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This online interface is known as the
National Consumer Complaint Database
(NCCDB). The NCCDB has contributed
to safer motor carrier operations on our
nation’s highways by identifying
carriers for investigations and improved
consumer protection by ensuring
moving companies use fair business
practices. FMCSA uses the information
collected in the NCCDB to monitor and
induce non-compliant regulated entities
to achieve and maintain compliance.
The NCCDB grew out of a telephone
hotline known as the Safety Violation
Hotline Service. Congress mandated this
hotline in Section 4017 of the
‘‘Transportation Equity Act of the 21st
Century,’’ Public Law 105–178, 112 Stat.
107, June 9, 1998. The Motor Carrier
Safety Improvement Act of 1999, Pubic
Law 106–159, 113 Stat. 1748, December
9, 1999, created the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration and
section 213 of the Act expanded the
Safety Violation Hotline Service to
include a 24-hour operation. On August
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Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users, (SAFETEA–LU), Public Law 109–
59, 119 Stat. 1144. Section 4214 of
SAFETEA–LU requires DOT to create a
system to record and log aggregate
complaint information regarding
violations of the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Regulations.
The NCCDB fulfills the requirements
of these mandates. Complaints are
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connection with other statutory
mandates, including, but not limited to,
protection of drivers against harassment
and coercion under sections 32301(b)
and 32911, respectively, of the Moving
Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century
Act, Public Law 112–141, 126 Stat. 405.
The NCCDB also accepts complaints
from interested parties regarding third
party intermediaries (brokers and freight
forwarders) and their associated
financial responsibility instruments.
Title: National Consumer Complaint
Database.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0067.
Type of Request: Information
collection request renewal.
Respondents: Consumers, Drivers,
and Other Participants in the Motor
Carrier Industry.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
18,546 respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2022.
over-the-road buses (OTRBs) under its Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations. (For a
complete listing of the DOT’s ADA regulations, see
49 CFR parts 37 and 38.)
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Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
4,638 hours [18,546 respondents × 1
response per respondent × 15 minutes
per response = 4,638]. Note that
estimates may not match exactly due to
rounding.
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 agency to perform its
mission; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for the
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. The agency will summarize
or include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2021–0081]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection Request:
Commercial Driver Licensing and Test
Standards
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA),
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget for its review
and approval and invites public
comment. The FMCSA requests
approval to revise and renew an ICR
titled, ‘‘Commercial Driver Licensing
and Test Standards,’’ due to an increase
in the number of commercial driver’s
license records. This ICR is needed to
ensure that drivers, motor carriers and
the States are complying with
notification and recordkeeping
requirements for information related to
testing, licensing, violations,
convictions, and disqualifications and
that the information is accurate,
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complete, transmitted, and recorded
within certain time periods as required
by the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Act of 1986 (CMVSA), as amended.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before November 2, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2021–0081 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 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: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room 12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and
5:00 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: 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
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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.
Ms.
Isabella Marra, Office of Safety
Programs, Commercial Driver’s License
Division (MC–ESL), Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, West
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001. Telephone: 202–366–9579; email:
isabella.marra@dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Background
The licensed drivers in the United
States deserve reasonable assurances
that their fellow motorists are properly
qualified to drive the vehicles they
operate. Before the Commercial Motor
Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA or
the Act) (Pub. L. 99–570, Title XII, 100
Stat. 3207–170, codified at 49 U.S.C.
chapter 313) was signed by the
President on October 27, 1986, 18 States
and the District of Columbia authorized
any person licensed to drive an
automobile to also legally drive a large
truck or bus. No special training or
special license was required to drive
these vehicles, even though it was
widely recognized that operation of
certain types of vehicles called for
special skills, knowledge, and training.
Even in the 32 States that had a
classified driver licensing system in
place, only 12 of these States required
an applicant to take a skills test in a
representative vehicle. Equally serious
was the problem of drivers possessing
multiple driver licenses. By spreading
their convictions among several States,
commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers could avoid punishment for
their infringements, and stay behind the
wheel.
