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conflicts with or is inconsistent with
this exemption with respect to a firm or
person operating under the exemption.
Notification to FMCSA
MFT must notify FMCSA within 5
business days of any accidents (as
defined by 49 CFR 390.5), involving the
operation of any of its CMVs while
utilizing this exemption. The
notification must include the following
information:
(a) Date of the accident;
(b) City or town, and State, in which
the accident occurred, or closest to the
accident scene;
(c) Driver’s name and license number;
(d) Vehicle number and State license
number;
(e) Number of individuals suffering
physical injury;
(f) Number of fatalities;
(g) The police-reported cause of the
accident;
(h) Whether the driver was cited for
violation of any traffic laws, or motor
carrier safety regulations; and
(k) The driver’s total driving time and
total on-duty time of the CMV driver at
the time of the accident.
Reports filed under this provision shall
be emailed to MCPSD@DOT.GOV.
VIII. Termination
The FMCSA does not believe the team
drivers covered by the exemption will
experience any deterioration of their
safety record. However, should this
occur, FMCSA will take all steps
necessary to protect the public interest,
including revocation of the exemption.
The FMCSA will immediately revoke
the exemption for failure to comply
with its terms and conditions.
James A. Mullen,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2020–08207 Filed 4–17–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2019–0306]
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Annual Report of Class I and
Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
SUMMARY:
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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. FMCSA requests approval to
renew the previously approved ICR now
titled, ‘‘Annual Report of Class I and
Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers,’’ OMB
Control No. 2126–0032. This ICR is
necessary to comply with FMCSA’s
financial and operating statistics
requirements at chapter III of title 49
CFR part 369 titled, ‘‘Reports of Motor
Carriers.’’
DATES: Please send your comments by
June 19, 2020. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act
quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2019–0306 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
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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.
Jeff Secrist, Office of Registration and
Safety Information, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–385–2367; email
jeff.secrist@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Section 14123 of title 49
of the United States Code (U.S.C.)
requires certain for-hire motor carriers
of property, passengers, and household
goods to file annual financial reports.
The annual reporting program was
implemented on December 24, 1938 (3
FR 3158), and it was subsequently
transferred from the Interstate
Commerce Commission (ICC) to the U.S.
Department of Transportation’s (DOT)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics
(BTS) on January 1, 1996. The Secretary
of Transportation delegated to BTS the
responsibility for the program on
December 17, 1996 (61 FR 68162).
Annual financial reports are filed on
Form M (Class I and II for-hire property
carriers, including household goods
carriers) and Form MP–1 (Class I forhire passenger carriers). Responsibility
for collection of the reports was
transferred from BTS to FMCSA on
August 17, 2004 (69 FR 51009), and the
regulations were redesignated as 49 CFR
part 369 on August 10, 2006 (71 FR
45740). FMCSA collects carriers’ annual
reports and furnishes copies of the
reports when requested under the
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
For-hire motor carriers (including
interstate and intrastate) subject to the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations are classified on the basis of
their gross carrier operating revenues.1
1 For purposes of the Financial and Operating
Statistics (F&OS) program, carriers are classified
into the following three groups: (1) Class I carriers
are those having annual carrier operating revenues
(including interstate and intrastate) of $10 million
or more after applying the revenue deflator formula
as set forth in Note A of 49 CFR 369.2; and (2) Class
II carriers are those having annual carrier operating
revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of at
least $3 million, but less than $10 million after
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Under the Financial and Operating
Statistics (F&OS) program, FMCSA
collects from Class I and Class II for-hire
motor carriers balance sheet and income
statement data along with information
on safety needs, tonnage, mileage,
employees, transportation equipment,
and other related data. FMCSA is also
authorized to ask carriers to respond to
surveys concerning their operations.
The data and information collected is
publicly available through FOIA
requests. FMCSA has created electronic
forms that may be prepared, signed
electronically, and submitted to FMCSA
via https://ask.fmcsa.dot.gov/app/ask/.
Title: Annual Report of Class I and
Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0032.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Class I and Class II ForHire Motor Carriers of Property and
Class I For-Hire Motor Carriers of
Passengers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
128 total (42.7 per year, over three
years).
Estimated Time per Response: 9 hours
for Form M and 0.3 hours for Form MP–
1.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2020.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
384.3 hours [384.3 hours (Form M) + 0
hours (Form MP–1)].
Estimated annual respondents for
Form M decreased from 96 in the
previously approved ICR to 42.7 in the
current ICR. Estimated annual burden
hours for Form M decreased by 479.7
hours [384.3 proposed hours ¥ 864
currently approved hours = ¥479.7
hours]. Estimated annual respondents
for Form MP–1 decreased from 2 in the
previously approved ICR to 0 in the
current ICR. Estimated annual burden
hours for Form MP–1 decreased by 1
hour [0 proposed hours ¥ 1 currently
approved hour = ¥1 hour] for Form
MP–1. These changes are due to
decreased numbers of Form M and Form
MP–1 submissions received by the
Agency between 2016 and 2018, which
has resulted in lower estimates of
annual respondents/responses for the
upcoming information collection
period.
