June 29, 2021, 60-Day FR Notice

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Hours of Service Regulations

June 29, 2021, 60-Day FR Notice

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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 122 / Tuesday, June 29, 2021 / Notices
8. Project Sponsor: Weaverland Valley
Authority. Project Facility: Blue Ball
Water System, East Earl Township,
Lancaster County, Pa. Application for
groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.144
mgd (30-day average) from Well 4 as
well as recognizing historic withdrawals
from wells 1, 2 and 3.
Commission-Initiated Project Approval
Modifications
9. Project Sponsor and Facility:
Municipal Authority of the Borough of
Mansfield, Richmond Township, Tioga
County, Pa. Conforming the
grandfathered amount with the
forthcoming determination for a
withdrawal from Webster Reservoir up
to 0.311 mgd (30-day average) (Docket
No. 20130609).
10. Project Sponsor and Facility:
Williamsport Municipal Water
Authority, Williamsport City, Lycoming
County, Pa. Conforming the
grandfathered amounts with the
forthcoming determination for
withdrawals (30-day averages) from
Well 3 up to 0.940 mgd, from Well 4 up
to 0.940 mgd, from Well 5 up to 2.141
mgd, from Well 6 up to 0.687 mgd, from
Well 7 up to 2.254 mgd, from Well 8 up
to 0.987 mgd, from Well 9 up to 0.800
mgd, from Mosquito Creek up to 6.833
mgd, and from Hagermans Run up to
4.926 mgd (Docket No. 20110628).
Project Approval Tabled
11. Project Sponsor and Facility:
Pennsylvania State University, College
Township, Centre County, Pa.
Applications for renewal of
groundwater withdrawal of up to 0.960
mgd (30-day average) from Well UN–37
and consumptive use of up to 0.960 mgd
(peak day) (Docket No. 19890106–1).
Project Withdrawn
12. Project Sponsor and Facility:
Beech Resources, LLC (Lycoming
Creek), Lycoming Township, Lycoming
County, Pa. Application for surface
water withdrawal of up to 1.500 mgd
(peak day).

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Project Terminated
13. Project Sponsor and Facility: City
of Aberdeen, Harford County, Md.
Modifications to extend the approval
term of the consumptive use, surface
water withdrawal, and out-of-basin
diversion approval (Docket No.
20021210) to allow additional time for
evaluation of the continued use of the
source for the Aberdeen Proving
Ground-Aberdeen Area.
(Authority: Pub. L. 91–575, 84 Stat. 1509 et
seq., 18 CFR parts 806, 807, and 808.)

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Dated: June 24, 2021.
Jason E. Oyler,
General Counsel and Secretary to the
Commission.
[FR Doc. 2021–13829 Filed 6–28–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2021–0006–N–6]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), U.S. Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, FRA seeks
approval of the Information Collection
Request (ICR) abstracted below. Before
submitting this ICR to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval, FRA is soliciting public
comment on specific aspects of the
activities identified in the ICR.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before August
30, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on regulations.gov
to the docket, Docket No. FRA 2021–
0006. All comments received will be
posted without change to the docket,
including any personal information
provided. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number in any
correspondence submitted. FRA will
summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice and include them in its
information collection submission to
OMB for approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Hodan Wells, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or telephone: (202)
493–0440.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days’ notice to the public to
allow comment on information
collection activities before seeking OMB
approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C.
3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through
1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites
interested parties to comment on the
following ICR regarding: (1) Whether the
SUMMARY:

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information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (2)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (3) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (4) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
FRA believes that soliciting public
comment may reduce the administrative
and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information that
Federal regulations mandate. In
summary, FRA reasons that comments
received will advance three objectives:
(1) Reduce reporting burdens; (2)
organize information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (3) accurately assess the resources
expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
The summary below describes the ICR
that FRA will submit for OMB clearance
as the PRA requires:
Title: Hours of Service Regulations.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0005.
Abstract: FRA’s hours of service
recordkeeping regulations (49 CFR part
228), amended as mandated by the Rail
Safety Improvement Act of 2008,
include substantive hours of service
requirements for train employees (i.e.,
locomotive engineers and conductors)
providing commuter and intercity rail
passenger transportation (e.g., maximum
on-duty periods, minimum off-duty
periods, and other limitations). The
regulations also require railroads to
evaluate passenger train employee work
schedules for risk of employee fatigue
and implement measures to mitigate the
risk, and to submit to FRA for approval
certain schedules and mitigation plans.
Finally, the regulations include
recordkeeping and reporting provisions
requiring railroads to keep hours of
service records, and report excessive
service, for train employees, signal
employees, and dispatching service
employees on both freight and
passenger railroads.
FRA uses the information collected to
verify that railroads do not require or
allow their employees to exceed
maximum on-duty periods, and ensure
that they abide by minimum off-duty
periods, and adhere to other limitations

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in this regulation, to enhance rail safety
and reduce the risk of accidents/
incidents caused, or contributed to, by
train employee fatigue.