The CMVSA addressed these
problems by requiring the Federal
government to act and place minimum
standards on all jurisdictions, including
the District of Columbia. Section 12002
of the Act made it illegal for a CMV
operator to have more than one driver’s
license. Section 12003 required the
CMV driver conducting operations in
commerce to notify both the designated
State of licensure official and the
driver’s employer of any convictions of
State or local laws relating to traffic
control (except parking tickets). This
section also required the promulgation
of regulations to ensure each person
who applies for employment as a CMV
operator to notify prospective employers
of all previous employment as a CMV
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operator for at least the previous 10
years.
In section 12005 of the Act, the
Secretary of Transportation (Secretary)
is required to develop minimum Federal
standards for testing and licensing of
operators of CMVs. Section 12007 of the
Act also directed the Secretary, in
cooperation with the States, to develop
a clearinghouse to aid the States in
implementing the one driver, one
license, and one driving record
requirement. This clearinghouse is
known as the Commercial Driver’s
License Information System (CDLIS).
The CMVSA further required each
person who has their commercial
driver’s license (CDL) suspended,
revoked or canceled by a State, or who
is disqualified from operating a CMV for
any period, to notify his or her employer
of such actions. Drivers of CMVs must
notify their employers within 1 business
day of being notified of the license
suspension, revocation, and
cancellation, or of the lost right to
operate or disqualification. These
requirements are reflected in 49 CFR
part 383, titled ‘‘Commercial Driver’s
License Standards; Requirements and
Penalties.’’
Specifically, section 383.21 prohibits
a person from having more than one
license; Section 383.31 requires
notification of convictions for driver
violations; section 383.33 requires
notification of driver’s license
suspensions; section 383.35 requires
notification of previous employment;
and section 383.37 outlines employer
responsibilities. Section 383.111
requires the passing of a knowledge test
by the driver and section 383.113
requires the passing of a skills test by
the driver; section 383.115 contains the
requirement for the double/triple trailer
endorsement; section 383.117 contains
the requirement for the passenger
endorsement; section 383.119 contains
the requirement for the tank vehicle
endorsement; and section 383.121
contains the requirement for the
hazardous materials endorsement.
The 10-year employment history
information supplied by the CDL holder
to the employer upon application for
employment (49 CFR 383.35) is used to
assist the employer in meeting his/her
responsibilities to ensure that the
applicant does not have a history of
high safety risk behavior.
State officials use the information
collected on the license application
form (49 CFR 383.71), the medical
certificate information that is posted to
the driving record, and the conviction
and disqualification data posted to the
driving record (49 CFR 383.73) to
prevent unqualified and/or disqualified
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CDL holders from operating CMVs on
the nation’s highways. State officials are
required to adopt and administer an
FMCSA approved program for testing
and ensuring the fitness of persons to
operate a commercial motor vehicles
(CMVs) (49 CFR 384.201). State officials
are also required to administer
knowledge and skills tests to CDL driver
applicants (49 CFR 384.202). The driver
applicant is required to correctly answer
at least 80 percent of the questions on
each knowledge test to achieve a
passing score on that test. To achieve a
passing score on the skills test, the
driver applicant must demonstrate that
he/she can successfully perform all the
skills listed in the regulations. During
State CDL program reviews, FMCSA
officials review this information to
ensure that the provisions of the
regulations are being carried out.
Without the aforementioned
requirements, there would be no
uniform control over driver licensing
practices to prevent unqualified and/or
disqualified drivers from being issued a
CDL and to prevent unsafe drivers from
spreading their convictions among
several licenses in several States and
remaining behind the wheel of a CMV.
Failure to collect this information
would render the regulations
unenforceable.
Title: Commercial Driver Licensing
and Test Standards.
OMB Number: 2126–0011.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: Drivers with a
commercial learner’s permit (CLP) or
CDL and State driver licensing agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
7,696,360 driver respondents and
22,886 State respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
and can range from 5 seconds to 40
hours.
Expiration Date: December 31, 2021.
Frequency of Response: Varies and
can range from 51 to 8,696,120.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
2,700,901 hours, which is the total of
four tasks for CDL drivers (2,062,676
hours), added to a total of eight tasks for
State driver licensing agency CDL
activities (638,225 hours).
