Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing

G. Kelly Regal
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
29 November 2016

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 29, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 86067-86068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28682]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2016-0196]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Transportation of 
Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing

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 review 
and approval. The FMCSA requests approval to extend an existing ICR 
titled, ``Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.'' The 
information reported by States and Indian tribes is necessary to 
identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions or limitations 
affecting how motor carriers may transport certain hazardous materials 
on their highways, including dates that such routes were established 
and information on subsequent changes or new hazardous materials 
routing designations. FMCSA received no comments in response to the 60-
day Federal Register Notice published on July 29, 2016.

DATES: Please send your comments by December 29, 2016. OMB must receive 
your comments by this date in order to act on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2016-0196. Interested persons are 
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention 
of the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, and sent via

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electronic mail to oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395-
6974, or mailed to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 
Office of Management and Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th 
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vincent Babich, Office of Enforcement 
and Compliance, Hazardous Materials Division, Department of 
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 6th Floor, 
West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. 
Telephone: 202-366-4871; Email Address: vincent.babich@dot.gov. Office 
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: The reporting burden is shared by 50 States, the 
District of Columbia, Indian tribes with designated routes, and U.S. 
Territories including; Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin 
Islands.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 57 [36 States and the District of 
Columbia, with designated hazardous materials highway routes + 20 
States/U.S. Territories without designated hazardous materials highway 
routes + 1 Indian tribe with a designated route = 57].
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Expiration Date: April 30, 2017.
    Frequency of Response: Once every two years.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 7 hours [57 annual respondents x 1 
response per 2 years x 15 minutes per response/60 minutes per response 
= 7.125 hours rounded to 7 hours].
    Background: The data for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials; 
Highway Routing ICR is collected under authority of 49 U.S.C. 5112 and 
5125. Specifically, 49 U.S.C. 5112(c) requires that the Secretary, in 
coordination with the States, ``shall update and publish periodically a 
list of currently effective hazardous material highway route 
designations.''
    In 49 CFR 397.73, the FMCSA requires that each State and Indian 
tribe, through its routing agency, provide information identifying new, 
or changes to existing, hazardous materials routing designations within 
its jurisdiction within 60 days after their establishment (or 60 days 
of the change). That information is collected and consolidated by FMCSA 
and published annually, in whole or as updates, in the Federal 
Register.
    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 FMCSA to perform it's 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.

    Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: November 
17, 2016.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2016-28682 Filed 11-28-16; 8:45 am]
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