[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 23, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11052-11054]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-03555]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2020-0159; Notice No. 2021-01]


Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA 
invites comments on three information collections pertaining to 
hazardous materials transportation for which PHMSA intends to request 
renewal from the Office of Management and Budget.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
April 26, 2021.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number 
PHMSA-2020-0159 (Notice No. 2021-01) by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Routing 
Symbol M-30, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: To the Docket Management System; Room W12-
140 on the ground floor of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and 
Docket Number (PHMSA-2020-0159) for this notice at the beginning of the 
comment. To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four 
methods. All comments received will be posted without change to the 
Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) and will include any personal 
information you provide.
    Requests for a copy of an information collection should be directed 
to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, Standards and Rulemaking Division, 
(202) 366-8553, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Docket: For access to the dockets to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov or DOT's Docket 
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
    Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits 
comments from the public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT 
posts these comments, without edit, including any personal information 
the commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the 
system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 
www.dot.gov/privacy.
    Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) is commercial or financial information that is both 
customarily and actually treated as private by its owner. Under the 
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from 
public disclosure. If your comments responsive to this notice contain 
commercial or financial information that is customarily treated as 
private, that you actually treat as private, and that is relevant or 
responsive to this notice, it is important that you clearly designate 
the submitted comments as CBI. Please mark each page of your submission 
containing CBI as ``PROPIN.'' PHMSA will treat such marked submissions 
as confidential under the FOIA, and they will not be placed in the 
public docket of this notice. Submissions containing CBI should be sent 
to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, Standards and Rulemaking Division 
and addressed to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001 or to [email protected]. Any 
commentary that PHMSA receives which is not specifically designated as 
CBI will be placed in the public docket for this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, 
Standards and Rulemaking Division, (202) 366-8553, Pipeline and 
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 1320.8(d), title 5, Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) requires PHMSA to provide interested members of the 
public and affected agencies an opportunity to comment on information 
collection and recordkeeping requests. This notice identifies 
information collection requests that PHMSA will be submitting to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal and extension. These 
information collections are contained in 49 CFR 171.6 of the Hazardous 
Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR parts 171-180). PHMSA has revised 
burden estimates, where appropriate, to reflect current reporting 
levels or adjustments based on changes in proposed or final rules 
published since the information collections were last approved. The 
following information is provided for each information collection: (1) 
Title of the information collection, including former title if a change 
is being made; (2) OMB control number; (3) summary of the information 
collection activity; (4) description of affected public; (5) estimate 
of total annual reporting and recordkeeping burden; and (6) frequency 
of collection. PHMSA will request a 3-year term of approval for each 
information collection activity and will publish a notice in the 
Federal Register upon OMB's approval.
    PHMSA requests comments on the following information collections:

    Title: Cargo Tank Specification Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0014.
    Summary: This information collection consolidates and describes the 
information collection provisions in parts 107, 178, and 180 of the HMR 
involving the manufacture, qualification, maintenance, and use of 
specification cargo tank motor vehicles. It also includes the 
information collection and recordkeeping requirements for persons who 
are engaged in the manufacture, assembly, requalification, and 
maintenance of DOT specification cargo tank motor vehicles. The types 
of information collected include:
    (1) Registration Statements: Cargo tank manufacturers and 
repairers, as well as cargo tank motor vehicle assemblers, are required 
to be registered with DOT and must furnish information

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relative to their qualifications to perform the functions in accordance 
with the HMR. DOT uses the registration statements to identify these 
persons to ensure they possess the knowledge and skills necessary to 
perform the required functions in accordance with applicable 
regulations.
    (2) Requalification and Maintenance Reports: These reports are 
prepared by persons who requalify or maintain cargo tanks. This 
information is used by cargo tank owners, operators and users, and DOT 
compliance personnel to verify that the cargo tanks are requalified, 
maintained, and in proper condition for the transportation of hazardous 
materials.
    (3) Manufacturers' Data Reports, Certificates, and Related Papers: 
These reports are prepared by cargo tank manufacturers and certifiers. 
They are used by cargo tank owners, operators, users, and DOT 
compliance personnel to verify that a cargo tank motor vehicle was 
designed and constructed to meet all requirements of the applicable 
specification.
    The following information collections and their burdens are 
associated with this OMB Control Number. Please note that these 
estimates may be rounded for readability:

