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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2014–0048]
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Petition for Waiver of Compliance
Under part 211 of title 49 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR), this
document provides the public notice
that on September 13, 2019, Union
Pacific Railroad Company (UP)
petitioned the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA) to renew its
waiver of compliance from certain
provisions of the Federal railroad safety
regulations contained at 49 CFR part
232, Brake System Safety Standards for
Freight and Other Non-Passenger Trains
and Equipment, End-of-Train Devices;
49 CFR part 229, Railroad Locomotive
Safety Standards; and 49 CFR part 215,
Railroad Freight Car Safety Standards.
FRA assigned the petition Docket
Number FRA–2014–0048.
Specifically, UP seeks relief from 49
CFR 232.205—Class I brake test—initial
terminal inspection, section 229.21—
Daily inspection, and part 215—Freight
Car Standards, to permit movement
from the Ferrocarriles Nacionales de
Mexico interchange point at
International Yard on the Lordsburg
Subdivision in El Paso, Texas, to both
UP’s Dallas Street Yard for westbound
traffic, a distance of 2.8 miles, and to
UP’s Alfalfa Yard for eastbound traffic,
a distance of 7 miles.
Further, UP requests relief from
provisions of § 174.59—Marking and
placarding of rail cars. UP states that
given continued compliance with
Conditions 6 and 13 of this waiver, any
necessary corrective actions required in
accordance with § 172.504—Placarding,
would be addressed at the Dallas Street
and/or the Alfalfa Yards in conjunction
with a part 215 inspection, as stipulated
in Conditions 8 and 14 of the present
waiver.
UP also requests to modify existing
waiver condition language (Conditions
3, 4, 10, and 11) to be consistent with
other UP southern border crossing
waivers. Also for consistency purposes,
UP requests adding two conditions that
are in such other waivers, regarding a
quarterly meeting and the capability of
putting the train into emergency.
UP explains it has been operating
under the original requirements set forth
in this waiver since March 2015 and has
found no adverse mechanical effect on
operational safety. There have been no
mechanical incidents in the movement
from the International Bridge to the
Dallas Street or Alfalfa Yards to date,
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northbound, involving no fewer than
180,700 freight cars.
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John Karl Alexy,
Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety,
Chief Safety Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Solicitation for Annual Combating
Human Trafficking in Transportation
Impact Award
Office of the Secretary of
Transportation, U.S. Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to a
recommendation by the Department of
Transportation (DOT or the Department)
Advisory Committee on Human
Trafficking, the Secretary of
Transportation is launching the annual
Combating Human Trafficking in
Transportation Impact Award (‘‘the
award’’) to incentivize an increase in
human trafficking awareness, training,
and prevention among transportation
stakeholders. The award will be a
component of the Department’s
Transportation Leaders Against Human
Trafficking initiative. Additional
information regarding the Department’s
counter-trafficking activities can be
found at www.transportation.gov/
stophumantrafficking.
The award serves as a platform for
transportation stakeholders to unlock
their creativity, and empower them to
develop impactful and innovative
counter-trafficking tools, initiatives,
campaigns, and technologies that can
help defeat this heinous crime. The
award is open to individuals and
entities, including non-governmental
organizations, transportation industry
associations, research institutions, and
State and local government
organizations. Entrants compete for a
$50,000 cash award that will be
awarded to the individual(s) or entity
selected for creating the most impactful
counter-trafficking initiative or
technology. The Department of
Transportation intends to incentivize
individuals and entities to think
creatively in developing innovative
solutions to combat human trafficking
in the transportation industry, and to
share those innovations with the
broader community.
DATES: Submissions accepted January 1,
2020 through midnight on January 31,
2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
more information, and to register your
intent to compete individually or as part
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of a team, visit www.transportation.gov/
stophumantrafficking, email
trafficking@dot.gov, or contact the
Office of International Transportation
and Trade at (202) 366–4398.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Award Approving Official: Elaine L.
Chao, Secretary of Transportation.
