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[Federal Register: April 10, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 68)]
[Notices]
[Page 18136-18137]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr10ap06-103] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration [Docket No. FMCSA-2006-24624] Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comment;
Renewal of an Existing Information Collection: Annual and Quarterly
Reports of Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers (Formerly OMB 2139-
0003) AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT. ACTION: Notice and request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: This notice announces that the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA) intends to submit to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) its request to renew a currently-approved information
collection for Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers, Form MP-1, 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 1420. This notice is required by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 9, 2006. ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Docket No. FMCSA-2006-24624.
You may mail or hand deliver comments to the U.S. Department of
Transportation, Dockets Management Facility, Room PL-401, 400 Seventh
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590; telefax comments to 202/493-2251; or
submit electronically at http://dms.dot.gov. You may examine and copy all comments received at the above address
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays. If you desire your comment to be acknowledged, you must
include a self-addressed stamped envelope or postcard or, if you submit
your comments electronically, you may print the acknowledgment. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Toni Proctor, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration Office of Research and Analysis,
Washington, DC 20590, phone (202) 366-2998, FAX (202) 366-3518, e-mail
Toni.Proctor@fmcsa.dot.gov, Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: For-hire Class I motor carriers of
passengers (including interstate and intrastate) \1\ are required to
file Motor Carrier Quarterly and Annual Reports (Form MP-1) that
provide financial and operating data (see 49 U.S.C. 14123). 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 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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- \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.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- The data and information collected is made publicly available as
prescribed in 49 CFR part 1420. 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). FMCSA plans to publish a final rule in the
future to transfer and re-designate the F&OS program reporting
requirements at part 1420, title 49 of the CFR, from BTS (now RITA) to
FMCSA. Type of Information Collection Request: Renewal of an existing
information collection. Title of Information Collection: Annual and Quarterly Report of
Class I Motor Carriers. of Passengers (formerly OMB 2139-0004). OMB Control Number: 2126-0031.
Respondents: Class I Motor Carriers of Passengers.
Frequency: Quarterly and annually.
Estimated Annual Number of Respondents: 26.
Estimated Annual Number of Responses: 130.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: 1.5 hours per response.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 195 hours [130 responses x 1.5
hours per response = 195 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 FMCSA's performance; (2) the accuracy
of the estimated burden; (3) ways for the FMCSA to [[Page 18137]]
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 and/or include your comments in the request for OMB's
clearance of this information collection. Issued on: April 4, 2006.
Warren E. Hoemann,
Deputy Administrator.
[FR Doc. E6-5209 Filed 4-7-06; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-EX-P
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