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31315, the following three individuals
have satisfied the renewal conditions for
obtaining an exemption from the vision
requirement in the FMCSRs for
interstate CMV drivers (69 FR 53493; 69
FR 64742; 71 FR 62148; 73 FR 61925;
75 FR 59327; 75 FR 72863; 76 FR 2190;
77 FR 74273; 79 FR 73687; 81 FR 96165;
84 FR 2311):
Thomas L. Oglesby (GA)
David W. Ward (NC)
Ralph W. York (NM)
The drivers were included in docket
numbers FMCSA–2004–18885;
FMCSA–2010–0354. Their exemptions
were applicable as of January 12, 2021,
and will expire on January 12, 2023.
As of January 14, 2021, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following individual has
satisfied the renewal conditions for
obtaining an exemption from the vision
requirement in the FMCSRs for
interstate CMV drivers (69 FR 64806; 70
FR 2705; 72 FR 1056; 73 FR 76439; 75
FR 79084; 77 FR 75496; 79 FR 74169;
81 FR 96165; 84 FR 2311):
Francis M. McMullin (PA)
The driver was included in docket
number FMCSA–2004–19477. The
exemption was applicable as of January
14, 2021, and will expire on January 14,
2023.
As of January 17, 2021, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following individual has
satisfied the renewal conditions for
obtaining an exemption from the vision
requirement in the FMCSRs for
interstate CMV drivers (67 FR 68719; 68
FR 2629; 69 FR 71100; 72 FR 1053; 73
FR 76440; 75 FR 80887; 77 FR 76167;
79 FR 74168; 81 FR 96165; 84 FR 2311):
Howard F. Breitkreutz (MN)
The driver was included in docket
number FMCSA–2002–12844. The
exemption was applicable as of January
17, 2021, and will expire on January 17,
2023.
As of January 31, 2021, and in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315, the following two individuals
have satisfied the renewal conditions for
obtaining an exemption from the vision
requirement in the FMCSRs for
interstate CMV drivers (69 FR 17263; 69
FR 31447; 70 FR 44946; 71 FR 43557;
73 FR 42403; 75 FR 38602; 75 FR 72863;
76 FR 2190; 78 FR 800; 80 FR 603; 81
FR 96165; 84 FR 2311):
Jose M. Suarez (TX)
Richard L. Zacher (OR)
The drivers were included in docket
numbers FMCSA–2004–17195;
FMCSA–2010–0354. Their exemptions
were applicable as of January 31, 2021,
and will expire on January 31, 2023.

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In accordance with 49 U.S.C.
31315(b), each exemption will be valid
for 2 years from the effective date unless
revoked earlier by FMCSA. The
exemption will be revoked if the
following occurs: (1) The person fails to
comply with the terms and conditions
of the exemption; (2) the exemption has
resulted in a lower level of safety than
was maintained prior to being granted;
or (3) continuation of the exemption
would not be consistent with the goals
and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315(b).
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2020–0111]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Practices of
Household Goods Brokers
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), U.S.
Department of Transportation (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
review and approval.
DATES: Please send your comments by
March 3, 2021. OMB must receive your
comments by this date in order to act
quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this particular
information collection by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
for Public Comments’’ or by using the
search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Monique Riddick, Commercial
Enforcement and Investigations
Division, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building,
6th Floor, MC–ECC, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001. Telephone: 202–366–8045; email
[email protected].
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
As a result of Title IV, Subtitle B of
the Safe, Accountable, Flexible,
Efficient, Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU) (Pub.
L. 109–59) and a petition for rulemaking
from the American Moving and Storage
Association,1 FMCSA amended thenexisting regulations for brokers in a final
rule titled, ‘‘Brokers of Household
Goods Transportation by Motor
Vehicles,’’ (75 FR 72987, Nov. 29, 2010).
The 2010 rule revised 49 CFR part 371
by providing additional consumer
protection responsibilities for brokers of
Household Goods (HHG).
Section 4212 of SAFETEA–LU directs
the Secretary to require HHG brokers to
provide potential shippers with
information throughout the various
stages of their interaction. The below
summarizes the information collection
required of the HHG broker at the
various interaction stages between the
HHG broker and shippers as laid out by
49 CFR part 371, subpart B.
I. First Phase: ‘‘Prospecting’’
When HHG shippers are looking to
procure HHG brokers’ services, brokers
must collect the following information
and display it on their websites and
solicitation materials:
• Their physical address (49 CFR
371.107(a));
• Their U.S. DOT number(s) and MC
number (49 CFR 371.107(b));
• A statement indicating that they
will not transport the shipper’s goods
but will only arrange for goods to be
transported by a registered motor carrier
(49 CFR 371.107(c));
• If brokers choose to publish rates on
their websites or solicitation materials,
the broker must also publish a statement
that the rates are based on a motor
carrier’s publicly available rates (49 CFR
371.107(d));
• If brokers choose to publish a list of
motor carriers with whom they work,
the list must only be a list of motor
carriers with whom brokers have
agreements (49 CFR 371.107(e)); and
• Brokers must publish information
regarding their cancellation policies,
including information on deposits and
refunds (49 CFR 371.117(a)).
II. Second Phase: ‘‘Contact’’
When HHG shippers make reasonable
requests seeking additional information
1 As of August 8, 2020, the American Moving and
Storage Association (AMSA) announced AMSA will
join the American Trucking Associations (ATA) as
the Moving & Storage Conference. Retrieved January
1, 2021 from: https://www.moving.org/amsa-tobecome-conference-of-american-truckingassociations/.