Subject of Award Competition: The
Secretary’s Combating Human
Trafficking in Transportation Impact
Award will recognize impactful and
innovative approaches to combating
human trafficking in the transportation
industry.
Problem
As many as 24.9 million men, women,
and children are held against their will
and trafficked into forced labor and
prostitution. Transportation figures
prominently in human trafficking
enterprises when traffickers move
victims, which uniquely positions the
industry to combat the crime.
Challenge
The Human Trafficking in
Transportation Impact Award is looking
for the best innovators to develop
original, impactful, and innovative
human trafficking tools, initiatives,
campaigns, and technologies that can
help defeat this heinous crime in the
transportation industry.
Eligibility
To be eligible to participate in the
Secretary’s Combating Human
Trafficking in Transportation Impact
Award competition, private entities
must be incorporated in and maintain a
primary place of business in the United
States, and individuals must be citizens
or permanent residents of the United
States. There is no charge to enter the
competition.
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Rules, Terms, and Conditions
The following additional rules apply:
1. Entrants shall submit a project to
the competition under the rules
promulgated by the Department in this
Notice;
2. Entrants must indemnify, defend,
and hold harmless the Federal
Government from and against all thirdparty claims, actions, or proceedings of
any kind and from any and all damages,
liabilities, costs, and expenses relating
to or arising from participant’s
submission or any breach or alleged
breach of any of the representations,
warranties, and covenants of participant
hereunder. Entrants are financially
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3. Entrants may not be a Federal
entity or Federal employee acting
within the scope of employment;
4. Entrants may not be an employee
of the Department;
5. Entrants shall not be deemed
ineligible because an individual used
Federal facilities or consulted with
Federal employees during a
competition, if the facilities and
employees are made available to all
individuals participating in the
competition on an equitable basis;
6. The competition is subject to all
applicable Federal laws and regulations.
Participation constitutes the Entrants’
full and unconditional agreement to
these rules and to the Secretary’s
decisions, which are final and binding
in all matters related to this
competition;
7. Entries which in the Secretary’s
sole discretion are determined to be
substantially similar to a prior
submitted entry may be disqualified;
8. Entries must be original, be the
work of the entrant and/or nominee, and
must not violate the rights of other
parties. All entries remain the property
of the entrant. Each entrant represents
and warrants that:
• Entrant is the sole author and
owner of the submission;
• The Entry is not the subject of any
actual or threatened litigation or claim;
• The Entry does not and will not
violate or infringe upon the intellectual
property rights, privacy rights, publicity
rights, or other legal rights of any third
party; and
• The Entry does not and will not
contain any harmful computer code
(sometimes referred to as ‘‘malware,’’
‘‘viruses,’’ or, ‘‘worms’’).
9. By submitting an entry in this
competition, entrants agree to assume
any and all risks and waive any claims
against the Federal Government and its
related entities (except in the case of
willful misconduct) for any injury,
death, damage, or loss of property,
revenue or profits, whether direct,
indirect, or consequential, arising from
their participation in this competition,
whether the injury, death, damage, or
loss arises through negligence of
otherwise. Provided, however, that by
registering or submitting an entry,
entrants and/or nominees do not waive
claims against the Department arising
out of the unauthorized use or
disclosure by the agency of the
intellectual property, trade secrets, or
confidential information of the entrant;
10. The Secretary and/or the
Secretary’s designees have the right to
request additional supporting
documentation regarding the
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application from the entrants and/or
nominees;
11. The entries cannot have been
submitted in the same or substantially
similar form in any previous Federallysponsored promotion or Federallysponsored competition, of any kind;
12. Each entrant grants to the
Department, as well as other Federal
agencies with which it partners, the
right to use names, likeness, application
materials, photographs, voices,
opinions, and/or hometown and state
for the Department’s promotional
purposes in any media, in perpetuity,
worldwide, without further payment or
consideration;
13. If selected, the entrant and/or
nominee must provide written consent
granting the Department and any parties
acting on their behalf, a royalty-free,
non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide
license to display publicly and use for
promotional purposes the entry
(‘‘demonstration license’’). This
demonstration license includes posting
or linking to the entry on Department
websites, including the Competition
website, and partner websites, and
inclusion of the entry in any other
media, worldwide;
14. Applicants which are Federal
grantees may not use Federal funds to
develop submissions;
15. Federal contractors may not use
Federal funds from a contract to develop
applications or to fund efforts in
support of a submission; and
16. The submission period begins on
January 1, 2020. Submissions must be
sent by 11:59 p.m. Pacific standard time
on January 31, 2020. The timeliness of
submissions will be determined by the
postmark (if sent in hard copy) or time
stamp of the recipient (if emailed).
