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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
[Summary Notice No. FAA–2019–22]
Petition for Exemption; Summary of
Petition Received; NetJets Aviation,
Inc.
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice contains a
summary of a petition seeking relief
from specified requirements of Federal
Aviation Regulations. The purpose of
this notice is to improve the public’s
awareness of, and participation in, the
FAA’s exemption process. Neither
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disposition.
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must be received on or before August
12, 2019.
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2019.
Brandon Roberts,
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Rulemaking.
Petition for Exemption
Docket No.: FAA–2013–0221.
Petitioner: The Boeing Company.
Section(s) of 14 CFR Affected:
§§ 61.75(d)(2) and 61.117.
Description of Relief Sought: The
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the requirement for a Market Surveys—
Experimental Special Airworthiness
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what types of foreign pilots are eligible
to use the exemption, and enable
exempted customer pilots to obtain
training credit with their Foreign Civil
Aviation Authority for elements of
customer sales demonstration flights
that meet their training requirements.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0278]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection:
Crime Prevention for Truckers
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, the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (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.
This request, titled ‘‘Crime Prevention
for Truckers,’’ will allow for a study to
understand the prevalence, seriousness,
and nature of the problem of harassment
and assaults against minority and
female truckers.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before September 23, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2018–0278 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
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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: Jeff
Loftus, Division Chief, Technology
Division, Department of Transportation,
FMCSA, West Building, 6th Floor, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: 202–385–2363;
email: jeff.loftus@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: FMCSA has
accumulated evidence, both
documentary and anecdotal, for a
serious pattern of harassment- and
assault-related crimes against female
and minority male truckers. For
example, Security Journal, in a 2006
article titled ‘‘Workplace Violence
against Female Long-haul Truckers,’’
reported that 42 percent of female longhaul truckers reported experiencing one
or more types of workplace violence.
USA Today, in a 2017 article titled
‘‘Rigged,’’ gave accounts of repeated
harassment of minority male truckers.
Currently, FMCSA does not provide
materials or training to truckers,
including minority and female truckers,
on how to protect themselves from
being stalked, harassed, assaulted, or
robbed. Before effective solutions for
preventing or reducing these crimes
against female and minority truckers
can be developed and implemented,
FMCSA must understand the
prevalence, seriousness, and nature of
the problem of harassment and assaults
against truckers. Currently, there is
insufficient data. The frequency and
number of harassment- and assaultrelated crimes occurring, the portion
that are unreported, and reasons for
underreporting are unknown.
The purpose of this research study is
to gather information to answer these
questions, to understand how serious
the problem is, and to report it to
FMCSA so the Agency can decide on
further options for evaluation and
action. FMCSA needs to explore and
validate the problem of harassment- and
assault-related crimes, especially against
female and minority male truckers for
two reasons. First, there seems to be a
perception among these subpopulations
of truckers that they are more vulnerable
than others. Second, there is a critical
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shortage of truckers, and helping these
subpopulations of truckers protect
themselves from crimes could draw
more truckers from these
subpopulations, while stemming
turnover, to alleviate the shortage.
FMCSA has contracted with Battelle
to create and execute a survey of truck
drivers to gather this information. This
exploratory survey will be limited in
scale and scope. Quantitative and
qualitative analysis of the data will help
the Agency to understand the nature
and extent of the problem and begin to
formulate an approach to reducing it.
The results will not be used for
rulemaking.
The survey of professional truck
drivers will be limited to female and
minority male drivers. The survey will
ask whether the drivers have
experienced race- or gender-related
harassment or crimes on the job. If the
driver has had such an experience, the
survey will ask follow-up questions on
where and when the incidents occurred,
any information the respondent knows
about the perpetrator, and whether the
respondent reported the incident. The
survey will be anonymous. None of the
questions ask for information that could
personally identify the respondent or
any perpetrators involved. Some
respondents will take the survey online,
and others will take it in the form of an
in-person interview. Identical questions
will be asked of all drivers, but answers
from males and females will be
analyzed separately.
