Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing, 9034-9035 [2014-03345]
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Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 31 / Friday, February 14, 2014 / Notices
omb.eop.gov, 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.
Brodie Mack, Commercial Enforcement
and Investigations Division, Household
Goods Team Leader, U. S. Department
of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–366–8045; email
brodie.mack@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Practices of Household Goods
Brokers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0048.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Brokers of Household
Goods.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
690.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes per day × 240 workdays for
household goods broker transactions; 8
hours per year × 125 new entrants for
separate accounting system; 20 hours
per year × 690 brokers of household
goods for Web site/ad modifications; 10
hours per year × 690 brokers of
household goods for creating a list of
carriers; 0.5 hours per month × 12
months × 690 brokers of household
goods for confirming required
information; 0.083 hour per year ×
20,000 explanations; 4 hours per year ×
5 agreements × 690 brokers of
household goods for annual agreements
through turnover; and 10 hours per year
× 690 brokers of household goods for
disclosure and records.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2014.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
89,607 hours.
Background: FMCSA, in response to
Title IV, Subtitle B of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient,
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (SAFETEA–LU) (Pub. L. 109–59)
and a petition for rulemaking from the
American Moving and Storage
Association (AMSA), amended 49 CFR
part 371, existing regulations for
brokers, with a Final Rule titled,
‘‘Brokers of Household Goods
Transportation by Motor Vehicles, (75
FR 72987), November 29, 2010,
providing additional consumer
protection responsibilities for brokers of
HHG.
Section 4212 of SAFETEA–LU directs
the Secretary to require HHG brokers to
provide individual shippers with the
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following information whenever a
broker has contact with a shipper or
potential shipper:
1. The broker’s USDOT number.
2. The FMCSA booklet titled ‘‘Your
Rights and Responsibilities When You
Move.’’
3. A list of all authorized motor
carriers providing transportation of
HHG used by the broker and a statement
that the broker is not a motor carrier
providing transportation of HHG.
FMCSA, as the result of a rulemaking
that took effect November 29, 2010,
amended 49 CFR part 371 by adding
subpart B, specific consumer protection
requirements for HHG brokers. The
collection of information required by
this rulemaking assists shippers in their
business dealings with interstate HHG
brokers. The information collected is
used by prospective shippers to make
informed decisions about contracts and
services ordered, executed, and settled.
The HHG broker is often the primary
contact for individual shippers and in
the best position to educate shippers
and prepare them for a successful move.
The information collected makes that
possible. To combat deceptive business
practices, this helps enforcement
personnel better protect consumers by
verifying that shippers are receiving
information they are entitled to by
regulation.
HHG brokers are required to provide
individual shippers the ‘‘Your Rights
and Responsibilities When You Move’’
booklet and the ‘‘Ready to Move’’
brochure. They have the option of
providing paper copies or presenting the
information through a link on their
Internet Web site. The broker is required
to document with signed receipts that
the individual shipper was provided
those materials. HHG brokers are also
required to provide the list of HHG
motor carriers for which it would
arrange transportation to move a
potential individual shipper’s HHG, and
that broker’s identification information:
1. Assigned USDOT number; and
2. Address.
Public Comments Invited
FMCSA requests that you comment
on any aspect of this information
collection, including: (1) Whether the
proposed collection is necessary for
FMCSA to perform its 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
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for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: February 6, 2014.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2013–0305]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Transportation of Hazardous
Materials, Highway Routing
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 submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The FMCSA
requests approval to extend an existing
ICR is titled, ‘‘Transportation of
Hazardous Materials, Highway
Routing.’’ The information reported by
States and Indian tribes is necessary to
identify designated/restricted routes and
restrictions or limitations affecting how
motor carriers may transport certain
hazardous materials on their highways,
including dates that such routes were
established and information on
subsequent changes or new hazardous
materials routing designations. FMCSA
received one comment from a trucking
association in response to the 60-day
Federal Register Notice published on
October 23, 2013.
DATES: Please send your comments by
March 17, 2014. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act on
the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2013–0305. 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 Desk Officer, Department of
SUMMARY:
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Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, and sent via
electronic mail to 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.
Paul Bomgardner, Office of Enforcement
and Compliance, Hazardous Materials
Division, Department of Transportation,
FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590. Telephone: 202–493–0027;
email paul.bomgardner@dot.gov. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Transportation of Hazardous
Materials, Highway Routing.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0014.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: The reporting burden is
shared by 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, American
Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of
the Northern Mariana Islands and the
U.S. Virgin Islands.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 51
[35 States, District of Columbia, and
U.S. Territories with designated
hazardous materials highway routes +
15 States/U.S. Territories without
designated hazardous materials highway
routes + 1 Indian tribe with a designated
route = 51].
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2014.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13
hours [51 annual respondents × 1
response × 15 minutes per response/60
minutes per response = 12.75 hours,
rounded to 13 hours].
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Background
The data for the Transportation of
Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing
ICR is collected under authority of 49
U.S.C. 5112 and 5125. Specifically, 49
U.S.C. 5112(c) requires that the
Secretary, in coordination with the
States, ‘‘shall update and publish
periodically a list of currently effective
hazardous material highway route
designations.’’
