80_FR_77646 80 FR 77407 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently-Approved Information Collection: Motor Carrier Identification Report

80 FR 77407 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently-Approved Information Collection: Motor Carrier Identification Report

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 239 (December 14, 2015)

Page Range77407-77408
FR Document2015-31341

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 review and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA requests approval to revise an ICR titled, ``Motor Carrier Identification Report,'' which is used to identify FMCSA regulated entities, help prioritize the agency's activities, aid in assessing the safety outcomes of those activities, and for statistical purposes. This ICR is being revised due to a Final Rule titled, ``Unified Registration System (80 FR 63695) dated October 21, 2015, which changed the effective and compliance dates for the on- line Unified Registration System (URS) from October 23, 2015, in the URS Final Rule, (78 FR 52608) dated August 23, 2013, to September 30, 2016.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 239 (Monday, December 14, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 239 (Monday, December 14, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 77407-77408]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-31341]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA 2015-0268]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection: Motor Carrier Identification 
Report

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: 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 review 
and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA requests approval to 
revise an ICR titled, ``Motor Carrier Identification Report,'' which is 
used to identify FMCSA regulated entities, help prioritize the agency's 
activities, aid in assessing the safety outcomes of those activities, 
and for statistical purposes. This ICR is being revised due to a Final 
Rule titled, ``Unified Registration System (80 FR 63695) dated October 
21, 2015, which changed the effective and compliance dates for the on-
line Unified Registration System (URS) from October 23, 2015, in the 
URS Final Rule, (78 FR 52608) dated August 23, 2013, to September 30, 
2016.

DATES: Please send your comments to this notice by January 13, 2016. 
OMB must receive your comments by this date to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2015-0268. Interested persons are 
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention 
of the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, and sent via electronic mail to 
[email protected], faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to the 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 
20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Jeff Secrist, Office of 
Registration and Safety Information, Department of Transportation, 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-
385-2367; email [email protected]. Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. 
to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Motor Carrier Identification Report.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0013.
    Type of Request: Revision of a currently-approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Motor carriers and commercial motor vehicle drivers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 489,925.
    Estimated Time per Response: To complete Form MCS-150--20 minutes 
and 7.5 minutes for the biennial update. To complete Form MCS-150B (HM 
Permit Application), interstate carriers that have already completed 
the Form MCS-150 will need 6 minutes and intrastate carriers that have 
never completed a Form MCS-150 will need about 16 minutes and 5 minutes 
for the biennial update. Form MCS-150C--Intermodal Equipment Providers 
will need 20 minutes the first time they file this report and 7.5 
