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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Surface Transportation Board
30-day Notice and Request for
Comments: Continuation of Six
Collections
AGENCY:

Surface Transportation Board,

DOT.
30-day notice and request for
comments: Continuation of six
collections.

ACTION:

As part of its continuing effort
to reduce paperwork burdens, and as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. 3501–3519 (PRA),
the Surface Transportation Board
(Board) gives notice that it is requesting
from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) approval without change
of the six existing collections described
below. The Board previously published
a notice about this collection in the
Federal Register on June 5, 2015, at 80
FR 32,201. That notice allowed for a 60day public review and comment period.
No comments were received.
Comments may now be submitted to
OMB concerning whether the particular
collection of information is necessary
for the proper performance of the
functions of the Board, including
whether the collection has practical
utility; the accuracy of the Board’s
burden estimates; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the
information collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on the respondents,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, when
appropriate. Submitted comments will
be included and/or summarized in the
Board’s request for OMB approval.
DATES: Written comments are due on
September 16, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be identified as ‘‘Paperwork Reduction
Act Comments, Surface Transportation
Board, and should identify the
collection(s) discussed in the comment.
These comments should be directed to
the Office of Management and Budget,
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Attention: Chandana L.
Achanta, Surface Transportation Board
Desk Officer, by email at OIRA_
SUBMISSION@OMB.EOP.GOV; by fax at
(202) 395–6974; or by mail to Room
10235, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or copies of the
information collection(s) contact Pedro
Ramirez at (202) 245–0333 or ramirezp@
stb.dot.gov. [Federal Information Relay

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SUBJECTS: In this notice the Board is
requesting comments on the following
information collections:
Collection Number 1
Title: Quarterly Report of Revenues,
Expenses, and Income–Railroads (Form
RE&I).
OMB Control Number: 2140–0013.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: 6
hours.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 168 hours
annually.
Total Annual ‘‘Non Hour Burden’’
Cost: No ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens
associated with this collection have
been identified.
Needs and Uses: This collection is a
report of railroad operating revenues,
operating expenses and income items; it
is a profit and loss statement, disclosing
net railway operating income on a
quarterly and year-to-date basis for the
current and prior years. See 49 CFR
1243.1. The Board uses the information
in this report to ensure competitive,
efficient, and safe transportation
through general oversight programs that
monitor and forecast the financial and
operating condition of railroads, and
through regulation of railroad rate and
service issues and rail restructuring
proposals, including railroad mergers,
consolidations, acquisitions of control,
and abandonments. Information from
these reports is used by the Board, other
Federal agencies, and industry groups to
monitor and assess industry growth and
operations, detect changes in carrier
financial stability, and identify trends
that may affect the national
transportation system. Some of the
information from these reports is
compiled by the Board in our quarterly
Selected Earnings Data Report, which is
published on the Board’s Web site,
http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/industry/
econ_reports.html. The information
contained in these reports is not
available from any other source.
Collection Number 2
Title: Quarterly Condensed Balance
Sheet—Railroads (Form CBS).
OMB Control Number: 2140–0014.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: Six
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Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 168 hours
annually.
Total Annual ‘‘Non-Hour Burden’’
Cost: No ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens
associated with this collection have
been identified.
Needs and Uses: This collection
shows the balance, quarterly and
cumulative, for the current and prior
year of the carrier’s assets and liabilities,
gross capital expenditures, and revenue
tons carried. See 49 CFR 1243.2. The
Board uses the information in this
report to ensure competitive, efficient,
and safe transportation through general
oversight programs that monitor and
forecast the financial and operating
condition of railroads, and through
specific regulation of railroad rate and
service issues and rail restructuring
proposals, including railroad mergers,
consolidations, acquisitions of control,
and abandonments. Information from
these reports is used by the Board, other
Federal agencies, and industry groups to
assess industry growth and operations,
detect changes in carrier financial
stability, and identify trends that may
affect the national transportation
system. Revenue ton-miles, which are
reported in these reports, are compiled
and published by the Board in its
quarterly Selected Earnings Data Report,
which is published on the Board’s Web
site, http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/
industry/econ_reports.html. The
information contained in these reports
is not available from any other source.
Collection Number 3
OMB Control Number: 2140–0004.
Title: Report of Railroad Employees,
Service and Compensation (Wage Forms
A and B).
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Respondents: Class I railroads and the
Association of American Railroads.
Number of Respondents: Eight.
Estimated Time per Response: No
more than 30 hours per quarterly report
and 40 hours per annual summation.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly,
with an annual summation.
Total Annual Hour Burden: No more
than 1,280 hours annually.
Total Annual ‘‘Non-Hour Burden’’
Cost: No ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens
associated with this collection have
been identified.
Needs and Uses: This collection
shows the number of employees, service
hours, and compensation, by employee
group (e.g., executive, professional,
maintenance-of-way and equipment,
and transportation), of the reporting
railroads. See 49 CFR part 1245. The

