82 FR 14103 - New Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection: Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 50 (March 16, 2017)

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 FMCSA requests OMB's renewal for three years of the information collection entitled, Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers (OMB Control No. 2126-0031), which is currently due to expire on April 30, 2017.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 50 (Thursday, March 16, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14103-14104]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-05258]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2017-0046]


New Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection: Annual Report of Class I 
Motor Carriers of Passengers

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA).

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 FMCSA requests 
OMB's renewal for three years of the information collection entitled, 
Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers (OMB Control No. 
2126-0031), which is currently due to expire on April 30, 2017.

DATES: We must receive your comments on or before May 15, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket 
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2016-0046 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 Operations; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, Ground 
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, Ground 
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001 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, 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: Vivian Oliver, Office or Registration 
and Safety Information Department of Transportation, FMCSA, West 
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. 
Telephone: 202-366-2974; email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Background: In chapter 141 of the ICC Termination Act of 1995 
(ICCTA), Public Law 104-88, 109 Stat. 803, 893 (Dec. 29, 1995) now 
codified at 49 U.S.C. 14123, Congress transferred the responsibility 
for collecting the Financial and Operating Statistics (F&OS) data to 
the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary). The ICCTA requires the 
Secretary to collect annual financial reports from Class I and Class II 
motor carriers of passengers. However, the Secretary has exercised the 
authority under 49 U.S.C. 14123 to require only Class I motor carriers 
of passengers to file annual reports to ensure that they are in 
compliance with the F&OS program requirements (See 78 FR 76241 (12/17/
13), as codified at 49 CFR 369.4).
    The Form MP-1 annual report will be used to collect financial, 
operating, equipment and employment data from individual motor carriers 
of passengers. All Class I for-hire motor carriers of passengers with 
gross annual operating revenues of $5 million or more are required to 
file annual reports.
    The data will be available to users in its original form. The data 
are not used

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by the Department of Transportation, and, based on comments to the 
proposed rule finalized on December 17, 2013, as discussed above, the 
data are no longer used by trucking associations. Insurance companies, 
consultants, law firms, academia, trade publications and others may use 
the data to assess industry growth and its impact on the economy, to 
identify industry changes that may affect national transportation, and 
to monitor company financial stability. The Bureau of Economic Analysis 
(BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce uses the data to inform the 
national annual input-output and Gross Domestic Product (GDP) 
estimates. BEA uses the data to prepare estimates of industry output 
and provide details on inputs to supplement the information on motor 
carriers of passengers collected by the U.S. Census Bureau.
    Title: Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0031.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: Motor Carriers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 408.
    Estimated Time per Response: 18 minutes.
    Expiration Date: April 30, 2017.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 122 hours (408 responses x 18 
minutes per response/60 = 122.4 rounded to 122).

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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 on: March 9, 2017.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2017-05258 Filed 3-15-17; 8:45 am]
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