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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–28850]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Driver
Qualification Files

Please send your comments by
October 11, 2007. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.

DATES:

Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.

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AGENCY:

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All comments should
reference Docket No. FMCSA–2007–
28850. You may submit comments to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street, NW.,

ADDRESSES:

SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)

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described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. This collection,
entitled ‘‘Driver Qualification Files,’’
accounts for the information that motor
carriers must obtain and maintain on
the qualifications of the commercial
motor vehicle (CMV) drivers they
employ. On May 23, 2007, FMCSA
published a Federal Register notice
allowing for a 60-day comment period
on the ICR. No comments were received.

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Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/
FMCSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Thomas Yager, Chief, FMCSA Driver
and Carrier Operations Division.
Telephone: 202–366–4235; e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Driver Qualification Files.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0004.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers; drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 7
million.
Estimated Time per Response: An
average of 28 minutes.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2007.
Frequency of Response: The principal
obligations of these rules are imposed
on motor carriers when considering a
driver for employment, and on CMV
drivers, when applying for employment.

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These obligations arise irregularly
because they are associated with the
hiring process. This collection also
imposes certain annual obligations on
motor carriers and employee-drivers.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
3,254,580 hours. FMCSA arrives at this
estimate through calculation of the time
involved with each of the requirements
of the driver qualification rules
including those pertaining to the hiring
of a CMV driver by a motor carrier and
the safety performance history of the
applicant-driver.
Background

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The Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984
(Pub. L. 98–554, Title II, 98 Stat. 2834
(October 30, 1984)) requires the
Secretary of Transportation to issue
regulations pertaining to CMV safety.
These regulations, also issued under the
authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 504,
31133, 31136, and 31502, require motor
carriers to maintain a driver
qualification file on each of their CMV
drivers. The rules require a motor
carrier to obtain and maintain specified
information concerning the
qualifications of each driver to operate
a CMV in interstate commerce. The
CMV driver is often required to produce
the required information. The majority
of the information is collected during
the process of hiring the CMV driver
and during annual reviews. This
information is available to FMCSA
investigators to substantiate the
qualifications of drivers to operate a
CMV safely in interstate commerce. A
qualified driver means fewer crashes.
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 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: August 31, 2007.
Michael S. Griffith,
Acting Associate Administrator for Research
and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–28630]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection:
Share the Road Safely Outreach
Program Assessment
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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 and invites public
comment. The proposed ICR will be
used to collect information on
commercial motor vehicle (CMV) and
passenger car drivers’ awareness of the
Share the Road Safely (STRS) safety
messages and activities. This
information collection will aid FMCSA
in developing future Share the Road
Safely initiatives by surveying and
examining driver awareness of sharing
the road safely by using safety messages
and activities.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before November 13, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by any of the following
methods. Please identify your comments
by the FMCSA Docket Number FMCSA–
2007–28630.
• Web site: http://dms.dot.gov.
Follow instructions for submitting
comments to the Docket.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
• Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Docket: For access to the Docket
Management System (DMS) to read
background documents or comments
received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any
time or to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,

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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 on-line.
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.
Brian Ronk, Office of Outreach and
Development, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Telephone: (202) 366–1072, or e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The purpose of this study is to assess
the awareness of licensed drivers
regarding Share the Road Safely
messages. The study will assist FMCSA
in developing future STRS campaign
messages and identifying target
audiences and distribution strategies.
The data will be collected through a
telephone survey. Results of the study
will not be published, but used for
internal research purposes by FMCSA to
assess its outreach activities and
identify opportunities to help raise the
public’s awareness of driving safely in,
or around, large trucks and vehicles. A
follow-up survey will be conducted two
years after the initial data collection and
compared against the results from the
baseline assessment.
Title: Share the Road Safely Outreach
Program Assessment.
OMB Control Number: 2126–XXXX.
Type of Request: New collection.
Respondents: Public/licensed drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,500.
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated average burden per response
is 10 minutes.
Expiration Date: N/A.
Frequency of Response: Other. The
information will be collected during the
first year of approval and again two
years following the initial data
collection.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 250
hours [1,500 responses × 10 minutes/60
minutes per response = 250].

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