Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved Information Collection: Practices of Household Goods Brokers |
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G. Kelly Leone
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
November 13, 2013
[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 219 (Wednesday, November 13, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68136-68137]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-27115]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2013-0348]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of an Approved
Information Collection: Practices of Household Goods Brokers
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 its
review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA requests approval
to revise an ICR titled ``Practices of Household Brokers'' to no longer
include one-time costs previously incurred by brokers to come into
compliance with 49 CFR part 371, and to update other wage related costs
that have changed since the last approval. This ICR is necessary to
support the requirements of subpart B of 49 CFR part 371 and FMCSA's
responsibility to ensure consumer protection in the transportation of
household goods (HHG).
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before January 13, 2014.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2013-0348 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. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must include the Agency name and
docket number. For detailed instructions on submitting comments and
additional information on the exemption process, 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: Mr. Brodie Mack, Commercial
Enforcement and Investigations Division, Household Goods Team Leader,
U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590-0001. Telephone: 202-366-8045; email
brodie.mack@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: FMCSA, in response to Title IV, Subtitle B of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy
for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Pub. L. 109-59) and a petition for rulemaking
from the American Moving and Storage Association (AMSA), amended 49 CFR
part 371, existing regulations for brokers, with a Final Rule titled,
``Brokers of Household Goods Transportation by Motor Vehicles'' (75 FR
72987), November 29, 2010, providing additional consumer protection
responsibilities for brokers of HHG.
Section 4212 of SAFETEA-LU directs the Secretary to require HHG
brokers to provide individual shippers with the following information
whenever a broker has contact with a shipper or potential shipper:
1. The broker's USDOT number.
2. The FMCSA booklet titled ``Your Rights and Responsibilities When
You Move.''
3. A list of all authorized motor carriers providing transportation
of HHG used by the broker and a statement that the broker is not a
motor carrier providing transportation of HHG.
FMCSA, as the result of a rulemaking that took effect November 29,
2010, amended 49 CFR part 371 by adding subpart B, specific consumer
protection requirements for HHG brokers. The
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collection of information required by this rulemaking assist shippers
in their business dealings with interstate HHG brokers. The information
collected is used by prospective shippers to make informed decisions
about contracts, services ordered, executed, and settled. The HHG
broker is often the primary contact for individual shippers and in the
best position to educate shippers and prepare them for a successful
move. The information collected makes that possible. To combat
deceptive business practices this helps enforcement personnel to better
protect consumers by verifying that shippers are receiving information
they are entitled to by regulation.
HHG brokers are required to provide individual shippers the ``Your
Rights and Responsibilities When You Move'' booklet and the ``Ready to
Move'' brochure. They have the option of providing paper copies or
presenting the information through a link on their Internet Web site.
The broker is required to document with signed receipts that the
individual shipper was provided those materials. HHG brokers are also
required to provide the list of HHG motor carriers for which it would
arrange transportation to move a potential individual shipper's HHG,
and that broker's identification information:
1. Assigned USDOT number; and
2. Address.
Title: Practices of Household Goods Brokers.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0048.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved collection.
Respondents: Brokers of Household Goods.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 690.
Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes per day x 240 workdays for
household goods broker transactions.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2014.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 89,607 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 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 reference your comments in
the request for OMB's clearance of this information collection.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: November
1, 2013.
G. Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Information Technology
and Chief Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013-27115 Filed 11-12-13; 8:45 am]
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