[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 108 (Monday, June 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32390-32391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13899]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-26367]


Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee Public Meeting

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

ACTION: Notice of Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC) 
Meeting.

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SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that MCSAC will hold a committee meeting from 
Monday, June 20 through Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The meeting will be 
open to the public for its duration. The MCSAC will complete action on 
Task 11-01, regarding Patterns of Safety Violations by Motor Carrier 
Management and will begin work on Tasks 11-02, regarding Roadside 
violation severity weightings in the Carrier Safety Measurement System 
(CSMS) in FMCSA's Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, and 
11-03, regarding Oversight of the Agency's Long-Haul Cross Border 
Trucking Pilot Program.

TIME AND DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday and Tuesday, June 
20-21, 2011, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern Time (E.T.), and on 
Wednesday, June 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., E.T. The last hour of 
each day will be reserved for public comment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Shannon L. Watson, Senior Adviser 
to the Associate Administrator for Policy, Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, (202) 385-2395, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

MCSAC

    Section 4144 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Pub. L. 
109-59, 119 Stat. 1144, August 10, 2005) required the Secretary of 
Transportation to establish a Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee. 
The committee provides advice and recommendations to the FMCSA 
Administrator on motor carrier safety programs and regulations, and 
operates in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 
U.S.C. App 2).

Patterns of Safety Violations Task

    SAFETEA-LU Section 4133 allows the Secretary to suspend, amend, or 
revoke any part of a motor carrier's registration if the Secretary 
finds that an officer of a motor carrier engages, or has engaged, in a 
pattern or practice of avoiding compliance, or masking or otherwise 
concealing noncompliance, with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Regulations and Hazardous Materials Regulations, while serving as an 
officer of any motor carrier. The section defines an officer as ``an 
owner, director, chief executive officer, chief financial officer, 
safety director, vehicle maintenance supervisor, and driver supervisor 
of a motor carrier, regardless of title attached to these functions, 
and any person, however designated, exercising controlling influence 
over the operations of a motor carrier.'' Following deliberations of 
the Committee, the MCSAC will submit written recommendations in the 
form of a report to the FMCSA Administrator on this topic following its 
June 2011 meeting.

Roadside Violation Severity Weightings Task

    FMCSA's new compliance and enforcement program, Compliance, Safety, 
Accountability (CSA), includes a new measurement system to assess 
carriers' safety performance. One of the core purposes of the CSMS is 
to identify poor motor carrier safety behavior. Building upon FMCSA's 
previous Safety Status Measurement System (SafeStat), CSMS quantifies 
the on-road safety performance of carriers to identify candidates for 
interventions, determine the specific safety problems exhibited by a 
carrier and its drivers, and monitor whether safety problems are 
improving or worsening. FMCSA requests that

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MCSAC provide the CSA team with its observations and recommendations 
regarding the violation groups and their associated crash risk by 
reviewing the tables of violation groups. The Committee will designate 
a subcommittee to address this task and subsequently report back to the 
full MCSAC.

 Long-Haul Cross Border Trucking Pilot Program Task

    During the MCSAC's March 2011 meeting, FMCSA tasked the Committee 
with designating a subcommittee to provide independent monitoring for 
the program. The subcommittee would then report back to the full 
committee.

II. Meeting Participation

    Oral comments from the public will be heard during the last hour of 
each day of this meeting. Members of the public may submit written 
comments on this topic by Wednesday, June 15, 2011, to Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2006-26367 using any of 
the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
     Fax: 202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Room WI2-
140, Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Room WI2-140, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

    Issued on: June 1, 2011.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2011-13899 Filed 6-3-11; 8:45 am]
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