[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 61 (Friday, March 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15183-15184]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-5880]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Transit Administration

[Docket No: FTA-2007-23697]


Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration (FTA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of extension of date by which FTA shall respond to 
public comments on the establishment and implementation of the Public-
Private Partnership Pilot Program.

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SUMMARY: FTA is extending the date by which it indicated it would 
respond to comments received on the establishment and implementation of 
the Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program.

DATES: FTA will respond to comments received on the establishment and 
implementation of the Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program no later 
than April 30, 2007.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David B. Horner, Esq., Chief Counsel, 
Federal Transit Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001, (202) 366-4040, 
[email protected]. Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March 22, 2006, FTA issued a notice 
soliciting comments and expressions of preliminary interest with 
respect to the Secretary of Transportation's establishment and 
implementation of FTA's Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program (the 
Pilot Program) (71 FR 14568). FTA received comments from nineteen 
parties in response to this notice. On January 19, 2007, FTA issued a 
Notice of Establishment of Public-Private Partnership Pilot Program, 
which set forth the definitive terms of the Pilot Program and invited 
interested parties to submit applications to the Pilot Program by March 
31, 2007 (72 FR 2583). In this notice, FTA indicated that it would, by 
separate notice, summarize and respond to comments on the March 22, 
2006 notice no later than March 31, 2007.
    The volume of work underway within FTA has prevented publication of 
response to comments by the date previously indicated. Therefore, FTA 
intends to summarize and respond to comments on the March 22, 2006 
notice no later than April 30, 2007.
    This notice does not affect the application deadlines to the Pilot 
Program. Therefore, to be considered in

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FTA's first quarterly review of applications to the Pilot Program, 
applications must be received by FTA on or before March 31, 2007. 
Applications received by FTA between March 31, 2007, and July 1, 2007, 
will be reviewed in FTA's second quarterly review of applications to 
the Pilot Program.

    Issued in Washington, DC, this 26th day of March 2007.
James S. Simpson,
Administrator, Federal Transit Administration.
 [FR Doc. E7-5880 Filed 3-29-07; 8:45 am]
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