13620 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 44 / Tuesday, March 6, 2001 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA–2001–8672]

Notice of Request for Comments on

Renewing Approval for an Information

Collection: OMB Control No. 2126—

0014 (Transportation of Hazardous

Materials, Highway Routing)

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: This notice announces that

the FMCSA intends to request the Office

of Management and Budget (OMB) to

renew approval of the information

collection described below. That

information collection requires States

and Indian tribes to identify designated/

restricted highway routes and

restrictions or limitations affecting how

motor carriers may transport certain

hazardous materials on the highway.

This notice is required by the

Paperwork Reduction Act.

DATES: Please submit your comments by

May 7, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Mail or hand deliver

comments to the U.S. Department of

Transportation, Dockets Management

Facility, Room PL–401, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590, or

submit electronically at http://

dmses.dot.gov/submit. Be sure to

include the docket number appearing in

the heading of this document on your

comment. All comments received will

be available for examination and

copying at the above address from 9

a.m. to 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through

Friday, except Federal holidays. If you

would like to be notified when your

comment is received, you must include

a self-addressed, stamped postcard or

you may print the acknowledgment

page that appears after submitting

comments electronically.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Richard Swedberg, (303) 969–5772 ext.

363, or Mr. William Quade, (202) 366–

2172, Hazardous Materials Division

(MC–ECH), Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration, U.S. Department of

Transportation, 400 Seventh Street,

SW., Washington, DC 20590. Office

hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,

e.t., Monday through Friday, except

Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Transportation of Hazardous

Materials; Highway Routing.

OMB Number: 2126–0014.

Background: The data for the

Transportation of Hazardous Materials;

Highway Routing designations are

collected under authority of 49 U.S.C.

§§ 5112 and 5125. That authority places

responsibility on the Secretary of

Transportation to specify and regulate

standards for establishing, maintaining,

and enforcing routing designations.

Under 49 CFR 397.73, the Administrator

has the authority to request that each

State and Indian tribe, through its

routing agency, provide information

identifying hazardous materials routing

designations within their respective

jurisdictions. That information will be

consolidated by the FMCSA and

published annually in whole or as

updates in the Federal Register.

Respondents: The reporting burden is

shared by the 50 States, the District of

Columbia, Puerto Rico, American

Samoa, Guam, Northern Marianas, and

the Virgin Islands.

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The

annual reporting burden is estimated to

be 13 hours, calculated as follows: (53

respondents × 1 response × 15 minutes/

60 minutes = 13.25 hours, rounded to 13

hours).

Frequency: There is one response

annually from approximately 53

respondents.

Public Comments Invited: Your

comments are particularly invited on

whether the collection of information is

necessary for the FMCSA to meet its

goal of reducing truck crashes,

including whether the information is

useful to this goal; the accuracy of the

estimate of the burden of the

information collection; ways to enhance

the quality, utility and clarity of the

information collected; and ways to

minimize the burden of the collection of

information on respondents, including

the use of automated collection

techniques or other forms of information

technology.

Electronic Access and Filing: You

may submit or retrieve comments online

through the Docket Management System

(DMS) at http://dmses.dot.gov/submit.

Acceptable formats include: MS Word

(versions 95 to 97), MS Word for Mac

(versions 6 to 8), Rich Text File (RTF),

American Standard Code Information

Interchange (ASCII)(TXT), Portable

Document Format (PDF), and

WordPerfect (versions 7 to 8). The DMS

is available 24 hours each day, 365 days

each year. Electronic submission and

retrieval help and guidelines are

available under the help section of the

web site. You may also download an

electronic copy of this document from

the DOT Docket Management System on

the Internet at http://dms.dot.gov/

search.htm. Please include the docket

number appearing in the heading of this

document.

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act

of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;

and 49 CFR 1.73.

Dated: February 27, 2001.

Stephen E. Barber,

Acting Assistant Administrator and Chief

Safety Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–5410 Filed 3–5–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA–2000–7827]

Agency Information Collection

Activities Under OMB Review: OMB

Control Nos. 2126–0004 and 2126–0012

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: The FMCSA has sent the two

Information Collection Requests (ICRs)

described in this notice to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review and comment. The ICRs describe

each information collection and its

expected burden. We published a

Federal Register notice on these

information collections on September 5,

2000 (65 FR 53801). The notice had a

60-day comment period. We are

required to send ICRs to OMB under the

Paperwork Reduction Act.

DATES: Please submit comments by

April 5, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mrs.

Valerie Height, (202) 366–0901 (for

2126–0004), or Mr. Kenny Rodgers,

(202) 366–4016 (for 2126–0012), Federal

Motor Carrier Safety Administration,

400 Seventh Street SW., Washington,

DC 20590. Office hours are from 7:30

a.m. to 4:00 p.m., e.t., Monday through

Friday, except Federal holidays.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the

Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and

Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT

Desk Officer. We particularly request

your comments on whether the

collection of information is necessary

for the FMCSA to meet its goal of

reducing truck crashes, including

whether the information is useful to this

goal; the accuracy of the estimate of the

burden of the information collection;

ways to enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information collected; and

ways to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on

respondents, including the use of

automated collection techniques or