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IV. Request for Comments
In accordance with 49 U.S.C.
31315(b)(6), FMCSA requests public
comment from all interested persons on
Right-A-Way’s application for an
exemption. All comments received
before the close of business on the
comment closing date indicated at the
beginning of this notice will be
considered and will be available for
examination in the docket at the
location listed under the ‘‘Addresses’’
section of this notice. Comments
received after the comment closing date
will be filed in the public docket and
will be considered to the extent
practicable. In addition to late
comments, FMCSA will also continue to
file, in the public docket, relevant
information that becomes available after
the comment closing date. Interested
persons should continue to examine the
public docket for new material.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator of Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2019–0271]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection: Accident
Recordkeeping Requirements
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), 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 its
review and approval and invites public
comment. FMCSA requests approval to
renew the ICR titled ‘‘Accident
Recordkeeping Requirements.’’ This ICR
relates to Agency requirements that
motor carriers maintain a record of
accidents involving their commercial
motor vehicles (CMVs). Motor carriers
are not required to report this data to
FMCSA, but must produce it upon
inquiry by authorized Federal, State or
local officials.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before June 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket

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Number FMCSA–2019–0271 using any
of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Operations; U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments, see the Public
Participation heading below. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to http://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the
dockets, or go to the street address listed
above.
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 53(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.
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can obtain electronic submission and
retrieval help and guidelines under the
‘‘help’’ section of the Federal
eRulemaking Portal website. If you want
us to notify you that we received your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online. Comments received
after the comment closing date will be
included in the docket and will be
considered to the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Pearlie Robinson, Driver and Carrier
Operations Division, DOT, FMCSA,
West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: 202–366–4325.
Email: [email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background: Title 49 of the Code of
Federal Regulations, Section 390.15(b),
requires motor carriers to make certain
specified records and information
pertaining to CMV accidents available to
an authorized representative or special
agent of FMCSA upon request or as part
of an inquiry. Motor carriers are
required to maintain an ‘‘accident
register’’ consisting of information
concerning all ‘‘accidents’’ involving
their CMVs (49 CFR 390.15(b) (see
‘‘Definition: Accident’’ below). The
following information must be recorded
for each accident: date, location, driver
name, number of injuries, number of
fatalities, and whether certain
dangerous hazardous materials were
released. In addition, the motor carrier
must maintain copies of all accident
reports required by insurers or
governmental entities. Motor carriers
must maintain this information for three
years after the date of the accident.
Section 390.15 does not require motor
carriers to submit any information or
records to FMCSA or any other party.
This ICR supports the DOT strategic
goal of safety. By requiring motor
carriers to gather and record information
concerning CMV accidents, FMCSA is
strengthening its ability to assess the
safety performance of motor carriers.
This information is a valuable resource
in Agency initiatives to prevent, and
reduce the severity of, CMV crashes.
The Agency has modified several of
its estimates for this ICR. The estimated
number of annual respondents has
decreased substantially, while the
numbers of responses, burden hours,
and annual costs to respondents have
increased. Explanations for these
changes are summarized below.
The previously-approved number of
annual respondents is 866,122. This
estimate was based on records of all
interstate and intrastate motor carriers
with ‘‘recent activity’’ in the Motor
Carrier Management Information System
(MCMIS) for calendar year 2015.
However, not all of these motor carriers
experience a DOT-reportable crash
every calendar year. To more accurately
estimate the annual number of
respondents, we looked at the carriers
associated with crashes reported in
MCMIS for calendar years 2016 through
2018 and calculated the annual average.
This gave us a significantly reduced
estimate of 89,270 respondents per year.
The previously-approved burden is
36,157 burden hours. The Agency
increases its estimate to 55,425 burden
hours. The text of section 390.15(b) is
unchanged; the increase in burden
hours does not reflect changes in the
requirements for accident

