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(14 CFR part 21, § 21.17(b)) with nine
passenger seats or less. Material in the
policy is neither mandatory nor
regulatory in nature and does not
constitute a regulation.
DATES: Policy statement PS–ACE100–
2007–002 was issued by the Small
Airplane Directorate, Aircraft
Certification Service, on October 15,
2007.
Discussion of Comments
The comment period for the proposed
policy closed on August 29, 2007. No
comments were received, and the policy
is being adopted as proposed.
How To Obtain Copies: A paper copy
of policy statement PS–ACE100–2007–
002 may be obtained by writing to us at
the Small Airplane Directorate, ACE–
111; Federal Aviation Administration,
Room 301; 901 Locust; Kansas City,
Missouri 64106.
The policy statement is available on
the Internet at http://www.faa.gov/
regulations_policies/policy_guidance/.
Issued in Kansas City, Missouri on October
15, 2007.
David R. Showers,
Acting Manager, Small Airplane Directorate,
Aircraft Certification Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–0004]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a Currently
Approved Information Collection:
Motor Carrier Identification Report
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
information.

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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
review and approval and invites public
comment. The FMCSA requests
approval to revise an ICR entitled,
‘‘Motor Carrier Identification Report,’’
which is used to identify FMCSA
regulated entities, help prioritize the
agency’s activities, aid in assessing the
safety outcomes of those activities, and
for statistical purposes.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before January 7, 2008.

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You may submit comments
bearing the Department of
Transportation (DOT) Docket
Management System (DMS) Docket
Number FMCSA Docket Number
FMCSA–2007–0004 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building
Group Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: 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.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this Notice. Note that DOT posts all
comments received without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below:
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays. The
DMS is available 24 hours each day, 365
days each year. If you want
acknowledgement that we received your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or post
card or print the acknowledgement page
that appears after submitting on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or of the person signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review the DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19477–78; Apr. 11, 2000). This
information is also available at http://
Docketinfo.dot.gov.
ADDRESSES:

Ms.
Arlene D. Thompson, Information
Systems Specialist, Office of
Information Technology, Operations
Division, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 6th Floor, West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE.,

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Washington, DC 20590. Telephone
Number: (202) 366–2094; e-mail
Address: [email protected].
Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Title 49 U.S.C. 504(b)(2)
provides the Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) with authority to require
carriers, lessors, associations, or classes
of them to file annual, periodic, and
special reports containing answers to
questions asked by the Secretary. The
Secretary may also prescribe the form of
records required to be prepared or
compiled and the time period during
which records must be preserved (See
§§ 504(b)(1) and (d)). The FMCSA will
use this data to administer its safety
programs by establishing a database of
entities that are subject to its
regulations. This database necessitates
that these entities notify the FMCSA of
their existence. For example, under 49
CFR 390.19(a), FMCSA requires all
motor carriers beginning operations to
file a Form MCS–150 entitled, ‘‘Motor
Carrier Identification Report.’’ This
report is filed by all motor carriers
conducting operations in interstate or
international commerce within 90 days
after beginning operations. It asks the
respondent to provide the name of the
business entity that owns and controls
the motor carrier operation, address and
telephone of principal place of business,
assigned identification number(s), type
of operation, types of cargo usually
transported, number of vehicles owned,
term leased and trip leased, driver
information, and certification statement
signed by an individual authorized to
sign documents on behalf of the
business entity.
The Department of Transportation
(DOT) and Related Agencies
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2002
(DOT Appropriations Act) (Pub. L. 107–
87, 115 Stat. 833 (December 18, 2001)
directed the agency to issue an interim
final rule (IFR) to ensure that new
entrant motor carriers are
knowledgeable about the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs)
and standards. The IFR was published
on May 13, 2002 (67 FR 31983). The
Form MCS–150A associated with this
rule is entitled, ‘‘Safety Certification for
Application for U.S. DOT Number,’’ and
is used to help ensure that new entrants
are knowledgeable about the Federal
motor carrier safety regulations and
standards before being granted
registration authority to operate in
interstate commerce (Intrastate carriers
are not considered new entrants since
they do not operate in interstate

