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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 229 / Tuesday, November 29, 2016 / Notices

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:
Vincent Babich, Office of Enforcement
and Compliance, Hazardous Materials
Division, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, 6th Floor, West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–366–4871; Email
Address: [email protected]. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.

designations within its jurisdiction
within 60 days after their establishment
(or 60 days of the change). That
information is collected and
consolidated by FMCSA and published
annually, in whole or as updates, in the
Federal Register.
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 it’s
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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: November 17, 2016.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.

Title: Transportation of Hazardous
Materials, Highway Routing.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0014.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: The reporting burden is
shared by 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Indian tribes with designated
routes, and U.S. Territories including;
Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam,
the Commonwealth of the Northern
Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin
Islands.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 57
[36 States and the District of Columbia,
with designated hazardous materials
highway routes + 20 States/U.S.
Territories without designated
hazardous materials highway routes + 1
Indian tribe with a designated route =
57].
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Expiration Date: April 30, 2017.
Frequency of Response: Once every
two years.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 7
hours [57 annual respondents × 1
response per 2 years × 15 minutes per
response/60 minutes per response =
7.125 hours rounded to 7 hours].
Background: The data for the
Transportation of Hazardous Materials;
Highway Routing ICR is collected under
authority of 49 U.S.C. 5112 and 5125.
Specifically, 49 U.S.C. 5112(c) requires
that the Secretary, in coordination with
the States, ‘‘shall update and publish
periodically a list of currently effective
hazardous material highway route
designations.’’
In 49 CFR 397.73, the FMCSA
requires that each State and Indian tribe,
through its routing agency, provide
information identifying new, or changes
to existing, hazardous materials routing

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2016–0407]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; New Information Collection
Request: National Consumer
Complaint Database
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 its
review and approval and invites public
comment. This new collection of
information is for the National
Consumer Complaint Database
(NCCDB), which is an online interface
allowing consumers, drivers and others
to file complaints against unsafe and
unscrupulous companies and/or their
employees, including shippers,
receivers and transportation
intermediaries, depending on the type
of complaint. These complaints cover a
wide range of activities, including but
not limited to driver harassment,
coercion, movement of household
goods, financial responsibility
instruments for brokers and freight

SUMMARY:

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forwarders, and Americans with
Disability Act (ADA) complaints.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before January 30, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2016–0407 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 Services; U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 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, 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: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
rulemaking process. DOT posts these
comments, without edit, including any
personal information the commenter
provides, to www.regulations.gov, as
described in the system of records
notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can
be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy.
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: Mr.
James Dubose, Department of

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Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Commercial
Enforcement and Investigations
Division/MC–ECC, West Building 6th
Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
215–656–7251, email: james.dubose@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Background
The FMCSA maintains online
information and resources to assist
drivers, others in the motor carrier
industry and members of the general
public in filing safety complaints
regarding household goods (HHG)
carriers, hazardous material (HM)
carriers, property carriers, cargo tank
facilities, and passenger carriers. There
is also information pertaining to the
filing of consumer complaints,
particularly regarding HHG
transportation and ADA compliance.1
This online interface is known as the
National Consumer Complaint Database
(NCCDB). When effectively applied, the
NCCDB can contribute to safer motor
carrier operations on our nation’s
highways and improved consumer
protection.
The NCCDB grew out of a telephone
hotline known as the Safety Violation
Hotline Service. Congress mandated this
hotline in Section 4017 of the
‘‘Transportation Equity Act of the 21st
Century,’’ Public Law 105–178, 112 Stat.
107, June 9, 1998. The Motor Carrier
Safety Improvement Act of 1999, Public
Law 106–159, 113 Stat. 1748, December
9, 1999, created the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration and
section 213 of the Act expanded the
Safety Violation Hotline Service to
include a 24-hour operation. On August
10, 2005, Congress enacted the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users, (SAFETEA–LU), Public Law 109–
59, 119 Stat. 1144. Section 4214 of
SAFETEA–LU requires DOT to create a
system to record and log aggregate
complaint information regarding
violations of the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Regulations.
The NCCDB fulfills the requirements
of these mandates. Complaints will be
accepted through the NCCDB in
connection with other statutory
mandates, including, but not limited to,
protection of drivers against harassment
and coercion under sections 32301(b)
1 The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
maintains reporting and other requirements for
over-the-road buses (OTRBs) under its Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations. (For a
complete listing of the DOT’s ADA regulations, see
49 CFR parts 37 and 38.)

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and 32911, respectively, of the Moving
Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century
Act, Public Law 112–141, 126 Stat. 405.
The NCCDB will also accept complaints
from interested parties regarding third
party intermediaries (brokers and freight
forwarders) and their associated
financial responsibility instruments.
Title: National Consumer Complaint
Database.
OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX.
Type of Request: New information
collection request.
Respondents: Consumers, Drivers,
and Other Participants in the Motor
Carrier Industry.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4,299.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new
ICR.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,075.
ADA/Bus—Service
60.5 burden hours (242 responses × 15
minutes to complete complaint =
60.5)
Truck/Drivers
305 burden hours (1,219 responses ×
15 minutes to complete complaint =
305)
Consumers
709.5 burden hours (2,838 responses
× 15 minutes to complete complaint
= 709.5)
There is no complaint history for the
recently added coercion and harassment
complaint categories, or for complaints
regarding financial responsibility
instruments for brokers and/or freight
forwarders. This data will be collected
and included in future renewals for the
NCCDB.
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 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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: November 22, 2016.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2016–0233]

Solicitation of Proposals for
Designation of Automated Vehicle
Proving Grounds Pilot
Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of intent to designate
proving grounds.
AGENCY:

It is the policy of the U.S.
Department of Transportation (‘‘DOT’’
or the ‘‘Department’’) to foster the safe
deployment of advanced automated
vehicle technologies to achieve national
goals while understanding the long-term
societal and ethical impacts that these
technological advancements may
impose. To further this understanding,
the DOT is requesting proposals from
applicants to form an initial network of
multiple proving grounds, focused on
the advancement of automated vehicle
technology. These entities will be
designated as a Community of Practice
to develop and share best practices
around the safe testing, demonstration
and deployment of automated vehicle
technology.
DATES: Proposals must be submitted by
11:59 p.m. EST on December 19, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Final proposals must not
exceed 15 pages in length, and must be
submitted electronically to:
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information concerning this
notice, please send inquiries to
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department is requesting applications to
be designated as USDOT Automated
Vehicle Proving Grounds. Please read
this notice in its entirety so that you
have all the information to determine
whether you would like to submit a
proposal.
DESCRIPTION: Benefits of Designation as
a USDOT Automated Vehicle Proving
Ground: Automated and connected
vehicle technologies are advancing, but
the pace of innovation can accelerate
through the safe testing and deployment
of vehicles on closed tracks, on
campuses and on limited roads. For this
purpose, the DOT is seeking
applications from eligible entities that
would like to be designated USDOT
Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds.
The Department anticipates that the
designation will encourage new levels
of public safety while contributing to a
strong innovative foundation able to
transform personal and commercial
SUMMARY:

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