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for filing comments to the public docket
are included earlier in this notice.
Persons are encouraged to respond
wherever possible, but comments are
not limited to replies to these questions:
1. Are any additional safeguards
needed to ensure that the pilot program
provides a level of safety equivalent to
that without the age exemption?
2. Would carriers be able to obtain
enough volunteer drivers to serve in the
control group?
3. Do ‘‘comparable levels of training
and experience’’ need to be defined
more precisely? If so, what levels would
you suggest?
4. Are traffic violations, crashes, and
inspection violations adequate to allow
a comparison of safety records? If not,
what other safety performance measures
should be included?
5. If drivers reach age 21 while in the
study group, should they be removed
from the pilot and replaced with a
different driver meeting the eligibility
criteria?
6. Are the data collection efforts
proposed so burdensome for carriers as
to discourage their participation?
7. Are there carriers currently using
onboard monitoring on all their CMVs
that are willing to participate in the
study? Is onboard monitoring of pilot
program drivers needed to assess their
safety performance?
Issued on: August 11, 2016.
T.F. Scott Darling, III,
Administrator.
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Notice To Rescind a Notice of Intent To
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In this notice, FRA is advising
the public that the Notice of Intent
(NOI) to prepare a Tier One
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for the Rochester-Twin Cities Passenger
Rail Corridor Investment Plan is
rescinded.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrea E. Martin, Environmental
Protection Specialist, FRA, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., MS–20, Washington,
DC 20590, telephone: (202) 493–6201.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Minnesota Department of
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Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Research and Technology
(OST–R), U.S. Department of
Transportation (USDOT).
ACTION: Port Performance Freight
Statistics Working Group: Notice of
public meetings.
AGENCY:
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Issued in Washington, DC, on August 16,
2016.
Jamie Rennert,
Office Director, Office of Program Delivery.
Port Performance Freight Statistics
Working Group
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Transportation (MNDOT) and the
Olmsted County Regional Railroad
Authority (OCRRA) jointly explored the
feasibility of a high-speed rail
connection to serve anticipated travel
demand between the State’s two largest
economies, Rochester and the Twin
Cities. FRA published the NOI to
prepare a Tier One EIS for the
Rochester-Twin Cities Passenger Rail
Corridor Investment Plan in the Federal
Register on May 13, 2013; and MNDOT
and OCRRA issued a final scoping
decision document and alternatives
analysis report in 2015. MNDOT and its
partner OCRRA decided to suspend the
voluntary EIS due to public funding
constraints and private sector actions to
undertake a similar project. Therefore,
FRA is issuing this notice rescinding its
NOI to prepare a Tier One EIS for the
Rochester-Twin Cities Passenger Rail
Corridor Investment Plan.
This notice announces two
upcoming public meetings of the Port
Performance Freight Statistics Working
Group (hereafter, ‘‘Working Group’’).
The Working Group will provide advice
and recommendations to the BTS
Director pursuant to Section 6018 of the
Fixing America’s Surface
Transportation (FAST) Act on matters
related to port performance measures,
including: Specifications and data
measurements to be used in the Port
Performance Freight Statistics Program
established under subsection 6018(a);
and a process for the Department to
collect timely and consistent data,
including identifying safeguards to
protect proprietary information
described in subsection 6018(b)(2). The
Working Group will operate in
accordance with the provisions of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act
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(FACA) and the rules and regulations
issued in implementation of that Act.
The meetings will be held on
September 23, 2016, and October 21,
2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.,
Eastern Standard Time.
DATES:
The meetings will be at the
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590. Any person requiring
accessibility accommodations should
contact Matthew Chambers at (202)
366–1270 or via email at: portstatistics@
dot.gov.
ADDRESSES:
U.S.
Department of Transportation, Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Research and
Technology, Bureau of Transportation
Statistics, Attn: Port Performance
Freight Statistics Working Group, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Room # E32–
342, Washington, DC 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Port Performance
Freight Statistics Working Group has
been created in accordance with Section
6018 of the FAST Act (Pub. L. 114–94;
Dec. 4, 2015; 129 Stat. 1312). The
Working Group supports the BTS Port
Performance Freight Statistics Program,
which has the goal ‘‘to provide
nationally consistent measures of
performance’’ of the nation’s largest
ports, and to report annually to
Congress on port capacity and
throughput.
The Working Group is established in
the FAST Act to provide
recommendations to the BTS Director
on matters related to port performance
measures; to identify a standard for port
data; to specify standards for consistent
port performance measures; to
recommend statistics for measuring port
capacity and throughput; and to develop
a process to collect timely and
consistent data. The FAST Act also
identifies the membership of the
Working Group, and sets a due date for
recommendations to the BTS Director of
December 4, 2016.
Agenda: During the meetings, U.S.
Department of Transportation (hereafter,
‘‘Department’’) staff will provide
updates of the Department’s progress in
implementing its Port Performance
Freight Statistics Program and related
provisions. The Working Group will
discuss its development of a list of tasks
and subtasks that:
(a) Identify a generally accepted
industry standard for port data
collection and reporting.
(b) Specify standards for collecting
data and reporting nationally consistent
port performance measures.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
Notice To Rescind a Notice of Intent To Prepare an Environmental
Impact Statement
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In this notice, FRA is advising the public that the Notice of
Intent (NOI) to prepare a Tier One Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
for the Rochester-Twin Cities Passenger Rail Corridor Investment Plan
is rescinded.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Andrea E. Martin, Environmental
Protection Specialist, FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., MS-20,
Washington, DC 20590, telephone: (202) 493-6201.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Minnesota Department of Transportation
(MNDOT) and the Olmsted County Regional Railroad Authority (OCRRA)
jointly explored the feasibility of a high-speed rail connection to
serve anticipated travel demand between the State's two largest
economies, Rochester and the Twin Cities. FRA published the NOI to
prepare a Tier One EIS for the Rochester-Twin Cities Passenger Rail
Corridor Investment Plan in the Federal Register on May 13, 2013; and
MNDOT and OCRRA issued a final scoping decision document and
alternatives analysis report in 2015. MNDOT and its partner OCRRA
decided to suspend the voluntary EIS due to public funding constraints
and private sector actions to undertake a similar project. Therefore,
FRA is issuing this notice rescinding its NOI to prepare a Tier One EIS
for the Rochester-Twin Cities Passenger Rail Corridor Investment Plan.
Issued in Washington, DC, on August 16, 2016.
Jamie Rennert,
Office Director, Office of Program Delivery.
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