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about broker services, the HHG brokers
must collect the following information
and distribute it to HHG shippers:
1. A list of motor carriers with whom
it has agreements (49 CFR 371.109(a));
and
2. A statement indicating the broker is
not a motor carrier and that the broker
is only arranging transportation of the
shipper’s goods (49 CFR 371.109(b)).
III. Third Phase: ‘‘Estimate’’
When HHG shippers request
estimates, the HHG brokers must collect
the following information and distribute
it to HHG shippers and/or store the
information received:
1. FMCSA’s published information
materials: (1) ‘‘Ready to Move?—Tips
for a Successful Interstate Move’’ and (2)
‘‘Your Rights and Responsibilities When
you Move’’ (49 CFR 371.111(a)(1),(a)(2),
& (a)(3));
2. A document signed by the shipper,
showing he/she received FMCSA’s
published information material (49 CFR
371.111(c));
3. A written estimate based on the
motor carrier’s physical survey of
household items (49 CFR 371.113(a)),
with estimates based on published
motor carrier rates (49 CFR 371.113(b));
4. If applicable, the shipper must sign
a ‘‘Waiver’’ receipt, showing he/she has
waived his/her right to a physical
survey of his/her household items by
the motor carrier. The HHG broker must
collect the ‘‘Waiver’’ receipt and store
the record (49 CFR 371.113(b)).
IV. Fourth Phase: ‘‘Agreement’’
Should the shipper find the shipping
estimate and broker services reasonable
and wish to contract the broker’s
services, the two parties must enter into
an agreement. At this point, it is
standard practice for shippers to pay
either a deposit or make full payment.
However, before collecting any
payment, the broker must collect the
following information and distribute it
to the HHG shipper:
• An agreement document with
required specifications as laid out by 49
CFR 371.115; and
• An agreement document which
highlights the broker’s and/or motor
carrier’s refund policy for cancellation
of agreements (49 CFR 371.117(a)).
The information provided in phases I,
II, III, and IV supports the requirements
of 49 CFR part 371, subpart B, and the
Department’s secondary mission to
support HHG consumer protection.
The complete collection of
information required by the referenced
final rule assists HHG shippers in their
business dealings with interstate HHG
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used by prospective HHG shippers to
make informed decisions about
contracts, services ordered, executed,
and settled. The HHG broker is often the
earliest contact for individual HHG
shippers in an interstate moving
transaction; therefore, it makes sense for
HHG brokers to provide HHG shippers
with consumer protection information.
FMCSA revises the total annual
burden to 72,808 hours. This is a 2,723
annual burden hour increase from the
currently approved 70,085 annual
burden estimate. This increase is due to
the following: (1) The previous iteration
did not account for the time brokers use
to complete a ‘‘waiver’’ should shippers
choose to waive their rights to a
physical survey, if applicable to a
shipper, as required by 49 CFR
371.113(c)(1), (c)(2), and (c)(3); (2) the
previous iteration did not clarify a
reproducible frequency formula used to
calculate the number of times brokers
collect information and submit
information to shippers. To produce a
reproducible frequency formula, the
updated information collection
introduced the concept of ‘‘phases,’’
which created a frequency number
based on business interactions between
brokers and shippers as explained
above; and (3) FMCSA’s records
indicate the number of household goods
brokers increased from 543 brokers to
652 brokers.
In addition to the above, an
adjustment was made to this ICR
revision from the previous ICR renewal
with regards to the annual hourly
burden estimate for broker ‘‘transaction
records’’(49 CFR 371.3). The annual
hourly burden was removed from this
ICR revision because the burden is for
the collection of information that the
broker would ordinarily record for other
standard business practices such as tax
purposes. As a result, the associated
annual hourly burden estimate is
removed. The previous ICR accounted
32,580 annual burden hours 2 for
‘‘transaction records,’’ while this ICR
revises the annual burden to 0 hours.
Title: Practices of Household Goods
Brokers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0048.
Type of Request: Revision of currently
approved collection.
Respondents: Brokers of Household
Goods.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
652.
2 FMCSA derived the annual hourly burden by
applying the following formula: Time spent on
shipper transaction record keeping per day ×
number of work days × the number of brokers. The
calculation was 15 minutes per day × 240 workdays
× 543 brokers, which resulted in an annual burden
of 32,580 hours.

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Estimated Number of Responses:
500,084 responses.
Expiration Date: January 31, 2021.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
72,808 hours.
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 part 1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Proposed Renewal;
Comment Request; Renewal Without
Change of Regulations Requiring
Additional Records To Be Made and
Retained by Dealers in Foreign
Exchange and Additional Records To
Be Made and Retained by Brokers or
Dealers in Securities
Financial Crimes Enforcement
Network (FinCEN), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, FinCEN invites comments on
the proposed renewal, without change,
of a currently approved information
collections found in existing Bank
Secrecy Act regulations. Specifically,
the regulations require dealers in foreign
exchange and brokers or dealers in
securities to secure and maintain a
record of the taxpayer identification
number for individuals for whom a
transaction or brokerage account is
opened, or for whom a line of credit is
extended, subject to certain exceptions.
The regulations also require that the
dealers in foreign exchange and brokers
or dealers in securities retain originals
or copies of specified documents
relating to account and transaction
records. Although no changes are
proposed to the information collections

SUMMARY:

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