Labor costs to industry have
decreased by $22,040.15, annually
[$16,770.85 in proposed costs ¥
$38,811 currently approved costs =
¥$22,040.15]. This is due to the
decreased estimates of annual
respondents/responses. Other annual
applying the revenue deflator formula as set forth
in 49 CFR 369.2.
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costs to respondents (i.e., associated
with mailing completed forms to
FMCSA) have decreased by $55.30
[($42.70 in proposed mailing costs for
Form M + $0 in proposed mailing costs
for Form MP–1) ¥ ($96 in previously
approved mailing costs for Form M + $2
in previously approved mailing costs for
Form MP–1) = ¥$55.30]. This change is
also due to the decreased estimates of
annual respondents/responses.
For the Federal Government, annual
costs have decreased by $93.73 [$73.27
in proposed costs ¥ $167 in previously
approved costs = ¥$93.73]. This
decrease is due to the decreased
estimates of annual respondents/
responses, which results in fewer forms
to process.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to 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.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of
Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2020–08262 Filed 4–17–20; 8:45 am]
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–1999–6480; FMCSA–
2000–8398; FMCSA–2002–11714; FMCSA–
2002–12844; FMCSA–2003–15268; FMCSA–
2003–16564; FMCSA–2004–19477; FMCSA–
2005–23238; FMCSA–2006–23773; FMCSA–
2006–24015; FMCSA–2006–24783; FMCSA–
2007–0071; FMCSA–2008–0021; FMCSA–
2009–0011; FMCSA–2009–0291; FMCSA–
2009–0321; FMCSA–2010–0050; FMCSA–
2011–0057; FMCSA–2011–0365; FMCSA–
2011–0379; FMCSA–2011–0380; FMCSA–
2012–0039; FMCSA–2013–0027; FMCSA–
2013–0030; FMCSA–2013–0166; FMCSA–
2013–0169; FMCSA–2013–0174; FMCSA–
2014–0003; FMCSA–2014–0004; FMCSA–
2015–0070; FMCSA–2015–0072; FMCSA–
2015–0345; FMCSA–2015–0350; FMCSA–
2015–0351; FMCSA–2016–0024; FMCSA–
2016–0025; FMCSA–2017–0026; FMCSA–
2017–0028; FMCSA–2018–0007; FMCSA–
2018–0008; FMCSA–2018–0010]
Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Vision
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
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Notice of renewal of
exemptions; request for comments.
ACTION:
FMCSA announces its
decision to renew exemptions for 114
individuals from the vision requirement
in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations (FMCSRs) for interstate
commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers. The exemptions enable these
individuals to continue to operate CMVs
in interstate commerce without meeting
the vision requirements in one eye.
DATES: Each group of renewed
exemptions were applicable on the
dates stated in the discussions below
and will expire on the dates stated in
the discussions below. Comments must
be received on or before May 20, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket No.
FMCSA–1999–6480, Docket No.
FMCSA–2000–8398, Docket No.
FMCSA–2002–11714, Docket No.
FMCSA–2002–12844, Docket No.
FMCSA–2003–15268, Docket No.
FMCSA–2003–16564, Docket No.
FMCSA–2004–19477, Docket No.
FMCSA–2005–23238, Docket No.
FMCSA–2006–23773, Docket No.
FMCSA–2006–24015, Docket No.
FMCSA–2006–24783, Docket No.
FMCSA–2007–0071, Docket No.
FMCSA–2008–0021, Docket No.
FMCSA–2009–0011, Docket No.
FMCSA–2009–0291, Docket No.
FMCSA–2009–0321, Docket No.
FMCSA–2010–0050, Docket No.
FMCSA–2011–0057, Docket No.
FMCSA–2011–0365, Docket No.
FMCSA–2011–0379, Docket No.
FMCSA–2011–0380, Docket No.
FMCSA–2012–0039, Docket No.
FMCSA–2013–0027, Docket No.
FMCSA–2013–0030, Docket No.
FMCSA–2013–0166, Docket No.
FMCSA–2013–0169, Docket No.
FMCSA–2013–0174, Docket No.
FMCSA–2014–0003, Docket No.
FMCSA–2014–0004, Docket No.
FMCSA–2015–0070, Docket No.
FMCSA–2015–0072, Docket No.
FMCSA–2015–0345, Docket No.
FMCSA–2015–0350, Docket No.
FMCSA–2015–0351, Docket No.
FMCSA–2016–0024, Docket No.
FMCSA–2016–0025, Docket No.