Information collection tasks and
associated burden hours are as follows:
IC–1.1 Driver Notification of
Convictions/Disqualifications to
Employer: 503,771 hours
IC–1.2 Driver Providing Previous
Employment History to New
Employer: 316,742 hours
IC–1.3 Driver Completion of the CDL
Application Form: 43,527 hours
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IC–1.4 Driver Completion of
Knowledge and Skills Tests:
1,198,636 hours
IC–2.1 State Recording of Medical
Examiner’s Certificate Information:
90,202 hours
IC–2.2 State Recording of the Self
Certification of Commercial Motor
Vehicle (CMV) Operation: 2,987
hours
IC–2.3 State Verification of Medical
Certification Status: 5,330 hours
IC–2.4 Annual State Certification of
Compliance: 1,632 hours
IC–2.5 State Preparing for and
Participating in Annual Program
Review: 10,200 hours
IC–2.6 CDLIS/PDPS/State
Recordkeeping: 289,254 hours
IC–2.7 Knowledge and Skills Test
Recordkeeping: 49,721 hours
IC–2.8 Knowledge and Skills Test
Examiner Certification: 188,899
hours
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.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency
[Docket ID OCC–2021–0015]
Mutual Savings Association Advisory
Committee
Department of the Treasury,
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC).
ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory
Committee meeting.
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AGENCY:
The OCC announces a
meeting of the Mutual Savings
Association Advisory Committee
(MSAAC).
SUMMARY:
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A virtual public meeting of the
MSAAC will be held on Tuesday,
September 28, 2021, beginning at 8:30
a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
The OCC will host the
September 28, 2021 meeting of the
MSAAC virtually.
[Docket ID OCC–2021–0016]
DATES:
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael R. Brickman, Deputy
Comptroller for Thrift Supervision,
(202) 649–5420, Office of the
Comptroller of the Currency,
Washington, DC 20219. You also may
access prior MSAAC meeting materials
on the MSAAC page of the OCC’s
website at Mutual Savings Association
Advisory Committee.
Under the
authority of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, and the
regulations implementing the Act at 41
CFR part 102–3, the OCC is announcing
that the MSAAC will convene a virtual
meeting on Tuesday, September 28,
2021. The meeting is open to the public
and will begin at 8:30 a.m. EDT. The
purpose of the meeting is for the
MSAAC to advise the OCC on regulatory
or other changes the OCC may make to
ensure the health and viability of
mutual savings associations. The agenda
includes a discussion of current topics
of interest to the industry.
Members of the public may submit
written statements to the MSAAC. The
OCC must receive written statements no
later than 5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday,
September 23, 2021. Members of the
public may submit written statements to
MSAAC@occ.treas.gov.
Members of the public who plan to
attend the virtual meeting should
contact the OCC by 5:00 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, September 23, 2021, to
inform the OCC of their desire to attend
the meeting and to obtain information
about participating in the meeting.
Members of the public may contact the
OCC via email at MSAAC@
OCC.treas.gov or by telephone at (202)
649–5420. Members of the public who
are hearing impaired should call (202)
649–5597 (TTY) by 5:00 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, September 23, 2021, to
arrange auxiliary aids for this meeting.
Attendees should provide their full
name, email address, and organization,
if any.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Michael J. Hsu,
Acting Comptroller of the Currency.
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Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency
Minority Depository Institutions
Advisory Committee
Department of the Treasury,
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The Office of the Comptroller
of the Currency (OCC) announces a
meeting of the Minority Depository
Institutions Advisory Committee
(MDIAC).
DATES: The OCC MDIAC will hold a
virtual public meeting on Tuesday,
September 21, 2021 beginning at 10:00
a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT).
