[Federal Register Volume 73, Number 2 (Thursday, January 3, 2008)]
[Notices]
[Page 538]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-25579]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-0083]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a
Currently Approved Information Collection: Transportation of Hazardous
Materials, Highway Routing
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for information.
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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. The FMCSA requests approval to extend an existing
information collection entitled ``Transportation of Hazardous
Materials, Highway Routing,'' which requires States and Indian tribes
to identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions or
limitations affecting how motor carriers may transport certain
hazardous materials on the highway. On October 30, 2007, FMCSA
published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day comment
period on the ICR. No comment was received.
DATES: Please send your comments by February 4, 2008. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should reference DOT Docket No. FMCSA-2007-
0083. You may submit comments to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 Seventeenth
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James O. Simmons, Hazardous
Materials Division, phone (202) 366-6121; FAX (202) 366-3921; or e-mail
[email protected]; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration,
DOT, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours
are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, except Federal
Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection.
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 Number of Respondents: 53.
Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2007.
Frequency of Response: There is one response annually from
approximately 53 respondents.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13 hours [53 respondents x 1
response x 15 minutes per response/60 minutes = 13.25 hours, rounded to
13 hours].
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 (Secretary) 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 jurisdictions. That information is collected and consolidated by
the FMCSA and published annually in whole, or as updates, in the
Federal Register.
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 the 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.
Issued on: December 18, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7-25579 Filed 1-2-08; 8:45 am]
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