8122 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 31 / Wednesday, February 17, 2016 / Notices 

• Performance of systems integrator 

against agreed-upon objectives; 

• Desired adjustments and 

modifications to systems; 

• Demonstrated value of investment 

to FMCSA and DOT; 

• Items about the FMCSA Portal that 

customers like best; and 

• Customer ideas for making the 

FMCSA Portal better. 

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 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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 

on: February 5, 2016. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2016–03180 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA 2015–0508] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Extension of a Currently 

Approved Collection: Driver 

Qualification Files 

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 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for its 

review and approval, and invites public 

comment. The Agency’s regulations 

pertaining to the qualification of 

operators of commercial motor vehicles 

(CMVs) are unchanged and impose no 

increased information-collection (IC) 

burden on individual drivers and motor 

carriers. However, the Agency increases 

its estimate of the total IC burden of 

these regulations because both the 

number of CMV drivers and the 

frequency of their hiring have increased 

since the Agency’s 2012 estimate of this 

burden. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before April 18, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System Number FMCSA2015–0508 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: In accordance with 5 

U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments 

from the public to better inform its 

rulemaking process. DOT posts these 

comments, without edit, including any 

personal information the commenter 

provides, to www.regulations.gov, as 

described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy. 

• 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: Mr. 

Robert F. Schultz, FMCSA Driver and 

Carrier Operations Division, Department 

of Transportation, FMCSA, West 

Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, 20590. 

Telephone: 202–366–4325. Email: 

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 to issue 

regulations pertaining to commercial 

motor vehicle (CMV) safety. These 

regulations are also issued under the 

authority provided by 49 U.S.C. 504, 

31133, 31136, and 31502. Part 391 of 

volume 49 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations contains the minimum 

qualifications of drivers of CMVs in 

interstate commerce. 

Motor carriers may not require or 

permit an unqualified driver to operate 

a CMV. The foremost proof of driver 

qualification is the information that part 

391 requires be collected and 

maintained in the driver qualification 

file (DQ file). Motor carriers must obtain 

this information from sources specified 

in the regulations (49 CFR 391.51). 

These include the driver, previous 

employers of the driver, and officials of 

the State of driver licensure. 

Motor carriers are not required to 

forward driver qualification information 

to FMCSA, but must maintain the 

information in a DQ file. The DQ file of 

each driver must be made available to 

State and Federal safety investigators on 

demand. 

The Agency is asking OMB to approve 

FMCSA’s revised estimate of the 

paperwork burden imposed by its DQ 

file regulations. The regulations have 

not been amended; the informationcollection (IC) burden imposed on 

individual drivers and motor carriers by 

the regulations is unchanged. However, 

the Agency has increased its estimate of 

the total IC burden of the DQ-file 

regulations because both the number of 

CMV drivers and the turnover rate in 

their hiring have increased since the 

Agency’s 2012 estimate of this burden. 

The increase in the number of CMV 

drivers is partly the result of the Agency 

being directed by OMB to include 

intrastate as well as interstate drivers in 

the population of drivers incurring an IC 

burden under the DQ file regulations. 

The Agency had excluded intrastate 

drivers from its previous estimate, 

approved by OMB on July 8, 2013, on 

the ground that drivers who operate 

exclusively in intrastate commerce were 

maintaining DQ files pursuant to State, 

not Federal, law. 

Title: Driver Qualification Files. 


asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 31 / Wednesday, February 17, 2016 / Notices 8123 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0004. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved ICR. 

Respondents: Motor carriers and 

drivers of commercial motor vehicles. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

6.2 million (5.7 million drivers and .5 

million motor carriers. 

Estimated Time per Response: 28 

minutes (average). 

Expiration Date: July 31, 2016. 

