Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers

G. Kelly Regal
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
27 July 2017

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 143 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 35027]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-15834]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2017-0046]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently-Approved Information Collection Request: Annual 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 the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its 
review and approval. On March 16, 2017, FMCSA published a Federal 
Register notice announcing the renewal of an information collection 
titled, ``Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers,'' and 
FMCSA received two comments.

DATES: Please send your comments by August 28, 2017. OMB must receive 
your comments by this date to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2017-0046. Interested persons are 
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention 
of the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, and sent via electronic mail to 
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to 
the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management 
and Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW., 
Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vivian Oliver, Lead Transportation 
Specialist, Office of Registration and Safety Information, Department 
of Transportation, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 6th 
Floor, West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-
0001. Telephone: 202-366-2974. Email Address: vivian.oliver@dot.gov. 
Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Annual Report of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0031.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently-approved collection.
    Respondents: Motor Carriers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 408.
    Estimated Time per Response: 18 minutes.
    Expiration Date: October 31, 2017.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 122 hours (408 responses x 18 
minutes per response/60 = 122.4 rounded to 122).

Background

    Section 14123 of title 49 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) 
requires that the Secretary of Transportation collect annual financial 
reports from certain for-hire motor carriers of passengers. All Class I 
for-hire motor carriers of passengers, carriers with gross annual 
operating revenues of $5 million or more, are required to complete and 
file a Motor Carrier Annual Report Form MP-1 for Motor Carriers of 
Passengers (Form MP-1). See 49 CFR 369.3(a) and 369.4(a). The Form MP-1 
annual report will be used to collect financial, operating, equipment 
and employment data from individual motor carriers of passengers.
    The data collected will be available to users in its original form. 
The data are not used by the Department of Transportation, and, based 
on a comment to a proposed rule finalized on December 17, 2013 (78 FR 
76241), the data are no longer used by trucking associations. Insurance 
companies, consultants, law firms, academia, trade publications and 
others may use the data to assess industry growth and its impact on the 
economy, to identify industry changes that may affect national 
transportation, and to monitor company financial stability. The Bureau 
of Economic Analysis (BEA) of the U.S. Department of Commerce uses the 
data to inform the national annual input-output and Gross Domestic 
Product (GDP) estimates. BEA uses the data to prepare estimates of 
industry output and provide details on inputs to supplement the 
information on motor carriers of passengers collected by the U.S. 
Census Bureau.
    In response to the March 16, 2017 60-day Federal Register notice 
(82 FR 14103), FMCSA received two comments questioning why the Agency 
continues to require the annual report filing by Class I passenger 
motor vehicles, despite FMCSA's statement that the data is not used by 
the Agency. FMCSA's response to the comments is 49 U.S.C. 14123 
requires that the Agency collect such annual financial reports.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for FMCSA to perform its 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.

    Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: July 20, 
2017.
G. Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2017-15834 Filed 7-26-17; 8:45 am]
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