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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2008–0038]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection:
Survey of Over-the-Road Bus
Companies About Accessible
Transportation for Individuals With
Disabilities
Office of the Secretary, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Office of the Secretary, 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. The new information
collection is associated with a required
review pursuant to the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA),
implementing regulations for a Survey
Over-the-Road Bus (OTRB) Companies
located at subpart H of 49 CFR part 37.
The collected information would assist
DOT with any decision to modify or
retain the requirements contained in the
ADA regulations. On April 22, 2008, the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA) published a
Federal Register notice (at 73 FR 21685)
allowing for a 60-day comment period
on a new ICR involving OTRBs. Two
comments were received on this issue.
DATES: Please send your comments by
August 31, 2009. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number DOT–
OST–2008–0038. Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on
the proposed information collection to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget. Comments should be addressed
to the attention of the DOT FMCSA
Desk Officer via electronic mail at
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed
to (202) 395–6974, or mailed to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102,
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC
20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Peter Chandler, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance,
Commercial Passenger Carrier Safety
PO 00000
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Division, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
(202) 366–5763, or e-mail
peter.chandler@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Survey of Over-the-Road Bus
Companies About Accessible
Transportation for Individuals With
Disabilities.
Type of Information Collection
Request: New information collection.
Respondents: Private entities that
operate over-the-road buses (OTRBs) are
primarily in the business of transporting
people, and whose operations affect
commerce.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
3,800.
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated average burden per response
is 15 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 950
hours [(3,800 responses × 15 minutes
per response)/60 minutes = 950 hours,
or 1,900 if conducted twice a year].
Frequency of Response: This
proposed information collection is
planned to be conducted only once or
twice a year. A decision to request the
information for a second time would be
based upon the number of responses
and the content of such responses to the
initial request.
Background: On September 28, 1998,
DOT issued final regulations, in
response to the Americans with
Disabilities Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–
336, 104 Stat. 327, 42 U.S.C. 12101–
12213 and 47 U.S.C. 225 and 611),
which required the accessibility of new
OTRBs and accessible OTRB service.
The regulations require commercial
OTRB operators to ensure that
passengers with disabilities can use
OTRBs. DOT is required by 49 CFR
37.215 to review the various
requirements within the ADA
regulations for OTRB companies. As
part of this review, DOT is required to
consider certain factors including the
percentage of accessible ORTBs in the
fleets of OTRB companies, the success
of such companies at meeting the
requests of passengers with disabilities
for accessible OTRBs in a timely
manner, ridership of OTRBs by
passengers with disabilities, volume of
complaints by passengers with
disabilities, and the cost and service
impacts of these requirements. After the
review, DOT is required to decide
whether it is appropriate to somehow
revise the ADA regulations for OTRB
companies (i.e., whether certain
provisions of the ADA regulations
should be removed, modified, or made
more stringent).
DOT has an information collection to
cover this paperwork burden under
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OMB Control Number 2100–0019 to
provide the Agency with data for use in
its review of the ADA related
requirements and to monitor
compliance by OTRB companies. Such
data are reported to FMCSA as the
agency delegated by DOT for this
purpose. DOT needs additional data
from OTRB companies so that it can
conduct an effective review and make
an informed regulatory policy decision
on whether there is a need to revise,
modify or remove any of the ADA
regulations involving OTRBs.
Specifically, data about bus fleet
accessibility, fulfillment of accessible
bus requests, and ridership and volume
of complaints by passengers with
disabilities, are needed from OTRB
companies.
DOT needs the new data to conduct
the required review of the various
requirements within the ADA
regulations for OTRB companies. The
Department, however, would need
FMCSA to send letters to approximately
3,800 registered OTRB companies that
will be asked to complete and submit an
enclosed form or make an on-line data
submission via a customized Web site.
