[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 150 (Thursday, August 4, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51446-51447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18465]


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FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION


Agency Information Collection Activities: Submission for OMB 
Review; Comment Request

AGENCY: Federal Maritime Commission.

ACTION: Final notice of submission for OMB review.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 
Federal Maritime Commission (FMC or Commission) hereby gives notice 
that it has submitted to the Office of Management and Budget a request 
for an extension of the existing collection requirements under 46 CFR 
part 532--NVOCC Negotiated Rate Arrangements. The FMC has requested an 
extension of an existing collection as listed below.

DATES: Written comments must be submitted on or before September 6, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to:

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for FMC, 725 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20503, [email protected], Fax (202) 395-5806 
and to:

Vern Hill, Managing Director, Office of the Managing Director, Federal 
Maritime Commission, 800 North Capitol Street NW., Washington, DC 
20573, (202) 523-5800, [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the submission(s) may be 
obtained by contacting Donna L. Lee on 202-523-5800 or email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice that FMC would be submitting this 
request was published in the Federal Register on April 27, 2016 (81 FR 
24814) allowing for a 60-day comment period. No comments were received.
    The FMC hereby informs potential respondents that an agency may not 
conduct or sponsor, and that a person is not required to respond to, a 
collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB 
control number.

Information Collection Open for Comment

    Title: 46 CFR part 532--NVOCC Negotiated Rate Arrangements.
    OMB Approval Number: 3072-0071 (Expires July 31, 2016).
    Abstract: Section 16 of the Shipping Act of 1984, 46 U.S.C. 40103, 
authorizes the Commission to exempt by order or regulation ``any class 
of agreements between persons subject to this [Act] or any specified 
activity of those persons from any requirement of this [Act] if the 
Commission finds that the exemption will not result in substantial 
reduction in competition or be detrimental to commerce.'' The 
Commission may attach conditions to any exemption and may, by order, 
revoke an exemption. In 46 CFR part 532, the Commission exempted non-
vessel-operating common carriers (NVOCCs) from the tariff rate 
publication requirements of part 520, and allowed an NVOCC to enter 
into an NVOCC Negotiated Rate Arrangement (NRA) in lieu of publishing 
its tariff rate(s), provided the NVOCC posts a prominent notice in its 
rules tariff invoking the NRA exemption and provides electronic access 
to its rules tariff to the public free of charge. This information 
collection corresponds to the rules tariff prominent notice and the 
requirement to make its tariff publicly available free of charge.
    Current Actions: There are no changes to this information 
collection, and it is being submitted for extension purposes only.
    Type of Review: Extension.
    Needs and Uses: The Commission uses the information filed by an 
NVOCC in its rules tariff to determine whether the NVOCC has invoked 
the exemption for a particular shipment or shipments. The Commission 
has used and will continue to use the information required to be 
maintained by NVOCCs for monitoring and investigatory purposes, and, in 
its proceedings, to adjudicate related issues raised by private 
parties.
    Frequency: An NVOCC invokes the NRA exemption by publishing a 
prominent notice in its rules tariff once.
    Type of Respondents: NVOCCs.
    Number of Annual Respondents: 255. New NVOCCs become licensed or 
registered with the Commission regularly. Of those, approximately 255 
invoke the exemption by publishing a tariff rule or prominent notice.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes for those adding a tariff 
rule to use a combination of tariff rates and NRAs. One hour for those 
who make their tariff rules publicly available by opting to use NRAs 
exclusively and posting them to their Web site.

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    Total Annual Burden: Based on the number of NVOCCs who have filed a 
rule or prominent notice in their respective tariffs, we calculate that 
25% of new NVOCCs will use the NRA exemption. Of those, about 3% will 
use NRAs exclusively. Almost all will likely use similar language 
invoking the exemption in their tariffs. For the 255 new respondents 
that invoke the exemption annually and the 1,295 respondents that have 
invoked the exemption thus far, the total burden is calculated as 
follows:
    Modification of Tariff:

8 x 1 hour = 8 hours (3% using NRAs exclusively)
247 x .25 hour = 61.75 hours rounded to 62 (combination of tariff rates 
and NRAs)

    A total of 1,295 NVOCCs thus far have filed a rule or prominent 
notice in their tariffs invoking the exemption. For those, the 
recordkeeping burden is estimated as follows.
    Recordkeeping:

1,295 x 1 hour = 1,295 hours

    Total annual burden is estimated to be 1,365 hours.

Rachel E. Dickon,
Assistant Secretary.
[FR Doc. 2016-18465 Filed 8-3-16; 8:45 am]
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