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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. 

Thomas Yager, Chief, Driver and Carrier 

Operations Division, Office of Bus and 

Truck Standards and Operations, MC–

PSD, Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Telephone: 202–366–4009. E-mail: 

MCPSD@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Motor Carrier Safety 

Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98–554, Title II, 98 

Stat 2834 (October 30, 1984)) requires 

the Secretary of Transportation 

(Secretary) to issue regulations 

pertaining to CMV safety. The 

regulations require motor carriers to 

maintain specified information in a 

driver qualification (DQ) file for each 

CMV driver it employs. The DQ file 

contains the minimum information 

necessary to document the 

qualifications of a driver to operate a 

CMV in interstate commerce and in 

intrastate commerce under compatible 

State laws and regulations. The 

authority to require carriers to maintain 

DQ files is 49 U.S.C. 504, 31133, 31136, 

and 31502, and 49 CFR 1.73 and 391.51. 

This information is available to 

FMCSA investigators to substantiate the 

qualifications of each driver to operate 

a CMV in interstate commerce safely. A 

qualified driver means fewer crashes. 

Title: Driver Qualification Files. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0004. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Motor Carriers; and 

Drivers who are also Motor Carriers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 7 

million. 

Estimated Time per Response: An 

average of 28 minutes. 

Expiration Date: June 30, 2007. 

Frequency of Response: Many of these 

obligations concern activities involving 

the hiring of a driver. They also include 

the obligations of all entities that have 

employed this applicant-driver in the 

past 3 years in a safety-sensitive 

position; usually these are other motor 

carriers. These obligations occur 

irregularly because they are associated 

with the variable needs of motor carriers 

for new drivers. In addition, this 

collection imposes obligations that 

pertain to motor carriers and their 

employee-drivers. Most of these 

obligations must be met annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

3,254,580 hours. FMCSA arrives at this 

estimate through calculation of the time 

involved with each of the following 

requirements of the driver qualification 

regulations: 

(A) General Requirements for the 

Hiring of a Driver by a Motor Carrier are 

as follows: 

(1) Application for employment of the 

applicant-driver; and 

(2) Driving record of the applicantdriver. 

(B) Safety Performance History of the 

Applicant-Driver involves the following: 

(1) Investigation by the hiring motor 

carrier; 

(2) Former employer submitting to the 

hiring motor carrier a copy of its safety 

performance history on the applicantdriver; 

(3) Request of the applicant-driver for 

a copy of the history; and 

(4) Rebuttal of the history by the 

applicant-driver. 

(C) Other Driver Qualification 

Requirements are as follows: 

(1) Employee-driver’s certificate of 

violations; 

(2) Motor carrier’s review of 

employee-driver’s driving record(s); and 

(3) Drivers for more than one motor 

carrier. 

The medical certificate is also 

required to be included in the Driver’s 

Qualification File. However, the Agency 

has a separate OMB approval for the 

medical certificate component of the 

Driver Qualification Files. 

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’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 and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Issued on: May 17, 2007. 

D. Marlene Thomas, 

Associate Administrator for Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–9947 Filed 5–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2007–27924] 

Notice of Request for Information 

(RFI): Training Certification for EntryLevel Commercial Motor Vehicle 

Operators 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval, and invites public 

comment. The FMCSA requests 

approval to revise an ICR entitled, 

‘‘Training Certification for Entry-Level 

Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators,’’

that relates to the training requirements 

for drivers applying for a commercial 

drivers license. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before July 23, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by any of the following 

methods. Please identify your comments 

by the FMCSA Docket Number FMCSA–

2007–27924. 

• Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. 

Follow instructions for submitting 

comments to the Docket. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Management 

Facility, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Plaza 

level, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Plaza level of the 

Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington DC, between 9 a.m. 

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

except Federal holidays. 

Docket: For access to the Docket 

Management System (DMS) to read 

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, 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 on-line. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 


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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. 

Thomas Yager, Chief, Driver and Carrier 

Operations Division, Office of Bus and 

Truck Standards and Operations, MC–

PSD, Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Telephone: 202–366–4009. E-mail: 

MCPSD@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Commercial Motor 

Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA) (49 

U.S.C. 31301 et seq.) established 

national minimum testing and licensing 

standards for operators of large trucks 

and buses. Congress sought to ensure 

that drivers of large trucks and buses 

possessed the knowledge and skills 

necessary to operate these vehicles. The 

CMVSA established the ‘‘Commercial 

Drivers License’’ (CDL) program and 

directed the Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), FMCSA’s 

predecessor agency, to establish 

minimum Federal standards that States 

must meet when licensing CMV drivers. 

