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background documents or comments 

received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any 

time or to the plaza level of the Nassif 

Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20590–0001, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

DMS is available electronically 24 hours 

each day, 365 days each year. If you 

want notification of receipt of your 

comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope, or 

postcard or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. 

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 on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you 

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Tom Yager, Chief, Driver & Carrier 

Operations Division, Office of Bus & 

Truck Standards and Development 

(MC–PSD), Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, 400 Seventh 

Street, SW., Washington DC 20590–

0001. Telephone: 202–366–4009; e-mail 

MCPSD@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Accident Recordkeeping 

Requirements. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0009. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved collection. 

Respondents: Motor Carriers, 

Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators, 

State Licensing Agencies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

106,800 motor carriers. 

Estimated Time per Response: 18 

minutes. 

Expiration Date: June 30, 2007. 

Frequency of Response: Once per 

year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

32,040 hours [106,800 motor carriers 

recording an accident × 18 minutes per 

response/60 minutes = 32,040]. 

Background: Title 49 CFR 390.15(b), 

requires motor carriers to make all 

records and information pertaining to 

crashes (accidents) specified in 

paragraphs (b)(1) and (b)(2) of that 

section available to an authorized 

representative or special agent of the 

FMCSA upon request, or as part of an 

inquiry. Interstate motor carriers are 

required to maintain an ‘‘accident 

register’’ consisting of a list of all 

accidents (both interstate and intrastate) 

involving their commercial motor 

vehicles (CMVs) (49 CFR 390.15(b)). The 

information for each accident must 

include, at a minimum, the following 

elements: Date of accident; city or town 

in which or most near where the 

accident occurred, and the State in 

which the accident occurred; driver 

name; number of injuries; number of 

fatalities; and whether hazardous 

materials, other than fuel spilled from 

the fuel tanks of motor vehicles 

involved in the accident, were released. 

In addition, the register must contain 

copies of all accident reports required 

by State or other governmental entities 

or insurers. Motor carriers must 

maintain the required information about 

CMV accidents in their accident 

registers for three years after the date of 

the accident, instead of the former one 

year. This information collection 

supports the DOT strategic goal of safety 

by requiring motor carriers to gather and 

record information on crashes involving 

their CMVs. Likewise, the FMCSA is 

strengthening its ability to assess motor 

carriers’ safety performance and to use 

that information to help motor carriers 

to prevent crashes and to reduce their 

severity. FMCSA uses this data to 

enable it to direct its enforcement 

resources to the motor carriers with the 

weakest safety records. 

Definitions: The word ‘‘accident’’ is 

defined as an occurrence involving a 

commercial motor vehicle operating on 

a public road in interstate or intrastate 

commerce which results in: (1) A 

fatality; (2) bodily injury to a person 

who, as a result of the injury, receives 

medical treatment away from the scene 

of the accident; or (3) one or more motor 

vehicles incurring disabling damage as 

a result of the accident, requiring the 

motor vehicle to be transported away 

from the scene by a tow truck or other 

motor vehicle (49 CFR 390.5). 

Public Commentd Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the FMCSA’s performance; 

(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. The agency 

will summarize or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Issued on: April 16, 2007. 

D. Marlene Thomas, 

Associate Administrator Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–7626 Filed 4–20–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2006–26304] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of Approved 

Information Collections: OMB Control 

Numbers 2126–0010 (Motor Carrier 

Safety Assistance Program) and 2126–

0025 (Transportation of Household 

Goods; Consumer Protection) 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The FMCSA invites public 

comment on its intent to request 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) to revise two (2) 

information collections (ICs) entitled, 

‘‘Motor Carrier Safety Assistance 

Program’’ (2126–0010) and 

‘‘Transportation of Household Goods; 

Consumer Protection’’ (2126–0025). 

These revised ICs are necessary to 

ensure that motor carriers and the States 

comply with changes made by various 

provisions of the Safe Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU), 

that will be implemented in a separate 

final rule. On November 20, 2006, the 

agency published a Federal Register 

notice with a 60-day comment period to 

solicit the public’s views on three 

information collections. The agency 

received one comment, which contained 

no substantive remarks pertaining to 

any of the information collections, and 

consequently was not incorporated into 

our supporting statement. We are 

required to publish this notice in the 

Federal Register by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 and 

implementing regulations. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 23, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 

Seventeenth Street, NW., Washington, 

DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk 

Officer. 

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 on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you 

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


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for further information, 

including copies of the proposed 

collection of information and 

supporting documentation can be 

obtained by contacting Mr. Frederic L. 

Wood, Office of Chief Counsel, 

Regulatory Affairs Division (MC–CCR), 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, Room 8201, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590; telephone (202) 366–0834. Office 

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

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

information stated below reflects the 

proposed changes to various regulatory 

provisions impacted by SAFETEA–LU 

and the new total annual burden hours 

for each. 

(1) Title: Motor Carrier Safety Assistance 

Program. 

OMB Control No.: 2126–0010. 

Form No.: Forms MCSAP–1, MCSAP–

2, and MCSAP–2A. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: State Grant Applicants. 

