[Federal Register: July 28, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 143)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2009-0170]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently
Approved Information Collection Request: Annual and Quarterly Report of
Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers (OMB 2139-0003)
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA
announces its plan to submit to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for approval its request to revise a currently approved
information collection request (ICR) entitled, ``Annual and Quarterly
Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.'' This information
collection is necessary to ensure that motor carriers comply with
financial and operating statistics requirements at chapter III of title
49 CFR part 369 entitled, ``Reports of Motor Carriers.'' On March 24,
2009, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice (at 74 FR 12436)
allowing for a 60-day comment period on the revision of this ICR. The
comment received in response to the notice expressed support for this
ICR.
DATES: Please send your comments by August 27, 2009. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2009-0170. Interested persons are
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention
of the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Office of the
Secretary, and sent via electronic mail to oira_
submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to the
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street, NW., Washington,
DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Vivian Oliver, Office of Research
and Information Technology, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-366-2974; e-mail
Vivian.Oliver@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Annual and Quarterly Report of Class I Motor Carriers of
Passengers (formerly OMB Control Number 2139-0003).
OMB Control Number: 2126-0031.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently-approved information
collection request.
Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 6.
Estimated Time per Response: 18 minutes per response.
Expiration Date: 09/30/2009.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly and annually.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 9 hours [30 responses x 18 minutes
per response/60 minutes = 9].
Background: For-hire Class I motor carriers of passengers
(including interstate and intrastate) \1\ are required to file Motor
Carrier Annual and Quarterly Reports (Form MP-1) that provide financial
and operating data (see 49 U.S.C. 14123; and implementing FMCSA
regulations at 49 CFR part 369). The agency uses this information to
assess the health of the industry and identify industry changes that
may affect national transportation policy. The data also show company
financial stability and traffic patterns. Motor carriers of passengers
required to comply with the regulations are classified on the basis of
their annual gross carrier operating revenues. Under the Financial &
Operating Statistics (F&OS) program, the FMCSA collects balance sheet
and income statement data along with information on tonnage, mileage,
employees, transportation equipment, and other related data.
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\1\ For purposes of the Financial & Operating Statistics (F&OS)
program, passenger carriers are classified into the following two
groups; (1) Class I carriers are those having average annual gross
transportation operating revenues (including interstate and
intrastate) of $5 million or more from passenger motor carrier
operations after applying the revenue deflator formula as shown in
the Note at 49 CFR 369.3; and (2) Class II passenger carriers are
those having average annual gross transportation operating revenues
(including interstate and intrastate) of less than $5 million from
passenger motor carrier operations after applying the revenue
deflator formula as shown in the Note at 49 CFR 369.3. Only Class I
carriers of passengers are required to file the Annual and Quarterly
Report Form MP-1. Class II passenger carriers, however, must notify
the agency when there is a change in their classification or their
revenues exceed the Class II limit.
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The data and information collected is made publicly available as
prescribed in 49 CFR part 369. Class I motor carriers are required by
49 U.S.C. 14123 to file annual financial reports with the Secretary.
The Secretary has exercised his discretion under section 14123 to also
require Class I property carriers (including dual-property carriers),
Class I household goods carriers and Class I passengers carriers to
file quarterly reports.
Over the years, the regulations were formerly administered by the
Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), but the ICC Termination Act of
1995 (ICCTA) (Pub. L. 104-88, 109 Stat. 803 (Dec. 29, 1995); now
codified at 49 U.S.C. 14123) abolished the ICC and transferred the
responsibility for collecting and disseminating motor carrier financial
information to the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary). On
September 30, 1998, the Secretary delegated and transferred the
authority
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to administer the F&OS program to the former Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS), now a part of the Research and Innovative Technology
Administration (RITA), to former Chapter XI, subchapter 13 of 49 CFR
part 1420 (63 FR 52192).
On September 29, 2004, the Secretary transferred the responsibility
for the F&OS program from BTS to FMCSA in the belief that the program
was more aligned with FMCSA's safety mission and its other motor
carrier responsibilities (69 FR 51009). On August 10, 2006 (71 FR
45740), the Secretary published a final rule that transferred and
redesignated the motor carrier financial and statistical reporting
regulations of BTS that were formerly located at chapter XI of title 49
CFR to FMCSA in 49 chapter III of title 49 CFR part 369.
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. The Agency will summarize and/or
include your comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this
information collection request.
Issued on July 16, 2009.
David Anewalt,
Acting Associate Administrator, Research and Information Technology.
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