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reducing the quality of the collected 

information. 

Issued under the authority delegated in 49 

CFR 1.87 on: October 21, 2014. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Research 

and Information Technology and Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25597 Filed 10–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2014–0377] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; New Information Collection 

Request: Electronic Logging Device 

(ELD) Vendor Registration 

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 on the approval of a new 

information collection request (ICR) 

entitled, Electronic Logging Device 

Vendor Registration. This ICR will be 

used to enable manufacturers of ELDs to 

register with the Federal Motor Carrier 

Safety Administration (FMCSA). 

DATES: We must receive your comments 

on or before December 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) Docket 

Number FMCSA–2014–0377 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 Services; 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: 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 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/pdfE8- 

794.pdf. 

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. 

Brian Routhier, Transportation 

Specialist, Technology Division, Office 

of Analysis, Research and Technology, 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation, West Building 6th 

Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–1225; email brian.routhier@

dot.gov. Office hours are from 9:00 a.m. 

to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: On March 28, 2014, 

FMCSA published a Supplemental 

notice of proposed rulemaking (SNPRM) 

entitled, ‘‘Electronic Logging Devices 

and Hours of Service Supporting 

Documents,’’ (79 FR 17656), which 

proposed to require the use of ELDs by 

those within the motor carrier industry 

who are currently subject to Records of 

Duty Status (RODS) preparation 

requirements. Specifically, the final rule 

proposed: (1) Requiring new technical 

specifications for ELDs that address 

statutory requirements; (2) mandating 

ELDs for drivers currently using RODS. 

To ensure consistency among 

manufacturers and devices, functional 

specifications were published with the 

SNPRM. Providers’ certification of 

compliance to these functional 

specifications is required. Providers will 

also be required to register their 

compliant devices with FMCSA. 

The ELD providers will be asked to 

self-certify and register their devices 

with FMCSA online via an application 

Form MCSA–5893, ‘‘Electronic Logging 

Device (ELD) Vendor Registration and 

Certification.’’ FMCSA expects 100% of 

respondents to submit their information 

electronically. Once completed, FMCSA 

will issue a unique identification 

number that the provider will embed in 

their device(s). 

The FMCSA will maintain a list on its 

Web site of the current ELD providers 

and devices that have been certified (by 

the providers) to meet the technical 

specifications. The information will be 

necessary for fleets and drivers to easily 

find a compliant ELD for their use in 

meeting the FMCSA regulation 

requiring the use of ELDs. 

Title: Electronic Logging Device (ELD) 

Vendor Registration. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–00XX. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Respondents: ELD vendors. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

22. FMCSA estimates that there will be 

22 respondents, 20 U.S. and 2 foreign 

ELD vendors, and that each vendor will 

register an average of 4 devices. The 

total of 88 devices (4 devices × 22 

vendors) exceeds the number of devices 

that FMCSA is currently aware of, but 

the Agency has opted to use a 

conservatively high count in order to 

avoid under-estimating the burden for 

this ICR. 

Estimated Time per Response: 15 

minutes first year and 7.5 minutes in 

subsequent years. Each vendor will take 

an estimated 15 minutes of preparation 

time plus 15 minutes per device to 

complete the initial registration, for a 

total of 75 minutes (15 minutes of 

preparation time + 4 devices per vendor 

× 15 minutes per device) per vendor in 

the first year. In subsequent years, it is 

expected that registration updates will 

take half the initial time; therefore 

respondents will take an estimated 7.5 

minutes of preparation time + 4 devices 

per vendor × 7.5 minutes per device to 

complete registration updates, for a total 


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of 37.5 minutes per vendor in 

subsequent years. 

Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new 

ICR. 

Frequency of Response: On occasion. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 18 

hours [((22 respondents × 75 minutes in 

year 1) + (22 respondents × 37.5 minutes 

in year 2) + (22 respondents × 37.5 

minutes in year 3)) = 3,300 minutes ÷ 60 

minutes per hour = 55 ÷ 3 year approval 

period = 18.33 hours, rounded to 18 

hours]. 

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 under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87 

on: October 21, 2014. 

G. Kelly Regal, 

Associate Administrator for Office of 

Research and Information Technology and 

Chief Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2014–25603 Filed 10–27–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2014–0127] 

Pipeline Safety: Information Collection 

Activities 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

PHMSA invites comments on two 

information collections that will be 

expiring on May 31, 2015. PHMSA will 

request an extension with no change for 

the information collections identified by 

OMB control numbers 2137–0049 and 

2137–0594. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

December 29, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

E-Gov Web site: http://

www.regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to enter comments on any 

Federal Register notice issued by any 

agency. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation 

(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

West Building, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the 

ground level of DOT, West Building, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 

5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: Identify the docket 

number, PHMSA–2014–0127, at the 

beginning of your comments. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. You 

should know that 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.). 

Therefore, you may want to review 

DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or visit 

http://www.regulations.gov before 

submitting any such comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket or to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http://

www.regulations.gov at any time or to 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

DOT, West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

If you wish to receive confirmation of 

receipt of your written comments, 

please include a self-addressed, 

stamped postcard with the following 

statement: ‘‘Comments on PHMSA– 

2014–0127.’’ The Docket Clerk will date 

stamp the postcard prior to returning it 

to you via the U.S. mail. Please note that 

due to delays in the delivery of U.S. 

mail to Federal offices in Washington, 

DC, we recommend that persons 

consider an alternative method 

(internet, fax, or professional delivery 

service) of submitting comments to the 

docket and ensuring their timely receipt 

at DOT. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cameron Satterthwaite by telephone at 

202–366–1319, by fax at 202–366–4566, 

or by mail at DOT, PHMSA, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., PHP–30, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of Federal 

Regulations, requires PHMSA to provide 

interested members of the public and 

affected agencies an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping requests. This notice 

identifies two information collection 

requests that PHMSA will submit to 

OMB for renewal. The following 

information is provided for each 

information collection: (1) Title of the 

information collection; (2) OMB control 

number; (3) Current expiration date; (4) 

Type of request; (5) Abstract of the 

information collection activity; (6) 

Description of affected public; (7) 

Estimate of total annual reporting and 

recordkeeping burden; and (8) 

Frequency of collection. PHMSA will 

request a three-year term of approval for 

each information collection activity. 

PHMSA requests comments on the 

following information collections: 

1. Title: Recordkeeping Requirements 

for Gas Pipeline Operators. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0049. 

Current Expiration Date: 5/31/2015. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: A person owning or 

operating a natural gas pipeline facility 

is required to maintain records, make 

reports, and provide information to the 

Secretary of Transportation at the 

Secretary’s request. 

Affected Public: Owners and 

Operators of natural gas pipeline 

facilities. 

Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Burden: 

Estimated number of responses: 

12,300. 

Estimated annual burden hours: 

940,454. 

Frequency of collection: On occasion. 

2. Title: Customer-Owned Service 

Lines. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0594. 

Current Expiration Date: 5/31/2015. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: This collection of 

information about gas customers is used 

by operators to understand how their 

customers’ buried piping is being 

maintained and by the Office of Pipeline 

Safety and State authorities to review 

operator compliance. 

Affected Public: State and local 

governments. 

Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Burden: 

Estimated number of responses: 

550,000. 

Estimated annual burden hours: 

9,167. 


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