[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 39 (Tuesday, March 1, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 10018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-3953]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA 2004-19348]


Notice of Request for Comments on Renewing Approval of an 
Information Collection: OMB Control No. 2126-0015 (Designation of 
Agents, Motor Carriers, Brokers and Freight Forwarders)

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

ACTION: Notice; 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 approval. This information 
collection allows registered motor carriers, property brokers and 
freight forwarders a means of meeting process agent requirements. On 
September 14, 2004, the agency published a Federal Register notice 
announcing a 60-day comment period on this information collection (69 
FR 55490). We are required to send ICRs to OMB under the Paperwork 
Reduction Act.

DATES: Please submit comments by March 31, 2005.

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 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: Mr. James Keenan (202-385-2400), 
Commercial Enforcement (MC-ECC), Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, 
SW., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., 
e.s.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Designation of Agents, Motor Carriers, Brokers and Freight 
Forwarders.
    OMB Control 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 registration 
requirements to the FMCSA.
    Registered motor carriers (including private carriers) and freight 
forwarders must designate: (1) An agent upon 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 and traverse in the United States 
during such operations, agents upon whom process issued by a court may 
be served in actions brought against the registered transportation 
entity (49 U.S.C. 13304). Every broker shall make a designation for 
each State in which its offices are located or in which contracts are 
written. 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.
    Average Burden Per Response: 10 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 5,000 hours (30,000 filings x 10 
minutes/60 minutes = 5,000 hours).

    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; 49 U.S.C. 13303, 13304, 13901, 13902, 13903 
and 13904; and 49 CFR 1.73 and 366.

    Issued on: February 24, 2005.
Annette M. Sandberg,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 05-3953 Filed 2-28-05; 8:45 am]
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