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commerce; and thus do not need to
complete or file the Form MCS–150A.).
Under the Form MCS–150A, as required
by 49 CFR 385.305, the new entrant
must certify that it has a system(s) in
place to ensure compliance with
applicable requirements covering driver
qualifications, hours-of-service,
controlled substance and alcohol
testing, vehicle condition, accident
monitoring and hazardous materials
(HM) transportation. The certification
reminds the new entrant of its statutory
and regulatory responsibilities, which if
neglected or violated, may subject the
applicant to civil penalties and lead to
the revocation of the new entrant
registration.
On June 30, 2004, the agency issued
another final rule entitled, ‘‘Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Regulations:
Hazardous Materials Safety Permits,’’
(69 FR 39350) which required all HM
carriers (both interstate and intrastate)
to complete and file the Form MCS–
150B entitled, ‘‘Combined Motor Carrier
Identification Report and HM Permit
Application,’’ to obtain a safety permit
to transport hazardous materials. The
safety program under 49 CFR 390.19(a)
also requires all HM permitted carriers
to complete Form MCS–150B in place of
the current Form MCS–150 to ‘‘renew’’
both their permit and their DOT
numbers according to the DOT number
renewal schedule.
Accordingly, FMCSA seeks to revise
this currently-approved information
collection to update the records and
forms associated with its safety
programs identified above; and to
identify the regulated entities currently
engaged in these activities.
Title: Motor Carrier Identification
Report.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0013.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
472,470.
Estimated Time per Response: To
complete Form MCS–150—20 minutes;
and for Form MCS–150A—9 minutes.
To complete Form MCS–150B (HM
Permit Application)—6 minutes for
interstate carriers that have already
completed the Form MCS–150; and for
intrastate carriers that have never
completed a Form MCS–150—they will
need about 16 minutes to complete the
permit renewal.
Expiration Date: January 31, 2008.
Frequency of Response: One-time for
Form MCS–150; biennially for MCS–
150A; and MCS–150B.

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Estimated Total Annual Burden:
119,270 hours [108,825 hours for Form
MCS–150 + 10,305 hours for Form
MCS–150A + 140 hours for Form MCS–
150B = 119,270 hours].
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 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: November 1, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7–21880 Filed 11–6–07; 8:45 am]

Office hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Electronic Access
You may see all the comments online
through the Federal Document
Management System (FDMS) at http://
www.regulations.gov.
Background
Under 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315,
FMCSA may grant an exemption for a 2year period if it finds ‘‘such exemption
would likely achieve a level of safety
that is equivalent to, or greater than, the
level that would be achieved absent
such exemption.’’ The statutes also
allow the Agency to renew exemptions
at the end of the 2-year period. The
Notice was published on September 13,
2007. The comment period ended on
October 15, 2007.
Discussion of Comments

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FMCSA received no comments in this
proceeding.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Conclusion

Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration

The Agency has not received any
adverse evidence on any of these
commercial motor vehicle drivers that
indicates that safety is being
compromised. Based upon its
evaluation of the 25 renewal
applications, FMCSA renews the
Federal vision exemptions for Linda L.
Billings, John A. Chizmar, Ronald D.
Danberry, Weldon R. Evans, Richard L.
Gagnebin, Orasio Garcia, Leslie W.
Good, Chester L. Gray, James P. Guth,
Rayford R. Harper, Britt D. Hazelwood,
Joseph V. Johns, Robert C. Leathers,
Michael S. Maki, Mark D. Page, Kenneth
A. Reddick, Leonard Rice, Jr., Juan M.
Rosas, Richard C. Simms, James T.
Sullivan, Thomas J. Sweeny, Jr., Steven
C. Thomas, Edward A. Vanderhei, Larry
J. Waldner, and Kevin L. Wickard.
In accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e)
and 31315, each renewal exemption will
be valid for 2 years unless revoked
earlier by FMCSA. The exemption will
be revoked if: (1) The person fails to
comply with the terms and conditions
of the exemption; (2) the exemption has
resulted in a lower level of safety than
was maintained before it was granted; or
(3) continuation of the exemption would
not be consistent with the goals and
objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136 and 31315.

[Docket Nos. FMCSA–98–4334, FMCSA–99–
5578, FMCSA–00–7363, FMCSA–00–7918,
FMCSA–01–9258, FMCSA–01–9561,
FMCSA–03–14504, FMCSA–03–15268,
FMCSA–05–20027, FMCSA–05–21254]

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Renewals; Vision
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of final disposition.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: FMCSA previously
announced its decision to renew the
exemptions from the vision requirement
in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations for 25 individuals. FMCSA
has statutory authority to exempt
individuals from the vision requirement
if the exemptions granted will not
compromise safety. The Agency has
reviewed the comments submitted in
response to the previous announcement
and concluded that granting these
exemptions will provide a level of safety
that will be equivalent to, or greater
than, the level of safety maintained
without the exemptions by these
drivers.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Mary D. Gunnels, Chief, Physical
Qualifications Division, (202) 366–4001,
[email protected], FMCSA,
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., Room W64–
224, Washington, DC 20590–0001.

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Issued on October 31, 2007.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy and
Program Development.
[FR Doc. 07–5546 Filed 11–6–07; 8:45 am]
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