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Program Manager, Federal Aviation Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Administration , 12 New 20590. Federal Highway Administration England Executive Park, Burlington, MA • Fax: Fax comments to the Docket 01803. Telephone (781) 238–7613. Management Facility at 202–493–2251. Environmental Impact Statement, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FAA • Tappan Zee Crossing is making available a ROD regarding Hand Delivery: Bring comments to Project (Rockland and Westchester Runway Safety Areas at Sikorsky the Docket Management Facility in Counties, NY) Memorial Airport in Stratford, Room W12–140 of the West Building . The ROD documents the Ground Floor at 1200 AGENCY: Federal Highway final Agency decisions regarding the Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between Administration (FHWA), United States proposed projects as described and 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Department of Transportation (USDOT). Friday, except Federal holidays. analyzed in the EIS Re-evaluation. The ACTION: Notice of Intent. ROD is available for review during Privacy: We will post all comments normal business hours at the following we receive, without change, to http:// SUMMARY: The FHWA, as lead agency, is locations: FAA New England Region, www.regulations.gov, including any issuing this notice to advise the public Airports Division, 16 New England personal information you provide. that an Environmental Impact Statement Executive Park, Burlington, MA. Using the search function of our docket (EIS) will be prepared for the proposed Telephone (781) 238–7613 and at web site, anyone can find and read the infrastructure improvements for the Tappan Zee Hudson River crossing in Sikorsky Memorial Airport, 1000 Great comments received into any of our Rockland and Westchester Counties, Meadow Road Terminal Building, dockets, including the name of the Stratford, Connecticut 06497. . individual sending the comment (or The purpose of this revised NOI is to: Issued on: September 28, 2011. signing the comment for an association, • Advise the public of FHWA serving Bryon H. Rakoff, business, labor union, etc.). You may lead agency; Acting Manager, Airports Division. review DOT’s complete Privacy Act • Provide information on the [FR Doc. 2011–26267 Filed 10–11–11; 8:45 am] Statement in the Federal Register proposed project, purpose and need for BILLING CODE 4910–13–P published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR the project, and alternatives to be 19477–78). considered; • Docket: To read background Invite participation in the EIS DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION documents or comments received, go to process, including comments on the http://www.regulations.gov at any time scope of the EIS proposed in this notice; Federal Aviation Administration and or to the Docket Management Facility in [Summary Notice No. PE–2011–44] • Announce the date, times and Room W12–140 of the West Building locations of upcoming public briefings. Ground Floor at 1200 New Jersey Petition for Exemption; Summary of DATES: Public Scoping Briefings will be Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between Petition Received held from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. on the 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through following dates at the following AGENCY: Federal Aviation Friday, except Federal holidays. Administration (FAA), DOT. locations: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: • Westchester County Public Scoping ACTION: Notice of petition for exemption Briefing: October 25, 2011; 4 p.m. to 9 received. Tyneka L. Thomas, 202–267–7626, or Ralen Gao, 202–267–3168, Office of p.m.; Doubletree Hotel Tarrytown, 455 SUMMARY: This notice contains a Rulemaking, Federal Aviation South , Tarrytown, New York summary of a petition seeking relief 10591. Administration, 800 Independence • from specified requirements of 14 CFR. Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591. Rockland County Public Scoping Briefing: October 27, 2011; 4 p.m. to 9 The purpose of this notice is to improve This notice is published pursuant to 14 p.m.; Adler Room, the public’s awareness of, and CFR 11.85. participation in, this aspect of FAA’s 1000 Palisades Center Drive, West regulatory activities. Neither publication Issued in Washington, DC, on October 5, Nyack, New York 10994. of this notice nor the inclusion or 2011. Written comments on the scope of the omission of information in the summary Dennis Pratte, EIS can be submitted by 5 p.m. on is intended to affect the legal status of Acting Director, Office of Rulemaking. November 15, 2011. the petitions or their final disposition. ADDRESSES: Written comments on the Petition for Exemption DATES: Comments on these petitions scope of the EIS can be submitted to must identify the petition docket Docket No.: FAA–2011–1039. Michael P. Anderson, Project Director, New York State Department of number involved and must be received Petitioner: PHI, Inc. on or before November 1, 2011. Transportation, 