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under those procedures will be exempt
from disclosure under FOIA.
Privacy Act
Anyone can search the electronic
form of all comments received into any
of our dockets by the name of the
individual submitting the comment (or
signing the comment, if submitted on
behalf of an association, business, labor
union, etc.). For information on DOT’s
compliance with the Privacy Act, please
visit https://www.transportation.gov/
privacy.
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.93(a), 46 U.S.C. 55103,
46 U.S.C. 12121)
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023–21873 Filed 10–2–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2023–0078 (Notice No.
2023–11)]

Hazardous Materials: Information
Collection Activities
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
PHMSA invites comments on two
information collections pertaining to
hazardous materials transportation for
which PHMSA intends to request
renewal from the Office of Management
and Budget.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
December 4, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket Number
PHMSA–2023–0078 (Notice No. 2023–
11) by any of the following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management System;
U.S. Department of Transportation,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Routing Symbol M–30, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590.
• Hand Delivery: To the Docket
Management System; Room W12–140
on the ground floor of the West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,

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Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and Docket
Number (PHMSA–2023–0078) for this
notice at the beginning of the comment.
To avoid duplication, please use only
one of these four methods. All
comments received will be posted
without change to the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) and will
include any personal information you
provide.
Requests for a copy of an information
collection should be directed to Steven
Andrews or Nina Vore, Standards and
Rulemaking Division, (202) 366–8553,
[email protected], Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001.
Docket: For access to the dockets to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov or DOT’s Docket
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(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.
Confidential Business Information:
Confidential Business Information (CBI)
is commercial or financial information
that is both customarily and actually
treated as private by its owner. Under
the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA)
(5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from
public disclosure. If your comments
responsive to this notice contain
commercial or financial information
that is customarily treated as private,
that you actually treat as private, and
that is relevant or responsive to this
notice, it is important that you clearly
designate the submitted comments as
CBI. Please mark each page of your
submission containing CBI as
‘‘PROPIN.’’ PHMSA will treat such
marked submissions as confidential
under the FOIA, and they will not be
placed in the public docket of this
notice. Submissions containing CBI
should be sent to Steven Andrews or
Nina Vore, Standards and Rulemaking
Division and addressed to the Pipeline
and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001 or [email protected]. Any

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commentary that PHMSA receives
which is not specifically designated as
CBI will be placed in the public docket
for this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Steven Andrews or Nina Vore,
Standards and Rulemaking Division,
(202) 366–8553, [email protected],
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Section 1320.8(d), title 5, Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) requires
PHMSA to provide interested members
of the public and affected agencies an
opportunity to comment on information
collection and recordkeeping requests.
This notice identifies information
collection requests that PHMSA will be
submitting to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for renewal and
extension. These information
collections are contained in 49 CFR
171.6 of the Hazardous Materials
Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR parts 171–
180). PHMSA has revised burden
estimates, where appropriate, to reflect
current reporting levels or adjustments
based on changes in proposed or final
rules published since the information
collections were last approved. The
following information is provided for
each information collection: (1) title of
the information collection, including
former title if a change is being made;
(2) OMB control number; (3) summary
of the information collection activity; (4)
description of affected public; (5)
estimate of total annual reporting and
recordkeeping burden; and (6)
frequency of collection. PHMSA will
request a 3-year term of approval for
each information collection activity and
will publish a notice in the Federal
Register upon OMB’s approval.
PHMSA requests comments on the
following information collections:
Title: Hazardous Materials Security
Plans.
OMB Control Number: 2137–0612.
Summary: To assure public safety,
shippers and carriers must take
reasonable measures to plan and
implement procedures to prevent
unauthorized persons from taking
control of, or attacking, hazardous
materials shipments. Part 172 of the
HMR requires persons who offer or
transport certain hazardous materials to
develop and implement written plans to
enhance the security of hazardous
materials shipments. The security plan
requirements as prescribed in
§ 172.800(b) apply to specific types of
shipments. Such shipments include but

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are not limited to: shipments greater
than 3,000 kg (6,614 pounds) for solids
or 3,000 liters (792 gallons) for certain
liquids and gases in a single packaging
such as a cargo tank motor vehicle,
portable tank, tank car, or other bulk
container; any quantity of a Division

