Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Annual Report of Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of Property

G. Kelly Regal
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
24 April 2018

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 79 (Tuesday, April 24, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17894-17895]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08524]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2018-0073]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Annual Report of 
Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of Property

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 FMCSA requests 
approval to revise and extend the ``Annual Report of Class I and Class 
II Motor Carriers of Property'' ICR, OMB Control No. 2126-0032. This 
ICR is necessary to ensure that motor carriers comply with FMCSA's 
financial and operating statistics requirements at chapter III of title 
49 CFR part 369 titled ``Reports of Motor Carriers.'' This ICR is being 
revised to incorporate the OMB approved ``Annual Report of Class I 
Motor Carriers of Passengers'' ICR, OMB Control No. 2126-0031, for use 
of the MP-1 form, the ``Annual Report Form (Motor Carriers of 
Passengers),'' which resulted in only two respondents and one burden 
hour per year. Through the proposed merger of the two ICRs, FMCSA would 
rename the 2126-0032 ICR as the ``Annual Report of Class I and Class II 
For-Hire Motor Carriers'' ICR. And such a merger with the new title 
will clarify that the combined ICR addresses both for-hire property and 
passenger carriers, but not private motor carriers. Additionally, after 
the merger of the ICRs, FMCSA intends to request withdrawal of the 
previously approved ``Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of 
Passengers'' ICR, OMB Control No. 2126-0031.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before June 25, 2018.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2018-0073 by 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 Management Facility; 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, 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 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 jeff.secrist@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: 49 U.S.C. 14123 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 DOT delegated to BTS the 
responsibility for the program on December 17, 1996 (61 FR 68162). 
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). 
Annual financial reports are filed on Form M (for-hire property 
carriers, including household goods carriers) and Form MP-1 (for-hire 
passenger carriers). On December 17, 2013, FMCSA eliminated a quarterly 
financial reporting requirement for certain for-hire motor carriers of 
property (former form QFR) and for-hire motor carriers of passengers 
(former Form MP-1) (78 FR 76241).
    FMCSA has continued to collect carriers' annual reports and to 
furnish copies of the reports requested under the Freedom of 
Information Act. 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\ 
Under the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) program, FMCSA 
collects from Class I and Class II for-hire motor carriers their 
balance sheet and income statement data along with information on 
safety needs, tonnage, mileage, employees, transportation equipment, 
and other related data. FMCSA may also ask carriers to respond to 
surveys concerning their operations. The data and information collected 
would be made publicly available and used by FMCSA to determine a motor 
carrier's compliance with the F&OS program requirements prescribed at 
49 CFR part 369. FMCSA has created electronic forms that may be 
prepared, signed electronically, and submitted to FMCSA via https://ask.fmcsa.dot.gov/app/ask/ in accordance with the Agency's April 28, 
2014 (79 FR 23306), rulemaking proposal in RIN 2126-AB47, Electronic 
Signatures and Documents.
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    \1\ For purposes of the Financial and Operating Statistics 
(F&OS) program, carriers are classified into the following two 
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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    Title: Annual Report of Class I and Class II For-Hire Motor 
Carriers.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0032.
    Type of Request: Revision and extension of a currently-approved 
information collection.
    Respondents: Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of Property, 
Passengers, and Household Goods.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 98 [96 Class I and Class II motor 
carriers of property (Form M) + 2 Class I motor carriers of passengers 
(Form MP-1)].
    Estimated Time per Response: Varies [9 hours (Form M); 18 minutes 
(Form MP-1)].
    Expiration Date: December 31, 2018.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 865 hours [96 respondents x 9 hours 
to complete form M-1 + 2 respondents x 0.3 = 0.6 rounded to 1 hour to 
complete form MP-1].
    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 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 on: April 18, 2018.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2018-08524 Filed 4-23-18; 8:45 am]
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