81 FR 35814 - Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 107 (June 3, 2016)
Federal Railroad Administration
Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 107 (June 3, 2016)
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| FR Document | 2016-13142 |
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 107 (Friday, June 3, 2016)] [Notices] [Pages 35814-35815] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2016-13142] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Railroad Administration [Docket Number FRA 2016-0002-N-15] Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment Request AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). ACTION: Notice and request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its implementing regulations, FRA seeks the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of the proposed information collection activities abstracted below. However, before submitting this proposed information collection request (ICR) to OMB, FRA is soliciting public comment on specific aspects of the activities identified below. DATES: Comments must be received no later than August 2, 2016. ADDRESSES: Submit written comments on any or all of the information activities described in this notice by mail to either Mr. Robert Brogan, Information Collection Clearance Officer, Office of Railroad Safety, Regulatory Safety Analysis Division, RRS-21, FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Mail Stop 25, Washington, DC 20590; or Ms. Kimberly Toone, Information Collection Clearance Officer, Office of Information Technology, RAD-20, FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 20590. Commenters requesting that FRA acknowledge receipt of their respective comments must include a self-addressed stamped postcard stating, ``Comments on OMB Control Number 2130-New,'' and should also include the title of the collection of information. Alternatively, comments may be faxed to (202) 493-6216 or (202) 493- 6497, or emailed to Mr. Brogan at [email protected], or Ms. Toone at [email protected]. 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, at (202) 493-6292, or Ms. Kimberly Toone, at (202) 493-6132. These telephone numbers are not toll-free. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520, and its implementing regulations, 5 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) part 1320, Rulemaking Procedures, require Federal agencies to provide 60 days' notice to the public for comment on information collection activities before seeking OMB approval. See 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 1320.10(e)(1), and 1320.12(a). Specifically, FRA invites interested respondents to comment on the following summary of proposed information collection activities regarding: (1) Whether the information collection activities are necessary for FRA to properly execute its functions, including whether the activities will have practical utility; (2) 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; (3) ways FRA can enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information being collected; and (4) ways FRA can 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); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1). FRA believes soliciting public comment will promote its efforts to reduce the administrative and paperwork burdens associated with the collection of information Federal regulations mandate, including: (1) Reducing reporting burdens; (2) organizing information collection requirements in a ``user friendly'' format to improve the use of such information; and (3) accurately assessing the resources expended to retrieve and produce information requested. See 44 U.S.C. 3501. Below is a brief summary of the proposed ICR that FRA will submit for OMB approval as required under the PRA: Title: Survey of Plant and Insular Tourist Railroads subject to FRA Bridge Safety Standards (Title 49 CFR part 237). OMB Control Number: 2130-New. Abstract: FRA Bridge Safety Standards regulations (49 CFR part 237) require all owners of railroad track with a gage of 2 feet or more supported by a bridge to comply with this part. This includes track owners with bridges located within an industrial installation (plant) that is not part of the general railroad system of transportation (general system) but over which railroad equipment is moved by a general system [[Page 35815]] railroad. To identify track owners subject to the requirements of part 237, Bridge Safety Standards, FRA relies on the railroad accident/ incident reports (49 CFR part 225) to be filed monthly. However, plant and insular tourist railroads are exempt from the part 225, Railroad Accidents/Incidents: Reports Classification, and Investigations, reporting requirements. FRA will request any railroad serving a plant and moving railroad equipment over bridges within the plant, or the plant itself, to advise FRA by email that there are railroad bridges within the installation potentially subject to FRA Bridge Safety Standards. FRA will also request insular tourist railroads, whose tracks are supported by one or more bridges, to advise FRA of their existence by email. The email notification should include the name of the installation or insular tourist railroad, address including city and State, contact name, telephone number, and email address. This survey will be ongoing with initial approval requested for 3 years. FRA desires to identify plant and insular tourist railroads that may be subject to part 237 requirements, but are exempt from the part 225 reporting requirement to analyze risks these entities pose to railroad bridge safety and aid in planning bridge safety oversight activities and allocating resources. Affected Public: Freight railroads, industrial installations (plants), insular tourist railroads. Respondent Universe: 689 railroads, 500 industrial installations (estimated), 20 insular tourist railroads (estimated). Frequency of Submission: On occasion. Reporting Burden: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total annual Average time CFR section Respondent universe responses per response Total annual (emails) (minutes) burden hours ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Notification of Industrial Railroads, Industrial 200 15 50 Installations potentially subject to Installations. part 237. Notification of Insular Tourist Insular Tourist 10 15 2.5 Railroads subject to part 237. Railroads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total Responses: 210. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 53 hours. Type of Request: Approval of a new information collection. Status: Regular Review. Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR 1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA informs all interested parties that FRA 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 May 31, 2016. Corey Hill, Executive Director. [FR Doc. 2016-13142 Filed 6-2-16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-06-P
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(2) Title: Qualification and DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
Certification of Locomotive Engineers. 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
OMB Control Number: 2130–0533. Federal Railroad Administration implementing regulations, 5 Code of
[Docket Number FRA 2016–0002–N–15] Federal Regulations (CFR) part 1320,
Abstract: Section 4 of the Rail Safety Rulemaking Procedures, require Federal
Improvement Act of 1988, Public Law Proposed Agency Information agencies to provide 60 days’ notice to
100–342, 102 Statute 624 (June 22, Collection Activities; Comment the public for comment on information
1988), later amended and re-codified by Request collection activities before seeking OMB
Public Law 103–272, 108 Statute 874 approval. See 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A); 5
(July 5, 1994), required FRA to issue AGENCY: Federal Railroad CFR 1320.8(d)(1), 1320.10(e)(1), and
regulations establishing a program for Administration (FRA), U.S. Department 1320.12(a). Specifically, FRA invites
certifying or licensing locomotive of Transportation (DOT). interested respondents to comment on
engineers. FRA uses the collection of ACTION: Notice and request for the following summary of proposed
information to ensure railroads employ comments. information collection activities
and properly train qualified individuals regarding: (1) Whether the information
as locomotive engineers and designated SUMMARY: In accordance with the collection activities are necessary for
supervisors of locomotive engineers. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) FRA to properly execute its functions,
FRA also uses the collection of and its implementing regulations, FRA including whether the activities will
information to verify railroads have seeks the Office of Management and have practical utility; (2) the accuracy of
Budget’s (OMB) approval of the FRA’s estimates of the burden of the
established required certification
proposed information collection information collection activities,
programs for locomotive engineers and
activities abstracted below. However, including the validity of the
that those programs fully conform to the
before submitting this proposed methodology and assumptions used to
standards specified in the regulation.
information collection request (ICR) to determine the estimates; (3) ways FRA
Type of Request: Extension without OMB, FRA is soliciting public comment can enhance the quality, utility, and
change of a currently approved on specific aspects of the activities clarity of the information being
information collection. identified below. collected; and (4) ways FRA can
Form(s): N/A. DATES: Comments must be received no minimize the burden of information
Total Annual Estimated Responses: later than August 2, 2016. collection activities on the public by
216,863. ADDRESSES: Submit written comments automated, electronic, mechanical, or
on any or all of the information other technological collection
Total Annual Estimated Burden: techniques or other forms of information
activities described in this notice by
272,672 hours. mail to either Mr. Robert Brogan, technology (e.g., permitting electronic
Addressee: Send comments regarding Information Collection Clearance submission of responses). See 44 U.S.C.
these information collections to the Officer, Office of Railroad Safety, 3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
Office of Information and Regulatory Regulatory Safety Analysis Division, FRA believes soliciting public
Affairs, Office of Management and RRS–21, FRA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue comment will promote its efforts to
Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street NW., SE., Mail Stop 25, Washington, DC reduce the administrative and
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: FRA 20590; or Ms. Kimberly Toone, paperwork burdens associated with the
Desk Officer. Comments may also be Information Collection Clearance collection of information Federal
sent via email to OMB at oira_ Officer, Office of Information regulations mandate, including: (1)
submissions@omb.eop.gov. Technology, RAD–20, FRA, 1200 New Reducing reporting burdens; (2)
Jersey Avenue SE., Mail Stop 35, organizing information collection
Comments are invited on the requirements in a ‘‘user friendly’’ format
following: Whether the ICRs are Washington, DC 20590. Commenters
requesting that FRA acknowledge to improve the use of such information;
necessary for DOT to properly perform and (3) accurately assessing the
its functions, including whether the receipt of their respective comments
must include a self-addressed stamped resources expended to retrieve and
information will have practical utility; produce information requested. See 44
postcard stating, ‘‘Comments on OMB
the accuracy of DOT’s estimates of the U.S.C. 3501.
Control Number 2130–New,’’ and
burden of the ICRs; ways to enhance the Below is a brief summary of the
should also include the title of the
quality, utility, and clarity of the proposed ICR that FRA will submit for
collection of information. Alternatively,
information to be collected; and ways to OMB approval as required under the
comments may be faxed to (202) 493–
minimize the burden of the ICRs on PRA:
6216 or (202) 493–6497, or emailed to
respondents, including using automated Title: Survey of Plant and Insular
Mr. Brogan at Robert.Brogan@dot.gov, or
collection techniques or other forms of Tourist Railroads subject to FRA Bridge
Ms. Toone at Kimberly.Toone@dot.gov.
information technology. Safety Standards (Title 49 CFR part
Please refer to the assigned OMB control
A comment to OMB is best assured of 237).
number in any correspondence OMB Control Number: 2130–New.
having its full effect if OMB receives it submitted. FRA will summarize Abstract: FRA Bridge Safety
within 30 days of publication of this comments received in response to this Standards regulations (49 CFR part 237)
notice in the Federal Register. notice in a subsequent notice and require all owners of railroad track with
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. include them in its information a gage of 2 feet or more supported by a
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collection submission to OMB for bridge to comply with this part. This
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31, approval.
2016. includes track owners with bridges
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. located within an industrial installation
Corey Hill,
Robert Brogan, at (202) 493–6292, or Ms. (plant) that is not part of the general
Executive Director. Kimberly Toone, at (202) 493–6132. railroad system of transportation
[FR Doc. 2016–13141 Filed 6–2–16; 8:45 am] These telephone numbers are not toll- (general system) but over which railroad
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railroad. To identify track owners installation potentially subject to FRA exempt from the part 225 reporting
subject to the requirements of part 237, Bridge Safety Standards. FRA will also requirement to analyze risks these
Bridge Safety Standards, FRA relies on request insular tourist railroads, whose entities pose to railroad bridge safety
the railroad accident/incident reports tracks are supported by one or more and aid in planning bridge safety
(49 CFR part 225) to be filed monthly. bridges, to advise FRA of their existence oversight activities and allocating
However, plant and insular tourist by email. The email notification should resources.
railroads are exempt from the part 225, include the name of the installation or Affected Public: Freight railroads,
Railroad Accidents/Incidents: Reports insular tourist railroad, address industrial installations (plants), insular
Classification, and Investigations, including city and State, contact name, tourist railroads.
reporting requirements. telephone number, and email address. Respondent Universe: 689 railroads,
FRA will request any railroad serving This survey will be ongoing with initial 500 industrial installations (estimated),
a plant and moving railroad equipment approval requested for 3 years. 20 insular tourist railroads (estimated).
over bridges within the plant, or the FRA desires to identify plant and Frequency of Submission: On
plant itself, to advise FRA by email that insular tourist railroads that may be occasion.
there are railroad bridges within the subject to part 237 requirements, but are Reporting Burden:
Total annual Average time Total annual
CFR section Respondent universe responses per response burden hours
(emails) (minutes)
Notification of Industrial Installations poten- Railroads, Industrial Installations ................... 200 15 50
tially subject to part 237.
