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accident, city or town in which or most
near where the accident occurred, the
State in which the accident occurred,
driver name, number of injuries,
number of fatalities, and whether
hazardous materials, other than fuel
spilled from the fuel tanks of motor
vehicles involved in the accident, were
released. In addition, the register must
contain copies of all accident reports
required by State or other governmental
entities or insurers. Motor carriers must
maintain the required information in the
Accident Register for 3 years after the
date of the accident.
This IC strengthens FMCSA’s ability
to assess motor carrier safety
performance. These assessments enable
FMCSA to direct its enforcement
resources to the motor carriers with the
weakest safety records, helping those
carriers prevent accidents and reduce
their severity.
On February 8, 2008, OMB approved
FMCSA’s estimate for this IC of 32,040
annual burden hours and established an
expiration date for this IC of February
28, 2011. Today FMCSA announces its
plan to request that OMB approve
revision of this estimate to 22,500
annual burden hours.
Title: Accident Recordkeeping
Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0009.
Type of Request: Revision of an ICR.
Respondents: Motor carriers engaged
in interstate commerce.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
500,000.
Estimated Number of Responses:
75,000.
Estimated Time per Response: 18
minutes.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2011.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
22,500 hours.
Improved FMCSA accident data
provides a more accurate estimate of the
total responses to this information
collection each year: 75,000. The
Agency’s previous estimate was 106,800
responses. FMCSA retains its prior
estimate that a motor carrier requires
approximately 18 minutes, on average,
to complete the tasks necessary to
comply with § 390.15, i.e., collecting the
required information about the accident,
entering it into the Accident Register
and maintaining it and other documents
required by § 390.15. Therefore, the
annual burden hours for all motor
carriers is 22,500 hours (rounded)
(75,000 responses × 18 minutes each
divided by 60 minutes per hour).
Definitions: Each of these definitions
can be found at 49 CFR 390.5: ‘‘Motor
carrier’’: Any person engaged in a
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who owns or leases a commercial motor
vehicle in connection with that
business, or assigns employees to
operate it. ‘‘Commercial motor vehicle’’:
A self-propelled or towed vehicle used
on the highways in interstate commerce
to transport passengers or property, if
the vehicle—(1) Has a gross vehicle
weight rating or gross combination
weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or
gross combination weight of 10,001
pounds, whichever is greater; or (2) Is
designed or used to transport more than
8 passengers (including the driver) for
compensation; or (3) Is designed or used
to transport more than 15 passengers,
including the driver, and is not used to
transport passengers for compensation;
or (4) Is used in transporting material
found by the Secretary of Transportation
to be hazardous under section 5103 of
title 49, United States Code, and
transported in a quantity requiring
placarding under regulations prescribed
by the Secretary under section 5103.
‘‘Accident’’: An occurrence involving a
Commercial motor vehicle operating on
a highway in interstate or intrastate
commerce which results in: (i) A
fatality; (ii) bodily injury to a person
who, as a result of the injury, receives
medical treatment away from the scene
of the accident; or (iii) one or more
motor vehicles incurring disabling
damage as a result of the accident,
requiring the motor vehicle(s) to be
transported away from the scene by a
tow truck or other motor vehicle. The
term ‘‘accident’’ does not include: (i) An
occurrence involving only boarding or
alighting from a stationary motor
vehicle or (ii) An occurrence involving
only the loading or unloading of cargo.
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: September 2, 2010.
Kelly Leone,
Office Director for Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0210]

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

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 revise an existing ICR
entitled ‘‘Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits,’’ due to an increase in the
estimated number of annual trips in
which permitted hazardous materials
(HM) are transported. This ICR requires
companies holding permits to develop a
communications plan that allows for the
periodic tracking of the shipment. A
record of the communications that
includes the time of the call and
location of the shipment 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 the
employees at the company’s principal
place of business. This ICR is being
revised due to an increase in the
estimated number of annual trips in
which permitted HM is transported
resulting in change to the total
information collection burden for
maintaining a daily communication
record.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before November 8, 2010.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
bearing the Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2010–0210 using any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
• Fax: 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: West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200
SUMMARY:

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New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington
DC 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
Each submission must include the
Agency name and the docket number for
this Notice. Note that DOT posts
without change all comments received
to http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information included in a
comment. Please see the Privacy Act
heading below for further information.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments, go to http://
www.regulations.gov at any time or
Room W12–140 on the ground level of
the West Building, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590–
0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. The FDMS is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. If
you want acknowledgement that we
received your comments, please include
a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
postcard or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting them
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 of the person 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.gpo.gov/2008/pdf/
E8-785.pdf.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Paul Bomgardner, Hazardous Materials
Division, Department of Transportation,
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, West Building 6th
Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–493–0027; e-mail
paul.bomgardner@dot.gov.

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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. 5101 et seq. The HM Safety
Permit regulations (49 CFR part 385)
require carriers to complete a
‘‘Combined Motor Carrier Identification
Report and HM Permit Application’’
(Form MCS–150B). The HM Safety
Permit regulations also require carriers
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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.
The FMCSA requires companies
holding permits to develop a
communications plan that allows for the
periodic tracking of the shipment. This
information covers the record of
communications that includes the time
of the call and 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 be readily
available to employees at the company’s
principal place of business.
Title: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0030.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: 1,425 motor carriers
that transport permitted HM and
complete the Form MCS–150B.
Frequency: On occasion.
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: 350,000 hours [4.2 million trips
× 5 minutes/60 minutes per record =
350,000].
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: September 2, 2010.
Kelly Leone,
Director, Office of Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Aviation Administration
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Requests for Comments;
Clearance of a New Approval of
Information Collection: NOTAM
Realignment User Survey
Federal Aviation
Administration (FAA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA
invites public comments about our
intention to request the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
approval for a new information
collection. In accordance with FAA
Order JO 1030.4, ATO SysOps Services
SMS Oversight, the FAA ATO System
Operations Management, Safety
Assurance Group (SAG) is conducting a
comprehensive assessment of the Notice
to Airmen (NOTAM) Realignment Phase
1 (NRP–1) process to determine if
unacceptable hazards exist within the
National Airspace System (NAS).
Essential to the assessment is a survey
of airline and corporate pilots and
dispatchers as well as airport operators
and general aviation pilots. The SAG
survey will be compared with results of
a similar survey conducted in 2008 by
the FAA Office of Safety (AJS).
DATES: Written comments should be
submitted by November 8, 2010.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carla Scott on (202) 267–9895, or by email at: Carla.Scott@faa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
Control Number: 2120–XXXX .
Title: NOTAM Realignment User
Survey.
Form Numbers: There are no FAA
forms associated with this collection.
Type of Review: Clearance of a new
information collection.
Background: Results of the SOSM
SAG NOTAM Realignment Phase 1
(NRP–1) Assessment will be used to
establish the status of identified hazards
and ensure no new hazards have been
introduced into the NAS. In addition to
on-site visits, the SOSM SAG audit team
has prepared three surveys mirroring
those sent by the Safety Support and
Independent Assessment (SSIA) as part
of an investigation conducted in 2008.
One survey is directed externally to
general aviation pilots, airport
operations staff and airline pilots and
dispatchers. This Paperwork Reduction
Act submission only concerns the
external survey directed to users of the
National Airspace System (NAS).
SUMMARY:

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