[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23793-23794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-9551]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2012-0048]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a
Currently-Approved Information Collection: Annual and Quarterly Report
of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers
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) its request to revise a currently-approved information collection
for Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers, (Form MP-1) entitled,
``Annual and Quarterly Reports.'' This information collection is
necessary to ensure that motor carriers comply with financial and
operating statistics requirements at 49 CFR part 369. The agency
invites public comments on this information request.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before June 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2012-0048 using 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; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building, Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m. e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and
docket number. For detailed instructions on submitting comments, see
the Public Participation heading below. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided. 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, and follow the
online instructions for accessing the dockets, or go to the street
address listed above.
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
complete Privacy Act Statement for the Federal Docket Management System
published in the Federal Register on January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3316), or
you may visit http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2008/pdfE8-794.pdf.
Public Participation: The Federal eRulemaking Portal is available
24 hours each day, 365 days each year. You can obtain electronic
submission and retrieval help and guidelines under the ``help'' section
of the Federal eRulemaking Portal Web site. If you want us to notify
you that we received your comments, please include a self-addressed,
stamped envelope or postcard, or print the acknowledgement page that
appears after submitting comments online. 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: 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; email
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background: For-hire Class I motor carriers
of passengers (including interstate and intrastate) \1\ are required
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to file Motor Carrier Quarterly and Annual 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 in the Note
of section 1420.3; (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 Note A of section 1420.3. Only Class I carriers of
passengers are required to file Annual and Quarterly Report Form MP-
1, but Class II passenger carriers 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. The regulations were formerly
administered by the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC), the
Interstate Commerce Act, 49 U.S.C. 11145, 49 U.S.C. 11343(d)(1) and the
Bus Regulatory Act of 1982 and later transferred to the U.S. Department
of Transportation on January 1, 1996, by 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. The Secretary of Transportation
(Secretary) transferred the authority to administer the F&OS program to
the former Bureau of Transportation Statistics on September 30, 1998
(63 FR 52192). Pursuant to this authority, the BTS, now part of the
Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), became the
responsible DOT modal administration for implementing the F&OS program
and requirements at 49 CFR part 1420. On September 29, 2004, the
Secretary transferred the responsibility for the F&OS program from BTS,
to FMCSA (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.
FMCSA plans to initiate a regulatory proceeding in the near future
that will result in the elimination of two quarterly reporting
requirements that are currently reported to OMB under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520). These forms include:
(1) Form QFR Quarterly for property carriers, authorized by OMB under
information collection 2126-0033; and (2) the Class I passenger carrier
financial quarterly survey (MP-1 Quarterly), authorized by OMB under
information collection 2126-0031. The FMCSA does not have the statutory
authority to eliminate the annual reporting requirements for property
or passengers. FMCSA will be publishing a direct final rule that will
include additional information, including the reduced paperwork burden,
resulting from this future action.
Title: Annual and Quarterly Report of Class I Motor Carriers of
Passengers (OMB 2139-0003).
OMB Control Number: 2126-0031.
Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information
collection request.
Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 2.
Estimated Time per Response: 18 minutes per response.
Expiration Date: September 30, 2012.
Frequency of Response: Annually and Quarterly.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 3 hours [10 responses x 18 minutes
per response/60 minutes].
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 agency to perform its mission; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways for 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 or include your
comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this information
collection.
Issued on: April 12, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-9551 Filed 4-19-12; 8:45 am]
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