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search box insert the docket numbers
FMCSA–2009–0289; FMCSA–2009–
0290; FMCSA–2011–0300; FMCSA–
2013–0190; FMCSA–2013–0191 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.
We will consider all comments and
material received during the comment
period and may change this proposed
rule based on your comments. FMCSA
may issue a final rule at any time after
the close of the comment period.
Viewing Comments and Documents
To view comments, as well as any
documents mentioned in this preamble,
and to submit your comment online, go
to http://www.regulations.gov and in the
search box insert the docket number
FMCSA–2009–0289; FMCSA–2009–
0290; FMCSA–2011–0300; FMCSA–
2013–0190; FMCSA–2013–0191 and
click ‘‘Search.’’ Next, click ‘‘Open
Docket Folder’’ and you will find all
documents and comments related to the
proposed rulemaking.
Issued on: December 15, 2015.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA 2015–0461]

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Emergency Revision of a
Currently-Approved Information
Collection: Licensing Applications for
Motor Carrier Operating Authority
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)

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described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for its
review and approval. The FMCSA seeks
emergency approval to revise an ICR
titled, ‘‘Licensing Applications for
Motor Carrier Operating Authority,’’
that is used by for-hire motor carriers of
regulated commodities, motor passenger
carriers, freight forwarders, property
brokers, and certain Mexico-domiciled
motor carriers to register their
operations with the FMCSA.
DATES: Please send your comments to
this notice by January 29, 2016. OMB
must receive your comments by this
date to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2015–0461. Interested persons
are invited to submit written comments
on the proposed information collection
to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
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 oira_submission@
omb.eop.gov, 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: Mr.
Jeff Secrist, Office of Registration and
Safety Information, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building,
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–385–2367; email
jeff.secrist@dot.gov. Office hours are
from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Licensing Applications for
Motor Carrier Operating Authority.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0016.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers, motor
passenger carriers, freight forwarders,
brokers, and certain Mexico-domiciled
motor carriers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
12,413.
Estimated Time per Response: 4 hours
to complete Form OP–1 (MX); and 2
hours to complete Forms OP–1, OP–
1(FF), OP–1(P) and OP–1(NNA).
Expiration Date: October 31, 2018.
Frequency of Response: Other (as
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Estimated Total Annual Burden:
24,853 hours [74,464 hours for Year 1 +
48 hours for Year 2 + 48 hours for Year
3 = 74,560 hours/3 year approval for ICR
= 24,853 estimated average number of
annual burden hours].
Background: The FMCSA is
authorized to register certain for-hire
Mexico-domiciled long-haul motor
carriers of regulated commodities under
the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902 and
the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA) motor carrier
access provision. The Form OP–1(MX)
is used by FMCSA to register those
Mexico-domiciled motor carriers. It
requests information on the applicant’s
identity, location, familiarity with safety
requirements, and type of proposed
operations.
FMCSA published a Final Rule titled,
‘‘Unified Registration System,’’ (78 FR
52608), dated August 23, 2013, that
would incorporate all registration form
requirements included in this ICR,
except the Form OP–1(MX), into the
Form MCSA–1 in the OMB Control
Number 2126–0051, ‘‘FMCSA
Registration/Updates,’’ ICR effective
October 23, 2015. The Form OP–1(MX)
was excluded from the Form MCSA–1
because its information collection
requirements are beyond the scope of
the Unified Registration System Final
Rule. On October 5, 2015, FMCSA
obtained OMB approval to eliminate all
of the registration forms except the
Form OP–1(MX) from this ICR.
This emergency ICR revision request
is due to a Final Rule titled ‘‘Unified
Registration System,’’ (80 FR 63695)
dated October 21, 2015, which changed
the effective and compliance dates of
the 2013 Final Rule from October 23,
2015, to September 30, 2016. This
change in the effective and compliance
dates from the 2013 Final Rule is
required to allow FMCSA additional
time to complete the information
technology (IT) systems work required
to fully implement that rule. As a result,
FMCSA seeks emergency approval to
continue using the Licensing
Applications for Motor Carrier
Operating Authority Forms (OP–
1(NNA), OP–1(FF), OP–1, and OP–1(P))
through September 30, 2016, as these
forms will be needed to support
registration requirements.
Public Comments Invited: FMCSA
requests that you comment on any
aspect of this information collection,
including: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for FMCSA to
perform its functions, (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

