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Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 169 / Friday, August 31, 2007 / Notices

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
Program Number 20.205, Highway Research,
Planning, and Construction. The regulations
implementing Executive Order 12372
regarding intergovernmental consultation on
Federal programs and activities apply to this
program.)
Issued on: August 27, 2007.
Steve Healow,
Senior Project Development Engineer,
Sacramento, California.
[FR Doc. E7–17301 Filed 8–30–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–28825]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Training
Certification for Entry-Level
Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.

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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. The FMCSA
requests approval to revise and extend
an information collection (IC) entitled,
‘‘Training Certification for Entry-Level
Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV)
Operators,’’ that relates to the
prerequisite training requirements for
drivers of vehicles for which a
commercial driver’s license (CDL) is
required. On May 23, 2007, FMCSA
published a Federal Register notice
allowing for a 60-day comment period
on the ICR. No comments were received.
DATES: Please send your comments by
October 1, 2007. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act
quickly on the ICR.
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Thomas Yager, Chief, FMCSA Driver
and Carrier Operations Division,
Telephone: 202–366–4235; e-mail
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Title: Training Certification for EntryLevel Commercial Motor Vehicle
Operators.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0028.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Entry-level CDL drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
45,611.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2007.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
7,602 hours. FMCSA estimates that an
entry-level driver requires
approximately 10 minutes to complete
the tasks necessary to comply with the
regulation. Those tasks are:
Photocopying the training certificate,
giving the photocopy to the motor
carrier employer, and placing the
original of the certificate in a personal
file. Therefore, the annual burden for all
entry-level drivers is (45,611 × 10/60) =
7,602 hours (rounded).
Background: The Commercial Motor
Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA) (49
U.S.C. 31301 et seq.) established
national minimum testing and licensing
standards for operators of large trucks
and buses. Congress sought to ensure
that drivers of large trucks and buses
possessed the knowledge and skills
necessary to operate these vehicles. The
CMVSA established the ‘‘Commercial
Drivers License’’ program and directed
the Federal Highway Administration
(FHWA), FMCSA’s predecessor agency,
to establish minimum Federal standards
that States must meet when licensing
CMV drivers. The CMVSA applies to
most operators of CMVs in interstate or
intrastate commerce, including
employees of Federal, State and local
governments. Section 4007(a)(2) of the
Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) (Pub. L.
102–240, December 18, 1991) directed
the FHWA to ‘‘commence a rulemaking
proceeding on the need to require
training of all entry-level drivers of
CMVs.’’ In 1993, the FHWA received
public comments and began a study of
the effectiveness of the training of entrylevel drivers by the private sector. The
study found that the heavy truck, motor
coach, and school bus segments of the
industry were not providing adequate
entry-level training. In 2003, FMCSA
proposed mandatory training for
operators of CMVs, and in 2004,
published a final rule on the topic. On
June 11, 2004, OMB approved the
information collection associated with
the 2004 rule for a period of three years,
or until September 30, 2007.

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Definitions: ‘‘Commercial Motor
Vehicle’’: This rule applies to the
operators of CMVs for which a CDL is
required by 40 CFR part 383; i.e. those
vehicles (1) having a gross vehicle
weight rating of 26,001 pounds or more,
regardless of actual weight, (2) designed
to transport 16 or more passengers
including the driver, or (3) used to
transport certain placardable and
dangerous hazardous materials (49 CFR
part 383.5). The training requirements of
this rule apply to drivers with 1 year or
less experience operating a vehicle for
which a CDL is required (49 CFR
380.502(b)).
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.
Issued on: August 21, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and
Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7–17325 Filed 8–30–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–28536]

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Diabetes
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of applications for
exemptions from the diabetes standard;
request for comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces receipt of
applications from 18 individuals for
exemptions from the prohibition against
persons with insulin-treated diabetes
mellitus (ITDM) operating commercial
motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate
commerce. If granted, the exemptions
would enable these individuals with
ITDM to operate commercial motor
vehicles in interstate commerce.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before October 1, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Department of
Transportation (DOT) Docket
Management System (DMS) Docket

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