[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 46 (Thursday, March 10, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Page 12036]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-4643]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[MARAD 2005 20527]


Information Collection Available for Public Comments and 
Recommendations

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice announces the Maritime Administration's (MARAD's) intention to 
request extension of approval for three years of a currently approved 
information collection.

DATES: Comments should be submitted on or before May 9, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Celia Luck, Maritime Administration, 
400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-366-3581, 
Fax: 202-366-6988; or e-mail: [email protected]. Copies of this 
collection also can be obtained from that office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title of Collection: Intermodal Access to Shallow Draft Ports and 
Terminals Survey.
    Type of Request: Extension of currently approved information 
collection.
    OMB Control Number: 2133-0534.
    Form Numbers: MA-1024B.
    Expiration Date of Approval: Three years from date of approval by 
the Office of Management and Budget.
    Summary of Collection of Information: The Maritime Administration 
(MARAD) has primary responsibility for ensuring the availability of 
efficient water transportation service to shippers. This information 
collection is designed to be a survey of critical infrastructure issues 
that impact the Nation's shallow draft marine ports and terminals. The 
survey will provide MARAD with key road, rail, and waterside access 
data as well as security information and highlight the issues that 
affect the flow of cargo through U.S. shallow draft marine ports and 
terminals.
    Need and Use of the Information: This collection will allow MARAD 
to assess the magnitude and nature of impediments to efficient 
intermodal connections to shallow draft marine ports and terminals and 
provide information on correcting deficiencies.
    Description of Respondents: Officials at the Nation's key shallow 
draft marine ports and terminals.
    Annual Responses: 15.
    Annual Burden: 7.5.
    Comments: Comments should refer to the docket number that appears 
at the top of this document. Written comments may be submitted to the 
Docket Clerk, U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. Comments also may be submitted by electronic 
means via the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov/submit. Specifically 
address whether this information collection is necessary for proper 
performance of the functions of the agency and will have practical 
utility, accuracy of the burden estimates, ways to minimize this 
burden, and ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected. All comments received will be available 
for examination at the above address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. e.d.t. 
(or e.s.t.), Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays. An 
electronic version of this document is available on the World Wide Web 
at http://dms.dot.gov.
    Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all 
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf 
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78) or you may visit 
http://dms.dot.gov.

    (Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.)

    Dated: March 3, 2005.

    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Joel C. Richard,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 05-4643 Filed 3-9-05; 8:45 am]
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