[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 131 (Friday, July 11, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31109-31111]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-13030]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0008 (Notice No. 2025-04)]
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, this
notice announces that the Information Collection Requests (ICRs)
discussed below will be forwarded to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for renewal and extension. These ICRs describe the nature
of the information collections and their expected burdens. A Federal
Register notice and request for comments with a 60-day comment period
on these ICRs was published in the Federal Register on March 10, 2025
(90 FR 11649) under Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0008 (Notice No. 2025-04).
PHMSA received one comment in response to this notice; however, the
comment was outside the scope of the ICRs listed for renewal.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
August 11, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
We invite comments on: (1) 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; (2) the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of
the proposed information collection; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and (4) 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.
Docket: For access to the dockets to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov or DOT's Docket
Operations Office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ryan Larson or Steven Andrews,
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: Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0510.
Summary: This OMB Control Number contains information collections
involving the transportation of radioactive materials in commerce.
Information collection requirements for RAM include: documenting
testing and engineering evaluations for packages, documenting DOT 7A
packages, revalidating foreign competent authority
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certifications, providing specific written instruction of exclusive use
shipment controls, obtaining U.S. competent authority for package
design, registering with U.S. competent authority as a user of a
package, and requesting a U.S. competent authority for a special form
of radioactive material. The following information collections and
their burdens are associated with this OMB Control Number:
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Total
Information collection Respondents annual Hours per Total annual
responses response burden hours
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Document Test and Engineering Evaluation or Comparative 50 100 40 4,000
Data for Packaging--Reporting............................
DOT Specification 7A Package Documentation--Reporting..... 50 100 80 8,000
DOT Specification 7A Package Documentation--Recordkeeping. 50 500 0.0833 41.67
Revalidation of Foreign Competent Authority Certification-- 25 25 80 2,000
Reporting................................................
Offeror Providing Specific Written Instruction of 100 2,000 0.5 1,000
Exclusive Use Shipment Controls to the Carrier--Reporting
Offeror Obtaining U.S. Competent Authority for Package 10 40 2 80
Design--Reporting........................................
Register with U.S. Competent Authority as User of a 25 50 0.5 25
Package--Reporting.......................................
Request for a U.S. Competent Authority as Required by the 10 100 2 200
IAEA Regulations for Special Form--Reporting.............
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Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of radioactive materials in
commerce.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 320.
Total Annual Responses: 2,915.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 15,347.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Title: Subsidiary Hazard Class and Number/Type of Packagings.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0613.
Summary: This OMB Control Number contains an information collection
related to the placement of the subsidiary hazard class and type of
packaging on a shipping paper. The HMR require that shipping papers and
emergency response information accompany each shipment of hazardous
materials in commerce. Shipping papers serve as a principal means of
identifying hazardous materials during transportation emergencies.
Firefighters, police, and other emergency response personnel are
trained to obtain the DOT shipping papers and emergency response
information when responding to hazardous materials transportation
emergencies. The availability of accurate information concerning
hazardous materials being transported significantly improves response
efforts in these types of emergencies.
In addition to the basic shipping description information on
shipping papers, we also require the subsidiary hazard class or
subsidiary division number(s) to be entered in parentheses following
the primary hazard class or division number on shipping papers. This
requirement originally applied only to transportation by vessel.
However, the lack of such a requirement posed problems for motor
carriers regarding compliance with segregation, separation, and
placarding requirements, as well as posing a safety hazard. For
example, in the event the motor vehicle becomes involved in an
accident, when the hazardous materials being transported include a
subsidiary hazard such as ``dangerous when wet'' or a subsidiary hazard
requiring more stringent requirements than the primary hazard, there is
no indication of the subsidiary hazards on the shipping papers and no
indication of the subsidiary risks on placards. Under circumstances
such as motor vehicles being loaded at a dock, labels are not
sufficient to alert hazardous materials employees loading the vehicles,
nor are they sufficient to alert emergency responders of the subsidiary
risks contained on the vehicles. Therefore, we require the subsidiary
hazard class or subsidiary division number(s) to be entered on the
shipping paper for purposes of enhancing safety and international
harmonization. The following information collection and burden is
associated with this OMB Control Number:
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Total
Total annual Seconds per annual
Information collection Respondents responses response burden
hours
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Subsidiary Hazard Class on Shipping Papers................. 260,000 43,810,000 2 24,339
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Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of hazardous materials in
commerce.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 260,000.
Total Annual Responses: 43,810,000.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 24,339.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Title: Flammable Hazardous Materials by Rail Transportation.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0628.
Summary: This OMB control number contains information collections
used for information and recordkeeping requirements pertaining to the
sampling and testing certification, routing analysis, and incident
reporting for flammable liquids by rail transportation. Rail carriers,
shippers, PHMSA's Office of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHMS), the
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), and the Association of American
Railroads (AAR) may use this information to ensure that rail tank cars
transporting flammable liquids are properly classified, ensure trains
are routed appropriately, and collect all relevant incident data. The
following information collections and associated burden hours are
associated with this OMB Control Number:
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Hours per Total
Information collection Respondents Responses response hours
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Sampling and Testing Plan Burden for Subsequent Year Revision.... 1,801 1,801 10 18,010
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class II Railroads............ 10 10 40 400
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class III Railroads........... 160 160 40 6,400
Routing Analysis Burden for Class II Railroads................... 10 50 16 800
Routing Analysis Burden for Class III Railroads.................. 160 320 8 2,560
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class II Railroads.......... 10 40 12 480
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class III Railroads......... 64 32 4 128
Tank Car Retrofit Burden......................................... 50 50 0.5 25
Incident Reporting for Flammable Liquids by Rail................. 17 17 2 34
Oil Spill Response Plans--Submit Reports......................... 73 14.6 0.5 7.3
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class I................................. 7 7 162 1,134
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class II................................ 11 11 54 594
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class III............................... 55 55 36 1,980
Notification Plans--Maintenance.................................. 73 2,190 1 2,190
Notification Plans--DOT Request.................................. 73 15.33 1 15.33
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Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of petroleum liquids
transported by rail.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 2,574.
Total Annual Responses: 4,773.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 34,757.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 9, 2025 under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
T. Glenn Foster,
Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch, Office of Hazardous
Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-13030 Filed 7-10-25; 8:45 am]
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