minutes for the biennial update.
    Expiration Date: December 31, 2015.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion and biennially.

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    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 31,271 hours [31,123 hours for Form 
MCS-150 + 146 hours for Form MCA-150B + 2 hours for Form MCS-150C = 
31,271].
    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 Sec.  504(b)(1) and (d)). The 
FMCSA will use this data to administer its safety programs by 
establishing a database of entities that are subject to its 
regulations. This database necessitates that these entities notify the 
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 
entitled, Motor Carrier Identification Report.'' This report is filed 
by all motor carriers conducting operations in interstate or 
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, address and telephone of 
principal place of business, assigned identification number(s), type of 
operation, types of cargo usually transported, number of vehicles 
owned, term leased and trip leased, driver information, and 
certification statement signed by an individual authorized to sign 
documents on behalf of the business entity.
    The Department of Transportation and Related Agencies 
Appropriations Act for fiscal year 2002, Public Law 107-87, 115 Stat. 
833, dated December 18, 2001, directed the agency to issue an interim 
final rule (IFR) to ensure that new entrant motor carriers are 
knowledgeable about the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 
(FMCSRs) and standards. On May 13, 2002, the agency published an IFR 
titled, ``New Entrant Safety Assurance Process'' (67 FR 31978).
    On August, 23, 2013, the agency published a Final Rule titled, 
``Unified Registration System,'' (URS) which requires interstate motor 
carriers, freight forwarders, brokers, intermodal equipment providers, 
hazardous materials safety permit applicants, and cargo tank facilities 
to file for registration via a new online Form MCSA-1. The Form MCSA-1 
will replace the existing Forms MCS-150B and MCS-150C in this ICR. 
However, the Form MCS-150 will be retained for the small number of 
Mexico-domiciled carriers that seek authority to operate beyond the 
United States municipalities on the United States-Mexico border and 
their commercial zones because they are not included within the scope 
of the URS Final Rule.
    On October 21, 2015, the agency issued a Final Rule titled, 
``Unified Registration System,'' (80 FR 63695) which changed the 
effective and compliance dates of the 2013 URS Final Rule in order to 
allow FMCSA additional time to complete the information technology (IT) 
systems work required to fully implement that rule. This change will 
require the continued use of the Forms MCS-150, MCS-150B and MCS-150C 
in this ICR until September 30, 2016, because these forms are still 
needed to support registration processes for entities subject to 
FMCSA's regulations. After this date, all forms except the MCS-150 in 
this ICR will be folded into the Form MCSA-1 in the OMB Control Number 
2126-0051 titled, ``FMCSA Registration/Updates,'' ICR. The Form MCS-150 
will be retained for the small number of Mexico-domiciled carriers that 
seek authority to operate beyond the United States municipalities on 
the U.S.-Mexico border because they are not included in the scope of 
the URS. This revised ICR captures the burden due to the use of the 
Form MCS-150B and Form MCS-150C until September 30, 2016, and the use 
of the Form MCS-150 by the Mexico-domiciled carriers after the 
implementation of the URS Final Rule.
    On August 21, 2015, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice 
allowing for a 60-day comment period on this ICR. The agency received 
one comment in response to this notice. The anonymous commenter only 
stated ``Good.'' The FMCSA in response agrees with the anonymous 
commenter.

