[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 81 (Thursday, April 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24912-24913]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-6352]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-24195]


Notice of Request for Comments on Extension of Currently Approved 
Information Collections: OMB Control Numbers 2126-0032 and 2126-0033 
(Financial and Operating Statistics for Motor Carriers of Property)

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 FMCSA 
announces its intent to submit two currently-approved Information 
Collection Requests (ICRs) described to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICRs describes two 
information collection activities and their expected costs and burdens. 
The Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day comment period on the 
ICRs was published on January 18, 2006 (71 FR 2985). The agency 
received five comments in support of the continuation of these ICRs.

DATES: Please send your comments by May 30, 2006. OMB must receive your 
comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

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/FMCSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Toni Proctor, phone: (202) 366-
2998; Fax: (202) 366-3518; email: [email protected]; Federal 
Motor Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 
Office of Research and Analysis, 400 Seventh Street SW., Suite 8214, 
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    (1) Title: Annual Report of Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of 
Property (Including Household Goods and Dual Property Motor Carriers) 
(formerly OMB Control Number 2139-0004). This information collection 
(IC) was transferred from the former Bureau of Transportation 
Statistics (BTS) to FMCSA on September 29, 2004 (69 FR 51009).
    FMCSA IC: OMB Control No: 2126-0032.
    Form No.: Form M.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently-approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of Property.
    Number of Respondents: 3,000 (per year).
    Estimated Time Per Response: 9 hours.
    Expiration Date: April 30, 2006.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Total Annual Burden: 27,000 hours [3,000 respondents x 9 hours per 
response = 27,000].
    (2) Title: Quarterly Financial Report of Class I Motor Carriers of 
Property and Household Goods (formerly OMB Control Number 2139-0002). 
This information collection was transferred from BTS to FMCSA on 
September 29, 2004 (69 FR 51009).
    FMCSA IC: OMB Control No: 2126-0033.
    Form No.: Form QFR.
    Type of Review: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of Property.
    Number of Respondents: 1,000 (per quarter).
    Estimated Time Per Response: 1.8 hours (27 minutes per quarter).
    Expiration Date: April 30, 2006.
    Frequency: Quarterly.
    Total Annual Burden: 1,800 hours [1,000 respondents x 1.8 hours per 
response = 1,800].

Background

    The Annual Report of Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of 
Property and Household Goods (Form M) and Quarterly Financial Report of 
Class I Motor Carriers of Property (Including Household Goods and Dual 
Property Motor Carriers) (Form QFR) are mandated reporting requirements 
applicable for for-hire motor carriers. Motor carriers (including 
interstate and intrastate) \1\ subject to the Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) are classified on the basis of their gross 
carrier operating revenues. Under the financial and operating 
statistics program, FMCSA collects balance sheet and income statement 
data, along with information on safety needs, tonnage, mileage, 
employees, transportation equipment and other related data. FMCSA may 
also ask carriers to respond to surveys concerning their operations. 
The data and information collected will be made publicly available and 
used by FMCSA to determine a motor carrier's compliance with the F&OS 
program requirements set forth in subchapter B of 49 CFR part 1420.
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    \1\ For purposes of the Financial and Operating Statistics 
(F&OS) program, carriers are classified into the following three 
groups; (1) Class I carriers are those having annual carrier 
operating revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of $10 
million or more after applying the revenue deflator formula in Note 
A of part 1420; (2) Class II carriers are those having annual 
carrier operating revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of 
at least $3 million but less than $10 million after applying the 
revenue deflator formula in Note A of part 1420; and (3) Class III 
carriers are those having annual carrier operating revenues 
(including interstate and intrastate) of less than $3 million after 
applying the revenue deflator formula in Note A of part 1420.
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    The regulations were formerly administered by the Interstate 
Commerce Commission and later transferred to the U.S. Department of 
Transportation on January 1, 1996, by section 103 of the Interstate 
Commerce Commission Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA) (Pub. L. 104-88, 
109 Stat. 803, December 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 Bureau of Transportation Statistics 
on September 30, 1998 (63FR 52192). Pursuant to this authority, the 
BTS, now part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration 
(RITA), became the DOT modal administration responsible for 
implementing the F&OS program and requirements in 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 49 CFR part 1420 from BTS (now 
RITA) to FMCSA.
    We particularly request comments on: (1) Whether the collection of 
information is necessary for FMCSA to meet its goal of reducing truck 
crashes and its usefulness to this goal; (2) the accuracy of the 
estimate of the burden of the information collection; (3) ways to 
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information collected; 
and (4) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
respondents, including using automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology. The agency will summarize and/or 
include your comments in the request for OMB's clearance of these 
information collections.


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    Issued on April 20, 2006.
Warren E. Hoemann,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-6352 Filed 4-26-06; 8:45 am]
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