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performance in freight transportation;
(6) development of freight
transportation investment, data, and
planning tools; and (7) legislative
recommendations. Agenda: This will be
the NFAC’s inaugural meeting. The
meeting agenda will be posted on the
NFAC Web site at www.dot.gov/nfac in
advance of the meeting.
Agenda: This will be the NFAC’s
inaugural meeting. Representatives from
the U.S. Department of Transportation
will provide an overview of MAP–21
freight provisions and an update of the
Department’s progress implementing
them. The Committee will begin to
develop a list of tasks to complete and
prioritize those tasks for the Department
to consider. The agenda will be posted
on the NFAC Web site at www.dot.gov/
nfac in advance of the meeting.
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be open to the public and press on a
first-come, first served basis. Space is
limited. The public meeting is
physically accessible to people with
disabilities. Individuals requiring
accommodations, such as sign language
interpretation or other ancillary aids, are
asked to notify Ms. Tretha Chromey, at
(202) 366–1999 or freight@dot.gov five
(5) business days before the meeting.
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Ms. Tretha Chromey, Designated
Federal Officer, National Freight
Advisory Committee, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., W82–320, Washington, DC
20590 by June 18, 2013 to provide
sufficient time for review. All other
comments may be received at any time
before or after the meeting.
Dated: May 30, 2013.
Tretha Chromey,
Designated Federal Officer.
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Federal Transit Administration
[FTA Docket No. 2013–0028]
Notice of Request for Revisions of an
Information Collection
AGENCY:
Federal Transit Administration,
DOT.
ACTION:
Notice of request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the
Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to
request the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) to extend the following
currently approved information
collection: 49 U.S.C. 5330—Rail Fixed
Guideway Systems, State Safety
Oversight.
DATES: Comments must be submitted
before August 5, 2013.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that your
comments are not entered more than
once into the docket, submit comments
identified by the docket number by only
one of the following methods:
1. Web site: www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments on the U.S. Government
electronic docket site. (Note: The U.S.
Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s)
electronic docket is no longer accepting
electronic comments.) All electronic
submissions must be made to the U.S.
Government electronic docket site at
www.regulations.gov. Commenters
should follow the directions below for
mailed and hand-delivered comments.
2. Fax: 202–493–2251.
3. Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M–30,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001.
4. Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M–30,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except federal
holidays.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name and docket number for this
notice at the beginning of your
comments. Submit two copies of your
comments if you submit them by mail.
For confirmation that FTA has received
your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Note that
all comments received, including any
personal information, will be posted
and will be available to Internet users,
without change, to www.regulations.gov.
You may review DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published April 11, 2000, (65
FR 19477), or you may visit
www.regulations.gov. Docket: For access
to the docket to read background
documents and comments received, go
to www.regulations.gov at any time.
Background documents and comments
received may also be viewed at the U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Docket
Operations, M–30, West Building,
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Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Richard Gerhart, Acting Director, Office
of Transit Safety and Oversight, (202)
366–1651, or email:
richard.gerhart@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested
parties are invited to send comments
regarding any aspect of this information
collection, including: (1) The necessity
and utility of the information collection
for the proper performance of the
functions of the FTA; (2) the accuracy
of the estimated burden; (3) ways to
enhance the quality, utility, and clarity
of the collected information; and (4)
ways to minimize the collection burden
without reducing the quality of the
collected information. Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval of this
information collection.
Title: 49 U.S.C. 5330—Rail Fixed
Guideway Systems, State Safety
Oversight (OMB Number: 2132–0558)
Background: 49 U.S.C. 5330 requires
States to designate a State Safety
Oversight (SSO) agency to oversee the
safety and security of each rail transit
agency within the State’s jurisdiction.