As noted above, FMCSA published
inadvertently a notice in the Federal
Register with a 60-day public comment
period to announce this new proposed
ICR on April 22, 2008. Two comments
were received. Peter Pan Bus Lines, Inc.
and the American Bus Association
questioned FMCSA’s authority to
publish this new ICR when DOT had the
authority to do so under OMB Control
Number 2100–0019. While this new
information collection request seeks
different data from DOT’s OMB Control
Number 2100–0019 Information
Collection, the initial 60-day Federal
Register notice on this issue should
have been published by DOT, rather
than by FMCSA. It is true that FMCSA
would administer this new information
collection upon OMB approval, but the
Department and FMCSA determined
that the new information collection
request should be issued by DOT since
it has the statutory authority to conduct
the required review under the ADA
regulations.
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 DOT’s
functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for the DOT
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.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on July 22,
2009.
Patricia Lawton,
DOT PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the
Chief Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2009–0084]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Request for
Renewal of a Previously Approved
Information Collection Titled: Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA) State
Reports for American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
AGENCY: Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of request for comments.
SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval for information
collection that is summarized below
under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We
published a Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day public comment period
on this information collection on May
27, 2009. We are required to publish
this notice in the Federal Register by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
August 31, 2009.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
FHWA–2009–0084, by any of the
following methods:
Web Site: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received go to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S.
Department of Transportation, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karen White, 202–366–9474, Office of
Policy and Governmental Affairs, HPTS,
Federal Highway Administration,
PO 00000
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Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington,
DC 20590, between 7:30 a.m. to 4:30
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) State Reports
for American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act (ARRA), OMB Control
#2125–0623.
Background: The American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA),
provides the State Departments of
Transportation and Federal Lands
Agencies with $27.5 billion for highway
infrastructure investment. With these
funds also comes an increased level of
data reporting with the stated goal of
improving transparency and
accountability at all levels of
government. According to President
Obama ‘‘Every American will be able to
hold Washington accountable for these
decisions by going online to see how
and where their tax dollars are being
spent.’’ The Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) in concert with
the Office of the Secretary of
Transportation (OST) and the other
modes within the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) will be taking the
appropriate steps to ensure that this
accountability and transparency is in
place for all infrastructure investments.
The reporting requirements of the
ARRA, are covered in Sections 1201,
1512 and 1609. Section 1201(c)(1)
stipulates that ‘‘notwithstanding any
other provision of law each grant
recipient shall submit to the covered
agency (FHWA) from which they
received funding periodic reports on the
use of the funds appropriated in this Act
for covered programs. Such reports shall
be collected and compiled by the
covered agency (FHWA) and
transmitted to Congress. Covered
agencies (FHWA) may develop such
reports on behalf of grant recipients
(States) to ensure the accuracy and
consistency of such reports.’’
Section 1512 of the ARRA requires
‘‘any entity that receives recovery funds
directly from the Federal Government
(including recovery funds received
through grant, loan, or contract) other
than an individual,’’ including States, to
provide regular ‘‘Recipient Reports.’’
Section 1609 references the National
Environmental Policy Act of January 1,
1970. The ARRA legislation requires
that ‘‘The President shall report to the
Senate Environment and Public Works
Committee and the House National
Resources Committee every 90 days
* * * the status and progress of projects
and activities funded by this Act with
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT-OST-2008-0038]
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information
Collection: Survey of Over-the-Road Bus Companies About Accessible
Transportation for Individuals With Disabilities
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
U.S. Department of Transportation, Office of the Secretary, 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. The new information collection is associated with a required
review pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA),
implementing regulations for a Survey Over-the-Road Bus (OTRB)
Companies located at subpart H of 49 CFR part 37. The collected
information would assist DOT with any decision to modify or retain the
requirements contained in the ADA regulations. On April 22, 2008, the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) published a Federal
Register notice (at 73 FR 21685) allowing for a 60-day comment period
on a new ICR involving OTRBs. Two comments were received on this issue.
