Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved Information Collection: Training Certification for Drivers of Longer Combination Vehicles, 54711-54712 [E7-19016]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–28416]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Training
Certification for Drivers of Longer
Combination Vehicles
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; request for information.
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AGENCY:
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 ICR is titled,
‘‘Training Certification for Drivers of
Longer Combination Vehicles (LCVs).’’
This ICR is necessary because the
training certificate serves as proof that a
driver has successfully completed the
training required before he or she may
operate an LCV on the Nation’s
highways. The hiring motor carrier is
required to maintain a copy of the
training certificate in the LCV driver’s
qualification file. The document is
subject to review by Federal or State
enforcement officials. On June 28, 2007,
FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice allowing for a 60-day comment
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period on the ICR. One comment was
received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
October 26, 2007. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert F. Schultz, Jr., Transportation
Specialist, FMCSA, Telephone: 202–
366–2718; e-mail: buz.schultz@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Training Certification for
Drivers of Longer Combination Vehicles.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0026.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Drivers who have
completed the required LCV training
and driver instructors responsible for
conducting the required LCV training.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,200 drivers who complete the required
LCV training each year; 6 driver
instructors who must document their
qualifications to train new LCV drivers.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes for LCV drivers; 10 to 15
minutes for various LCV instructors.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2007.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 203
hours. The FMCSA estimates that 10
minutes would be needed for newly
certified LCV drivers to fulfill the
information collection requirement,
resulting in an annual information
collection burden of 200 hours [1,200
LCV drivers × 10 minutes/60 minutes =
200 hours]. The estimated annual
burden associated with instructor
certification would be 3 burden hours
[(2 classroom instructors × 10 minutes =
20 minutes) + (4 skills instructors × 15
minutes = 60 minutes) + (6 new
instructors × 15 minutes administrative
burden per instructor certification = 90
minutes) = 170 minutes/60 minutes = 3
burden hours].
Background: Section 4007(b) of the
Motor Carrier Act of 1991 (Title IV of
the Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA), Public
Law 102–240, 105 Stat. 1914, 2152; 49
U.S.C. 31307) required the Secretary of
Transportation to establish Federal
minimum training requirements for
drivers of LCVs. The responsibility for
implementing the statutory requirement
was subsequently delegated to FMCSA
(49 CFR 1.73). On March 30, 2004, the
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FMCSA, in a final rule entitled,
‘‘Minimum Training Requirements for
Longer Combination Vehicle (LCV)
Operators and LCV Driver-Instructor
Requirements,’’ adopted implementing
regulations for minimum training
requirements for the operators of LCVs
(69 FR 16722).
The 2004 final rule created an
information collection burden
concerning the certification of new,
current and non-grandfathered LCV
drivers, as well as the certification of
LCV driver-instructors. The
implementing regulations define an LCV
as any combination of a truck-tractor
and two or more semi-trailers or trailers,
which operate on the National System
of Interstate and Defense Highways (as
defined in 23 CFR 470.107) with a gross
vehicle weight greater than 80,000
pounds (49 CFR 380.105). The purpose
of this rule is to enhance the safety of
LCV operations on our nation’s
highways.
Drivers are required to present the
training certificate to prospective
employers to prove they are certified to
drive LCVs. Motor carriers must not
allow drivers to operate LCVs without
ensuring the drivers have been properly
trained in accordance with the
requirements of 49 CFR part 380. Motor
carriers must maintain a copy of the
LCV training certification form in the
driver qualification file (49 CFR
380.401(b)). Motor carriers must be able
to show Federal or State enforcement
officials that drivers responsible for
operating such LCVs are certified to do
so, based on the training certificate in
the driver qualification file.
On June 28, 2007 (72 FR 35537),
FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice allowing for a 60-day comment
period on the ICR. One comment was
received. The commenter was a truck
driver who pointed out that the skills of
a truck driver are best learned by
experience, not formal training. He also
pointed out that the motor carrier is
required to check the safety history of a
new employee, and that such an
analysis will be more helpful in
evaluating the skill level of a driver than
a certificate certifying participation in
the requisite training. The commenter
did not discuss the information
collection aspects of the LCV rules.
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 the
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
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burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information.
Issued on: September 21, 2007.
Mary Powers-King,
Acting Associate Administrator for Research
and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7–19016 Filed 9–25–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–28618]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection:
Household Goods Consumer
Information Program Assessment
Study
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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AGENCY:
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. This proposed ICR will be
used to collect information on recent
interstate household goods shippers’
(consumers) awareness of the
Household Goods (HHG) Consumer
Information Program messages and
activities. This information collection
will establish a baseline assessment of
the Program’s activities and aid FMCSA
in developing future Household Goods
education and outreach initiatives by
surveying and examining consumer
awareness of the ‘‘Protect Your Move’’
campaign and other HHG messages.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before November 26, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by any of the following
methods. Please identify your comments
by the FMCSA Docket Number FMCSA–
2007–28618.
• Web site: https://dms.dot.gov.
Follow instructions for submitting
comments to the Docket.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
• Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
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W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Docket: For access to the Docket
Management System (DMS) to read
background documents or comments
received, go to https://dms.dot.gov at any
time or to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The DMS is
available electronically 24 hours each
day, 365 days each year. If you want
notification of receipt of your
comments, please include a selfaddressed stamped envelope or postcard
or print the acknowledgement page that
appears after submitting comments online.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you
may visit https://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Brian Ronk, Office of Outreach and
Development, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: (202) 366–1072, or e-mail
brian.ronk@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The purpose of this
study is to quantify and assess
consumer awareness of the Household
Goods (HHG) Consumer Information
Program. The study will determine the
interstate moving public’s recognition or
knowledge of the Program’s activities or
messages, such as the ‘‘Protect Your
Move’’ campaign. The data will be
collected through a telephone survey.
