[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 203 (Tuesday, October 21, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 63017-63018]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24987]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA-2014-0011-N-20]
Proposed Agency Information Collection Activities; Comment
Request
AGENCY: Federal Railroad Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the renewal Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its expected burden. The Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the
following collection of information was published on August 5, 2014 (79
FR 45585).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 20, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robert Brogan, Office of Planning
and Evaluation Division, RRS-21, Federal Railroad Administration, 1200
New Jersey Ave. SE., Mail Stop 25, Washington, DC 20590 (Telephone:
(202) 493-6292), or Ms. Kimberly Toone, Office of Information
Technology, RAD-20, Federal Railroad Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Ave. SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 20590 (Telephone: (202) 493-
6132). (These telephone numbers are not toll-free.)
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
Public Law 104-13, sec. 2, 109 Stat. 163 (1995) (codified as revised at
44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), and its implementing regulations, 5 CFR part
1320, require Federal agencies to issue two notices seeking public
comment on information collection activities before OMB may approve
paperwork packages. 44 U.S.C. 3506, 3507; 5 CFR 1320.5, 1320.8(d)(1),
1320.12. On August 5, 2014, FRA published a 60-day notice in the
Federal Register soliciting comment on ICR that the agency is seeking
OMB approval. See 79 FR 45585. FRA
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received no comments in response to this notice.
Before OMB decides whether to approve these proposed collections of
information, it must provide 30 days for public comment. 44 U.S.C.
3507(b); 5 CFR 1320.12(d). Federal law requires OMB to approve or
disapprove paperwork packages between 30 and 60 days after the 30 day
notice is published. 44 U.S.C. 3507 (b)-(c); 5 CFR 1320.12(d); see also
60 FR 44978, 44983, Aug. 29, 1995. OMB believes that the 30 day notice
informs the regulated community to file relevant comments and affords
the agency adequate time to digest public comments before it renders a
decision. 60 FR 44983, Aug. 29, 1995. Therefore, respondents should
submit their respective comments to OMB within 30 days of publication
to best ensure having their full effect. 5 CFR 1320.12(c); see also 60
FR 44983, Aug. 29, 1995.
The summary below describes the nature of the information
collection request (ICR) and the expected burden. The revised request
is being submitted for clearance by OMB as required by the PRA.
Title: Safety and Health Requirements Related to Camp Cars.
OMB Control Number: 2130-0595.
Abstract: To carry out a 2008 Congressional rulemaking mandate, FRA
issued new regulations on October 31, 2011. See 76 FR 67073. New
subpart E of part 228 prescribed minimum safety and health requirements
for camp cars that a railroad provides as sleeping quarters to any of
its train employees, signal employees, and dispatching service
employees (covered-service employees) and individuals employed to
maintain its right of way.
Under separate but related statutory authority, FRA also amended
its regulations at 49 CFR part 228, subpart C regarding construction of
employee sleeping quarters. In particular, FRA's existing guidelines
with respect to the location, in relation to switching or humping of
hazardous material, of a camp car that is occupied exclusively by
individual's employed to maintain a railroad's right of way are being
replaced with regulatory amendments prohibiting a railroad from
positioning such a camp car in the immediate vicinity of the switching
or humping of hazardous material.
Finally, FRA made miscellaneous changes to part 228, clarifying its
provision on applicability, removing an existing provision on the pre-
emptive effect of part 228 as unnecessary, and moving, without
changing, an existing provision on penalties for violation of part 228
from subpart B to subpart A.
The information collected under this rule is used by FRA to ensure
that railroads operating camp cars comply with all the requirements
mandated in this regulation in order to protect the health and safety
of camp car occupants.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information
collection.
Affected Public: Businesses (Railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Annual Estimated Burden: 1,043 hours.
Addressee: Send comments regarding this information collections to
the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management
and Budget, 725 Seventeenth Street NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attention: FRA Desk Officer. Comments may also be sent via email to OMB
at the following address: [email protected].
Comments are invited on the following: Whether the proposed
collections of information are necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department, including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimates of
the burden of the proposed information collections; ways to enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
ways to minimize the burden of the collections of information on
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A comment to OMB is best assured of having its full effect if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication of this notice in the Federal
Register.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501-3520.
Rebecca Pennington,
Chief Financial Officer.
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