82_FR_39145 82 FR 38988 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Reinstatement of an Information Collection: Practices of Household Goods Brokers

82 FR 38988 - Agency Information Collection Activities; Reinstatement of an Information Collection: Practices of Household Goods Brokers

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 157 (August 16, 2017)

Page Range38988-38989
FR Document2017-17307

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 reinstatement and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA requests approval to reinstate, with changes, the ICR titled ``Practices of Household Brokers'' to no longer include one-time costs previously incurred by brokers, and to update other wage related costs that have changed since the last approval. This ICR requires reinstatement because the previous ICR expired on July 31, 2017, before the ICR renewal request could be submitted to OMB for approval. The reinstatement of this ICR is necessary, and FMCSA's responsibility to ensure consumer protection in the transportation of household goods (HHG).

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 157 (Wednesday, August 16, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 157 (Wednesday, August 16, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38988-38989]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17307]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2017-0006]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Reinstatement of an 
Information Collection: Practices of Household Goods Brokers

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 
reinstatement and approval and invites public comment. The FMCSA 
requests approval to reinstate, with changes, the ICR titled 
``Practices of Household Brokers'' to no longer include one-time costs 
previously incurred by brokers, and to update other wage related costs 
that have changed since the last approval. This ICR requires 
reinstatement because the previous ICR expired on July 31, 2017, before 
the ICR renewal request could be submitted to OMB for approval. The 
reinstatement of this ICR is necessary, and FMCSA's responsibility to 
ensure consumer protection in the transportation of household goods 
(HHG).

DATES: Please send your comments by September 15, 2017. OMB must 
receive your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2017-0006. Interested persons are 
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of

