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please indicate specific needs in your
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Authority: Section 1426 of Pub. L. 114–94.
Issued on: November 21, 2019.
Nicole R. Nason,
Administrator, Federal Highway
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2019–0195 (Notice No.
2019–11)]

Hazardous Materials: Information
Collection Activities
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
PHMSA invites comments on a revision
to the information collection pertaining
to hazardous materials public sector
training and planning grants for which
PHMSA intends to request a renewal
with revision from the Office of
Management and Budget.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
27, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket Number
PHMSA–2019–0195 (Notice No. 2019–
11) by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management System;
U.S. Department of Transportation,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Routing Symbol M–30, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590.
• Hand Delivery: To the Docket
Management System; Room W12–140
on the ground floor of the West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and Docket
Number (PHMSA–2019–0195) for this
notice at the beginning of the comment.
To avoid duplication, please use only
one of these four methods. All
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comments received will be posted
without change to the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) and will
include any personal information you
provide.
Requests for a copy of an information
collection should be directed to Steven
Andrews or Shelby Geller, (202) 366–
8553, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration,
Standards and Rulemaking Division,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Docket: For access to the dockets to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov or DOT’s Docket
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
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.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, (202)
366–8553, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration,
Standards and Rulemaking Division,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
1320.8 (d), title 5, Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) requires PHMSA to
provide interested members of the
public and affected agencies an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping requests.
This notice identifies an information
collection request that PHMSA will be
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for revision.
Specifically, PHMSA is notifying the
public of its intent to seek additional
information in hazardous materials
planning grant applications. This
information collection is contained in
49 CFR 171.6 of the Hazardous
Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR
parts 171–180). PHMSA has revised
burden estimates, where appropriate, to
reflect current reporting levels or
adjustments based on a proposed
revision to this information collection.
The following information is provided
for this information collection: (1) Title
of the information collection, including
former title if a change is being made;
(2) OMB control number; (3) summary
of the information collection activity; (4)
description of affected public; (5)
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recordkeeping burden; and (6)
frequency of collection. PHMSA will
request a 3-year term of approval for this
information collection activity and will
publish a notice in the Federal Register
upon OMB’s approval.
On February 28, 2019, PHMSA
published a final rule titled ‘‘Hazardous
Materials: Oil Spill Response Plans and
Information Sharing for High-Hazard
Flammable Trains (FAST Act)’’ [HM–
251B; 84 FR 6910] which revised and
clarified requirements for
Comprehensive Oil Spill Response
Plans (COSRPs) and expanded their
applicability based on petroleum oil
thresholds that apply to an entire train
consist. The final rule also required a
railroad to share information about
high-hazard flammable train (HHFT)
operations with each State emergency
response commissions (SERC, Tribal
Emergency Response, Commission
(TERC), or other appropriate Statedelegated agency in each State through
which it operates to improve
community preparedness. At a
minimum, railroads must provide: (1) A
reasonable estimate of the number of
HHFTs that the railroad expects to
operate each week, through each county
within the State or through each tribal
jurisdiction; (2) the routes over which
the HHFTs will operate; (3) a
description of the hazardous materials
being transported and all applicable
emergency response information
required by the shipping papers and
emergency response information
requirements of the HMR; (4) an HHFT
point of contact; and (5) a description of
the response zones (including counties
and states) and the contact information
for the qualified individual and
alternate as specified under § 130.120(c)
if a route identified above is
additionally subject to the
comprehensive spill plan requirements.
In addition, the HHFT notification must
be maintained and transmitted in
accordance with the following: (1)
Railroads must update the notifications
for changes in volume greater than 25%;
(2) notifications and updates may be
transmitted electronically or by hard
copy; (3) if the disclosure includes
information that a railroad believes is
security sensitive or proprietary and
exempt from public disclosure, the
railroad should indicate that in the
notification; (4) each point of contact
must be clearly identified by name or
title, and contact role (e.g., qualified
individual, HHFT point of contact) in
association with the telephone number.
One point of contact may fulfill
multiple roles; and (5) copies of the
railroad’s notifications must be made

