[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 68 (Monday, April 10, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18136-18137]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-5209]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-24624]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comment; 
Renewal of an Existing Information Collection: Annual and Quarterly 
Reports of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers (Formerly OMB 2139-
0003)

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration (FMCSA) intends to submit to the Office of Management 
and Budget (OMB) its request to renew a currently-approved information 
collection for Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers, Form MP-1, Annual 
and Quarterly Reports. This information collection is necessary to 
ensure that motor carriers comply with financial and operating 
statistics requirements at 49 CFR part 1420. This notice is required by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA).

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 9, 2006.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Docket No. FMCSA-2006-24624. 
You may mail or hand deliver comments to the U.S. Department of 
Transportation, Dockets Management Facility, Room PL-401, 400 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590; telefax comments to 202/493-2251; or 
submit electronically at http://dms.dot.gov.
    You may examine and copy all comments received at the above address 
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays. If you desire your comment to be acknowledged, you must 
include a self-addressed stamped envelope or postcard or, if you submit 
your comments electronically, you may print the acknowledgment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Toni Proctor, Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration Office of Research and Analysis, 
Washington, DC 20590, phone (202) 366-2998, FAX (202) 366-3518, e-mail 
[email protected], Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., ET, 
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For-hire Class I motor carriers of 
passengers (including interstate and intrastate) \1\ are required to 
file Motor Carrier Quarterly and Annual Reports (Form MP-1) that 
provide financial and operating data (see 49 U.S.C. 14123). The agency 
uses this information to assess the health of the industry and identify 
industry changes that may affect national transportation policy. The 
data also show company financial stability and traffic patterns. Motor 
carriers of passengers required to comply with the regulations are 
classified on the basis of their annual gross carrier operating 
revenues. Under the F&OS program the FMCSA collects balance sheet and 
income statement data along with information on tonnage, mileage, 
employees, transportation equipment, and other related data.
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    \1\ For purposes of the Financial & Operating Statistics (F&OS) 
program, passenger carriers are classified into the following two 
groups: (1) Class I carriers are those having average annual gross 
transportation operating revenues (including interstate and 
intrastate) of $5 million or more from passenger motor carrier 
operations after applying the revenue deflator formula in the Note 
of section 1420.3; (2) Class II passenger carriers are those having 
average annual gross transportation operating revenues (including 
interstate and intrastate) of less than $5 million from passenger 
motor carrier operations after applying the revenue deflator formula 
as shown in Note A of section 1420.3. Only Class I carriers of 
passengers are required to file Annual and Quarterly Report Form MP-
1, but Class II passenger carriers must notify the agency when there 
is a change in their classification or their revenues exceed the 
Class II limit.
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    The data and information collected is made publicly available as 
prescribed in 49 CFR part 1420. The regulations were formerly 
administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), the 
Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C. 11145, 49 U.S.C. 11343(d)(1) and the 
Bus Regulatory Act of 1982 and later transferred to the U.S. Department 
of Transportation on January 1, 1996, by the ICC Termination Act of 
1995 (ICCTA) (Pub. L. 104-88, 109 Stat.803 (Dec. 29, 1995)), now 
codified at 49 U.S.C. 14123. The Secretary of Transportation 
(Secretary) transferred the authority to administer the F&OS program to 
the former Bureau of Transportation Statistics on September 30, 1998 
(63 FR 52192). Pursuant to this authority, the BTS, now part of the 
Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), became the 
responsible DOT modal administration for implementing the F&OS program 
and requirements at 49 CFR part 1420. On September 29, 2004, the 
Secretary transferred the responsibility for the F&OS program from BTS, 
to FMCSA (69 FR 51009). FMCSA plans to publish a final rule in the 
future to transfer and re-designate the F&OS program reporting 
requirements at part 1420, title 49 of the CFR, from BTS (now RITA) to 
FMCSA.
    Type of Information Collection Request: Renewal of an existing 
information collection.
    Title of Information Collection: Annual and Quarterly Report of 
Class I Motor Carriers. of Passengers (formerly OMB 2139-0004).
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0031.
    Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.
    Frequency: Quarterly and annually.
    Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 26.
    Estimated Annual Number of Responses: 130.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 1.5 hours per response.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 195 hours [130 responses x 1.5 
hours per response = 195 hours].
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for the FMCSA's performance; (2) the accuracy 
of the estimated burden; (3) ways for the FMCSA to

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enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the collected 
information; and (4) ways that the burden could be minimized without 
reducing the quality of the collected information. The agency will 
summarize and/or include your comments in the request for OMB's 
clearance of this information collection.

    Issued on: April 4, 2006.
Warren E. Hoemann,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-5209 Filed 4-7-06; 8:45 am]
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