Competition administrators assume no
responsibility for lost or untimely
submissions for any reason.
Expression of Interest: While not
required, entrants are strongly
encouraged to send brief expressions of
interest to the DOT prior to submitting
entries. The expressions of interest
should be sent by January 15, 2020 to
trafficking@dot.gov, and include the
following elements: (1) Name of entrant/
s; (2) telephone and email address; and
(3) a synopsis of the concept, limited to
no more than two pages.
Submission Requirements
Applicants must submit entries via
email to or by mail. Electronic packages
may be transmitted by email to
trafficking@dot.gov. Hard copies should
be forwarded with a cover letter to the
attention of Secretary’s Combating
Human Trafficking in Transportation
Impact Award, (Room W88–121), 1200
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20590.
Complete submission packages shall
consist of the following elements:
1. Eligibility Statement
A statement of eligibility by private
entities indicating that they are
incorporated in and maintain a primary
place of business in the United States,
or a statement of eligibility by
individuals indicating that they citizens
or permanent residents of the United
States.
2. Summary (1 Page)
An overall summary of the project
that includes: (a) The project title, (b) a
one paragraph synopsis, and, (c) a
statement of the potential impact the
concept will have on combating human
trafficking in the transportation
industry.
3. Supporting Documents (No Page
Limit)
The paper(s) and/or technologies,
programs, video/audio files, and other
related materials, describing the project
and addressing the selection criteria. As
applicable, this can include a
description of success of a previous or
similar project and/or documentation of
impact. You may also submit supporting
letters, which may be from subject
matter experts or industry, which may
address the technical merit of the
concept, originality, impact,
practicality, measurability and/or
applicability. DOT may request
additional information, including
supporting documentation, more
detailed contact information, releases of
liability, and statements of authenticity
to guarantee the originality of the work.
Failure to respond in a timely manner
may result in disqualification.
Initial Screening
The Office of International
Transportation and Trade will initially
review applications to determine that all
required submission elements are
included and to determine compliance
with eligibility requirements.
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Evaluation
After Initial Screening, the Office of
International Transportation and Trade,
with input from the relevant Operating
Administrations, will judge entries
based on the factors described below:
Technical merit, originality, impact,
practicality, measurability, and
applicability. All factors are important
and will be given consideration.
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Assistant Secretary for Aviation and
International Affairs, who will make
recommendations to the Secretary of
Transportation.
The Secretary will make the final
selection.
The Department reserves the right to
not award the prize if the selecting
officials believe that no submission
demonstrates sufficient potential for
sufficient transformative impact.
Technical Merit
• Has the submission presented a
clear understanding of the issue of
human trafficking in the transportation
industry?
• Has the submission developed a
logical and workable solution and
approach to addressing the problem?
• What are the most unique merits of
this concept?
• Were survivors of human trafficking
consulted on the merits of the project?
• Has the submission clearly
described the breadth of impact of the
project?
Originality
Award
One winning entry is expected to be
announced and will receive a cash prize
of up to $50,000. A plaque with the
winner(s) name and date of award will
be on display at the Department of
Transportation, and a display copy of
the plaque(s) will be sent to the
winner’s headquarters. At the discretion
of the Secretary, up to two additional
plaques may be awarded to recognize
the second and third place entrants. At
the option of the Secretary of
Transportation, DOT will pay for
invitational travel expenses to
Washington, DC for up to two
individuals or representatives of the
winning organization should selectees
be invited to present their project/s for
DOT officials.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719 (America
COMPETES Act).