4 Burnett Boulevard, ADDRESSES: You may send comments Section of 14 CFR Affected: § 91.9(a). Poughkeepsie, New York 12603 identified by Docket Number FAA– Description of Relief Sought: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 2011–1039 using any of the following PHI, Inc. (PHI), requests an exemption Michael P. Anderson, Project Director, methods: from 91.9(a) to allow PHI to operate S– New York State Department of • Transportation, 4 Burnett Boulevard, Government-wide rulemaking Web 92A helicopters in accordance with Poughkeepsie, New York 12603, site: Go to http://www.regulations.gov Performance Class 2 with limited and follow the instructions for sending Telephone: (914) 358–0600; or Jonathan exposure to engine failure during takeoff your comments electronically. D. McDade, New York Division • Mail: Send comments to the Docket and landing while carrying up to 19 Administrator, Federal Highway Management Facility; U.S. Department passengers. Administration, Leo W. O’Brien Federal of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey [FR Doc. 2011–26329 Filed 10–11–11; 8:45 am] Building, 7th Floor, Room 719, Clinton Avenue, SE., West Building Ground BILLING CODE 4910–13–P Avenue and North Pearl Street, Albany,

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New York 12207, Telephone: (518) 431– for the region’s long term infrastructure be presented for consideration during 4127. needs. scoping. The EIS will consider all SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The When opened to traffic in 1955, the reasonable alternatives that meet the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Tappan Zee Bridge carried project purpose and need and are will examine alternatives to improve the approximately 18,000 vehicles per day. considered prudent options by the transportation infrastructure of the Today, the bridge carries approximately project sponsors, agencies, and the Tappan Zee Hudson River crossing. 138,000 vehicles per day. During the public during the scoping process. past 20 years, traffic volumes have 1. Description of the Project Area grown more than 70 percent on the 4. Probable Effects The Tappan Zee Bridge spans the Tappan Zee Bridge. Volumes are highest The EIS will consider in detail the Hudson River between South Nyack, during the morning eastbound commute potential environmental effects of the Rockland County, New York and and the evening westbound commute, alternatives under consideration based Tarrytown, Westchester County, New but the bridge is prone to severe on the current scoping efforts. The Draft York. congestion during non-commuter EIS (DEIS) and Final EIS (FEIS) will The bridge is 3 miles long and is part periods as well. To meet peak demand, summarize the results of coordination of the United States Interstate Highway the bridge operates with a reversible with federal, state, and local agencies System, carrying a concurrent Interstate lane (i.e., 4 lanes eastbound and 3 lanes and the public at large; present the 87 and designation. westbound in the morning peak period appropriate federal, state, and local Interstate 87 is a north-south primary and 3 lanes eastbound and 4 lanes regulations and policies; inventory and route of the Interstate Highway System westbound in the evening peak period). compile previous studies pertinent to and links and The Tappan Zee Bridge has average the project; describe the methodology via Albany. Between New York City and accident rates that are four times greater used to assess impacts; identify and Albany, Interstate 87 is part of the New than for the whole 570-mile New York describe the affected environment; York State Thruway, which is owned State Thruway system. It has non- analyze and document the construction- and operated by the New York State standard highway safety features with related (short-term) and operational Thruway Authority. Interstate 287 is an lanes that are narrow (11 feet, 8 inches), (long-term) environmental auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway no shoulders, and a narrow, barrier consequences (direct, indirect, and System and is a circumferential median. The Tappan Zee Bridge often cumulative) of the project alternatives; highway around New York City, operates at or near capacity and has no and identify opportunities and measures beginning at the disabled vehicle lane or emergency that mitigate any identified adverse () in Edison, New Jersey and access lane; thus, a breakdown or impacts. The specific scope of analysis ending at Interstate 95 in Port Chester, accident results in substantial traffic and study areas used to undertake the New York. Interstate 287 provides backups and delays. analysis in the EIS will be established The structural integrity and design of access between suburban communities during the public and agency scoping the bridge is also a serious concern. and connects to the region’s primary process. While the bridge’s current condition is routes (Interstates 78, 80, 87, and 95) of safe for the public, several deficiencies 5. Scoping the interstate highway system. need to be addressed. The bridge is In