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invited public comments about FAA’s
intention to request OMB to approve a
current information collection. The
information collection is required for
compliance with the final rule that
codifies special flight rules for certain
operations in the Washington, DC
Metropolitan Area.
Reason for Withdrawal
We are withdrawing the notice
because, while the information
collection requirement has been
approved, approval and publication of
the final rule is still pending. Therefore,
the FAA withdraws the notice entitled,
‘‘Notice of Intent to Request From the
Office of Management and Budget of a
Currently Approved Information
Collection Activity, Request for
Comments; Washington, DC
Metropolitan Area Special Flight
Rules,’’ published on page 73688 in the
Federal Register of December 3, 2008. If
the final rule is adopted, we will republish the notice at that time.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December 3,
2008.
Carla Mauney,
FAA Information Collection Clearance
Officer, IT Enterprises Business Services
Division, AES–200.
[FR Doc. E8–29007 Filed 12–3–08; 4:15 pm]
BILLING CODE 4910–13–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–2008–0158]
Surface Transportation Project
Delivery Pilot Program; Caltrans Audit
Report
AGENCY: Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Ruth Rentch, Office of Project
Development and Environmental
Review, (202) 366–2034,
Ruth.Rentch@dot.gov, or Mr. Michael
Harkins, Office of the Chief Counsel,
(202) 366–4928,
Michael.Harkins@dot.gov, Federal
Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15
p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic Access
Section 6005 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (SAFETEA–LU) established the
Surface Transportation Project Delivery
Pilot Program, codified at 23 U.S.C. 327.
Section 327(g) of Title 23, United States
Code mandates semiannual audits
during each of the first 2 years of State
participation to ensure compliance by
each State participating in the Pilot
Program. This notice announces and
solicits comments on the second audit
report for the California Department of
Transportation (Caltrans).
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before January 7, 2009.
ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver
comments to Docket Management
SUMMARY:
Facility: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
submit comments electronically at
https://www.regulations.gov, or fax
comments to (202) 493–2251.
All comments should include the
docket number that appears in the
heading of this document. All
comments received will be available for
examination and copying at the above
address from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., e.t.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. Those desiring notification of
receipt of comments must include a selfaddressed, stamped postcard or you
may print the acknowledgment page
that appears after submitting comments
electronically. Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments in
any one of our dockets by the name of
the individual submitting the comment
(or signing the comment, if submitted
on behalf of an association, business, or
labor union). You may review the DOT’s
complete Privacy Act Statement in the
Federal Register published on April 11,
2000 (Volume 65, Number 70, Pages
19477–78) or you may visit https://
DocketsInfo.dot.gov.
An electronic copy of this notice may
be downloaded from the Office of the
Federal Register’s home page at https://
www.archives.gov and the Government
Printing Office’s Web site at https://
www.access.gpo.gov.
Background
Section 6005 of the Safe, Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity
Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU)
(codified at 23 U.S.C. 327) established a
pilot program to allow up to five States
to assume the Secretary of
Transportation’s responsibilities for
environmental review, consultation, or
other actions under any Federal
environmental law pertaining to the
review or approval of highway projects.
In order to be selected for the pilot
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program, a State must submit an
application to the Secretary.
On June 29, 2007, Caltrans and FHWA
entered into a Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) establishing the
assignments to and assumptions of
responsibility to Caltrans. Under the
MOU, Caltrans assumed the majority of
FHWA’s responsibilities under the
National Environmental Policy Act, as
well as the FHWA’s responsibilities
under other Federal environmental laws
for most highway projects in California.
Section 327(g) of Title 23, United
States Code, requires the Secretary to
conduct semiannual audits during each
of the first 2 years of State participation,
and annual audits during each
subsequent year of State participation to
ensure compliance by each State
participating in the Pilot Program. The
results of each audit must be presented
in the form of an audit report and be
made available for public comment.
This notice announces the availability
of the second audit report for Caltrans
and solicits public comment on same.
Authority: Section 6005 of Pub. L. 109–59;
23 U.S.C. 315 and 327; 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued on: December 1, 2008.
Thomas J. Madison, Jr.,
Federal Highway Administrator.
[FR Doc. E8–29021 Filed 12–5–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–22–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2008–0343]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection:
Inspection, Repair and Maintenance
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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 on this submission. The
information collection concerns records
of inspection, repair, and maintenance
of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs).