    Public Comments Invited: FMCSA requests that you comment on any 
aspect of this information collection, including: (1) Whether the 
proposed collection is necessary for FMCSA to perform its 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 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 delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: December 
4, 2015.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2015-31341 Filed 12-11-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 239 / Monday, December 14, 2015 / Notices 77407 3. Requirements for Submissions include any information that might 52608) dated August 23, 2013, to Persons submitting a notification of appear in a cover letter in the comments September 30, 2016. intent to testify and/or written themselves. Similarly, to the extent DATES: Please send your comments to comments must do so in English and possible, please include any exhibits, this notice by January 13, 2016. OMB must identify (on the first page of the annexes, or other attachments in the must receive your comments by this submission) ‘‘Post-AGOA Trade and same file as the submission itself, not as date to act quickly on the ICR. Investment.’’ In order to be assured of separate files. ADDRESSES: All comments should consideration, comments should be As noted, USTR strongly urges reference Federal Docket Management submitted by 11:59 p.m., Tuesday, submitters to file comments through System (FDMS) Docket Number January 19, 2016. www.regulations.gov, if at all possible. FMCSA–2015–0268. Interested persons In order to ensure the timely receipt Any alternative arrangements must be are invited to submit written comments and consideration of comments, USTR made with Yvonne Jamison in advance on the proposed information collection strongly encourages commenters to of transmitting a comment. Ms. Jamison to the Office of Information and make on-line submissions, using the should be contacted at (202) 395–3475. Regulatory Affairs, Office of www.regulations.gov Web site. To General information concerning USTR Management and Budget. Comments submit comments via is available at www.ustr.gov. Comments should be addressed to the attention of www.regulations.gov, enter docket will be placed in the docket and open the Desk Officer, Department of number USTR–2015–0019 on the home to public inspection, except business Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier page and click ‘‘search.’’ The site will confidential information. Comments Safety Administration, and sent via provide a search-results page listing all may be viewed on the electronic mail to oira_submission@ documents associated with this docket. www.regulations.gov Web site by omb.eop.gov, faxed to (202) 395–6974, Find a reference to this notice and click entering the relevant docket number in or mailed to the Office of Information on the link entitled ‘‘Comment Now!’’ the search field on the home page. and Regulatory Affairs, Office of (For further information on using the Bennett M. Harman, Management and Budget, Docket www.regulations.gov Web site, please Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street consult the resources provided on the for African Affairs. NW., Washington, DC 20503. Web site by clicking on ‘‘How to Use [FR Doc. 2015–31324 Filed 12–11–15; 8:45 am] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Regulations.gov’’ on the bottom of the BILLING CODE 3290–F6–P Jeff Secrist, Office of Registration and home page). Safety Information, Department of The www.regulations.gov Web site Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier allows users to provide comments by Safety Administration, West Building DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION filling in a ‘‘Type Comment’’ field, or by 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., attaching a document using an ‘‘Upload Federal Motor Carrier Safety Washington, DC 20590–0001. File’’ field. USTR prefers that comments Administration Telephone: 202–385–2367; email be provided in an attached document. If jeff.secrist@dot.gov. Office hours are a document is attached, it is sufficient [Docket No. FMCSA 2015–0268] from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday to type ‘‘See attached’’ in the ‘‘Type through Friday, except Federal Agency Information Collection Comment’’ field. USTR prefers Holidays. Activities; Revision of a Currently- submissions in Microsoft Word (.doc) or Approved Information Collection: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Adobe Acrobat (.pdf). If the submission Motor Carrier Identification Report Title: Motor Carrier Identification is in an application other than those two, please indicate the name of the AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Report. application in the ‘‘Type Comment’’ Administration (FMCSA), DOT. OMB Control Number: 2126–0013. field. ACTION: Notice and request for Type of Request: Revision of a For any comments submitted comments. currently-approved information electronically containing business collection. confidential information, the file name SUMMARY: In accordance with the Respondents: Motor carriers and of the business confidential version Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, commercial motor vehicle drivers. should begin with the characters ‘‘BC’’. FMCSA announces its plan to submit Estimated Number of Respondents: Any page containing business the Information Collection Request (ICR) 489,925. confidential information must be clearly described below to the Office of Estimated Time per Response: To marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ Management and Budget (OMB) for complete Form MCS–150—20 minutes on the top of that page. Filers of review and approval and invites public and 7.5 minutes for the biennial update. submissions containing business comment. The FMCSA requests To complete Form MCS–150B (HM confidential information must also approval to revise an ICR titled, ‘‘Motor Permit Application), interstate carriers submit a public version of their Carrier Identification Report,’’ which is that have already completed the Form comments. The file name of the public used to identify FMCSA regulated MCS–150 will need 6 minutes and version should begin with the character entities, help prioritize the agency’s intrastate carriers that have never ‘‘P’’. The ‘‘BC’’ and ‘‘P’’ should be activities, aid in assessing the safety completed a Form MCS–150 will need followed by the name of the person or outcomes of those activities, and for about 16 minutes and 5 minutes for the mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES entity submitting the comments or reply statistical purposes. This ICR is being biennial update. Form MCS–150C— comments. Filers submitting comments revised due to a Final Rule titled, Intermodal Equipment Providers will containing no business confidential ‘‘Unified Registration System (80 FR need 20 minutes the first time they file information should name their file using 63695) dated October 21, 2015, which this report and 7.5 minutes for the the name of the person or entity changed the effective and compliance biennial update. submitting the comments. dates for the on-line Unified Expiration Date: December 31, 2015. Please do not attach separate cover Registration System (URS) from October Frequency of Response: On occasion letters to electronic submissions; rather, 23, 2015, in the URS Final Rule, (78 FR and biennially. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:36 Dec 11, 2015 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\14DEN1.SGM 14DEN1

