[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 142 (Monday, July 28, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 35569-35570]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-14211]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2025-0130]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection: Annual Report of Class I and Class II For-Hire
Motor Carriers
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 its
review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA requests approval
to renew the previously approved ICR now titled, ``Annual Report of
Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers,'' OMB Control No. 2126-
0032. This ICR applies to Class I and Class II for-hire motor carriers
of property (Form M) and Class I for-hire motor carriers of passengers
(Form MP-1) and collects financial, operating, equipment, and
employment data from individual motor carriers of property and
household goods and from individual motor carriers of passengers. This
ICR is necessary to comply with FMCSA's financial and operating
statistics requirements at chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369 titled,
``Reports of Motor Carriers.''
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before September
26, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Docket Number FMCSA-
2025-0130 using any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Dockets Operations; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor,
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: Dockets Operations, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Washington, DC 20590-0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. To be sure someone is
there to help you, please call (202) 366-9317 or (202) 366-9826 before
visiting Dockets Operations.
Fax: (202) 493-2251.
To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four methods.
See the ``Public Participation and Request for Comments'' portion of
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for instructions on submitting
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeffrey Secrist, Office of
Registration, Chief, Registration Division, DOT, FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001; (202) 385-2367;
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Instructions
All submissions must include the Agency name and docket number. For
detailed instructions on submitting comments, see the Public
Participation heading below. Note that all comments received will be
posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Public Participation and Request for Comments
If you submit a comment, please include the docket number for this
notice (FMCSA-2025-0130), indicate the specific section of this
document to which your comment applies, and provide a reason for each
suggestion or recommendation. You may submit your comments and material
online or by fax, mail, or hand delivery, but please use only one of
these means. FMCSA recommends that you include your name and a mailing
address, an email address, or a phone number in the body of your
document so FMCSA can contact you if there are questions regarding your
submission.
To submit your comment online, go to https://www.regulations.gov/docket/FMCSA-2025-0130/document, click on this notice, click
``Comment,'' and type your comment into the text box on the following
screen.
If you submit your comments by mail or hand delivery, submit them
in an unbound format, no larger than 8\1/2\ by 11 inches, suitable for
copying and electronic filing.
Comments received after the comment closing date will be included
in the docket and will be considered to the extent practicable.
Privacy Act
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments from the
public to better inform its regulatory process. DOT posts these
comments, including any personal information the commenter provides, to
www.regulations.gov as described in the system of records notice DOT/
ALL 14 (Federal Docket Management System (FDMS)), which can be reviewed
at https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/privacy/privacy-act-system-records-notices. The comments are posted without edits and are
searchable by the name of the submitter.
Background
Title 49, United States Code (U.S.C.) section 14123 requires
certain for-hire motor carriers of property, passengers, and household
goods to file annual financial reports. The annual reporting program
was implemented on December 24, 1938 (3 FR 3158), and it was
subsequently transferred from the Interstate Commerce Commission to
DOT's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) on January 1, 1996. The
Secretary of Transportation delegated to BTS the responsibility for the
program on December 17, 1996 (61 FR 68162). Responsibility for
collection of the reports was transferred from BTS to FMCSA on August
17, 2004 (69 FR 51009), and the regulations were redesignated as 49 CFR
part 369 on August 10, 2006 (71 FR 45740). FMCSA collects carriers'
annual reports and furnishes copies of the reports when requested under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Annual financial reports are
filed on Form M
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(Class I and II for-hire property carriers, including household goods
carriers) and Form MP-1 (Class I for-hire passenger carriers). For-hire
motor carriers (including interstate and intrastate) subject to the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are classified on the basis of
their gross carrier operating revenues.\1\
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\1\ For purposes of the Financial and Operating Statistics
program, carriers are classified into the following two groups: (1)
Class I carriers are those having annual carrier operating revenues
(including interstate and intrastate) of $10 million or more after
applying the revenue deflator formula as set forth in Note A of 49
CFR 369.2; and (2) Class II carriers are those having annual carrier
operating revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of at least
$3 million, but less than $10 million after applying the revenue
deflator formula as set forth in 49 CFR 369.2.
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The data and information collected is publicly available through
FOIA requests. FMCSA has created electronic forms that may be prepared,
signed electronically, and submitted to FMCSA via https://ask.fmcsa.dot.gov/app/ask/.
Title: Annual Report of Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor
Carriers.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0032.
Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents: Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers of
Property and Class I For-Hire Motor Carriers of Passengers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 12 total (4 per year).
Estimated Time per Response: 9 hours for Form M and 0.3 hours for
Form MP-1.
Expiration Date: November 30, 2025.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 36 hours [36 hours (Form M) + 0
hours (Form MP-1)].
The estimated annual respondents for Form M decreased from 34 in
the previously approved ICR to 4 in the current ICR. The estimated
annual burden hours for Form M decreased by 270 hours [36 proposed
hours-306 currently approved hours =-270 hours]. Estimated annual
respondents for Form MP-1 stayed the same. The previously approved ICR
had 0 annual hours. The current ICR has 0 annual hours. This estimate
is based off the number of Form M and Form MP-1 submissions received by
the Agency between 2022 and 2024, which results in these estimates of
annual respondents/responses for the upcoming information collection
period.
Labor costs to industry have decreased by $12,491 annually [$2,007
in proposed costs -$14,498 currently approved costs =-$12,491]. This is
due to the decreased estimates of annual respondents/responses. Other
annual costs to respondents (i.e., associated with mailing completed
forms to FMCSA) have decreased by $30 [($4 in proposed mailing costs
for Form M + $0 in proposed mailing costs for Form MP-1)-($34 in
previously approved mailing costs for Form M + $0 in previously
approved mailing costs for Form MP-1) = $-30]. This change is also due
to the decreased estimates of annual respondents/responses.
For the Federal Government, annual costs have decreased by $68 [$11
in proposed costs-$79 in previously approved costs = $68]. This change
is due to the decreased estimates of annual respondents/responses.
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. The Agency will summarize or include your
comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this ICR.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Nicole Michel,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2025-14211 Filed 7-25-25; 8:45 am]
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