Issued on: December 12, 2019.
Joel Szabat,
Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for
Policy.
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• Is this concept new or a variation of
an existing idea, and in what way(s)?
• How is this work unique?
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Impact
Office of Foreign Assets Control
• To what extent will this project
make a significant impact and/or
contribution to the fight against human
trafficking in the transportation
industry?
• Which aspects of the issue of
human trafficking is the submission
attempting to address?
Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions
Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Applicability
The Department of the
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) is publishing the names
of one or more persons that have been
placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons List
based on OFAC’s determination that one
or more applicable legal criteria were
satisfied. All property and interests in
property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of
these persons are blocked, and U.S.
persons are generally prohibited from
engaging in transactions with them.
DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section for applicable date(s).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Associate Director for Global Targeting,
tel.: 202–622–2420; Assistant Director
for Sanctions Compliance & Evaluation,
tel.: 202–622–2490; Assistant Director
for Licensing, tel.: 202–622–2480; or
Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs,
tel.: 202–622–4855.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
• Can this effort be scaled?
• Is this work specific to one region,
various regions, or to the entire nation?
Electronic Availability
The Specially Designated Nationals
and Blocked Persons List and additional
Practicality
• Who directly benefits from this
work?
• Can this program or activity be
implemented in a way that requires a
finite amount of resources? Specifically,
does the submission have high or low
fixed costs, low or no marginal costs,
and a clear path to implementation and
scale beyond an initial investment?
• What are the anticipated resources
and costs to be incurred by executing
this concept?
Measurability
• How has this individual/group
measured the impact of the project?
• To what extent does the project
result in measurable improvements?
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Solicitation for Annual Combating Human Trafficking in
Transportation Impact Award
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of Transportation, U.S. Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to a recommendation by the Department of
Transportation (DOT or the Department) Advisory Committee on Human
Trafficking, the Secretary of Transportation is launching the annual
Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award (``the
award'') to incentivize an increase in human trafficking awareness,
training, and prevention among transportation stakeholders. The award
will be a component of the Department's Transportation Leaders Against
Human Trafficking initiative. Additional information regarding the
Department's counter-trafficking activities can be found at
www.transportation.gov/stophumantrafficking.
The award serves as a platform for transportation stakeholders to
unlock their creativity, and empower them to develop impactful and
innovative counter-trafficking tools, initiatives, campaigns, and
technologies that can help defeat this heinous crime. The award is open
to individuals and entities, including non-governmental organizations,
transportation industry associations, research institutions, and State
and local government organizations. Entrants compete for a $50,000 cash
award that will be awarded to the individual(s) or entity selected for
creating the most impactful counter-trafficking initiative or
technology. The Department of Transportation intends to incentivize
individuals and entities to think creatively in developing innovative
solutions to combat human trafficking in the transportation industry,
and to share those innovations with the broader community.
DATES: Submissions accepted January 1, 2020 through midnight on January
31, 2020.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information, and to register
your intent to compete individually or as part
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of a team, visit www.transportation.gov/stophumantrafficking, email
[email protected], or contact the Office of International
Transportation and Trade at (202) 366-4398.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Award Approving Official: Elaine L. Chao, Secretary of
Transportation.
Subject of Award Competition: The Secretary's Combating Human
Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award will recognize impactful and
innovative approaches to combating human trafficking in the
transportation industry.
Problem
As many as 24.9 million men, women, and children are held against
their will and trafficked into forced labor and prostitution.
Transportation figures prominently in human trafficking enterprises
when traffickers move victims, which uniquely positions the industry to
combat the crime.
Challenge
The Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award is looking for
the best innovators to develop original, impactful, and innovative
human trafficking tools, initiatives, campaigns, and technologies that
can help defeat this heinous crime in the transportation industry.
Eligibility
To be eligible to participate in the Secretary's Combating Human
Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award competition, private
entities must be incorporated in and maintain a primary place of
business in the United States, and individuals must be citizens or
permanent residents of the United States. There is no charge to enter
the competition.
