Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information Collection or Revision of an Approved Information Collection: Motor Carrier Records Change Form

G. Kelly Regal
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
June 27, 2014

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 124 (Friday, June 27, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 36578-36579]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-15026]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2014-0192]


Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information 
Collection or Revision of an Approved Information Collection: Motor 
Carrier Records Change Form

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA 
announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its 
review and approval and invites public comment. The purpose of this ICR 
entitled ``Motor Carrier Records Change Form,'' is to more efficiently 
collect information the Office of Registration and Safety Information 
(MC-RS) requires to process name and address changes and reinstatements 
of operating authority. Currently, this data is being collected when 
carriers request these changes from MC-RS, but without the use of a 
formal data collection form.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before August 26, 2014.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2014-0192 using any of the 
following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://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, 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 http://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 http://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 http://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 Web site. 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

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after the comment closing date will be included in the docket and will 
be considered to the extent practicable.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Secrist, Chief, East-South 
Division, FMCSA Office of Registration & Safety Information, West 
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. 
Telephone: (202) 385-2367; email jeff.secrist@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) 
registers for-hire motor carriers under 49 U.S.C. 13902, surface 
freight forwarders under 49 U.S.C. 13903, and property brokers under 49 
U.S.C. 13904. Each registration is effective from the date specified 
under 49 U.S.C. 13905(c). 49 CFR part 365.413: ``Procedures for 
changing the name or business form of a motor carrier, freight 
forwarder, or property broker'' states that carriers must submit a 
letter containing the required information to FMCSA's Office of 
Registration and Safety Information (MC-RS), formerly sent to FMCSA's 
IT Operations Division (MC-RIO), requesting the change; the new form 
would assist entities in reporting this information accurately and 
completely. 49 CFR 360.3(f) mentions fees that FMCSA collects for 
``petition for reinstatement of revoked operating authority,'' but does 
not provide any specifics for the content that petition should take.
    For-hire motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders are 
required to notify MC-RS when they change the name or address of the 
company. Currently, the name change request can be filed online through 
the Licensing and Insurance (L&I) Web site, or companies can fax or 
mail a letter requesting either name or address changes. Carriers can 
also request reinstatement of a revoked operating authority either via 
fax or online via the Licensing & Insurance (L&I) Web site. But many 
choose not to do so. About 40% of name changes and 60% of 
reinstatements are filed online. Of the rest, most are filed by faxing 
a request letter to MC-RS. All the address changes are received by 
either fax or mail. The information collected is then entered in the 
L&I database by FMCSA staff. This enables FMCSA to maintain up-to-date 
records so that the agency can recognize the entity in question in case 
of enforcement actions or other procedures required to ensure that the 
carrier is fit, willing and able to provide for-hire transportation 
services, and so that entities whose authority has been revoked can 
resume operation if they are not otherwise blocked from doing so. But 
the current method of collecting the data means that many requests 
include incomplete data, and cannot be processed without additional 
follow-up efforts by both FMCSA staff and the entities. This multi-
purpose form, therefore, would simplify the process of gathering the 
information needed to process the entities' requests in a timely 
manner, with the least amount of effort for all parties involved. This 
multi-purpose form would be filed by registrants on a voluntary, as-
needed basis. This multi-purpose form could be put on the FMCSA Web 
site so entities could access and print/fax/email the form to MC-RS.
    Users may report the following data points (whichever are relevant 
to their records change request):
    1. What are the legal/doing business as names of the entity/
representative?
    2. What is the contact information of entity/representatives (phone 
number, address, fax number, email address)?
    3. What are the requested changes to name or address of entity?
    4. What is the docket MC/MX/FX number of the entity?
    5. What is the US DOT number of the entity?
    6. Is there any change in ownership, management or control of the 
entity?
    7. What kind of changes is the entity making to the company?
    8. Which authority does the entity/representative wish to 
reinstate, motor carrier or broker?
    9. Does the entity/representative authorize the fee for the name 
change or reinstatement?
    10. Does the entity/representative authorize the reinstatement of 
operating authority or name/address change?
    11. What is the credit card information (name, number, expiration 
date, address, date) for the card used to pay the fee?
    Title: Motor Carrier Records Change Form.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-00XX.
    Type of Request: New collection.
    Respondents: For-hire motor carriers, brokers and freight 
forwarders.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 22,300.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes per response.
    Expiration Date: N/A.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 5,575 hours [22,300 annual responses 
x 0.25 hours = 5,575].
    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 delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: June 18, 
2014.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology 
and Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2014-15026 Filed 6-26-14; 8:45 am]
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