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Comments’’ or by using the search
function.
Mr.
Jeffrey Secrist, Office of Registration and
Safety Information, DOT, FMCSA, West
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590,
202–385–2367, [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Motor Carrier Identification
Report.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0013.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers, freight
forwarders, intermodal equipment
providers, brokers, motor carriers with
hazardous materials (HM) safety permit,
cargo tank facilities and Mexican motor
carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
416,630 respondents [412,479
respondents for IC–1 + 2,112
respondents for IC–2 + 2,039
respondents for IC–3 = 416,630].
Estimated Time per Response: IC–1:
20 minutes for new filings and 7.5
minutes for biennial updates and
changes to complete the Form MCS–
150. IC–2: 26 minutes for new filings
and five minutes for biennial updates
and changes to complete the Form
MCS–150B. IC–3: 20 minutes for new
filings and 7.5 minutes for biennial
updates and changes to complete the
Form MCS–150C.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2022.
Frequency of Response: On occasion
and biennially.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
116,072 hours [114,864 hours for IC–1 +
530 hours for IC–2 + 678 hours for IC–
3 = 116,072 hours].
Background: Title 49, United States
Code Section 504(b)(2) provides the
Secretary of Transportation (Secretary)
with authority to require carriers,
lessors, associations, or classes of these
entities to file annual, periodic, and
special reports containing answers to
questions asked by the Secretary. The
Secretary may also prescribe the form of
records required to be prepared or
compiled and the time period during
which records must be preserved (See
§ 504(b)(1) and (d)). FMCSA will use
this data to administer its safety
programs using a database of entities
that are subject to its regulations. This
database necessitates that these entities
notify FMCSA of their existence. For
example, under 49 CFR 390.19(a),
FMCSA requires all motor carriers
beginning operations to file a Form
MCS–150 titled, ‘‘Motor Carrier
Identification Report,’’ or MCS–150B
titled, ‘‘Combined Motor Carrier
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Applications.’’ This report is filed by all
motor carriers conducting operations in
interstate commerce, in intrastate
commerce when transporting hazardous
materials, or in international commerce
before beginning operations. It asks the
respondent to provide the name of the
business entity that owns and controls
the motor carrier operation; the address
and telephone of its principal place of
business; its assigned identification
number(s), type of operation, and
type(s) of cargo usually transported;
number of vehicles owned, term leased,
and trip leased; driver information; and
a certification statement signed by an
individual authorized to sign
documents on behalf of the business
entity.
Existing applicants will use the MCS–
150 or MCS–150B to update their
information in the Motor Carrier
Management Information System.
Applicants filing for the first time will
be required to file online. Form MCS–
150 or MCS–150B will be used for
Mexico-domiciled carriers that seek
authority to operate beyond the United
States municipalities on the United
States-Mexico border and their
commercial zones. The information
collected from the respondents is
readily available to the public. This
revised ICR captures the burden of
continued use of the MCS–150 or MCS–
150B for motor carriers updating their
registration information and for the
registration of Mexico-domiciled
carriers.
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 performance of
FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of
the estimated burden; (3) ways for
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 of 49 CFR
1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2021–0189]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection: Hours of
Service (HOS) of Drivers Regulations
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (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.
FMCSA requests approval to renew an
ICR titled, ‘‘Hours of Service (HOS) of
Drivers Regulations.’’ The HOS
regulations require a motor carrier to
install, and requires each of its drivers
subject to the record of duty status
(RODS) rule to use, an electronic logging
device (ELD) to report the driver’s
RODS. The RODS is critical to FMCSA’s
safety mission because it helps
enforcement officials determine if
commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers are complying with the HOS
rules limiting driver on-duty and
driving time and requiring periodic offduty time.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received on or before August 10, 2022.
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 information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function.
SUMMARY:

Ms.
Pearlie Robinson, FMCSA Driver and
Carrier Operations Division, DOT,
FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590, (202) 366–4225, MCPSD@
dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Hours of Service (HOS) of
Drivers Regulations.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0001.
Type of Request: Renewal of an
information collection.

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Respondents: Motor Carriers of
Property and Passengers, Drivers of
CMVs.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
4.24 million CMV drivers; 602,542
Motor Carriers.