1.1, 1.2, or 1.3 material; a large bulk
quantity of a Division 2.1 material; or
any quantity of a poison-by-inhalation
material. A security plan will enable
shippers and carriers to reduce the
possibility that a hazardous materials
Annual
respondents

Information collection

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New Security Plan—Large Companies ...........................................................
New Security Plan—Small Companies ...........................................................
Updating Security Plan—Large Companies ....................................................
New Security Plan—Small Companies ...........................................................
Compilation of Commodity Data—Class I Railroads .......................................
Compilation of Commodity Data—Class II Railroads ......................................
Compilation of Commodity Data—Class III Railroads .....................................
Primary Route Analysis—Class I Railroads ....................................................
Primary Route Analysis—Class II Railroads ...................................................
Primary Route Analysis—Class III Railroads ..................................................
Alternate Route Analysis—Class I Railroads ..................................................
Alternate Route Analysis—Class II Railroads .................................................
Alternate Route Analysis—Class III Railroads ................................................
Route Selection and Completion of Route Analysis—Class I Railroads ........
Route Selection and Completion of Route Analysis—Class II Railroads .......
Route Selection and Completion of Route Analysis—Class III Railroads ......
Storage, Delays in Transit, and Notification—Class I Railroads .....................
Storage, Delays in Transit, and Notification—Class II Railroads ....................
Storage, Delays in Transit, and Notification—Class III Railroads ...................
Notifying a Consignee in the Event of a Significant Delay—Class I Railroads ............................................................................................................
Notifying a Consignee in the Event of a Significant Delay—Class II Railroads ............................................................................................................
Notifying a Consignee in the Event of a Significant Delay—Class III Railroads ............................................................................................................
Inspection—Large Companies ........................................................................

Affected Public: Shippers and carriers
of hazardous materials in commerce.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping
Burden:
Number of Respondents: 43,134.
Total Annual Responses: 55,997.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 427,719.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Title: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Qualitative Feedback on
Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Control Number: 2137–0640.
Summary: The information collection
activity will garner qualitative customer
and stakeholder feedback in an efficient,
timely manner, in accordance with the
Department’s commitment to improving
service delivery. Qualitative feedback is
information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
not statistical surveys that yield
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insight into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
opinions, experiences and expectations,
as well as an early warning of issues
with service, or focus attention on areas
where communication, training or
changes in operations might improve
delivery of products or services. These
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burden hours

30
170
6,300
35,700
7
32
100
7
32
100
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7
32
100
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90
170
18,900
35,700
7
32
100
60
128
200
60
96
50
7
32
100
7
32
100

50
25
10
5
40
40
40
80
80
40
120
120
40
16
16
8
8
8
4

4,500
4,250
189,000
178,499
280
1,280
4,000
4,800
10,240
8,000
7,200
11,520
2,000
112
512
800
56
256
400

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collaborative, and actionable
communications between PHMSA and
its customers and stakeholders. It will
also allow feedback to contribute
directly to the improvement of program
management. Feedback or information
collected under this generic clearance
will provide useful information, but it
will not yield data that can be
generalized to the overall population.
The Department will submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary.
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per
respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government.
• The collections are noncontroversial and do not raise issues of
concern to other Federal agencies.
• Any collection is targeted to the
solicitation of opinions from
respondents who have experience with
the program or may have experience
with the program in the near future.

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shipment will be used as a weapon of
opportunity by a terrorist or criminal.
The following is a list of the
information collections and burden
estimates associated with this OMB
Control Number:

• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary and is not retained.
• Information gathered is intended to
be used only internally for general
service improvement and program
management purposes and is not
intended for release outside of the
Department (if released, the Department
must indicate the qualitative nature of
the information).
This type of generic clearance for
qualitative information will not be used
for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably
actionable results, such as monitoring
trends over time or documenting
program performance. Such data uses
require more rigorous designs that
address: the target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential
nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
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to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
Affected Public: Individuals and
households, businesses and
organizations, State, local or Tribal
governments.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping
Burden:
Number of Respondents: 6,000.
Total Annual Responses: 6,000.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,000.
Frequency of Collection: One-time
requirement.
Issued in Washington, DC, on
September 28, 2023, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
T. Glenn Foster,
Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention
Branch, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety,
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2023–21870 Filed 10–2–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration

Lithium Battery Air Safety Advisory
Committee; Notice of Public Meeting
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice announces a
meeting of the Lithium Battery Air
Safety Advisory Committee
(Committee).

SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held on
November 2, 2023, from 9:00 a.m. to
5:30 p.m. EDT. Requests to attend the
meeting must be sent by October 18,
2023, to the point of contact identified
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT section. Persons requesting to
speak during the meeting must submit
a written copy of their remarks to DOT
by October 18, 2023. Requests to submit
written materials to be reviewed during
the meeting must be received no later
than October 18, 2023.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
DOT Headquarters, West Building, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590–0001. A remote participation
option will also be available and the
meeting will be webcast. Specific details
on location and access to this meeting
will be posted on the Committee
website at https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/

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III. Public Participation

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

section no later than October 18, 2023.
To accommodate as many speakers as
possible, time for each commenter may
be limited. There will be five minutes
allotted for oral comments from
members of the public joining the
meeting. Individuals wishing to reserve
speaking time during the meeting must
submit a request at the time of
registration, as well as the name,
address, and organizational affiliation of
the proposed speaker. If the number of
registrants requesting to make
statements is greater than can be
reasonably accommodated during the
meeting, PHMSA may conduct a lottery
to determine the speakers. Speakers are
requested to submit a written copy of
their prepared remarks for inclusion in
the meeting records and for circulation
to Committee members. All prepared
remarks submitted on time will be
accepted and considered as part of the
record. Any member of the public may
present a written statement to the
Committee at any time. Copies of the
meeting minutes and Committee
presentations will be available on the
Lithium Battery Air Safety Advisory
Committee website. Presentations will
also be posted on the E-Gov website in
docket number [PHMSA–2019–0098]
within 30 days following the meeting.
Written comments: Persons who wish
to submit written comments on the
meetings may submit them to docket
[PHMSA–2019–0098] in the following
ways:
1. E-Gov Website: This site allows the
public to enter comments on any
Federal Register notice issued by any
agency.
2. Mail: Dockets Management System;
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Dockets Operations, M–30, Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001.
Instructions: Identify the docket
number [PHMSA–2019–0098] at the
beginning of your comments. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to the E-Gov website,
including any personal information
provided. Anyone can search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the

Steven Webb or Aaron Wiener, PHMSA,
U.S. Department of Transportation.
Telephone: 202–366–8553. Email:
[email protected]. Any
Committee-related request should be
sent to the email address listed in this
section.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background
The Lithium Battery Air Safety
Advisory Committee was created under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act
(FACA, Pub. L. 92–463), in accordance
with section 333(d) of the FAA
Reauthorization Act of 2018 (Pub. L.
115–254).
II. Agenda

[PHMSA–2019–0098]

DATES:

hazmat/rulemakings/lithium-batterysafety-advisory-committee. The E-Gov
website is located at https://
www.regulations.gov. Mailed written
comments intended for the Committee
should be sent to Docket Management
Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590–0001.

The meeting agenda will address the
following duties of the Committee as
specifically outlined in section 333(d) of
the FAA Reauthorization Act of 2018:
(a) Facilitate communication among
manufacturers of lithium batteries and
products containing lithium batteries,
air carriers, and the federal government.
(b) Discuss the effectiveness and the
economic and social impacts of lithium
battery transportation regulations.
(c) Provide the Secretary with
information regarding new technologies
and transportation safety practices.
(d) Provide a forum to discuss
departmental activities related to
lithium battery transportation safety.
(e) Advise and recommend activities
to improve the global enforcement of
U.S. regulations and the International
Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)
Technical Instructions relevant to air
transportation of lithium batteries, and
the effectiveness of those regulations.
(f) Provide a forum for feedback on
potential positions to be taken by the
United States at international forums.
(g) Guide activities to increase
awareness of relevant requirements.
(h) Review methods to decrease risks
posed by undeclared hazardous
materials.
A final agenda will be posted on the
Lithium Battery Air Safety Advisory
Committee website at least 15 days in
advance of the meeting.

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The meeting will be open to the
public. DOT is committed to providing
equal access to this meeting for all
participants. If you need alternative
formats or services because of a
disability, such as sign language,
interpretation, or other ancillary aids,
please contact the person listed in the
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

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