A maximum of 440 males and 440
females will be included in the
information collection. The information
will be collected through a combination
of an online survey and in-person
interviews. Approximately 160 inperson interviews will be completed, 80
females and 80 minority males. The
balance will take the survey
electronically. Some individuals may be
eligible to participate in the survey but
will not have had any recent experience
of harassment or assault. These
individuals will be included in the final
results for calculation of prevalence.
The total number of respondents
targeted for those who experienced
some sort of harassment or assault will
be 400 in each group. If 400 targeted
individuals are reached before the
overall cap of 440 respondents, data
collection will be stopped for that
group. Individuals who are screened but
fail to qualify as females and minority
males, or with other criteria such as not
being active drivers, will not be
included in the interview counts,
though a tabulation of the number of
such contacts and reason for their
disqualification will be reported to
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better understand resource needs and
burden in future data collection efforts
of this type. A $25 incentive will be
given to eligible respondents to the inperson interview or the online survey.
For respondents to be eligible and to
receive the incentive, they must report
that they are a female or a minority male
who has driven a truck professionally in
the past 2 years and complete the
survey—at least through the initial
questions of what events, if any, they
have experienced.
Battelle statisticians experienced in
surveys and in analyzing data for
FMCSA will execute the data analysis
plan. Findings will be presented in a
report that will be made available on the
Agency’s website so that interested
stakeholders and the general public will
be aware of the findings. Battelle is
required to deliver a public-use dataset
at the conclusion of the project. By
understanding the nature and
prevalence of crimes against truckers,
FMCSA will be able to formulate and
promote programs to address the
problem. The report may be useful to
law enforcement personnel, motor
carriers, truck drivers, operators of
private truck stops, and others
interested in addressing the situation.
If study findings indicate a significant
problem that merits action, FMCSA may
consider developing training or
outreach materials to help truckers
protect themselves from crime or
harassment. Such training or outreach
materials could help foster motor
carriers’ employee retention efforts and
help make the truck driving profession
more attractive to a greater range of
people.
Title: Crime Prevention for Truckers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX.
Type of Request: New collection.
Respondents: Female and minority
male truck drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Maximum of 880 truck drivers [80
respondents reporting no incidents of
harassment or crime + 800 respondents
reporting one or more incidents of
harassment or crime].
Estimated Time per Response: Varies.
[8 minutes for respondents not reporting
incidents of harassment or crime; 20
minutes for respondents reporting an
incident of harassment or crime].
Expiration Date: This is a new ICR.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
277.3 hours [80 respondents reporting
no incidents × (8 minutes ÷ 60 minutes
per hour) + 800 respondents reporting
one or more incidents × (20 minutes ÷
60 minutes per hour)].
Public Comments Invited: FMCSA
invites comments on any aspect of this
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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 comments in the
request for OMB’s clearance of this
information collection.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: July 17, 2019.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD–2019–0114]
Request for Comments of a Previously
Approved Information Collection
Maritime Administration, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below is being forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comments. A Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting comments on the
following information collection was
published on March 21, 2019.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before August 22, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding
the burden estimate, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the Office of Management and Budget,
Attention: Desk Officer for the Office of
the Secretary of Transportation, 725
17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Russell Krause, Division of Sealift
Operations and Emergency Response,
Maritime Administration, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, W26–494, Washington, DC
20590, 202–366–1031.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Effective U.S. Control (EUSC)/
Parent Company.
OMB Control Number: 2133–0511.
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Type of Request: Renewal of a
Previously Approved Information
Collection.
Background: The Effective U.S.
Control (EUSC) Parent Company
collection consists of an inventory of
foreign registered vessels owned by U.S.
citizens. Specifically, the collection
consists of responses from vessel
owners verifying or correcting vessel
ownership data and characteristics
found in commercial publications. The
information obtained could be vital in a
national or international emergency,
and is essential to the logistical support
planning operations conducted by
MARAD officials. The information is
used in contingency planning and
provides data related to potential sealift
capacity to support movement of fuel
and military equipment to crisis zones.
Respondents: U.S. citizens who own
foreign-registered vessels.
Affected Public: Business or other for
profit.
Total Estimated Number of
Responses: 60.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Estimated time per Respondent: 0.5
minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 30.
