58218 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 188 / Wednesday, September 29, 2004 / Notices 

notice announces the Maritime 

Administration’s (MARAD’s) intention 

to request extension of approval for 

three years of a currently approved 

information collection.

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before November 29, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Frances Jerry, Maritime Administration, 

400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Telephone: (202) 366–5861; fax: 

(202) 366–5980; or e-mail: 

frances.jerry@marad.dot.gov. Copies of 

this collection also can be obtained from 

that office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Uniform Financial 

Reporting Requirements. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0005. 

Form Numbers: MA–172. 

Expiration Date of Approval: Three 

years from date of approval by the 

Office of Management and Budget. 

Summary of Collection of 

Information: The Uniform Financial 

Reporting Requirements are used as a 

basis for preparing and filing 

semiannual and annual financial 

statements with the Maritime 

Administration. Regulations requiring 

financial reports to the Maritime 

Administration are authorized by 

section 801, Merchant Marine Act, 1936, 

as amended. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

collected information is necessary for 

MARAD to determine compliance with 

regulatory and contractual 

requirements. 

Description of Respondents: Vessel 

owners acquiring ships from MARAD 

on credit, companies chartering ships 

from MARAD, and companies having 

Title XI guarantee obligations. 

Annual Responses: 196 responses. 

Annual Burden: 1862 hours. 

Comments: Comments should refer to 

the docket number that appears at the 

top of this document. Written comments 

may be submitted to the Docket Clerk, 

U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Comments also may be 

submitted by electronic means via the 

Internet at http://dms.dot.gov/submit.

Specifically address whether this 

information collection is necessary for 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency and will have practical 

utility, accuracy of the burden 

estimates, ways to minimize this 

burden, and ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected. All 

comments received will be available for 

examination at the above address 

between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT (or 

EST), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. An electronic version 

of this document is available on the 

World Wide Web at http://dms.dot.gov.

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; pages 19477–78) or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.)

Dated: September 23, 2004.

By order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Joel C. Richard, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

[FR Doc. 04–21777 Filed 9–28–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD 2004 19191] 

Information Collection Available for 

Public Comments and 

Recommendations

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Maritime 

Administration’s (MARAD’s) intention 

to request extension of approval for 

three years of a currently approved 

information collection.

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

on or before November 29, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Christopher Krusa, Maritime 

Administration, 400 Seventh St., SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–2648, FAX: 202–366–3746; or 

e-mail: chris.krusa@marad.dot.gov. 

Copies of this collection also can be 

obtained from that office.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title of Collection: Supplementary 

Training Course Application. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved information 

collection. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0030. 

Form Numbers: MA–823. 

Expiration Date of Approval: Three 

years from date of approval by the 

Office of Management and Budget. 

Summary of Collection of 

Information: Section 1305(a) of the 

Maritime Education and Training Act of 

1980 indicates that the Secretary of 

Transportation may provide maritimerelated training to merchant mariners of 

the United States and to individuals 

preparing for a career in the merchant 

marine of the United States. Also, the 

U.S. Coast Guard requires a fire-fighting 

certificate for U.S. merchant marine 

officers. This collection provides the 

information necessary for the maritime 

schools to plan their course offerings 

and for applicants to complete their 

certificate requirements. 

Need and Use of the Information:

This information collection is necessary 

for eligibility assessment, enrollment, 

attendance verification and recordation. 

Without this information, the courses 

would not be documented for future 

reference by the program or individual 

student. 

Description of Respondents: U.S. 

Merchant Marine Seamen, both officers 

and unlicensed personnel, and other 

U.S. citizens employed in other areas of 

waterborne commerce. 

Annual Responses: 500. 

Annual Burden: 25 hours. 

Comments: Comments should refer to 

the docket number that appears at the 

top of this document. Written comments 

may be submitted to the Docket Clerk, 

U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. Comments also may be 

submitted by electronic means via the 

Internet at http://dms.dot.gov/submit. 

Specifically address whether this 

information collection is necessary for 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency and will have practical 

utility, accuracy of the burden 

estimates, ways to minimize this 

burden, and ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected. All 

comments received will be available for 

examination at the above address 

between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. EDT (or 

EST), Monday through Friday, except 

Federal Holidays. An electronic version 

of this document is available on the 

World Wide Web at http://dms.dot.gov. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66.) 

Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 188 / Wednesday, September 29, 2004 / Notices 58219

By order of the Maritime Administrator,

Dated: September 23, 2004. 

Joel C. Richard, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration.

[FR Doc. 04–21778 Filed 9–28–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA–2004–

18642] 

Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping 

Requirements

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Request for public comment on 

an extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can 

collect certain information from the 

public, it must receive approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Under procedures established 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, before seeking OMB approval, 

Federal agencies must solicit public 

comment on proposed collections of 

information, including extensions and 

reinstatement of previously approved 

collections. 

This document describes one 

collection of information for which 

NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval.

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 29, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Comments must refer to the 

docket notice numbers cited at the 

beginning of this notice and be 

submitted to Docket Management, Room 

PL–401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590 by any of the 

following methods. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Agency Web Site: http://

dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for 

submitting comments on the Docket 

Management System. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

• Mail: Dockets, 400 7th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: Plaza Level 

Room 401, (PL #401), of Nassif Building, 

400 7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590, telephone: 1–800–647–5527. 

Please identify the proposed 

collection of information for which a 

comment is provided, by referencing its 

OMB clearance number. It is requested, 

but not required, that 2 copies of the 

comment be provided. The Docket 

Section is open on weekdays from 10 

a.m. to 5 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Complete copies of each request for 

collection of information may be 

obtained at no charge from Carlita 

Ballard, NHTSA, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Room 5320, NVS–131, 

Washington, DC 20590. Ms. Ballard’s 

telephone number is (202) 366–0846. 

Please identify the relevant collection of 

information by referring to its OMB 

Control Number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before an agency submits a proposed 

collection of information to OMB for 

approval, it must first publish a 

document in the Federal Register

providing a 60-day comment period and 

otherwise consult with members of the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

each proposed collection of information. 

The OMB has promulgated regulations 

describing what must be included in 

such a document. Under OMB’s 

regulation (at 5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an 

agency must ask for public comment on 

the following: 

(i) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(ii) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(iii) how to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(iv) how to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g. permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

In compliance with these 

requirements, NHTSA asks for public 

comments on the following proposed 

collections of information: 

Title: Procedures for Selecting Lines 

to be Covered by the Theft Prevention 

Standard (49 CFR 542). 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0539. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Form Number: This collection of 

information uses no standard forms. 

Abstract: The Anti Car Theft Act of 

1992 amended the Motor Vehicle Theft 

Law Enforcement Act of 1984 (P.L. 98–

547) and requires this collection of 

information. One component of the theft 

prevention legislation required the 

Secretary of Transportation (delegated 

to the National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration (NHTSA)) to promulgate 

a theft prevention standard for the 

designation of high-theft vehicle lines. 

Provisions delineating the information 

collection requirements include 

§ 33104, which requires NHTSA to 

promulgate a rule for the identification 

of major component parts for vehicles 

having or expected to have a theft rate 

above the median rate for all new 

passenger motor vehicles sold in the 

United States, as well as with major 

component parts that are 

interchangeable with those having hightheft rates. 

The specific lines and parts to be 

identified are to be selected by 

agreement between the manufacturer 

and the agency. If there is a 

disagreement of the selection, the 

statute states that the agency shall select 

such lines and parts, after notice to the 

manufacturer and an opportunity for 

written comment. 

In a final rule published on April 6, 

2004, the Federal Motor Vehicle Theft 

Prevention Standard was extended to 

include all passenger cars and 

multipurpose passenger vehicles with a 

gross vehicle weight rating of 6,000 

pounds or less, and to light duty trucks 

with major parts that are 

interchangeable with a majority of the 

covered major parts of multipurpose 

passenger vehicles. The final rule 

becomes effective September 1, 2006. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 40. 

Number of Respondents: 7.

Issued on: September 23, 2004. 

Stephen R. Kratzke, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.

[FR Doc. 04–21830 Filed 9–28–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA–2004–

18737] 

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping 

Requirements

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Request for public comment on 

an extension of a currently approved 

collection. 

SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can 

collect certain information from the 

public, it must receive approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget