[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 124 (Friday, June 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36578-36579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15026]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2014-0192]
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information
Collection or Revision of an Approved Information Collection: Motor
Carrier Records Change Form
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 purpose of this ICR
entitled ``Motor Carrier Records Change Form,'' is to more efficiently
collect information the Office of Registration and Safety Information
(MC-RS) requires to process name and address changes and reinstatements
of operating authority. Currently, this data is being collected when
carriers request these changes from MC-RS, but without the use of a
formal data collection form.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before August 26, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2014-0192 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 Operations; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 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
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after the comment closing date will be included in the docket and will
be considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Secrist, Chief, East-South
Division, FMCSA Office of Registration & Safety Information, West
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: (202) 385-2367; email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
registers for-hire motor carriers under 49 U.S.C. 13902, surface
freight forwarders under 49 U.S.C. 13903, and property brokers under 49
U.S.C. 13904. Each registration is effective from the date specified
under 49 U.S.C. 13905(c). 49 CFR part 365.413: ``Procedures for
changing the name or business form of a motor carrier, freight
forwarder, or property broker'' states that carriers must submit a
letter containing the required information to FMCSA's Office of
Registration and Safety Information (MC-RS), formerly sent to FMCSA's
IT Operations Division (MC-RIO), requesting the change; the new form
would assist entities in reporting this information accurately and
completely. 49 CFR 360.3(f) mentions fees that FMCSA collects for
``petition for reinstatement of revoked operating authority,'' but does
not provide any specifics for the content that petition should take.
For-hire motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders are
required to notify MC-RS when they change the name or address of the
company. Currently, the name change request can be filed online through
the Licensing and Insurance (L&I) Web site, or companies can fax or
mail a letter requesting either name or address changes. Carriers can
also request reinstatement of a revoked operating authority either via
fax or online via the Licensing & Insurance (L&I) Web site. But many
choose not to do so. About 40% of name changes and 60% of
reinstatements are filed online. Of the rest, most are filed by faxing
a request letter to MC-RS. All the address changes are received by
either fax or mail. The information collected is then entered in the
L&I database by FMCSA staff. This enables FMCSA to maintain up-to-date
records so that the agency can recognize the entity in question in case
of enforcement actions or other procedures required to ensure that the
carrier is fit, willing and able to provide for-hire transportation
services, and so that entities whose authority has been revoked can
resume operation if they are not otherwise blocked from doing so. But
the current method of collecting the data means that many requests
include incomplete data, and cannot be processed without additional
follow-up efforts by both FMCSA staff and the entities. This multi-
purpose form, therefore, would simplify the process of gathering the
information needed to process the entities' requests in a timely
manner, with the least amount of effort for all parties involved. This
multi-purpose form would be filed by registrants on a voluntary, as-
needed basis. This multi-purpose form could be put on the FMCSA Web
site so entities could access and print/fax/email the form to MC-RS.
Users may report the following data points (whichever are relevant
to their records change request):
1. What are the legal/doing business as names of the entity/
representative?
2. What is the contact information of entity/representatives (phone
number, address, fax number, email address)?
3. What are the requested changes to name or address of entity?
4. What is the docket MC/MX/FX number of the entity?
5. What is the US DOT number of the entity?
6. Is there any change in ownership, management or control of the
entity?
7. What kind of changes is the entity making to the company?
8. Which authority does the entity/representative wish to
reinstate, motor carrier or broker?
9. Does the entity/representative authorize the fee for the name
change or reinstatement?
10. Does the entity/representative authorize the reinstatement of
operating authority or name/address change?
11. What is the credit card information (name, number, expiration
date, address, date) for the card used to pay the fee?
Title: Motor Carrier Records Change Form.
OMB Control Number: 2126-00XX.
Type of Request: New collection.
Respondents: For-hire motor carriers, brokers and freight
forwarders.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 22,300.
Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes per response.
Expiration Date: N/A.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 5,575 hours [22,300 annual responses
x 0.25 hours = 5,575].
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 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.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: June 18,
2014.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology
and Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-15026 Filed 6-26-14; 8:45 am]
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