81_FR_37773 81 FR 37661 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection: Unified Registration System, FMCSA Registration/Updates

81 FR 37661 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection: Unified Registration System, FMCSA Registration/Updates

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 112 (June 10, 2016)

Page Range37661-37662
FR Document2016-13752

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 extend an ICR titled, ``Unified Registration System, FMCSA Registration/Updates.'' This ICR is due to the Agency's development of a Final Rule titled, ``Unified Registration System'' (78 FR 52608 dated August 23, 2013) requiring those entities that are subject to the FMCSA's licensing, registration and certification regulations to use a new electronic on-line application Form MCSA-1 titled, ``FMCSA Registration/Update(s)'' to make data more readily accessible for all regulated entities. On October 21, 2015, FMCSA published a final rule delaying the final effective date of the URS final rule until September 30, 2016, with full compliance not due until December 31, 2016.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 112 (Friday, June 10, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 112 (Friday, June 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 37661-37662]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-13752]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2016-0161]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection: Unified Registration System, 
FMCSA Registration/Updates

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

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 
extend an ICR titled, ``Unified Registration System, FMCSA 
Registration/Updates.'' This ICR is due to the Agency's development of 
a Final Rule titled, ``Unified Registration System'' (78 FR 52608 dated 
August 23, 2013) requiring those entities that are subject to the 
FMCSA's licensing, registration and certification regulations to use a 
new electronic on-line application Form MCSA-1 titled, ``FMCSA 
Registration/Update(s)'' to make data more readily accessible for all 
regulated entities. On October 21, 2015, FMCSA published a final rule 
delaying the final effective date of the URS final rule until September 
30, 2016, with full compliance not due until December 31, 2016.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before August 9, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2016-0161 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 Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, Ground 
Floor, Room W12-140, 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor, 
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 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 and 
additional information on the exemption process, 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: Anyone is able to 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.). You may review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement for the Federal Docket Management System 
published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316), or 
you may visit http://edocket.access.thefederalregister.org/2008/pdfE8-794.pdf.
    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 Web site. If you want us to notify 
you that we received your comments, please include a self-addressed, 
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: Mr. Jeffrey Secrist, Office of 
Registration and Safety Information, Department of Transportation, 
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone Number: (202) 385-2367; Email 
Address: [email protected]. Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 
p.m., E.T., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Background: Section 103 of the ICC Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA) 
enacted 49 U.S.C. 13908, which required the Secretary of Transportation 
(Secretary) to propose regulations to replace four current 
identification and registration systems with a single, online, Federal 
system--the Unified Registration System (URS). The Unified Carrier 
Registration Act of 2005, subtitle C of title IV of the Safe, 
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy 
for Users (SAFETEA-LU) [Pub. L. 109-59, 119 Stat. 1714, August 10, 
2005] modified the requirements for a unified registration system by 
amending Sec.  13908. In particular, SAFETEA-LU repealed the Single 
State Registration System (SSRS), one of the four systems identified in 
Sec.  13908, and replaced it with the Unified Carrier Registration 
Agreement. It also modified the requirement that fees collected under 
the new system cover the costs of operating and upgrading the 
registration by placing limitations on certain fees that the Agency 
could charge. Section 4304 of SAFETEA-LU reiterated the congressional 
requirement for a single, Federal online system to replace the four 
individual systems identified under 49 U.S.C. 13908. This consolidation 
simplifies current Federal registration processes and makes data on 
interstate motor carriers, property brokers, freight forwarders, and 
other regulated entities more accessible. The URS applies to virtually 
every motor carrier, property broker, freight forwarder, cargo tank 
facility, and intermodal equipment provider that is required to 
register with the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT).
    This information collection supports the DOT Strategic Goal of 
Safety. It will streamline the existing registration process and ensure 
that FMCSA can more efficiently track motor carriers, freight 
forwarders, brokers, and other entities regulated by the Agency.
    The information on the on-line Form MCSA-1 will be used by FMCSA to 
identify its regulated entities, to help prioritize the Agency's 
activities, to aid in assessing the safety outcomes of those activities 
and for statistical purposes. The FMCSA will collect the information 
electronically through on-line forms. The information is currently 
being collected through a series of forms, which may be filed on-line 
or on paper. Every interstate motor carrier operating commercial motor 
vehicles is required to register with FMCSA to obtain a

[[Page 37662]]