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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], or 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: Monique Riddick, Commercial 
Enforcement and Investigations Division, U. S. Department of 
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West 
Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-
0001. Telephone: 202-366-8045; email [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There were no comments received from the 60-
day Federal Register notice (82 FR 14102) published on March 16, 2017.
    Background: FMCSA amended then-existing regulations for brokers in 
response to Title IV, Subtitle B of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, 
Efficient, Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) 
(Pub. L. 109-59) and a petition for rulemaking from the American Moving 
and Storage Association (AMSA). The final rule, titled ``Brokers of 
Household Goods Transportation by Motor Vehicles,'' (75 FR 72987, Nov. 
29, 2010), amended 49 CFR part 371, by providing additional consumer 
protection responsibilities for brokers of HHG. Specifically, section 
4212 of SAFETEA-LU directs the Secretary to require HHG brokers to 
provide individual shippers with the following information whenever a 
broker has contact with a shipper or potential shipper:
    1. The broker's USDOT number.
    2. The FMCSA booklet titled ``Your Rights and Responsibilities When 
You Move.''
    3. A list of all authorized motor carriers providing transportation 
of HHG used by the broker and a statement that the broker is not a 
motor carrier providing transportation of HHG.
    The collection of information required in the referenced final rule 
assists shippers in their business dealings with interstate HHG 
brokers. The information collected is used by prospective shippers to 
make informed decisions about contracts, services ordered, executed, 
and settled. The HHG broker is often the primary contact for individual 
shippers and in the best position to educate shippers and prepare them 
for a successful move. The information collected makes that possible. 
It also combats deceptive business practices as the information helps 
enforcement personnel better protect consumers by verifying that 
shippers are receiving information to which they are entitled by 
regulation.
    HHG brokers are required to provide individual shippers the ``Your 
Rights and Responsibilities When You Move'' booklet and the ``Ready to 
Move'' brochure. They have the option of providing paper copies or 
presenting the information through a link on their Internet Web site. 
The broker is required to document with signed receipts that the 
individual shipper was provided those materials. HHG brokers are also 
required to provide the list of HHG motor carriers for which it would 
arrange transportation to move a potential individual shipper's HHG, 
and that broker's identification information:
    1. Assigned USDOT number; and
    2. Address.
    With this renewal, FMCSA makes a change to the collection to an 
adjustment in estimate. A program estimate change of 19,522 annual 
burden hours is the result of the removal of a 1,000 burden-hours that 
are no longer applicable. There is also an updated estimate in the 
number of household goods brokers which also contributes to the change 
of 19,522 in the calculated burden hours.
    Title: Practices of Household Goods Brokers.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0048.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement of an information collection.
    Respondents: Brokers of Household Goods.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 543 brokers.
    Estimated Time per Response: 0.25 hours per day x 240 workdays for 
transactions per household goods broker; 20 hours per year per broker 
for Web site/ad modifications; 10 hours per year per household goods 
broker for creating a list of carriers; 0.5 hours per month x 12 months 
per household goods broker for confirming required information; 0.083 
hour per year x 36.8 explanations on average per household goods 
broker; 4 hours per year x 5 agreements per household goods broker for 
annual agreements through turnover; and 10 hours per year per household 
goods broker for disclosure and records.
    Expiration Date: July 31, 2017.
    Frequency of Response: On occasion.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 70,000 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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 on: August 10, 2017.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2017-17307 Filed 8-15-17; 8:45 am]
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38988 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 / Notices methods by which that revenue is notice by selecting ‘‘Notice’’ under We will post comments in the docket collected. ‘‘Document Type’’ on the left side of the for public inspection, except business • Whether the market is owned, search-results page, and click on the confidential information. You can view operated or otherwise affiliated with a link entitled ‘‘Comment Now!’’ You comments on the https:// government entity. should provide comments in an www.regulations.gov Web site by • Types of counterfeit or pirated attached document, and name the file entering docket number USTR–2017– products or services sold, traded, according to the following protocol, as 0015 in the search field on the home distributed or otherwise made available appropriate: Commenter Name or page. at that market. Organization_2017 Notorious Markets • Volume of counterfeit or pirated OCR. Please include the following Elizabeth Kendall, goods or services or other indicia of a information in the ‘‘Type Comment’’ Acting Assistant U.S. Trade Representative market’s scale, reach or relative field: ‘‘2017 Out-of-Cycle Review of for Innovation and Intellectual Property, significance in a given geographic area Office of the United States Trade Notorious Markets.’’ USTR prefers Representative. or with respect to a category of goods or submissions in Microsoft Word (.doc) or [FR Doc. 2017–17287 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] services. Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. If the • Estimates of economic harm to right submission is in another file format, BILLING CODE 3290–F7–P holders resulting from the piracy or please indicate the name of the software counterfeiting and a description of the application in the ‘‘Type Comment’’ methodology used to calculate the harm. field. For further information on using DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION • Whether the volume of counterfeit the www.regulations.gov Web site, or pirated goods or estimates of harm please select ‘‘How to Use Federal Motor Carrier Safety has increased or decreased from Regulations.gov’’ on the bottom of any Administration previous years, and an approximate page. [Docket No. FMCSA–2017–0006] calculation of that increase or decrease Please do not attach separate cover for each year. letters to electronic submissions; rather, Agency Information Collection • Whether the infringing goods or include any information that might Activities; Reinstatement of an services sold, traded, distributed or appear in a cover letter in the comments Information Collection: Practices of made available pose a risk to public themselves. Similarly, to the extent Household Goods Brokers health or safety. possible, please include any exhibits, • Any known contractual, civil, AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety annexes, or other attachments in the administrative or criminal enforcement Administration (FMCSA), DOT. same file as the comment itself, rather activity against the market and the than submitting them as separate files. ACTION: Notice and request for outcome of that enforcement activity. For any comment submitted comments. • Additional actions taken by rights electronically that contains business SUMMARY: In accordance with the holders against the market such as confidential information, the file name Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, takedown notices, requests to sites to of the business confidential version FMCSA announces its plan to submit remove URLs or infringing content, should begin with the characters ‘‘BC’’. the Information Collection Request (ICR) cease and desist letters, warning letters Any page containing business described below to the Office of to landlords and requests to enforce the confidential information must be clearly Management and Budget (OMB) for terms of their leases, requests to marked ‘‘BUSINESS CONFIDENTIAL’’ reinstatement and approval and invites providers to enforce their terms of on the top of that page and the public comment. The FMCSA requests service or terms of use, and the outcome submission should clearly indicate, via approval to reinstate, with changes, the of these actions. brackets, highlighting, or other means, ICR titled ‘‘Practices of Household • Additional actions taken by the the specific information that is business Brokers’’ to no longer include one-time market owners or operators to remove, confidential. A filer requesting business costs previously incurred by brokers, limit or discourage the availability of confidential treatment must certify that and to update other wage related costs counterfeit or pirated goods or services, the information is business confidential and would not customarily be released that have changed since the last including policies to prevent or remove to the public by the submitter. approval. This ICR requires access to such goods or services, or to Additionally, the submitter should type reinstatement because the previous ICR disable seller or user accounts; the ‘‘Business Confidential 2017 Out-of- expired on July 31, 2017, before the ICR effectiveness of market policies and Cycle Review of Notorious Markets’’ in renewal request could be submitted to guidelines in addressing counterfeiting the ‘‘Comment’’ field. OMB for approval. The reinstatement of and piracy; and the level of cooperation Filers of comments containing this ICR is necessary, and FMCSA’s with right holders and law enforcement. • Any other additional information business confidential information also responsibility to ensure consumer relevant to the review. must submit a public version of their protection in the transportation of comments. The file name of the public household goods (HHG). III. Submission Instructions version should begin with the character DATES: Please send your comments by All submissions must be in English ‘‘P’’. The non-business confidential September 15, 2017. OMB must receive and sent electronically via version will be placed in the docket at your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR. asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES www.regulations.gov. To submit www.regulations.gov and be available comments, locate the docket (folder) by for public inspection. ADDRESSES: All comments should entering the docket number USTR– As noted, USTR strongly urges reference Federal Docket Management 2017–0015 in the ‘‘Enter Keyword or IP’’ submitters to file comments through System (FDMS) Docket Number window at the regulations.gov www.regulations.gov. You must make FMCSA–2017–0006. Interested persons homepage and click ‘‘Search.’’ The site any alternative arrangements in advance are invited to submit written comments will provide a search-results page listing of the relevant deadline and before on the proposed information collection all documents associated with this transmitting a comment by contacting to the Office of Information and docket. Locate the reference to this USTR at Special301@ustr.eop.gov. Regulatory Affairs, Office of VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:33 Aug 15, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00114 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\16AUN1.SGM 16AUN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 157 / Wednesday, August 16, 2017 / Notices 38989 Management and Budget. Comments information collected makes that necessary for the performance of should be addressed to the attention of possible. It also combats deceptive FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of the Desk Officer, Department of business practices as the information the estimated burden; (3) ways for Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier helps enforcement personnel better FMCSA to enhance the quality, Safety Administration, and sent via protect consumers by verifying that usefulness, and clarity of the collected electronic mail to oira_submission@ shippers are receiving information to information; and (4) ways that the omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395– which they are entitled by regulation. burden could be minimized without 6974, or mailed to the Office of HHG brokers are required to provide reducing the quality of the collected Information and Regulatory Affairs, individual shippers the ‘‘Your Rights information. The agency will summarize Office of Management and Budget, and Responsibilities When You Move’’ or include your comments in the request Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th booklet and the ‘‘Ready to Move’’ for OMB’s clearance of this information Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. brochure. They have the option of collection. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: providing paper copies or presenting the Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 Monique Riddick, Commercial information through a link on their on: August 10, 2017. Enforcement and Investigations Internet Web site. The broker is required Kelly Regal, Division, U. S. Department of to document with signed receipts that Associate Administrator, Office of Research Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier the individual shipper was provided and Information Technology. Safety Administration, West Building those materials. HHG brokers are also [FR Doc. 2017–17307 Filed 8–15–17; 8:45 am] 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., required to provide the list of HHG BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P Washington, DC 20590–0001. motor carriers for which it would Telephone: 202–366–8045; email arrange transportation to move a monique.riddick@dot.gov. potential individual shipper’s HHG, and DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There that broker’s identification information: 1. Assigned USDOT number; and Federal Railroad Administration were no comments received from the 2. Address. 60-day Federal Register notice (82 FR With this renewal, FMCSA makes a [Docket No. FRA–2017–0074; Notice No. 1] 14102) published on March 16, 2017. change to the collection to an Background: FMCSA amended then- Addressing Electrode-Induced Rail adjustment in estimate. A program Pitting From Pressure Electric Welding existing regulations for brokers in estimate change of 19,522 annual response to Title IV, Subtitle B of the burden hours is the result of the AGENCY: Federal Railroad Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, removal of a 1,000 burden-hours that are Administration (FRA), Department of Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for no longer applicable. There is also an Transportation (DOT). Users (SAFETEA–LU) (Pub. L. 109–59) updated estimate in the number of ACTION: Notice of draft Safety Advisory; and a petition for rulemaking from the household goods brokers which also request for comment. American Moving and Storage contributes to the change of 19,522 in Association (AMSA). The final rule, the calculated burden hours. SUMMARY: This document provides titled ‘‘Brokers of Household Goods Title: Practices of Household Goods notice of FRA’s intent to issue a Safety Transportation by Motor Vehicles,’’ (75 Brokers. Advisory alerting railroads, contractors, FR 72987, Nov. 29, 2010), amended 49 OMB Control Number: 2126–0048. and the rail welding industry of the CFR part 371, by providing additional Type of Request: Reinstatement of an potential for electrode-induced rail consumer protection responsibilities for information collection. pitting and fatigue cracking during the brokers of HHG. Specifically, section Respondents: Brokers of Household pressure electric rail welding process. 4212 of SAFETEA–LU directs the Goods. Based on investigation and research, Secretary to require HHG brokers to Estimated Number of Respondents: FRA believes improper electrode provide individual shippers with the 543 brokers. contact to the rail during the welding following information whenever a Estimated Time per Response: 0.25 process can result in electrode-induced broker has contact with a shipper or hours per day × 240 workdays for pitting that may lead to fatigue fracture potential shipper: transactions per household goods and ultimately rail failure. The draft 1. The broker’s USDOT number. broker; 20 hours per year per broker for Safety Advisory includes 2. The FMCSA booklet titled ‘‘Your Web site/ad modifications; 10 hours per recommendations to help the industry Rights and Responsibilities When You year per household goods broker for prevent electrode-induced rail pitting Move.’’ creating a list of carriers; 0.5 hours per and to inspect for and then remediate 3. A list of all authorized motor month × 12 months per household such pitting if it occurs. FRA invites carriers providing transportation of goods broker for confirming required public comment on all aspects of the HHG used by the broker and a statement information; 0.083 hour per year × 36.8 draft Safety Advisory. that the broker is not a motor carrier explanations on average per household DATES: Interested persons are invited to providing transportation of HHG. goods broker; 4 hours per year × 5 submit comments on the draft Safety The collection of information required agreements per household goods broker Advisory provided below on or before in the referenced final rule assists for annual agreements through turnover; October 16, 2017. shippers in their business dealings with and 10 hours per year per household ADDRESSES: Comments in response to asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES interstate HHG brokers. The information goods broker for disclosure and records. this notice may be submitted by any of collected is used by prospective Expiration Date: July 31, 2017. the following methods: shippers to make informed decisions Frequency of Response: On occasion. • Web site: The Federal eRulemaking about contracts, services ordered, Estimated Total Annual Burden: Portal, www.Regulations.gov. Follow the executed, and settled. The HHG broker 70,000 hours. Web site’s online instructions for is often the primary contact for Public Comments Invited: You are submitting comments. individual shippers and in the best asked to comment on any aspect of this • Fax: 202–493–2251. position to educate shippers and information collection, including: (1) • Mail: Docket Management Facility, prepare them for a successful move. 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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.
DatesPlease send your comments by September 15, 2017. OMB must receive your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ContactMonique Riddick, Commercial Enforcement and Investigations Division, U. S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590- 0001. Telephone: 202-366-8045; email [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 38988 
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