[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 3, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26259-26261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-09408]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0052 (Notice No. 2022-09)]


Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA 
invites comments on these information collections pertaining to 
hazardous materials transportation for which PHMSA intends to request 
renewal from the Office of Management and Budget.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
July 5, 2022.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket No. PHMSA-
2022-0052 (Notice No. 2022-09) by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Routing 
Symbol M-30, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: To the Docket Management System; Room W12-
140 on the ground floor of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and 
Docket Number (PHMSA-2022-0052) for this notice at the beginning of the 
comment. To avoid duplication, please use only one of these four 
methods. All comments received will be posted without change to the 
Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) and will

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include any personal information you provide.
    Requests for a copy of an information collection should be directed 
to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, Standards and Rulemaking Division, 
(202) 366-8553, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Docket: For access to the dockets to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov or DOT's Docket 
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
    Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits 
comments from the public to better inform its rulemaking process. DOT 
posts these comments, without edit, including any personal information 
the commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the 
system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 
www.dot.gov/privacy.
    Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business 
Information (CBI) is commercial or financial information that is both 
customarily and actually treated as private by its owner. Under the 
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from 
public disclosure. If your comments responsive to this notice contain 
commercial or financial information that is customarily treated as 
private, that you actually treat as private, and that is relevant or 
responsive to this notice, it is important that you clearly designate 
the submitted comments as ``CBI.'' Please mark each page of your 
submission containing CBI as ``PROPIN.'' PHMSA will treat such marked 
submissions as confidential under the FOIA, and they will not be placed 
in the public docket of this notice. Submissions containing CBI should 
be sent to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, Standards and Rulemaking 
Division and addressed to the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001 or to [email protected]. Any 
commentary that PHMSA receives which is not specifically designated as 
``CBI'' will be placed in the public docket for this notice.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 1320.8(d), title 5, Code of Federal 
Regulations (CFR) requires PHMSA to provide interested members of the 
public and affected agencies an opportunity to comment on information 
collection and recordkeeping requests. This notice identifies 
information collection requests that PHMSA will be submitting to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal and extension. These 
information collections are contained in 49 CFR 171.6 of the Hazardous 
Materials Regulations (HMR; 49 CFR parts 171-180). PHMSA has revised 
burden estimates, where appropriate, to reflect current reporting 
levels or adjustments based on changes in proposed or final rules 
published since this information collection was last approved. The 
following is provided for each information collection: (1) Title of the 
information collection, including former title if a change is being 
made; (2) OMB control number; (3) summary of the information collection 
activity; (4) description of affected public; (5) estimate of total 
annual reporting and recordkeeping burden; and (6) frequency of 
collection. PHMSA will request a 3-year term of approval for this 
information collection activity and will publish a notice in the 
Federal Register upon OMB's approval.
    PHMSA requests comments on the following information collection:
    Title: Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0510.
    Summary: This information collection consolidates and describes the 
information collection provisions in the HMR involving the 
transportation of radioactive materials in commerce. Information 
collection requirements for RAM include: Documenting testing and 
engineering evaluations for packages, documenting DOT 7A packages, 
revalidating foreign competent authority certifications, providing 
specific written instruction of exclusive use shipment controls, 
providing written instructions for exclusive use shipment controls, 
obtaining U.S. competent authority for package design, registering with 
U.S. competent authority as user of a package, and requesting a U.S. 
competent authority for a special form of radioactive material. The 
following information collections and their burdens are associated with 
this OMB Control Number:

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                                                                  Total annual      Hours per      Total annual
            Information collection                Respondents      responses        response       burden hours
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Document Test and Engineering Evaluation or                 50              100              40            4,000
 Comparative Data for Packaging--Reporting....
DOT Specification 7A Package Documentation--                50              100              80            8,000
 Reporting....................................
DOT Specification 7A Package Documentation--                50              500          0.0833            41.67
 Recordkeeping................................
Revalidation of Foreign Competent Authority                 25               25              80            2,000
 Certification--Reporting.....................
Offeror Providing Specific Written Instruction             100            2,000             0.5            1,000
 of Exclusive Use Shipment Controls to the
 Carrier--Reporting...........................
Offeror Obtaining U.S. Competent Authority for              10               40               2               80
 Package Design--Reporting....................
Register with U.S. Competent Authority as User              25               50             0.5               25
 of a Package--Reporting......................
Request for a U.S. Competent Authority as                   10              100               2              200
 Required by the IAEA Regulations for Special
 Form--Reporting..............................
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    Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of radioactive materials in 
commerce.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 320.
    Total Annual Responses: 2,915.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 15,346.67.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Title: Subsidiary Hazard Class and Number/Type of Packagings.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0613.
    Summary: The HMR require that shipping papers and emergency 
response information accompany each shipment of hazardous materials in 
commerce. Shipping papers serve as a principal means of identifying 
hazardous materials during transportation emergencies. Firefighters, 
police, and other emergency response personnel are trained to obtain 
the DOT shipping papers and emergency response information when 
responding to hazardous materials transportation emergencies. The 
availability of accurate information concerning

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hazardous materials being transported significantly improves response 
efforts in these types of emergencies.
    In addition to the basic shipping description information on 
shipping papers, we also require the subsidiary hazard class or 
subsidiary division number(s) to be entered in parentheses following 
the primary hazard class or division number on shipping papers. This 
requirement was originally required only by transportation by vessel. 
However, the lack of such a requirement posed problems for motor 
carriers regarding compliance with segregation, separation, and 
placarding requirements, as well as posing a safety hazard. For 
example, in the event the motor vehicle becomes involved in an 
accident, when the hazardous materials being transported include a 
subsidiary hazard such as ``dangerous when wet'' or a subsidiary hazard 
requiring more stringent requirements than the primary hazard, there is 
no indication of the subsidiary hazards on the shipping papers and no 
indication of the subsidiary risks on placards. Under circumstances 
such as motor vehicles being loaded at a dock, labels are not 
sufficient to alert hazardous materials employees loading the vehicles, 
nor are they sufficient to alert emergency responders of the subsidiary 
risks contained on the vehicles. Therefore, we require the subsidiary 
hazard class or subsidiary division number(s) to be entered on the 
shipping paper for purposes of enhancing safety and international 
harmonization.
    The following information collection and burden is associated with 
this OMB Control Number:

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                                                               Total annual      Seconds  per     Total annual
          Information collection              Respondents        responses         response       burden hours
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Subsidiary Hazard Class on Shipping Papers         260,000        43,810,000                2            24,339
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    Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of hazardous materials in 
commerce.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Number of Respondents: 260,000.
    Total Annual Responses: 43,810,000.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 24,339.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 27, 2022.
William A. Quade,
Deputy Associate Administrator of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline 
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022-09408 Filed 5-2-22; 8:45 am]
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