
[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23793-23794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing 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 
Vivian.Oliver@dot.gov.

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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