USDOT Number. Most for-hire carriers are also required to file a 
separate application for operating authority under 49 U.S.C. 13901. 
Mexico- and Non-North America-domiciled motor carriers file a separate 
registration form. The information collection will replace these three 
collections and create a single on-line form. This rule will streamline 
the collection and eliminate the need for motor carriers to file the 
same information on multiple forms.
    Title: Unified Registration System, FMCSA Registration/Updates.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0051.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Motor carriers (including private and exempt for-hire 
carriers effective September 30, 2016), freight forwarders, brokers, 
cargo tank (CT) facilities, and intermodal equipment providers (IEPs) 
that are required to initially register for and then maintain their 
safety and operating authority registrations with USDOT.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 78,400 respondents for initial 
registration filings; 507,500 respondents for completing the biennial 
update; 13,000 respondents for filing name/address change requests; 
1,100 respondents for transfer of operating authority registration 
notifications; and 2,030 respondents for reinstatements of operating 
authority registration.
    Estimated Time per Response: 1.34 hours for initial registration 
filings; and 10 minutes each for the biennial update, name/address 
change request, notification of transfer of operating authority 
registration, and reinstatement of revoked or inactive registration.
    Expiration Date: November 30, 2016.
    Frequency of Response: This information collection covers the 
initial application to register with FMCSA as a motor carrier, freight 
forwarder, broker, intermodal equipment provider, and cargo tank 
facility; as well as subsequent applications to complete a biennial 
update or any other update of the information recorded on the 
registration system, submit a name/address change request, seek a 
reinstatement of revoked or inactive registration, and notify the 
Agency of a transfer of operating authority registration.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 105,000 burden hours for the initial 
applications of registration; 84,600 burden hours for completing 
biennial updates; 2,200 burden hours for filing name/address change 
requests; 180 burden hours for operating authority registration 
transfer notifications; and 340 burden hours for reinstatements of 
revoked or inactive registration; for a total estimated annual burden 
of 192,320 hours.
    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 on: June 3, 2016.
 G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2016-13752 Filed 6-9-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4910-EX-P

