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to interstate commerce that conflicts
with or is inconsistent with this
exemption with respect to a firm or
person operating under the exemption.
States may, but are not required to,
adopt the same exemption with respect
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D. Termination
The exemption will be valid for five
years unless rescinded earlier by
FMCSA. The exemption will be
rescinded if: (1) motor carriers and/or
commercial motor vehicles fail to
comply with the terms and conditions
of the exemption; (2) the exemption has
resulted in a lower level of safety than
was maintained before it was granted; or
(3) continuation of the exemption would
not be consistent with the goals and
objects of 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 31315.
Interested parties possessing
information that would demonstrate
that companies operating under this
exemption are not achieving the
requisite statutory level of safety should
immediately notify FMCSA. Such
information may be reported via email
to MCPSV@dot.gov. The Agency will
evaluate any such information and, if
safety is being compromised or if the
continuation of the exemption is not
consistent with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and
31315(b), will take immediate steps to
revoke the exemption.
VI. Request for Comments
In accordance with 49 U.S.C.
31315(b), FMCSA requests public
comment from all interested persons on
Ford’s application for renewal of its
exemption from the requirement in 49
CFR 393.83 relating to the exhaust
system location requirements for model
year 2015 and later Ford-manufactured
Transit-based CMVs. The exemption
renewal is for 5 years.
All comments received before the
close of business on the comment
closing date indicated at the beginning
of this notice will be considered and
will be available for examination in the
docket at the location listed under the
ADDRESSES section of this notice.
Comments received after the comment
closing date will be filed in the public
docket and will be considered to the
extent practicable. In addition to late
comments, FMCSA will also continue to
file, in the public docket, relevant
information that becomes available after
the comment closing date. Interested
persons should continue to examine the
public docket for new material.
Robin Hutcheson,
Deputy Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2022–0085]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection:
Acknowledgement of Use of COVID–19
Emergency Declaration Relief
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (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 notice invites
comment on the information collection
titled ‘‘Acknowledgement of Use of
COVID–19 Emergency Declaration
Relief,’’ which is currently approved on
an emergency basis and allows FMCSA
to collect information from motor
carriers engaged in providing direct
assistance in response to certain
emergency declarations issued by the
Agency to provide regulatory relief for
such carriers in continued support of
the Nation’s coronavirus disease 2019
(COVID–19) recovery efforts. OMB
approved this collection on an
emergency basis and subsequently
extended that emergency approval. The
extension of the emergency approval
expires on August 31, 2022. No
comments were received in response to
the 60-day Federal Register notice.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received on or before September 19,
2022.
SUMMARY:

Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain. Find this information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
30-day Review—Open for Public
Comments’’ or by using the search
function.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William Bannister, Office of Analysis,
Research and Technology, DOT,
FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590–0001; 202–385–2388;
William.Bannister@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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Title: Acknowledgement of use of
COVID–19 Emergency Declaration
Relief.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0074.
Type of Request: Renewal of an
approved emergency collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers and
drivers that operate under the terms of
the extended COVID–19 Emergency
Declaration No. 2020–002.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
477 per month.
Estimated Time per Response: 15
minutes per response.
Expiration Date: August 31, 2022.
Frequency of Response: Monthly.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,431 hours.
Background
FMCSA issued Emergency
Declaration No. 2020–002 in response to
the March 13, 2020, declaration of a
national emergency under 42 U.S.C.
519(b) related to the danger COVID–19
presents to public health and welfare.
FMCSA modified Emergency
Declaration 2020–002 to expand and
remove categories of supplies,
equipment, and persons covered by the
Emergency Declaration to respond to
changing needs for emergency relief.
The modified Emergency Declaration
was subsequently extended on June 15,
2020, August 15, 2020, December 1,
2020, August 31, 2021, and November
29, 2021, in accordance with 49 CFR
390.25, because the Presidentially
declared emergency remained in place
and because a continued exemption was
needed to support direct emergency
assistance for some supply chains.
In accordance with the expanded,
modified Emergency Declaration No.
2020–002, motor carriers and drivers
providing direct assistance in support of
relief efforts related to the COVID–19
public health emergency are granted
emergency relief from certain portions
of 49 CFR parts 390 through 399 of the
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations, except as restricted in the
Emergency Declaration. Direct
assistance means transportation and
other relief services provided by a motor
carrier or its driver(s) incident to the
immediate restoration of essential
services (such as medical care) or
essential supplies related to COVID–19
during the emergency. The notice
extending the declaration provides a list
of relief services and essential supplies.
Prior to September 1, 2021, neither
the Emergency Declaration nor the
regulations covering Emergency
Declarations (found in §§ 390.23 and
390.25) required that motor carriers or
drivers operating under the Emergency
Declaration report their operation to