Results of the study will not be
published, but used for internal research
purposes by FMCSA in developing
future HHG campaign materials,
identifying target audiences, and
determining distribution strategies to
provide better consumer information to
the public. It will also serve as a
baseline for future program evaluations
or assessments. A follow-up telephone
survey will be conducted two years after
the initial data collection and compared
against the results from the baseline
assessment.
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Title: Household Goods Consumer
Information Program Assessment Study.
OMB Control Number: 2126-xxxx.
Type of Request: New collection.
Respondents: Public/consumers who
have moved household goods from one
State to a different State throughout the
U.S. (Interstate Household Goods
Shippers).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,500.
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated average burden per response
is 15 minutes.
Expiration Date: N/A.
Frequency of Response: This
information collection will occur twice
within the effective period of the OMB
clearance; once in the current year and
once again two years following the
initial data collection.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 375
[1,500 respondents × 15 minutes/60
minutes per response = 375].
Public Comments Invited: Interested
parties are invited to send comments
regarding any aspect of this information
collection, including but not limited to:
(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. Comments submitted in
response to this notice will be
summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB’s clearance for this
information collection.
Issued on: September 21, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7–19017 Filed 9–25–07; 8:45 am]
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
Sunshine Act Meetings; Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
TIME AND DATE: November 1, 2007, 11
a.m. to 2 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time.
PLACE: This meeting will take place
telephonically. Any interested person
may call Mr. Avelino Gutierrez at (505)
827–4565 to receive the toll free number
and pass code needed to participate in
this meeting by telephone.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-28416]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Training Certification for Drivers of Longer
Combination Vehicles
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; request for information.
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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 ICR is titled, ``Training Certification for Drivers
of Longer Combination Vehicles (LCVs).'' This ICR is necessary because
the training certificate serves as proof that a driver has successfully
completed the training required before he or she may operate an LCV on
the Nation's highways. The hiring motor carrier is required to maintain
a copy of the training certificate in the LCV driver's qualification
file. The document is subject to review by Federal or State enforcement
officials. On June 28, 2007, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice
allowing for a 60-day comment period on the ICR. One comment was
received.
DATES: Please send your comments by October 26, 2007. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 Seventeenth
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert F. Schultz, Jr., Transportation
Specialist, FMCSA, Telephone: 202-366-2718; e-mail:
buz.schultz@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Training Certification for Drivers of Longer Combination
Vehicles.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0026.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Drivers who have completed the required LCV training
and driver instructors responsible for conducting the required LCV
training.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,200 drivers who complete the
required LCV training each year; 6 driver instructors who must document
their qualifications to train new LCV drivers.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes for LCV drivers; 10 to 15
minutes for various LCV instructors.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2007.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 203 hours. The FMCSA estimates that
10 minutes would be needed for newly certified LCV drivers to fulfill
the information collection requirement, resulting in an annual
information collection burden of 200 hours [1,200 LCV drivers x 10
minutes/60 minutes = 200 hours]. The estimated annual burden associated
with instructor certification would be 3 burden hours [(2 classroom
instructors x 10 minutes = 20 minutes) + (4 skills instructors x 15
minutes = 60 minutes) + (6 new instructors x 15 minutes administrative
burden per instructor certification = 90 minutes) = 170 minutes/60
minutes = 3 burden hours].
Background: Section 4007(b) of the Motor Carrier Act of 1991 (Title
IV of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991
(ISTEA), Public Law 102-240, 105 Stat. 1914, 2152; 49 U.S.C. 31307)
required the Secretary of Transportation to establish Federal minimum
training requirements for drivers of LCVs. The responsibility for
implementing the statutory requirement was subsequently delegated to
FMCSA (49 CFR 1.73). On March 30, 2004, the FMCSA, in a final rule
entitled, ``Minimum Training Requirements for Longer Combination
Vehicle (LCV) Operators and LCV Driver-Instructor Requirements,''
adopted implementing regulations for minimum training requirements for
the operators of LCVs (69 FR 16722).
The 2004 final rule created an information collection burden
concerning the certification of new, current and non-grandfathered LCV
drivers, as well as the certification of LCV driver-instructors. The
implementing regulations define an LCV as any combination of a truck-
tractor and two or more semi-trailers or trailers, which operate on the
National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (as defined in 23
CFR 470.107) with a gross vehicle weight greater than 80,000 pounds (49
CFR 380.105). The purpose of this rule is to enhance the safety of LCV
operations on our nation's highways.
Drivers are required to present the training certificate to
prospective employers to prove they are certified to drive LCVs. Motor
carriers must not allow drivers to operate LCVs without ensuring the
drivers have been properly trained in accordance with the requirements
of 49 CFR part 380. Motor carriers must maintain a copy of the LCV
training certification form in the driver qualification file (49 CFR
380.401(b)). Motor carriers must be able to show Federal or State
enforcement officials that drivers responsible for operating such LCVs
are certified to do so, based on the training certificate in the driver
qualification file.
On June 28, 2007 (72 FR 35537), FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice allowing for a 60-day comment period on the ICR. One comment was
received. The commenter was a truck driver who pointed out that the
skills of a truck driver are best learned by experience, not formal
training. He also pointed out that the motor carrier is required to
check the safety history of a new employee, and that such an analysis
will be more helpful in evaluating the skill level of a driver than a
certificate certifying participation in the requisite training. The
commenter did not discuss the information collection aspects of the LCV
rules.
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 the FMCSA to enhance
the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the collected information; and
(4) ways that the
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burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of the collected
information.
Issued on: September 21, 2007.
Mary Powers-King,
Acting Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7-19016 Filed 9-25-07; 8:45 am]
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