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speed, reliability, and accessibility of
the movement of people or freight; and
Æ Improve transportation safety,
including reducing transportation
accidents, and serious injuries and
fatalities; and
Æ Can be supported by an
acceptable degree of non-Federal
financial commitments.
Respondents: The target groups of
respondents are eligible applicants for
the PRNS program, this includes:
(A) A State department of
transportation or a group of State
departments of transportation;
(B) A tribal government or consortium
of tribal governments;
(C) A transit agency; or
(D) A multi-State or multijurisdictional group of the agencies
described in (A) through (C) above.
The target groups identified in the
MAP–21 are ‘‘State departments of
transportation’’ (SDOTs). The FHWA
interprets SDOTs to be the minimum
target group of respondents and believes
it is necessary to survey all eligible
applicants groups, in order to compile
the comprehensive list of projects
required by the law.
Estimate:
State Departments of Transportation =
52
Transit Agencies = 50
Tribal Governments = 10
Multi-state or multi-jurisdictional
groups = 10
Burden hours:
80 hours/State Department of
Transportation = 4160 hours
40 hours/Transit Agency = 2000 hours
10 hours/Tribal Government = 100
20 hours/Multi-state or multijurisdictional groups = 200
Total burden hours = 6460 (as allocated
above).
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: The estimated average
reporting burden per response is 80
hours per State Department of
Transportation, 40 hours per large
transit agency, 10 hours per tribal
government and 20 hours per Multistate or multi-jurisdictional groups. The
estimated average burden for SDOTs is
greater than other respondents, this is in
part because the FHWA expects that
SDOTs, in developing their PNRS
project lists, will gather input from
project developers, such metropolitan
planning organizations, seaports,
railroads, economic development
organizations, and entities which have
responsibility for planning and/or
implementing transportation
infrastructure projects.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: This
information collection is a one-time
requirement.

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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: December 4, 2013.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013–29427 Filed 12–9–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2013–0349]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection
Request: Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits
FMCSA, DOT.
Notice and request for
comments.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

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
approval to revise and extend an ICR
entitled, ‘‘Hazardous Materials Safety
Permits.’’ This ICR requires companies
holding permits to develop
communications plans that allow for the
periodic tracking of the shipments. 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.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before February 10, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2013–0349 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–
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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: 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 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/pdfE8–
794.pdf.
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 selfaddressed, 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.
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; email
paul.bomgardner@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) is responsible
for implementing regulations to issue
safety permits for transporting certain
HM in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 5101

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et seq. The Hazardous Materials (HM)
Safety Permit regulations (49 CFR part
385, Subpart E) 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 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.
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: Motor carriers subject to
the Hazardous Materials Safety Permit
requirements in 49 CFR part 385,
Subpart E.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,382.
Estimated Time per Response: 5
minutes. The communication between
motor carriers and their drivers must
take place at least two times per day. It
is estimated that it will take 5 minutes
to maintain a daily communication
record for each driver.
Expiration Date: May 31, 2014
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
967,000 hours [11.6 million trips × 5
minutes/60 minutes per record =
966,666.66 rounded to 967,000].
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.

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Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: November 19, 2013.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology and Chief
Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013–29425 Filed 12–9–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2013–0451]

Hours of Service of Drivers: Oregon
Trucking Associations; Application for
Exemption
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:

FMCSA announces that the
Oregon Trucking Associations (OTA)
has applied for a limited exemption
from the 30-minute rest-break
requirement of the Agency’s hours-ofservice regulations [49 CFR
395.3(a)(3)(ii)]. It seeks the exemption
for motor carriers and their commercial
motor vehicle (CMV) drivers who
transport timber from Oregon
forestlands during periods in which fire
safety restrictions limit their hours of
operation. FMCSA requests public
comment on the application for
exemption.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before January 9, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System Number FMCSA–
2013–0451 by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
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,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building, Ground Floor, Room W12–
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, 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
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www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
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 a Privacy Act notice regarding
our public dockets in the January 17,
2008, issue of the Federal Register (73
FR 3316).
Public Participation: The Federal
eRulemaking Portal is available 24
hours each day, 365 days each year. You
can get 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 selfaddressed, stamped envelope or
postcard, or print the acknowledgement
page that appears after submitting
comments online.
Submitting Comments: You may
submit your comments and material
online or by fax, mail, or hand delivery,
but please use only one of these means.
To submit your comment online, go to
www.regulations.gov and in the search
box insert the docket number ‘‘FMCSA–
2013–0451’’ and click the SEARCH
button. When the new screen appears,
click on the blue ‘‘Comment Now!’’
button on the right hand side of the
page. On the new page, enter
information required including the
specific section of this document to
which each comment applies, and
provide a reason for each suggestion or
recommendation. If you submit your
comments by mail or hand delivery,
submit them in an unbound format, no
larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, suitable for
copying and electronic filing. If you
submit comments by mail and would
like to know that they reached the
facility, please enclose a stamped, selfaddressed postcard or envelope.
Viewing Comments and Documents:
To view comments, as well as any
documents mentioned in this notice, go
to www.regulations.gov and in the
search box insert the docket number
‘‘FMCSA–2013–0451’’ and click
‘‘Search.’’ Next, click ‘‘Open Docket
Folder’’ and you will find all documents
and comments related to the proposed
rulemaking.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Thomas Yager, Chief, FMCSA Driver
and Carrier Operations Division; Office
of Carrier, Driver, and Vehicle Safety
Standards; Telephone: 202–366–4325.
Email: MCPSD@dot.gov.

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