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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2024–0013]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), 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) summarized 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 October
4, 2024.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on regulations.gov
to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2024–
0013. All comments received will be
posted without change to the docket,
including any personal information
provided. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number (2130–0635) in
any correspondence submitted. FRA
will summarize comments received in a
subsequent 30-day notice and include
them in its information collection
submission to OMB.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Arlette Mussington, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or
telephone: (571) 609–1285 or Ms.
Joanne Swafford, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or telephone:
(757) 897–9908.
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

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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
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, 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: Report of Railroad Trespasser
Form.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0635.
Abstract: Trespasser deaths on
railroad rights-of-way and other railroad
property are the leading cause of
fatalities attributable to railroad
operations in the United States. To
address this serious issue, the railroad
industry, governments (Federal, State,
and local), and other interested parties
must know more about the individuals
who trespass and causes. With such
knowledge, specific educational
programs, materials, and messages
regarding the hazards and consequences
of trespassing on railroad property can
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distributed. Due to the lack of available
root cause data, FRA collects data from
law enforcement agencies to develop
general descriptions of the root causes
of trespassing. This allows FRA and
other interested parties, such as
Operation Lifesaver, to target audiences
with appropriate education and
enforcement campaigns to reduce the
resulting annual number of injuries and
fatalities.
Completion and submission of form
FRA F 6180.178, Report of Railroad
Trespasser Form, is required for law
enforcement agency grantees as a
condition of FRA’s Railroad Trespassing
Enforcement Grant. Grantees complete
the form for each trespasser incident in
their jurisdiction, describing the
trespassers’ race/ethnicity, gender, and
age to the best of their ability. For law
enforcement agencies that do not
receive FRA’s Railroad Trespassing
Enforcement grants, completion and
submission of this form is voluntary.
FRA provides an electronic option
where the respondents can respond via
a web-based form. The web-based form
also helps FRA maintain the data
collected in a more useful and uniform
manner, as the dropdown boxes
facilitate more standardized responses.
In this 60-day notice, FRA made
adjustments that reduced the previously
approved burden hours from 550 hours
to 350 hours. The decrease in burden is
a result of the average time per response
being reduced from 10 minutes to 8
minutes to provide a more accurate
analysis of the time needed to complete
the form. Additionally, FRA has
updated form FRA F 6180.178 to
comply with OMB’s recent Statistical
Policy Directive No. 15, Standards for
Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting
Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity
(SPD 15).1
Type of Request: Extension without
change (with changes in estimates) of a
currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Public authorities.
Form(s): FRA F 6180.178.
Respondent Universe: Law
enforcement agencies.
Frequency of Submission: Monthly.
1 Spd15revision.gov.

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REPORTING BURDEN
Form

Respondent universe

Report of Railroad Trespasser Form
(Form FRA F 6180.178).

Total 3 ................................................

Total cost
equivalent

(A)

(B)

(C = A * B)

(D = C *
wage rate) 2

8

333.30

$20,184.65

Law enforcement agencies, non-grantees.

100 forms .............

10

16.70

1,011.35

Law enforcement agencies .....................

2,600 responses ...

N/A

350

21,196

Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on regulations.gov
to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2024–
0014. All comments received will be
posted without change to the docket,
including any personal information
provided. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number (2130–0505) in
any correspondence submitted. FRA
will summarize comments received in a
subsequent 30-day notice and include
them in its information collection
submission to OMB.

ADDRESSES:

Ms.
Arlette Mussington, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or
telephone: (571) 609–1285 or Ms.
Joanne Swafford, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
[email protected] or telephone:
(757) 897–9908.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2024–0014]

Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), 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) summarized 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 October
4, 2024.
SUMMARY:

2 Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) Employer Cost for Employee
Compensation—December 2023 for State and local
government. The hourly wage rate used is $37.53
+ overhead of 38%. Total burdened wage rate is
$60.56 ($37.53 + $23.03).
3 Totals may not add up due to rounding.

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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
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).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Collection Activities; Comment
Request

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Total annual
burden hours

2,500 forms ..........

Christopher S. Van Nostrand,
Deputy Chief Counsel.

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Average time
per response
(minutes)

Law enforcement agencies, grantees .....

Total Estimated Annual Responses:
2,600.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 350
hours.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $21,196.
FRA informs all interested parties that
it may not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information that does
not display a currently valid OMB
control number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.

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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, 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: Inspection and Maintenance of
Steam Locomotives.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0505.
Abstract: The Locomotive Inspection
Act (LIA) establishes safety and
inspection requirements for locomotives
in ‘‘use’’ on a ‘‘railroad line.’’ 1 The
statute was first enacted in 1911 as part
of a broad congressional effort to
‘‘reduce the loss of life and the injuries’’
caused by the dangerous conditions that
prevailed on the railroads in the late
19th and early 20th centuries.2 In 1911,
Congress enacted the first iteration of
the LIA to address the harms posed by
locomotive boilers,3 making it
‘‘unlawful’’ for a common carrier ‘‘to
use any locomotive engine propelled by
steam power in moving interstate or
foreign traffic unless the boiler of said
locomotive and appurtenances thereof
are in proper condition and safe to
operate in the service to which the same
is put.’’ 4 To help ensure the locomotive
boilers and their appurtenances are in
proper condition, the Steam Locomotive
Inspection and Maintenance Standards
require certain boiler pressure
1 49

U.S.C. 20701 et seq.
v. Southern Pac. Co., 196 U.S. 1, 19
(1904); see Napier v. Atlantic Coast Line R.R., 272
U.S. 605, 607–608 (1926).
3 Act of Feb. 17, 1911 (Act of 1911), ch. 103, 36
Stat. 913 (known as the Boiler Inspection Act).
4 Act of 1911, sec. 2, 36 Stat. 913–914.
2 Johnson

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