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III. Docket Information 

FMCSA plans to put a record of this 

meeting in the docket for this notice. 

The Agency requests that ELD providers 

and members of the public who cannot 

participate in this online listening 

session submit written comments to the 

docket as soon as practicable. FMCSA 

plans to docket any written materials it 

receives during the meeting. 

Issued on: February 5, 2016. 

Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator Office of Research 

and Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2016–03181 Filed 2–16–16; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2015–0332] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Extension of a CurrentlyApproved Information Collection 

Request: Information Technology 

Services Survey Portal Customer 

Satisfaction Assessment (formerly 

COMPASS Portal Consumer 

Satisfaction Assessment) 

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 collection involves an 

extension to a currently-approved ICR, 

and includes the assessment of 

FMCSA’s strategic decision to integrate 

its Information Technology (IT) with its 

business processes using portal 

technology to consolidate its systems 

and databases through the FMCSA 

Information Technology Services 

Survey modernization initiative. The 

information to be collected will be used 

to assess the satisfaction of Federal, 

State, and industry customers with the 

FMCSA Information Technology 

Services Survey Portal. The name of the 

‘‘COMPASS Portal Customer 

Satisfaction Assessment,’’ ICR was 

previously changed to ‘‘Information 

Technology Services Survey Portal 

Customer Satisfaction Assessment,’’ to 

reflect the need for a broader term than 

‘‘COMPASS’’ for the portal. On October 

27, 2015, FMCSA published a Federal 

Register notice (80 FR 65847) allowing 

for a 60-day comment period on this 

ICR. The agency received no comments 

in response to that notice. 

DATES: Please send your comments to 

this notice by March 18, 2016. OMB 

must receive your comments by this 

date to act quickly on the ICR. 

ADDRESSES: All comments should 

reference Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2015–0332. Interested persons 

are invited to submit written comments 

on the proposed information collection 

to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget. Comments 

should be addressed to the attention of 

the Desk Officer, Department of 

Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, and sent via 

electronic mail to oira_submission@

omb.eop.gov, faxed to (202) 395–6974, 

or mailed to the Office of Information 

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, Docket 

Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street 

NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Katherine Cooper, Department of 

Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration, West Building 

6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–3843 email: katherine.cooper@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Information Technology 

Services Survey Portal Customer 

Satisfaction Assessment. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0042. 

Type of Request: Extension of the 

currently-approved information 

collection request. 

Respondents: Federal, State, and 

industry customers/users. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

3,392. 

Estimated Time per Response: Five (5) 

minutes. 

Expiration Date: 05/31/2016. 

Frequency of Response: 4 times per 

year. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 283 

hours [91 hours (273 industry user 

respondents × 5 minutes/60 minutes to 

complete survey × 4 times per year) + 

192 hours (575 Federal and State 

government respondents × 5 minutes/60 

minutes to complete survey × 4 times 

per year) = 283]. 

Background 

Title II, section 207 of the EGovernment Act of 2002 requires 

Government agencies to improve the 

methods by which government 

information, including information on 

the Internet, is organized, preserved, 

and made accessible to the public. To 

meet this goal, FMCSA plans to provide 

a survey on the FMCSA Portal, allowing 

users to assess its functionality. This 

functionality includes the capability for 

Federal, State, and industry users to 

access the Agency’s existing safety IT 

systems with a single set of credentials 

and have easy access to safety data 

about the companies that do business 

with FMCSA. The Information 

Technology program will also focus on 

improving the accuracy of data to help 

ensure information, such as carrier 

name and address, is valid and reliable. 

FMCSA’s legacy information systems 

are currently operational. However, 

having many stand-alone systems has 

led to data quality concerns, a need for 

excessive IDs and passwords, and 

significant operational and maintenance 

costs. Integrating our information 

technologies with our business 

processes will, in turn, improve our 

operations considerably, particularly in 

terms of data quality, ease of use, and 

a reduction of maintenance costs. 

In early 2007, FMCSA’s Information 

Technology program launched a series 

of releases of a new FMCSA Portal to its 

Federal, State and industry customers. 

Over the coming years, more than 15 

releases are planned. These releases will 

use portal technology to fuse and 

provide numerous services and 

functions via a single user interface and 

provide tailored services that seek to 

meet the needs of specific 

constituencies within our customer 

universe. 

The FMCSA Information Technology 

Services Survey Portal will entail 

considerable expenditure of Federal 

Government dollars over the years and 

will fundamentally impact the nature of 

the relationship between the Agency 

and its Federal, State, and industry 

customers. Consequently, the Agency 

intends to conduct regular and ongoing 

assessments of customer satisfaction 

with the Information Technology 

Services Survey. 

The primary purposes of this 

assessment are to: 

• Determine the extent to which the 

FMCSA Portal functionality continues 

to meet the needs of Agency customers; 

• Identify and prioritize additional 

modifications; and 

• Determine the extent that the 

FMCSA Portal has impacted FMCSA’s 

relationships with its main customer 

groups. 

The assessment will address: 

• Overall customer satisfaction; 

• Customer satisfaction against 

specific items; 


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• 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. 


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