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Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 40 / Friday, February 28, 2020 / Notices

Issued in Washington, DC on February 25,
2020.
Robert John Craven,
Director, Office of Airport Panning and
Programming.

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, 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:
Chris Flanigan, General Engineer,
Technology Division, Department of
Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 6th Floor, West
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
Telephone: 202–385–2384; Email
Address: chris.flanigan@dot.gov. Office
hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal
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[FR Doc. 2020–04139 Filed 2–27–20; 8:45 am]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Title: Crime Prevention for Truckers.
OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX.
Type of Request: New information
collection.
Respondents: Female and minority
male commercial motor vehicle drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
Maximum of 880 truck drivers [80
respondents reporting no incidents of
harassment or crime + 800 respondents
reporting one or more incidents of
harassment or crime].
Estimated Time per Response: Varies.
[8 minutes for respondents not reporting
incidents of harassment or crime; 20
minutes for respondents reporting an
incident of harassment or crime].
Expiration Date: This is a new
information collection.
Frequency of Response: Once.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
277.3 hours [80 respondents reporting
no incidents × (8 minutes ÷ 60 minutes
per hour) + 800 respondents reporting
one or more incidents × (20 minutes ÷
60 minutes per hour)].
Background: FMCSA has
accumulated evidence, both
documentary and anecdotal, for a
serious pattern of harassment- and
assault-related crimes against female
and minority male truckers. For
example, Security Journal, in a 2006
article titled ‘‘Workplace Violence
against Female Long-haul Truckers,’’
reported that 42 percent of female
longhaul truckers reported experiencing
one or more types of workplace
violence. USA Today, in a 2017 article
titled ‘‘Rigged,’’ gave accounts of

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0278]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Approval of a New
Information Collection Request: Crime
Prevention for Truckers
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
review and approval. This request, titled
‘‘Crime Prevention for Truckers,’’ will
allow for a study to understand the
prevalence, seriousness, and nature of
the problem of harassment and assaults
against minority and female truckers.
DATES: Please send your comments by
March 30, 2020. 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–2018–0278. Interested persons
are invited to submit written comments

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repeated harassment of minority male
truckers. Currently, FMCSA does not
provide materials or training to truckers,
including minority and female truckers,
on how to protect themselves from
being stalked, harassed, assaulted, or
robbed. Before effective solutions for
preventing or reducing these crimes
against female and minority truckers
can be developed and implemented,
FMCSA must understand the
prevalence, seriousness, and nature of
the problem of harassment and assaults
against truckers. Currently, there is
insufficient data. The frequency and
number of harassment- and assaultrelated crimes occurring, the portion
that are unreported, and reasons for
underreporting are unknown.
The purpose of this research study is
to gather information to answer these
questions, to understand how serious
the problem is, and to report it to
FMCSA so the Agency can decide on
further options for evaluation and
action. FMCSA needs to explore and
validate the problem of harassment- and
assault-related crimes, especially against
female and minority male truckers for
two reasons. First, there seems to be a
perception among these subpopulations
of truckers that they are more vulnerable
than others. Second, there is a critical
shortage of truckers, and helping these
subpopulations of truckers protect
themselves from crimes could draw
more truckers from these
subpopulations, while stemming
turnover, to alleviate the shortage.
FMCSA has contracted with Battelle
to create and execute a survey of truck
drivers to gather this information. This
exploratory survey will be limited in
scale and scope. Quantitative and
qualitative analysis of the data will help
the Agency to understand the nature
and extent of the problem and begin to
formulate an approach to reducing it.
The results will not be used for
rulemaking.
The survey of professional truck
drivers will be limited to female and
minority male drivers. The survey will
ask whether the drivers have
experienced race- or gender-related
harassment or crimes on the job. If the
driver has had such an experience, the
survey will ask follow-up questions on
where and when the incidents occurred,
any information the respondent knows
about the perpetrator, and whether the
respondent reported the incident. The
survey will be anonymous. None of the
questions ask for information that could
personally identify the respondent or
any perpetrators involved. Some
respondents will take the survey online,
and others will take it in the form of an
in-person interview. Identical questions

