Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision and Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits, 60142-60143 [2019-24236]
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a Draft EIS on a proposal for a highway
improvement project in Orange County
and San Diego County, California. The
proposed improvements intended to
address north-south regional mobility
and accommodation of travel demand
include the extension of the tolled State
Route (SR) 241 lanes to Interstate (I) 5,
the extension of Crown Valley Parkway
to SR 241, new connections between
Ortega Highway, Antonio Parkway,
Avery Parkway, and SR–73, new general
purpose lanes on I–5, new managed
lanes on I–5, or combinations of these
preliminary alternatives. Currently, the
following alternatives are being
considered, ranging from approximately
4 to 22 miles in length:
• Alternative 1/No Build Alternative;
taking no action.
• Alternative 13; connect SR 241 to I–
5 via a connection from Los Patrones
Parkway to La Novia Avenue, I–5
widening and improvements, and the
addition of HOT lanes in each
direction on I–5
• Alternative 17; connect SR 241 to I–
5 via a connection from Los Patrones
Parkway to Avenida Vaquero, I–5
widening and improvements, and the
addition of HOT lanes in each
direction on I–5
• Alternative 14; connect SR 241 to I–
5 via a connection from Los Patrones
Parkway to Avenida Pico, I–5
widening and improvements, and the
addition of HOT lanes in each
direction on I–5
• Alternative 11; add I–5 general
purpose lanes from I–405 to San
Diego County
• Alternative 12; add I–5 HOT/toll lanes
from I–405 to San Diego County
• Alternative 9; connect Ortega
Highway and Antonio Parkway to
Avery Parkway and SR 73
• Alternative 18; connect SR–241 to
SR–73 and extend Crown Valley
Parkway to SR 241
• Alternative 21; extend Los Patrones
Parkway to Avenida La Pata and add
HOT lanes in each direction on I–5
• Alternative 22; extend Los Patrones
Parkway to Avenida La Pata
• Alternative 23; extend I–5 managed
lanes from SR 73 to Basilone Road or
from Avenida Pico to Basilone Road
(depending on the design option)
Anticipated Federal approvals
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Pollutant Discharge Elimination System
(NPDES), Clean Water Act (CWA)
Section 401 Water Quality, CWA
Section 404 Nationwide Permit from the
United States Army Corps of Engineers
(USACE), CWA Section 10 Permit from
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Alteration Agreement from the
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Consultation with the United States
Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) for
listed species under the Federal
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2080.1 Consistency Determination for
listed species under the California
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Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA)
Consistency Determination from the
California Coastal Commission (CCC).
Letters describing the proposed action
and soliciting comments will be sent to
appropriate Federal, State, Participating
Agencies, tribal governments, and local
agencies, and to private organizations
and citizens who have previously
expressed or are known to have interest
in this proposal. The public scoping
process will officially begin in
November 2019. In addition, a public
hearing will be held once the Draft EIS
is completed. Public notice will be
given of the time and place of the
meeting and hearing. The Draft EIS will
be available for public and agency
review and comment prior to the public
hearing to ensure that the full range of
issues related to this proposed action
are addressed and all significant issues
are identified, and comments and
suggestions are invited from all
interested parties. Comments or
questions concerning this proposed
action and the EIS should be directed to
Caltrans at the address provided above.
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning
and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372
regarding intergovernmental consultation on
Federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Issued on: October 31, 2019.
Tashia Clemons,
Director, State Programs, Federal Highway
Administration, Sacramento, California.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2019–0242]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision and Extension of a
Currently-Approved Information
Collection Request: Hazardous
Materials Safety Permits
FMCSA, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
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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 FMCSA requests
approval to revise and extend an
existing ICR titled, ‘‘Hazardous
Materials Safety Permits.’’ This ICR
requires companies holding permits to
develop and implement
communications plans that allow for the
periodic tracking of the shipments. A
record of the communications that
includes the name of the driver,
identification of the vehicle, permitted
material(s) being transported, and the
date, time and location of each contact
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 only to the
extent that the number of motor carriers
with an active Hazardous Materials
(HM) Safety Permit has decreased from
1,304 to 987.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before January 6, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2019–0242 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 Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC, 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 and additional
information on the exemption process,
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
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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: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or 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), or you may visit https://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
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: Ms.
Suzanne Rach, 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: 202–385–2307; email
suzanne.rach@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) is responsible
for implementing regulations to issue
safety permits for transporting certain
HM in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5101
et seq. Currently, the HM Safety Permit
regulations (49 CFR part 385, subpart E)
require companies applying for a HM
Safety Permit that do not have a USDOT
number to file online at the FMCSA
website via the Unified Registration
System (URS) before conducting
operations in commerce that require a
safety permit. Safety permit applications
for companies that have a USDOT
number and applications to update or
renew a safety permit must be filed with
FMCSA using the form MCS–150B
(Combined Motor Carrier Identification
Report and HMSP Application). The
URS and MCS–150B are covered under
the FMCSA’s OMB Control Number
2126–0013, ‘‘Motor Carrier
Identification Report,’’ information
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collection request. The FMCSA requires
companies holding permits to develop a
communications plan that allows for the
periodic tracking of the shipment. This
information collection request covers
the record of communications that
includes the name of the driver,
identification of the vehicle, permitted
material(s) being transported, and the
date, location and time of each contact.
