[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 197 (Tuesday, October 13, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 54667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-27308]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Commodity Credit Corporation


Notice of Request for an Approval of a New Information Collection

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, USDA.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) is seeking approval from 
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to obtain information 
regarding transportation services needed to meet domestic and export 
food assistance program needs.
    This information collection will allow CCC to determine the 
capabilities of motor freight carriers to meet CCC's transportation 
needs by demonstrating that the motor carriers have both the 
willingness and the capability to meet those needs.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before December 
14, 1998 to be assured consideration.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Timothy P. Mehl, Chief, Planning and 
Analysis Division, Kansas City Commodity Office, 9200 Ward Parkway, 
Kansas City, Missouri 64114, telephone (816) 926-3536, fax (816) 926-
6767.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Standard Rules Tender Governing Motor Carrier 
Transportation.
    OMB Control Number: New submission.
    Type of Request: Approval of a new information collection.
    Abstract: CCC through the Kansas City Commodity Office (KCCO) 
solicits bids from transportation companies for the purpose of 
providing motor carrier transportation of agricultural commodities. 
Motor Carriers provide over the road trucking that CCC hires to 
provided transportation services to meet domestic and export program 
needs. Motor carriers that choose to do business with the KCCO Traffic 
Management Division (TMD) are required to complete and submit, one time 
only, the Standard Rules Tender Governing Motor Carrier Transportation. 
TMD is collecting information to determine Motor Carrier abilities to 
meet CCC requirements for hauling agricultural products for CCC. TMD 
must ensure that Motor Carriers providing transportation services have 
both the willingness and the capacity to meet these needs.
    Estimate of Burden: Public reporting burden for collecting 
information under this notice is estimated to average 1 hour per 
response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching 
existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and 
completing and reviewing the collection of information.
    Respondents: Transportation Businesses.
    Respondents: 141.
    Estimated Number of Annual Responses per Respondent: 1.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 141 hours.
    Proposed topics for comment include: (a) Whether the collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the agency, including whether the information will have practical 
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including 
the validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; 
or (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of the information 
on those who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate 
automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection 
techniques or other forms of information technology. Comments regarding 
this information collection requirement may be directed to the Office 
of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Attention: Desk Officer for 
Agriculture, Office of Management and Budget, Washington, DC 20503, and 
to Timothy P. Mehl, Chief, Planning and Analysis Division, Kansas City 
Commodity Office, 9200 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, Missouri 64114, 
telephone (816) 926-3536, fax (816) 926-6767.
    All comments will become a matter of public record.

    Signed at Washington, DC, on October 2, 1998.
Keith Kelly,
Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit Corporation.
[FR Doc. 98-27308 Filed 10-9-98; 8:45 am]
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