[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 139 (Friday, July 20, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39878-39879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-14032]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-27500]


Notice of Request for Information (RFI): Revision of an 
Information Collection: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits (Formerly 
Hazardous Materials Permit)

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

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA 
announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review 
and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA invites comments on 
its plan to request OMB approval to revise an existing information 
collection entitled ``Hazardous Materials (HM) Safety Permits'', OMB 
Control Number 2126-0030. FMCSA requires companies holding permits to 
develop a communications plan that allows for the periodic tracking of 
the shipment. A record of the communications may be kept by either the 
driver (e.g., recorded in the log book) or the company that contains 
the time of the call and location of the shipment. These records must 
be kept, either physically or electronically, for at least six months 
at the company's principal place of business or readily available to 
employees at the company's principal place of business.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before September 18, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by any of the following 
methods. Please identify your comments by the FMCSA Docket Number 
FMCSA-2007-27500.
     Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow instructions for 
submitting comments to the Docket.
     Fax: 202-493-2251.
     Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket 
Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket 
Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 
e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Docket: For access to the Docket Management System (DMS) to read

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background documents or comments received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at 
any time or to the U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket 
Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 
e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The DMS is 
available electronically 24 hours each day, 365 days each year. If you 
want notification of receipt of your comments, please include a self-
addressed, stamped envelope, or postcard or print the acknowledgement 
page that appears after submitting comments on-line.
    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 on April 11, 
2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James O. Simmons, Hazardous 
Materials Division, phone (202) 366-6121; FAX (202) 366-3921; or e-mail 
[email protected]; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 
DOT, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours 
are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, except Federal 
Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is responsible for 
implementing regulations to issue safety permits for transporting 
certain hazardous materials in accordance with 49 U.S.C. Section 5101 
et seq. The HM Safety Permit regulations (49 CFR Part 385) require 
carriers to complete a ``Combined Motor Carrier Identification Report 
and HM Safety Permit Application''--form number MCS-150B (See 
Attachment D). The HM Safety Permit regulations also require carriers 
to have a security program. As part of the HM Safety Permit 
regulations, carriers are required to develop and maintain route plans 
so that law enforcement officials can verify the correct location of 
the HM shipment. FMCSA requires companies holding permits to develop a 
communications plan that allows for the periodic tracking of the 
shipment. This information collection covers the records of the 
communications that contains the time of the call and location of the 
shipment. The records may be kept by either the driver (e.g., recorded 
in the log book) or the company. These records must be kept, either 
physically or electronically, for at least six months at the company's 
principal place of business or readily available to employees at the 
company's principal place of business.
    Title: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits (formerly Hazardous 
Materials Permit).
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0030.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: 2,515 motor carriers of property (Forms MCS-150B) .
    Frequency: On occasion. The changes will occur at the time of 
renewal, update or change of information.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 5 minutes. The communication 
between motor carriers and their drivers must take place at least two 
times per day and it is estimated that it will take 5 minutes to 
maintain a daily communication record for each driver.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 130,780 hours. 52 annual hours 
per carrier [5 minutes/60 minutes per trip x 1,570,391 estimated annual 
trips for carriers/2,515 carriers = 52 hours]. 130,780 total annual 
burden hours [52 annual hours per carrier x 2,515 carriers = 130,780 
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 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: July 11, 2007.
D. Marlene Thomas,
Associate Administrator for Administration.
 [FR Doc. E7-14032 Filed 7-19-07; 8:45 am]
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