[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 199 (Monday, October 15, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52476-52477]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-25905]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2001-9876]


Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review: OMB No. 
2126-0015 (Designation of Agents; Motor Carriers, Brokers and Freight 
Forwarders)

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The FMCSA announces that the Information Collection Request 
(ICR) described in this notice is being sent to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and continued approval. This 
information collection allows registered motor carriers, property 
brokers, and freight forwarders a means of meeting process agent 
requirements. The ICR describes the information collection and its 
expected burden. The FMCSA published the required Federal Register 
notice offering a 60-day comment period on this information collection 
on June 27, 2001 (66 FR 34314). No comments were received. We are 
required to send ICRs to OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act.

DATES: Comments should be submitted by November 14, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT Desk Officer. We particularly 
request your comments on whether the collection of information is 
necessary for the FMCSA to meet its goal of reducing truck crashes, 
including whether the information is useful to this goal; the accuracy 
of the estimate of the burden of the information collection; ways to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; 
and ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
respondents, including the use of

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automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology. OMB wants to receive comments within 30 days of publication 
of this notice in order to act on the ICR quickly.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Marian Lee, (202) 358-7028, Office 
of Enforcement and Compliance (MC-ECI), Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, DOT, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. 
Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Designation of Agents; Motor Carriers, Brokers and Freight 
Forwarders.
    OMB Approval Number: 2126-0015.
    Background: The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is 
authorized to register for-hire motor carriers of regulated commodities 
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902; freight forwarders under the 
provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13903, and property brokers under the 
provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13904. These persons may conduct transportation 
services only if they are registered pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 13901. The 
Secretary has delegated authority pertaining to these registrations to 
the FMCSA. Registered motor carriers, brokers, and freight forwarders 
must designate: (1) An agent on whom service of notices in proceedings 
before the Secretary may be made (49 U.S.C. 13303); and (2) for every 
State in which they operate, agents on whom process issued by a court 
may be served in actions brought against the registered transportation 
entity (49 U.S.C. 13304). Regulations governing the designation of 
process agents are found at 49 CFR part 366. This designation is filed 
with the FMCSA on Form BOC-3, Designation of Agent for Service of 
Process.
    Respondents: Motor carriers, freight forwarders, and brokers.
    Estimated Burden: The estimated average burden per response for 
Form BOC-3 is 10 minutes. The estimated total annual burden is 5,000 
hours for Form BOC-3 based on 30,000 filings per year.
    Frequency: Form BOC-3 must be filed when the transportation entity 
first registers with the FMCSA. Subsequent filings are made only if the 
motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder changes process agents.

    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.73.

    Issued on: October 5, 2001.
Julie Anna Cirillo,
Acting Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. 01-25905 Filed 10-12-01; 8:45 am]
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