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involvement. On March 23, 2007
FMCSA published a Federal Register
notice allowing for a 60-day comment
period on the ICR. Two comments were
received regarding the utility of the
survey. These comments will be
considered during the information
collection activities for the study.
DATES: Please send your comments by
August 20, 2007. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725
Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Albert Alvarez, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, Office of
Research and Analysis (MC–RRR),
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, West Building 6th
Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
(202) 385–2387; e-mail:
albert.alvarez@dot.gov. Office hours are
from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Commercial Motor Vehicle
Driver Risk Factor Study.
OMB Control Number: 2126–XXXX.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Respondents: Commercial motor
vehicle (CMV) drivers and motor
carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
700 [(600 CMV drivers completing
telephone interviews and paper/online
questionnaires + 72 of the 600 CMV
drivers completing in-person
interviews, psychological and
perceptual testing, and medical
examinations) + 100 motor carriers
providing driver records = 700].
Estimated Time per Response: The
estimated average burden per response
is 20 minutes for telephone interviews;
30 minutes for paper/online
questionnaires; 4 hours for in-person
interviews, including psychological and
perceptual testing, and medical
examinations; and 30 minutes for motor
carriers to locate and deliver
respondents’ driving records to
researchers.
Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new
information collection.
Frequency of Response: This
information collection will be a single,
nonrecurring event.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,124 hours [100 participating carriers ×
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researchers + 100 non-response carriers
× 30 minutes/60 minutes + 600 nonresponse CMV drivers × 5 minutes/60
minutes + 600 CMV driver telephone
interviews × 20 minutes/60 minutes +
600 CMV driver paper/online
questionnaires × 30 minutes/60 minutes
+ 72 in-person interviews, psychological
and perceptual testing, and medical
examinations × 4 hours + 20 carriers
locating and delivering 72 drivers’
driving records × 30 minutes per driver/
60 minutes = 1,124 hours].
Background: The purpose of this
study is to identify, verify, quantify, and
prioritize commercial motor vehicle
(CMV) driver risk factors. Primarily,
these factors are personal, such as
demographic characteristics, medical
conditions, personality traits, and
performance capabilities. Risk factors
may also include work environmental
conditions, such as carrier operations
type, and compensation methods. The
study will identify risk factors by
linking the characteristics of individual
drivers with their driving histories,
especially the presence or absence of
crashes or inspection violations.
Definitions: Driver risk factors are
personal factors such as demographic
characteristics, medical conditions,
personality traits, and performance
capabilities. Risk factors may also
include work environmental conditions,
such as carrier operations type, and
compensation method.
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 FMCSA’s performance;
(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.
Issued on: July 11, 2007.
D. Marlene Thomas,
Associate Administrator for Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–27500]

Notice of Request for Information
(RFI): Revision of an Information
Collection: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits (Formerly Hazardous Materials
Permit)
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:

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 invites
comments on its plan to request OMB
approval to revise an existing
information collection entitled
‘‘Hazardous Materials (HM) Safety
Permits’’, OMB Control Number 2126–
0030. FMCSA requires companies
holding permits to develop a
communications plan that allows for the
periodic tracking of the shipment. A
record of the communications may be
kept by either the driver (e.g., recorded
in the log book) or the company that
contains the time of the call and
location of the shipment. These records
must be kept, either physically or
electronically, for at least six months at
the company’s principal place of
business or readily available to
employees at the company’s principal
place of business.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before September 18, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by any of the following
methods. Please identify your comments
by the FMCSA Docket Number FMCSA–
2007–27500.
• Web site: http://dms.dot.gov.
Follow instructions for submitting
comments to the Docket.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
• Mail: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Docket: For access to the Docket
Management System (DMS) to read

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background documents or comments
received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any
time or to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M–
30, West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The DMS is
available electronically 24 hours each
day, 365 days each year. If you want
notification of receipt of your
comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope, or
postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments on-line.
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 in the Federal Register on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you
may visit http://dms.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
James O. Simmons, Hazardous Materials
Division, phone (202) 366–6121; FAX
(202) 366–3921; or e-mail
james.simmons@dot.gov; Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, DOT,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are
from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) is responsible for
implementing regulations to issue safety
permits for transporting certain
hazardous materials in accordance with
49 U.S.C. Section 5101 et seq. The HM
Safety Permit regulations (49 CFR Part
385) require carriers to complete a
‘‘Combined Motor Carrier Identification
Report and HM Safety Permit
Application’’—form number MCS–150B
(See Attachment D). The HM Safety
Permit regulations also require carriers
to have a security program. As part of
the HM Safety Permit regulations,
carriers are required to develop and
maintain route plans so that law
enforcement officials can verify the
correct location of the HM shipment.
FMCSA requires companies holding
permits to develop a communications
plan that allows for the periodic
tracking of the shipment. This
information collection covers the
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location of the shipment. The records
may be kept by either the driver (e.g.,
recorded in the log book) or the
company. These records must be kept,
either physically or electronically, for at
least six months at the company’s
principal place of business or readily
available to employees at the company’s
principal place of business.
Title: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits (formerly Hazardous Materials
Permit).
OMB Control Number: 2126–0030.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents: 2,515 motor carriers of
property (Forms MCS–150B) .
Frequency: On occasion. The changes
will occur at the time of renewal, update
or change of information.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 5 minutes. The
communication between motor carriers
and their drivers must take place at least
two times per day and it is estimated
that it will take 5 minutes to maintain
a daily communication record for each
driver.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 130,780 hours. 52 annual hours
per carrier [5 minutes/60 minutes per
trip × 1,570,391 estimated annual trips
for carriers/2,515 carriers = 52 hours].
130,780 total annual burden hours [52
annual hours per carrier × 2,515 carriers
= 130,780 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 FMCSA’s performance;
(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 and/or include your
comments in the request for OMB’s
clearance of this information collection.
Issued On: July 11, 2007.
D. Marlene Thomas,
Associate Administrator for Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–27897]

Qualification of Drivers; Exemption
Applications; Vision
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

AGENCY:

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Notice of applications for
exemptions; request for comments.

ACTION:

SUMMARY: FMCSA announces receipt of
applications from 64 individuals for
exemptions from the vision requirement
in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations. If granted, the exemptions
would enable these individuals to
qualify as drivers of commercial motor
vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce
without meeting the Federal vision
standard.

Comments must be received on
or before August 20, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Department of
Transportation (DOT) Docket
Management System (DMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2007–27897 using any
of the following methods:
• Web Site: http://dmses.dot.gov/
submit. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments on the DOT
electronic docket site.
• 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,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on
the ground level of the West Building,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the Agency name and docket
number for this notice. Note that all
comments received will be posted
without change to http://dms.dot.gov
including any personal information
provided. Please see the Privacy Act
heading for further information.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
dms.dot.gov at any time or Room W12–
140 on the ground level of the West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays. The DMS is available
24 hours each day, 365 days each year.
If you want acknowledgment that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
DATES:

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