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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0004]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of a Currently
Approved Information Collection
Request: Application for Certificate of
Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers
and Foreign Motor Private Carriers
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)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for its
review and approval. The FMCSA
requests to renew the ICR titled,
‘‘Application for Certificate of
Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers
and Foreign Motor Private Carriers,’’
that requires foreign (Mexico-based) forhire and private motor carriers to file an
application Form OP–2 if they wish to
register to transport property only
within municipalities in the United
States on the U.S.-Mexico international
borders or within the commercial zones
of such municipalities. FMCSA invites
public comment on the ICR. There were
no comments received to the 60-day
Federal Register notice dated April 9,
2018.

SUMMARY:

Please send your comments by
October 17, 2018. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to
act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should
reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number
FMCSA–2018–0004. 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@

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omb.eop.gov, or 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: Ms.
Fiorella Herrera, Transportation
Specialist, Office of Registration and
Safety Information, Customer Service
and Vetting Division, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 6th Floor, West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–366–0376; Email
Address: fiorella.herrera@dot.gov. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Application for Certificate of
Registration for Foreign Motor Carriers
and Foreign Motor Private Carriers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0019.
Type of Request: Renewal of
information collection.
Respondents: Foreign motor carriers
and commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
527.
Estimated Time per Response: 4
hours.
Expiration Date: October 31, 2018.
Frequency of Response: Occasionally.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
2,108 hours [527 responses × 4 hours].
Background: Title 49 U.S.C. 13902(c)
contains basic licensing procedures for
registering foreign (Mexico-based) motor
carriers to operate across the U.S.Mexico international border into the
United States. 49 CFR part 368 contains
the regulations that require foreign
(Mexico-based) motor carriers to apply
to the FMCSA for a Certificate of
Registration to provide interstate
transportation in municipalities in the
United States on the U.S.-Mexico
international border or within the
commercial zones of such
municipalities as defined in 49 U.S.C.
13902(c)(4)(A). FMCSA carries out this
registration program under authority
delegated by the Secretary of
Transportation. Foreign (Mexico-based)
motor carriers use Form OP–2 to apply
for Certificate of Registration authority
at the FMCSA. The form requests
information on the foreign motor
carrier’s name, address, U.S. DOT
Number, form of business (e.g.,
corporation, sole proprietorship,
partnership), locations where the
applicant plans to operate, types of
registration requested (e.g., for-hire
motor carrier, motor private carrier),
insurance, safety certifications,

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certifications, and compliance
certifications.
On April 9, 2018, FMCSA published
a 60-day Federal Register notice (83 FR
15222). Upon further review, FMCSA
revised the number of estimated annual
respondents, responses, burden hours,
and burden hour costs due to a
correction in the total number of
applications filed between 2015–2017
which did not account for the fact the
$300 fee applies only to new
registrations; and the addition of the
costs associated with submitting
updates by mail, which is not included
in the currently approved estimate. The
estimated number of annual
respondents and responses increased
from 380 to 527, resulting in an increase
of annual burden hours from 1,520 (380
respondents × 4 hours) to 2,108 (527 ×
4 hours), and an increase in burden
hour costs from $63,339 to $87,925. The
$30,235 increase in estimated costs to
respondents ($144,235 proposed—
$114,000 currently approved) is due to
an adjustment in the estimated number
of respondents filing for a new
registration. The increase is also due to
a correction in the method of cost
calculations which was not applied to
the currently approved estimate, where
the $300 fee applies only to new
registrations. The increase is also due to
the addition of the costs associated with
submitting updates by mail, which was
also not included in the currently
approved estimate.
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 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
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49
CFR 1.87 on: September 12, 2018.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
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