Frequency of Response: Responses to 

some regulatory requirements of the 

driver qualification rules occur on a 

random basis. Other responses occur 

more predictably. Some responses recur; 

others do not. For example, motor 

carriers are required to obtain and 

review the motor vehicle driving record 

of their drivers from the State of 

licensure. They must complete this task 

at the time of hiring and every year 

thereafter. The time-of-hiring 

requirement results in a random 

frequency of response, but, thereafter, 

the annual requirement results in a 

fixed frequency of response. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 9.8 

million hours. 

Definitions 

(1) ‘‘Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Regulations’’ (FMCSRs) are parts 350–399 of 

Title 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations. 

(2) ‘‘Commercial Motor Vehicle’’ (CMV) is ‘‘a 

self-propelled or towed vehicle used on the 

highways in interstate commerce to transport 

passengers or property, if the vehicle— 

(A) has a gross vehicle weight rating or 

gross combination weight rating, or gross 

vehicle weight or gross combination weight, 

of at least 10,001 pounds, whichever is 

greater; 

(B) is designed or used to transport more 

than 8 passengers (including the driver) for 

compensation; 

(C) is designed or used to transport more 

than 15 passengers, including the driver, and 

is not used to transport passengers for 

compensation; or 

(D) is used in transporting material found 

by the Secretary of Transportation to be 

hazardous under section 5103 of this title 

and transported in a quantity requiring 

placarding under regulations prescribed by 

the Secretary under section 5103.’’ 

Public Comments Invited 

FMCSA requests that you comment 

on any aspect of this information 

collection, including: (1) Whether the 

proposed collection is necessary for 

FMCSA to perform its 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 collected 

information. The agency will summarize 

or include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 

on February 5, 2016. 

Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2016–03183 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[Docket No. MARAD–2016 0009] 

Requested Administrative Waiver of 

the Coastwise Trade Laws: Vessel 

TEMOANANUIAKIVA; Invitation for 

Public Comments 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: As authorized by 46 U.S.C. 

12121, the Secretary of Transportation, 

as represented by the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD), is authorized 

to grant waivers of the U.S.-build 

requirement of the coastwise laws under 

certain circumstances. A request for 

such a waiver has been received by 

MARAD. The vessel, and a brief 

description of the proposed service, is 

listed below. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 23, 2016. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to 

docket number MARAD–2016–0009. 

Written comments may be submitted by 

hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Docket Operations, M–30, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. You may also 

send comments electronically via the 

Internet at http://www.regulations.gov. 

All comments will become part of this 

docket and will be available for 

inspection and copying at the above 

address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

E.T., Monday through Friday, except 

federal holidays. An electronic version 

of this document and all documents 

entered into this docket is available on 

the World Wide Web at http://

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bianca Carr, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Maritime 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Room W23–465, 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202– 

366–9309, Email Bianca.carr@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As 

described by the applicant the intended 

service of the vessel 

TEMOANANUIAKIVA is: 

INTENDED COMMERCIAL USE OF 

VESSEL: ‘‘Snorkel and sailing day use’’ 

GEOGRAPHIC REGION: ‘‘Hawaii’’ 

The complete application is given in 

DOT docket MARAD–2016–0009 at 

http://www.regulations.gov. Interested 

parties may comment on the effect this 

action may have on U.S. vessel builders 

or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.- 

flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in 

accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and 

MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part 

388, that the issuance of the waiver will 

have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.- 

vessel builder or a business that uses 

U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a 

waiver will not be granted. Comments 

should refer to the docket number of 

this notice and the vessel name in order 

for MARAD to properly consider the 

comments. Comments should also state 

the commenter’s interest in the waiver 

application, and address the waiver 

criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s 

regulations at 46 CFR part 388. 

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 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78). 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Dated: February 4, 2016. 

Gabriel Chavez, 

Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2016–03001 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2015–0127; Notice 1] 

Graco Children’s Products, Inc., 

Receipt of Petition for Decision of 

Inconsequential Noncompliance 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Receipt of petition. 

SUMMARY: Graco Children’s Products, 

Inc. (Graco), has determined that certain 

Graco Milestone child restraints 


asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES