[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 42 (Thursday, March 3, 2011)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 11699-11700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-4812]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary of Transportation
14 CFR Chapters I, II, III
23 CFR Chapters I, II, III
46 CFR Chapter II
48 CFR Chapter 12
49 CFR Chapters I, II, III and V, VI, VII, VIII, X, XI
[Docket No. DOT-OST-2011-0025]
Notice of Retrospective Review of DOT Existing Regulations
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting and tentative agenda; opportunities
for public participation in review.
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SUMMARY: On February 16, 2011, Department of Transportation (DOT)
published a notice of regulatory review of existing DOT regulations.
This review is in accordance with Executive Order 13563, ``Improving
Regulation and Regulatory Review.'' As part of the notice of review,
DOT announced it will hold a public meeting to discuss and consider the
public's comments. This notice provides information on how to
participate in this meeting and opportunities for enhanced public
participation in the review and the public meeting. Please note that
the deadline for registering to speak at the public meeting has been
extended to March 7, 2011.
DATES:
Deadline to register to attend hearing in person/watch Web stream/
listen by phone--March 7, 2011.
Deadline to register to speak in person/by phone at the meeting--March
7, 2011.
Agenda released on http://regs.dot.gov--March 9, 2011.
Web streaming/call-in info distributed to registrants--March 10, 2011.
Deadline to submit any digital presentation materials--March 10, 2011.
Public Meeting--March 14, 2011--9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
ADDRESSES:
Public Meeting Location: The public meeting will be held in the DOT
Conference Center's Media Center, located on the ground floor of 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
DOT Regulatory Review IdeaScale Web site: http://dotregreview.ideascale.com/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Abdul-Wali, Office of
Regulation and Enforcement, Department of Transportation, (202) 366-
6322; e-mail: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On January 18, 2011, President Obama issued Executive Order 13563,
which outlined a plan to improve regulation and regulatory review (76
FR 3821, January 31, 2011). Executive Order 13563 reaffirms and builds
upon governing principles of contemporary regulatory review, including
Executive Order 12866, ``Regulatory Planning and Review'' (58 FR 51735,
October 4, 1993), by requiring Federal agencies to design cost-
effective, evidence-based regulations that are compatible with economic
growth, job creation, and competitiveness. The President's plan
recognizes that these principles should not only guide the Federal
government's approach to new regulation, but to existing ones as well.
To that end, Executive Order 13563 requires agencies to review existing
significant rules to determine if they are outmoded, ineffective,
insufficient, or excessively burdensome.
On February 16, 2011, DOT published a notice of regulatory review
(76 FR 8940) that invited public comment on how to effectively
implement Executive Order 13563 and set forth a number of issues and
questions. Our notice stated that we would hold a public meeting on
March 14, 2011. The following section provides the procedures for
participating in the meeting and our IdeaScale Web site that can also
be used to submit comments to DOT.
Public Meeting Procedures
1. As stated in our February 16 notice, those who wish to make
presentations at the meeting should submit initial comments with
sufficient details with
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their registration to enable DOT to set an agenda and ensure that the
appropriate officials are present for the discussions. We hope to be
able to accommodate everyone who would like to speak at the meeting,
but if there are more interested participants than time available, we
will limit participants in order of date and time of registration. When
registering to speak, please also estimate the amount of time that you
would like to use for your presentation; final times will be allotted
to participants based on the time available and the issues raised in
their initial comments. Any person wishing to present an oral statement
should notify Jennifer Abdul-Wali at the address above by March 7,
2011; any digital presentation materials for the meeting should be
submitted to her by March 10, 2011. If available, time will be given
for those people attending the meeting in person to speak, even if they
had not previously registered to speak.
2. Due to security requirements, all public attendees must register
to ensure their access to the building. To register, contact Jennifer
Abdul-Wali. Foreign National registrants must provide your full name,
title, country of citizenship, date of birth, passport number, and
passport expiration date when registering. Because seating space is
limited, we may have to limit attendees in order of date and time of
registration.
3. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early for processing through
security. All participants and attendees must enter through the New
Jersey Avenue entrance (West Building--at the corner of New Jersey
Avenue and M Street, SE.). Photo identification is required and Foreign
National attendees must bring their passports with them. Participants
or attendees who have Federal government identification will still need
to register to attend. To facilitate security screening, all
participants and attendees are encouraged to limit the bags and other
items (laptops, cameras, etc.) they bring into the building. Anyone
exiting the building for any reason will be required to re-enter
through the security checkpoint at the New Jersey Avenue entrance.
4. DOT does not offer visitor parking; we suggest that attendees
consider using alternative means of transportation to the building. DOT
Headquarters is served by Metrorail (Navy Yard station), Metrobus, DC
Circulator, and taxi service. There are a number of private parking
lots near the DOT building, but the DOT cannot guarantee the
availability of parking spaces.
5. For information on facilities or services for persons with
disabilities, or to request special assistance at the meeting, contact
Ms. Abdul-Wali as soon as possible.
6. For those unable to attend the public meeting in person, it will
be broadcast via Web streaming (with captioning) and over a listen-only
phone line. Registrants will be given the Web URL or phone number on
March 10, 2011. Because the number of people who can participate in Web
streaming and by phone is limited, we will provide access in order of
date and time of registration.
7. We will post an Agenda for the public meeting at http://regs.dot.gov by March 9, 2011.
8. DOT's General Counsel will preside over the public meeting.
Senior officials of DOT's operating administrations also will attend
this meeting as part of a panel with the General Counsel to receive
comments from the public. During the hearing, we may ask questions that
will clarify statements or gather more information or data to help us
understand the problems or issues raised by commenters.
9. The meeting is designed to solicit public views and gather
additional information for our regulatory review. Therefore, the
meeting will be conducted in an informal and non-adversarial manner. In
developing prepared remarks, participants should leave time during
their remarks for questions and discussion by the panel.
10. We plan to make a record of the meeting available to the
public; information about how to access the record will be placed in
the docket and posted on http://regs.dot.gov.
DOT IdeaScale Web Site
In order to provide the public with alternative means of providing
feedback to DOT in ways that may better suit their needs, we have
created a Web site using IdeaScale that will allow submissions to DOT
in a less formal manner. This Web site will provide members of the
public an opportunity to submit their ideas about our regulatory
review, categorized by the DOT Operating Administration that
administers the regulation. Participants in this site may discuss one
another's ideas and agree/disagree with others. This Web site may be
particularly useful for individuals and small entities (including
State, local, and Tribal governments) who prefer a less formal method
of submitting ideas to DOT. It may also assist participants in refining
their suggestions and gathering additional information or data to
support those suggestions.
To ensure that ideas are most useful in informing our deliberation
and decision process, you should include the citation to the regulation
on which you are commenting (e.g. 49 CFR 1.69), a description of any
concerns regarding the regulation (e.g. it is duplicative, too costly,
etc.), and any supporting information (e.g., the citation to a
duplicative regulation or actual cost or benefit data) that would
assist DOT in making a decision. Please also include in your comment
whether you found this Web site useful for your purposes, so that we
can best plan how to deploy DOT's scarce resources to most effectively
reach the public in the future. To go directly to the IdeaScale Web
site use the following link: http://dotregreview.ideascale.com/.
Follow-Up Action by DOT
The comments received during our review will provide meaningful and
significant information for DOT senior officials, including those in
the Office of the Secretary and each of DOT's operating
administrations. As soon as possible after the public meeting and the
close of the comment period, taking account of the number of comments
received and the complexity of issues raised, DOT will publish a report
providing at least a brief response to the comments we receive,
including a description of any further action we intend to take.
Privacy Act Statement
Anyone is able to search all comments entered into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476, 04/11/2011) or at http://www.dot.gov/privacy.html.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. 610; E.O. 13563, 76 FR 3821, Jan. 21 2011;
E.O. 12866, 58 FR 51735, Oct. 4, 1993.)
Issued on February 25, 2011, in Washington, DC.
Robert S. Rivkin,
General Counsel.
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