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 112 / Friday, June 10, 2016 / Notices 37661 Douglas St., Stop 1580, Omaha, NE • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. dot.gov. Office hours are from 8:00 a.m. 68179. • Mail: Docket Management Facility; to 5:00 p.m., E.T., Monday through Board decisions and notices are U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 Friday, except Federal holidays. available on our Web site at New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: WWW.STB.DOT.GOV. Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590– Background: Section 103 of the ICC Decided: June 7, 2016. 0001. Termination Act of 1995 (ICCTA) By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, • Hand Delivery or Courier: West enacted 49 U.S.C. 13908, which Director, Office of Proceedings. Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– required the Secretary of Transportation Kenyatta Clay, 140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., (Secretary) to propose regulations to Clearance Clerk. Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 replace four current identification and p.m. E.T., Monday through Friday, registration systems with a single, [FR Doc. 2016–13754 Filed 6–9–16; 8:45 am] except Federal holidays. online, Federal system—the Unified BILLING CODE 4915–01–P Instructions: All submissions must Registration System (URS). The Unified include the Agency name and docket Carrier Registration Act of 2005, subtitle number. For detailed instructions on C of title IV of the Safe, Accountable, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION submitting comments and additional Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity information on the exemption process, Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU) Federal Motor Carrier Safety see the Public Participation heading [Pub. L. 109–59, 119 Stat. 1714, August Administration below. Note that all comments received 10, 2005] modified the requirements for [Docket No. FMCSA–2016–0161] will be posted without change to http:// a unified registration system by www.regulations.gov, including any amending § 13908. In particular, Agency Information Collection personal information provided. Please SAFETEA–LU repealed the Single State Activities; Extension of a Currently- see the Privacy Act heading below. Registration System (SSRS), one of the Approved Information Collection: Docket: For access to the docket to four systems identified in § 13908, and Unified Registration System, FMCSA read background documents or replaced it with the Unified Carrier Registration/Updates comments received, go to http:// Registration Agreement. It also modified AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety www.regulations.gov, and follow the the requirement that fees collected Administration (FMCSA), DOT. online instructions for accessing the under the new system cover the costs of ACTION: Notice and request for dockets, or go to the street address listed operating and upgrading the registration comments. above. by placing limitations on certain fees Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search that the Agency could charge. Section SUMMARY: In accordance with the the electronic form of all comments 4304 of SAFETEA–LU reiterated the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, received into any of our dockets by the congressional requirement for a single, FMCSA announces its plan to submit name of the individual submitting the Federal online system to replace the the Information Collection Request (ICR) comment (or signing the comment, if four individual systems identified under described below to the Office of submitted on behalf of an association, 49 U.S.C. 13908. This consolidation Management and Budget (OMB) for business, labor union, etc.). You may simplifies current Federal registration review and approval and invites public review DOT’s complete Privacy Act processes and makes data on interstate comment. The FMCSA requests Statement for the Federal Docket motor carriers, property brokers, freight approval to extend an ICR titled, Management System published in the forwarders, and other regulated entities ‘‘Unified Registration System, FMCSA Federal Register on January 17, 2008 more accessible. The URS applies to Registration/Updates.’’ This ICR is due (73 FR 3316), or you may visit http:// virtually every motor carrier, property to the Agency’s development of a Final edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8- broker, freight forwarder, cargo tank Rule titled, ‘‘Unified Registration 794.pdf. facility, and intermodal equipment System’’ (78 FR 52608 dated August 23, Public Participation: The Federal provider that is required to register with 2013) requiring those entities that are eRulemaking Portal is available 24 the United States Department of subject to the FMCSA’s licensing, hours each day, 365 days each year. You Transportation (USDOT). registration and certification regulations can obtain electronic submission and This information collection supports to use a new electronic on-line retrieval help and guidelines under the the DOT Strategic Goal of Safety. It will application Form MCSA–1 titled, ‘‘help’’ section of the Federal streamline the existing registration ‘‘FMCSA Registration/Update(s)’’ to eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you process and ensure that FMCSA can make data more readily accessible for all want us to notify you that we received more efficiently track motor carriers, regulated entities. On October 21, 2015, your comments, please include a self- freight forwarders, brokers, and other FMCSA published a final rule delaying addressed, stamped envelope or entities regulated by the Agency. the final effective date of the URS final postcard, or print the acknowledgement The information on the on-line Form rule until September 30, 2016, with full page that appears after submitting MCSA–1 will be used by FMCSA to compliance not due until December 31, comments online. Comments received identify its regulated entities, to help 2016. after the comment closing date will be prioritize the Agency’s activities, to aid DATES: We must receive your comments included in the docket and will be in assessing the safety outcomes of those on or before August 9, 2016. considered to the extent practicable. activities and for statistical purposes. asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES ADDRESSES: You may submit comments FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. The FMCSA will collect the information identified by Federal Docket Jeffrey Secrist, Office of Registration and electronically through on-line forms. Management System (FDMS) Docket Safety Information, Department of The information is currently being Number FMCSA–2016–0161 using any Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier collected through a series of forms, of the following methods: Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey which may be filed on-line or on paper. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– Every interstate motor carrier operating www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 0001. Telephone Number: (202) 385– commercial motor vehicles is required instructions for submitting comments. 2367; Email Address: jeff.secrist@ to register with FMCSA to obtain a VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:02 Jun 09, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10JNN1.SGM 10JNN1

