Agency Information Collection (IC) Activities; Revision of an Approved IC; Accident Recordkeeping Requirements, 54940-54941 [2010-22456]

Download as PDF 54940 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 174 / Thursday, September 9, 2010 / Notices 3097 (international); participant code 7160616. Background information may be found at the FAAC Web site, located at https://www.dot.gov/faac. The agenda includes— 1. Discussion of topics offered by subcommittee members on the subject of labor and improving the workforce of the aviation industry. 2. Establishment of a plan and timeline for further work. 3. Identification of priority issues for the fourth (October 1, 2010) and fifth (November 15, 2010) subcommittee meetings. Registration The meeting can accommodate up to 100 members of the public. Persons desiring to attend must pre-register through e-mail to FAAC@dot.gov. The term ‘‘Registration: Labor/Workforce’’ must be listed in the subject line of the message, and admission will be limited to the first 100 persons to pre-register and receive a confirmation of their preregistration. 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If you need alternative formats or services because of a disability, please send a request to FAAC@dot.gov with the term ‘‘Special Accommodations’’ listed in the subject line of the message by close of business on Friday, September 17, 2010. mstockstill on DSKH9S0YB1PROD with NOTICES FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Terri L. Williams, Director, Center for Organizational Excellence, Assistant Administrator for Human Resources, Federal Aviation Administration, 800 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20591; (202) 267–3456, extension 7472; or Regis P. Milan, Office of Aviation Analysis, U.S. Department of Transportation; Room 86W309, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590; (202) 366–2349. VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:24 Sep 08, 2010 Jkt 220001 Issued in Washington, DC, on September 3, 2010. Pamela Hamilton-Powell, Designated Federal Official, Future of Aviation Advisory Committee. [FR Doc. 2010–22425 Filed 9–8–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE P DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration [Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0270] Agency Information Collection (IC) Activities; Revision of an Approved IC; Accident Recordkeeping Requirements Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. AGENCY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA announces its plan to request that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approve revision of the Information Collection (IC) entitled, ‘‘Accident Recordkeeping Requirements,’’ because FMCSA has obtained more accurate data upon which to base calculation of the paperwork burden of this IC. The FMCSA invites public comment. DATES: We must receive your comments on or before November 8, 2010. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA–2010–0270 by any of the following methods: • Federal eRulemaking Portal: 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, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. • Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. E.T., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. Instructions: 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 FDMS to read background documents or comments, go to https:// SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 www.regulations.gov at any time or to 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., e.t. Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. The FDMS is available 24 hours each day, 365 days each year. We will acknowledge receipt of your written comments if you include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or postcard. Your on-line comments are acknowledged by a printable confirmation message that appears immediately after you submit them online. 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 DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement for the Federal Docket Management System published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316). This information is also available at https:// edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8785.pdf. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Thomas Yager, Chief, Driver and Carrier Operations Division, Office of Bus and Truck Standards and Operations, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 0001. Telephone: 202–366–4325. Email: MCPSD@dot.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal agencies must obtain approval from OMB for each IC they conduct, sponsor, or require through regulations. FMCSA has determined that it needs to revise the currently-approved estimate for OMB Control No. 2126–0009, ‘‘Accident Recordkeeping Requirements.’’ The regulation underlying this IC is 49 CFR 390.15, ‘‘Assistance in investigations and special studies.’’ It requires motor carriers to make all records and information pertaining to specified accidents available to an authorized representative or special agent of the FMCSA upon request, or as part of an inquiry. Interstate motor carriers are required to maintain an Accident Register consisting of specified information about each accident involving their commercial motor vehicles. The information for each accident must include, at a minimum, the following elements: Date of E:\FR\FM\09SEN1.SGM 09SEN1 mstockstill on DSKH9S0YB1PROD with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 174 / Thursday, September 9, 2010 / Notices accident, city or town in which or most near where the accident occurred, the State in which the accident occurred, driver name, number of injuries, number of fatalities, and whether hazardous materials, other than fuel spilled from the fuel tanks of motor vehicles involved in the accident, were released. In addition, the register must contain copies of all accident reports required by State or other governmental entities or insurers. Motor carriers must maintain the required information in the Accident Register for 3 years after the date of the accident. This IC strengthens FMCSA’s ability to assess motor carrier safety performance. These assessments enable FMCSA to direct its enforcement resources to the motor carriers with the weakest safety records, helping those carriers prevent accidents and reduce their severity. On February 8, 2008, OMB approved FMCSA’s estimate for this IC of 32,040 annual burden hours and established an expiration date for this IC of February 28, 2011. Today FMCSA announces its plan to request that OMB approve revision of this estimate to 22,500 annual burden hours. Title: Accident Recordkeeping Requirements. OMB Control Number: 2126–0009. Type of Request: Revision of an ICR. Respondents: Motor carriers engaged in interstate commerce. Estimated Number of Respondents: 500,000. Estimated Number of Responses: 75,000. Estimated Time per Response: 18 minutes. Frequency of Response: On occasion. Expiration Date: February 28, 2011. Estimated Total Annual Burden: 22,500 hours. Improved FMCSA accident data provides a more accurate estimate of the total responses to this information collection each year: 75,000. The Agency’s previous estimate was 106,800 responses. FMCSA retains its prior estimate that a motor carrier requires approximately 18 minutes, on average, to complete the tasks necessary to comply with § 390.15, i.e., collecting the required information about the accident, entering it into the Accident Register and maintaining it and other documents required by § 390.15. Therefore, the annual burden hours for all motor carriers is 22,500 hours (rounded) (75,000 responses × 18 minutes each divided by 60 minutes per hour). Definitions: Each of these definitions can be found at 49 CFR 390.5: ‘‘Motor carrier’’: Any person engaged in a business affecting interstate commerce VerDate Mar<15>2010 18:49 Sep 08, 2010 Jkt 220001 who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle in connection with that business, or assigns employees to operate it. ‘‘Commercial motor vehicle’’: A self-propelled or towed vehicle used on the highways in interstate commerce to transport passengers or property, if the vehicle—(1) Has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or gross combination weight of 10,001 pounds, whichever is greater; or (2) Is designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers (including the driver) for compensation; or (3) Is designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers, including the driver, and is not used to transport passengers for compensation; or (4) Is used in transporting material found by the Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous under section 5103 of title 49, United States Code, and transported in a quantity requiring placarding under regulations prescribed by the Secretary under section 5103. ‘‘Accident’’: An occurrence involving a Commercial motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate or intrastate commerce which results in: (i) A fatality; (ii) bodily injury to a person who, as a result of the injury, receives medical treatment away from the scene of the accident; or (iii) one or more motor vehicles incurring disabling damage as a result of the accident, requiring the motor vehicle(s) to be transported away from the scene by a tow truck or other motor vehicle. The term ‘‘accident’’ does not include: (i) An occurrence involving only boarding or alighting from a stationary motor vehicle or (ii) An occurrence involving only the loading or unloading of cargo. 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 information collection. Issued on: September 2, 2010. Kelly Leone, Office Director for Information Technology. [FR Doc. 2010–22456 Filed 9–8–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 54941 DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration [Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0210] Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved Information Collection Request: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT. ACTION: Notice; request for comments. AGENCY: 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 and invites public comment. The FMCSA requests approval to revise an existing ICR entitled ‘‘Hazardous Materials Safety Permits,’’ due to an increase in the estimated number of annual trips in which permitted hazardous materials (HM) are transported. This ICR requires companies holding permits to develop a communications plan that allows for the periodic tracking of the shipment. A record of the communications that includes the time of the call and location of the shipment may be kept by either the driver (e.g., recorded in the log book) or the company. These records must be kept, either physically or electronically, for at least six months at the company’s principal place of business or readily available to the employees at the company’s principal place of business. This ICR is being revised due to an increase in the estimated number of annual trips in which permitted HM is transported resulting in change to the total information collection burden for maintaining a daily communication record. DATES: We must receive your comments on or before November 8, 2010. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA–2010–0210 using any of the following methods: • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line instructions for submitting comments. • Fax: 202–493–2251. • 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 SUMMARY: E:\FR\FM\09SEN1.SGM 09SEN1

