23792 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 77 / Friday, April 20, 2012 / Notices 

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; (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; and (3) Class III carriers are those 

having annual carrier operating revenues (including 

interstate and intrastate) of less than $3 million 

after applying the revenue deflator formula as set 

forth in Note A of 49 CFR 369.2. 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0031] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Extension of Two CurrentlyApproved Information Collection 

Requests: Financial and Operating 

Statistics for Motor Carriers of 

Property 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces FMCSA’s plan to 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) its request to extend two 

currently-approved information 

collection requests (ICRs) as follows: (1) 

OMB Control Number 2126–0032 

entitled, ‘‘Annual Report of Class I and 

Class II Motor Carriers of Property 

(formerly OMB 2139–0004),’’ and (2) 

OMB Control Number 2126–0033 

entitled, ‘‘Quarterly Report of Class I 

Motor Carriers of Property (formerly 

OMB 2139–0002).’’ These ICRs are 

necessary to ensure that motor carriers 

comply with FMCSA’s financial and 

operating statistics requirements at 

chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369 

entitled, ‘‘Reports of Motor Carriers.’’ 

The agency invites public comment on 

these ICRs. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before June 19, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2012–0031 insert new number 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

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

except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments and additional 

information on the exemption process, 

see the Public Participation heading 

below. Note that all comments received 

will be posted without change to 

http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. 

Please see the Privacy Act heading 

below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for accessing the 

dockets, or go to the street address listed 

above. 

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 for the Federal Docket 

Management System published in the 

Federal Register on January 17, 2008 

(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http:// 

edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8- 

794.pdf. 

Public Participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can obtain electronic submission and 

retrieval help and guidelines under the 

‘‘help’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you 

want us to notify you that we received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. Comments received 

after the comment closing date will be 

included in the docket and will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Vivian Oliver, Office of Research and 

Information Technology, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, West Building 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Telephone: 202–366–2974; email 

Vivian.Oliver@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The Annual Report of 

Class I and Class II Motor Carriers of 

Property (Form M) and the Quarterly 

Report of Class I Motor Carriers of 

Property (Form QFR) are mandated 

reporting requirements for all for-hire 

motor carriers (See 49 U.S.C. 14123; and 

implementing FMCSA regulations at 49 

CFR part 369). The Secretary of 

Transportation (Secretary) has exercised 

his discretion under section 14123 to 

also require Class I property carriers 

(including dual-property carriers), Class 

I household goods carriers and Class I 

passenger carriers to file quarterly 

reports. 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 

property 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. 

The regulations were formerly 

administered by the Interstate 

Commerce Commission and later 

transferred to the Secretary on January 

1, 1996, by section 103 of the ICC 

Termination Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104– 

88, 109 Stat. 803 (Dec. 29, 1995)), now 

codified at 49 U.S.C. 14123. On 

September 30, 1998, the Secretary 

delegated and transferred the authority 

to administer the F&OS program to the 

former Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics (BTS), now part of the 

Research and Innovative Technology 

Administration (RITA), to former 

chapter XI, subchapter B of 49 CFR part 

1420 (63 FR 52192). 

On September 29, 2004, the Secretary 

transferred the responsibility for the 

F&OS program from BTS to FMCSA in 

the belief that the program was more 

aligned with FMCSA’s mission and its 

other motor carrier responsibilities (69 

FR 51009). On August 10, 2006, the 

Secretary published a final rule (71 FR 

45740) that transferred and redesignated 

certain motor carrier financial and 

statistical reporting regulations of BTS, 

that were formerly located at chapter XI, 

subchapter B of title 49 CFR part 1420, 

to FMCSA under chapter III of title 49 

CFR part 369. 

FMCSA plans to initiate a regulatory 

proceeding in the near future that will 


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Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 77 / Friday, April 20, 2012 / Notices 23793 

1For purposes of the Financial & Operating 

Statistics (F&OS) program, passenger carriers are 

classified into the following two groups: (1) Class 

I carriers are those having average annual gross 

transportation operating revenues (including 

interstate and intrastate) of $5 million or more from 

passenger motor carrier operations after applying 

the revenue deflator formula in the Note of section 

Continued 

result in the elimination of two 

quarterly reporting requirements that 

are currently reported to OMB under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501–3520). These forms 

include: (1) Form QFR Quarterly for 

property carriers, authorized by OMB 

under information collection 2126– 

0033; and (2) the Class I passenger 

carrier financial quarterly survey (MP– 

1 Quarterly), authorized by OMB under 

information collection 2126–0031. The 

FMCSA does not have the statutory 

authority to eliminate the annual 

reporting requirements for property or 

passengers. FMCSA will be publishing a 

direct final rule that will include 

additional information, including the 

reduced paperwork burden, resulting 

from this future action. 

Title: Annual Report of Class I and 

Class II Motor Carriers of Property 

(formerly OMB Control Number 2139– 

0004). 

New OMB Control Number: 2126– 

0032. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Class I and Class II 

Motor Carriers of Property. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

197 (per year). 

Estimated Time per Response: 9 

hours. 

Expiration Date: September 30, 2012. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

1,773 hours [197 respondents × 9 hours 

to complete form = 1,773]. 

Title: Quarterly Report of Class I 

Motor Carriers of Property (formerly 

OMB Control Number 2139–0002). 

New OMB Control Number: 2126– 

0033. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of 

Property. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

111. 

Estimated Time per Response: 1.8 

hours (27 minutes per quarter). 

Expiration Date: September 30, 2012. 

Frequency of Response: Quarterly. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 200 

hours [111 respondents × 1.8 hours to 

complete forms = 200]. 

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 agency to perform its 

mission; (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. The agency 

will summarize or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Issued on: April 12, 2012. 

Kelly Leone, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9548 Filed 4–19–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2012–0048] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Extension of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection: 

Annual and Quarterly Report of Class 

I Motor Carriers of Passengers 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) its request to revise a currentlyapproved information collection for 

Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers, 

(Form MP–1) entitled, ‘‘Annual and 

Quarterly Reports.’’ This information 

collection is necessary to ensure that 

motor carriers comply with financial 

and operating statistics requirements at 

49 CFR part 369. The agency invites 

public comments on this information 

request. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before June 19, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2012–0048 using any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 20590– 

0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 

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

except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the Agency name and docket 

number. For detailed instructions on 

submitting comments, see the Public 

Participation heading below. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

see the Privacy Act heading below. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, and follow the 

online instructions for accessing the 

dockets, or go to the street address listed 

above. 

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 for the Federal Docket 

Management System published in the 

Federal Register on January 17, 2008 

(73 FR 3316), or you may visit http:// 

edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8- 

794.pdf. 

Public Participation: The Federal 

eRulemaking Portal is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. You 

can obtain electronic submission and 

retrieval help and guidelines under the 

‘‘help’’ section of the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you 

want us to notify you that we received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard, or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting 

comments online. Comments received 

after the comment closing date will be 

included in the docket and will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Vivian Oliver, Office of Research and 

Information Technology, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, West Building 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–2974; email 

Vivian.Oliver@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: For-hire Class I motor 

carriers of passengers (including 

interstate and intrastate) 1 are required 


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