77408 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 239 / Monday, December 14, 2015 / Notices Estimated Total Annual Burden: the Form MCS–150 will be retained for Issued under the authority delegated in 49 31,271 hours [31,123 hours for Form the small number of Mexico-domiciled CFR 1.87 on: December 4, 2015. MCS–150 + 146 hours for Form MCA– carriers that seek authority to operate G. Kelly Regal, 150B + 2 hours for Form MCS–150C = beyond the United States municipalities Associate Administrator, Office of Research 31,271]. on the United States-Mexico border and and Information Technology. Background: Title 49, United States their commercial zones because they are [FR Doc. 2015–31341 Filed 12–11–15; 8:45 am] Code Section 504(b)(2) provides the not included within the scope of the BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) URS Final Rule. with authority to require carriers, lessors, associations, or classes of these On October 21, 2015, the agency DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION entities to file annual, periodic, and issued a Final Rule titled, ‘‘Unified special reports containing answers to Registration System,’’ (80 FR 63695) Federal Motor Carrier Safety questions asked by the Secretary. The which changed the effective and Administration Secretary may also prescribe the form of compliance dates of the 2013 URS Final Rule in order to allow FMCSA [Docket No. FMCSA- 2015–0338] records required to be prepared or compiled and the time period during additional time to complete the Qualification of Drivers; Exemption which records must be preserved (See information technology (IT) systems Applications; Diabetes Mellitus § 504(b)(1) and (d)). The FMCSA will work required to fully implement that use this data to administer its safety rule. This change will require the AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety programs by establishing a database of continued use of the Forms MCS–150, Administration (FMCSA), DOT. entities that are subject to its MCS–150B and MCS–150C in this ICR ACTION: Notice of applications for regulations. This database necessitates until September 30, 2016, because these exemptions; request for comments. that these entities notify the FMCSA of forms are still needed to support their existence. For example, under 49 registration processes for entities subject SUMMARY: FMCSA announces receipt of CFR 390.19(a), FMCSA requires all to FMCSA’s regulations. After this date, applications from 45 individuals for motor carriers beginning operations to all forms except the MCS–150 in this exemption from the prohibition against file a Form MCS–150 entitled, Motor ICR will be folded into the Form persons with insulin-treated diabetes Carrier Identification Report.’’ This MCSA–1 in the OMB Control Number mellitus (ITDM) operating commercial report is filed by all motor carriers 2126–0051 titled, ‘‘FMCSA Registration/ motor vehicles (CMVs) in interstate conducting operations in interstate or Updates,’’ ICR. The Form MCS–150 will commerce. If granted, the exemptions international commerce before be retained for the small number of would enable these individuals with beginning operations. It asks the Mexico-domiciled carriers that seek ITDM to operate CMVs in interstate respondent to provide the name of the authority to operate beyond the United commerce. business entity that owns and controls States municipalities on the U.S.- DATES: Comments must be received on the motor carrier operation, address and Mexico border because they are not or before January 13, 2016. telephone of principal place of business, included in the scope of the URS. This assigned identification number(s), type ADDRESSES: You may submit comments revised ICR captures the burden due to bearing the Federal Docket Management of operation, types of cargo usually the use of the Form MCS–150B and transported, number of vehicles owned, System (FDMS) Docket No. FMCSA– Form MCS–150C until September 30, 2015–0338 using any of the following term leased and trip leased, driver 2016, and the use of the Form MCS–150 methods: information, and certification statement signed by an individual authorized to by the Mexico-domiciled carriers after • Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to sign documents on behalf of the the implementation of the URS Final http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the business entity. Rule. on-line instructions for submitting The Department of Transportation On August 21, 2015, FMCSA comments. and Related Agencies Appropriations published a Federal Register notice • Mail: Docket Management Facility; Act for fiscal year 2002, Public Law allowing for a 60-day comment period U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 107–87, 115 Stat. 833, dated December on this ICR. The agency received one New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building 18, 2001, directed the agency to issue an comment in response to this notice. The Ground Floor, Room W12–140, interim final rule (IFR) to ensure that anonymous commenter only stated Washington, DC 20590–0001. new entrant motor carriers are ‘‘Good.’’ The FMCSA in response agrees • Hand Delivery: West Building knowledgeable about the Federal Motor with the anonymous commenter. Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, and standards. On May 13, 2002, the Public Comments Invited: FMCSA DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday agency published an IFR titled, ‘‘New requests that you comment on any through Friday, except Federal Entrant Safety Assurance Process’’ (67 aspect of this information collection, Holidays. FR 31978). including: (1) Whether the proposed • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. On August, 23, 2013, the agency collection is necessary for FMCSA to Instructions: Each submission must published a Final Rule titled, ‘‘Unified perform its functions, (2) the accuracy of include the Agency name and the Registration System,’’ (URS) which the estimated burden, (3) ways for the docket numbers for this notice. Note requires interstate motor carriers, freight FMCSA to enhance the quality, that all comments received will be usefulness, and clarity of the collected mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES forwarders, brokers, intermodal posted without change to http:// equipment providers, hazardous information, and (4) ways that the www.regulations.gov, including any materials safety permit applicants, and burden could be minimized without personal information provided. Please cargo tank facilities to file for reducing the quality of the collected see the Privacy Act heading below for registration via a new online Form information. The agency will summarize further information. MCSA–1. The Form MCSA–1 will or include your comments in the request Docket: For access to the docket to replace the existing Forms MCS–150B for OMB’s clearance of this information read background documents or and MCS–150C in this ICR. 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CategoryRegulatory Information
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sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesPlease send your comments to this notice by January 13, 2016. OMB must receive your comments by this date to act quickly on the ICR.
ContactMr. Jeff Secrist, Office of Registration and Safety Information, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202- 385-2367; email [email protected] Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
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