Type of Request: Extension without
change (with changes in estimates) of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses (railroads
and signal contractors).
Form(s): FRA F 6180.3.

Respondent Universe: 796 railroads,
signal contractors and subcontractors.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Reporting Burden:

CFR section 1

Respondent universe

Total annual responses

Average time per responses

228.11—Hours of duty records ................

796 railroads/signal
contractors & subcontractors.

$77,043,507

train

65 dispatch offices ..

3 minutes (electronic records) + 8
minutes (paper
records).
1 hour .....................

994,880

228.17—Dispatchers
movements.

285,000

22,070,400

228.19(g)–(h)—Monthly reports of excess
service—Exception (FRA F 6180.3).

796 railroads/signal
contractors & subcontractors.
796 railroads/signal
contractors & subcontractors.

17,448,669 (electronic records) +
918,351 (paper
records).
285,000 cumulative
train-movement
tracking.
1,750 reports ..........

1 hour .....................

1,750

135,520

2 petition waivers ....

24 hours ..................

48

3,717

671 railroads ...........

250 training records

2 minutes ................

8

620

796 railroads/signal
contractors & subcontractors.
34 railroads .............

796 audits and
records.

2 hours ....................

1,592

123,284

3 analyses ..............

2 hours ....................

6

465

34 railroads .............

3 fatigue mitigation
plans.

20 hours ..................

60

4,646

34 railroads .............

1 submission ...........

1 hour .....................

1

77

34 railroads .............

1 analysis or plan ...

1 hour .....................

1

9,647

34 railroads .............

34 railroads .............

2 hours ....................

68

5,266

34 railroads .............

5,539 records ..........

1 minute ..................

92

7,124

83 railroads .............

1 written declaration

1 hour .....................

1

77

796 railroads/signal
contractors & subcontractors.

18,660,400 responses.

N/A ..........................

1,283,507

99,404,352

record

of

228.103/.107—Construction of employees’ sleeping quarters—Petition request to FRA to allow construction
near work areas.
228.207(b)—Training—Initial
training—
New employees and supervisors.
—(c) Refresher training—System audits
for irregularities by railroads and contractors.
228.407(a)—Analysis of work schedules—Railroads’ analysis of one cycle
of work schedules of employees engaged in commuter or intercity passenger transportation.
—(b) Submissions of certain work schedules and any fatigue mitigation plans
and determinations of operational necessity or declarations.
—(b) Submissions to FRA for review and
approval.
—(d) Analysis of certain later changes in
work schedules—Analyses and mitigation plans—Resubmission to FRA for
approval.
228.411—Training programs on fatigue
and related topics (e.g., rest, alertness,
changes in rest cycles, etc.).
—(e) Records of training on fatigue and
related topics.
228.411(f)—Conditional exclusion—Written declaration to FRA by tourist, scenic, historic, or excursion railroads
seeking exclusion.
Totals 3 ..............................................

Total annual
burden hours

Total cost
equivalent 2

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1 The current inventory exhibits a total burden of 3,421,290 hours while the total burden of this notice is 1,283,507 hours. FRA determined
many of the estimates were initial estimates, outdated, or duplicates. Moreover, other estimates were not derived from PRA requirements, thus
leading to the increased figures in the current inventory, which were decreased accordingly in this notice.
2 The dollar equivalent cost is derived from the Surface Transportation Board’s 2020 Full Year Wage A&B data series using the appropriate
employee group hourly wage rate that includes a 75-percent overhead charge.
3 Totals may not add due to rounding.

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
18,660,400.
Total Estimated Annual Burden:
1,283,507 hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $99,404,352.
Under 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 CFR
1320.5(b) and 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA
informs all interested parties that a

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respondent is not required to respond
to, conduct, or sponsor a collection of
information that does not display a
currently valid OMB control number.

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Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Brett A. Jortland,
Acting Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2021–13787 Filed 6–28–21; 8:45 am]
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