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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 77 / Monday, April 23, 2007 / Notices

background documents or comments
received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any
time or to the plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The
DMS is available electronically 24 hours
each day, 365 days each year. If you
want notification of receipt of your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope, or
postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you
may visit http://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Tom Yager, Chief, Driver & Carrier
Operations Division, Office of Bus &
Truck Standards and Development
(MC–PSD), Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 400 Seventh
Street, SW., Washington DC 20590–
0001. Telephone: 202–366–4009; e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Accident Recordkeeping
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0009.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved collection.
Respondents: Motor Carriers,
Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators,
State Licensing Agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
106,800 motor carriers.
Estimated Time per Response: 18
minutes.
Expiration Date: June 30, 2007.
Frequency of Response: Once per
year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
32,040 hours [106,800 motor carriers
recording an accident × 18 minutes per
response/60 minutes = 32,040].
Background: Title 49 CFR 390.15(b),
requires motor carriers to make all
records and information pertaining to
crashes (accidents) specified in
paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2) of that
section available to an authorized
representative or special agent of the
FMCSA upon request, or as part of an
inquiry. Interstate motor carriers are
required to maintain an ‘‘accident
register’’ consisting of a list of all
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involving their commercial motor
vehicles (CMVs) (49 CFR 390.15(b)). The
information for each accident must
include, at a minimum, the following
elements: Date of accident; city or town
in which or most near where the
accident occurred, and the State in
which the accident occurred; driver
name; number of injuries; number of
fatalities; and whether hazardous
materials, other than fuel spilled from
the fuel tanks of motor vehicles
involved in the accident, were released.
In addition, the register must contain
copies of all accident reports required
by State or other governmental entities
or insurers. Motor carriers must
maintain the required information about
CMV accidents in their accident
registers for three years after the date of
the accident, instead of the former one
year. This information collection
supports the DOT strategic goal of safety
by requiring motor carriers to gather and
record information on crashes involving
their CMVs. Likewise, the FMCSA is
strengthening its ability to assess motor
carriers’ safety performance and to use
that information to help motor carriers
to prevent crashes and to reduce their
severity. FMCSA uses this data to
enable it to direct its enforcement
resources to the motor carriers with the
weakest safety records.
Definitions: The word ‘‘accident’’ is
defined as an occurrence involving a
commercial motor vehicle operating on
a public road in interstate or intrastate
commerce which results in: (1) A
fatality; (2) bodily injury to a person
who, as a result of the injury, receives
medical treatment away from the scene
of the accident; or (3) one or more motor
vehicles incurring disabling damage as
a result of the accident, requiring the
motor vehicle to be transported away
from the scene by a tow truck or other
motor vehicle (49 CFR 390.5).
Public Commentd Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
necessary for the FMCSA’s performance;
(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. The agency
will summarize or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
Issued on: April 16, 2007.
D. Marlene Thomas,
Associate Administrator Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2006–26304]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of Approved
Information Collections: OMB Control
Numbers 2126–0010 (Motor Carrier
Safety Assistance Program) and 2126–
0025 (Transportation of Household
Goods; Consumer Protection)
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: The FMCSA invites public
comment on its intent to request
approval from the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to revise two (2)
information collections (ICs) entitled,
‘‘Motor Carrier Safety Assistance
Program’’ (2126–0010) and
‘‘Transportation of Household Goods;
Consumer Protection’’ (2126–0025).
These revised ICs are necessary to
ensure that motor carriers and the States
comply with changes made by various
provisions of the Safe Accountable,
Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity
Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU),
that will be implemented in a separate
final rule. On November 20, 2006, the
agency published a Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period to
solicit the public’s views on three
information collections. The agency
received one comment, which contained
no substantive remarks pertaining to
any of the information collections, and
consequently was not incorporated into
our supporting statement. We are
required to publish this notice in the
Federal Register by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and
implementing regulations.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before May 23, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk
Officer.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you
may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for further information,
including copies of the proposed
collection of information and
supporting documentation can be
obtained by contacting Mr. Frederic L.
Wood, Office of Chief Counsel,
Regulatory Affairs Division (MC–CCR),
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, Room 8201, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
20590; telephone (202) 366–0834. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
information stated below reflects the
proposed changes to various regulatory
provisions impacted by SAFETEA–LU
and the new total annual burden hours
for each.
(1) Title: Motor Carrier Safety Assistance
Program.
OMB Control No.: 2126–0010.
Form No.: Forms MCSAP–1, MCSAP–
2, and MCSAP–2A.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: State Grant Applicants.