Rules, Terms, and Conditions
The following additional rules apply:
1. Entrants shall submit a project to the competition under the
rules promulgated by the Department in this Notice;
2. Entrants must indemnify, defend, and hold harmless the Federal
Government from and against all third-party claims, actions, or
proceedings of any kind and from any and all damages, liabilities,
costs, and expenses relating to or arising from participant's
submission or any breach or alleged breach of any of the
representations, warranties, and covenants of participant hereunder.
Entrants are financially responsible for claims made by a third party;
3. Entrants may not be a Federal entity or Federal employee acting
within the scope of employment;
4. Entrants may not be an employee of the Department;
5. Entrants shall not be deemed ineligible because an individual
used Federal facilities or consulted with Federal employees during a
competition, if the facilities and employees are made available to all
individuals participating in the competition on an equitable basis;
6. The competition is subject to all applicable Federal laws and
regulations. Participation constitutes the Entrants' full and
unconditional agreement to these rules and to the Secretary's
decisions, which are final and binding in all matters related to this
competition;
7. Entries which in the Secretary's sole discretion are determined
to be substantially similar to a prior submitted entry may be
disqualified;
8. Entries must be original, be the work of the entrant and/or
nominee, and must not violate the rights of other parties. All entries
remain the property of the entrant. Each entrant represents and
warrants that:
Entrant is the sole author and owner of the submission;
The Entry is not the subject of any actual or threatened
litigation or claim;
The Entry does not and will not violate or infringe upon
the intellectual property rights, privacy rights, publicity rights, or
other legal rights of any third party; and
The Entry does not and will not contain any harmful
computer code (sometimes referred to as ``malware,'' ``viruses,'' or,
``worms'').
9. By submitting an entry in this competition, entrants agree to
assume any and all risks and waive any claims against the Federal
Government and its related entities (except in the case of willful
misconduct) for any injury, death, damage, or loss of property, revenue
or profits, whether direct, indirect, or consequential, arising from
their participation in this competition, whether the injury, death,
damage, or loss arises through negligence of otherwise. Provided,
however, that by registering or submitting an entry, entrants and/or
nominees do not waive claims against the Department arising out of the
unauthorized use or disclosure by the agency of the intellectual
property, trade secrets, or confidential information of the entrant;
10. The Secretary and/or the Secretary's designees have the right
to request additional supporting documentation regarding the
application from the entrants and/or nominees;
11. The entries cannot have been submitted in the same or
substantially similar form in any previous Federally-sponsored
promotion or Federally-sponsored competition, of any kind;
12. Each entrant grants to the Department, as well as other Federal
agencies with which it partners, the right to use names, likeness,
application materials, photographs, voices, opinions, and/or hometown
and state for the Department's promotional purposes in any media, in
perpetuity, worldwide, without further payment or consideration;
13. If selected, the entrant and/or nominee must provide written
consent granting the Department and any parties acting on their behalf,
a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license to
display publicly and use for promotional purposes the entry
(``demonstration license''). This demonstration license includes
posting or linking to the entry on Department websites, including the
Competition website, and partner websites, and inclusion of the entry
in any other media, worldwide;
14. Applicants which are Federal grantees may not use Federal funds
to develop submissions;
15. Federal contractors may not use Federal funds from a contract
to develop applications or to fund efforts in support of a submission;
and
16. The submission period begins on January 1, 2020. Submissions
must be sent by 11:59 p.m. Pacific standard time on January 31, 2020.
The timeliness of submissions will be determined by the postmark (if
sent in hard copy) or time stamp of the recipient (if emailed).
Competition administrators assume no responsibility for lost or
untimely submissions for any reason.
Expression of Interest: While not required, entrants are strongly
encouraged to send brief expressions of interest to the DOT prior to
submitting entries. The expressions of interest should be sent by
January 15, 2020 to [email protected], and include the following
elements: (1) Name of entrant/s; (2) telephone and email address; and
(3) a synopsis of the concept, limited to no more than two pages.