To comply with Section 5330, SSO
agencies must develop program
standards which meet FTA’s minimum
requirements. In the Program Standard,
which must be approved by FTA, each
SSO agency must require each rail
transit agency in the State’s jurisdiction
to prepare and implement a System
Safety Program Plan (SSPP) and System
Security Plan (SSP). The SSO agency
also requires the rail transit agencies in
its jurisdiction to conduct specific
activities, such as accident
investigation, implementation of a
hazard management program, and the
management of an internal safety and
security audit process. SSO agencies
review and approve the SSPPs and SSPs
of the rail transit agencies. Once every
three years, States conduct an on-site
review of the rail transit agencies in
their jurisdictions to assess SSPP/SSP
implementation and to determine
whether these plans are effective and if
they need to be updated. SSO agencies
develop final reports documenting the
findings from these on-site reviews and
require corrective actions. SSO agencies
also review and approve accident
investigation reports, participate in the
rail transit agency’s hazard management
program, and oversee implementation of
the rail transit agency’s internal safety
and security audit process. SSO
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agencies review and approve corrective
action plans and track and monitor rail
transit agency activities to implement
them.
Collection of this information enables
each SSO agency to monitor each rail
transit agency’s implementation of the
State’s requirements as specified in the
Program Standard approved by FTA.
Without this information, States would
not be able to oversee the rail transit
agencies in their jurisdictions.
Recommendations from the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and
the Government Accountability Office
(GAO) have encouraged States and rail
transit agencies to devote additional
resources to these safety activities and
safety oversight in general.
SSO agencies also submit an annual
certification to FTA that the State is in
compliance with Section 5330 and an
annual report documenting the State’s
safety and security oversight activities.
States also submit annual grant
applications for Federal transit
assistance and report quarterly on the
progress of those activities. FTA uses
the annual information submitted by the
States to monitor implementation of the
program. If a State fails to comply with
Section 5330, FTA may withhold up to
five percent of the funds appropriated
for use in a State or urbanized area in
the State under section 5307. The
information submitted by the States
ensures FTA’s compliance with
applicable federal laws, OMB Circular
A–102, and 49 CFR Part 18, ‘‘Uniform
Administrative Requirements for Grants
and Cooperative Agreements with State
and Local Governments.’’
Respondents: State and local
government agencies.
Estimated Annual Burden on
Respondents: Annually, each designated
SSO agency devotes approximately
2,119 hours to information collection
activities for each of the rail transit
agencies in the State’s jurisdiction.
Combined, the SSO agencies spend
approximately 59,322 hours on
information collection activities each
year, or roughly half of the total level of
effort devoted to implement Section
5330 requirements in a given year. The
local governments affected by Section
5330, including the rail transit agencies,
spend an annual total of 118,498 hours
on information collection activities to
support implementation of Section
5330, or approximately 2,469 hours
each. This amount also equals
approximately half of the total level of
effort devoted to implement Section
5330 requirements in a given year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
177,820 hours.
Frequency: Annual.
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Issued: May 30, 2013.
Matthew Crouch,
Deputy Associate Administrator for
Administration.
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Federal Transit Administration
Limitation on Claims Against Proposed
Public Transportation Projects
Federal Transit Administration
(FTA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This notice announces final
environmental actions taken by the
Federal Transit Administration (FTA)
for projects in the following locations:
Cleveland, OH and San Francisco, CA.
The purpose of this notice is to
announce publicly the environmental
decisions by FTA on the subject projects
and to activate the limitation on any
claims that may challenge these final
environmental actions.
DATES: By this notice, FTA is advising
the public of final agency actions
subject to Section 139(l) of Title 23,
United States Code (U.S.C.). A claim
seeking judicial review of the FTA
actions announced herein for the listed
public transportation project will be
barred unless the claim is filed on or
before November 1, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nancy-Ellen Zusman, Assistant Chief
Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel, (312)
353–2577 or Terence Plaskon,
Environmental Protection Specialist,
Office of Human and Natural
Environment, (202) 366–0442. FTA is
located at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
hereby given that FTA has taken final
agency actions by issuing certain
approvals for the public transportation
projects listed below. The actions on the
projects, as well as the laws under
which such actions were taken, are
described in the documentation issued
in connection with the project to
comply with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and
in other documents in the FTA
administrative record for the projects.