The FMCSA requests approval to revise
and renew an ICR entitled, ‘‘Inspection,
Repair and Maintenance.’’ FMCSA
collects this information to ensure that
motor carriers have adequate
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documentation of their systematic
inspection, repair, and maintenance
programs necessary to reduce the
likelihood of CMV crashes.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before February 6, 2009.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2008–0343 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington
DC 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this Notice. Note that DOT posts all
comments received without change to
https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to https://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. The FDMS is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. If
you want acknowledgement that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
post card or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting your
comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review the DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19476). This information is also
available at https://docketsinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Deborah M. Freund, Vehicle and
Roadside Operations Division,
Department of Transportation, Federal
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Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC
20590–0001. Telephone: 202–366–5370.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) is authorized
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502
to prescribe requirements for the
qualifications and maximum hours-ofservice of employees, and safety and
equipment standards for motor carriers
that operate CMVs in interstate
commerce. Under 49 U.S.C. 31136, the
Secretary also has authority to prescribe
regulations to ensure that CMVs are
maintained, equipped, loaded and
operated safely; and, under 49 U.S.C.
31143 to establish standards for annual
or more frequent inspections of CMVs
under the provisions of U.S.C. 31142.
The Secretary’s authority to establish
improved standards or methods to
ensure brakes and brake systems of
CMVs are inspected by appropriate
employees and maintained properly is
provided under 49 U.S.C. 31137(b).
Motor carriers must maintain, or
require maintenance of, records
documenting the inspection, repair and
maintenance activities performed on
their owned and leased vehicles. There
are no prescribed forms. Electronic
recordkeeping is allowed (see
§ 390.31(d)) of title 49, Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR). Documents requiring
a signature must be capable of
replication (i.e., photocopy, facsimile,
etc.) in such form that will provide an
opportunity for signature verification
upon demand. Also, if electronic
recordkeeping is used, all of the relevant
data on the original documents must be
included in the electronic transmission
for the records to be valid.
The motor carrier industry has never
questioned the need to keep CMV
maintenance records. In fact, most
motor carriers would keep some records
without any regulatory requirements to
do so. Records of inspection, repair, and
maintenance; roadside inspection
reports; driver vehicle inspection
reports; the documentation of periodic
inspections; the evidence of the
qualifications of individuals performing
periodic inspections; and the evidence
of brake inspectors’ qualifications
contain the minimum amount of
information necessary to document that
a motor carrier has established a system
of inspection, repair, and maintenance
for its equipment which meets the
standards in part 396.
FMCSA and its representatives use
these records to verify motor carriers’
compliance with the inspection, repair,
and maintenance standards in part 396.
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This ICR supports the Department of
Transportation’s strategic goal of safety.
The ICR also ensures that motor carriers
have adequate records to document the
inspection, repair, and maintenance of
their CMVs, and to ensure that adequate
measures are taken to keep their CMVs
in safe and proper operating condition
at all times. Compliance with the
inspection, repair, and maintenance
regulations helps to reduce the
likelihood of accidents attributable, in
whole or in part, to the mechanical
condition of the CMV.
The Agency does not intend to revise
the contents of this information
collection, the frequency of information
collection, or how it uses the
information. This renewal would update
the estimated annual burden and
associated costs to reflect changes in the
number of drivers and motor carrier
entities subject to the part 396 records
requirements since the current
information collection was approved.
If the recordkeeping were required to
be completed less frequently, it would
greatly hinder the ability of FMCSA and
State officials and representatives to
ascertain that CMVs are satisfactorily
maintained. The timely documentation
of CMV inspection, repair, and
maintenance enables FMCSA and State
officials to evaluate the present state of
a motor carrier’s CMV maintenance
program and to check the current level
of regulatory compliance at any point in
a carrier’s maintenance schedule or
program.
The FMCSA has identified
duplicative periodic inspection
standards. Periodic inspection programs
of 23 States, the District of Columbia,
the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Board, 10 Canadian Provinces, and one
Canadian Territory were identified as
comparable to, or as effective as, the
Federal periodic inspection
requirements. The FMCSA does not
require Federal periodic inspections and
the related recordkeeping for motor
carriers that comply with these
equivalent periodic inspection
programs. In addition, CMVs passing
certain roadside inspections are
considered to have met the
requirements of a periodic inspection;
thus, there are no periodic inspection or
recordkeeping requirements for these
CMVs in most cases. The FMCSA is not
aware of any other duplicative
standards or recordkeeping
requirements that apply to motor
carriers.
The FMCSA does not publish this
collection of information for statistical
use.
Title: Inspection, Repair and
Maintenance.
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OMB Control Number: 2126–0003.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
732,038.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
according to the requirements for
specific records.
Expiration Date: April 30, 2009.
Frequency of Response: Varies
according to requirements for specific
records.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
66,267,505 hours [3,991,851 hours for
inspection, repair, and maintenance +
59,094,379 hours for driver inspection +
590,933 hours for certification of
corrective action + 2,265,280 hours for
review of driver inspection reports +
251,629 hours for disposition of
roadside inspection reports + 34,798
hours for periodic inspections + 18,301
hours for records of inspector
qualifications + 20,334 hours for records
of brake inspector qualifications =
66,267,505].