DATES: Please send your comments by August 31, 2009. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number DOT-OST-2008-0038. Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention
of the DOT FMCSA Desk Officer via electronic mail at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Peter Chandler, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, Office of Enforcement and Compliance,
Commercial Passenger Carrier Safety Division, 1200 New Jersey Avenue,
SE., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 366-5763, or e-mail
peter.chandler@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Survey of Over-the-Road Bus Companies About Accessible
Transportation for Individuals With Disabilities.
Type of Information Collection Request: New information collection.
Respondents: Private entities that operate over-the-road buses
(OTRBs) are primarily in the business of transporting people, and whose
operations affect commerce.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3,800.
Estimated Time per Response: The estimated average burden per
response is 15 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 950 hours [(3,800 responses x 15
minutes per response)/60 minutes = 950 hours, or 1,900 if conducted
twice a year].
Frequency of Response: This proposed information collection is
planned to be conducted only once or twice a year. A decision to
request the information for a second time would be based upon the
number of responses and the content of such responses to the initial
request.
Background: On September 28, 1998, DOT issued final regulations, in
response to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101-
336, 104 Stat. 327, 42 U.S.C. 12101-12213 and 47 U.S.C. 225 and 611),
which required the accessibility of new OTRBs and accessible OTRB
service. The regulations require commercial OTRB operators to ensure
that passengers with disabilities can use OTRBs. DOT is required by 49
CFR 37.215 to review the various requirements within the ADA
regulations for OTRB companies. As part of this review, DOT is required
to consider certain factors including the percentage of accessible
ORTBs in the fleets of OTRB companies, the success of such companies at
meeting the requests of passengers with disabilities for accessible
OTRBs in a timely manner, ridership of OTRBs by passengers with
disabilities, volume of complaints by passengers with disabilities, and
the cost and service impacts of these requirements. After the review,
DOT is required to decide whether it is appropriate to somehow revise
the ADA regulations for OTRB companies (i.e., whether certain
provisions of the ADA regulations should be removed, modified, or made
more stringent).
DOT has an information collection to cover this paperwork burden
under
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OMB Control Number 2100-0019 to provide the Agency with data for use in
its review of the ADA related requirements and to monitor compliance by
OTRB companies. Such data are reported to FMCSA as the agency delegated
by DOT for this purpose. DOT needs additional data from OTRB companies
so that it can conduct an effective review and make an informed
regulatory policy decision on whether there is a need to revise, modify
or remove any of the ADA regulations involving OTRBs. Specifically,
data about bus fleet accessibility, fulfillment of accessible bus
requests, and ridership and volume of complaints by passengers with
disabilities, are needed from OTRB companies.
DOT needs the new data to conduct the required review of the
various requirements within the ADA regulations for OTRB companies. The
Department, however, would need FMCSA to send letters to approximately
3,800 registered OTRB companies that will be asked to complete and
submit an enclosed form or make an on-line data submission via a
customized Web site.
As noted above, FMCSA published inadvertently a notice in the
Federal Register with a 60-day public comment period to announce this
new proposed ICR on April 22, 2008. Two comments were received. Peter
Pan Bus Lines, Inc. and the American Bus Association questioned FMCSA's
authority to publish this new ICR when DOT had the authority to do so
under OMB Control Number 2100-0019. While this new information
collection request seeks different data from DOT's OMB Control Number
2100-0019 Information Collection, the initial 60-day Federal Register
notice on this issue should have been published by DOT, rather than by
FMCSA. It is true that FMCSA would administer this new information
collection upon OMB approval, but the Department and FMCSA determined
that the new information collection request should be issued by DOT
since it has the statutory authority to conduct the required review
under the ADA regulations.
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 DOT's functions; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways for the DOT 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.
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 22, 2009.
Patricia Lawton,
DOT PRA Clearance Officer, Office of the Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. E9-18013 Filed 7-29-09; 8:45 am]
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