[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 24 (Monday, February 6, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 5868-5870]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-2507]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2011-0386]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently Approved Information Collection: Motor Carrier Identification 
Report

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 its 
review and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA requests 
approval to extend an ICR entitled, Motor Carrier Identification 
Report,'' which is used to identify FMCSA regulated entities, to help 
prioritize the agency's activities, to aid in assessing

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the safety outcomes of those activities, and for statistical purposes.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before April 6, 2012.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2011-0386 using any of the 
following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-(202) 493-2251.
     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 or Courier: 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.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and 
docket number. For detailed instructions on submitting comments and 
additional information on the exemption process, see the Public 
Participation heading below. Note that all comments received will be 
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any 
personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading 
below.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov, and follow the 
online instructions for accessing the dockets, or go to the street 
address listed above.
    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 for the Federal Docket Management System 
published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316), or 
you may visit http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8-794.pdf.
    Public Participation: The Federal eRulemaking Portal is available 
24 hours each day, 365 days each year. You can obtain electronic 
submission and retrieval help and guidelines under the ``help'' section 
of the Federal eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you want us to notify 
you that we received your comments, please include a self-addressed, 
stamped envelope or postcard, or print the acknowledgement page that 
appears after submitting comments online. Comments received after the 
comment closing date will be included in the docket and will be 
considered to the extent practicable.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Vivian Oliver, Transportation 
Specialist, Office of Information Technology, Operations Division, 
Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-2974; email address: 
[email protected]. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: Title 49, United States Code 
Section 504(b)(2) provides the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) 
with authority to require carriers, lessors, associations, or classes 
of these entities to file annual, periodic, and special reports 
containing answers to questions asked by the Secretary. The Secretary 
may also prescribe the form of records required to be prepared or 
compiled and the time period during which records must be preserved 
(See Sec.  504(b) (1) and (d)). The FMCSA will use this data to 
administer its safety programs by establishing a database of entities 
that are subject to its regulations. This database necessitates that 
these entities notify the FMCSA of their existence. For example, under 
49 CFR 390.19(a), FMCSA requires all motor carriers beginning 
operations to file a Form MCS-150 entitled, Motor Carrier 
Identification Report.'' This report is filed by all motor carriers 
conducting operations in interstate or international commerce before 
beginning operations. It asks the respondent to provide the name of the 
business entity that owns and controls the motor carrier operation, 
address and telephone of principal place of business, assigned 
identification number(s), type of operation, types of cargo usually 
transported, number of vehicles owned, term leased and trip leased, 
driver information, and certification statement signed by an individual 
authorized to sign documents on behalf of the business entity.
    The Department of Transportation (DOT) and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2002 (DOT Appropriations Act) (Pub. 
L. 107-87, 115 Stat. 833) directed the agency to issue an interim final 
rule (IFR) to ensure that new entrant motor carriers are knowledgeable 
about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) and 
standards.
    On June 30, 2004, the agency issued a final rule entitled, 
``Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations: Hazardous Materials Safety 
Permits,'' (69 FR 39350) which required all HM carriers (both 
interstate and intrastate) to complete and file the Form MCS-150B 
entitled, ``Combined Motor Carrier Identification Report and HM Permit 
Application,'' to obtain a safety permit to transport hazardous 
materials. The safety program under 49 CFR 390.19(a) also requires all 
HM permitted carriers to complete Form MCS-150B in place of the current 
Form MCS-150 to ``renew'' both their permit and their DOT numbers 
according to the DOT number renewal schedule.
    On December 17, 2008, FMCSA issued a final rule entitled, 
``Requirements for Intermodal Equipment Providers and for Motor 
Carriers and Drivers Operating Intermodal Equipment,'' (73 FR 76794) 
which required all intermodal equipment providers to complete Form MCS-
150C entitled, ``Intermodal Equipment Provider Identification Report'' 
in order to register with the Agency and receive a USDOT number. FMCSA 
now regulates intermodal equipment providers and requires them to 
complete Form MCS-150C, instead of the current Form MCS-150. In 
addition, intermodal equipment providers must complete Form MCS-150C to 
update their USDOT number record according to the USDOT number update 
schedule in 49 CFR 390.19.
    Title: Motor Carrier Identification Report.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0013.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Motor carriers and commercial motor vehicle drivers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 447,109.
    Estimated Time per Response: To complete Form MCS-150--20 minutes 
and 7.5 minutes for the biennial update. To complete Form MCS-150B (HM 
Permit Application), interstate carriers that have already completed 
the Form MCS-150 will need 6 minutes and intrastate carriers that have 
never completed a Form MCS-150 will need about 16 minutes and 5 minutes 
for the biennial update. Form MCS-150C--Intermodal Equipment Providers 
will need 20 minutes the first time they file this report and 7.5 
minutes for the biennial update.
    Expiration Date: July 31, 2012.
    Frequency of Response: Biennially.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 93,792 hours [93,534 hours for Form 
MCS-150 + 249 hours for Form MCS-

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150B + 9 hours for Form MCS-150C = 93,792 hours].
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection request, 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 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 or include your comments in the request for OMB's clearance 
of this information collection request.

    Issued on: January 25, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
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