Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 247 / Thursday, December 27, 2018 / Notices 66837 

1For purposes of the Financial and Operating 

Statistics (F&OS) program, carriers are classified 

into the following three groups: (1) Class I carriers 

are those having annual carrier operating revenues 

(including interstate and intrastate) of $10 million 

or more after applying the revenue deflator formula 

as set forth in Note A of 49 CFR 369.2; and (2) Class 

II carriers are those having annual carrier operating 

revenues (including interstate and intrastate) of at 

least $3 million, but less than $10 million after 

applying the revenue deflator formula as set forth 

in 49 CFR 369.2. 

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 FMCSA requests 

approval to revise and extend the, 

‘‘Annual Report of Class I and Class II 

Motor Carriers of Property’’ ICR, OMB 

Control No. 2126–0032. This ICR is 

necessary to ensure that motor carriers 

comply with FMCSA’s financial and 

operating statistics requirements at 

chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369 titled, 

‘‘Reports of Motor Carriers.’’ This ICR is 

being revised to incorporate the OMB 

approved ‘‘Annual Report of Class I 

Motor Carriers of Passengers’’ ICR, OMB 

Control No. 2126–0031, for use of the 

MP–1 form, the ‘‘Annual Report Form 

(Motor Carriers of Passengers),’’ which 

resulted in only two respondents and 

one burden hour per year. Through the 

proposed merger of the two ICRs, 

FMCSA would rename the OMB Control 

No. 2126–0032 ICR as the ‘‘Annual 

Report of Class I and Class II For-Hire 

Motor Carriers’’ ICR. Such a merger with 

the new title will clarify that the 

combined ICR addresses both for-hire 

property and passenger carriers, but not 

private motor carriers. Additionally, 

after the merger of the ICRs, FMCSA 

intends to request withdrawal of the 

previously approved ‘‘Annual Report of 

Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers’’ 

ICR, OMB Control No. 2126–0031. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

January 28, 2019. 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–2018–0073. 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@

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: Mr. 

Jeff Secrist, Office of Registration and 

Safety Information, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, West Building 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Telephone: 202–385–2367; email 

jeff.secrist@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Annual Report of Class I and 

Class II Motor Carriers of Property 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0032. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Class I and Class II 

Motor Carriers of Property, Passengers, 

and Household Goods. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

98. 

Estimated Time per Response: 9 

hours. 

Expiration Date: December 31, 2018. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 865 

hours [96 respondents × 9 hours to 

complete form M–1 + 2 respondents × 

0.3 = 0.6 rounded to 1 hour to complete 

form MP–1]. 

Background: Section 14123 of title 49 

of the United States Code (U.S.C.) 

requires certain for-hire motor carriers 

of property, passengers, and household 

goods to file annual financial reports. 

The annual reporting program was 

implemented on December 24, 1938 (3 

FR 3158), and it was subsequently 

transferred from the Interstate 

Commerce Commission (ICC) to the U.S. 

Department of Transportation’s (DOT) 

Bureau of Transportation Statistics 

(BTS) on January 1, 1996. The Secretary 

of DOT delegated to BTS the 

responsibility for the program on 

December 17, 1996 (61 FR 68162). 

Annual financial reports are filed on 

Form M (for-hire property carriers, 

including household goods carriers) and 

Form MP–1 (for-hire passenger carriers). 

Responsibility for collection of the 

reports was transferred from BTS to 

FMCSA on August 17, 2004 (69 FR 

51009), and the regulations were 

redesignated as 49 CFR part 369 on 

August 10, 2006 (71 FR 45740). FMCSA 

has continued to collect carriers’ annual 

reports and to furnish copies of the 

reports requested under the Freedom of 

information Act. For-hire motor carriers 

(including interstate and intrastate) 

subject to the Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Regulations are classified on the 

basis of their gross carrier operating 

revenues.1

Under the Financial and Operating 

Statistics (F&OS) program, FMCSA 

collects from Class I and Class II for-hire 

motor carriers balance sheet and income 

statement data along with information 

on safety needs, tonnage, mileage, 

employees, transportation equipment, 

and other related data. FMCSA may also 

ask carriers to respond to surveys 

concerning their operations. The data 

and information collected would be 

made publicly available and used by 

FMCSA to determine a motor carrier’s 

compliance with the F&OS program 

requirements prescribed at chapter III of 

title of 49 CFR part 369. FMCSA has 

created electronic forms that may be 

prepared, signed electronically, and 

submitted to FMCSA via https://

ask.fmcsa.dot.gov/app/ask/ in 

accordance with the Agency’s April 28, 

2014 (79 FR 23306), rulemaking in RIN 

2126–AB47, Electronic Signatures and 

Documents. 

