSXT’s application
and the filings in the two embraced
subdockets, finds that the transaction
proposed in CSXT’s application
qualifies as ‘‘minor,’’ and adopts a
procedural schedule to govern this
proceeding and the embraced trackage
rights proceedings.
GTW’s acquisition of an easement
from CSXT will be adjudicated in a
separate docket, Docket No. FD 35661,
and is the subject of a separate Board
decision being served in that docket
today. The Board intends to adjudicate
both easement acquisitions on parallel
schedules, concluding with a final
Board decision in both dockets on
February 8, 2013.
DATES: The effective date of this
decision is September 12, 2012. Any
person who wishes to participate in this
proceeding as a party of record (POR)
must file a notice of intent to participate
no later than September 26, 2012. All
comments, protests, and requests for
conditions, and any other evidence and
argument in opposition to the
application, including filings by the
U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the
U.S. Department of Transportation
(DOT), must be filed by November 9,
2012. Comments on the Board’s Draft
Environmental Assessment (Draft EA)
also must be filed by November 9, 2012.
Responses to comments on the merits of
the application and rebuttals in support
of the application must be filed by
November 29, 2012. The Board expects
to issue a Final EA completing the
environmental review process on or
before January 14, 2013, and a final
decision on February 8, 2013. For
further information respecting dates, see
Appendix A (Procedural Schedule).
ADDRESSES: Any filing submitted in this
proceeding must be submitted either via
the Board’s e-filing format or in the
traditional paper format. Any person
using e-filing should attach a document
and otherwise comply with the
instructions found on the Board’s Web
site at www.stb.dot.gov at the ‘‘E–
FILING’’ link. Any person submitting a
filing in the traditional paper format
should send an original and ten paper
copies of the filing (and also an
electronic version) to: Surface
Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20423–0001. In
addition, one copy of each filing must
be sent (and may be sent by email only
if service by email is acceptable to the
recipient) to each of the following: (1)
Secretary of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC
20590; (2) Attorney General of the
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United States, c/o Assistant Attorney
General, Antitrust Division, Room 3109,
Department of Justice, Washington, DC
20530; (3) Steven C. Armbrust, CSX
Transportation, Inc., 500 Water Street J–
150, Jacksonville, FL 32202; (4) Louis E.
Gitomer, Law Offices of Louis E.
Gitomer, LLC, 600 Baltimore Avenue,
Suite 301, Towson, MD 21204; and (5)
any other person designated as a POR
on the service list notice (to be issued
as soon after September 26, 2012, as
practicable).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scott M. Zimmerman, (202) 245–0386.
Assistance for the hearing impaired is
available through the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CSXT
owns and operates about 21,000 miles of
railroad in Alabama, Connecticut,
Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New
York, North Carolina, Ohio,
Pennsylvania, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia,
the District of Columbia, and the
Canadian Provinces of Ontario and
Quebec. GTW owns and operates about
642 miles of railroad in Illinois, Indiana,
Michigan, and Ohio and the Province of
Ontario. GTW is directly controlled by
Grant Trunk Corporation, which is
controlled by Canadian National
Railway Company (CN).
CSXT and GTW have entered an
Agreement for Exchange of Perpetual
Easements dated as of August 13, 2012.
To obtain the required Board authority
to carry out their agreement, CSXT and
GTW have filed various requests for
authority in this docket and Docket No.
FD 35661 as follows:
Docket No. FD 35522
In Docket No. FD 35522, CSXT has
filed an application pursuant to 49
U.S.C. 11323(a)(2) and 49 CFR pt. 1180
seeking approval for the carrier to
acquire a proposed easement
(Acquisition). Specifically, CSXT
wishes to acquire an exclusive,
perpetual, non-assignable railroad
operating easement over 22.37 miles of
GTW track on the Elsdon Subdivision
between the connection with CSXT at
Munster, Ind., milepost 31.07, and
Elsdon, Ill., milepost 8.7, which
connects to the southern end of the
BNSF Railway Company’s Corwith
Yard. GTW will retain local and
overhead trackage rights over the Elsdon
Line.2 Currently, CSXT already operates
2 Under the agreement concerning GTW’s
retained trackage rights, GTW (referred to in the
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
[Docket No. NHTSA-2012-0046]
Proposed Information Collection Submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB); Request for Comments
ACTION: Notice and request for comment.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below is being submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The ICR describes the
nature of the information collection and its expected burden. A Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the
following information collection was published on April 30, 2012 (77 FR
25533).
DATES: Send comments on or before October 12, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: NHTSA Desk Officer.
Comments are invited on the following:
i. 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;
ii. The accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection;
iii. Ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and
iv. 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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gayle Dalrymple (NVS-123), U.S.
Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone (202) 366-5559. Email address: gayle.dalrymple@dot.gov.
For access to the docket to read background documents, go to https://www.regulations.gov or the street address listed above. Follow the
online instructions for accessing the dockets.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Recruitment of human subjects for observational experiments
regarding keyless ignition controls, gear selection controls and
audible warnings.
OMB Control Number: Not assigned.
Type of Request: New Information Collection.
Abstract: Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Section 30111(a), the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) (by delegation from the
Secretary of Transportation) is directed to prescribe Federal motor
vehicle safety standards (FMVSSs). Human factors observational
experiments are proposed to support the current agency regulatory
efforts that contemplate revising FMVSS No. 114 (Docket No. NHTSA-2011-
0174 RIN 2127-AK88).
The first experiment will examine factors contributing to driver
errors in the use of keyless ignition and gear selection controls using
a driving simulator (simulator experiment), and the second experiment
will evaluate the lack of effectiveness in current audible warnings
designed to prevent rollaways related to leaving propulsion systems
operative when the driver leaves the vehicle (rollaway warning
experiment). The simulator experiment will be conducted in a laboratory
setting and participants will be recruited through email. The rollaway
warning experiment will be conducted in a public parking lot using
face-to-face recruitment of participants.
Before these experiments are conducted, information about the
participants will be collected in order to balance the participants
between younger and older age groups, genders, and previous driving
experience with keyless ignition. The Massachusetts Institute of
Technology Age Lab (Age Lab), under contract with the Volpe National
Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center), which is an element of
the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT), Research and
Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), would collect the
participant information and conduct this research under an Inter-Agency
Agreement (IAA) between Volpe Center and NHTSA.
Affected Public: Participants for the simulator experiment will be
selected from a list of individuals in the Boston area who have
indicated to the Age Lab that they would like to participate in these
types of experiments. Participants for the rollaway warning experiment
will be drawn from passers-by.
All participants, regardless of which experiment they participate
in, will be asked the same recruiting questions.
Number of Respondents: 375 respondents, including 135 for the
simulator experiment and 240 for the rollaway experiment.
Number of Responses: One response per respondent for a total of 375
responses.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 18.75 hours. This estimate is based on
three minutes per respondent to consider and respond to the 9 to 11
recruitment questions (375 participants x 0.05 hours (i.e., 3
minutes)).
Frequency of Collection: One time.
On April 30, 2012, NHTSA published a notice announcing the proposed
collection of information and providing a 60-day comment period (77 FR
25533). The agency received one comment from
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the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Alliance). The Alliance
offered detailed comments on the collection of information and the
associated experiments. An extensive discussion of the Alliance
comments and the changes NHTSA has made to the information collection
and ICR package as a result can be found in the supporting statement
that will be placed in the docket for this notice.
Christopher J. Bonanti,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2012-22477 Filed 9-11-12; 8:45 am]
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