

[Federal Register: January 3, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 2)]
[Notices]               
[Page 538]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-0083]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension of a 
Currently Approved Information Collection: Transportation of Hazardous 
Materials, Highway Routing

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for information.

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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 review 
and approval. The FMCSA requests approval to extend an existing 
information collection entitled ``Transportation of Hazardous 
Materials, Highway Routing,'' which requires States and Indian tribes 
to identify designated/restricted routes and restrictions or 
limitations affecting how motor carriers may transport certain 
hazardous materials on the highway. On October 30, 2007, FMCSA 
published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day comment 
period on the ICR. No comment was received.

DATES: Please send your comments by February 4, 2008. OMB must receive 
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference DOT Docket No. FMCSA-2007-
0083. You may submit comments to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 Seventeenth 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. James O. Simmons, Hazardous 
Materials Division, phone (202) 366-6121; FAX (202) 366-3921; or e-mail 
james.simmons@dot.gov; Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 

DOT, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours 
are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday, except Federal 
Holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Transportation of Hazardous Materials, Highway Routing.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-0014.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    Respondents: The reporting burden is shared by the 50 States, the 
District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern 
Marianas, and the Virgin Islands.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 53.
    Estimated Time per Response: 15 minutes.
    Expiration Date: February 28, 2007.
    Frequency of Response: There is one response annually from 
approximately 53 respondents.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 13 hours [53 respondents x 1 
response x 15 minutes per response/60 minutes = 13.25 hours, rounded to 
13 hours].
    Background: The data for the Transportation of Hazardous Materials; 
Highway Routing designations are collected under authority of 49 U.S.C. 
5112 and 5125. That authority places responsibility on the Secretary of 
Transportation (Secretary) to specify and regulate standards for 
establishing, maintaining, and enforcing routing designations.
    Under 49 CFR 397.73, the Administrator has the authority to request 
that each State and Indian tribe, through its routing agency, provide 
information identifying hazardous materials routing designations within 
their jurisdictions. That information is collected and consolidated by 
the FMCSA and published annually in whole, or as updates, in the 
Federal Register.
    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 the 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 on: December 18, 2007.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
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