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recordkeeping. The adjustment in
annual burden hours is due to a revised
estimate of the number of reportable
accidents from 120,522 to 184,749 per
year, using interstate and intrastate
DOT-reportable motor carrier crash
records in MCMIS for calendar years
2016 through 2018. In the previous
iteration of this ICR, only crash records
for calendar year 2015 were considered,
and only crashes for carriers with a DOT
number and ‘‘recent activity’’ in MCMIS
were included. In the current iteration
of this ICR, we include recorded crashes
in which there is not a recorded DOT
number, but the CRASH_CARRIER_
INTERSTATE field in MCMIS is coded
as ‘‘Interstate’’ or ‘‘Intrastate’’ (thus
suggesting that they are commercial
carriers). This change in approach has
resulted in an increased estimate of
annual crashes subject to the Accident
Register reporting requirements, and
thus an increase in the number of
responses, as each crash is associated
with one response.
The revised version of this ICR
includes estimated labor costs
associated with maintaining the
Accident Register. The previous
iteration of this ICR did not include
such an estimate; it only reported the
estimated annual burden hours. The
estimated annual labor cost for industry
resulting from the Accident Register
reporting requirements is $1,860,617.
Finally, the estimated annual cost
associated with accident recordkeeping
(outside of labor costs) is increased from
$8,437 to $106,785. In the previous
iteration of this ICR, it was assumed that
all motor carriers were storing hard
copy records offsite, which is less costly
than storing hard copy records onsite
due to reduced space requirements. In
the current iteration of this ICR, FMCSA
is assuming that (1) approximately 15
percent of motor carriers are storing
their Accident Registers electronically,
at no extra cost, and (2) approximately
85 percent of motor carriers are storing
hard copy versions of their Accident
Registers. FMCSA is further assuming
that motor carriers that maintain paper
records are storing their Accident
Registers at their primary place of
business, so that they have easy access
to such records during an FMCSA
investigation. This change in storage
location increases the cost of storage,
from $0.07 to $0.68 per accident
recorded. While FMCSA is now
assuming that some motor carriers are
storing documents electronically at no
extra cost, the overall number of
responses has increased over prior
years, overtaking the reduction in
number of carriers storing hard copy
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Title: Accident Recordkeeping
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0009.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
89,270.
Estimated Number of Responses:
184,749.
Estimated Time per Response: 18
minutes.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2020.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
55,425 burden hours (184,749 accidents
× 18 minutes per response/60 minutes
in an hour = 55,425 hours).
Definitions: ‘‘Accident’’ is an
occurrence involving a CMV operating
on a public road which results in: (1) A
fatality, (2) bodily injury to a person
who, as a result of the injury,
immediately receives medical treatment
away from the scene of the accident, or
(3) one or more motor vehicles incurring
disabling damage as a result of the
accident, requiring the motor vehicle(s)
to be transported away from the scene
by a tow truck or other motor vehicle
(49 CFR 390.5).
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. The agency will summarize
or include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR
1.87.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of
Research and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD–2020–0068]

Request for Comments on the
Approval of a Previously Approved
Information Collection: War Risk
Insurance, Applications and Related
Information
AGENCY:

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Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

The Maritime Administration
(MARAD) invites public comments on
our intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval to renew an information
collection. The information to be
collected will be used to determine the
eligibility of the applicant and the
vessel(s) for participation in the War
Risk Insurance program. We are
required to publish this notice in the
Federal Register by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before June 29, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
[identified by Docket No. MARAD–
2020–0068] through one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Search using the
above DOT docket number and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except on Federal holidays.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the Department’s
performance; (b) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (c) ways for the
Department to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information
collection; and (d) ways that the burden
could be minimized without reducing
the quality of the collected information.
The agency will summarize and/or
include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Yarrington, 202–366–1915,
Office of Marine Insurance, Maritime
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC, 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: War Risk Insurance
Applications and Related Information.
OMB Control Number: 2133–0011.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
previously approved collection.
Abstract: As authorized by Section
1202, Title XII, Merchant Marine Act,
1936, as amended, (46 U.S.C. §§ 53901–
53912) (Act), the Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Transportation
(Secretary) may provide war risk
insurance for national defense or the
SUMMARY:

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