[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 180 (Monday, September 17, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57182-57183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-22882]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2012-0031]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of Currently-
Approved Information Collection Request: Quarterly Report of Class I 
Motor Carriers of Property (Formerly OMB 2139-0002)

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. FMCSA requests approval to revise an ICR entitled, 
``Quarterly Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Property (formerly OMB 
2139-0002),'' which the Agency uses to ensure that motor carriers 
comply with its financial and operating statistics requirements in 
chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369 entitled, ``Reports of Motor 
Carriers.'' FMCSA invites public comment on this ICR. On April 20, 
2012, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day 
comment period on the ICR. In response to the above notice, the Agency 
received one comment from the National Motor Freight Traffic 
Association, Inc. (NMFTA), which requested that these reports no longer 
be required. FMCSA may consider this request in a future rulemaking 
regarding this information collection requirement.

DATES: Please send your comments by October 17, 2012. OMB must receive 
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2012-0031. Interested persons are 
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
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Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention of 
the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, and sent via electronic mail to [email protected], or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to the 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 
20503.

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:
    Title: Quarterly Report of Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of 
Property (formerly OMB 2139-0002).
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0033.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently-approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of Property.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 111 (per year).
    Estimated Time per Response: 1.8 hours (27 minutes per quarter).
    Expiration Date: September 30, 2012.
    Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 200 hours [111 respondents x 1.8 
hours to complete form = 200].
    Background: The Quarterly Report of Class I and Class II Motor 
Carriers of Property (Form QFR) is a mandated reporting requirement for 
all for-hire motor carriers (See 49 U.S.C. 14123 and implementing FMCSA 
regulations in 49 CFR part 369). Motor carriers (including interstate 
and intrastate) subject to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 
are classified on the basis of their gross carrier operating 
revenues.\1\
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    \1\ For purposes of the Financial and Operating Statistics 
(F&OS) program, carriers are classified into 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 as set forth in Note A of 49 
CFR 369.2; (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 as set forth in 49 CFR 369.2; 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 as set forth in Note A of 49 
CFR 369.2.
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    Under the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) program, FMCSA 
collects balance sheet and income statement data from Class I and Class 
II property carriers 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 would be made publicly 
available, and FMCSA would use both to determine a motor carrier's 
compliance with the F&OS program requirements prescribed in chapter III 
of title of 49 CFR part 369.
    In the past, the former Interstate Commerce Commission issued these 
regulations. Later this authority transferred to the Secretary on 
January 1, 1996, by Chapter 141 of the ICC Termination Act of 
1995(ICCTA) (Pub. L..104-88, 109 Stat. 803, 893 (Dec. 29, 1995)), now 
codified at 49 U.S.C. 14123. On September 30, 1998, the Secretary 
delegated and transferred the authority to administer the F&OS program 
to the former Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), now part of 
the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA).
    On September 29, 2004, the Secretary transferred the responsibility 
for the F&OS program from BTS to FMCSA in the belief that the program 
was more aligned with FMCSA's mission and its other motor carrier 
responsibilities (69 FR 51009). On August 10, 2006, the Secretary 
published a final rule (71 FR 45740) that transferred and redesignated 
certain motor carrier financial and statistical reporting regulations 
of BTS, that were formerly located in chapter XI, subchapter B of title 
49 CFR part 1420, to FMCSA under chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369.
    Public Comments Invited: FMCSA requests comments on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for FMCSA to perform its 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.

    Issued on: September 4, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-22882 Filed 9-14-12; 8:45 am]
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