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Topics: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
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Larry W. Minor
Federal Register
June 6, 2011
[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 108 (Monday, June 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32390-32391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-13899]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-26367]
Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee Public Meeting
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC)
Meeting.
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SUMMARY: FMCSA announces that MCSAC will hold a committee meeting from
Monday, June 20 through Wednesday, June 22, 2011. The meeting will be
open to the public for its duration. The MCSAC will complete action on
Task 11-01, regarding Patterns of Safety Violations by Motor Carrier
Management and will begin work on Tasks 11-02, regarding Roadside
violation severity weightings in the Carrier Safety Measurement System
(CSMS) in FMCSA's Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA) program, and
11-03, regarding Oversight of the Agency's Long-Haul Cross Border
Trucking Pilot Program.
TIME AND DATES: The meeting will be held on Monday and Tuesday, June
20-21, 2011, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Eastern Time (E.T.), and on
Wednesday, June 22, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., E.T. The last hour of
each day will be reserved for public comment.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Shannon L. Watson, Senior Adviser
to the Associate Administrator for Policy, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, (202) 385-2395, mcsac@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
MCSAC
Section 4144 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Pub. L.
109-59, 119 Stat. 1144, August 10, 2005) required the Secretary of
Transportation to establish a Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee.
The committee provides advice and recommendations to the FMCSA
Administrator on motor carrier safety programs and regulations, and
operates in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5
U.S.C. App 2).
Patterns of Safety Violations Task
SAFETEA-LU Section 4133 allows the Secretary to suspend, amend, or
revoke any part of a motor carrier's registration if the Secretary
finds that an officer of a motor carrier engages, or has engaged, in a
pattern or practice of avoiding compliance, or masking or otherwise
concealing noncompliance, with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations and Hazardous Materials Regulations, while serving as an
officer of any motor carrier. The section defines an officer as ``an
owner, director, chief executive officer, chief financial officer,
safety director, vehicle maintenance supervisor, and driver supervisor
of a motor carrier, regardless of title attached to these functions,
and any person, however designated, exercising controlling influence
over the operations of a motor carrier.'' Following deliberations of
the Committee, the MCSAC will submit written recommendations in the
form of a report to the FMCSA Administrator on this topic following its
June 2011 meeting.
Roadside Violation Severity Weightings Task
FMCSA's new compliance and enforcement program, Compliance, Safety,
Accountability (CSA), includes a new measurement system to assess
carriers' safety performance. One of the core purposes of the CSMS is
to identify poor motor carrier safety behavior. Building upon FMCSA's
previous Safety Status Measurement System (SafeStat), CSMS quantifies
the on-road safety performance of carriers to identify candidates for
interventions, determine the specific safety problems exhibited by a
carrier and its drivers, and monitor whether safety problems are
improving or worsening. FMCSA requests that
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MCSAC provide the CSA team with its observations and recommendations
regarding the violation groups and their associated crash risk by
reviewing the tables of violation groups. The Committee will designate
a subcommittee to address this task and subsequently report back to the
full MCSAC.
Long-Haul Cross Border Trucking Pilot Program Task
During the MCSAC's March 2011 meeting, FMCSA tasked the Committee
with designating a subcommittee to provide independent monitoring for
the program. The subcommittee would then report back to the full
committee.
II. Meeting Participation
Oral comments from the public will be heard during the last hour of
each day of this meeting. Members of the public may submit written
comments on this topic by Wednesday, June 15, 2011, to Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2006-26367 using any of
the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Room WI2-
140, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue, SE., Room WI2-140, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Issued on: June 1, 2011.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
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