Number of Respondents: 52 (per 

quarter). 

Estimated Time per Response: 80 

hours. 

Expiration Date: November 30, 2007. 

Frequency: Annually (grant 

application) and quarterly (reports). 

Total Annual Burden: 11,232 hours. 

(2) Title: Transportation of Household 

Goods; Consumer Protection. 

OMB Control No.: 2126–0025. 

Form No.: Form MCSA–2P. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Motor Carriers and 

Individual Shippers of Household 

Goods. 

Number of Respondents: 5,400. 

Estimated Time per Response: Varies 

from 30 minutes to distribute consumer 

publication to 150 minutes to conduct 

physical survey. 

Expiration Date: August 31, 2008. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Total Annual Burden: 4,552,737 

hours. 

Background 

Summarized below is information for 

the two (2) information collection 

requests subject to this notice. The 

information collection requests 

explained below are based on changes 

required by the enactment of 

SAFETEA–LU, Pub. L. 109–59, 119 Stat. 

1144 (Aug. 10, 2005). We also correct 

previously published information 

regarding a third information collection. 

First, the Motor Carrier Safety 

Assistance Program (MCSAP) requires 

that the Secretary of Transportation 

(Secretary) review reports submitted by 

the States and conduct inspections to 

continuously evaluate a State’s 

enforcement plan. Sections 401 through 

404 of the Surface Transportation 

Assistance Act of 1982 (Pub. L. 97–424, 

Jan. 6, 1983) (STAA), as amended by 49 

U.S.C. 31100 et seq., established a 

program of financial assistance to the 

States to implement programs to enforce 

Federal and compatible State rules, 

regulations, standards, and orders 

applicable to commercial motor vehicle 

(CMV) safety. SAFETEA–LU amended 

49 U.S.C. 31102(b)(1) to modify the 

conditions a State must meet to qualify 

for grant funds through MCSAP and 

now requires the following conditions 

be addressed in the State’s Commercial 

Vehicle Safety Plan: (1) Deploying 

technology as part of performance-based 

activities to enhance the efficiency and 

effectiveness of CMV safety programs; 

(2) disseminating information as part of 

the CMV and non-CMV licensing 

examination information on best 

practices for driving safely in the 

vicinity of non-commercial and 

commercial motor vehicles; (3) 

conducting comprehensive and highly 

visible traffic enforcement and CMV 

safety inspection programs in high-risk 

areas; (4) ensuring that inspections of 

certain passenger vehicles are 

conducted at a station or other facility 

where a motor carrier may make a 

planned stop; and (5) allowing the use 

of funds to conduct documented 

enforcement of State traffic laws. The 

overall impact of these financial 

assistance provisions decreases total 

burden hours of information collection 

2126–0010 by an estimated 622 hours, 

chiefly as a result of non-CMV traffic 

enforcement activities. 

Second, in the Motor Carrier Safety 

Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–

159, 113 Stat. 1749, Dec. 9, 1999) 

(MCSIA), Congress authorized the 

Agency to regulate household goods 

carriers engaged in interstate operations 

for individual shippers. Title IV, 

Subtitle B of SAFETEA-LU amended 

various provisions of existing law 

regarding household goods 

transportation. Several of those 

provisions, specifically addressing: 

Definitions (section 4202); payment of 

rates (section 4203); carrier operations 

(section 4205); liability of carriers under 

receipts and bills of lading (section 

4207); arbitration requirements (section 

4208); and penalties for holding goods 

hostage (section 4210), result in changes 

that affect information collection 

activities. These provisions require 

corresponding changes to the ’’Your 

Rights and Responsibilities When You 

Move’’ consumer pamphlet. Section 

4205 also requires the motor carrier to 

provide to the shipper a copy of the 

publication ’’Ready to Move?’’ (or its 

successor publication). These 

publications provide concise, valuable 

consumer protection information 

regarding the legal rights of individual 

shippers. The household goods 

transportation provisions of SAFETEA–

LU increase total paperwork burdens of 

information collection 2126–0025 by an 

estimated 182,700 burden hours 

compared to the previously approved 

burden. The largest portion of this 

increase is generated by requirements in 

section 4205 regarding the estimate of 

the transportation charges and the 

physical survey of the household goods. 

Third, the separate final rule will not 

affect the currently-approved 

information clearance OMB Control 

Number 2126–0011, entitled 

‘‘Commercial Driver Licensing and Test 

Standards,’’ which was referenced in 

the previous Federal Register notice. 

After we published the 60-day notice, 

the OMB approved this information 

collection on December 21, 2006, at a 

revised total of 1,210,401 burden hours, 

with an expiration date of April 30, 

2007. This change is independent of, 

and not caused in any way by, the 

provisions in the final rule. We 

anticipate no additional change in the 

burden hours for this information 

collection at this time. We seek public 

comment on this assumption. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of the 

information collections referenced here, 

including: (1) Whether the proposed 

collection is necessary for the FMCSA’s 

performance; (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 on: April 13, 2007. 

D. Marlene Thomas, 

Associate Administrator Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–7627 Filed 4–20–07; 8:45 am] 

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