[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 101 (Thursday, May 24, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 31066]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-12634]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA 2012-0074]
Improvements to the Compliance, Safety, Accountability (CSA)
Motor Carrier Safety Measurement System (SMS)
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice; extension of comment period.
SUMMARY: On March 27, 2012, FMCSA
announced planned improvements to
the Carrier Safety Measurement System
(SMS). A preview of these
improvements and their potential effects
on a motor carrier's status has been
available to motor carriers and law
enforcement since publication of the
notice. The system changes were
scheduled to be implemented for use in
prioritizing FMCSA and State
intervention resources and made
available to the public on the SMS
public Web site in July 2012. However,
based on feedback received by the
Agency, FMCSA extends the comment period for motor carriers and law
enforcement to July 30, 2012.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 30, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by Federal Docket
Management System Number FMCSA-
2012-0074 by any of the following
methods:
- Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
- Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
- Mail: Docket Management Facility,
(M-30), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT), 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building, Ground
Floor, Room 12-140, Washington, DC
20590-0001.
- Hand Delivery: Same as mail
address above, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., ET, Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays. The telephone
number is 202-366-9329.
To avoid duplication, please use only
one of these four methods. All
submissions must include the Agency
name and docket number for this notice.
See the "Public Participation" heading
below for instructions on submitting
comments and additional information.
Note that all comments received,
including any personal information
provided, will be posted without change
to http://www.regulations.gov. Please
see the "Privacy Act" heading below.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to
Room W12-140 on the ground floor of
the DOT Headquarters Building at 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
ET, Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT's Privacy Act System of
Records Notice for the DOT Federal
Docket Management System published
in the Federal Register on January 17,
2008 (73 FR 3316).
Public Participation:
The http://www.regulations.gov Web site is
generally available 24 hours each day,
365 days each year. You can get
electronic submission and retrieval help
and guidelines under the "help" section
of the http://www.regulations.gov Web
site. Comments received after the
comment closing date will be included
in the docket, and will be considered to
the extent practicable.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Bryan Price, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1000 Liberty
Avenue, Suite 1300, Pittsburgh, PA
15222, Telephone 412-395-4816, EMail:
bryan.price@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On March
27, 2012, (77 FR 18298), FMCSA
published a notice announcing changes
to the Agency's Safety Measurement
System and a preview period for law
enforcement and motor carriers to assess
the impact of the changes. We provided
a 60-day period for initial comments
from motor carriers and law
enforcement that would have expired on
May 29, 2012. However, based on
feedback received by the Agency, this
comment period is being extended 60
days to July 30, 2012. Once the preview
is complete an additional opportunity
will be provided for public review and
comment.
The improvements proposed include:
(1) Changes to the SMS methodology
that find higher risk carriers while
addressing industry biases; (2) Better
applications of SMS results for Agency
interventions by more effectively
identifying safety sensitive carriers (i.e.,
passenger carriers transporting people
and carriers hauling hazardous
materials (HM)), so that such firms can
be selected for CSA interventions at
more stringent levels; and, (3) More
specific fact-based displays of SMS
results on the SMS Web site.
This extension will provide motor
carriers with additional time to preview
how the improvements impact their
individual safety data in SMS. Motor
carriers will have additional time to take
action related to their data in the SMS,
and additional time to provide
comments to the Agency. The data
preview may be found at http://csa.fmcsa.dot.gov/. During the extended
preview period, FMCSA will be
conducting additional outreach to
further explain the proposed changes to
SMS and to encourage additional motor
carriers to view the preview site and to
provide comments. As part of these
outreach efforts, FMCSA plans to offer
a series of webinars related to the
proposed SMS improvements and the
data preview site. Details regarding the
date and time of these webinars, and
how to register, will be posted to the
above Web site.
During the data preview period, the
Agency requests comments on the
impacts of the changes.
Issued: May 17, 2012.
William Quade,
Associate Administrator for Enforcement.
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