Number of Respondents: 52 (per
quarter).
Estimated Time per Response: 80
hours.
Expiration Date: November 30, 2007.
Frequency: Annually (grant
application) and quarterly (reports).
Total Annual Burden: 11,232 hours.
(2) Title: Transportation of Household
Goods; Consumer Protection.
OMB Control No.: 2126–0025.
Form No.: Form MCSA–2P.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Motor Carriers and
Individual Shippers of Household
Goods.
Number of Respondents: 5,400.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
from 30 minutes to distribute consumer
publication to 150 minutes to conduct
physical survey.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2008.
Frequency: On occasion.
Total Annual Burden: 4,552,737
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Background
Summarized below is information for
the two (2) information collection
requests subject to this notice. The
information collection requests
explained below are based on changes
required by the enactment of
SAFETEA–LU, Pub. L. 109–59, 119 Stat.
1144 (Aug. 10, 2005). We also correct
previously published information
regarding a third information collection.
First, the Motor Carrier Safety
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that the Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) review reports submitted by
the States and conduct inspections to
continuously evaluate a State’s
enforcement plan. Sections 401 through
404 of the Surface Transportation
Assistance Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97–424,
Jan. 6, 1983) (STAA), as amended by 49
U.S.C. 31100 et seq., established a
program of financial assistance to the
States to implement programs to enforce
Federal and compatible State rules,
regulations, standards, and orders
applicable to commercial motor vehicle
(CMV) safety. SAFETEA–LU amended
49 U.S.C. 31102(b)(1) to modify the
conditions a State must meet to qualify
for grant funds through MCSAP and
now requires the following conditions
be addressed in the State’s Commercial
Vehicle Safety Plan: (1) Deploying
technology as part of performance-based
activities to enhance the efficiency and
effectiveness of CMV safety programs;
(2) disseminating information as part of
the CMV and non-CMV licensing
examination information on best
practices for driving safely in the
vicinity of non-commercial and
commercial motor vehicles; (3)
conducting comprehensive and highly
visible traffic enforcement and CMV
safety inspection programs in high-risk
areas; (4) ensuring that inspections of
certain passenger vehicles are
conducted at a station or other facility
where a motor carrier may make a
planned stop; and (5) allowing the use
of funds to conduct documented
enforcement of State traffic laws. The
overall impact of these financial
assistance provisions decreases total
burden hours of information collection
2126–0010 by an estimated 622 hours,
chiefly as a result of non-CMV traffic
enforcement activities.
Second, in the Motor Carrier Safety
Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–
159, 113 Stat. 1749, Dec. 9, 1999)
(MCSIA), Congress authorized the
Agency to regulate household goods
carriers engaged in interstate operations
for individual shippers. Title IV,
Subtitle B of SAFETEA-LU amended
various provisions of existing law
regarding household goods
transportation. Several of those
provisions, specifically addressing:
Definitions (section 4202); payment of
rates (section 4203); carrier operations
(section 4205); liability of carriers under
receipts and bills of lading (section
4207); arbitration requirements (section
4208); and penalties for holding goods
hostage (section 4210), result in changes
that affect information collection
activities. These provisions require
corresponding changes to the ’’Your

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Rights and Responsibilities When You
Move’’ consumer pamphlet. Section
4205 also requires the motor carrier to
provide to the shipper a copy of the
publication ’’Ready to Move?’’ (or its
successor publication). These
publications provide concise, valuable
consumer protection information
regarding the legal rights of individual
shippers. The household goods
transportation provisions of SAFETEA–
LU increase total paperwork burdens of
information collection 2126–0025 by an
estimated 182,700 burden hours
compared to the previously approved
burden. The largest portion of this
increase is generated by requirements in
section 4205 regarding the estimate of
the transportation charges and the
physical survey of the household goods.
Third, the separate final rule will not
affect the currently-approved
information clearance OMB Control
Number 2126–0011, entitled
‘‘Commercial Driver Licensing and Test
Standards,’’ which was referenced in
the previous Federal Register notice.
After we published the 60-day notice,
the OMB approved this information
collection on December 21, 2006, at a
revised total of 1,210,401 burden hours,
with an expiration date of April 30,
2007. This change is independent of,
and not caused in any way by, the
provisions in the final rule. We
anticipate no additional change in the
burden hours for this information
collection at this time. We seek public
comment on this assumption.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of the
information collections referenced here,
including: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for the FMCSA’s
performance; (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 on: April 13, 2007.
D. Marlene Thomas,
Associate Administrator Administration.
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