Under 49 CFR 397.73, the FMCSA
Administrator has the authority to
request that each State and Indian tribe,
through its routing agency, provide
information identifying hazardous
materials routing designations within its
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jurisdiction. That information is
collected and consolidated by FMCSA
and published annually, in whole or as
updates, in the Federal Register.
Comments From the Public: The
FMCSA received 1 comment in
response to the 60-day comment request
Federal Register notice published on
October 23, 2013. FMCSA will consider
the comment received from the
American Trucking Association (ATA)
that addressed the changes to be
implemented in the ICR to meet the
requirements of Public Law 112–141,
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century Act (MAP–21).
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 FMCSA to perform its
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.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: February 6, 2014.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
Sunshine Act Meetings; Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Unified Carrier
Registration Plan Board of Directors
Meeting.
AGENCY:
The meeting will be
held on February 25, 2014, from 11:00
a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Central Standard
Time.
PLACE: This meeting will be open to the
public at the Menger Hotel, 204 Alamo
Plaza, San Antonio, TX 78205 and via
conference call. Those not attending the
meeting in person may call 1–877–422–
1931, passcode 2855443940, to listen
and participate in this meeting.
STATUS: Open to the public.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The
Unified Carrier Registration Plan Board
of Directors (the Board) will continue its
work in developing and implementing
TIME AND DATE:
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the Unified Carrier Registration Plan
and Agreement and to that end, may
consider matters properly before the
Board.
Mr.
Avelino Gutierrez, Chair, Unified
Carrier Registration Board of Directors at
(505) 827–4565.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Issued on: February 10, 2014.
Robert W. Miller,
Director for Policy, Strategic Planning, and
Regulation.
[FR Doc. 2014–03459 Filed 2–12–14; 4:15 pm]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2013–0314]
Parts and Accessories Necessary for
Safe Operation; Application for an
Exemption From Van Hool N.V. and
Coach USA
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; reopening docket and
extension of comment period.
AGENCY:
The Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (FMCSA) is
reopening and extending the comment
period for its notice requesting
comments on an application for
exemption from Van Hool N.V. and
Coach USA (Van Hool/Coach USA) to
allow the use of double deck
motorcoaches constructed with a
sleeper berth that has an exit that does
not meet the minimum dimensional
requirements specified in the Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Regulations
(FMCSRs). In its comments responding
to the notice, Advocates for Highway
and Auto Safety (Advocates) pointed
out that the Agency failed to include a
copy of the Van Hool/Coach USA
application in the docket for public
inspection as required by statute and
regulation. In response to the Advocates
concern, the Agency (1) has placed a
copy of the Van Hool/Coach USA
application in the docket, (2) is
reopening the docket, and (3) is
extending the comment period from
February 14, 2014 until March 3, 2014.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before March 3, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT DMS Docket Number
FMCSA–2013–0314 by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2013-0305]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a
Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Transportation of
Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing
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 review
and approval. The FMCSA requests approval to extend an existing ICR is
titled, ``Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.'' The
information reported by States and Indian tribes is necessary to
identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions or limitations
affecting how motor carriers may transport certain hazardous materials
on their highways, including dates that such routes were established
and information on subsequent changes or new hazardous materials
routing designations. FMCSA received one comment from a trucking
association in response to the 60-day Federal Register Notice published
on October 23, 2013.
DATES: Please send your comments by March 17, 2014. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2013-0305. 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 Desk Officer, Department of
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Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and sent
via electronic mail to 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. Paul Bomgardner, Office of
Enforcement and Compliance, Hazardous Materials Division, Department of
Transportation, FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-493-0027; email
paul.bomgardner@dot.gov. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: The reporting burden is shared by 50 States, the
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 51 [35 States, District of
Columbia, and U.S. Territories with designated hazardous materials
highway routes + 15 States/U.S. Territories without designated
hazardous materials highway routes + 1 Indian tribe with a designated
route = 51].
Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2014.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13 hours [51 annual respondents x 1
response x 15 minutes per response/60 minutes per response = 12.75
hours, rounded to 13 hours].
Background
The data for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway
Routing ICR is collected under authority of 49 U.S.C. 5112 and 5125.
Specifically, 49 U.S.C. 5112(c) requires that the Secretary, in
coordination with the States, ``shall update and publish periodically a
list of currently effective hazardous material highway route
designations.''
Under 49 CFR 397.73, the FMCSA Administrator has the authority to
request that each State and Indian tribe, through its routing agency,
provide information identifying hazardous materials routing
designations within its jurisdiction. That information is collected and
consolidated by FMCSA and published annually, in whole or as updates,
in the Federal Register.
Comments From the Public: The FMCSA received 1 comment in response
to the 60-day comment request Federal Register notice published on
October 23, 2013. FMCSA will consider the comment received from the
American Trucking Association (ATA) that addressed the changes to be
implemented in the ICR to meet the requirements of Public Law 112-141,
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21).
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 FMCSA to perform its 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.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: February
6, 2014.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology
and Chief Information Officer.
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