FMCSA–2017–0026, Docket No.
FMCSA–2017–0028, Docket No.
FMCSA–2018–0007, Docket No.
FMCSA–2018–0008, or Docket No.
FMCSA–2018–0010 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2019-0306]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of a Currently-
Approved Information Collection Request: Annual Report of Class I and
Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers
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. FMCSA requests approval
to renew the previously approved ICR now titled, ``Annual Report of
Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers,'' OMB Control No. 2126-
0032. This ICR is necessary to comply with FMCSA's financial and
operating statistics requirements at chapter III of title 49 CFR part
369 titled, ``Reports of Motor Carriers.''
DATES: Please send your comments by June 19, 2020. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2019-0306 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. Jeff Secrist, Office of
Registration and Safety Information, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-
385-2367; email [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Section 14123 of title 49 of the United States Code
(U.S.C.) requires certain for-hire motor carriers of property,
passengers, and household goods to file annual financial reports. The
annual reporting program was implemented on December 24, 1938 (3 FR
3158), and it was subsequently transferred from the Interstate Commerce
Commission (ICC) to the U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT)
Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) on January 1, 1996. The
Secretary of Transportation delegated to BTS the responsibility for the
program on December 17, 1996 (61 FR 68162). Annual financial reports
are filed on Form M (Class I and II for-hire property carriers,
including household goods carriers) and Form MP-1 (Class I for-hire
passenger carriers). Responsibility for collection of the reports was
transferred from BTS to FMCSA on August 17, 2004 (69 FR 51009), and the
regulations were redesignated as 49 CFR part 369 on August 10, 2006 (71
FR 45740). FMCSA collects carriers' annual reports and furnishes copies
of the reports when requested under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA). For-hire motor carriers (including interstate and intrastate)
subject to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations are classified
on the basis of their gross carrier operating revenues.\1\
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\1\ For purposes of the Financial and Operating Statistics
(F&OS) program, carriers are classified into the following three
groups: (1) Class I carriers are those having annual carrier
operating revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of $10
million or more after applying the revenue deflator formula as set
forth in Note A of 49 CFR 369.2; and (2) Class II carriers are those
having annual carrier operating revenues (including interstate and
intrastate) of at least $3 million, but less than $10 million after
applying the revenue deflator formula as set forth in 49 CFR 369.2.
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Under the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) program, FMCSA
collects from Class I and Class II for-hire motor carriers balance
sheet and income statement data along with information on safety needs,
tonnage, mileage, employees, transportation equipment, and other
related data. FMCSA is also authorized to ask carriers to respond to
surveys concerning their operations. The data and information collected
is publicly available through FOIA requests. FMCSA has created
electronic forms that may be prepared, signed electronically, and
submitted to FMCSA via https://ask.fmcsa.dot.gov/app/ask/.
Title: Annual Report of Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor
Carriers.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0032.
Type of Request: Renewal of a currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor Carriers of
Property and Class I For-Hire Motor Carriers of Passengers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 128 total (42.7 per year, over
three years).
Estimated Time per Response: 9 hours for Form M and 0.3 hours for
Form MP-1.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2020.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 384.3 hours [384.3 hours (Form M) +
0 hours (Form MP-1)].
Estimated annual respondents for Form M decreased from 96 in the
previously approved ICR to 42.7 in the current ICR. Estimated annual
burden hours for Form M decreased by 479.7 hours [384.3 proposed hours
- 864 currently approved hours = -479.7 hours]. Estimated annual
respondents for Form MP-1 decreased from 2 in the previously approved
ICR to 0 in the current ICR. Estimated annual burden hours for Form MP-
1 decreased by 1 hour [0 proposed hours - 1 currently approved hour = -
1 hour] for Form MP-1. These changes are due to decreased numbers of
Form M and Form MP-1 submissions received by the Agency between 2016
and 2018, which has resulted in lower estimates of annual respondents/
responses for the upcoming information collection period.
Labor costs to industry have decreased by $22,040.15, annually
[$16,770.85 in proposed costs - $38,811 currently approved costs = -
$22,040.15]. This is due to the decreased estimates of annual
respondents/responses. Other annual costs to respondents (i.e.,
associated with mailing completed forms to FMCSA) have decreased by
$55.30 [($42.70 in proposed mailing costs for Form M + $0 in proposed
mailing costs for Form MP-1) - ($96 in previously approved mailing
costs for Form M + $2 in previously approved mailing costs for Form MP-
1) = -$55.30]. This change is also due to the decreased estimates of
annual respondents/responses.
For the Federal Government, annual costs have decreased by $93.73
[$73.27 in proposed costs - $167 in previously approved costs = -
$93.73]. This decrease is due to the decreased estimates of annual
respondents/responses, which results in fewer forms to process.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to 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.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2020-08262 Filed 4-17-20; 8:45 am]
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