ADDRESSES: The OCC will hold the
September 21, 2021 meeting of the
MDIAC virtually.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Beverly Cole, Designated Federal Officer
and Deputy Comptroller for the
Northeastern District, (212) 790–4001,
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency, 340 Madison Ave., Fifth
Floor, New York, New York 10173.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By this
notice, the OCC is announcing that the
MDIAC will convene a virtual meeting
at 10:00 a.m. EDT on Tuesday,
September 21, 2021. Agenda items will
include current topics of interest to the
industry. The purpose of the meeting is
for the MDIAC to advise the OCC on
steps the agency may be able to take to
ensure the continued health and
viability of minority depository
institutions and other issues of concern
to minority depository institutions.
Members of the public may submit
written statements to the MDIAC by
email to: MDIAC@OCC.treas.gov.
The OCC must receive written
statements no later than 5:00 p.m. EDT
on Thursday, September 16, 2021.
Members of the public who plan to
attend the virtual meeting should
contact the OCC by 5:00 p.m. EDT on
Thursday, September 16, 2021, to
inform the OCC of their desire to attend
the meeting and to obtain information
about participation in the virtual
meeting. Members of the public may
contact the OCC via email at MDIAC@
OCC.treas.gov or by telephone at (212)
790–4001. Attendees should provide
their full name, email address, and
organization, if any. Members of the
public who are hearing impaired should
call (202) 649–5597 (TTY) no later than
5:00 p.m. EDT on Thursday, September
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2021-0081]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection Request: Commercial Driver Licensing and Test
Standards
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA),
Transportation (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 for its review
and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA requests approval to
revise and renew an ICR titled, ``Commercial Driver Licensing and Test
Standards,'' due to an increase in the number of commercial driver's
license records. This ICR is needed to ensure that drivers, motor
carriers and the States are complying with notification and
recordkeeping requirements for information related to testing,
licensing, violations, convictions, and disqualifications and that the
information is accurate, complete, transmitted, and recorded within
certain time periods as required by the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Act of 1986 (CMVSA), as amended.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before November 2, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2021-0081 using any of the
following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 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: West Building, Ground Floor,
Room 12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 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: 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
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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. Isabella Marra, Office of Safety
Programs, Commercial Driver's License Division (MC-ESL), Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-366-9579; email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The licensed drivers in the United States deserve reasonable
assurances that their fellow motorists are properly qualified to drive
the vehicles they operate. Before the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Act of 1986 (CMVSA or the Act) (Pub. L. 99-570, Title XII, 100 Stat.
3207-170, codified at 49 U.S.C. chapter 313) was signed by the
President on October 27, 1986, 18 States and the District of Columbia
authorized any person licensed to drive an automobile to also legally
drive a large truck or bus. No special training or special license was
required to drive these vehicles, even though it was widely recognized
that operation of certain types of vehicles called for special skills,
knowledge, and training. Even in the 32 States that had a classified
driver licensing system in place, only 12 of these States required an
applicant to take a skills test in a representative vehicle. Equally
serious was the problem of drivers possessing multiple driver licenses.
By spreading their convictions among several States, commercial motor
vehicle (CMV) drivers could avoid punishment for their infringements,
and stay behind the wheel.
The CMVSA addressed these problems by requiring the Federal
government to act and place minimum standards on all jurisdictions,
including the District of Columbia. Section 12002 of the Act made it
illegal for a CMV operator to have more than one driver's license.
Section 12003 required the CMV driver conducting operations in commerce
to notify both the designated State of licensure official and the
driver's employer of any convictions of State or local laws relating to
traffic control (except parking tickets). This section also required
the promulgation of regulations to ensure each person who applies for
employment as a CMV operator to notify prospective employers of all
previous employment as a CMV operator for at least the previous 10
years.
In section 12005 of the Act, the Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) is required to develop minimum Federal standards for
testing and licensing of operators of CMVs. Section 12007 of the Act
also directed the Secretary, in cooperation with the States, to develop
a clearinghouse to aid the States in implementing the one driver, one
license, and one driving record requirement. This clearinghouse is
known as the Commercial Driver's License Information System (CDLIS).
