23082 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 88 / Monday, May 7, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA–2000–8210]

Notice of Request To Renew Approval

of an Information Collection: OMB No.

2126–0011 (Commercial Driver

Licensing and Test Standards)

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for

comments.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

FMCSA intends to submit a request to

the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for renewed approval of the

information collection described below.

This information collection is needed to

ensure that motor carriers and the States

are complying with notification

requirements for information about

licensing, violations, convictions, and

disqualifications within certain time

periods as required by the Commercial

Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986

(CMVSA), as amended. This notice is

required by the Paperwork Reduction

Act.

DATES: Your comments must be

submitted by July 6, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver

comments to the U.S. Department of

Transportation, Dockets Management

Facility, Room PL–401, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590, or

submit electronically at http://

dmses.dot.gov/submit. Be sure to

include the docket number appearing in

the heading of this document on your

comment. All comments received will

be available for examination and

copying at the above address from 9

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

Friday, except Federal holidays. If you

would like to be notified when your

comment is received, you must include

a self-addressed, stamped postcard or

you may print the acknowledgment

page that appears after submitting

comments electronically.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Larry Slade, (202) 366–5721, Office of

Safety Programs, State Programs

Division (MC–ESS), Federal Motor

Carrier Safety Administration, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC,

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

to 4 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday,

except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title:

Commercial Driver Licensing and Test

Standards.

OMB Number: 2126–0011.

Background: In 1986, Congress

enacted the Commercial Motor Vehicle

Safety Act (CMVSA), Pub. L. 99–570,

Title XII, among other things, to

establish minimum standards for testing

and licensing persons who want to

operate a commercial motor vehicle

(CMV) by weight or use category, and

requiring drivers to have a single

commercial driver’s license (CDL) and

driving history record. Under 49 CFR

383.5, a CMV is defined as a motor

vehicle or combination of motor

vehicles which: (a) has a gross

combination weight rating of 11,794 or

more kilograms (kg) (26,001 or more

pounds (lbs)) inclusive of a towed unit

with a gross vehicle weight rating

(GVWR) of more than 4,536 kg (10,000

lbs); (b) has a GVWR of 11,794 kg or

more (26,001 or more lbs); (c) is

designed to transport 16 or more

passengers, including the driver; or (d)

is of any size and is used to transport

hazardous materials which require the

motor vehicle to be placarded under the

Hazardous Materials Regulations, 49

CFR part 172, subpart F.

The CMVSA requires a driver to

notify both their employer and the

licensing official in the driver’s State of

licensure of all violations of any State or

local laws relating to traffic control

(except parking violations). A person

whose CDL is suspended, revoked, or

canceled by a State, or who is

disqualified from operating a CMV for

any period, also must notify their

employer of such actions. A person

applying for employment as a CMV

driver also must notify prospective

employers of their employment history

as a CMV driver for the previous ten

years.

Under section 31309, Title 49, U.S.C.

(49 U.S.C. 31309), the Secretary of

Transportation must maintain an

information clearinghouse and

depository of information about the

issuance of license, identification, and

disqualification of CMV operators, in

conjunction with § 31106. The Secretary

must consult with the States in carrying

out this section. States must certify that

they are in compliance with the CDL

program. If a State does not

substantially comply with these

requirements, the FMCSA may penalize

the State until compliance is achieved.

The information required to be collected

by the States will be used to determine

whether the States are in substantial

compliance with these requirements.

This request for renewed approval

includes additional burdens for

recordkeeping requirements under 49

CFR 384.231(d) concerning retention

and updating of driver records on the

Commercial Driver’s License

Information System (CDLIS).

Respondents: Motor carriers, CMV

drivers, and State government.

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

938,995 hours. The information

collection is comprised of four

components:

(1) Notification of convictions:

Estimated number of annual responses =

3,333,333 (10 million CDL drivers/3 =

3,333,333). It takes approximately 10

minutes to notify a motor carrier

concerning convictions. Each driver

averages approximately 1 conviction

every 3 years. The notification

requirement has an estimated annual

burden of 555,556 burden hours. (10

million /3 × 10/60 = 555,556 hours);

(2) Employment history: Estimated

annual turnover rate = 14%. There are

an estimated 1,400,000 annual

responses to this requirement (10

million × .14 = 1,400,000). It takes

approximately 15 minutes to complete

this requirement. The employment

history requirement has an estimated

annual burden of 350,000 hours (10

million × .25 × .14 = 350,000 hours);

(3) State compliance and certification:

There are 51 responses to this

requirement (50 States and the District

of Columbia). The compliance and

certification requirement has an

estimated annual burden of 1,632 hours

(51 × 32 hours = 1,632 hours); and

(4) CDLIS Recordkeeping: 50 States

and the District of Columbia are

required to enter data into CDLIS and to

perform record checks before issuing,

renewing or upgrading a CDL or

allowing a CDL transfer. We estimate

that the average amount of time for each

CDLIS inquiry is 2 minutes. The total

burden hours is 31,807 for these

combined activities: 10, 761 hours for

all States to create a new driver; 3,560

hours for all States to change the state

of record; and 17,486 hours for all States

to change data.

Public Comments Invited

We invite you to comment on any

aspect of this information collection,

including, but not limited to (1) whether

the collection of information is

necessary for the proper performance of

the functions of the FMCSA, including

whether the information is practical and

useful; (2) the accuracy of the estimated

burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,

usefulness, and clarity of the collected

information; and (4) ways to minimize

the collection burden without reducing

the quality of the information collected.

