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Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jeffrey Secrist, Office of Registration and 

Safety Information, DOT, FMCSA, West 

Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, 

202–385–2367, Jeffrey.secrist@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Motor Carrier Identification 

Report. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0013. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents: Motor carriers, freight 

forwarders, intermodal equipment 

providers, brokers, motor carriers with 

hazardous materials (HM) safety permit, 

cargo tank facilities and Mexican motor 

carriers. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

416,630 respondents [412,479 

respondents for IC–1 + 2,112 

respondents for IC–2 + 2,039 

respondents for IC–3 = 416,630]. 

Estimated Time per Response: IC–1: 

20 minutes for new filings and 7.5 

minutes for biennial updates and 

changes to complete the Form MCS– 

150. IC–2: 26 minutes for new filings 

and five minutes for biennial updates 

and changes to complete the Form 

MCS–150B. IC–3: 20 minutes for new 

filings and 7.5 minutes for biennial 

updates and changes to complete the 

Form MCS–150C. 

Expiration Date: July 31, 2022. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion 

and biennially. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

116,072 hours [114,864 hours for IC–1 + 

530 hours for IC–2 + 678 hours for IC– 

3 = 116,072 hours]. 

Background: Title 49, United States 

Code Section 504(b)(2) provides the 

Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) 

with authority to require carriers, 

lessors, associations, or classes of these 

entities to file annual, periodic, and 

special reports containing answers to 

questions asked by the Secretary. The 

Secretary may also prescribe the form of 

records required to be prepared or 

compiled and the time period during 

which records must be preserved (See 

§ 504(b)(1) and (d)). FMCSA will use 

this data to administer its safety 

programs using a database of entities 

that are subject to its regulations. This 

database necessitates that these entities 

notify FMCSA of their existence. For 

example, under 49 CFR 390.19(a), 

FMCSA requires all motor carriers 

beginning operations to file a Form 

MCS–150 titled, ‘‘Motor Carrier 

Identification Report,’’ or MCS–150B 

titled, ‘‘Combined Motor Carrier 

Identification Report and HM Permit 

Applications.’’ This report is filed by all 

motor carriers conducting operations in 

interstate commerce, in intrastate 

commerce when transporting hazardous 

materials, or in international commerce 

before beginning operations. It asks the 

respondent to provide the name of the 

business entity that owns and controls 

the motor carrier operation; the address 

and telephone of its principal place of 

business; its assigned identification 

number(s), type of operation, and 

type(s) of cargo usually transported; 

number of vehicles owned, term leased, 

and trip leased; driver information; and 

a certification statement signed by an 

individual authorized to sign 

documents on behalf of the business 

entity. 

Existing applicants will use the MCS– 

150 or MCS–150B to update their 

information in the Motor Carrier 

Management Information System. 

Applicants filing for the first time will 

be required to file online. Form MCS– 

150 or MCS–150B will be used for 

Mexico-domiciled carriers that seek 

authority to operate beyond the United 

States municipalities on the United 

States-Mexico border and their 

commercial zones. The information 

collected from the respondents is 

readily available to the public. This 

revised ICR captures the burden of 

continued use of the MCS–150 or MCS– 

150B for motor carriers updating their 

registration information and for the 

registration of Mexico-domiciled 

carriers. 

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 performance of 

FMCSA’s functions; (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. 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 

1.87. 

Thomas P. Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14629 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2021–0189] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Renewal of an Approved 

Information Collection: Hours of 

Service (HOS) of Drivers Regulations 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA) announces its 

plan to submit the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) described 

below to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for its review and 

approval and invites public comment. 

FMCSA requests approval to renew an 

ICR titled, ‘‘Hours of Service (HOS) of 

Drivers Regulations.’’ The HOS 

regulations require a motor carrier to 

install, and requires each of its drivers 

subject to the record of duty status 

(RODS) rule to use, an electronic logging 

device (ELD) to report the driver’s 

RODS. The RODS is critical to FMCSA’s 

safety mission because it helps 

enforcement officials determine if 

commercial motor vehicle (CMV) 

drivers are complying with the HOS 

rules limiting driver on-duty and 

driving time and requiring periodic offduty time. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or before August 10, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this information 

collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under 

30-day Review—Open for Public 

Comments’’ or by using the search 

function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Pearlie Robinson, FMCSA Driver and 

Carrier Operations Division, DOT, 

FMCSA, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590, (202) 366–4225, MCPSD@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Hours of Service (HOS) of 

Drivers Regulations. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0001. 

Type of Request: Renewal of an 

information collection. 


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Respondents: Motor Carriers of 

Property and Passengers, Drivers of 

CMVs. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

4.24 million CMV drivers; 602,542 

Motor Carriers. 

Estimated Time per Response: CMV 

drivers using technology: 2 minutes. 

Motor Carriers: 2 minutes. 

Expiration Date: July 31, 2022. 

