Document ID: DOT-OST-2023-0021-0001
Agency: dot
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Ocean Shipping Reform Act
Posted Date: 2023-02-07T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 7, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8039-8041]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02583]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Bureau of Transportation Statistics

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2023-0021]

Notice of Request for Clearance of a New Information Collection: 
Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22)

AGENCY: Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), Office of the 
Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology (OST-R), Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of section 3506(c)(2)(A) 
of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, BTS announces the intension to 
request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its review and 
renewal of the Ocean Shipping Reform Act (OSRA) 2022 Pilot Data 
Collection. Section 16 of OSRA 2022 mandates that the Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics (BTS) collect chassis and container street 
dwell time, as well as chassis out of service data monthly from each 
port, marine terminal operator, and chassis owner or

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provider with a fleet of over 50 chassis that supply chassis for a fee. 
The information collected from this data collection will be used to 
provide, at the least, national level street dwell and out of service 
statistics. The monthly statistics will be published by BTS on the BTS 
OSRA web page at: www.bts.gov/osra.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before April 10, 2023.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 
DOT-OST-2022-0095 to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), 
Dockets Management System (DMS). You may submit your comments by mail 
or in person to the Docket Clerk, Docket No., U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, West Building, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590. Comments should identify the docket number as 
indicated above. Paper comments should be submitted in duplicate. The 
DMS is open for examination and copying, at the above address, from 9 
a.m. to 5 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 Docket DOT-OST-2022-0095.'' 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 (the internet, fax, or professional delivery 
service) to submit comments to the docket and ensure their timely 
receipt at U.S. DOT. You may fax your comments to the DMS at (202) 493-
2251. Comments can also be viewed and/or submitted via the Federal 
Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
    Please note that anyone is able to electronically search all 
comments received into our docket management system 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 19475-19570) 
or you may review the Privacy Act Statement at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: April Gadsby, (470) 718-5798, 
Mathematical Statistician, BTS, OST-R, Department of Transportation, 
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., E.T., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22).
    Background: In response to supply chain challenges, Congress passed 
the Ocean Shipping Reform Act of 2022 (OSRA 22). Section 16 of the OSRA 
22 mandates BTS to produce statistics on ``the total street dwell time 
from all causes of marine containers and chassis and the average out of 
service percentage of chassis.'' OSRA 22 grants BTS authority to 
collect data from ``each port, marine terminal operator, and chassis 
owner or provider with a fleet of over 50 chassis that supply chassis 
for a fee'' as deemed necessary to produce these statistics.
    Per the law, BTS must produce the first monthly report no later 
than February 10, 2023 (240 days from the request). For this, OMB 
issued an emergency clearance OMB 2138-0050 expiring February 10, 2023. 
This clearance will serve to continue the national data collection 
until the sunset of the program as detailed by congress by December 
2026.
    This new data collection will require that BTS establish a sample 
frame and research available data sources and data items from in scope 
ports, terminals, and intermodal equipment providers, ocean carriers 
and non-vessel operating common carriers. The results from the initial 
data collection that will be published by February 10, 2023, under the 
emergency clearance will provide the foundation upon which the national 
program can be built.
    The data collection will be administered to ``each port, marine 
terminal operator, and chassis owner or provider with a fleet of over 
50 chassis that supply chassis for a fee'' (OSRA 22) as deemed 
necessary to produce these statistics.
    The data collection will include approximately 190-265 data 
providers representing the approximate set of 90 chassis owners, motor 
carriers, and/or intermodal equipment providers (IEPs), as well as all 
ports, including inland ports and their approximately 75-150 intermodal 
terminal facilities, inland dry ports, intermodal terminal facilities 
operators (e.g., ICTF = Intermodal Container Transfer Facility). The 
data collection will request respondents to provide information such as 
the estimated inventory of intermodal chassis and/or marine containers 
under their control measured by TEU in the U.S., how dwell time, out of 
service rates, and/or unavailable chassis are defined, tracked, and at 
what frequency they can be reported for the equipment under their 
control. The data collection will yield statistics on the total 
intermodal marine container and chassis street dwell time and the 
chassis out of service rate to satisfy the OSRA 22 mandate.
    Respondents: The target population for the data collection will be 
approximately 190-265 respondents representing the approximate set of 
90 chassis owners, motor carriers, and/or intermodal equipment 
providers (IEPs), as well as all ports, including inland ports and 
their approximately 75-150 intermodal terminal facilities, inland dry 
ports, and ICTFs.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: The burden per respondent is 
estimated to be an average of 2 hours. This average is based on the 
resulting test data sets received from data respondents.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: The total monthly burden (once the 
program is fully developed and all participants have been asked to 
submit data) is estimated to be 808 hours (that is 2 hours per data 
provider for 404 data providers equals 808 hours).
    Frequency: Monthly until the data collection sunset, December 2026.
    Public Comments Invited: Interested parties are invited to send 
comments regarding any aspect of this information collection, 
including, but not limited to: (1) the necessity and utility of the 
information collection for the proper performance of the functions of 
the DOT; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance 
the quality, utility, clarity and content of the collected information; 
and (4) ways to minimize the collection burden without reducing the 
quality of the collected information. Comments submitted in response to 
this notice will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB's 
clearance of this information collection.
    Authority: The Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century, Pub. 
L. 105-178, section 1207(c), The Safe, Accountable, Flexible Efficient 
Transportation Equity Act--A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), Pub. L. 
109-59, Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), 
Pub. L. 112-141, 49 CFR 1.46, and Fixing America's Surface 
Transportation Act (FAST Act), Pub. L. 114-94, sec. 1112.

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    Issued in Washington, DC, on the 2nd day of February 2023.
Cha-Chi Fan,
Director, Office of Data Development and Standards, Bureau of 
Transportation Statistics, Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Research and Technology.
[FR Doc. 2023-02583 Filed 2-6-23; 8:45 am]
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