Electronic Access and Filing

You may submit or retrieve comments

online through the Docket Management

Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 88 / Monday, May 7, 2001 / Notices 23083

1On April 25, 2001, a petition to stay the effective

date of the exemption was filed by Joseph C. Szabo,

for and on behalf of United Transportation UnionIllinois Legislative Board. The petition for stay was

denied in The Central Illinois Railroad Company–

Acquisition and Operation Exemption–Rail Lines of

Union Pacific Railroad Company and Canadian

Pacific Rail System at Elk Grove Village, Cook and

DuPage Counties, IL, STB Finance Docket No.

34035 (STB served Apr. 27, 2001).

System (DMS) at http://dmses.dot.gov/

submit. Acceptable formats include: MS

Word (versions 95 to 97), MS Word for

Mac (versions 6 to 8), Rich Text File

(RTF), American Standard Code

Information Interchange (ASCII)(TXT),

Portable Document Format (PDF), and

WordPerfect (versions 7 to 8). The DMS

is available 24 hours each day, 365 days

each year. Electronic submission and

retrieval help and guidelines are

available under the help section of the

web site. You may also download an

electronic copy of this document from

the DOT Docket Management System on

the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov/

search.htm. Please include the docket

number appearing in the heading of this

document.

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act

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

and 49 CFR 1.73.

Issued on: May 2, 2001.

Brian M. McLaughlin,

Acting Deputy Administrator.

[FR Doc. 01–11417 Filed 5–4–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Finance Docket No. 34035]

The Central Illinois Railroad Company–

Acquisition and Operation Exemption–

Rail Lines of Union Pacific Railroad

Company and Canadian Pacific Rail

System at Elk Grove Village, Cook and

DuPage Counties, IL

The Central Illinois Railroad

Company (CIRY), a Class III rail carrier,

has filed a verified notice of exemption

under 49 CFR 1150.41 to acquire by

lease and operate rail lines owned by

the Union Pacific Railroad Company

(UP) and the Canadian Pacific Rail

System (CP). CIRY describes the track in

greater detail as follows: the Centex

Industrial Park Trackage owned by UP,

or jointly by UP and CP, beginning at

the west edge of York Road, which is

the west end of UP’s approximately 800-

foot Elk Grove lead track that extends

from UP’s Milwaukee Subdivision, at

milepost 7.8, consisting of

approximately 25 miles of tracks.1

The transaction was scheduled to be

consummated no earlier than April 30,

2001, the effective date of the exemption

(7 days after the exemption was filed).

If the verified notice contains false or

misleading information, the exemption

is void ab initio. Petitions to reopen the

proceeding to revoke the exemption

under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) may be filed

at any time. The filing of a petition to

revoke will not automatically stay the

transaction.

An original and 10 copies of all

pleadings, referring to STB Finance

Docket No. 34035, must be filed with

the Surface Transportation Board, Office

of the Secretary, Case Control Unit, 1925

K Street, N.W., Washington, DC 20423–

0001. In addition, a copy of each

pleading must be served on Thomas F.

McFarland, Jr., Esq., McFarland &

Herman, 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite

1330, Chicago, IL 60606–2902.

Board decisions and notices are

available on our website at

www.stb.dot.gov.

Decided: May 1, 2001.

By the Board, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–11367 Filed 5–4–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4915–00–P

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS

AFFAIRS

[OMB Control No. 2900–0144]

Proposed Information Collection

Activity: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits

Administration, Department of Veterans

Affairs.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Veterans Benefits

Administration (VBA), Department of

Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an

opportunity for public comment on the

proposed collection of certain

information by the agency. Under the

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of

1995, Federal agencies are required to

publish notice in the Federal Register

concerning each proposed collection of

information, including each proposed

extension of a currently approved

collection, and allow 60 days for public

comment in response to the notice. This

notice solicits comments on information

needed on the residential loan

application.

DATES: Written comments and

recommendations on the proposed

collection of information should be

received on or before July 6, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

on the collection of information to

Nancy J. Kessinger, Veterans Benefits

Administration (20S52), Department of

Veterans Affairs, 810 Vermont Avenue,

NW., Washington, DC 20420 or

irmnkess@vba.gov. Please refer to ‘‘OMB

Control No. 2900–0144’’ in any

correspondence.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Nancy J. Kessinger at (202) 273–7079 or

FAX (202) 275–5947.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

PRA of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13; 44 U.S.C.,

3501–3520), Federal agencies must

obtain approval from the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for each

collection of information they conduct

or sponsor. This request for comment is

being made pursuant to Section

3506(c)(2)(A) of the PRA.

With respect to the following

collection of information, VBA invites

comments on: (1) Whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of VBA’s

functions, including whether the

information will have practical utility;

(2) the accuracy of VBA’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information; (3) ways to enhance the

quality, utility, and clarity of the

information to be collected; and (4)

ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on

respondents, including through the use

of automated collection techniques or

the use of other forms of information

technology.

Title: HUD/VA Addendum to Uniform

Residential Loan Application, VA Form

26–1802a, and Freddie Mac 65/Fannie

Mae Form 1003, Uniform Residential

Loan Application.

OMB Control Number: 2900–0144.

Type of Review: Extension of a

currently approved collection.

Abstract: VA Form 26–1802a serves as

a joint loan application for both VA and

the Department of Housing and Urban

Development (HUD). Lenders and

veterans use the form to apply for

guaranty of home loans.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households and Business or other forprofit.

Estimated Annual Burden: 20,000

hours.

Estimated Average Burden Per

Respondent: 6 minutes.

Frequency of Response: On occasion.

Estimated Number of Respondents:

200,000.

Dated: March 30, 2001.