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2010-0270]


Agency Information Collection (IC) Activities; Revision of an 
Approved IC; Accident Recordkeeping Requirements

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 request that the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approve revision of the Information Collection (IC) entitled, 
``Accident Recordkeeping Requirements,'' because FMCSA has obtained 
more accurate data upon which to base calculation of the paperwork 
burden of this IC. The FMCSA invites public comment.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before November 8, 2010.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2010-0270 by any of the 
following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: 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, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground 
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor, 
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
E.T., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: 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 FDMS to read background documents or 
comments, go to https://www.regulations.gov at any time or to 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., e.t. Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The FDMS is available 24 hours 
each day, 365 days each year. We will acknowledge receipt of your 
written comments if you include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 
postcard. Your on-line comments are acknowledged by a printable 
confirmation message that appears immediately after you submit them 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 DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement for the Federal 
Docket Management System published in the Federal Register on January 
17, 2008 (73 FR 3316). This information is also available at https://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/E8-785.pdf.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Thomas Yager, Chief, Driver and 
Carrier Operations Division, Office of Bus and Truck Standards and 
Operations, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-366-4325. 
E-mail: MCPSD@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), 
Federal agencies must obtain approval from OMB for each IC they 
conduct, sponsor, or require through regulations. FMCSA has determined 
that it needs to revise the currently-approved estimate for OMB Control 
No. 2126-0009, ``Accident Recordkeeping Requirements.'' The regulation 
underlying this IC is 49 CFR 390.15, ``Assistance in investigations and 
special studies.'' It requires motor carriers to make all records and 
information pertaining to specified accidents available to an 
authorized representative or special agent of the FMCSA upon request, 
or as part of an inquiry. Interstate motor carriers are required to 
maintain an Accident Register consisting of specified information about 
each accident involving their commercial motor vehicles. The 
information for each accident must include, at a minimum, the following 
elements: Date of

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accident, city or town in which or most near where the accident 
occurred, the State in which the accident occurred, driver name, number 
of injuries, number of fatalities, and whether hazardous materials, 
other than fuel spilled from the fuel tanks of motor vehicles involved 
in the accident, were released. In addition, the register must contain 
copies of all accident reports required by State or other governmental 
entities or insurers. Motor carriers must maintain the required 
information in the Accident Register for 3 years after the date of the 
accident.
    This IC strengthens FMCSA's ability to assess motor carrier safety 
performance. These assessments enable FMCSA to direct its enforcement 
resources to the motor carriers with the weakest safety records, 
helping those carriers prevent accidents and reduce their severity.
    On February 8, 2008, OMB approved FMCSA's estimate for this IC of 
32,040 annual burden hours and established an expiration date for this 
IC of February 28, 2011. Today FMCSA announces its plan to request that 
OMB approve revision of this estimate to 22,500 annual burden hours.
    Title: Accident Recordkeeping Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0009.
    Type of Request: Revision of an ICR.
    Respondents: Motor carriers engaged in interstate commerce.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 500,000.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 75,000.
    Estimated Time per Response: 18 minutes.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Expiration Date: February 28, 2011.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 22,500 hours.
    Improved FMCSA accident data provides a more accurate estimate of 
the total responses to this information collection each year: 75,000. 
The Agency's previous estimate was 106,800 responses. FMCSA retains its 
prior estimate that a motor carrier requires approximately 18 minutes, 
on average, to complete the tasks necessary to comply with Sec.  
390.15, i.e., collecting the required information about the accident, 
entering it into the Accident Register and maintaining it and other 
documents required by Sec.  390.15. Therefore, the annual burden hours 
for all motor carriers is 22,500 hours (rounded) (75,000 responses x 18 
minutes each divided by 60 minutes per hour).
    Definitions: Each of these definitions can be found at 49 CFR 
390.5: ``Motor carrier'': Any person engaged in a business affecting 
interstate commerce who owns or leases a commercial motor vehicle in 
connection with that business, or assigns employees to operate it. 
``Commercial motor vehicle'': A self-propelled or towed vehicle used on 
the highways in interstate commerce to transport passengers or 
property, if the vehicle--(1) Has a gross vehicle weight rating or 
gross combination weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or gross 
combination weight of 10,001 pounds, whichever is greater; or (2) Is 
designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers (including the 
driver) for compensation; or (3) Is designed or used to transport more 
than 15 passengers, including the driver, and is not used to transport 
passengers for compensation; or (4) Is used in transporting material 
found by the Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous under section 
5103 of title 49, United States Code, and transported in a quantity 
requiring placarding under regulations prescribed by the Secretary 
under section 5103. ``Accident'': An occurrence involving a Commercial 
motor vehicle operating on a highway in interstate or intrastate 
commerce which results in: (i) A fatality; (ii) bodily injury to a 
person who, as a result of the injury, receives medical treatment away 
from the scene of the accident; or (iii) one or more motor vehicles 
incurring disabling damage as a result of the accident, requiring the 
motor vehicle(s) to be transported away from the scene by a tow truck 
or other motor vehicle. The term ``accident'' does not include: (i) An 
occurrence involving only boarding or alighting from a stationary motor 
vehicle or (ii) An occurrence involving only the loading or unloading 
of cargo.
    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 information 
collection.

    Issued on: September 2, 2010.
Kelly Leone,
Office Director for Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2010-22456 Filed 9-8-10; 8:45 am]
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