Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits

Kelly Regal
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
26 May 2017

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 101 (Friday, May 26, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24433-24434]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10762]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2016-0359]


Agency Information Collection Activities; 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. The FMCSA requests approval to revise and extend 
an existing ICR titled, ``Hazardous Materials Safety Permits.'' This 
ICR requires companies holding safety permits to develop communications 
plans that allow for the periodic tracking of the shipments. A record 
of the communications that includes the time of the call and location 
of the shipment 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. FMCSA received no comments in 
response to the 60-day Federal Register Notice published on November 
10, 2016.

DATES: Please send your comments by June 26, 2017. 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-2016-0359. 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 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: Mr. Vincent Babich or Mr. Tyrone 
Gibbs, 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: 202-366-
4871 or 202-366-1705; email vincent.babich@dot.gov or 
tyrone.gibbs@dot.gov. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Hazardous Materials Safety Permits.

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    OMB Control Number: 2126-0030.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently-approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Motor carriers subject to the HM Safety Permit 
requirements in 49 CFR part 385, subpart E.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,304.
    Estimated Time per Response: 5 minutes. The communication between 
motor carriers and their drivers must take place at least two times per 
day. It is estimated that it will take 5 minutes to maintain a daily 
communication record for each driver.
    Expiration Date: N/A.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 908,000 hours [10.9 million trips x 
5 minutes per record / 60 minutes per hour = 908,333.33 rounded to 
908,000].
    Background: The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is 
responsible for implementing regulations to issue safety permits for 
transporting certain hazardous materials (HM) in accordance with 49 
U.S.C. 5101 et seq. The HM Safety Permit regulations (49 CFR part 385, 
subpart E) require carriers to develop and maintain route plans so that 
law enforcement officials can verify the correct location of the HM 
shipment. The FMCSA requires companies holding safety permits to 
develop a communications plan that allows for the periodic tracking of 
the shipment. This ICR covers the record of communications that 
includes the time of the call and location of the shipment. 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. The currently-approved information 
collection is based on an estimated 1,382 respondents. The total number 
of companies now holding a safety permit is 1,304 therefore in this ICR 
the estimated number of respondents is being revised to reflect this 
number.
    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.

    Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 on: May 18, 2017.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2017-10762 Filed 5-25-17; 8:45 am]
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