Public Comments Invited: Comments
are invited on: whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Department, including
whether the information will have
practical utility; the accuracy of the
Department’s estimate of the burden of
the proposed information collection;
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as
amended; and 49 CFR 1.93)
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Dated: July 18, 2019.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Notice of OFAC Sanctions Actions
Office of Foreign Assets
Control, Treasury.
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Notice.
The Department of the
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) is publishing the names
of one or more persons that have been
placed on OFAC’s Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons List
based on OFAC’s determination that one
or more applicable legal criteria were
satisfied. All property and interests in
property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of
these persons are blocked, and U.S.
persons are generally prohibited from
engaging in transactions with them.
DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section for effective date(s).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
OFAC: Associate Director for Global
Targeting, tel.: 202–622–2420; Assistant
Director for Sanctions Compliance &
Evaluation, tel.: 202–622–2490;
Assistant Director for Licensing, tel.:
202–622–2480; Assistant Director for
Regulatory Affairs, tel.: 202–622–4855;
or the Department of the Treasury’s
Office of the General Counsel: Office of
the Chief Counsel (Foreign Assets
Control), tel.: 202–622–2410.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
Electronic Availability
The Specially Designated Nationals
and Blocked Persons List and additional
information concerning OFAC sanctions
programs are available on OFAC’s
website (https://www.treasury.gov/ofac).
Notice of OFAC Action(s)
On July 18, 2019, OFAC determined
that the property and interests in
property subject to U.S. jurisdiction of
the following persons are blocked under
the relevant sanctions authority listed
below.
Individuals
1. AL-KILDANI, Rayan (a.k.a. ALKALDANI, Rayyan; a.k.a. DODI, Rian Salim
Sadeq; a.k.a. KALDANI, Rayan), Palestine
Street, DIST 505 ST 60 H 19, Baghdad, Iraq;
DOB 03 Sep 1989; POB Baghdad, Iraq;
nationality Iraq; Gender Male; National ID
No. 00365298 (Iraq) (individual) [GLOMAG].
Designated pursuant to section 1(a)(ii)(A)
of Executive Order 13818 (E.O. 13818) of
December 20, 2017, ‘‘Blocking the Property of
Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights
Abuse or Corruption,’’ for being a foreign
person who is responsible for or complicit in,
or has directly or indirectly engaged in,
serious human rights abuse.
2. QADO, Waad (a.k.a. EL KADDU, Waad;
a.k.a. ‘‘Abu Jaffar al-Shabaki’’), Iraq; DOB 12
Dec 1971; alt. DOB 01 Jan 1971; POB Mosul,
Iraq; nationality Iraq; Gender Male
(individual) [GLOMAG].
Designated pursuant to section
1(a)(ii)(C)(1) of E.O. 13818 for being a foreign
person who is or has been a leader or official
of an entity, the 30th Brigade, that has
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2018-0278]
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information
Collection: Crime Prevention for Truckers
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, the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (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. This request, titled ``Crime Prevention for
Truckers,'' will allow for a study to understand the prevalence,
seriousness, and nature of the problem of harassment and assaults
against minority and female truckers.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before September 23, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2018-0278 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
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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: Jeff Loftus, Division Chief,
Technology Division, Department of Transportation, FMCSA, West
Building, 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: 202-385-2363; email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: FMCSA has accumulated evidence, both documentary and
anecdotal, for a serious pattern of harassment- and assault-related
crimes against female and minority male truckers. For example, Security
Journal, in a 2006 article titled ``Workplace Violence against Female
Long-haul Truckers,'' reported that 42 percent of female long-haul
truckers reported experiencing one or more types of workplace violence.
USA Today, in a 2017 article titled ``Rigged,'' gave accounts of
repeated harassment of minority male truckers. Currently, FMCSA does
not provide materials or training to truckers, including minority and
female truckers, on how to protect themselves from being stalked,
harassed, assaulted, or robbed. Before effective solutions for
preventing or reducing these crimes against female and minority
truckers can be developed and implemented, FMCSA must understand the
prevalence, seriousness, and nature of the problem of harassment and
assaults against truckers. Currently, there is insufficient data. The
frequency and number of harassment- and assault-related crimes
occurring, the portion that are unreported, and reasons for
underreporting are unknown.