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will be asked of all drivers, but answers
from males and females will be
analyzed separately.
A maximum of 440 males and 440
females will be included in the
information collection. The information
will be collected through a combination
of an online survey and in-person
interviews. Approximately 160 in
person interviews will be completed, 80
females and 80 minority males. The
balance will take the survey
electronically. Some individuals may be
eligible to participate in the survey but
will not have had any recent experience
of harassment or assault. These
individuals will be included in the final
results for calculation of prevalence.
The total number of respondents
targeted for those who experienced
some sort of harassment or assault will
be 400 in each group. If 400 targeted
individuals are reached before the
overall cap of 440 respondents, data
collection will be stopped for that
group. Individuals who are screened but
are not female or minority male, or with
other criteria such as not being active
drivers, will not be included in the
interview counts, though a tabulation of
the number of such contacts and reason
for their disqualification will be
reported to better understand resource
needs and burden in future data
collection efforts of this type. A $25
incentive will be given to eligible
respondents to the in-person interview
or the online survey. For respondents to
be eligible and to receive the incentive,
they must report that they are a female
or a minority male who has driven a
truck professionally in the past 2 years
and complete the survey—at least
through the initial questions of what
events, if any, they have experienced.
Battelle statisticians experienced in
surveys and in analyzing data for
FMCSA will execute the data analysis
plan. Findings will be presented in a
report that will be made available on the
Agency’s website so that interested
stakeholders and the general public will
be aware of the findings. Battelle is
required to deliver a public-use dataset
at the conclusion of the project. By
understanding the nature and
prevalence of crimes against truckers,
FMCSA will be able to formulate and
promote programs to address the
problem. The report may be useful to
law enforcement personnel, motor
carriers, truck drivers, operators of
private truck stops, and others
interested in addressing the situation.
If study findings indicate a significant
problem that merits action, FMCSA may
consider developing training or
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harassment. Such training or outreach
materials could help foster motor
carriers’ employee retention efforts and
help make the truck driving profession
more attractive to a greater range of
people.
Public comments on this were
requested in the Federal Register in a
July 23, 2019 notice (Docket No.
FMCSA–2018–0278). Three comments
were received and are summarized
below.
Ellen Voie, President, Women In
Trucking (WIT) Association, appreciates
the initiative to better understand the
challenges female and minority drivers
face. WIT conducted research on best
practices in hiring and retaining female
professional drivers. The respondents
indicated their level of safety at 4.4 on
a scale of one to ten. She states that this
is unacceptable and that once the survey
has been completed and we can better
understand the extent of crimes against
female (and minority) drivers, we can
better address how to eliminate any
harassment and assaults directed against
them. Overall, this information will
assist WIT in their efforts to attract and
retain more women in trucking.
Desiree Wood, President, Real Women
in Trucking, Inc. (RWIT), has been
receiving distress calls related to sexual
misconduct related to entry-level driver
training fleets for over 10 years. RWIT
is a truck driver organization formed by
working female truck drivers, many of
whom have had firsthand experience
with sexual misconduct at a trucking
company, including Ms. Wood. This led
to her forming RWIT, which aims to
assist women who have been raped,
assaulted, harassed, and abandoned by
their employing carrier by referring
them to law firms and the EEOC. Ms.
Wood recommends that FMCSA take
immediate action to address these issues
instead of conducting the survey.
Bunny Sterling, East Calais, Vermont,
described several types of harassment
against women working in the trucking
industry, but did not claim specifically
that they happened to her. They
included lude comments and gestures,
unwanted physical advances and phone
calls, and threats of losing employment
if retaliation occurred.
FMCSA appreciates the comments
and support for examining this issue
and plans to proceed with the data call
to assess in more detail the extent of this
problem. This could lead to the agency
reaching out to driver training schools
to encourage that they address these
issues in their courses.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is

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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: February 19, 2020.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting, Associate Administrator for Office of
Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. 2020–04100 Filed 2–27–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket Number FRA–2020–0018]

Petition for Waiver of Compliance
Under part 211 of title 49 Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR), this
document provides the public notice
that on January 30, 2020, Nevada
Northern Railway (NN) petitioned the
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
for a waiver of compliance from certain
provisions of the Federal railroad safety
regulations contained at 49 CFR part
230, Steam Locomotive Inspection and
Maintenance Standards. FRA assigned
the petition Docket Number FRA–2020–
0018.
Specifically, NN requests relief from
49 CFR 230.17, One thousand four
hundred seventy-two (1,472) service day
inspection, which requires that
locomotives be inspected after 1,472
service days or 15 years, whichever
occurs first. NN states that Locomotive
40 will be due for its 1,472 service day
inspection (SDI) on May 20, 2020,
although it has only accrued 795 service
days since its last 1,472 SDI. The
railroad would like to operate the
locomotive through October 20, 2020,
which would consist of less than 60
service days. During this period, NN
states that it will perform all regularly
required maintenance and inspection as
otherwise required.
NN is a historical railroad that offers
passenger train rides. It is supported by
the Nevada Northern Railway
Foundation. NN is concerned that if
Locomotive 40 must be taken out of
service, NN will be left with only one
operating steam locomotive for its 2020
season. If that steam engine also cannot
run, it will be impossible for NN to
operate its schedule of steam-powered
excursion trips, which would cause an
excessive financial strain on the
organization, as locomotive rides are

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