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available to the Department of
Transportation upon request.
Following an audit conducted by the
General Accounting Office (GAO),
PHMSA received a recommendation
(GAO–17–91) to develop a process for
regularly collecting information from
SERCs on the distribution of the
railroad-provided hazardous materials
shipping information to local planning

entities. In response to this
recommendation, PHMSA is seeking to
have grant applicants declare if SERCs
have received copies of the railroadprovided information detailed above. In
addition, PHMSA is seeking to
determine if the SERCs are
disseminating this information to local
planning entities. PHMSA expects that
requesting grantees to provide this

Question/topic

Respondents

General Grantee and Sub-grantee information ...................
Information on LEPCs ..........................................................
Assessment of Potential Chemical Threats .........................
Assessment of Response Capabilities for Accidents/Incidents .................................................................................
HMEP Planning and Training Grant Reporting ...................
HMEP Planning Goals and Objectives ................................
HMEP Training and Planning Assessment .........................
Hazmat Transportation Fees ...............................................
Grant Applicant is NIMS Compliant/Grant Application Is
Reviewed By SERC .........................................................
HMEP Grant Program Administration ..................................
HHFT Information-Sharing Compliance Questions .............

Responses
per
respondent

Number of
responses

Hours per
response

Total burden
hours

62
62
62

1
1
1

62
62
62

16
16
8

992
992
496

62
62
62
62
62

1
1
1
1
1

62
62
62
62
62

8
7
7
7
3.23

496
434
434
434
200.26

62
62
62

1
1
1

62
62
62

5.5
5.5
0.033

341
341
2.067

training in support of the emergency
planning and training efforts of States,
Indian tribes, and local communities to
manage hazardous materials
emergencies, particularly those
involving transportation. Sections in

Title: Hazardous Materials Public
Sector Training and Planning Grants.
OMB Control Number: 2137–0586.
Summary: Part 110 of 49 CFR sets
forth the procedures for reimbursable
grants for public sector planning and

additional information will add
approximately 2 minutes of burden time
per respondent. For 62 grantees, this is
appropriately 2.067 additional burden
hours (62 grantees x 2 minutes).
The time to complete each component
of an HMEP grantee application,
including the additional informationsharing compliance questions, is as
follows:

this part address information collection
and recordkeeping regarding the
application for grants, the monitoring of
expenditures, and the reporting and
requesting of modifications.

Information collection

Respondents

Total annual
responses

Hours per
response

Total annual
burden hours

Hazardous Materials Grants Applications .......................................................

62

62

83.26

5,162

Affected Public: State and local
governments, Indian tribes.
Increase in Annual Reporting and
Recordkeeping Burden:
Increase in Annual Respondents: 0.
Increase in Annual Responses: 0.
Increase in Annual Burden Hours: 2.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.
Issued in Washington, DC on November 20,
2019.
William S. Schoonover,
Associate Administrator of Hazardous
Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2019–0165]

Non-Traditional and Emerging
Transportation Technology (NETT)
Council
Office of the Secretary (OST),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Request for comment.
AGENCY:

In April 2019, the Department
of Transportation (DOT) created the
Non-Traditional and Emerging
Transportation Technology (NETT)
Council, an internal deliberative body at
DOT, to identify and resolve
jurisdictional and regulatory gaps
associated with non-traditional and
emerging transportation projects
pending before DOT, including with
respect to safety oversight,
environmental review, and funding
issues. The Office of the Secretary of
Transportation invites comments on

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projects, issues, or topics that DOT
should consider through the NETT
Council, including regulatory models
and other alternative approaches for
non-traditional and emerging
transportation technologies.
DATES: Comments are requested by
January 10, 2020. See the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section on
‘‘Public Participation,’’ below, for more
information about written comments.
Written Comments: Comments should
refer to the docket number above and be
submitted by one of the following
methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday

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