Document ID: PHMSA-2021-0117-0001
Agency: phmsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Hazardous Materials
Posted Date: 2022-01-13T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2238-2239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-00575]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2021-0117 (Notice No. 2022-01)]

Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA 
invites comments on this information collection pertaining to hazardous 
materials transportation for which PHMSA intends to request renewal 
from the Office of Management and Budget.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
March 14, 2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket No. PHMSA-
2021-0117 (Notice No. 2022-01) by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Routing 
Symbol M-30, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: To the Docket Management System; Room W12-
140 on the ground floor of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and 
Docket Number (PHMSA-2021-0117) for this notice at the beginning of the 
comment. To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four 
methods. All comments received will be posted without change to the 
Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) and will include any personal 
information you provide.
    Requests for a copy of an information collection should be directed 
to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, Standards and Rulemaking Division, 
(202) 366-8553, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Docket: For access to the dockets to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov or DOT's Docket 
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
    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.
    Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) is commercial or financial information that is both 
customarily and actually treated as private by its owner. Under the 
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from 
public disclosure. If your comments responsive to this notice contain 
commercial or financial information that is customarily treated as 
private, that you actually treat as private, and that is relevant or 
responsive to this notice, it is important that you clearly designate 
the submitted comments as ``CBI.'' Please mark each page of your 
submission containing CBI as ``PROPIN.'' PHMSA will treat such marked 
submissions as confidential under the FOIA, and they will not be placed 
in the public docket of this notice. Submissions containing CBI should 
be sent to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, Standards and Rulemaking 
Division and addressed to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001 or to [email protected]. Any 
commentary that PHMSA receives which is not specifically designated as 
``CBI'' will be placed in the public docket for this notice.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 1320.8(d), title 5, Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) 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 an 
information collection request that PHMSA will be submitting to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal and extension. This 
information collection is contained in 49 CFR 171.6 of the Hazardous 
Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR parts 171-180). PHMSA has revised 
burden estimates, where appropriate, to reflect current reporting 
levels or adjustments based on changes in proposed or final rules 
published since this information collection was last approved. The 
following is provided for this information collection: (1) Title of the 
information collection, including former title if a change is being 
made; (2) OMB control number; (3) summary of the information collection 
activity; (4) description of affected public; (5) estimate of total

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annual reporting and recordkeeping burden; and (6) frequency of 
collection. PHMSA will request a 3-year term of approval for this 
information collection activity and will publish a notice in the 
Federal Register upon OMB's approval.
    PHMSA requests comments on the following information collection:
    Title: Flammable Hazardous Materials by Rail Transportation.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0628.
    Summary: This OMB control number is used for information and 
recordkeeping requirements pertaining to the sampling and testing 
certification, routing analysis, and incident reporting for flammable 
liquids by rail transportation. Rail carriers, shippers, PHMSA's Office 
of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHMS), the Federal Railroad 
Administration (FRA), and the Association of American Railroads (AAR) 
may use this information to ensure that rail tank cars transporting 
flammable liquids are properly classified, ensure trains are routed 
appropriately, and collect all relevant incident data.
    This OMB control number is being submitted for renewal and includes 
the following information collections and associated burden hours:

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                                                                                     Hours per
             Information collection                 Respondents      Responses       response       Total hours
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Sampling and Testing Plan Burden for Subsequent            1,801           1,801              10          18,010
 Year Revision..................................
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class II                   10              10              40             400
 Railroads......................................
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class III                 160             160              40           6,400
 Railroads......................................
Routing Analysis Burden for Class II Railroads..              10              50              16             800
Routing Analysis Burden for Class III Railroads.             160             320               8           2,560
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class II                 10              40              12             480
 Railroads......................................
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class III                64              32               4             128
 Railroads......................................
Tank Car Retrofit Burden........................              50              50             0.5              25
Crude Oil Incident Reporting....................              17              17               2              34
Oil Spill Response Plans--Submit Reports........              73            14.6             0.5             7.3
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class I................               7               7             162           1,134
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class II...............              11              11              54             594
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class III..............              55              55              36           1,980
Notification Plans--Maintenance.................              73           2,190               1           2,190
Notification Plans--DOT Request.................              73           15.33               1           15.33
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    Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of petroleum liquids 
transported by rail.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 2,574.
    Total Annual Responses: 4,773.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 34,758.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on January 7, 2022.
William A. Quade,
Deputy Associate Administrator of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline 
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022-00575 Filed 1-12-22; 8:45 am]
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