Department of Transportation September 4, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

FMCSA announces receipt of applications from 25 individuals for exemptions from the vision requirement in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations. If granted, the exemptions would enable these individuals to qualify as drivers of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce without meeting the Federal vision standard.

This notice lists the location and time of the fourteenth and fifteenth meetings of the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission.

This amendment adopts miscellaneous amendments to the required IFR (instrument flight rules) altitudes and changeover points for certain Federal airways, jet routes, or direct routes for which a minimum or maximum en route authorized IFR altitude is prescribed. This regulatory action is needed because of changes occurring in the National Airspace System. These changes are designed to provide for the safe and efficient use of the navigable airspace under instrument conditions in the affected areas.

On July 30, 2008, a notice to conduct informal airspace meetings for the Chicago Class B airspace project was published in the Federal Register (73 FR 44311). Subsequent to publication, the FAA has had to change the venue of meetings 1 and 3, being held on September 23, 2008, and September 25, 2008, respectively. The address for both of these meetings has changed to Signature Flight Center Hangar, 1061 S. Wolf Road, Wheeling, IL 60090. The second meeting time and place remains as previously published.

The Maritime Administration announces the publication below of the final text of its Voluntary Tanker Agreement (VTA). The Agreement below replaces a prior version that was last published in Volume 48 of the Federal Register at page 38715 (August 25, 1983) and is issued in accordance with the provisions of 44 CFR 332. The proposed text of the VTA was initially published in Volume 72 of the Federal Register at page 41099 (July 26, 2007). Thereafter, a public hearing on the proposed text of the VTA was held on August 29, 2007, at the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. No comments requesting changes to the proposed text were received. Consequently, the final text is unchanged from the text considered at the public hearing. The Department of Justice has issued a finding that the VTA as published below satisfies the statutory criteria of the Defense Production Act [50 U.S.C. App. Section 2158(f)(1)(B)] required for its creation. See Volume 73 of the Federal Register at page 46335 (August 8, 2008).