Interested parties may contact either the
project sponsor or the relevant FTA
Regional Office for more information on
the project. Contact information for
FTA’s Regional Offices may be found at
https://www.fta.dot.gov.
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This notice applies to all FTA
decisions on the listed projects as of the
issuance date of this notice and all laws
under which such actions were taken,
including, but not limited to, NEPA [42
U.S.C. 4321–4375], Section 4(f) of the
Department of Transportation Act of
1966 [49 U.S.C. 303], Section 106 of the
National Historic Preservation Act [16
U.S.C. 470f], and the Clean Air Act [42
U.S.C. 7401–7671q]. This notice does
not, however, alter or extend the
limitation period for challenges of
project decisions subject to previous
notices published in the Federal
Register. The projects and actions that
are the subject of this notice are:
1. Project name and location: Little
Italy—University Circle Rapid Transit
Station; Cleveland, OH. Project sponsor:
Greater Cleveland Regional Transit
Authority (GCRTA). Project description:
The project consists of a new Little
Italy—University Circle Rapid Transit
Station with associated reconstruction
of the Mayfield Road Rapid Transit
Bridges. The station will be located on
GCRTA’s Red Line and will replace the
current center platform station at East
120th/Euclid Avenue. Final agency
actions: No use determination of
Section 4(f) resources; Section 106
finding of no adverse effect; projectlevel air quality conformity, and
Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI), dated April 4, 2013.
Supporting documentation:
Environmental Assessment, dated
February 2013.
2. Project name and location: Central
Subway Project, San Francisco, CA.
Project sponsor: San Francisco
Municipal Transportation Authority
(SFMTA). Project description: The
Central Subway Project is a 1.7-mile
light-rail line connecting the existing
Third Street Light Rail Station at Fourth
and King Streets north to an
underground subway station in
Chinatown at Stockton and Jackson
Streets. SFMTA proposes to relocate the
Tunnel Boring Machine retrieval and
extraction site from Columbus Avenue
in North Beach to 1731–1741 Powell
Street (the Pagoda Theater). The Central
Subway Project was previously the
subject of a Record of Decision dated
November 26, 2008. This notice only
applies to the discrete actions taken by
FTA at this time, as described below.
Nothing in this notice affects FTA’s
previous decisions, or notice thereof, for
this project. Final agency actions: FTA
determination that neither a
supplemental environmental impact
statement nor a supplemental
environmental assessment is necessary.
Supporting documentation: Addendum
to the Final Supplemental
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
[FTA Docket No. 2013-0028]
Notice of Request for Revisions of an Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces the intention of the Federal Transit Administration
(FTA) to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to extend
the following currently approved information collection: 49 U.S.C.
5330--Rail Fixed Guideway Systems, State Safety Oversight.
DATES: Comments must be submitted before August 5, 2013.
ADDRESSES: To ensure that your comments are not entered more than once
into the docket, submit comments identified by the docket number by
only one of the following methods:
1. Web site: www.regulations.gov. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments on the U.S. Government electronic docket site.
(Note: The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT's) electronic
docket is no longer accepting electronic comments.) All electronic
submissions must be made to the U.S. Government electronic docket site
at www.regulations.gov. Commenters should follow the directions below
for mailed and hand-delivered comments.
