Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved Information Collection Request: Designation of Agents, Motor Carriers, Brokers and Freight Forwarders
| Published date | 15 November 2019 |
| Citation | 84 FR 62564 |
| Record Number | 2019-24791 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration |
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 221 (Friday, November 15, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 221 (Friday, November 15, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62564-62565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-24791]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2019-0152]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of an Approved
Information Collection Request: Designation of Agents, Motor Carriers,
Brokers and Freight Forwarders
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 and invites public comment. FMCSA requests approval
to renew an ICR titled ``Designation of Agents, Motor Carriers, Brokers
and Freight Forwarders,'' which is used to provide registered motor
carriers, property brokers, and freight forwarders a means of meeting
process agent requirements.
DATES: We must receive your comments on or before December 16, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2019-0152 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 Operations; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001 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: 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.
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 website. 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: Lorenzo Allen, Office of Registration
and Safety Information, Department of Transportation, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, West Building 6th Floor, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-385-2465; email:
[email protected]. Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Designation of Agents, Motor Carriers, Brokers and Freight
Forwarders.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0015.
Type of Request: Renewal of a currently-approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers, freight forwarders and brokers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 39,047.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes.
Expiration Date: January 31, 2020.
Frequency of Response: On occasion. Form BOC-3 must be filed by all
motor carriers, freight forwarders and brokers when the transportation
entity first registers with the FMCSA. All brokers must make a
designation for each State in which it has an office or in which
contracts are written. Subsequent filings are made only if the motor
carrier, broker or freight forwarder changes process agents.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden: 6,508 hours [39,047 respondents x 10
minutes per response].
Background
The Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) is authorized to
register motor carriers under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13902;
freight forwarders under the provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13903; and
property brokers under provisions of 49 U.S.C. 13904. These persons may
conduct transportation services only if they are registered pursuant to
49 U.S.C. 13901. The Secretary delegated authority pertaining to these
registration requirements to FMCSA in 49 CFR 1.73(a)(5).
Registered motor carriers, brokers and freight forwarders must
designate an agent on whom service of notices in proceedings before the
Secretary may be made (49 U.S.C. 13303). Registered motor carriers must
also designate an agent for every State in which they operate and
traverse in the United States during such operations, agents on whom
process issued by a court may be served in actions brought against the
registered motor carrier (49 U.S.C. 13304, 49 CFR 366.4T). Every broker
shall make a designation for each State in which its offices are
located or in which contracts are written (49 U.S.C. 13304, 49 CFR
366.4T). Regulations governing the designation of process agents are
found at 49 CFR part 366. This designation is filed with FMCSA on Form
BOC-3, ``Designation of Agents for Service of Process.'' The program
decrease in annual burden hours from 18,395 to 6,508 is due to revised
estimates of the number of respondents and responses. Previous
estimates were based on 2014 data. Current estimates are based on May
2019 Motor Carrier Management Information System (MCMIS) and Safety
Measurement System (SMS) data snapshots.
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 to perform it'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 under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87 on: November
7, 2019.
Kelly Regal,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2019-24791 Filed 11-14-19; 8:45 am]
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