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accident, city or town in which or most 

near where the accident occurred, the 

State in which the accident occurred, 

driver name, number of injuries, 

number of fatalities, and whether 

hazardous materials, other than fuel 

spilled from the fuel tanks of motor 

vehicles involved in the accident, were 

released. In addition, the register must 

contain copies of all accident reports 

required by State or other governmental 

entities or insurers. Motor carriers must 

maintain the required information in the 

Accident Register for 3 years after the 

date of the accident. 

This IC strengthens FMCSA’s ability 

to assess motor carrier safety 

performance. These assessments enable 

FMCSA to direct its enforcement 

resources to the motor carriers with the 

weakest safety records, helping those 

carriers prevent accidents and reduce 

their severity. 

On February 8, 2008, OMB approved 

FMCSA’s estimate for this IC of 32,040 

annual burden hours and established an 

expiration date for this IC of February 

28, 2011. Today FMCSA announces its 

plan to request that OMB approve 

revision of this estimate to 22,500 

annual burden hours. 

Title: Accident Recordkeeping 

Requirements. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0009. 

Type of Request: Revision of an ICR. 

Respondents: Motor carriers engaged 

in interstate commerce. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

500,000. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

75,000. 

Estimated Time per Response: 18 

minutes. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Expiration Date: February 28, 2011. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

22,500 hours. 

Improved FMCSA accident data 

provides a more accurate estimate of the 

total responses to this information 

collection each year: 75,000. The 

Agency’s previous estimate was 106,800 

responses. FMCSA retains its prior 

estimate that a motor carrier requires 

approximately 18 minutes, on average, 

to complete the tasks necessary to 

comply with § 390.15, i.e., collecting the 

required information about the accident, 

entering it into the Accident Register 

and maintaining it and other documents 

required by § 390.15. Therefore, the 

annual burden hours for all motor 

carriers is 22,500 hours (rounded) 

(75,000 responses × 18 minutes each 

divided by 60 minutes per hour). 

Definitions: Each of these definitions 

can be found at 49 CFR 390.5: ‘‘Motor 

carrier’’: Any person engaged in a 

business affecting interstate commerce 

who owns or leases a commercial motor 

vehicle in connection with that 

business, or assigns employees to 

operate it. ‘‘Commercial motor vehicle’’: 

A self-propelled or towed vehicle used 

on the highways in interstate commerce 

to transport passengers or property, if 

the vehicle—(1) Has a gross vehicle 

weight rating or gross combination 

weight rating, or gross vehicle weight or 

gross combination weight of 10,001 

pounds, whichever is greater; or (2) Is 

designed or used to transport more than 

8 passengers (including the driver) for 

compensation; or (3) Is designed or used 

to transport more than 15 passengers, 

including the driver, and is not used to 

transport passengers for compensation; 

or (4) Is used in transporting material 

found by the Secretary of Transportation 

to be hazardous under section 5103 of 

title 49, United States Code, and 

transported in a quantity requiring 

placarding under regulations prescribed 

by the Secretary under section 5103. 

‘‘Accident’’: An occurrence involving a 

Commercial motor vehicle operating on 

a highway in interstate or intrastate 

commerce which results in: (i) A 

fatality; (ii) bodily injury to a person 

who, as a result of the injury, receives 

medical treatment away from the scene 

of the accident; or (iii) one or more 

motor vehicles incurring disabling 

damage as a result of the accident, 

requiring the motor vehicle(s) to be 

transported away from the scene by a 

tow truck or other motor vehicle. The 

term ‘‘accident’’ does not include: (i) An 

occurrence involving only boarding or 

alighting from a stationary motor 

vehicle or (ii) An occurrence involving 

only the loading or unloading of cargo. 

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. The Agency will 

summarize or include your comments in 

the request for OMB’s clearance of this 

information collection. 

Issued on: September 2, 2010. 

Kelly Leone, 

Office Director for Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22456 Filed 9–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2010–0210] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Revision of an Approved 

Information Collection Request: 

Hazardous Materials Safety Permits 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; 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 

review and approval and invites public 

comment. The FMCSA requests 

approval to revise an existing ICR 

entitled ‘‘Hazardous Materials Safety 

Permits,’’ due to an increase in the 

estimated number of annual trips in 

which permitted hazardous materials 

(HM) are transported. This ICR requires 

companies holding permits to develop a 

communications plan that allows for the 

periodic tracking of the shipment. A 

record of the communications that 

includes the time of the call and 

location of the shipment may be kept by 

either the driver (e.g., recorded in the 

log book) or the company. These records 

must be kept, either physically or 

electronically, for at least six months at 

the company’s principal place of 

business or readily available to the 

employees at the company’s principal 

place of business. This ICR is being 

revised due to an increase in the 

estimated number of annual trips in 

which permitted HM is transported 

resulting in change to the total 

information collection burden for 

maintaining a daily communication 

record. 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before November 8, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

bearing the Federal Docket Management 

System (FDMS) Docket Number 

FMCSA–2010–0210 using any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

on-line instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

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New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington 

DC 20590–0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 

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

except Federal Holidays. 

