[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 92 (Friday, May 10, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40535-40537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10241]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2024-0056 (Notice No. 2024-08)]


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 Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control 
numbers pertaining to hazardous materials transportation. PHMSA intends 
to request renewal and extension for these three control numbers from 
OMB.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
July 9, 2024.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number 
PHMSA-2024-0056 (Notice No. 2024-08) 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-2024-0056) 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 Nina Vore, Standards and Rulemaking Division, 
(202) 366-8553, [email protected], Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 
Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New 
Jersey

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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 Nina Vore, 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 [email protected]. Comments 
received by PHMSA which are not specifically designated as ``CBI'' will 
be placed in the public docket for this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Andrews or Nina Vore, Standards 
and Rulemaking Division, (202) 366-8553, [email protected], 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 the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration (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 PHMSA will be submitting to 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: Flammable Cryogenic Liquids.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0542.
    Summary: Provisions in Sec.  177.840(a)(2) specify certain safety 
procedures and documentation requirements for drivers of motor vehicles 
transporting flammable cryogenic liquids. This information allows the 
driver to take appropriate remedial actions to prevent a catastrophic 
release of the flammable cryogenics should the temperature of the 
material begin to rise excessively or if the travel time will exceed 
the safe travel time. These requirements are intended to ensure a high 
level of safety when transporting flammable cryogenics due to their 
extreme flammability and high compression ratio when in a liquid state. 
The following information collections and their burdens are associated 
with this OMB Control Number.

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                                                         Total annual                              Total annual
        Information collection            Respondents      responses        Time per response      burden hours
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Flammable Cryogenic Liquids--Reporting             175          18,200  3.5 minutes.............           1,062
Flammable Cryogenic Liquids--                      175          18,200  30 seconds..............             152
 Recordkeeping.
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    Affected Public: Carriers of cryogenic materials.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 350.
    Total Annual Responses: 36,400.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,214.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Title: Response Plans for Shipments of Oil.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0591.
    Summary: Under authority of the Federal Water Pollution Control 
Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et 
seq.), PHMSA issued regulations in 49 CFR part 130 that require 
preparation of written spill response plans. The following information 
collections and their burdens are associated with this OMB Control 
Number.

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                                                                                     Time per
             Information collection                 Respondents    Total annual      response      Total annual
                                                                     responses        (hours)      burden hours
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Basic Written Response Plan--New Plans..........              80              80              33           2,640
Basic Written Response Plan--Updating Plans.....           7,920           7,920               1           7,920
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    Affected Public: Carriers that transport oil in bulk, by motor 
vehicle or rail.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 8,000.
    Total Annual Responses: 8,000.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 10,560.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Title: Requirements for United Nations (UN) Cylinders.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0621.

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    Summary: This information collection and recordkeeping burden is 
the result of efforts to amend the HMR to adopt standards for the 
design, construction, maintenance, and use of cylinders and multiple-
element gas containers (MEGCs) based on the standards contained in the 
UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods. Aligning the 
HMR with the UN Recommendations promotes flexibility, permits the use 
of technological advances for the manufacture of the pressure 
receptacles, provides for a broader selection of pressure receptacles, 
reduces the need for special permits, and facilitates international 
commerce in the transportation of compressed gases. Information 
collection requirements address domestic and international 
manufacturers of cylinders that request approval by the approval agency 
for cylinder design types. The approval process for each cylinder 
design type includes review, filing, and recordkeeping of the approval 
application. The approval agency is required to maintain a set of the 
approved drawings and calculations for each design it reviews and a 
copy of each initial design type approval certificate approved by the 
Associate Administrator for the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety 
for not less than 20 years. The following information collections and 
their burdens are associated with this OMB Control Number.

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                                                         Total annual                              Total annual
        Information collection            Respondents      responses        Time per response      burden hours
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UN Pressure Receptacle Approval--New                35              35  6 hours.................             210
 Request.
UN Pressure Receptacle Approval--                  100             100  6 hours.................             600
 Modified Request.
UN Pressure Receptacle Approval--                   75              75  6 minutes...............               8
 Recordkeeping.
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    Affected Public: Fillers, owners, users, and retesters of UN 
cylinders.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 210.
    Total Annual Responses: 210.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 818.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2024, under authority 
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Steven W. Andrews Jr.,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch, Office of 
Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-10241 Filed 5-9-24; 8:45 am]
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