Notification of Insular Tourist Railroads sub- Insular Tourist Railroads ................................ 10 15 2.5
ject to part 237.
Total Responses: 210. Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of Title: Capital Magnet Fund
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 53 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). Currently, Application; Capital Magnet Fund
hours. the Community Development Financial Annual Report.
Type of Request: Approval of a new Institutions (CDFI) Fund, Department of OMB Numbers: 1559–0036; 1559–
information collection. the Treasury, is soliciting comments 0043.
Status: Regular Review. concerning the Capital Magnet Fund Abstract: The Capital Magnet Fund
Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR (CMF) Application (hereafter, the (CMF) was established through the
1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA Application) and comments concerning Housing and Economic Recovery Act of
informs all interested parties that FRA reporting and record retention 2008 (Pub. L. 110–289) or HERA, as a
may not conduct or sponsor, and a requirements of the Capital Magnet trust fund to be used to carry out a
respondent is not required to respond Fund Annual Report (hereafter, Annual competitive grant program administered
to, a collection of information unless it Report). by the CDFI Fund. Through the CMF,
displays a currently valid OMB control the CDFI Fund is authorized to
DATES: Written comments must be
number. administer a competitive application
received on or before August 2, 2016 to
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. be assured of consideration. process to make financial assistance
grants to Certified Community
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 31, ADDRESSES: Submit your comments via
2016.
Development Financial Institutions
email to Marcia Sigal, CMF Program (CDFIs) and qualified Nonprofit
Corey Hill, Manager, CDFI Fund, at Organizations that have the
Executive Director. cmf@cdfi.treas.gov. development or management of
[FR Doc. 2016–13142 Filed 6–2–16; 8:45 am] affordable housing as one of their
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
BILLING CODE 4910–06–P
Marcia Sigal, CMF Program Manager, principal purposes. CMF Awards must
CDFI Fund, U.S. Department of the be used to attract private financing for
Treasury, 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue and increase investment in (i) the
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Development, Preservation,
NW., Washington, DC 20220 (202) 653–
0375 (not a toll free number). Other Rehabilitation, and Purchase of
Community Development Financial Affordable Housing for primarily
Institutions Fund information regarding the CDFI Fund
and its programs may be obtained Extremely Low-, Very Low-, and Low-
through the CDFI Fund’s Web site at Income Families; and (ii) Economic
Information Collection: Capital Magnet
http://www.cdfifund.gov. Development Activities which, In
Fund Application; Capital Magnet Fund
Conjunction With Affordable Housing
Annual Report The Application may be obtained Activities will implement a Concerted
from the CMF program page of the CDFI Strategy to stabilize or revitalize a Low-
Notice and request for public
ACTION: Fund’s Web site at https://www.
comment. Income area or an Underserved Rural
cdfifund.gov/Documents/FY2016%20 Area.
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to reduce paperwork and respondent Capital Magnet Fund Awardee Annual review of their applications for program
burden, invites the general public and Report can be found at https://www. funding. The Application requires the
other Federal agencies to take this cdfifund.gov/programs-training/ submission of information about the
opportunity to comment on proposed Programs/cmf/Pages/compliance-step. Applicant’s track record, proposed
and/or continuing information aspx#step5. pipeline, as well as data and narrative
collections, as required by the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: strategies for four main sections:
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| Dates | Comments must be received no later than August 2, 2016. | |
| Contact | Mr. Robert Brogan, at (202) 493-6292, or Ms. Kimberly Toone, at (202) 493-6132. These telephone numbers are not toll-free. | |
| FR Citation | 81 FR 35814 |
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