The purpose of this research study is to gather information to
answer these questions, to understand how serious the problem is, and
to report it to FMCSA so the Agency can decide on further options for
evaluation and action. FMCSA needs to explore and validate the problem
of harassment- and assault-related crimes, especially against female
and minority male truckers for two reasons. First, there seems to be a
perception among these subpopulations of truckers that they are more
vulnerable than others. Second, there is a critical shortage of
truckers, and helping these subpopulations of truckers protect
themselves from crimes could draw more truckers from these
subpopulations, while stemming turnover, to alleviate the shortage.
FMCSA has contracted with Battelle to create and execute a survey
of truck drivers to gather this information. This exploratory survey
will be limited in scale and scope. Quantitative and qualitative
analysis of the data will help the Agency to understand the nature and
extent of the problem and begin to formulate an approach to reducing
it. The results will not be used for rulemaking.
The survey of professional truck drivers will be limited to female
and minority male drivers. The survey will ask whether the drivers have
experienced race- or gender-related harassment or crimes on the job. If
the driver has had such an experience, the survey will ask follow-up
questions on where and when the incidents occurred, any information the
respondent knows about the perpetrator, and whether the respondent
reported the incident. The survey will be anonymous. None of the
questions ask for information that could personally identify the
respondent or any perpetrators involved. Some respondents will take the
survey online, and others will take it in the form of an in-person
interview. Identical questions will be asked of all drivers, but
answers from males and females will be analyzed separately.
A maximum of 440 males and 440 females will be included in the
information collection. The information will be collected through a
combination of an online survey and in-person interviews. Approximately
160 in-person interviews will be completed, 80 females and 80 minority
males. The balance will take the survey electronically. Some
individuals may be eligible to participate in the survey but will not
have had any recent experience of harassment or assault. These
individuals will be included in the final results for calculation of
prevalence. The total number of respondents targeted for those who
experienced some sort of harassment or assault will be 400 in each
group. If 400 targeted individuals are reached before the overall cap
of 440 respondents, data collection will be stopped for that group.
Individuals who are screened but fail to qualify as females and
minority males, or with other criteria such as not being active
drivers, will not be included in the interview counts, though a
tabulation of the number of such contacts and reason for their
disqualification will be reported to better understand resource needs
and burden in future data collection efforts of this type. A $25
incentive will be given to eligible respondents to the in-person
interview or the online survey. For respondents to be eligible and to
receive the incentive, they must report that they are a female or a
minority male who has driven a truck professionally in the past 2 years
and complete the survey--at least through the initial questions of what
events, if any, they have experienced.
Battelle statisticians experienced in surveys and in analyzing data
for FMCSA will execute the data analysis plan. Findings will be
presented in a report that will be made available on the Agency's
website so that interested stakeholders and the general public will be
aware of the findings. Battelle is required to deliver a public-use
dataset at the conclusion of the project. By understanding the nature
and prevalence of crimes against truckers, FMCSA will be able to
formulate and promote programs to address the problem. The report may
be useful to law enforcement personnel, motor carriers, truck drivers,
operators of private truck stops, and others interested in addressing
the situation.
If study findings indicate a significant problem that merits
action, FMCSA may consider developing training or outreach materials to
help truckers protect themselves from crime or harassment. Such
training or outreach materials could help foster motor carriers'
employee retention efforts and help make the truck driving profession
more attractive to a greater range of people.
Title: Crime Prevention for Truckers.
OMB Control Number: 2126-00XX.
Type of Request: New collection.
Respondents: Female and minority male truck drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: Maximum of 880 truck drivers [80
respondents reporting no incidents of harassment or crime + 800
respondents reporting one or more incidents of harassment or crime].
Estimated Time per Response: Varies. [8 minutes for respondents not
reporting incidents of harassment or crime; 20 minutes for respondents
reporting an incident of harassment or crime].
Expiration Date: This is a new ICR.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 277.3 hours [80 respondents
reporting no incidents x (8 minutes / 60 minutes per hour) + 800
respondents reporting one or more incidents x (20 minutes / 60 minutes
per hour)].
Public Comments Invited: FMCSA invites comments on any aspect of
this
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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 comments in
the request for OMB's clearance of this information collection.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 on: July 17, 2019.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2019-15609 Filed 7-22-19; 8:45 am]
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