Estimated Time per Response: CMV
drivers using technology: 2 minutes.
Motor Carriers: 2 minutes.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2022.
Frequency of Response: Drivers: 240
days per year; Motor carriers 240 days
per year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
50.37 million hours.
Background:
CMV drivers are limited in how long
they may remain in an on-duty or
driving status over specified periods of
time. The regulations outlining those
limits are found at 49 CFR part 395 and
are known as the ‘‘HOS regulations.’’
The HOS regulations require a motor
carrier to install, and requires each of its
drivers subject to the RODS rule to use,
an ELD to report the driver’s RODS.
These RODS are used to enforce
compliance with the HOS regulations.
As a condition of receiving certain
federal grants, States agree to adopt and
enforce the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations, including the HOS
regulations, as State law. As a result,
State enforcement inspectors use the
RODS and supporting documents to
determine whether CMV drivers are
complying with the HOS regulations. In
addition, FMCSA uses the RODS during
on-site and offsite investigations of
motor carriers and Federal and State
courts rely upon the RODS as evidence
of driver and motor carrier violations of
the HOS regulations. This information
collection supports DOT’s Strategic Goal
of Safety because the information helps
the agency ensure the safe operation of
CMVs in interstate commerce.
Renewal of This Information Collection
(IC)
The current IC burden estimate of the
HOS rules, approved by OMB on July
31, 2019, is 41.04 million hours. The
expiration date of the current ICR is July
31, 2022. Through this ICR renewal,
FMCSA requests a revision of the
paperwork burden of 2126–0001. The
Agency requests an increase in the
burden hours from 41.04 million hours
to 50.37 million hours. The increase is
the result of the increase in estimated
driver population as well as the increase
in expected industry growth rate for
drivers from 2020 to 2030. Two types of
information are collected under this IC:
(1) drivers’ RODS commonly referred to
as a logbook, and (2) supporting
documents, such as gasoline and toll
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accuracy of RODS and document
expense deductions for income tax
filing purposes. The use of ELDs
reduces the driver’s time to input duty
status from 6.5 minutes to 2 minutes.
This IC includes only the estimate of 2
minutes for drivers and motor carriers.
On March 18, 2022, FMCSA
published a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register requesting public comments on
the proposed revision of this
information collection (87 FR 15488).
The Agency received comments filed
jointly by the Truck Safety Coalition
(TSC), Citizens for Reliable and Safe
Highways, and Parents Against Tired
Truckers and their volunteers in support
of this IC. The TSC wrote, ‘‘Our
organizations strongly support FMCSA’s
continuation of the collection Record of
Duty Status (RODS) records from
Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) as
well as the supporting documentation,
to have the information needed to
inform safety-oriented rulemaking and
life-saving enforcement activities related
to HOS.’’
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 performance of
FMCSA’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 information
collected.
The Agency will summarize or
include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this ICR.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2022–0081]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection: Safe Driver
Apprenticeship Pilot Program
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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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. FMCSA requests approval to
renew the ICR titled ‘‘Safe Driver
Apprenticeship Pilot Program.’’ This
ICR was previously approved under
emergency procedures on January 24,
2022 and expires on July 31, 2022. The
ICR is necessary for FMCSA to conduct
a pilot program to determine the safety
impacts of allowing 18- to 20-year-old
commercial driver’s license (CDL)
holders to operate commercial motor
vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce.
The ICR will cover data collected on
drivers and carriers participating in the
pilot program.
DATES: Please send your comments by
August 10, 2022. 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:
Nicole Michel, Office of Analysis,
Research, and Technology, Research
Division, DOT, FMCSA, West Building,
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001. 202–366–
4354; [email protected]. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: Current regulations on
driver qualifications (49 CFR part
391.11(b)(1)) state that a driver must be
21 years of age or older to operate a
CMV in interstate commerce. Currently,
drivers under the age of 21 may operate
CMVs only in intrastate commerce
subject to State laws and regulations.
Section 23022 of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), requires
the Secretary of Transportation to
conduct a commercial driver
Apprenticeship Pilot Program. An
apprentice is defined as a person under
the age of 21 who holds a CDL. Under
this program, these apprentices will
complete two probationary periods,
during which they may operate in
interstate commerce only under the
supervision of an experienced driver in
the passenger seat. An experienced
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