30-day comment request Federal Register notice

Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 87 / Tuesday, May 6, 2014 / Notices
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions should be directed to Laura
Hellstem, Designated Federal Officer,
Industry Trade Advisory Center (ITAC),
U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401
Constitution Ave. NW., Room 4043,
Washington, DC 20230; by Fax: (202)
482–3268; or by email: Laura.Hellstem@
trade.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The open
portion of this ITAC 11 meeting will
consist of an update on the Trade
Promotion Authority by staff of the
Senate Finance Committee and House
Committee on Ways and Means.
Jewel James,
Assistant United State Trade Representative,
for Intergovernmental Affairs and Public
Engagement.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0109]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Accident Recordkeeping
Requirements
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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
approval and invites public comment.
FMCSA requests approval to revise the
ICR entitled ‘‘Accident Recordkeeping
Requirements.’’ This ICR relates to
Agency requirements that motor carriers
maintain a record of certain accidents
involving commercial motor vehicles
(CMVs). Motor carriers are not required
to report this data to FMCSA, but must
produce it upon inquiry by authorized
Federal, State or local officials.
DATES: Please send your comments by
June 5, 2014. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act on
the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2014–0109. Interested persons
are invited to submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and

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Regulatory Affairs, Office of
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 oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov, or 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, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–4325; email tom.yager@
dot.gov. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to
5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Accident Recordkeeping
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0009.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection request.
Respondents: Motor Carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
520,000 motor carriers.
Estimated Time per Response: 18
minutes.
Expiration Date: May 31, 2014.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
26,700 hours [89,000 motor carriers
recording an accident × 18 minutes per
response/60 minutes in an hour =
26,700].
Background: Title 49 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, § 390.15(b),
requires motor carriers to make certain
specified records and information
pertaining to CMV accidents 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
information concerning all ‘‘accidents’’
involving their CMVs (49 CFR 390.15(b)
(see ‘‘Definition: Accident’’ below).
Motor carriers must report accidents
that occur in interstate and intrastate
commerce. The following information
must be recorded for each accident:
Date, location, driver name, number of
injuries, number of fatalities, and
whether certain dangerous hazardous
materials were released. In addition,
motor carriers must maintain copies of
all accident reports required by insurers
or governmental entities. Motor carriers
must maintain this information for three

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years after the date of the accident.
Section 390.15 does not require motor
carriers to submit any information or
records to FMCSA or any other party.
This ICR supports the DOT strategic
goal of safety. By requiring motor
carriers to gather and record information
concerning CMV accidents, FMCSA is
strengthening its ability to assess the
safety performance of motor carriers.
This information is a valuable resource
in Agency initiatives to prevent, and
reduce the severity of, CMV crashes.
Public Comments: Two comments
were received in response to this notice.
The first respondent expressed concern
about the lack of notification by the
reporting officer at the crash scene to
the driver and motor carrier. In a recent
accident, he was not made aware the
accident was a DOT Recordable
Accident until it was reported by the
officer on the police report. The
respondent did not address the ICR
burden of the Accident Register. The
second respondent suggested that the
Agency could better utilize the
information contained in the Accident
Register by improving Police Accident
Reports (PARs). However, PARs are
designed and used exclusively by State
and local enforcement agencies; the
FMCSA lacks authority to amend or
otherwise improve PARs.
Definition: ‘‘Accident’’ is an
occurrence involving a CMV operating
on a public road 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 being towed from the scene (49
CFR 390.5).
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 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.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: April 16, 2014.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
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