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                                                                                     Time per
             Information collection                   Annual       Total annual      response      Total annual
                                                    respondents      responses       (minutes)     burden hours
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Registration--Cargo Tank Manufacturers..........              24              24              20               8
Registration--Repair Facilities.................              33              33              20              11
Registration--Design Certifying Engineers &                1,110           1,110              20             370
 Registered Inspectors..........................
Registration--Recordkeeping.....................             117             117              15              29
Updating a Cargo Tank Registration..............             145             145              15              36
Design Certificates for Prototypes..............              55              55       2.5 hours             138
Design Certificates for Prototypes--                           7               7              15               2
 Recordkeeping..................................
Manufacturer's Data Reports or Certificate and               145           6,960              30           3,480
 Related Papers.................................
Manufacturer's Data Reports or Certificate and               700             700              15             175
 Related Papers--Recordkeeping..................
Completion of Manufacturer's Data Report--New                145           4,785              30           2,393
 Cargo Tanks....................................
Completion of Manufacturer's Data Report--                   145           1,015              30             508
 Remanufactured Cargo Tanks.....................
Completion of Manufacturer's Data Report--                   145             580              15             145
 Recordkeeping..................................
Cargo Tank Repair/Modification Reports..........             195          15,015               5           1,251
Testing and Inspection of Cargo Tanks--Visual              1,654          24,600              30          12,300
 Inspections....................................
Testing and Inspection of Cargo Tanks--External            1,654         123,000              30          61,500
 Visual Inspections.............................
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    Affected Public: Manufacturers, assemblers, repairers, 
requalifiers, certifiers, and owners of cargo tanks.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 6,274.
    Total Annual Responses: 178,146.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 82,346.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Title: Testing, Inspection, and Marking Requirements for Cylinders.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0022.
    Summary: Requirements in Sec.  173.301 for the qualification, 
maintenance, and use of cylinders include periodic inspections and 
retesting to ensure continuing compliance with packaging standards. 
Information collection requirements address registration of retesters 
and marking of cylinders by retesters with their identification number 
and retest date following the completion of required tests. The 
cylinder owner or designated agent must keep records showing the 
results of inspections and retests either until expiration of the 
retest period or until the cylinder is re-inspected or retested, 
whichever occurs first. These requirements ensure that retesters have 
the qualifications to perform tests and identify to cylinder fillers 
and users that cylinders are qualified for continuing use. Information 
collection requirements in Sec.  173.303 require that fillers of 
acetylene cylinders keep, for at least 30 days, a daily record of the 
representative pressure to which cylinders are filled. The following 
information collections and their burdens are associated with this OMB 
Control Number. Please noted that these estimates may be rounded for 
readability:

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                                          Annual       Total annual                                Total annual
       Information collection           respondents      responses        Time per  response       burden hours
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Cylinder Manufacture Marking........             225         101,250  7.17 minutes..............          12,099
Cylinder Manufacture Inspector's                 225             225  30 minutes................             113
 Report.
Cylinder Manufacture Inspector's                  30              30  12 minutes................               6
 Report--Recordkeeping.
Record of Alloy Added to Cylinder...              23              23  1 hour....................              23
Cylinder Requalification Marking....          15,000      14,550,000  46 seconds................         185,917
Cylinder Requalification Record.....          15,000      14,550,000  45 seconds................         181,875
Cylinder Requalification Record--                330             330  6 minutes.................              33
 Recordkeeping.
Recent Recalibration Record.........           2,300           4,830  5 minutes.................             403
Repair, Rebuilding, or Reheat                     47           2,350  12 minutes................             470
 Treatment Records.
Repair, Rebuilding, or Reheat                      6               6  10 minutes................               1
 Treatment Records--Recordkeeping.
Changing Marked Service Pressure....               8               8  15 minutes................               2
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    Affected Public: Fillers, owners, users, and retesters of reusable 
cylinders.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 33,194.
    Total Annual Responses: 29,209,052.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 380,942.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Title: Container Certification Statements.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0582.
    Summary: Shippers who offer explosives for transportation by vessel 
in freight containers or transport vehicles are required to certify on

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shipping documentation that the freight container or transport vehicle 
meets minimal structural serviceability requirements that ensure an 
adequate level of safety. The following information collections and 
their burdens are associated with this OMB Control Number. Please note 
that these estimates may be rounded for readability:

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                                                                                     Time per
             Information collection                   Annual       Total annual      response      Total annual
                                                    respondents      responses       (minutes)     burden hours
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Freight Container Packing Certification.........             620         890,000               1          14,833
Class 1 (explosives) Container Structural                     30           4,500               1              75
 Serviceability Statement.......................
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    Affected Public: Shippers of explosives in freight containers or 
transport vehicles by vessel.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 650.
    Total Annual Responses: 894,500.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 14,908.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on February 17, 2021, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
William A. Quade,
Deputy Associate Administrator of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline 
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-03555 Filed 2-22-21; 8:45 am]
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