The CMVSA applies to most operators 

of CMVs in interstate or intrastate 

commerce, including employees of 

Federal, State and local governments. 

Section 4007(a)(2) of the Intermodal 

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 

1991 (ISTEA) (Public Law 102–240, 

December 18, 1991) directed the FHWA 

to ‘‘commence a rulemaking proceeding 

on the need to require training of all 

entry-level drivers of CMVs.’’ On June 

21, 1993, the FHWA published in the 

Federal Register an advance notice of 

proposed rulemaking entitled, 

‘‘Commercial Motor Vehicles: Training 

for All Entry Level Drivers’’ (58 FR 

33874). The Agency also began a study 

of the effectiveness of the training of 

entry-level drivers by the private sector. 

The results of the study were published 

in 1997 under the title ‘‘Adequacy of 

Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver 

Training,’’ and are available in FMCSA 

Docket 1997–2199. The study found that 

the heavy truck, motor coach, and 

school bus segments of the industry 

were not providing adequate entry-level 

training. 

On August 15, 2003, FMCSA 

published a notice of proposed 

rulemaking (NPRM) entitled, 

‘‘Minimum Training Requirements for 

Entry-Level Commercial Motor Vehicle 

Operators’’ (68 FR 48863). The Agency 

proposed mandatory training for 

operators of CMVs in four areas: driver 

qualifications, hours-of-service of 

drivers, driver wellness and whistleblower protection. Training in these 

topics was not required at that time, and 

the Agency believed that knowledge of 

these areas was crucial to CMV safety. 

On May 21, 2004, FMCSA published a 

final rule with the same title as the 

NPRM (69 FR 2004). The Agency 

mandated training for all CDL operators 

in the four subject areas, effective July 

20, 2004. On June 11, 2004, OMB 

approved the information collection 

associated with this requirement for a 

period of three years expiring June 30, 

2007. 

Title: Training Certification for EntryLevel Commercial Motor Vehicle 

Operators. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0028. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Entry-level CDL drivers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

45,611. 

Estimated Time per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Expiration Date: June 30, 2007. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

7,602 hours. FMCSA estimates that an 

entry-level driver requires 

approximately 10 minutes to complete 

the tasks necessary to comply with the 

regulation. Those tasks are: 

photocopying the training certificate, 

giving the photocopy to the motor 

carrier employer, and placing the 

original of the certificate in a personal 

file. Therefore, the annual burden for all 

entry-level drivers is (45,611 × 10/60) = 

7,602 hours (rounded). 

Definitions: ‘‘Commercial Motor 

Vehicles (CMVs)’’: This rule applies to 

the operators of a specific sub-group of 

commercial vehicles, i.e. those having a 

gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001 

pounds or more, regardless of weight; 

are designed to transport 16 or more 

passengers; or are used to transport 

placardable and dangerous hazardous 

materials (49 CFR 383.5). The term 

‘‘CMV’’ is limited to this definition in 

this document; the term ‘‘CDL driver’’ is 

used because the operators of these 

CMVs are required to have a valid 

commercial driver’s license (CDL). This 

rule currently applies solely to ‘‘entrylevel’’ CDL drivers, i.e. those who have 

no experience operating a CMV (49 CFR 

380.502(b)). 

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’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: May 17, 2007. 

D. Marlene Thomas, 

Associate Administrator for Administration. 

[FR Doc. E7–9948 Filed 5–22–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2007–27181 (Notice 

No. 07–2)] 

Information Collection Activities Under 

OMB Review 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces that the Information 

Collection Requests (ICR) abstracted 

below will be forwarded to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and comments. The ICRs 

describe the nature of the information 

collections and their expected burden. 

A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

the following collections of information 

was published on February 26, 2007 [72 

FR 8421]. In response to our Notice, we 

received one comment concerning the 

renewal of OMB Control No. 2137–0586, 

‘‘The Hazardous Materials Public Sector 

Training and Planning Grants.’’ A 

summary of the comment and our 

response can be found under the 

abstract for OMB Control No. 2137–

0586. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before June 22, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Because of the recent 

relocation of the Department of 

Transportation’s Docket Operations 

facility, which manages the Document 

Management System (DMS), comments 

to this notice may be submitted as 

follows: 

1. During the office closure May 25, 

2007, through May 29, 2007: 


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