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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
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[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0118]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Inspection,
Repair and Maintenance
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
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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. 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 documentation of
their inspection, repair, and
maintenance programs necessary to
reduce the likelihood of CMV crashes.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before June 4, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2018–0118 using 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 Operations; 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: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments, see the Public
Participation heading below. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
rulemaking process. DOT posts these
comments, without edit, including any
personal information the commenter
provides, to www.regulations.gov, as
described in the system of records
notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can
be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy.
SUMMARY:
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Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal website. If you want
us to notify you that we received your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Mike Huntley, 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. Telephone:
202–366–9209; email michael.huntley@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) is authorized
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502
to prescribe requirements for, among
other things, safety of operations of
equipment of 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. 31142 the
Secretary must establish standards for
annual or more frequent inspections of
CMVs. 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(g).
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 49 CFR
390.31(d)). 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
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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 49 CFR 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. Because the previous four
updates to this information collection
were developed in conjunction with
rulemaking actions, only those sections
of the information collection affected by
the specific rulemaking changes were
amended during the previous four
updates and a comprehensive update of
the information collection has not been
done since 2006. This renewal includes
updated data regarding the number of
motor carriers subject to the Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Regulations,
vehicle counts, inspections, and other
underlying data used to estimate the
total burden hours. In addition, this
revision corrects the manner in which:
(1) The burden associated with routine
inspection, repair and maintenance
records is calculated, by including nonpowered CMVs in addition to power
units; and (2) the burden associated
with periodic inspection records is
calculated, by using only the records
associated with the once-per-year
inspection conducted in accordance
with 49 CFR Chapter III, Subchapter B,
Appendix G. Finally, this revision
corrects the calculation of the burden
associated with Driver-Vehicle
Inspection Reports (DVIRs) by including
the 30 seconds required for motor
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carrier certification of corrective action
for defect DVIRs that was inadvertently
omitted in the calculation of this
estimate in the December 2014 NoDefect DVIR rule.
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 periodic
inspection standards of 22 States, the
District of Columbia, the Alabama
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, 10
Canadian Provinces, and one Canadian
Territory that are 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. The FMCSA is not
aware of any other duplicative
standards or recordkeeping
requirements that apply to motor
carriers.
The FMCSA does not employ this
collection of information for statistical
use.
Title: Inspection, Repair and
Maintenance.
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:
543,061 motor carriers and 5,739,712
drivers.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
according to the requirements for
specific records.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2018.
Frequency of Response: Varies
according to requirements for specific
records.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
13,791,001 hours [7,558,390 hours for
inspection, repair, and maintenance +
5,536,622 hours for driver vehicle
inspection reports + 194,586 hours for
disposition of roadside inspection
reports + 469,414 hours for periodic
inspections + 16,904 hours for records
of inspector qualifications + 15,085
hours for records of brake inspector
qualifications].
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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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: March 27, 2018.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2018–06859 Filed 4–3–18; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0105]
Hours of Service of Drivers:
Application for Exemption; Wilcox
Truck Line, Inc.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:
FMCSA announces that
Wilcox Truck Line, Inc. (Wilcox) has
requested an exemption from the
requirement that a motor carrier install
and require each of its drivers to use an
electronic logging device (ELD) to
record the driver’s hours-of-service
(HOS). Wilcox has requested a 5-year
exemption from ELD use when
transporting loads in support of an
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
program. INL has submitted a letter
confirming that security regulations
require these loads must be free from
being electronically tracked, which
requires disabling of the ELD. Wilcox
believes that granting this exemption
will provide an equivalent level of
safety because of the strict oversight of
this transportation by INL and other
agencies. FMCSA requests public
comment on Wilcox’s application for
exemption.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before May 4, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Number
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2018-0118]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an 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. 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 documentation of their inspection, repair, and maintenance
programs necessary to reduce the likelihood of CMV crashes.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before June 4, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2018-0118 using 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 Operations; 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: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and
docket number. For detailed instructions on submitting comments, see
the Public Participation heading below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the dockets, or go to the street
address listed above.
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits
comments from the public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT
posts these comments, without edit, including any personal information
the commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the
system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
www.dot.gov/privacy.
Public Participation: The Federal eRulemaking Portal is available
24 hours each day, 365 days each year. You can obtain electronic
submission and retrieval help and guidelines under the ``help'' section
of the Federal eRulemaking Portal website. If you want us to notify you
that we received your comments, please include a self-addressed,
stamped envelope or postcard, or print the acknowledgement page that
appears after submitting comments online. Comments received after the
comment closing date will be included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Mike Huntley, 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. Telephone: 202-366-9209; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: The Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) is authorized under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502 to
prescribe requirements for, among other things, safety of operations of
equipment of 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. 31142 the Secretary must establish
standards for annual or more frequent inspections of CMVs. 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(g).
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 49 CFR 390.31(d)). 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
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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 49 CFR 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. Because the previous four updates to this
information collection were developed in conjunction with rulemaking
actions, only those sections of the information collection affected by
the specific rulemaking changes were amended during the previous four
updates and a comprehensive update of the information collection has
not been done since 2006. This renewal includes updated data regarding
the number of motor carriers subject to the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Regulations, vehicle counts, inspections, and other underlying
data used to estimate the total burden hours. In addition, this
revision corrects the manner in which: (1) The burden associated with
routine inspection, repair and maintenance records is calculated, by
including non-powered CMVs in addition to power units; and (2) the
burden associated with periodic inspection records is calculated, by
using only the records associated with the once-per-year inspection
conducted in accordance with 49 CFR Chapter III, Subchapter B, Appendix
G. Finally, this revision corrects the calculation of the burden
associated with Driver-Vehicle Inspection Reports (DVIRs) by including
the 30 seconds required for motor carrier certification of corrective
action for defect DVIRs that was inadvertently omitted in the
calculation of this estimate in the December 2014 No-Defect DVIR rule.
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 periodic inspection standards of 22
States, the District of Columbia, the Alabama Liquefied Petroleum Gas
Board, 10 Canadian Provinces, and one Canadian Territory that are
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. The FMCSA is not aware of any
other duplicative standards or recordkeeping requirements that apply to
motor carriers.
The FMCSA does not employ this collection of information for
statistical use.
Title: Inspection, Repair and Maintenance.
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: 543,061 motor carriers and
5,739,712 drivers.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies according to the requirements
for specific records.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2018.
Frequency of Response: Varies according to requirements for
specific records.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13,791,001 hours [7,558,390 hours
for inspection, repair, and maintenance + 5,536,622 hours for driver
vehicle inspection reports + 194,586 hours for disposition of roadside
inspection reports + 469,414 hours for periodic inspections + 16,904
hours for records of inspector qualifications + 15,085 hours for
records of brake inspector qualifications].
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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 on: March 27, 2018.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2018-06859 Filed 4-3-18; 8:45 am]
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