81_FR_8153 81 FR 8122 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently Approved Collection: Driver Qualification Files

81 FR 8122 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently Approved Collection: Driver Qualification Files

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 31 (February 17, 2016)

Page Range8122-8123
FR Document2016-03183

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. The Agency's regulations pertaining to the qualification of operators of commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) are unchanged and impose no increased information-collection (IC) burden on individual drivers and motor carriers. However, the Agency increases its estimate of the total IC burden of these regulations because both the number of CMV drivers and the frequency of their hiring have increased since the Agency's 2012 estimate of this burden.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 31 (Wednesday, February 17, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 17, 2016)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA 2015-0508]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently Approved Collection: Driver Qualification Files

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 its 
review and approval, and invites public comment. The Agency's 
regulations pertaining to the qualification of operators of commercial 
motor vehicles (CMVs) are unchanged and impose no increased 
information-collection (IC) burden on individual drivers and motor 
carriers. However, the Agency increases its estimate of the total IC 
burden of these regulations because both the number of CMV drivers and 
the frequency of their hiring have increased since the Agency's 2012 
estimate of this burden.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before April 18, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket 
Management System Number FMCSA- 2015-0508 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: 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.
     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. Robert F. Schultz, FMCSA Driver 
and Carrier Operations Division, Department of Transportation, FMCSA, 
West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 
20590. Telephone: 202-366-4325. Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984 [Pub.L. 98-554, Title II, 98 
Stat. 2834 (October 30, 1984)] requires the Secretary of Transportation 
to issue regulations pertaining to commercial motor vehicle (CMV) 
safety. These regulations are also issued under the authority provided 
by 49 U.S.C. 504, 31133, 31136, and 31502. Part 391 of volume 49 of the 
Code of Federal Regulations contains the minimum qualifications of 
drivers of CMVs in interstate commerce.
    Motor carriers may not require or permit an unqualified driver to 
operate a CMV. The foremost proof of driver qualification is the 
information that part 391 requires be collected and maintained in the 
driver qualification file (DQ file). Motor carriers must obtain this 
information from sources specified in the regulations (49 CFR 391.51). 
These include the driver, previous employers of the driver, and 
officials of the State of driver licensure.
    Motor carriers are not required to forward driver qualification 
information to FMCSA, but must maintain the information in a DQ file. 
The DQ file of each driver must be made available to State and Federal 
safety investigators on demand.
    The Agency is asking OMB to approve FMCSA's revised estimate of the 
paperwork burden imposed by its DQ file regulations. The regulations 
have not been amended; the information-collection (IC) burden imposed 
on individual drivers and motor carriers by the regulations is 
unchanged. However, the Agency has increased its estimate of the total 
IC burden of the DQ-file regulations because both the number of CMV 
drivers and the turnover rate in their hiring have increased since the 
Agency's 2012 estimate of this burden. The increase in the number of 
CMV drivers is partly the result of the Agency being directed by OMB to 
include intrastate as well as interstate drivers in the population of 
drivers incurring an IC burden under the DQ file regulations. The 
Agency had excluded intrastate drivers from its previous estimate, 
approved by OMB on July 8, 2013, on the ground that drivers who operate 
exclusively in intrastate commerce were maintaining DQ files pursuant 
to State, not Federal, law.
    Title: Driver Qualification Files.

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    OMB Control Number: 2126-0004.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved ICR.
    Respondents: Motor carriers and drivers of commercial motor 
vehicles.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 6.2 million (5.7 million drivers 
and .5 million motor carriers.
    Estimated Time per Response: 28 minutes (average).
    Expiration Date: July 31, 2016.
    Frequency of Response: Responses to some regulatory requirements of 
the driver qualification rules occur on a random basis. Other responses 
occur more predictably. Some responses recur; others do not. For 
example, motor carriers are required to obtain and review the motor 
vehicle driving record of their drivers from the State of licensure. 
They must complete this task at the time of hiring and every year 
thereafter. The time-of-hiring requirement results in a random 
frequency of response, but, thereafter, the annual requirement results 
in a fixed frequency of response.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 9.8 million hours.