On April 24, 2018 (83 FR 17894), 

FMCSA published a notice in the 

Federal Register with a 60-day public 

comment period to announce this 

proposed information collection 

request. The agency received no 

comments in response to this notice. 

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: December 20, 2018. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2018–28173 Filed 12–26–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2018–0287] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of an Approved 

Information Collection: Electronic 

Logging Device (ELD) Vendor 

Registration 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 


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66838 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 247 / Thursday, December 27, 2018 / Notices 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (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. 

FMCSA requests approval to renew an 

ICR titled, ‘‘Electronic Logging Device 

(ELD) Vendor Registration.’’ This ICR is 

necessary for ELD vendors to register 

their ELDs with the Agency. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

January 28, 2019. 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–2018–0287. 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@

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: 

Mike Huntley, Vehicle and Roadside 

Operations Division, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, 6th Floor, West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Telephone: 202–366–9209; Email 

Address: michael.huntley@dot.gov. 

Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Electronic Logging Device (ELD) 

Vendor Registration. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0062. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: ELD vendors. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

224. 

Estimated Time per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Expiration Date: December 31, 2018. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 336 

hours [224 respondents × 2 devices per 

respondent × 3 updates per device × 15 

minutes per response]. 

Background 

On December 16, 2015, FMCSA 

published a final rule titled ‘‘Electronic 

Logging Devices and Hours of Service 

Supporting Documents,’’ (80 FR 78292) 

that established minimum performance 

and design standards for hours-ofservice (HOS) ELDs; requirements for 

the mandatory use of these devices by 

drivers currently required to prepare 

HOS records of duty status (RODS); 

requirements concerning HOS 

supporting documents; and measures to 

address concerns about harassment 

resulting from the mandatory use of 

ELDs. 

To ensure consistency among ELD 

vendors and devices, detailed functional 

specifications were published as part of 

the December 2015 final rule. Each ELD 

vendor developing an ELD technology 

must register online at a secure FMCSA 

website where the ELD provider can 

securely certify that its ELD is 

compliant with the functional 

specifications. Each ELD vendor must 

certify that each ELD model and version 

has been sufficiently tested to meet the 

functional requirements in the rule 

under the conditions in which the ELD 

would be used. 

ELD vendors must self-certify and 

register their devices with FMCSA 

online via Form MCSA–5893, 

‘‘Electronic Logging Device (ELD) 

Vendor Registration and Certification.’’ 

FMCSA expects 100% of respondents to 

submit their information electronically. 

Once completed, FMCSA issues a 

unique identification number that the 

ELD vendor will embed in their 

device(s). FMCSA maintains a list on its 

website of the current ELD vendors and 

devices that have been certified (by the 

vendors) to meet the functional 

specifications. The information is 

necessary for fleets and drivers to easily 

find a compliant ELD for their use in 

complying with the FMCSA regulation 

requiring the use of ELDs. 

On September 17, 2018, FMCSA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register with a 60-day public comment 

period to announce this request to 

renew the information collection (83 FR 

46997). The Agency received two 

comments in response to the notice. 

One commenter noted general support 

for the ELD registration requirements. 

The second commenter, Garmin 

International, Inc., requested that 

FMCSA: (1) Include the data transfer 

methods supported by each ELD in the 

Agency’s online list of current ELD 

vendors and devices that have been 

certified (by the vendors) to meet the 

functional specifications; and (2) refer 

inspectors to the Agency’s online list for 

information regarding data transfer 

methods supported by ELDs and the 

latest compliant software versions. 

While neither of these impact the 

information collection, FMCSA notes 

that: (1) The Agency is in the process of 

updating the list of certified ELDs on its 

website to include supported data 

transfer methods; and (2) the Agency 

provides extensive training and 

outreach to its enforcement partners 

regarding the online list of current ELD 

vendors and devices that have been 

certified to meet the functional 

specifications, including the compliant 

software version of each device. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for FMCSA to perform its 

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. 

Issued under the authority delegated in 49 

CFR 1.87 on: December 20, 2018. 

Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD–2018–0185] 

Requested Administrative Waiver of 

the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel 

JULIANA III (32′ Stern Picker); 

Invitation for Public Comments 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Secretary of 

Transportation, as represented by the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD), is 

authorized to grant waivers of the U.S.- 

build requirements of the coastwise 

trade laws to allow the carriage of no 

more than twelve passengers for hire on 

vessels, which are three years old or 

more. A request for such a waiver has 

been received by MARAD. The vessel, 

and a brief description of the proposed 

service, is listed below. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

January 28, 2019. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket Number 


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