[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 209 (Tuesday, October 30, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61417-61418]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-21281]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-29137]


Agency Information Collections; Extension of a Currently Approved 
Collection: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing

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 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 requests approval to 
extend an existing information collection entitled ``Transportation of 
Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing,'' which requires States and 
Indian tribes to identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions 
or limitations affecting how motor carriers may transport certain 
hazardous materials on the highway.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before December 31, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Department of 
Transportation (DOT) Docket Management System (DMS) Docket Number FMCSA 
Docket Number FMCSA-2007-29137 using any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting 
comments.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground 
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery: 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.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Each submission must include the Agency name and the docket number for 
this Notice. Note that DOT posts all comments received without change 
to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
included in a comment. Please see the Privacy Act heading below.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or Room W12-140 
on the ground level of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays. The DMS is available 24 hours each day, 365 
days each year. If you want acknowledgement that we received your 
comments, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or post 
card or print the acknowledgement page that appears after submitting 
on-line.
    Privacy Act: Anyone may search the electronic form of all comments 
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comment (or of the person signing the comment, if 
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). 
You may review the DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR

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19477-19478; April 11, 2000). This information is also available at 
http://Docketinfo.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 data for the Transportation 
of Hazardous Materials; Highway Routing designations are collected 
under authority of 49 U.S.C. 5112 and 5125. That authority places 
responsibility on the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to 
specify and regulate standards for establishing, maintaining, and 
enforcing routing designations.
    Under 49 CFR 397.73, the Administrator has the authority to request 
that each State and Indian tribe, through its routing agency, provide 
information identifying hazardous materials routing designations within 
their jurisdictions. That information is collected and consolidated by 
the FMCSA and published annually in whole, or as updates, in the 
Federal Register.
    Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: The reporting burden is shared by the 50 States, the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern 
Marianas, and the Virgin Islands.
    Frequency: There is one response annually from approximately 53 
respondents.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 15 minutes.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 13 hours [53 respondents x 1 
response x15 minutes per response/60 minutes = 13.25 hours, rounded to 
13 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 performance of FMCSA's functions; (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: October 24, 2007.
Michael S. Griffith,
Acting Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7-21281 Filed 10-29-07; 8:45 am]
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