Definitions

    (1) ``Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations'' (FMCSRs) are 
parts 350-399 of Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. (2) 
``Commercial Motor Vehicle'' (CMV) is ``a self-propelled or towed 
vehicle used on the highways in interstate commerce to transport 
passengers or property, if the vehicle--
    (A) has a gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination 
weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or gross combination weight, 
of at least 10,001 pounds, whichever is greater;
    (B) is designed or used to transport more than 8 passengers 
(including the driver) for compensation;
    (C) is designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers, 
including the driver, and is not used to transport passengers for 
compensation; or
    (D) is used in transporting material found by the Secretary of 
Transportation to be hazardous under section 5103 of this title and 
transported in a quantity requiring placarding under regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary under section 5103.''

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 of 49 CFR 1.87 on February 5, 2016.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2016-03183 Filed 2-16-16; 8:45 am]
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8122 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 31 / Wednesday, February 17, 2016 / Notices • Performance of systems integrator DATES: We must receive your comments Carrier Operations Division, Department against agreed-upon objectives; on or before April 18, 2016. of Transportation, FMCSA, West • Desired adjustments and ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey modifications to systems; identified by Federal Docket Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 20590. • Demonstrated value of investment Management System Number FMCSA- Telephone: 202–366–4325. Email: to FMCSA and DOT; 2015–0508 using any of the following MCPSD@dot.gov. • Items about the FMCSA Portal that methods: SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: customers like best; and • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// • Customer ideas for making the www.regulations.gov. Follow the online Background FMCSA Portal better. instructions for submitting comments. The Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984 Public Comments Invited: You are • Fax: 1–202–493–2251. [Pub.L. 98–554, Title II, 98 Stat. 2834 asked to comment on any aspect of this • Mail: Docket Management Facility; (October 30, 1984)] requires the information collection, including: (1) U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 Secretary of Transportation to issue Whether the proposed collection is New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, regulations pertaining to commercial necessary for the agency to perform its Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590– motor vehicle (CMV) safety. These mission; (2) the accuracy of the 0001. regulations are also issued under the estimated burden; (3) ways for the • Hand Delivery or Courier: West authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 504, FMCSA to enhance the quality, Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 31133, 31136, and 31502. Part 391 of usefulness, and clarity of the collected 140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., volume 49 of the Code of Federal information; and (4) ways that the Washington, DC between 9 a.m. and 5 Regulations contains the minimum burden could be minimized without p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, qualifications of drivers of CMVs in reducing the quality of the collected except Federal holidays. interstate commerce. information. • Instructions: All submissions must Motor carriers may not require or include the Agency name and docket permit an unqualified driver to operate Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 number. For detailed instructions on a CMV. The foremost proof of driver on: February 5, 2016. submitting comments and additional qualification is the information that part G. Kelly Regal, information on the exemption process, 391 requires be collected and Associate Administrator for Office of see the Public Participation heading maintained in the driver qualification Research and Information Technology. below. Note that all comments received file (DQ file). Motor carriers must obtain [FR Doc. 2016–03180 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] will be posted without change to this information from sources specified BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P http://www.regulations.gov, including in the regulations (49 CFR 391.51). any personal information provided. These include the driver, previous Please see the Privacy Act heading employers of the driver, and officials of DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION below. the State of driver licensure. • Docket: For access to the docket to Motor carriers are not required to Federal Motor Carrier Safety read background documents or forward driver qualification information Administration comments received, go to http:// to FMCSA, but must maintain the www.regulations.gov, and follow the information in a DQ file. The DQ file of [Docket No. FMCSA 2015–0508] online instructions for accessing the each driver must be made available to Agency Information Collection dockets, or go to the street address listed State and Federal safety investigators