Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Approval of a Revision to a Currently-Approved Collection Request: Crime Prevention for Truckers Publication: Federal Register Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Thomas P. Keane Date: 16 December 2021 Subjects: American Government , Crime, Trucking Special Collection: COVID-19

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 239 (Thursday, December 16, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71542-71543]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-27219]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2018-0278]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Emergency Approval of a 
Revision to a Currently-Approved Collection Request: Crime Prevention 
for Truckers

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

ACTION: Notice of request for emergency OMB approval.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995, 
this notice announces that a revision to the Information Collection 
Request (ICR) discussed below has been forwarded to the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) for review and emergency approval. FMCSA 
will no longer be offering a $25 incentive for those who complete the 
survey. FMCSA is also making non-substantive changes

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to the survey to make it easier to complete and to make the data 
collected more useful. The revised ICR describes the nature of the 
information collection and its expected paperwork burdens. FMCSA 
requests that OMB approve this collection by December 20, 2021.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 23, 2021.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be sent within by December 23, 2021 to 
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. All comments received are part of 
the public record. Comments will generally be posted without change. 
Upon receiving the requested emergency approval by OMB, FMCSA will 
follow the normal PRA procedures to renew the information collection at 
its expiration date.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff Loftus, Division Chief, 
Technology Division, Department of Transportation, FMCSA, West 
Building, 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-
0001; 202-385-2363; email: jeff.loftus@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Crime Prevention for Truckers.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0071.
    Type of Request: Request for emergency approval for a revision to a 
currently-approved information collection.
    Respondents: All truck drivers.
    Estimated Total Respondents: 1,320.
    Estimated Total Responses: 1,320.
    Estimated Burden Hours: 416.
    Estimated Burden per Response: 20 minutes per response.
    Frequency: Once.
    Background: OMB approved the ``Crime Prevention for Truckers'' 
collection on May 14, 2021. After receiving approval, FMCSA moved 
forward in implementing the survey.
    Originally, the survey was planned to be an in-person data 
collection, but the project team switched to an online data collection 
because of the pandemic. Within hours of posting the survey online, it 
reached its maximum number of responses. This occurred before FMCSA was 
able to reach out to all desired women's trucking associations to 
encourage participation by their members, thus undermining the purpose 
of the survey. No rewards were paid by the agency.
    All proposed changes to the questions are de minimis or non-
substantive and are primarily driven by changes to some of the skip 
patterns in the survey to make coding them on the online survey 
platform (SurveyMonkey) possible. The changes do slightly increase the 
time burden on the respondents, as they will need to respond to more 
questions instead of having the survey skip ahead. However, this 
increase is minimal.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for FMCSA to perform its 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 delegated in 49 CFR 1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2021-27219 Filed 12-15-21; 8:45 am]
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