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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 delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: December 22, 2015.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2015–0255]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments;
Clearance of a New Information
Collection(s): Voluntary Web-Based
Questionnaire of Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise Firms
Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces the U.S. Department of
Transportation’s (DOT) intention to
request the Office of Management and
Budget’s (OMB) approval for the
utilization of the Voluntary Web-Based
Questionnaire of Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise Firms. The
questionnaire will be for the use of firms
certified as a Disadvantaged Business
Enterprise (DBE). DBE’s that choose to
participate will be asked to provide
information regarding the nature of their
business and bidding history, and
perceived barriers/challenges that may
have prevented them from receiving a
contract or successfully competing in
DOT’s DBE program. A link to the
survey will be made available by DOT’s
Departmental Office of Civil Rights for
use by the Department’s state and local
recipients, which can in turn post this
link on their own Web sites. The
information collected will be used to
assist DOT in measuring whether the
DBE program is achieving its objectives.

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Comments on this notice must be
received by February 29, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
[identified by Docket No. DOT–OST–
2015–XXXX] through one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building,
Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: Docket Management
Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except on Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Marc D. Pentino, Departmental Office of
Civil Rights, Office of the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC, 20590; 202–366–4648;
marc.pentino@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: XXXX—NEW.
Title: Voluntary Web-Based
Questionnaire of Disadvantaged
Business Enterprise Firms.
Form Numbers: None.
Type of Review: OMB Approval.
Background: The DOT’s Operating
Administrations distribute substantial
funds each year to finance construction
projects initiated by state and local
governments, public transit and airport
agencies. The DOT has the important
responsibility of ensuring that firms
competing for DOT-assisted contracts
for these projects are not disadvantaged
by unlawful discrimination. The DOT’s
most important tool for meeting this
requirement has been its DBE program,
which originally began in 1980 as a
minority/women’s business enterprise
program established by regulation under
the authority of Title VI of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and other
nondiscrimination statutes that apply to
DOT financial assistance programs. The
DBE program was reauthorized by
Congress several times since its
inception; most recently in the ‘‘Moving
Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century
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Act’’ or the ‘‘MAP–21,’’ (Pub. L. 112–
141, July 6, 2012, 126 Stat. 405), which
funded surface transportation programs
for highways, highway safety, and
transit at over $105 billion for fiscal
years 2013 and 2014. Section 1101(b) of
the Act describes Congress’s findings
regarding the continued need for the
DBE program due to the discrimination
and related barriers that pose significant
obstacles for minority and womenowned businesses seeking federallyassisted surface transportation work.
The information requested will assist
DOT in measuring whether the DBE
program is achieving its objectives to
create a level playing field on which
DBEs can compete fairly or assist in the
development of DBE firms to compete
successfully in the marketplace.
Respondents: There are
approximately 33,000 Disadvantaged
Business Enterprises in the United
States. Responses from this pool of
businesses will vary due to the
voluntary nature of the collection.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The DOT estimates less than 10% of
firms will submit information, or
approximately 3,000 businesses.
Estimated Total Burden on
Respondents: 10 minutes per
respondent.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of DOT’s DBE program; (b)
the accuracy of the estimated burden; (c)
ways for the Department to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways
that the burden could be minimized
without reducing the quality of the
collected information. All responses to
the notice will be summarized and
included in the request for OMB
approval. All comments will also
become a matter of public record.
Issued in Washington, DC, on December
10, 2015.
Stephanie Jones,
Senior Counselor to the Secretary, Chief
Opportunities Officer, and Acting Director,
Departmental Office of Civil Rights.
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