fall 2011, two public scoping The Tappan Zee Bridge is the only located in a moderate seismic zone and crossing of the Hudson River for the 33- briefings will be held, one in was not designed to current seismic Westchester County and one in mile stretch between the George standards. As the bridge continues to (Interstate 95) to its Rockland County, to solicit public age, its maintenance has increased in comments on the scope of the EIS. Each south and the Bear Mountain Bridge frequency, severity, and cost. With (U.S. Routes 6 and 202) to its north. In meeting will run from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. repairs becoming increasingly more and consist of an informal open house addition to being an important through difficult and extensive, the ongoing route for interstate traffic, the Tappan and a formal presentation. The formal maintenance of the bridge will be harder presentation will take place twice Zee Bridge is an important commuter to undertake without major disruption corridor as it connects the rapidly during each meeting, once at 5 p.m. and to traffic operations. again at 7 p.m. After each presentation, growing communities of Rockland and As a result of these conditions, the Orange Counties, New York with the public will be provided the EIS will evaluate alternatives that opportunity to comment on the scope of employment centers in Westchester address the following project goals: County. • the EIS. Those wishing to speak must Ensure the long-term vitality of this register by 5:30 p.m. or 7:30 p.m., 2. Purpose and Need Hudson River Crossing; respectively. A court reporter will be on • Improve transportation operations hand to transcribe the formal The purpose of the project is to and safety on the crossing; and maintain a vital link in the regional and • Maximize the use of the public presentation and public comments. The national transportation network by investment in this Hudson River public scoping briefings will be held at providing an improved Hudson River Crossing. the following locations, dates, and crossing between Rockland and times: Westchester Counties, New York. The 3. Alternatives • Westchester County Public Scoping project is intended to address the need Since 2003, FHWA has considered Briefing: October 25, 2011; 4 p.m. to 9 to correct substandard structural, multiple alternatives to maintain this p.m.; Doubletree Hotel Tarrytown, 455 operational, mobility, safety, and river crossing between Westchester and South Broadway, Tarrytown, New York security features of the existing Tappan Rockland Counties. Through rigorous 10591. Zee Hudson River crossing. Of technical and public review processes, • Rockland County Public Scoping particular concern to be examined is the FHWA has carefully considered the Briefing: October 27, 2011; 4 p.m. to 9 structural integrity of the existing benefits and detriments of various p.m.; Palisades Center Adler Room, Tappan Zee Bridge and its ability to design options. The list of alternatives 1000 Palisades Center Drive, West efficiently and cost-effectively provide and evaluations conducted to date will Nyack, New York 10994.

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The meetings will be accessible to The plan will be posted to the project only three areas of Mexican regulation persons with disabilities. If special Web site (http://www.tzbsite.com). The as being equivalent to U.S. regulations. services, such as an interpreter or sign public coordination and outreach efforts One of those areas is the reciprocal language services, are needed, please will include public meetings, open recognition of the LF and the CDL. contact Mr. Michael P. Anderson, New houses, a project Web site, stakeholder In the Agency’s July 8, 2011, Federal York State Department of advisory and work groups, and public Register notice (the July Notice), Transportation. hearings. however, FMCSA recognized concerns Written comments on the scope of the The project sponsor may identify a about the on-going acceptance of the EIS can be sent to Michael P. Anderson, locally preferred alternative in the DEIS existing CDL MOU and committed to Project Director, New York State when made available for public and site visits at Mexican driver training, Department of Transportation, 4 Burnett agency comments. Public hearings on testing, and licensing locations prior to Boulevard, Poughkeepsie, New York the DEIS will be held in Rockland and beginning the pilot program to review 12603. Westchester Counties. On the basis of Mexico’s on-going compliance with the Comments on the scope of the EIS can the DEIS and the public and agency terms of the current MOU. The Agency be submitted by 5 p.m. on November 15, comments received, the Project Sponsor agreed to post reports of these visits on 2011. will identify the locally preferred the FMCSA pilot program Web site at 6. FHWA Procedures alternative in the FEIS. The FEIS will http:/www.fmcsa.dot.gov/intl-programs/ serve as the basis for federal and state The EIS is being prepared in trucking/Trucking-Program.aspx. The environmental findings and accordance with the National