[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 248 (Thursday, December 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78469-78470]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-30913]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA -2013-0415]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection: Request for Revocation of 
Authority Granted

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 (PRA), 
FMCSA announces its plan to submit to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) its request to revise a currently-approved information 
collection request (ICR) entitled, ``Request for Revocation of 
Authority Granted,'' covered by OMB Control Number 2126-0018. This ICR 
covers a voluntary request by a motor carrier, freight forwarder, or 
property broker to amend or revoke its FMCSA registration of authority 
granted. It is being revised due to an anticipated decrease in the 
estimated annual number of filings and costs to the respondents. FMCSA 
will seek OMB's review and approval of this revised ICR and invites 
public comment on this request.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before February 24, 2014.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Department of 
Transportation (DOT) Docket Management System (DMS) Docket Number 
FMCSA-2013-0415 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, 20590-0001 between 9:00 a.m. 
and 5:00 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.


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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, 20590-0001 between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 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 them 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 of the person 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/pdf/E8-785.pdf.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Tura Gatling, Office of 
Registration and Safety Information, U.S. Department of Transportation, 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-385-
2405/2412; email [email protected]. mailto: Office hours are from 
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Request for Revocation of Authority Granted.
    OMB Approval Number: 2126-0018.
    Type of Request: To revise a currently-approved information 
collection.
    Form Number: OCE-46.
    Respondents: Motor carriers, freight forwarders and property 
brokers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,000.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Expiration Date: May 31, 2014.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 750 hours [3,000 annual Form OCE-46 
filers x 15 minutes/60 minutes per filing = 750].
    Background: Title 49 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) authorizes 
the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to promulgate regulations 
governing the registration of for-hire motor carriers of regulated 
commodities (49 U.S.C. 13902), surface transportation freight 
forwarders (49 U.S.C. 13903), and property brokers (49 U.S.C. 13904). 
The FMCSA carries out this registration program under authority 
delegated by the Secretary (49 CFR 1.87). Under 49 U.S.C. 13905, each 
registration is effective from the date specified and remains in effect 
for such period as the Secretary determines appropriate by regulation. 
Section 13905(c) of title 49, U.S.C., grants the Secretary the 
authority to amend or revoke a registration at the registrant's 
request. On complaint, or on the Secretary's own initiative, the 
Secretary may also suspend, amend, or revoke any part of the 
registration of a motor carrier, broker, or freight forwarder for 
willful failure to comply with the regulations, an order of the 
Secretary, or a condition of its registration.
    Form OCE-46 is used by transportation entities to voluntarily apply 
for revocation of their registration authority in whole or in part. 
FMCSA uses the form to seek information concerning the registrant's 
docket number, name and address, and the reasons for the revocation 
request.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this revised information collection request, including: (1) The 
necessity and usefulness of the information collection for FMCSA to 
meet its goal in reducing truck crashes; (2) the accuracy of the 
estimated burdens; (3) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, and 
clarity of the collected information; and (4) ways to minimize the 
collection burden 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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 on: December 6, 2013
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology and Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-30913 Filed 12-24-13; 8:45 am]
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