37662 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 112 / Friday, June 10, 2016 / Notices USDOT Number. Most for-hire carriers total estimated annual burden of clearance lamps lower on the vehicle, are also required to file a separate 192,320 hours. on a horizontal plane with other application for operating authority Public Comments Invited: You are required lamps (stop, turn, and tail under 49 U.S.C. 13901. Mexico- and asked to comment on any aspect of this lamps) as is done on a flatbed trailer or Non-North America-domiciled motor information collection, including: (1) an intermodal chassis, will maintain a carriers file a separate registration form. Whether the proposed collection is level of safety that is equivalent to, or The information collection will replace necessary for the performance of greater than, the level of safety achieved these three collections and create a FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of without the exemption. STEMCO is single on-line form. This rule will the estimated burden; (3) ways for requesting the temporary exemption in streamline the collection and eliminate FMCSA to enhance the quality, advance of petitioning FMCSA to the need for motor carriers to file the usefulness, and clarity of the collected conduct a rulemaking to amend 49 CFR same information on multiple forms. information; and (4) ways that the 393.11. Title: Unified Registration System, burden could be minimized without DATES: Comments must be received on FMCSA Registration/Updates. reducing the quality of the collected or before July 11, 2016. OMB Control Number: 2126–0051. information. The agency will summarize Type of Request: Extension of a ADDRESSES: You may submit comments or include your comments in the request currently approved information for OMB’s clearance of this information bearing the Federal Docket Management collection. collection. System (FDMS) Docket ID FMCSA– Respondents: Motor carriers 2016–0167 using any of the following Issued on: June 3, 2016. methods: (including private and exempt for-hire carriers effective September 30, 2016), G. Kelly Regal, • Web site: http:// freight forwarders, brokers, cargo tank Associate Administrator, Office of Research www.regulations.gov. Follow the and Information Technology. instructions for submitting comments (CT) facilities, and intermodal [FR Doc. 2016–13752 Filed 6–9–16; 8:45 am] on the Federal electronic docket site. equipment providers (IEPs) that are required to initially register for and then BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. maintain their safety and operating • Mail: Docket Management Facility, authority registrations with USDOT. U.S. Department of Transportation, Estimated Number of Respondents: DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 78,400 respondents for initial Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590– Federal Motor Carrier Safety 0001. registration filings; 507,500 respondents Administration for completing the biennial update; • Hand Delivery: Ground Floor, Room 13,000 respondents for filing name/ [Docket No. FMCSA—2016–0167 W12–140, DOT Building, 1200 New address change requests; 1,100 Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, respondents for transfer of operating Parts and Accessories Necessary for between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., Monday- Safe Operation, Lamps and Reflective Friday, except Federal holidays. authority registration notifications; and Devices; Application for an Exemption Instructions: All submissions must 2,030 respondents for reinstatements of From STEMCO LP include the Agency name and docket operating authority registration. Estimated Time per Response: 1.34 AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety number for this notice. For detailed hours for initial registration filings; and Administration (FMCSA), DOT. instructions on submitting comments 10 minutes each for the biennial update, ACTION: Notice of application for and additional information on the name/address change request, exemption; request for comments. exemption process, see the ‘‘Public notification of transfer of operating Participation’’ heading below. Note that authority registration, and reinstatement SUMMARY: FMCSA requests public all comments received will be posted of revoked or inactive registration. comment on an application for without change to http:// Expiration Date: November 30, 2016. exemption from STEMCO LP (STEMCO) www.regulations.gov, including any Frequency of Response: This to allow motor carriers to operate personal information provided. Please information collection covers the initial commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) that see the ‘‘Privacy Act’’ heading for application to register with FMCSA as a are equipped with STEMCO’s further information. motor carrier, freight forwarder, broker, TrailerTail® aerodynamic device with Docket: For access to the docket to intermodal equipment provider, and rear identification lamps and rear read background documents or cargo tank facility; as well as subsequent clearance lamps that are mounted lower comments received, go to http:// applications to complete a biennial than currently permitted by the www.regulations.gov or to Room W12– update or any other update of the Agency’s regulations. The Federal Motor 140, DOT Building, 1200 New Jersey information recorded on the registration Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 system, submit a name/address change require rear identification lamps and a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through request, seek a reinstatement of revoked rear clearance lamps to be located ‘‘as Friday, except Federal holidays. or inactive registration, and notify the close as practicable to the top of the Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 Agency of a transfer of operating vehicle.’’ While the TrailerTail® U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments authority registration. aerodynamic device is currently from the public to better inform its Estimated Total Annual Burden: mounted slightly below the roof of the rulemaking process. DOT posts these 105,000 burden hours for the initial vehicle, STEMCO states that this offset comments, without edit, including any asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES applications of registration; 84,600 prevents the device from delivering the personal information the commenter burden hours for completing biennial maximum available fuel economy provides, to www.regulations.gov, as updates; 2,200 burden hours for filing benefit as opposed to mounting it flush described in the system of records name/address change requests; 180 with the top of the vehicle which may notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can burden hours for operating authority block the visibility of the rear be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy. registration transfer notifications; and identification lamps and rear clearance Public participation: The http:// 340 burden hours for reinstatements of lamps. STEMCO believes that locating www.regulations.gov Web site is revoked or inactive registration; for a the rear identification lamps and rear generally available 24 hours each day, VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:02 Jun 09, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\10JNN1.SGM 10JNN1


Document Created: 2018-02-08 07:35:55
Document Modified: 2018-02-08 07:35:55
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice and request for comments.
DatesWe must receive your comments on or before August 9, 2016.
ContactMr. Jeffrey Secrist, Office of Registration and Safety Information, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone Number: (202) 385-2367; Email
FR Citation81 FR 37661 
2025 Federal Register | Disclaimer | Privacy Policy
USC | CFR | eCFR