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Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
AGENCY:
The Federal Aviation
Administration is issuing this notice to
advise the public that, effective
immediately, it is rescinding the Notice
of Intent to rule on the request to release
deed restrictions at Yellowstone Airport
under the provisions of Title 49, U.S.C.
Section 47125 that was published on
January 28, 2014. A re-opening and
extension of the comment period was
published on March 14, 2014. This
rescission is due to the comments
received regarding this notice. The
request to release the deed restrictions
may be reconsidered after further
analysis and a Notice of Intent would be
published at a later date.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
David S. Stelling, Manager, Federal
Aviation Administration, Northwest
Mountain Region, Airports Division,
Helena Airports District Office, 2725
Skyway Drive, Suite 2, Helena, Montana
59602.
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and
its implementing regulations, the
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
hereby announces that it is seeking an
extension of the following currently
approved information collection
activities. On May 7, 2014, the Secretary
of Transportation issued Emergency
Order Docket No. DOT–OST–2014–0067
(EO), requiring affected railroad carriers
to provide certain information to the
State Emergency Response Commissions
(SERCs) for each State in which their
trains carrying 1 million gallons or more
of Bakken crude oil travel. The
information collection activities
associated with the Secretary’s
Emergency Order received a six-month
emergency approval from OMB on May
10, 2014. FRA seeks a regular clearance
(extension of the current approval for
three years) while it is determining the
proper course of action to take after a
recent series of train accidents involving
the transportation petroleum crude oil,
a hazardous material the transportation
of which is regulated by the Department
of Transportation. Before submitting
these information collection
requirements for clearance by the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB), FRA
is soliciting public comment on specific
aspects of the activities identified
below.
DATES:
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ACTION: Notice To Rescind a Notice of
Intent to Rule on Request to Release
Deed Restrictions at the Yellowstone
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SUMMARY:
Comments must be received no
later than August 29, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on any or all of the following proposed
activities by mail to either: Mr. Robert
Brogan, Office of Safety, Planning and
Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal
Railroad Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 17,
Washington, DC 20590, or Ms. Kimberly
Toone, Office of Information
Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave.
SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC
20590. Commenters requesting FRA to
acknowledge receipt of their respective
comments must include a self-addressed
stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments
on OMB control number 2130–0604.’’
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Alternatively, comments may be
transmitted via facsimile to (202) 493–
6216 or (202) 493–6497, or via email to
Mr. Brogan at Robert.Brogan@dot.gov, or
to Ms. Toone at Kim.Toone@dot.gov.
Please refer to the assigned OMB control
number in any correspondence
submitted. FRA will summarize
comments received in response to this
notice in a subsequent notice and
include them in its information
collection submission to OMB for
approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Robert Brogan, Office of Planning and
Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal
Railroad Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 17,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202)
493–6292) or Ms. Kimberly Toone,
Office of Information Technology, RAD–
20, Federal Railroad Administration,
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 35,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202)
493–6132). (These telephone numbers
are not toll-free.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), Public Law 104–13, sec. 2, 109
Stat. 163 (1995) (codified as revised at
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days notice to the public for
comment on information collection
activities before seeking approval for
reinstatement or renewal by OMB. 44
U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1),
1320.10(e)(1), 1320.12(a). Specifically,
FRA invites interested respondents to
comment on the following summary of
proposed information collection
activities regarding (i) whether the
information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (ii)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (iii) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (iv) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public by
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology (e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses). See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)(I)–(iv); 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1)(I)–(iv). FRA believes that
soliciting public comment will promote
its efforts to reduce the administrative
and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information mandated
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by Federal regulations. In summary,
FRA reasons that comments received
will advance three objectives: (i) Reduce
reporting burdens; (ii) ensure that it
organizes information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (iii) accurately assess the resources
expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
Below are brief summaries of three
currently approved information
collection activities that FRA will
submit for clearance by OMB as
required under the PRA:
Title: Secretary of Transportation
Emergency Order Docket No. DOT–
OST–2014–0067.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0604.
Abstract: As noted in the summary
above, on May 7, 2014, the Secretary of
Transportation issued Emergency Order
Docket No. DOT–OST–2014–0067 (EO),
requiring affected railroad carriers to
provide certain information to the State
Emergency Response Commissions
(SERCs) for each State in which their
trains carrying 1 million gallons or more
of Bakken crude oil travel. This EO is
available through the Department’s
public docket system at
www.regulations.gov, under Docket No.
DOT–OST–2014–0067. The EO took
effect immediately upon issuance,
although affected railroads were
permitted 30 days to provide the
required information to the SERCs. The
EO is the Department’s direct and
proactive response to a recent series of
train accidents involving the
transportation of petroleum crude oil, a
hazardous material the transportation of
which is regulated by the Department.
The most recent accident occurred on
April 30, 2014, when a train
transporting petroleum crude oil
derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia and
released approximately 30,000 gallons
of its contents into the James River.
