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20590. Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Freight Operations Follow-Up. 

Abstract: The Office of Freight 

Operations is continually receiving 

inquiries from the public on Federal 

requirements for commercial motor 

vehicle size and weight enforcement. In 

order to better serve the community and 

ensure that satisfactory resolutions are 

received regarding the inquiries, a 

Freight Operations Follow-Up Feedback 

form has been developed. This feedback 

will be used to help assess internal 

strengths and weaknesses of the FHWA 

Size and Weight Team’s customer 

service activity, and it is necessary for 

the Office of Freight Operations to better 

serve the community. The form is brief, 

simple, and unobtrusive in nature, and 

consists of the following 5 satisfactionrelated questions. 

1. The general identity of the 

respondent, within 14 specified 

categories (individual citizen, truck or 

bus driver, representative of truck or bus 

industry association, public interest 

group, commercial motor carrier, 

shipper/receiver, State transportation 

official, State police or highway patrol, 

FHWA headquarters staff, FHWA 

Division staff, other U.S. DOT staff, 

Congressional staff, other Federal 

government staff, and other). 

2. Reason(s) for contacting the FHWA 

headquarters Size and Weight Team. 

3. The appropriateness, courtesy, and 

timeliness of the FHWA headquarters 

Size and Weight Team’s response to 

customer’s inquiry. 

4. How the FHWA Headquarters Size 

and Weight Team may better respond to 

inquiries. 

5. Other comments. 

This information will be collected by 

linking the feedback form to the FHWA 

size and weight Web site. This will 

enable the public to both pull the form 

from the Web site should someone need 

to comment about service, and to 

receive the form when given a response 

to an inquiry from the FHWA 

headquarters Size and Weight Team. 

Respondents: Approximately 300 

people from the general public who 

send written, electronic, or telephone 

inquiries to the FHWA headquarters 

size and weight team, annually. 

Frequency: This feedback will be 

continually collected to allow the 

FHWA headquarters size and weight 

team to monitor customer satisfaction 

with inquiry responses. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 5 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 25 burden hours annually. 

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 FHWA’s performance; 

(2) the accuracy of the estimated 

burden; (3) ways for the FHWA to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(4) ways that the burden could be 

minimized, including the use of 

electronic technology, without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

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: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1.48.

Issued on: November 2, 2004. 

James R. Kabel, 

Chief, Management Programs and Analysis 

Division.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs 

Administration 

[Docket No. RSPA–2004–18975 (Notice No. 

04–06)] 

Electronic Submission of Hazardous 

Materials Incident Report, Form F 

5800.1

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs 

Administration (RSPA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Electronic Hazardous 

Materials Incident Reporting. 

SUMMARY: In conjunction with 

implementation of the revised 

Hazardous Materials Incident Report on 

January 1, 2005, RSPA is making 

publicly available a programming tool 

for companies or individuals to use to 

electronically file hazardous materials 

incident reports. This new electronic 

format may only be used for reporting 

incidents that occur on or after January 

1, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Kenny Herzog, Research and Special 

Programs Administration, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Nassif 

Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC, 20590–0001; (202) 

366–5031; 

Kenneth.Herzog@rspa.dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with requirements in 

§§ 171.15 and 171.16 of the Hazardous 

Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR 

parts 171–180), persons who are in 

physical possession of a hazardous 

material that is being transported in 

commerce must file a Hazardous 

Materials Incident Report (HMIR), DOT 

Form F 5800.1 in the event an incident 

listed in §§ 171.15 or 171.16 occurs. On 

December 3, 2003, RSPA published a 

final rule under Docket HM–229 that 

made revisions to the incident reporting 

requirements and the HMIR (68 FR 

67746). 

The HM–229 final rule provides 

persons subject to the incident reporting 

requirements with the option of 

submitting incident reports 

electronically. Those persons wishing to 

submit their incident data in an 

electronic format have two options. 

Option 1 is to fill out the form online. 

Option 2 is to submit a data file in an 

XML format. To facilitate electronic 

filing, we have developed a 

programming tool—an XML schema 

format—and instruction document. The 

XML schema format establishes a 

template for data layout to facilitate 

electronic data submissions by 

providing for efficient data 

transmission, validation, and 

interpretation. The XML schema format 

and documentation detailing the layout 

of the schema and field definitions are 

available on our Web site at: http://

hazmat.dot.gov. For those companies or 

individuals who wish to design and 

utilize their own XML data format, we 

have developed a schema validating 

tool, which is also available on our Web 

site. Using this tool, you can assure that 

your XML format conforms to the 

Department’s standard for data integrity. 

For incidents that occur prior to 

January 1, 2005, you must continue to 

use DOT Form 5800.1 (Rev. 6/89). For 

incidents that occur on or after January 

1, 2005, persons must use the new DOT 

Form 5800.1 (01–2004). Electronic 

submission of incident data is only 

authorized for incidents that occur on or 

after January 1, 2005.

Issued in Washington, DC, on November 9, 

2004. 

Robert A. McGuire, 

Associate Administrator for Hazardous 

Materials Safety.

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