Agency also added copies of the 1991 determinations needed to conclude the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 MOU regarding CDL reciprocity to the environmental review process. docket for the pilot program. (NEPA), as amended, and implemented (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance by the Council on Environmental Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning This notice is provided to summarize Quality (CEQ) regulations (40 CFR Parts and Construction. The regulations the results of the site visits and make 1500 to 1508) and FHWA environmental implementing Executive Order 12372 interested parties aware that the report impact regulations (23 CFR Part 771) regarding intergovernmental consultation on has been posted on the pilot program and the FHWA statewide planning/ Federal programs and activities apply to this Web site and added to the docket for metropolitan planning regulations (23 program.) this pilot program. CFR Part 450) and Section 6002 of the Issued on October 12, 2011. ADDRESSES: You may search background Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Jonathan D. McDade, documents or comments to the docket Transportation Equity Act—A Legacy New York Division Administrator, Federal for this notice, identified by docket for Users (SAFETEA–LU) of 2005. This Highway Administration. number FMCSA–2011–0097, by visiting EIS will also comply with requirements [FR Doc. 2011–26280 Filed 10–11–11; 8:45 am] the: of the Section 106 of the National BILLING CODE 4910–22–P • Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as eRulemaking Portal: http:// amended, Section 4(f) of the U.S. www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for reviewing documents Department of Transportation Act of DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 1966, the 1990 Clean Air Act and comments. Regulations.gov is available electronically 24 hours each Amendments, the Rivers and Harbors Federal Motor Carrier Safety day, 365 days a year; or Act of 1899, the Coastal Zone Administration Management Act of 1972, Executive • DOT Docket Room: Room W12–140 Order 12898 (Federal Actions to [Docket No FMCSA–2011–0097] on the ground floor of the DOT Headquarters Building at 1200 New Address Environmental Justice in Pilot Project on NAFTA Trucking Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC Minority and Low-Income Populations), Provisions; Commercial Driver’s 20590 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., ET, Executive Order 11990 (Protection of License Memorandum of Monday through Friday, except Federal Wetlands), and other applicable federal Understanding with the Government of holidays. laws, rules, and regulations. Mexico This EIS will also satisfy Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search environmental review requirements of AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety the electronic form of all comments the New York State Environmental Administration (FMCSA). received into any of our dockets by the Quality Review Act (SEQRA; 6 NYCRR ACTION: Notice. name of the individual submitting the Part 617). Consistent with 6 NYCRR Part comment (or signing the comment, if 617.15, this NOI eliminates the need for SUMMARY: Since entering into a submitted on behalf of an association, a positive declaration under SEQRA. Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) business, labor union, etc.). You may Regulations implementing NEPA as with Mexico on November 21, 1991, on review DOT’s Privacy Act System of well as provisions of SAFETEA–LU call the equivalency of a Mexican Licencia Records Notice for the DOT Federal for enhanced agency and public Federal de Conductor (LF) and a Docket Management System published involvement in the EIS process. An commercial driver’s license (CDL) in the Federal Register on January 17, invitation to all Federal and non-Federal issued in the United States, the U.S. 2008 (73 FR 3316), or you may visit agencies and Native American tribes motor carrier safety regulations have http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/ that may have an interest in the recognized the LF as equivalent to a E8–785.pdf. proposed project will be extended. In CDL. As the Federal Motor Carrier the event that an agency or tribe is not Safety Administration (FMCSA) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: invited and would like to participate, explained in its Federal Register notice Marcelo Perez, FMCSA, North American please contract Michael P. Anderson at of April 13, 2011 (the April Notice), Borders Division, 1200 New Jersey the contact information listed above. A proposing the requirements for the Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– Coordination Plan will be developed United States-Mexico cross border long- 0001. Telephone (512) 916–5440 Ext. summarizing how the public and haul trucking pilot program, the 228; e-mail [email protected]. agencies will be engaged in the process. Secretary of Transportation will accept SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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