2. Fax: 202-493-2251.
3. Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE., Docket Operations, M-30, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-
140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
4. Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M-30, West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001 between 9:00 a.m. and
5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
Instructions: You must include the agency name and docket number
for this notice at the beginning of your comments. Submit two copies of
your comments if you submit them by mail. For confirmation that FTA has
received your comments, include a self-addressed stamped postcard. Note
that all comments received, including any personal information, will be
posted and will be available to Internet users, without change, to
www.regulations.gov. You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register published April 11, 2000, (65 FR
19477), or you may visit www.regulations.gov. Docket: For access to the
docket to read background documents and comments received, go to
www.regulations.gov at any time. Background documents and comments
received may also be viewed at the U.S. Department of Transportation,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M-30, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001 between 9:00 a.m.
and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Richard Gerhart, Acting Director,
Office of Transit Safety and Oversight, (202) 366-1651, or email:
richard.gerhart@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested parties are invited to send
comments regarding any aspect of this information collection,
including: (1) The necessity and utility of the information collection
for the proper performance of the functions of the FTA; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the collected information; and (4) ways to
minimize the collection burden without reducing the quality of the
collected information. Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval of
this information collection.
Title: 49 U.S.C. 5330--Rail Fixed Guideway Systems, State Safety
Oversight (OMB Number: 2132-0558)
Background: 49 U.S.C. 5330 requires States to designate a State
Safety Oversight (SSO) agency to oversee the safety and security of
each rail transit agency within the State's jurisdiction. To comply
with Section 5330, SSO agencies must develop program standards which
meet FTA's minimum requirements. In the Program Standard, which must be
approved by FTA, each SSO agency must require each rail transit agency
in the State's jurisdiction to prepare and implement a System Safety
Program Plan (SSPP) and System Security Plan (SSP). The SSO agency also
requires the rail transit agencies in its jurisdiction to conduct
specific activities, such as accident investigation, implementation of
a hazard management program, and the management of an internal safety
and security audit process. SSO agencies review and approve the SSPPs
and SSPs of the rail transit agencies. Once every three years, States
conduct an on-site review of the rail transit agencies in their
jurisdictions to assess SSPP/SSP implementation and to determine
whether these plans are effective and if they need to be updated. SSO
agencies develop final reports documenting the findings from these on-
site reviews and require corrective actions. SSO agencies also review
and approve accident investigation reports, participate in the rail
transit agency's hazard management program, and oversee implementation
of the rail transit agency's internal safety and security audit
process. SSO
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agencies review and approve corrective action plans and track and
monitor rail transit agency activities to implement them.
Collection of this information enables each SSO agency to monitor
each rail transit agency's implementation of the State's requirements
as specified in the Program Standard approved by FTA. Without this
information, States would not be able to oversee the rail transit
agencies in their jurisdictions. Recommendations from the National
Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and the Government Accountability
Office (GAO) have encouraged States and rail transit agencies to devote
additional resources to these safety activities and safety oversight in
general.
SSO agencies also submit an annual certification to FTA that the
State is in compliance with Section 5330 and an annual report
documenting the State's safety and security oversight activities.
States also submit annual grant applications for Federal transit
assistance and report quarterly on the progress of those activities.
FTA uses the annual information submitted by the States to monitor
implementation of the program. If a State fails to comply with Section
5330, FTA may withhold up to five percent of the funds appropriated for
use in a State or urbanized area in the State under section 5307. The
information submitted by the States ensures FTA's compliance with
applicable federal laws, OMB Circular A-102, and 49 CFR Part 18,
``Uniform Administrative Requirements for Grants and Cooperative
Agreements with State and Local Governments.''
Respondents: State and local government agencies.
Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: Annually, each designated
SSO agency devotes approximately 2,119 hours to information collection
activities for each of the rail transit agencies in the State's
jurisdiction. Combined, the SSO agencies spend approximately 59,322
hours on information collection activities each year, or roughly half
of the total level of effort devoted to implement Section 5330
requirements in a given year. The local governments affected by Section
5330, including the rail transit agencies, spend an annual total of
118,498 hours on information collection activities to support
implementation of Section 5330, or approximately 2,469 hours each. This
amount also equals approximately half of the total level of effort
devoted to implement Section 5330 requirements in a given year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 177,820 hours.
Frequency: Annual.
Issued: May 30, 2013.
Matthew Crouch,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Administration.
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