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1See 70 FR 144, Jan. 3, 2005. 

2Changes to the total cost equivalent in U.S. 

dollars, a category not included in the OIRA 

inventory, are due to updated statistics from the 

2022 Surface Transportation Board (STB) Full Year 

Wage A&B data series. 

(CISP) that provides for appropriate 

support services to be offered to their 

employees who are affected by a critical 

incident as defined in 49 CFR 272.9. 

FRA uses the information collected to 

ensure the minimum standards of part 

272 are met. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

change (with changes in estimates) of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses 

(Railroads)/Rail Labor Unions. 

Form(s): N/A. 

Respondent Universe: 40 railroads. 

Frequency of Submission: On 

occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 

2,546. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden: 246 

hours. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour 

Dollar Cost Equivalent: $21,109. 

FRA informs all interested parties that 

it may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information that does 

not display a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

Christopher S. Van Nostrand, 

Acting Deputy Chief Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24199 Filed 11–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2023–0002–N–26] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its 

implementing regulations, FRA seeks 

approval of the Information Collection 

Request (ICR) summarized 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 January 

2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed ICR 

should be submitted on regulations.gov 

to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2023– 

0002. All comments received will be 

posted without change to the docket, 

including any personal information 

provided. Please refer to the assigned 

OMB control number (2130–0566) in 

any correspondence submitted. FRA 

will summarize comments received in a 

subsequent 30-day notice and include 

them in its information collection 

submission to OMB. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Arlette Mussington, Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, at email: 

arlette.mussington@dot.gov or 

telephone: (571) 609–1285 or Ms. 

Joanne Swafford, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, at email: 

joanne.swafford@dot.gov or telephone: 

(757) 897–9908. 

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 

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, 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: Reflectorization of Rail Freight 

Rolling Stock. 

OMB Control Number: 2130–0566. 

Abstract: FRA issued this regulation 

to mandate the reflectorization of freight 

rolling stock (using retroreflective 

material on freight cars and 

locomotives) to enhance the visibility of 

trains to reduce the number and severity 

of accidents at highway-rail grade 

crossings where visibility was a 

contributing factor.1 FRA uses the 

information collected to verify that the 

person responsible for the car reporting 

mark is notified after the required visual 

inspection when the freight equipment 

has less than 80 percent of the required 

retroreflective sheeting present, 

undamaged, or unobscured. 

Moreover, FRA uses the information 

collected to verify that the required 

locomotive records of retroreflective 

sheeting defects found, after inspection, 

are kept in the locomotive cab or in a 

railroad accessible electronic database 

that FRA can access upon request. 

Finally, FRA uses the information 

collected to confirm that railroads/car 

owners meet the prescribed standards 

for the inspection and maintenance of 

the required retroreflective material. 

In this 60-day notice, FRA makes no 

adjustments to the previously approved 

burden hours and responses in the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs (OIRA) inventory.2

Type of Request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

collection. 

Affected Public: Businesses. 

Form(s): N/A. 

Respondent Universe: 783 railroads 

and freight car owners. 

Frequency of Submission: On 

occasion/monthly. 

Reporting Burden: 


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3The dollar equivalent cost is derived from the 

2022 STB Full Year Wage A&B data series using the 

employee group 200: (Professional & 

Administrative), hourly wage rate of $49.10, and 

group 400 (Maintenance of Equipment & Stores). 

The total burden wage rate, (Straight time plus 

75%), used in the table is $85.93 ($49.10 × 1.75 = 

$85.93), except for sections 224.109(a) and 

224.109(b) which used $67.11 ($38.35 × 1.75 = 

$67.11). 

4Totals may not add due to rounding. 

CFR section Respondent 

universe 

Total annual 

responses 

Average time per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

Total cost 

equivalent in 

U.S dollar 

(A) (B) (C = A * B) (D = C * wage 

rates) 3

224.7—Waivers ........................................ 783 railroads & 

freight car owners.

10 petitions ............. 8 hours .................... 80.00 $6,874.40 

224.15(b)—Special approval procedures—Petitions for special approval of 

alternative standard.

2 manufacturers ...... 2 petitions ............... 40 hours .................. 80.00 6,874.40 

—(d)(3) Hearing on the petition in 

accordance with the procedures 

provided in § 211.25.

FRA anticipates that there will be zero hearings during this 3-year ICR period. 

—(e) Disposition of petitions ............. This requirement is exempted from PRA under 5 CFR 1320.4(2). 

224.101—General requirements .............. The estimated paperwork burden for this requirement is covered under § 224.15. 

224.103(d)—Characteristics 

retroreflective sheeting—Certification.

The requirements for this part are included as part of the standard manufacturing process. 

224.103(e)—Characteristics 

retroreflective sheeting—Alternative 

standards.

The estimated paperwork burden for this requirement is covered under § 224.15. 

224.109(a)—Inspection, repair, and replacement—Railroad freight cars— 

Railroads notification to person responsible for reporting mark after visual inspection for presence and condition 

when freight car on either side has 

less than 80% reflective sheeting of 

the damaged, obscured, or missing 

sheeting.

Association of 

American Railroads/300 car 

shops.

33,380 notifications 5 minutes ................ 2,781.67 186,677.87 

—(b) Locomotive record of freight 

retroreflective sheeting defects 

found after inspection kept in locomotive cab or in railroad accessible electronic database that FRA 

can access upon request.

783 railroads & 

freight car owners.

2,609 records .......... 5 minutes ................ 217.42 14,591.06 

Total 4 ......................................... 783 railroads & 

freight car owners.

36,001 responses ... N/A .......................... 3,159 215,017 

Total Estimated Annual Responses: 

36,001. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden: 

3,159. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour 

Dollar Cost Equivalent: $215,017. 

FRA informs all interested parties that 

it may not conduct or sponsor, and a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information that does 

not display a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

Christopher S. Van Nostrand, 

Acting Deputy Chief Counsel. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24198 Filed 11–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2023–0002–N–13] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration (FRA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its 

implementing regulations, FRA seeks 

approval of the Information Collection 

Request (ICR) summarized 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 January 

2, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed ICR 

should be submitted on regulations.gov 

to the docket, Docket No. FRA–2023– 

0002. All comments received will be 

posted without change to the docket, 

including any personal information 

provided. Please refer to the assigned 

OMB control number (2130–0621) in 

any correspondence submitted. FRA 

will summarize comments received in a 

subsequent 30-day notice and include 

them in its information collection 

submission to OMB. 


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