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FMCSA. FMCSA determined that the
unprecedented period when the
expanded, modified Emergency
Declaration No. 2020–002 was in place
required that FMCSA seek information
on the number of motor carriers and
drivers relying upon the emergency
declaration in order to evaluate the need
for additional extensions.
The extension issued on August 31,
2021, included a requirement for motor
carriers to report, on a monthly basis,
their reliance on the emergency
declaration during operations. FMCSA
established a website where motor
carriers and drivers filled out fields for
their USDOT number, the number of
commercial motor vehicle trips that
relied upon the emergency declaration
in the preceding month (using a dropdown menu), the commodities being
transported (using a drop-down menu),
and a follow up for those listing more
than one commodity to indicate which
was transported the most (using a dropdown menu). The November 29, 2021,
extension continued the reporting
requirement. OMB approved the
reporting requirement on an emergency
basis on August 30, 2021, and
subsequently extended that emergency
approval on February 14, 2022. That
approval expires on August 31, 2022.
FMCSA refined the burden estimates
to reflect the average number of monthly
submissions received from September
2021 to February 2022. The carrier is
reporting for the previous month,
therefore October 2021 submitted
reports consist of data for the month of
September, and March 2022 submitted
reports consist of data for the month of
February.
This resulted in a decrease in the
number of reports estimated to be
submitted each month, as the
emergency ICR request used the total
number of motor vehicles as a stand-in
and acknowledged that number was
likely to be an overestimate.
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
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Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2021–0006–N–8]

Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, FRA seeks
approval of the Information Collection
Request (ICR) abstracted below. Before
submitting this ICR to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
approval, FRA is soliciting public
comment on specific aspects of the
activities identified in the ICR.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
17, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be submitted on regulations.gov
to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2021–
0006. All comments received will be
posted without change to the docket,
including any personal information
provided. Please refer to the assigned
OMB control number in any
correspondence submitted. FRA will
summarize comments received in
response to this notice in a subsequent
notice and include them in its
information collection submission to
OMB for approval.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Hodan Wells, Information Collection
Clearance Officer, at email:
Hodan.Wells@dot.gov or telephone:
(202) 868–9412.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The PRA,
44 U.S.C. 3501–3520, and its
implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to
provide 60-days’ notice to the public to
allow comment on information
collection activities before seeking OMB
approval of the activities. See 44 U.S.C.
3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.8 through
1320.12. Specifically, FRA invites
interested parties to comment on the
following ICR regarding: (1) whether the
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information collection activities are
necessary for FRA to properly execute
its functions, including whether the
activities will have practical utility; (2)
the accuracy of FRA’s estimates of the
burden of the information collection
activities, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used to
determine the estimates; (3) ways for
FRA to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information being
collected; and (4) ways for FRA to
minimize the burden of information
collection activities on the public,
including the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. See 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A); 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1).
FRA believes that soliciting public
comment may reduce the administrative
and paperwork burdens associated with
the collection of information that
Federal regulations mandate. In
summary, FRA reasons that comments
received will advance three objectives:
(1) reduce reporting burdens; (2)
organize information collection
requirements in a ‘‘user-friendly’’ format
to improve the use of such information;
and (3) accurately assess the resources
expended to retrieve and produce
information requested. See 44 U.S.C.
3501.
The summary below describes the ICR
that FRA will submit for OMB clearance
as the PRA requires:
Title: Railroad Operating Rules.
OMB Control Number: 2130–0035.
Abstract: On July 24, 2019, FRA
published in the Federal Register a
notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)
proposing inward- and outward-facing
image recording devices be required on
all lead passenger train locomotives as
required by the Fixing America’s
Surface Transportation Act (FAST Act).1
Specifically, FRA proposed requiring
passenger railroads to notate under the
REMARKS section of Form F 6180–
49A 2 (Locomotive Inspection and
Repair Record) on each lead locomotive
in commuter or intercity rail passenger
service: (1) the presence of any image or
audio recording system; and (2) the date
when a locomotive image recording
device has been removed from service.
For convenience to the railroad industry
and to avoid confusion as to the
application of locomotives recording
device requirements, FRA would create
a new form for use by passenger
railroads, Form F 6180–49AP (Passenger
Locomotive Inspection and Repair
Record), to record this information.
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FR 35712.
under OMB Control Number 2130–

2 Covered

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