The CMVSA further required each person who has their commercial
driver's license (CDL) suspended, revoked or canceled by a State, or
who is disqualified from operating a CMV for any period, to notify his
or her employer of such actions. Drivers of CMVs must notify their
employers within 1 business day of being notified of the license
suspension, revocation, and cancellation, or of the lost right to
operate or disqualification. These requirements are reflected in 49 CFR
part 383, titled ``Commercial Driver's License Standards; Requirements
and Penalties.''
Specifically, section 383.21 prohibits a person from having more
than one license; Section 383.31 requires notification of convictions
for driver violations; section 383.33 requires notification of driver's
license suspensions; section 383.35 requires notification of previous
employment; and section 383.37 outlines employer responsibilities.
Section 383.111 requires the passing of a knowledge test by the driver
and section 383.113 requires the passing of a skills test by the
driver; section 383.115 contains the requirement for the double/triple
trailer endorsement; section 383.117 contains the requirement for the
passenger endorsement; section 383.119 contains the requirement for the
tank vehicle endorsement; and section 383.121 contains the requirement
for the hazardous materials endorsement.
The 10-year employment history information supplied by the CDL
holder to the employer upon application for employment (49 CFR 383.35)
is used to assist the employer in meeting his/her responsibilities to
ensure that the applicant does not have a history of high safety risk
behavior.
State officials use the information collected on the license
application form (49 CFR 383.71), the medical certificate information
that is posted to the driving record, and the conviction and
disqualification data posted to the driving record (49 CFR 383.73) to
prevent unqualified and/or disqualified CDL holders from operating CMVs
on the nation's highways. State officials are required to adopt and
administer an FMCSA approved program for testing and ensuring the
fitness of persons to operate a commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) (49
CFR 384.201). State officials are also required to administer knowledge
and skills tests to CDL driver applicants (49 CFR 384.202). The driver
applicant is required to correctly answer at least 80 percent of the
questions on each knowledge test to achieve a passing score on that
test. To achieve a passing score on the skills test, the driver
applicant must demonstrate that he/she can successfully perform all the
skills listed in the regulations. During State CDL program reviews,
FMCSA officials review this information to ensure that the provisions
of the regulations are being carried out.
Without the aforementioned requirements, there would be no uniform
control over driver licensing practices to prevent unqualified and/or
disqualified drivers from being issued a CDL and to prevent unsafe
drivers from spreading their convictions among several licenses in
several States and remaining behind the wheel of a CMV. Failure to
collect this information would render the regulations unenforceable.
Title: Commercial Driver Licensing and Test Standards.
OMB Number: 2126-0011.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: Drivers with a commercial learner's permit (CLP) or
CDL and State driver licensing agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 7,696,360 driver respondents and
22,886 State respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies and can range from 5 seconds to
40 hours.
Expiration Date: December 31, 2021.
Frequency of Response: Varies and can range from 51 to 8,696,120.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 2,700,901 hours, which is the total
of four tasks for CDL drivers (2,062,676 hours), added to a total of
eight tasks for State driver licensing agency CDL activities (638,225
hours).
Information collection tasks and associated burden hours are as
follows:
IC-1.1 Driver Notification of Convictions/Disqualifications to
Employer: 503,771 hours
IC-1.2 Driver Providing Previous Employment History to New Employer:
316,742 hours
IC-1.3 Driver Completion of the CDL Application Form: 43,527 hours
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IC-1.4 Driver Completion of Knowledge and Skills Tests: 1,198,636 hours
IC-2.1 State Recording of Medical Examiner's Certificate Information:
90,202 hours
IC-2.2 State Recording of the Self Certification of Commercial Motor
Vehicle (CMV) Operation: 2,987 hours
IC-2.3 State Verification of Medical Certification Status: 5,330 hours
IC-2.4 Annual State Certification of Compliance: 1,632 hours
IC-2.5 State Preparing for and Participating in Annual Program Review:
10,200 hours
IC-2.6 CDLIS/PDPS/State Recordkeeping: 289,254 hours
IC-2.7 Knowledge and Skills Test Recordkeeping: 49,721 hours
IC-2.8 Knowledge and Skills Test Examiner Certification: 188,899 hours
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.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2021-19080 Filed 9-2-21; 8:45 am]
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