Each submission must include the 

Agency name and the docket number for 

this Notice. Note that DOT posts 

without change all comments received 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information included in a 

comment. Please see the Privacy Act 

heading below for further information. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov at any time or 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. The FDMS is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. If 

you want acknowledgement that we 

received your comments, please include 

a self-addressed, stamped envelope or 

postcard or print the acknowledgement 

page that appears after submitting them 

on-line. 

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 of the person 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/pdf/ 

E8-785.pdf. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Paul Bomgardner, Hazardous Materials 

Division, Department of Transportation, 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, West Building 6th 

Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–493–0027; e-mail 

paul.bomgardner@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Secretary of Transportation 

(Secretary) is responsible for 

implementing regulations to issue safety 

permits for transporting certain 

hazardous materials in accordance with 

49 U.S.C. 5101 et seq. The HM Safety 

Permit regulations (49 CFR part 385) 

require carriers to complete a 

‘‘Combined Motor Carrier Identification 

Report and HM Permit Application’’ 

(Form MCS–150B). The HM Safety 

Permit regulations also require carriers 

to have a security program. As part of 

the HM Safety Permit regulations, 

carriers are required to develop and 

maintain route plans so that law 

enforcement officials can verify the 

correct location of the HM shipment. 

The FMCSA requires companies 

holding permits to develop a 

communications plan that allows for the 

periodic tracking of the shipment. This 

information covers the record of 

communications that includes the time 

of the call and location of the shipment. 

The records may be kept by either the 

driver (e.g., recorded in the log book) or 

the company. These records must be 

kept, either physically or electronically, 

for at least six months at the company’s 

principal place of business or be readily 

available to employees at the company’s 

principal place of business. 

Title: Hazardous Materials Safety 

Permits. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0030. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently-approved information 

collection. 

Respondents: 1,425 motor carriers 

that transport permitted HM and 

complete the Form MCS–150B. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 5 minutes. The 

communication between motor carriers 

and their drivers must take place at least 

two times per day and it is estimated 

that it will take 5 minutes to maintain 

a daily communication record for each 

driver. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 350,000 hours [4.2 million trips 

× 5 minutes/60 minutes per record = 

350,000]. 

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. The Agency will 

summarize or include your comments in 

the request for OMB’s clearance of this 

information collection. 

Issued on: September 2, 2010. 

Kelly Leone, 

Director, Office of Information Technology. 

[FR Doc. 2010–22464 Filed 9–8–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Requests for Comments; 

Clearance of a New Approval of 

Information Collection: NOTAM 

Realignment User Survey 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FAA 

invites public comments about our 

intention to request the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval for a new information 

collection. In accordance with FAA 

Order JO 1030.4, ATO SysOps Services 

SMS Oversight, the FAA ATO System 

Operations Management, Safety 

Assurance Group (SAG) is conducting a 

comprehensive assessment of the Notice 

to Airmen (NOTAM) Realignment Phase 

1 (NRP–1) process to determine if 

unacceptable hazards exist within the 

National Airspace System (NAS). 

Essential to the assessment is a survey 

of airline and corporate pilots and 

dispatchers as well as airport operators 

and general aviation pilots. The SAG 

survey will be compared with results of 

a similar survey conducted in 2008 by 

the FAA Office of Safety (AJS). 

DATES: Written comments should be 

submitted by November 8, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carla Scott on (202) 267–9895, or by email at: Carla.Scott@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

Control Number: 2120–XXXX . 

Title: NOTAM Realignment User 

Survey. 

Form Numbers: There are no FAA 

forms associated with this collection. 

Type of Review: Clearance of a new 

information collection. 

Background: Results of the SOSM 

SAG NOTAM Realignment Phase 1 

(NRP–1) Assessment will be used to 

establish the status of identified hazards 

and ensure no new hazards have been 

introduced into the NAS. In addition to 

on-site visits, the SOSM SAG audit team 

has prepared three surveys mirroring 

those sent by the Safety Support and 

Independent Assessment (SSIA) as part 

of an investigation conducted in 2008. 

One survey is directed externally to 

general aviation pilots, airport 

operations staff and airline pilots and 

dispatchers. This Paperwork Reduction 

Act submission only concerns the 

external survey directed to users of the 

National Airspace System (NAS). 

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