Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of Existing Information Collection Request: Commercial Motor Vehicle Marking Requirements

G. Kelly Regal
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
15 August 2018

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 158 (Wednesday, August 15, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40636-40637]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-17568]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2018-0091]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of Existing 
Information Collection Request: Commercial Motor Vehicle Marking 
Requirements

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. This ICR will enable FMCSA to document the burden 
associated with the marking regulations in ``Marking of Self-Propelled 
CMVs and Intermodal Equipment.'' These regulations require marking of 
vehicles and intermodal equipment by motor carriers and intermodal 
equipment providers (IEPs) engaging in interstate transportation. The 
FMCSA requests approval to renew an ICR titled, ``Commercial Motor 
Vehicle Marking Requirements.''

DATES: Please send your comments by September 14, 2018. OMB must 
receive your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2018-0091. 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: Crystal Frederick, Transportation 
Specialist, Compliance Division, Department of Transportation, Federal 
Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 6th Floor, West Building, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-366-2904; 
Email Address: crystal.frederick@dot.gov. Office hours are from 9 a.m. 
to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Commercial Motor Vehicle Marking Requirements
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0054.
    Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved collection.
    Respondents: Freight carrying commercial motor carriers, passenger 
carrying commercial motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 218,389 motor carriers and IEPs.
    Estimated Time per Response: 26 minutes [12 minutes to affix DOT 
Number + 14 minutes for affixing a carrier's name = 26].
    Expiration Date: August 31, 2018.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 774,249 hours spent by motor 
carriers and IEPs marking CMVs with a DOT number and carrier 
information.
    Background: The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is 
authorized to require marking of vehicles and intermodal equipment by 
motor carriers and intermodal equipment providers (IEPs) engaging in 
interstate transportation based on the authority of 49 U.S.C. 
31133(a)(8) and 31133(a)(10). The Secretary has delegated authority 
pertaining to the marking of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) pursuant 
to 49 CFR 1.87(f). The Agency's regulation governing the marking of 
CMVs is codified at 49 CFR 390.21.
    Vehicle marking requirements are intended to ensure that FMCSA, the 
National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and State safety officials 
are able to identify motor carriers and correctly assign responsibility 
for regulatory violations during inspections, investigations, 
compliance reviews, and crash studies. These marking requirements will 
also provide the public with beneficial information that could assist 
in identifying carriers for the purposes of commerce, complaints or 
emergency notification. The marking requirements apply to motor 
carriers and intermodal equipment providers (IEPs) engaging in 
interstate transportation. The Agency does not require a specific 
method of marking as long as the marking complies with FMCSA's 
regulations. The program change decrease of 76,751 estimated annual 
burden hours (774,249 proposed estimated annual burden hours-851,000 
approved estimated annual burden hours) is due to adjustments in 
respondent and response estimates. Data, as of September 29, 2017, 
pulled from FMCSA's MCMIS and SMS databases indicated that there was a 
decrease in the number of active interstate freight carriers and 
intrastate hazardous materials carriers and a decrease in the number of 
power units subject to Component 1 marking requirements, resulting in a 
decrease of 94,799 burden hours. According to the September 29, 2017 
snapshot, there was a decrease in the number of passenger carriers 
impacted and an increase in the number of passenger-carrying power 
units impacted by Component 2, resulting in an increase of 17,947 
burden hours. Finally, greater precision was used in calculating the 
number of respondents, responses associated with Component 3, resulting 
in an increase of 101 burden hours.
    Two comments were submitted to the docket during the 60-day comment 
period, in response to the 60-day Federal Register, 83(17885), 
published on April 24, 2018. One comment was received from Greyhound 
Lines, Inc. (Greyhound) and the other from Owner-Operator Independent 
Drivers Association (OOIDA). Greyhound's comment, however, addresses 
another ICR open during the same time period, ``Leasing and Interchange 
of Vehicles,'' and not the Markings ICR. The comment submitted by 
Greyhound will thus be addressed in the Leasing ICR response. The other 
comment submitted by OOIDA raised two points. The first issue raised 
deals with the phrasing of the associated regulation, part 390. OOIDA 
asserts that current wording of the part does not permit certain 
leasing situations. FMCSA notes that an ICR is not the venue for 
regulatory change, even if the regulation is related to the subject 
matter covered in the ICR. The second claim made by OOIDA is that the 
aforementioned regulation does nothing to improve safety. As we stated 
in the 2015 final rule the marking requirement enables ``investigators 
and the general public to identify the passenger carrier responsible 
for safety'' (80 FR 30164, 30166). Given these considerations FMCSA 
does not believe changes to the ICR are appropriate based on these 
comments.
    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 its

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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 August 3, 
2018.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
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