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
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 information
collection.
Issued on: December 2, 2008.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E8–28945 Filed 12–5–08; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
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Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Vision
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of denials.
SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its denial
of 112 applications from individuals
who requested an exemption from the
Federal vision standard applicable to
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interstate truck and bus drivers and the
reasons for the denials. FMCSA has
statutory authority to exempt
individuals from the vision requirement
if the exemptions granted will not
compromise safety. The Agency has
concluded that granting these
exemptions does not provide a level of
safety that will be equivalent to, or
greater than, the level of safety
maintained without the exemptions for
these commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Mary D. Gunnels, Director Medical
Programs, 202–366–4001, U.S.
Department of Transportation, FMCSA,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Room
W64–224, Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315,
FMCSA may grant an exemption from
the Federal vision standard for a
renewable two-year period if it finds
‘‘such an exemption would likely
achieve a level of safety that is
equivalent to, or greater than, the level
that would be achieved absent such an
exemption.’’ The procedures for
requesting an exemption are set out in
49 CFR part 381.
Accordingly, FMCSA evaluated 112
individual exemption requests on their
merits and made a determination that
these applicants do not satisfy the
criteria eligibility or meet the terms and
conditions of the Federal exemption
program. Each applicant has, prior to
this notice, received a letter of final
disposition on his/her exemption
request. Those decision letters fully
outlined the basis for the denial and
constitute final Agency action. The list
published today summarizes the
Agency’s recent denials as required
under 49 U.S.C. 31315(b)(4) by
periodically publishing names and
reasons for denials.
The following 13 applicants lacked
sufficient driving experience during the
three-year period prior to the date of
their application:
Cehic, Muhamed
Emerson, Mark S.
Englis, James C.
Evans, Ronald P.
Fiddler, Eddie W.
Mears, Allan
Moon, Robert F.
Odom, Roy
Rugg, Thomas I.
Seyfried, Jr., William J.
Smith, Jr., Fornum J.
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Sooy, Donna A.
Vanlier, James A.
The following 12 applicants did not
have any experience operating a CMV.
Bomholt, Scott P.
Bradshaw, Owen D.
Fanton, Arthur
Garcia, Adrian
Kayvani, Ali A.
McEntee, Robert O.
Phinney, Michael S.
Romo, Manuel
Shoebridge, Nicholas R.
Solis, Rafael P.
Watson, Jeffrey K.
Youngblood, Justin P.
The following 19 applicants did not
have 3 years of experience driving a
CMV on public highways with the
vision deficiency.
Bennett, Gerlad W.
Buderus, Dusty L.
Doolin, Roger B.
Frasier, Jason A.
Garcia, Francisco J.
Irving, Johnny L.
Jamal, Azizi A.
Kalenbaugh, Matthew C.
Klaska, Andrew C.
Larrow, Todd P.
Lawhorn, Larry D.
Long, Tina Y.
Luterbach, Douglas D.
Miller, James C.
Morales, David O.
Phillips, William E.
Richards, Jr., Joel
Rusin, Adam A.
Wilson, Jr., Thomas C.
The following 7 applicants did not
have 3 years of recent experience
driving a CMV with the vision
deficiency.
Coffield, James J.
Czyz, Jean E.
Karow, Kevin G.
Klatt, Michael A.
Mieszala, Mark D.
Pena, Gonzalo
Snyder, Jr., Raymond L.
The following 21 applicants did not
have sufficient driving experience over
the past 3 years under normal highway
operating conditions.
Bothwell, Robert L.
Covert, LyDale M.
Dosher, Jacob F.
Dugger, William W.
Greene, James P.
Gunn, Aubrey D.
Haman, Darin E.
Hillsman, Archie C.
Jackson, Donald E.
Lachney, Shelton R.
Marks, Michael D.
Martell, Yandy H.
