[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 183 (Friday, September 20, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 49617-49618]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-20431]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. MARAD-2019-0142]


Request for Comments of a New Information Collection

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and comments. A Federal Register Notice with a 
60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following information 
collection was published on June 12, 2019.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 21, 2019.

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Management and 
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the Office of the Secretary of 
Transportation, 725 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Lalit Raina, (202) 366-2314, 
Office of Cargo and Commercial Sealift, Maritime Administration, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 
20590; [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Ocean Shipments Moving Under the Cargo Preference Act of 
1954.
    OMB Control Number: 2133-NEW.
    Type of Request: Approval of a new Information Collection.
    Background: FAR clause 52.247-64, Preference for Privately Owned 
U.S.-Flag Commercial Vessels, as prescribed at 47.507(a), is used in 
solicitations and contracts that may involve ocean transportation of 
supplies subject to the Cargo Preference Act of 1954. The contractor 
must submit one legible copy of a rated on-board bill of lading for 
each shipment to both the contracting officer and the Maritime 
Administration (MARAD). The contractor must flow

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this requirement down to all subcontracts and purchase orders under the 
contract.
    The information collection procedure requires that the designated 
reporting party send already prepared bills of lading as presented by 
the U.S.-flag and foreign-flag carriers. The bills of lading should be 
sent to MARAD within 20 days of loading in the United States or 30 days 
if originating outside the United States.
    Respondents: Shippers of ocean borne equipment, materials, or 
commodities financed in any way by federal funds (government implelled 
cargo).
    Affected Public: Business or other for profit.
    Total Estimated Number of Responses: 8,040.
    Frequency of Collection: Annually.
    Estimated time per Respondent: 5 minutes.
    Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 402.
    Public Comments Invited: Comments are invited on: Whether the 
proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper 
performance of the functions of the Department, including whether the 
information will have practical utility; the accuracy of the 
Department's estimate of the burden of the proposed information 
collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and ways to minimize the burden of the 
collection of information on respondents, including the use of 
automated collection techniques or other forms of information 
technology.

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 
35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.93)
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    Dated: September 17, 2019.

    By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2019-20431 Filed 9-19-19; 8:45 am]
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