Submission Requirements
Applicants must submit entries via email to or by mail. Electronic
packages may be transmitted by email to [email protected]. Hard
copies should be forwarded with a cover letter to the attention of
Secretary's Combating Human Trafficking in Transportation Impact Award,
(Room W88-121), 1200
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New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Complete submission packages shall consist of the following
elements:
1. Eligibility Statement
A statement of eligibility by private entities indicating that they
are incorporated in and maintain a primary place of business in the
United States, or a statement of eligibility by individuals indicating
that they citizens or permanent residents of the United States.
2. Summary (1 Page)
An overall summary of the project that includes: (a) The project
title, (b) a one paragraph synopsis, and, (c) a statement of the
potential impact the concept will have on combating human trafficking
in the transportation industry.
3. Supporting Documents (No Page Limit)
The paper(s) and/or technologies, programs, video/audio files, and
other related materials, describing the project and addressing the
selection criteria. As applicable, this can include a description of
success of a previous or similar project and/or documentation of
impact. You may also submit supporting letters, which may be from
subject matter experts or industry, which may address the technical
merit of the concept, originality, impact, practicality, measurability
and/or applicability. DOT may request additional information, including
supporting documentation, more detailed contact information, releases
of liability, and statements of authenticity to guarantee the
originality of the work. Failure to respond in a timely manner may
result in disqualification.
Initial Screening
The Office of International Transportation and Trade will initially
review applications to determine that all required submission elements
are included and to determine compliance with eligibility requirements.
Evaluation
After Initial Screening, the Office of International Transportation
and Trade, with input from the relevant Operating Administrations, will
judge entries based on the factors described below: Technical merit,
originality, impact, practicality, measurability, and applicability.
All factors are important and will be given consideration.
The Office of International Transportation and Trade will present
the most highly qualified entries to Assistant Secretary for Aviation
and International Affairs, who will make recommendations to the
Secretary of Transportation.
The Secretary will make the final selection.
The Department reserves the right to not award the prize if the
selecting officials believe that no submission demonstrates sufficient
potential for sufficient transformative impact.
Technical Merit
Has the submission presented a clear understanding of the
issue of human trafficking in the transportation industry?
Has the submission developed a logical and workable
solution and approach to addressing the problem?
What are the most unique merits of this concept?
Were survivors of human trafficking consulted on the
merits of the project?
Has the submission clearly described the breadth of impact
of the project?
Originality
Is this concept new or a variation of an existing idea,
and in what way(s)?
How is this work unique?
Impact
To what extent will this project make a significant impact
and/or contribution to the fight against human trafficking in the
transportation industry?
Which aspects of the issue of human trafficking is the
submission attempting to address?
Practicality
Who directly benefits from this work?
Can this program or activity be implemented in a way that
requires a finite amount of resources? Specifically, does the
submission have high or low fixed costs, low or no marginal costs, and
a clear path to implementation and scale beyond an initial investment?
What are the anticipated resources and costs to be
incurred by executing this concept?
Measurability
How has this individual/group measured the impact of the
project?
To what extent does the project result in measurable
improvements?
Applicability
Can this effort be scaled?
Is this work specific to one region, various regions, or
to the entire nation?
Award
One winning entry is expected to be announced and will receive a
cash prize of up to $50,000. A plaque with the winner(s) name and date
of award will be on display at the Department of Transportation, and a
display copy of the plaque(s) will be sent to the winner's
headquarters. At the discretion of the Secretary, up to two additional
plaques may be awarded to recognize the second and third place
entrants. At the option of the Secretary of Transportation, DOT will
pay for invitational travel expenses to Washington, DC for up to two
individuals or representatives of the winning organization should
selectees be invited to present their project/s for DOT officials.
Authority: 15 U.S.C. 3719 (America COMPETES Act).
Issued on: December 12, 2019.
Joel Szabat,
Acting Under Secretary of Transportation for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2019-27231 Filed 12-17-19; 8:45 am]
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