Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved Information Collection Request: Motor Carrier Records Change Form Publication: Federal Register Agency: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Byline: Thomas P. Keane Date: 7 May 2024 Subject: American Government , Trucking

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 7, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38218-38219]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09894]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2023-0181]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved 
Information Collection Request: Motor Carrier Records Change Form

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department 
of Transportation (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 information collected is required by the Office of 
Registration to process name changes, address changes, and 
reinstatements of operating authority for motor carriers, freight 
forwarders, and brokers. On December 14, 2023, FMCSA published a notice 
in the Federal Register with a 60-day comment period to announce its 
intention to submit this ICR to OMB for renewal. FMCSA received no 
comments in response to the published notice.

DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before June 6, 
2024.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collection should be submitted within 30 days of 
publication of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find 
this information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day 
Review--Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeffrey Secrist, Office of 
Registration, Chief, Registration Division, DOT, FMCSA, West Building 
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 385-
2367; jeff.secrist@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Motor Carrier Records Change Form.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0060.
    Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved ICR.
    Respondents: For-hire motor carriers, brokers, and freight 
forwarders.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 64,673.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes per response.
    Expiration Date: July 31, 2024.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.

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    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 16,168.

Background

    FMCSA registers for-hire motor carriers under 49 U.S.C. 13902, 
surface freight forwarders under 49 U.S.C. 13903, and property brokers 
under 49 U.S.C. 13904. Each registration is effective from the date 
specified under 49 U.S.C. 13905(c). ``Procedures for changing the name 
or business form of a motor carrier, freight forwarder, or property 
broker,'' (49 CFR 365.413T) states that motor carriers, forwarders, and 
brokers must submit the required information to FMCSA's Office of 
Registration requesting the change. Paragraph (f) of Sec.  360.3T 
mentions fees that FMCSA collects for ``petition for reinstatement of 
revoked operating authority,'' but does not provide any specifics for 
the content that petition should take.
    Motor carriers, freight forwarders, and property brokers are 
required to use Form MCSA-5889 to request a name or address change and 
to request reinstatement of a revoked operating authority. Respondents 
can submit the form online through the Licensing and Insurance (L&I) 
website, by fax, or by mail. According to data collected between 2020 
and 2022, annually, approximately 1 percent of forms are submitted by 
mail; 7 percent are submitted by fax; and 92 percent are submitted 
online. The information collected is then entered in the L&I database 
by FMCSA staff.
    Form MCSA-5889 enables FMCSA to maintain up-to-date records so that 
the Agency can recognize the entity in question in case of enforcement 
actions or other procedures required to ensure that the carrier is 
willing and able to provide for-hire transportation services, and so 
that entities whose operating authority has been revoked can resume 
operation if they are not otherwise blocked from doing so. This multi-
purpose form, filed by registrants on a voluntary, as-needed basis, 
simplifies the process of gathering the information needed to process 
the entities' requests in a timely manner, with the least amount of 
effort for all parties involved.
    The form prompts users to report the following data points 
(whichever are relevant to their records change request):
    1. Requestor's fax number, email address, and applicant's oath.
    2. Entity's legal/doing business as names, USDOT number, docket MC/
MX/FX number, current street address, and phone number(s).
    3. Affiliations with FMCSA-licensed entities.
    4. Requested changes to the entity's address.
    5. Requested changes to the entity's name and/or ownership, 
management, or control.
    6. Type(s) of operating authority the entity wishes to reinstate.
    7. Credit card information (name, number, expiration date, address, 
date) if filing a name change or reinstatement.

Changes From Previous Estimates

    The currently approved version of this ICR estimated the average 
annual burden to be 6,781 annual burden hours, with 27,122 total annual 
respondents. For this renewal the estimated average annual burden is 
16,168, with 64,673 total average annual respondents. The annual burden 
hour increase of 9,387 is due to the increase in the average number of 
annual respondents.
    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.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2024-09894 Filed 5-6-24; 8:45 am]
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