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information must certify that the
information is business confidential and
would not customarily be released to
the public by the submitter.
Confidential business information must
be clearly designated as such. The
submission must be marked ‘‘BUSINESS
CONFIDENTIAL’’ at the top and bottom
of the cover page and each succeeding
page, and the submission should
indicate, via brackets, the specific
information that is confidential.
Additionally, ‘‘Business Confidential’’
must be included in the ‘‘Type
Comment’’ field. For any submission
containing business confidential
information, a non-confidential version
must be submitted separately (i.e., not as
part of the same submission with the
confidential version), indicating where
confidential information has been
redacted. The non-confidential version
will be placed in the docket and open
to public inspection.
Business confidential submissions
that are submitted without the required
markings, or are not accompanied by a
properly marked non-confidential
version, as set forth above, might not be
accepted or may be considered public
documents.
C. Public Viewing of Review
Submissions
Submissions in response to this
notice, except for information granted
‘‘business confidential’’ status under 15
CFR part 2003.6, will be available for
public viewing pursuant to 15 CFR part
2007.6 at http://www.regulations.gov
upon completion of processing. You can
view submissions by entering the docket
number USTR–2017–0014 in the search
field at http://www.regulations.gov.
Erland Herfindahl,
Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative
for the Generalized System of Preferences,
Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration

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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Inspection,
Repair and Maintenance
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

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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 information collection
concerns records of inspection, repair,
and maintenance of commercial motor
vehicles (CMVs). The FMCSA requests
approval to revise and renew an ICR
entitled, ‘‘Inspection, Repair and
Maintenance.’’ FMCSA collects this
information to ensure that motor
carriers have adequate documentation of
their inspection, repair, and
maintenance programs necessary to
reduce the likelihood of CMV crashes.
DATES: We must receive your comments
on or before June 4, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket
Number FMCSA–2018–0118 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 Operations; 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: U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 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, 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: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments
from the public to better inform its
rulemaking process. DOT posts these
comments, without edit, including any
personal information the commenter
provides, to www.regulations.gov, as
described in the system of records
notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can
be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy.
SUMMARY:

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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 website. 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.
Mike Huntley, Vehicle and Roadside
Operations Division, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, West Building
6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–9209; email michael.huntley@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Secretary of
Transportation (Secretary) is authorized
under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 31502
to prescribe requirements for, among
other things, safety of operations of
equipment of motor carriers that operate
CMVs in interstate commerce. Under 49
U.S.C. 31136, the Secretary also has
authority to prescribe regulations to
ensure that CMVs are maintained,
equipped, loaded and operated safely.
And under 49 U.S.C. 31142 the
Secretary must establish standards for
annual or more frequent inspections of
CMVs. The Secretary’s authority to
establish improved standards or
methods to ensure brakes and brake
systems of CMVs are inspected by
appropriate employees and maintained
properly is provided under 49 U.S.C.
31137(g).
Motor carriers must maintain, or
require maintenance of, records
documenting the inspection, repair and
maintenance activities performed on
their owned and leased vehicles. There
are no prescribed forms. Electronic
recordkeeping is allowed (see 49 CFR
390.31(d)). Documents requiring a
signature must be capable of replication
(i.e., photocopy, facsimile, etc.) in such
form that will provide an opportunity
for signature verification upon demand.
Also, if electronic recordkeeping is
used, all of the relevant data on the
original documents must be included in
the electronic transmission for the
records to be valid.
The motor carrier industry has never
questioned the need to keep CMV
maintenance records. In fact, most
motor carriers would keep some records

