[Federal Register: August 31, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 169)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-28825]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Training Certification for Entry-Level
Commercial Motor Vehicle Operators
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 the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review
and approval. The FMCSA requests approval to revise and extend an
information collection (IC) entitled, ``Training Certification for
Entry-Level Commercial Motor Vehicle (CMV) Operators,'' that relates to
the prerequisite training requirements for drivers of vehicles for
which a commercial driver's license (CDL) is required. On May 23, 2007,
FMCSA published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day comment
period on the ICR. No comments were received.
DATES: Please send your comments by October 1, 2007. OMB must receive
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.
ADDRESSES: 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. Thomas Yager, Chief, FMCSA Driver
and Carrier Operations Division, Telephone: 202-366-4235; e-mail
MCPSD@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Training Certification for Entry-Level Commercial Motor
Vehicle Operators.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0028.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Entry-level CDL drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 45,611.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2007.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 7,602 hours. FMCSA estimates that an
entry-level driver requires approximately 10 minutes to complete the
tasks necessary to comply with the regulation. Those tasks are:
Photocopying the training certificate, giving the photocopy to the
motor carrier employer, and placing the original of the certificate in
a personal file. Therefore, the annual burden for all entry-level
drivers is (45,611 x 10/60) = 7,602 hours (rounded).
Background: The Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986 (CMVSA)
(49 U.S.C. 31301 et seq.) established national minimum testing and
licensing standards for operators of large trucks and buses. Congress
sought to ensure that drivers of large trucks and buses possessed the
knowledge and skills necessary to operate these vehicles. The CMVSA
established the ``Commercial Drivers License'' program and directed the
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), FMCSA's predecessor agency, to
establish minimum Federal standards that States must meet when
licensing CMV drivers. The CMVSA applies to most operators of CMVs in
interstate or intrastate commerce, including employees of Federal,
State and local governments. Section 4007(a)(2) of the Intermodal
Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA) (Pub. L. 102-240,
December 18, 1991) directed the FHWA to ``commence a rulemaking
proceeding on the need to require training of all entry-level drivers
of CMVs.'' In 1993, the FHWA received public comments and began a study
of the effectiveness of the training of entry-level drivers by the
private sector. The study found that the heavy truck, motor coach, and
school bus segments of the industry were not providing adequate entry-
level training. In 2003, FMCSA proposed mandatory training for
operators of CMVs, and in 2004, published a final rule on the topic. On
June 11, 2004, OMB approved the information collection associated with
the 2004 rule for a period of three years, or until September 30, 2007.
Definitions: ``Commercial Motor Vehicle'': This rule applies to the
operators of CMVs for which a CDL is required by 40 CFR part 383; i.e.
those vehicles (1) having a gross vehicle weight rating of 26,001
pounds or more, regardless of actual weight, (2) designed to transport
16 or more passengers including the driver, or (3) used to transport
certain placardable and dangerous hazardous materials (49 CFR part
383.5). The training requirements of this rule apply to drivers with 1
year or less experience operating a vehicle for which a CDL is required
(49 CFR 380.502(b)).
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 FMCSA's performance; (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: August 21, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7-17325 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]
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