Burden Calculations

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Overview

Sheet1
Cost to Fed Government

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Sheet 1: Sheet1

Information Collection	Regulation	Number of Respondents	Annual Number of Responses per Carrier	Total Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Burden Cost per Hour	Annual Burden Costs
Testing Requirements for Non-Bulk Packaging - Reporting	178.601	5000	3	15000	2.0167	30250	$76.66	$2,319,019	$0	$0
Information Collection	Regulation	Number of Respondents	Annual Number of Responses per Carrier	Total Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Burden Cost per Hour	Annual Burden Costs
Additional Test Reports - Reporting	173.168	10	3	30	2	60	$76.66	$4,600	$0	$0
Information Collection	Regulation	Number of Respondents	Annual Number of Responses per Carrier	Total Annual Responses	Minutes per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Burden Cost per Hour	Annual Burden Costs
Test Reports - Recordkeeping	178.601	100	10	1000	6	100	$76.66	$7,666	$0	$0
Information Collection	Regulation	Number of Respondents	Annual Number of Responses per Carrier	Total Annual Responses	Hours per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Burden Cost per Hour	Annual Burden Costs
Closure Instructions - Reporting	178.2; 178.601	500	1	500	2	1000	$76.66	$76,662	$0	$0
Information Collection	Regulation	Number of Respondents	Annual Number of Responses per Carrier	Total Annual Responses	Minutes per Response	Total Burden Hours	Salary Cost per Hour	Total Salary Cost	Burden Cost per Hour	Annual Burden Costs
Closure Instructions - Recordkeeping	178.2	16080	1	16080	5	1340	$76.66	$102,727	$0	$0
			Total Number of Respondents	Total Number of Responses	Total Burden Hours	Total Salary Cost	Total Burden Cost
			21690	32610	32750	$2,510,673	$0
Occupation labor rates based on 2022 Occupational and Employment Statistics Survey (OES) for “Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers (11-3071)” in the Transportation and Warehousing industry. The hourly mean wage for this occupation ($52.36) is adjusted to reflect the total costs of employee compensation based on the BLS Employer Costs for Employee Compensation Summary, which indicates that wages for civilian workers are 68.3 percent of total compensation (total wage = wage rate/wage % of total compensation).		$52.36	68%	$76.66

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Sheet 2: Cost to Fed Government

	Total Recordkeeping Hours	Salary Cost - GS13 per Hour	Total Salary Cost
Test Reports - Recordkeeping	100	$73.51	$7,351.00
Closure Instructions - Recordkeeping	1340	$73.51	$98,503.40
Total	1440		$105,854.40
Cost to review and approve approvals PHMSA used annual wage data from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to estimate wages for its staff at the 2019 General Schedule (GS) level 13, step 1, wage class for the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia metropolitan area. In accordance with the OMB Circular No. A-76 (M-07-02; 2006), PHMSA included a load factor of 36.45 percent for the Federal wage to account for fringe benefits.	$54	36.45%	$73.51