Frequency of Response: Drivers: 240 

days per year; Motor carriers 240 days 

per year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

50.37 million hours. 

Background: 

CMV drivers are limited in how long 

they may remain in an on-duty or 

driving status over specified periods of 

time. The regulations outlining those 

limits are found at 49 CFR part 395 and 

are known as the ‘‘HOS regulations.’’ 

The HOS regulations require a motor 

carrier to install, and requires each of its 

drivers subject to the RODS rule to use, 

an ELD to report the driver’s RODS. 

These RODS are used to enforce 

compliance with the HOS regulations. 

As a condition of receiving certain 

federal grants, States agree to adopt and 

enforce the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations, including the HOS 

regulations, as State law. As a result, 

State enforcement inspectors use the 

RODS and supporting documents to 

determine whether CMV drivers are 

complying with the HOS regulations. In 

addition, FMCSA uses the RODS during 

on-site and offsite investigations of 

motor carriers and Federal and State 

courts rely upon the RODS as evidence 

of driver and motor carrier violations of 

the HOS regulations. This information 

collection supports DOT’s Strategic Goal 

of Safety because the information helps 

the agency ensure the safe operation of 

CMVs in interstate commerce. 

Renewal of This Information Collection 

(IC) 

The current IC burden estimate of the 

HOS rules, approved by OMB on July 

31, 2019, is 41.04 million hours. The 

expiration date of the current ICR is July 

31, 2022. Through this ICR renewal, 

FMCSA requests a revision of the 

paperwork burden of 2126–0001. The 

Agency requests an increase in the 

burden hours from 41.04 million hours 

to 50.37 million hours. The increase is 

the result of the increase in estimated 

driver population as well as the increase 

in expected industry growth rate for 

drivers from 2020 to 2030. Two types of 

information are collected under this IC: 

(1) drivers’ RODS commonly referred to 

as a logbook, and (2) supporting 

documents, such as gasoline and toll 

receipts, that motor carriers use to verify 

accuracy of RODS and document 

expense deductions for income tax 

filing purposes. The use of ELDs 

reduces the driver’s time to input duty 

status from 6.5 minutes to 2 minutes. 

This IC includes only the estimate of 2 

minutes for drivers and motor carriers. 

On March 18, 2022, FMCSA 

published a 60-day notice in the Federal 

Register requesting public comments on 

the proposed revision of this 

information collection (87 FR 15488). 

The Agency received comments filed 

jointly by the Truck Safety Coalition 

(TSC), Citizens for Reliable and Safe 

Highways, and Parents Against Tired 

Truckers and their volunteers in support 

of this IC. The TSC wrote, ‘‘Our 

organizations strongly support FMCSA’s 

continuation of the collection Record of 

Duty Status (RODS) records from 

Electronic Logging Devices (ELDs) as 

well as the supporting documentation, 

to have the information needed to 

inform safety-oriented rulemaking and 

life-saving enforcement activities related 

to HOS.’’ 

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 performance of 

FMCSA’s functions; (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 information 

collected. 

The Agency will summarize or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this ICR. 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87. 

Thomas P. Keane, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Registration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14628 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2022–0081] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Renewal of an Approved 

Information Collection: Safe Driver 

Apprenticeship Pilot Program 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and 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 its 

review and approval and invites public 

comment. FMCSA requests approval to 

renew the ICR titled ‘‘Safe Driver 

Apprenticeship Pilot Program.’’ This 

ICR was previously approved under 

emergency procedures on January 24, 

2022 and expires on July 31, 2022. The 

ICR is necessary for FMCSA to conduct 

a pilot program to determine the safety 

impacts of allowing 18- to 20-year-old 

commercial driver’s license (CDL) 

holders to operate commercial motor 

vehicles (CMVs) in interstate commerce. 

The ICR will cover data collected on 

drivers and carriers participating in the 

pilot program. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

August 10, 2022. OMB must receive 

your comments by this date in order to 

act quickly on the ICR. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nicole Michel, Office of Analysis, 

Research, and Technology, Research 

Division, DOT, FMCSA, West Building, 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 202–366– 

4354; Nicole.michel@dot.gov. Office 

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

through Friday, except Federal 

Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Current regulations on 

driver qualifications (49 CFR part 

391.11(b)(1)) state that a driver must be 

21 years of age or older to operate a 

CMV in interstate commerce. Currently, 

drivers under the age of 21 may operate 

CMVs only in intrastate commerce 

subject to State laws and regulations. 

Section 23022 of the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), requires 

the Secretary of Transportation to 

conduct a commercial driver 

Apprenticeship Pilot Program. An 

apprentice is defined as a person under 

the age of 21 who holds a CDL. Under 

this program, these apprentices will 

complete two probationary periods, 

during which they may operate in 

interstate commerce only under the 

supervision of an experienced driver in 

the passenger seat. An experienced 


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