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without any regulatory requirements to
do so. Records of inspection, repair, and
maintenance; roadside inspection
reports; driver vehicle inspection
reports; the documentation of periodic
inspections; the evidence of the
qualifications of individuals performing
periodic inspections; and the evidence
of brake inspectors’ qualifications
contain the minimum amount of
information necessary to document that
a motor carrier has established a system
of inspection, repair, and maintenance
for its equipment which meets the
standards in 49 CFR part 396.
FMCSA and its representatives use
these records to verify motor carriers’
compliance with the inspection, repair,
and maintenance standards in part 396.
This ICR supports the Department of
Transportation’s strategic goal of safety.
The ICR also ensures that motor carriers
have adequate records to document the
inspection, repair, and maintenance of
their CMVs, and to ensure that adequate
measures are taken to keep their CMVs
in safe and proper operating condition
at all times. Compliance with the
inspection, repair, and maintenance
regulations helps to reduce the
likelihood of accidents attributable, in
whole or in part, to the mechanical
condition of the CMV.
The Agency does not intend to revise
the contents of this information
collection, the frequency of information
collection, or how it uses the
information. Because the previous four
updates to this information collection
were developed in conjunction with
rulemaking actions, only those sections
of the information collection affected by
the specific rulemaking changes were
amended during the previous four
updates and a comprehensive update of
the information collection has not been
done since 2006. This renewal includes
updated data regarding the number of
motor carriers subject to the Federal
Motor Carrier Safety Regulations,
vehicle counts, inspections, and other
underlying data used to estimate the
total burden hours. In addition, this
revision corrects the manner in which:
(1) The burden associated with routine
inspection, repair and maintenance
records is calculated, by including nonpowered CMVs in addition to power
units; and (2) the burden associated
with periodic inspection records is
calculated, by using only the records
associated with the once-per-year
inspection conducted in accordance
with 49 CFR Chapter III, Subchapter B,
Appendix G. Finally, this revision
corrects the calculation of the burden
associated with Driver-Vehicle
Inspection Reports (DVIRs) by including
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carrier certification of corrective action
for defect DVIRs that was inadvertently
omitted in the calculation of this
estimate in the December 2014 NoDefect DVIR rule.
If the recordkeeping were required to
be completed less frequently, it would
greatly hinder the ability of FMCSA and
State officials and representatives to
ascertain that CMVs are satisfactorily
maintained. The timely documentation
of CMV inspection, repair, and
maintenance enables FMCSA and State
officials to evaluate the present state of
a motor carrier’s CMV maintenance
program and to check the current level
of regulatory compliance at any point in
a carrier’s maintenance schedule or
program.
The FMCSA has identified periodic
inspection standards of 22 States, the
District of Columbia, the Alabama
Liquefied Petroleum Gas Board, 10
Canadian Provinces, and one Canadian
Territory that are comparable to, or as
effective as, the Federal periodic
inspection requirements. The FMCSA
does not require Federal periodic
inspections and the related
recordkeeping for motor carriers that
comply with these equivalent periodic
inspection programs. The FMCSA is not
aware of any other duplicative
standards or recordkeeping
requirements that apply to motor
carriers.
The FMCSA does not employ this
collection of information for statistical
use.
Title: Inspection, Repair and
Maintenance.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0003.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
543,061 motor carriers and 5,739,712
drivers.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
according to the requirements for
specific records.
Expiration Date: July 31, 2018.
Frequency of Response: Varies
according to requirements for specific
records.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
13,791,001 hours [7,558,390 hours for
inspection, repair, and maintenance +
5,536,622 hours for driver vehicle
inspection reports + 194,586 hours for
disposition of roadside inspection
reports + 469,414 hours for periodic
inspections + 16,904 hours for records
of inspector qualifications + 15,085
hours for records of brake inspector
qualifications].

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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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on: March 27, 2018.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0105]

Hours of Service of Drivers:
Application for Exemption; Wilcox
Truck Line, Inc.
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of application for
exemption; request for comments.
AGENCY:

FMCSA announces that
Wilcox Truck Line, Inc. (Wilcox) has
requested an exemption from the
requirement that a motor carrier install
and require each of its drivers to use an
electronic logging device (ELD) to
record the driver’s hours-of-service
(HOS). Wilcox has requested a 5-year
exemption from ELD use when
transporting loads in support of an
Idaho National Laboratory (INL)
program. INL has submitted a letter
confirming that security regulations
require these loads must be free from
being electronically tracked, which
requires disabling of the ELD. Wilcox
believes that granting this exemption
will provide an equivalent level of
safety because of the strict oversight of
this transportation by INL and other
agencies. FMCSA requests public
comment on Wilcox’s application for
exemption.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before May 4, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Number
SUMMARY:

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