[Federal Register: October 30, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 209)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-29137]
Agency Information Collections; Extension of a Currently Approved
Collection: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing
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 and invites public comment. 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.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before December 31, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Department of
Transportation (DOT) Docket Management System (DMS) Docket Number FMCSA
Docket Number FMCSA-2007-29137 using any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the on-line instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery: West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Each submission must include the Agency name and the docket number for
this Notice. Note that DOT posts all comments received without change
to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
included in a comment. Please see the Privacy Act heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or Room W12-140
on the ground level of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The DMS is available 24 hours each day, 365
days each year. If you want acknowledgement that we received your
comments, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or post
card or print the acknowledgement page that appears after submitting
on-line.
Privacy Act: Anyone may search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or of the person signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review the DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
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19477-19478; April 11, 2000). This information is also available at
http://Docketinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James O. Simmons, Hazardous
Materials Division, phone (202) 366-6121; FAX (202) 366-3921; or e-mail
james.simmons@dot.gov; 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: 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.
Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved 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.
Frequency: There is one response annually from approximately 53
respondents.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: 15 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 13 hours [53 respondents x 1
response x15 minutes per response/60 minutes = 13.25 hours, rounded to
13 hours].
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.
Issued On: October 24, 2007.
Michael S. Griffith,
Acting Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
[FR Doc. E7-21281 Filed 10-29-07; 8:45 am]
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