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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0031]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of Two CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Requests: Financial and Operating
Statistics for Motor Carriers of
Property
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces FMCSA’s plan to
submit to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) its request to extend two
currently-approved information
collection requests (ICRs) as follows: (1)
OMB Control Number 2126–0032
entitled, ‘‘Annual Report of Class I and
Class II Motor Carriers of Property
(formerly OMB 2139–0004),’’ and (2)
OMB Control Number 2126–0033
entitled, ‘‘Quarterly Report of Class I
Motor Carriers of Property (formerly
OMB 2139–0002).’’ These ICRs are
necessary to ensure that motor carriers
comply with FMCSA’s financial and
operating statistics requirements at
chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369
entitled, ‘‘Reports of Motor Carriers.’’
The agency invites public comment on
these ICRs.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before June 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2012–0031 insert new number
using any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional
information on the exemption process,
see the Public Participation heading

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below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
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 for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Vivian Oliver, Office of Research and
Information Technology, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–366–2974; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Annual Report of
Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of
Property (Form M) and the Quarterly
Report of Class I Motor Carriers of
Property (Form QFR) are mandated
reporting requirements for all for-hire
motor carriers (See 49 U.S.C. 14123; and
implementing FMCSA regulations at 49
CFR part 369). The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) has exercised
his discretion under section 14123 to
also require Class I property carriers
(including dual-property carriers), Class
I household goods carriers and Class I
passenger carriers to file quarterly

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reports. Motor carriers (including
interstate and intrastate) subject to the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations are classified on the basis of
their gross carrier operating revenues.1
Under the Financial and Operating
Statistics (F&OS) program, FMCSA
collects from Class I and Class II
property carriers balance sheet and
income statement data along with
information on safety needs, tonnage,
mileage, employees, transportation
equipment, and other related data.
FMCSA may also ask carriers to respond
to surveys concerning their operations.
The data and information collected
would be made publicly available and
used by FMCSA to determine a motor
carrier’s compliance with the F&OS
program requirements prescribed at
chapter III of title of 49 CFR part 369.
The regulations were formerly
administered by the Interstate
Commerce Commission and later
transferred to the Secretary on January
1, 1996, by section 103 of the ICC
Termination Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–
88, 109 Stat. 803 (Dec. 29, 1995)), now
codified at 49 U.S.C. 14123. On
September 30, 1998, the Secretary
delegated and transferred the authority
to administer the F&OS program to the
former Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), now part of the
Research and Innovative Technology
Administration (RITA), to former
chapter XI, subchapter B of 49 CFR part
1420 (63 FR 52192).
On September 29, 2004, the Secretary
transferred the responsibility for the
F&OS program from BTS to FMCSA in
the belief that the program was more
aligned with FMCSA’s mission and its
other motor carrier responsibilities (69
FR 51009). On August 10, 2006, the
Secretary published a final rule (71 FR
45740) that transferred and redesignated
certain motor carrier financial and
statistical reporting regulations of BTS,
that were formerly located at chapter XI,
subchapter B of title 49 CFR part 1420,
to FMCSA under chapter III of title 49
CFR part 369.
FMCSA plans to initiate a regulatory
proceeding in the near future that will
1 For purposes of the Financial and Operating
Statistics (F&OS) program, carriers are classified
into the following three groups: (1) Class I carriers
are those having annual carrier operating revenues
(including interstate and intrastate) of $10 million
or more after applying the revenue deflator formula
as set forth in Note A of 49 CFR 369.2; (2) Class
II carriers are those having annual carrier operating
revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of at
least $3 million, but less than $10 million after
applying the revenue deflator formula as set forth
in 49 CFR 369.2; and (3) Class III carriers are those
having annual carrier operating revenues (including
interstate and intrastate) of less than $3 million
after applying the revenue deflator formula as set
forth in Note A of 49 CFR 369.2.

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result in the elimination of two
quarterly reporting requirements that
are currently reported to OMB under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). These forms
include: (1) Form QFR Quarterly for
property carriers, authorized by OMB
under information collection 2126–
0033; and (2) the Class I passenger
carrier financial quarterly survey (MP–
1 Quarterly), authorized by OMB under
information collection 2126–0031. The
FMCSA does not have the statutory
authority to eliminate the annual
reporting requirements for property or
passengers. FMCSA will be publishing a
direct final rule that will include
additional information, including the
reduced paperwork burden, resulting
from this future action.
Title: Annual Report of Class I and
Class II Motor Carriers of Property
(formerly OMB Control Number 2139–
0004).
New OMB Control Number: 2126–
0032.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Class I and Class II
Motor Carriers of Property.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
197 (per year).
Estimated Time per Response: 9
hours.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2012.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,773 hours [197 respondents × 9 hours
to complete form = 1,773].
Title: Quarterly Report of Class I
Motor Carriers of Property (formerly
OMB Control Number 2139–0002).
New OMB Control Number: 2126–
0033.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of
Property.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
111.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.8
hours (27 minutes per quarter).
Expiration Date: September 30, 2012.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 200
hours [111 respondents × 1.8 hours to
complete forms = 200].
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 agency to perform its
mission; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for FMCSA
to enhance the quality, usefulness, and
clarity of the collected information; and
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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: April 12, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012–9548 Filed 4–19–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0048]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Extension of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection:
Annual and Quarterly Report of Class
I Motor Carriers of Passengers
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 to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) its request to revise a currentlyapproved information collection for
Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers,
(Form MP–1) entitled, ‘‘Annual and
Quarterly Reports.’’ This information
collection is necessary to ensure that
motor carriers comply with financial
and operating statistics requirements at
49 CFR part 369. The agency invites
public comments on this information
request.

SUMMARY:

We must receive your comments
on or before June 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2012–0048 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590–
0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
DATES:

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Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments, see the Public
Participation heading below. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
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 for the Federal Docket
Management System published in the
Federal Register on January 17, 2008
(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http://
edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8794.pdf.
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you
want us to notify you that we received
your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Vivian Oliver, Office of Research and
Information Technology, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–2974; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: For-hire Class I motor
carriers of passengers (including
interstate and intrastate) 1 are required
1 For purposes of the Financial & Operating
Statistics (F&OS) program, passenger carriers are
classified into the following two groups: (1) Class
I carriers are those having average annual gross
transportation operating revenues (including
interstate and intrastate) of $5 million or more from
passenger motor carrier operations after applying
the revenue deflator formula in the Note of section

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