Further, the EO explains that, with the
rising demand for rail transportation of
petroleum crude oil throughout the
United States, the risk of rail incidents
has increased commensurate with the
increase in the volume of the material
shipped and that there have been
several significant derailments in both
the U.S. and Canada over the last
several months causing deaths and
property and environmental damage
that involved petroleum crude oil. DOT
Respondent
universe
(railroads)
Emergency order item No.
emergency orders are rare and the EO
itself describes the most recent
accidents and circumstances leading the
agency to issue the EO. The collection
of information included under this EO
is aimed at ensuring that railroads that
transport in a single train a large
quantity of petroleum crude oil (1
million gallons or more), particularly
crude oil from the Bakken shale
formation in the Williston Basin,
provide certain information to the
relevant SERCs in each State in which
the railroad operates such trains.
Ensuring that railroads provide this
information to SERCs is critical to
ensuring that local and State emergency
responders are aware of the large
quantities of crude oil that are being
transported through their jurisdictions
and are prepared to respond to
accidents involving such trains should
they occur.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Frequency of Submission: One-time;
on occasion.
Respondent Universe: 47 Railroad
Carriers; 50 State Emergency Response
Commissions (SERCs).
Reporting Burden:
Total annual responses
Average time
per response
30 hours ...........
4 hours .............
3,600.
100.
60 minutes ........
30 minutes ........
10.
60.
2 hours .............
8.
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(3) Notification Copies to FRA ..............................................
(4) Requests to RRs by SERCs for Information from Local
Emergency Response Agencies Regarding the Volume
and Frequency of Train Traffic Implicated by this Emergency Order within that Agency’s Jurisdiction and RR
Responses.
(5) Petitions to the Secretary/FRA Administrator for Relief
from This Emergency Order.
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(1) RR Notification to SERCs ...............................................
(2) Updated RR Notification to SERCs .................................
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120 written notifications ........
25 updated written notifications.
10 notification copies ............
30 informational assistance
requests + 30 informational
responses.
47
4 relief petitions .....................
Total Estimated Responses: 219.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
3,778 hours.
Status: Regular Review.
Pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5
CFR 1320.5(b), 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA
informs all interested parties that it may
not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 24,
2014.
Erin McCartney,
Acting Chief Financial Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2011–0093]
Petition for Waiver of Compliance
In accordance with part 211 of Title
49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR),
this document provides the public
notice that by a letter dated May 14,
2014, Peninsula Terminal Railway (PT)
has petitioned the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) for an extension
of its waiver of compliance from certain
provisions of the Federal hours of
service laws contained at 49 U.S.C.
21103(a)(4). FRA assigned the petition
Docket Number FRA–2011–0093.
In its petition, PT seeks relief from 49
U.S.C. 21103(a)(4) that in part requires
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Total annual
burden hours
a train employee to receive 48 hours off
duty after initiating an on-duty period
for 6 consecutive days. Specifically, PT
seeks a waiver to allow a train employee
to initiate an on-duty period, each day,
for 6 consecutive days followed by 24
hours off duty. In support of its request,
PT explained that it has five train and
engine service employees covered by
the waiver, and these employees have
set hours, set days off, and do not lay
over at away-from-home locations. PT
provided work schedules for the
employees covered by the waiver,
which shows them working Monday
through Friday, reporting at 7:00 a.m.,
and working an average of 8 hours, with
a crew occasionally working on Sunday
for 4 hours or less. PT also explained
that all employees covered by the
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA 2014-0011-N-13]
Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and its
implementing regulations, the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
hereby announces that it is seeking an extension of the following
currently approved information collection activities. On May 7, 2014,
the Secretary of Transportation issued Emergency Order Docket No. DOT-
OST-2014-0067 (EO), requiring affected railroad carriers to provide
certain information to the State Emergency Response Commissions (SERCs)
for each State in which their trains carrying 1 million gallons or more
of Bakken crude oil travel. The information collection activities
associated with the Secretary's Emergency Order received a six-month
emergency approval from OMB on May 10, 2014. FRA seeks a regular
clearance (extension of the current approval for three years) while it
is determining the proper course of action to take after a recent
series of train accidents involving the transportation petroleum crude
oil, a hazardous material the transportation of which is regulated by
the Department of Transportation. Before submitting these information
collection requirements for clearance by the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB), FRA is soliciting public comment on specific aspects of
the activities identified below.
DATES: Comments must be received no later than August 29, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on any or all of the following
proposed activities by mail to either: Mr. Robert Brogan, Office of
Safety, Planning and Evaluation Division, RRS-21, Federal Railroad
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 17, Washington, DC
20590, or Ms. Kimberly Toone, Office of Information Technology, RAD-20,
Federal Railroad Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop
35, Washington, DC 20590. Commenters requesting FRA to acknowledge
receipt of their respective comments must include a self-addressed
stamped postcard stating, ``Comments on OMB control number 2130-0604.''