on Activities; Extension of a Currently above. demand. Approved Collection: Driver • Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 The Agency is asking OMB to approve U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments FMCSA’s revised estimate of the Qualification Files from the public to better inform its paperwork burden imposed by its DQ AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety rulemaking process. DOT posts these file regulations. The regulations have Administration (FMCSA), DOT. comments, without edit, including any not been amended; the information- ACTION: Notice and request for personal information the commenter collection (IC) burden imposed on comments. provides, to www.regulations.gov, as individual drivers and motor carriers by described in the system of records the regulations is unchanged. However, SUMMARY: In accordance with the notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can the Agency has increased its estimate of Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy. the total IC burden of the DQ-file FMCSA announces its plan to submit • Public Participation: The Federal regulations because both the number of the Information Collection Request (ICR) eRulemaking Portal is available 24 CMV drivers and the turnover rate in described below to the Office of hours each day, 365 days each year. You their hiring have increased since the Management and Budget (OMB) for its can obtain electronic submission and Agency’s 2012 estimate of this burden. review and approval, and invites public retrieval help and guidelines under the The increase in the number of CMV comment. The Agency’s regulations ‘‘help’’ section of the Federal drivers is partly the result of the Agency pertaining to the qualification of eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you being directed by OMB to include operators of commercial motor vehicles want us to notify you that we received intrastate as well as interstate drivers in (CMVs) are unchanged and impose no your comments, please include a self- the population of drivers incurring an IC increased information-collection (IC) addressed, stamped envelope or burden under the DQ file regulations. asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES burden on individual drivers and motor postcard, or print the acknowledgement The Agency had excluded intrastate carriers. However, the Agency increases page that appears after submitting drivers from its previous estimate, its estimate of the total IC burden of comments online. Comments received approved by OMB on July 8, 2013, on these regulations because both the after the comment closing date will be the ground that drivers who operate number of CMV drivers and the included in the docket and will be exclusively in intrastate commerce were frequency of their hiring have increased considered to the extent practicable. maintaining DQ files pursuant to State, since the Agency’s 2012 estimate of this FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. not Federal, law. burden. Robert F. Schultz, FMCSA Driver and Title: Driver Qualification Files. VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:05 Feb 16, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00089 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17FEN1.SGM 17FEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 31 / Wednesday, February 17, 2016 / Notices 8123 OMB Control Number: 2126–0004. or include your comments in the request SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As Type of Request: Extension of a for OMB’s clearance of this information described by the applicant the intended currently approved ICR. collection. service of the vessel Respondents: Motor carriers and Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 TEMOANANUIAKIVA is: drivers of commercial motor vehicles. on February 5, 2016. INTENDED COMMERCIAL USE OF Estimated Number of Respondents: Kelly Regal, VESSEL: ‘‘Snorkel and sailing day use’’ 6.2 million (5.7 million drivers and .5 Associate Administrator for Office of GEOGRAPHIC REGION: ‘‘Hawaii’’ million motor carriers. Research and Information Technology. The complete application is given in Estimated Time per Response: 28 [FR Doc. 2016–03183 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] DOT docket MARAD–2016–0009 at minutes (average). http://www.regulations.gov. Interested BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P Expiration Date: July 31, 2016. parties may comment on the effect this Frequency of Response: Responses to action may have on U.S. vessel builders some regulatory requirements of the DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- driver qualification rules occur on a flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in random basis. Other responses occur Maritime Administration accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and more predictably. Some responses recur; MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part others do not. For example, motor [Docket No. MARAD–2016 0009] 388, that the issuance of the waiver will carriers are required to obtain and have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- review the motor vehicle driving record Requested Administrative Waiver of vessel builder or a business that uses of their drivers from the State of the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a licensure. They must complete this task TEMOANANUIAKIVA; Invitation for waiver will not be granted. Comments