The records 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 be readily
available to employees at the company’s
principal place of business.
Title: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0030.
Type of Request: Revision and
extension of a currently-approved
information collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers subject to
the Hazardous Materials Safety Permit
requirements in 49 CFR part 385,
subpart E.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
987.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes. The communication between
motor carriers and their drivers must
take place at least two times per day,
and at the pickup and delivery of each
permitted load. It is estimated that it
will take 5 minutes to maintain a daily
communication record for each driver.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2020.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
692,000 hours [8.3 million trips × 5
minutes per record ÷ 60 minutes per
hour = 691,667 rounded to 692,000]
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: October 31, 2019.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2019–0064; Notice 1]
Toyota Motor North America, Inc.,
Receipt of Petition for Decision of
Inconsequential Noncompliance
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Receipt of petition.
AGENCY:
Toyota Motor North America,
Inc., (Toyota) has determined that
certain model year (MY) 2013–2019
Lexus motor vehicles do not fully
comply with Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108,
Lamps, Reflective Devices, and
Associated Equipment. Toyota filed a
noncompliance report dated May 30,
2019. Toyota subsequently petitioned
NHTSA on June 21, 2019, for a decision
that the subject noncompliance is
inconsequential as it relates to motor
vehicle safety. This document
announces receipt of Toyota’s petition.
DATES: The closing date for comments
on the petition is December 9, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are
invited to submit written data, views,
and arguments on this petition.
Comments must refer to the docket
number cited in the title of this notice
and may be submitted by any of the
following methods:
• Mail: Send comments by mail
addressed to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: Deliver comments
by hand to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590. The Docket
Section is open on weekdays from 10
a.m. to 5 p.m. except for Federal
Holidays.
• Electronically: Submit comments
electronically by logging onto the
Federal Docket Management System
(FDMS) website at https://
www.regulations.gov/. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Comments may also be faxed to
(202) 493–2251.
Comments must be written in the
English language, and be no greater than
15 pages in length, although there is no
limit to the length of necessary
attachments to the comments. If
comments are submitted in hard copy
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2019-0242]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision and Extension
of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Hazardous
Materials Safety Permits
AGENCY: 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 FMCSA requests
approval to revise and extend an existing ICR titled, ``Hazardous
Materials Safety Permits.'' This ICR requires companies holding permits
to develop and implement communications plans that allow for the
periodic tracking of the shipments. A record of the communications that
includes the name of the driver, identification of the vehicle,
permitted material(s) being transported, and the date, time and
location of each contact 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 only to the extent that the number of motor carriers with
an active Hazardous Materials (HM) Safety Permit has decreased from
1,304 to 987.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before January 6, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2019-0242 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 Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 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 and
additional information on the exemption process, 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
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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: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or 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), or
you may visit https://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8-794.pdf.
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: Ms. Suzanne Rach, 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: 202-385-2307; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is
responsible for implementing regulations to issue safety permits for
transporting certain HM in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq.
Currently, the HM Safety Permit regulations (49 CFR part 385, subpart
E) require companies applying for a HM Safety Permit that do not have a
USDOT number to file online at the FMCSA website via the Unified
Registration System (URS) before conducting operations in commerce that
require a safety permit. Safety permit applications for companies that
have a USDOT number and applications to update or renew a safety permit
must be filed with FMCSA using the form MCS-150B (Combined Motor
Carrier Identification Report and HMSP Application). The URS and MCS-
150B are covered under the FMCSA's OMB Control Number 2126-0013,
``Motor Carrier Identification Report,'' information collection
request. The FMCSA requires companies holding permits to develop a
communications plan that allows for the periodic tracking of the
shipment. This information collection request covers the record of
communications that includes the name of the driver, identification of
the vehicle, permitted material(s) being transported, and the date,
location and time of each contact. The records 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 be readily
available to employees at the company's principal place of business.
Title: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0030.
Type of Request: Revision and extension of a currently-approved
information collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers subject to the Hazardous Materials
Safety Permit requirements in 49 CFR part 385, subpart E.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 987.
Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes. The communication between
motor carriers and their drivers must take place at least two times per
day, and at the pickup and delivery of each permitted load. It is
estimated that it will take 5 minutes to maintain a daily communication
record for each driver.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2020.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 692,000 hours [8.3 million trips x 5
minutes per record / 60 minutes per hour = 691,667 rounded to 692,000]
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: October 31, 2019.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2019-24236 Filed 11-6-19; 8:45 am]
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