Alternatively, comments may be transmitted via facsimile to (202) 493-
6216 or (202) 493-6497, or via email to Mr. Brogan at
Robert.Brogan@dot.gov, or to Ms. Toone at Kim.Toone@dot.gov. Please
refer to the assigned OMB control number in any correspondence
submitted. FRA will summarize comments received in response to this
notice in a subsequent notice and include them in its information
collection submission to OMB for approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert Brogan, Office of Planning
and Evaluation Division, RRS-21, Federal Railroad Administration, 1200
New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 17, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone:
(202) 493-6292) or Ms. Kimberly Toone, Office of Information
Technology, RAD-20, Federal Railroad Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Ave. SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202) 493-
6132). (These telephone numbers are not toll-free.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
Public Law 104-13, sec. 2, 109 Stat. 163 (1995) (codified as revised at
44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), and its implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to provide 60-days notice to the public
for comment on information collection activities before seeking
approval for reinstatement or renewal by OMB. 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A);
5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 1320.10(e)(1), 1320.12(a). Specifically, FRA
invites interested respondents to comment on the following summary of
proposed information collection activities regarding (i) whether the
information collection activities are necessary for FRA to properly
execute its functions, including whether the activities will have
practical utility; (ii) the accuracy of FRA's estimates of the burden
of the information collection activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to determine the estimates; (iii) ways
for FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
being collected; and (iv) ways for FRA to minimize the burden of
information collection activities on the public by automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology (e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses). See 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A)(I)-(iv); 5 CFR
1320.8(d)(1)(I)-(iv). FRA believes that soliciting public comment will
promote its efforts to reduce the administrative and paperwork burdens
associated with the collection of information mandated
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by Federal regulations. In summary, FRA reasons that comments received
will advance three objectives: (i) Reduce reporting burdens; (ii)
ensure that it organizes information collection requirements in a
``user friendly'' format to improve the use of such information; and
(iii) accurately assess the resources expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C. 3501.
Below are brief summaries of three currently approved information
collection activities that FRA will submit for clearance by OMB as
required under the PRA:
Title: Secretary of Transportation Emergency Order Docket No. DOT-
OST-2014-0067.
OMB Control Number: 2130-0604.
Abstract: As noted in the summary above, on May 7, 2014, the
Secretary of Transportation issued Emergency Order Docket No. DOT-OST-
2014-0067 (EO), requiring affected railroad carriers to provide certain
information to the State Emergency Response Commissions (SERCs) for
each State in which their trains carrying 1 million gallons or more of
Bakken crude oil travel. This EO is available through the Department's
public docket system at www.regulations.gov, under Docket No. DOT-OST-
2014-0067. The EO took effect immediately upon issuance, although
affected railroads were permitted 30 days to provide the required
information to the SERCs. The EO is the Department's direct and
proactive response to a recent series of train accidents involving the
transportation of petroleum crude oil, a hazardous material the
transportation of which is regulated by the Department. The most recent
accident occurred on April 30, 2014, when a train transporting
petroleum crude oil derailed in Lynchburg, Virginia and released
approximately 30,000 gallons of its contents into the James River.
Further, the EO explains that, with the rising demand for rail
transportation of petroleum crude oil throughout the United States, the
risk of rail incidents has increased commensurate with the increase in
the volume of the material shipped and that there have been several
significant derailments in both the U.S. and Canada over the last
several months causing deaths and property and environmental damage
that involved petroleum crude oil. DOT emergency orders are rare and
the EO itself describes the most recent accidents and circumstances
leading the agency to issue the EO. The collection of information
included under this EO is aimed at ensuring that railroads that
transport in a single train a large quantity of petroleum crude oil (1
million gallons or more), particularly crude oil from the Bakken shale
formation in the Williston Basin, provide certain information to the
relevant SERCs in each State in which the railroad operates such
trains. Ensuring that railroads provide this information to SERCs is
critical to ensuring that local and State emergency responders are
aware of the large quantities of crude oil that are being transported
through their jurisdictions and are prepared to respond to accidents
involving such trains should they occur.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Affected Public: Businesses.
Frequency of Submission: One-time; on occasion.
Respondent Universe: 47 Railroad Carriers; 50 State Emergency
Response Commissions (SERCs).
Reporting Burden:
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Respondent
Emergency order item No. universe Total annual Average time per Total annual
(railroads) responses response burden hours
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(1) RR Notification to SERCs..... 47 120 written 30 hours................ 3,600.
notifications.
(2) Updated RR Notification to 47 25 updated written 4 hours................. 100.
SERCs. notifications.
(3) Notification Copies to FRA... 47 10 notification 60 minutes.............. 10.
copies.
(4) Requests to RRs by SERCs for 47 30 informational 30 minutes.............. 60.
Information from Local Emergency assistance
Response Agencies Regarding the requests + 30
Volume and Frequency of Train informational
Traffic Implicated by this responses.
Emergency Order within that
Agency's Jurisdiction and RR
Responses.
(5) Petitions to the Secretary/ 47 4 relief petitions. 2 hours................. 8.
FRA Administrator for Relief
from This Emergency Order.
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Total Estimated Responses: 219.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 3,778 hours.
Status: Regular Review.
Pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR 1320.5(b),
1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA informs all interested parties that it may not
conduct or sponsor, and a respondent is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 24, 2014.
Erin McCartney,
Acting Chief Financial Officer.
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