at the time of hiring and every year Public Comments should refer to the docket number of thereafter. The time-of-hiring this notice and the vessel name in order AGENCY: Maritime Administration, requirement results in a random for MARAD to properly consider the Department of Transportation. frequency of response, but, thereafter, comments. Comments should also state the annual requirement results in a ACTION: Notice. the commenter’s interest in the waiver fixed frequency of response. SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. application, and address the waiver Estimated Total Annual Burden: 9.8 12121, the Secretary of Transportation, criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s million hours. as represented by the Maritime regulations at 46 CFR part 388. Definitions Administration (MARAD), is authorized Privacy Act to grant waivers of the U.S.-build (1) ‘‘Federal Motor Carrier Safety Anyone is able to search the requirement of the coastwise laws under Regulations’’ (FMCSRs) are parts 350–399 of electronic form of all comments certain circumstances. A request for Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. received into any of our dockets by the such a waiver has been received by (2) ‘‘Commercial Motor Vehicle’’ (CMV) is ‘‘a name of the individual submitting the MARAD. The vessel, and a brief self-propelled or towed vehicle used on the comment (or signing the comment, if highways in interstate commerce to transport description of the proposed service, is submitted on behalf of an association, passengers or property, if the vehicle— listed below. business, labor union, etc.). You may (A) has a gross vehicle weight rating or DATES: Submit comments on or before review DOT’s complete Privacy Act gross combination weight rating, or gross March 23, 2016. Statement in the Federal Register vehicle weight or gross combination weight, ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to published on April 11, 2000 (Volume of at least 10,001 pounds, whichever is greater; docket number MARAD–2016–0009. 65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78). (B) is designed or used to transport more Written comments may be submitted by By Order of the Maritime Administrator. than 8 passengers (including the driver) for hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, Dated: February 4, 2016. compensation; U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Operations, M–30, West Gabriel Chavez, (C) is designed or used to transport more than 15 passengers, including the driver, and Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration. is not used to transport passengers for 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., [FR Doc. 2016–03001 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] compensation; or Washington, DC 20590. You may also BILLING CODE 4910–81–P (D) is used in transporting material found send comments electronically via the by the Secretary of Transportation to be hazardous under section 5103 of this title Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. All comments will become part of this DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION and transported in a quantity requiring placarding under regulations prescribed by docket and will be available for National Highway Traffic Safety the Secretary under section 5103.’’ inspection and copying at the above Administration address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., Public Comments Invited E.T., Monday through Friday, except [Docket No. NHTSA–2015–0127; Notice 1] FMCSA requests that you comment federal holidays. An electronic version of this document and all documents Graco Children’s Products, Inc., on any aspect of this information entered into this docket is available on Receipt of Petition for Decision of collection, including: (1) Whether the the World Wide Web at http:// Inconsequential Noncompliance proposed collection is necessary for asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES FMCSA to perform its functions, (2) the www.regulations.gov. AGENCY: National Highway Traffic accuracy of the estimated burden, (3) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Safety Administration (NHTSA), ways for the FMCSA to enhance the Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of Department of Transportation (DOT). quality, usefulness, and clarity of the Transportation, Maritime ACTION: Receipt of petition. collected information, and (4) ways that Administration, 1200 New Jersey the burden could be minimized without Avenue SE., Room W23–465, SUMMARY: Graco Children’s Products, reducing the quality of the collected Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202– Inc. (Graco), has determined that certain information. The agency will summarize 366–9309, Email Bianca.carr@dot.gov. Graco Milestone child restraints VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:05 Feb 16, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00090 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\17FEN1.SGM 17FEN1


Document Created: 2016-02-17 01:17:09
Document Modified: 2016-02-17 01:17:09
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 April 18, 2016.
ContactMr. Robert F. Schultz, FMCSA Driver and Carrier Operations Division, Department of Transportation, FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 20590. Telephone: 202-366-4325. Email: [email protected]
FR Citation81 FR 8122 
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