[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38218-38219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09894]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2023-0181]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection Request: Motor Carrier Records Change Form
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (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 review
and approval. The information collected is required by the Office of
Registration to process name changes, address changes, and
reinstatements of operating authority for motor carriers, freight
forwarders, and brokers. On December 14, 2023, FMCSA published a notice
in the Federal Register with a 60-day comment period to announce its
intention to submit this ICR to OMB for renewal. FMCSA received no
comments in response to the published notice.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before June 6,
2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find
this information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeffrey Secrist, Office of
Registration, Chief, Registration Division, DOT, FMCSA, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 385-
2367; [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Motor Carrier Records Change Form.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0060.
Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents: For-hire motor carriers, brokers, and freight
forwarders.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 64,673.
Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes per response.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2024.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden: 16,168.
Background
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). ``Procedures for changing the name
or business form of a motor carrier, freight forwarder, or property
broker,'' (49 CFR 365.413T) states that motor carriers, forwarders, and
brokers must submit the required information to FMCSA's Office of
Registration requesting the change. Paragraph (f) of Sec. 360.3T
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.
Motor carriers, freight forwarders, and property brokers are
required to use Form MCSA-5889 to request a name or address change and
to request reinstatement of a revoked operating authority. Respondents
can submit the form online through the Licensing and Insurance (L&I)
website, by fax, or by mail. According to data collected between 2020
and 2022, annually, approximately 1 percent of forms are submitted by
mail; 7 percent are submitted by fax; and 92 percent are submitted
online. The information collected is then entered in the L&I database
by FMCSA staff.
Form MCSA-5889 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
willing and able to provide for-hire transportation services, and so
that entities whose operating authority has been revoked can resume
operation if they are not otherwise blocked from doing so. This multi-
purpose form, filed by registrants on a voluntary, as-needed basis,
simplifies 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.
The form prompts users to report the following data points
(whichever are relevant to their records change request):
1. Requestor's fax number, email address, and applicant's oath.
2. Entity's legal/doing business as names, USDOT number, docket MC/
MX/FX number, current street address, and phone number(s).
3. Affiliations with FMCSA-licensed entities.
4. Requested changes to the entity's address.
5. Requested changes to the entity's name and/or ownership,
management, or control.
6. Type(s) of operating authority the entity wishes to reinstate.
7. Credit card information (name, number, expiration date, address,
date) if filing a name change or reinstatement.
Changes From Previous Estimates
The currently approved version of this ICR estimated the average
annual burden to be 6,781 annual burden hours, with 27,122 total annual
respondents. For this renewal the estimated average annual burden is
16,168, with 64,673 total average annual respondents. The annual burden
hour increase of 9,387 is due to the increase in the average number of
annual respondents.
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.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2024-09894 Filed 5-6-24; 8:45 am]
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