Mast, Jennifer E.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2008-0343]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a
Currently-Approved Information Collection: Inspection, Repair and
Maintenance
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), 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 on this submission. The
information collection concerns records of inspection, repair, and
maintenance of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). The FMCSA requests
approval to revise and renew an ICR entitled, ``Inspection, Repair and
Maintenance.'' FMCSA collects this information to ensure that motor
carriers have adequate
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documentation of their systematic inspection, repair, and maintenance
programs necessary to reduce the likelihood of CMV crashes.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before February 6, 2009.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2008-0343 using any of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington DC 20590-0001 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Each submission must include the Agency name and the docket number
for this Notice. Note that DOT posts all comments received without
change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information included in a comment. Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments, go to https://www.regulations.gov at any time or Room W12-140
on the ground level of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The FDMS is available 24 hours each
day, 365 days each year. If you want acknowledgement that we received
your comments, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
post card or print the acknowledgement page that appears after
submitting your comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or of the person signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review the DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19476). This information is also
available at https://docketsinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Deborah M. Freund, Vehicle and
Roadside Operations Division, Department of Transportation, Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-366-5370.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is
authorized under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502 to prescribe
requirements for the qualifications and maximum hours-of-service of
employees, and safety and equipment standards for motor carriers that
operate CMVs in interstate commerce. Under 49 U.S.C. 31136, the
Secretary also has authority to prescribe regulations to ensure that
CMVs are maintained, equipped, loaded and operated safely; and, under
49 U.S.C. 31143 to establish standards for annual or more frequent
inspections of CMVs under the provisions of U.S.C. 31142. The
Secretary's authority to establish improved standards or methods to
ensure brakes and brake systems of CMVs are inspected by appropriate
employees and maintained properly is provided under 49 U.S.C. 31137(b).
Motor carriers must maintain, or require maintenance of, records
documenting the inspection, repair and maintenance activities performed
on their owned and leased vehicles. There are no prescribed forms.
Electronic recordkeeping is allowed (see Sec. 390.31(d)) of title 49,
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). Documents requiring a signature must
be capable of replication (i.e., photocopy, facsimile, etc.) in such
form that will provide an opportunity for signature verification upon
demand. Also, if electronic recordkeeping is used, all of the relevant
data on the original documents must be included in the electronic
transmission for the records to be valid.
The motor carrier industry has never questioned the need to keep
CMV maintenance records. In fact, most motor carriers would keep some
records without any regulatory requirements to do so. Records of
inspection, repair, and maintenance; roadside inspection reports;
driver vehicle inspection reports; the documentation of periodic
inspections; the evidence of the qualifications of individuals
performing periodic inspections; and the evidence of brake inspectors'
qualifications contain the minimum amount of information necessary to
document that a motor carrier has established a system of inspection,
repair, and maintenance for its equipment which meets the standards in
part 396.
FMCSA and its representatives use these records to verify motor
carriers' compliance with the inspection, repair, and maintenance
standards in part 396. This ICR supports the Department of
Transportation's strategic goal of safety. The ICR also ensures that
motor carriers have adequate records to document the inspection,
repair, and maintenance of their CMVs, and to ensure that adequate
measures are taken to keep their CMVs in safe and proper operating
condition at all times. Compliance with the inspection, repair, and
maintenance regulations helps to reduce the likelihood of accidents
attributable, in whole or in part, to the mechanical condition of the
CMV.
The Agency does not intend to revise the contents of this
information collection, the frequency of information collection, or how
it uses the information. This renewal would update the estimated annual
burden and associated costs to reflect changes in the number of drivers
and motor carrier entities subject to the part 396 records requirements
since the current information collection was approved.
If the recordkeeping were required to be completed less frequently,
it would greatly hinder the ability of FMCSA and State officials and
representatives to ascertain that CMVs are satisfactorily maintained.
The timely documentation of CMV inspection, repair, and maintenance
enables FMCSA and State officials to evaluate the present state of a
motor carrier's CMV maintenance program and to check the current level
of regulatory compliance at any point in a carrier's maintenance
schedule or program.
The FMCSA has identified duplicative periodic inspection standards.
Periodic inspection programs of 23 States, the District of Columbia,
the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, 10 Canadian Provinces, and
one Canadian Territory were identified as comparable to, or as
effective as, the Federal periodic inspection requirements. The FMCSA
does not require Federal periodic inspections and the related
recordkeeping for motor carriers that comply with these equivalent
periodic inspection programs. In addition, CMVs passing certain
roadside inspections are considered to have met the requirements of a
periodic inspection; thus, there are no periodic inspection or
recordkeeping requirements for these CMVs in most cases. The FMCSA is
not aware of any other duplicative standards or recordkeeping
requirements that apply to motor carriers.
The FMCSA does not publish this collection of information for
statistical use.
Title: Inspection, Repair and Maintenance.
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OMB Control Number: 2126-0003.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 732,038.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies according to the requirements
for specific records.
Expiration Date: April 30, 2009.
Frequency of Response: Varies according to requirements for
specific records.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 66,267,505 hours [3,991,851 hours
for inspection, repair, and maintenance + 59,094,379 hours for driver
inspection + 590,933 hours for certification of corrective action +
2,265,280 hours for review of driver inspection reports + 251,629 hours
for disposition of roadside inspection reports + 34,798 hours for
periodic inspections + 18,301 hours for records of inspector
qualifications + 20,334 hours for records of brake inspector
qualifications = 66,267,505].
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 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
information collection.
Issued on: December 2, 2008.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E8-28945 Filed 12-5-08; 8:45 am]
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