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information is used by the Board to
forecast labor costs and measure the
efficiency of the reporting railroads. The
information is also used by the Board to
evaluate proposed regulated
transactions that may impact rail
employees, including mergers and
consolidations, acquisitions of control,
purchases, and abandonments. Other
Federal agencies and industry groups,
including the Railroad Retirement
Board, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and
Association of American Railroads, use
the information contained in the reports
to monitor railroad operations. Certain
information from these reports is
compiled and published on the Board’s
Web site, http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/
industry/econ_reports.html. The
information contained in these reports
is not available from any other source.
Collection Number 4
Title: Monthly Report of Number of
Employees of Class I Railroads (Wage
Form C).
OMB Control Number: 2140–0007.
Form Number: STB Form 350.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Respondents: Class I railroads and the
Association of American Railroads.
Number of Respondents: Eight.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.25
hours.
Frequency of Response: Monthly.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 120 hours
annually.
Total Annual ‘‘Non-Hour Burden’’
Cost: No ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens
associated with this collection have
been identified.
Needs and Uses: This collection
shows, for each reporting carrier, the
average number of employees at midmonth in the six job-classification
groups that encompass all railroad
employees. See 49 CFR part 1246. The
information is used by the Board to
forecast labor costs and measure the
efficiency of the reporting railroads. The
information is also used by the Board to
evaluate the impact on rail employees of
proposed regulated transactions,
including mergers and consolidations,
acquisitions of control, purchases, and
abandonments. Other Federal agencies
and industry groups, including the
Railroad Retirement Board, Bureau of
Labor Statistics, and Association of
American Railroads, use the information
contained in these reports to monitor
railroad operations. Certain information
from these reports is compiled and
published on the Board’s Web site,
www.stb.dot.gov/stb/industry/urcs.html.
The information contained in these
reports is not available from any other
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Collection Number 5
Title: Annual Report of Cars Loaded
and Cars Terminated.
OMB Control Number: 2140–0011.
Form Number: Form STB–54.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: Four
hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 28 hours
annually.
Total Annual ‘‘Non Hour Burden’’
Cost: No ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens
associated with this collection have
been identified.
Needs and Uses: This collection
reports the number of cars loaded and
cars terminated on the reporting
carrier’s line. See 49 CFR part 1247.
Information in this report is entered into
the Board’s Uniform Rail Costing
System (URCS), which is a cost
measurement methodology. URCS,
which was developed by the Board
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11161, is used as
a tool in rail rate proceedings, in
accordance with 49 U.S.C. 10707(d), to
calculate the variable costs associated
with providing a particular service. The
Board also uses URCS to carry out more
effectively other of its regulatory
responsibilities, including: Acting on
railroad requests for authority to engage
in Board-regulated financial
transactions such as mergers,
acquisitions of control, and
consolidations, see 49 U.S.C. 11323–
11324; analyzing the information that
the Board obtains through the annual
railroad industry waybill sample, see 49
CFR part 1244; measuring off-branch
costs in railroad abandonment
proceedings, in accordance with 49 CFR
1152.32(n); developing the ‘‘rail cost
adjustment factors,’’ in accordance with
49 U.S.C. 10708; and conducting
investigations and rulemakings. This
collection is compiled and published on
the Board’s Web site, http://
www.stb.dot.gov/stb/industry/econ_
reports.html. There is no other source
for the information contained in this
report.
Collection Number 6
OMB Control Number: 2140–0001.
Title: Quarterly Report of Freight
Commodity Statistics (Form QCS).
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension without
change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: 217
hours.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly,
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Total Annual Hour Burden: 7,595
hours annually.
Total Annual ‘‘Non-Hour Burden’’
Cost: No ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burdens
associated with this collection have
been identified.
Needs and Uses: This collection,
which is based on information
contained in carload waybills used by
railroads in the ordinary course of
business, reports car loadings and total
revenues by commodity code for each
commodity that moved on the railroad
during the reporting period. See 49 CFR
part 1248. Information in this report is
entered into the Board’s URCS, the uses
of which are explained under Collection
Number 5. This collection is compiled
and published on the Board’s Web site,
http://www.stb.dot.gov/stb/industry/
econ_reports.html. There is no other
source for the information contained in
this report.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA, a Federal agency conducting or
sponsoring a collection of information
must display a currently valid OMB
control number. A collection of
information, which is defined in 44
U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 1320.3(c),
includes agency requirements that
persons submit reports, keep records, or
provide information to the agency, third
parties, or the public. Under
§ 3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA, Federal
agencies are required, prior to
submitting a collection to OMB for
approval, to provide a 60-day notice and
comment period through publication in
the Federal Register concerning each
proposed collection of information,
including each proposed extension of an
existing collection of information.
Dated: August 14, 2015.
Jeffrey Herzig,
Clearance Clerk.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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Correction
In notice document 2015–19910
appearing on page 48622 in the issue of
August 13, 2015, make the following
correction:
On page 48622, in the first column,
under the DATES heading, in the third
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‘‘August 21, 2015’’.
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