Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing

Kelly Leone
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
December 14, 2010

[Federal Register: December 14, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 239)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2010-0391]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Transportation of 
Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing

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. The FMCSA requests approval to extend an existing 
ICR titled, ``Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.'' 
The information reported by States and Indian tribes is necessary to 
identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions or limitations 
affecting how motor carriers may transport certain hazardous materials 
on their highways, including dates that such routes were established 
and information on subsequent changes or new hazardous materials 
routing designations. On September 13, 2010, FMCSA published a Federal 
Register notice allowing for a 60-day comment period on the ICR. No 
comment was received.

DATES: Please send your comments by January 13, 2011. 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-2010-0391. 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. Paul Bomgardner, Hazardous 
Materials Division, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, 
SE, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-493-0027; e-mail: 
paul.bomgardner@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently-approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: The reporting burden is shared by 50 States, the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the 
Commonwealth of the Northern Marianas Islands and the U.S. Virgin 
Islands.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 51.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Expiration Date: March 31, 2011.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13 hours [51 annual respondents x 1

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response x 15 minutes per response/60 minutes per response = 12.75 
hours, rounded to 13 hours].
    Background: The data for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials; 
Highway Routing designations ICR is collected under authority of 49 
U.S.C. 5112 and 5125. Specifically, 49 U.S.C. 5112(c) requires that the 
Secretary, in coordination with the States, ``shall update and publish 
periodically a list of current effective hazardous materials highway 
route designations.''
    Under 49 CFR 397.73, the FMCSA Administrator has the authority to 
request that each State and Indian tribe, through its routing agency, 
provide information identifying hazardous materials designations within 
their jurisdictions. That information is collected and consolidated by 
FMCSA and published annually, in whole or as updates, in the Federal 
Register.
    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 on: December 5, 2010.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2010-31264 Filed 12-13-10; 8:45 am]
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