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Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 100 / Thursday, May 23, 2013 / Notices

Dated: May 20, 2013.
Faye Lipsky,
Reports Clearance Director, Social Security
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2013–12259 Filed 5–22–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA 2013–0058]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a Currently
Approved Collection: Driver
Qualification Files
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)
‘‘Driver Qualification (DQ) Files’’ to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for its review and approval.
Motor carriers must maintain a DQ file
on each employee-driver and document
therein that the individual meets the
minimum qualification requirements for
a driver of commercial motor vehicles
(CMVs) in interstate commerce. The
Agency’s estimate of the number of
drivers subject to these requirements
has been revised to exclude any
consideration of drivers and motor
carriers operating exclusively in
intrastate commerce. In addition, this
revision request includes an updated
estimate of the interstate drivers and an
increase in the estimated annual burden
hours for this ICR. The bulk of the
increase in burden hours is the result of
a more accurate Agency estimate of the
number of job openings for CMV drivers
offered each year. On March 5, 2013,
FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice allowing for a 60-day comment
period on this ICR. The agency received
five comments in response to that
notice.

Please send your comments to
this notice by June 24, 2013. OMB must
receive your comments by this date to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2013–0058. Interested persons
are invited to submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of

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Management and Budget. Comments
should be addressed to the attention of
the Desk Officer, Department of
Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, and sent via
electronic mail to
[email protected], faxed to
(202) 395–6974, or mailed to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Thomas Yager, Chief, Driver and Carrier
Operations Division, Office of Bus and
Truck Standards and Operations,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001. Telephone: 202–366–4325. Email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Driver Qualification Files.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0004.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved ICR.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
drivers of commercial motor vehicles.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
46,900,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes (average).
Expiration Date: May 31, 2013.
Frequency of Response: Responses to
some regulatory requirements of the
driver qualification rules occur on a
random basis. Other responses occur
more predictably. Some responses recur;
others do not. For example, motor
carriers are required to obtain and
review the motor vehicle driving record
of their drivers from the State of
licensure. They must complete this task
at the time of hiring and again every
year thereafter. The time-of-hiring
requirement results in a random
frequency of response, but, thereafter,
the annual requirement results in a
fixed frequency of response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
5,800,000 hours [5,400,000 hours for
driver hiring + 300,000 hours for annual
review of driver qualifications + 100,000
hours for driver review and rebuttal of
safety performance history = 5,800,000].
Background
The Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984
[Pub. L. 98–554, Title II, 98 Stat. 2832
(October 30, 1984)] requires the
Secretary of Transportation to issue
regulations pertaining to CMV safety.
These regulations are also issued under
the authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 504,
31133, 31136, and 31502. Part 391 of
volume 49 of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) contains the
qualification requirements for drivers of
CMVs in interstate commerce.

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Motor carriers may not require or
permit an unqualified driver to operate
a CMV (49 CFR 391.11). The foremost
proof of driver qualification is the
information that part 391 requires be
collected and maintained in the DQ file
(49 CFR 391.51). Motor carriers must
obtain this information from sources
specified in the regulations. These
include the driver, previous employers
of the driver, and officials of the State
of driver licensure.
Motor carriers are not required to
forward driver qualification information
to FMCSA, but must maintain the
information in a DQ file. The DQ file
must be updated annually (49 CFR
391.25). The DQ file of each driver must
be made available to State and Federal
safety investigators on demand.
This request for OMB approval revises
the Agency’s previous Paperwork
Reduction Act estimate of the
information collection burden of the DQ
file requirements.
Public Comments Invited
FMCSA requests that you comment
on any aspect of this information
collection, including: (1) Whether the
proposed collection is necessary for
FMCSA to perform its 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. The agency will summarize
or include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Issued on: May 14, 2013.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013–12355 Filed 5–22–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2000–7918; 2002–
13411; 2003–14504; 2006–26066; 2008–
0231]

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Vision
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of renewal of
exemptions; request for comments.
AGENCY:

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces its
decision to renew the exemptions from

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