Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities

Published date26 November 2019
Citation84 FR 65213
Record Number2019-25567
SectionNotices
CourtPipeline And Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Federal Register, Volume 84 Issue 228 (Tuesday, November 26, 2019)
[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 228 (Tuesday, November 26, 2019)]
                [Notices]
                [Pages 65213-65214]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2019-25567]
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                DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
                Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
                [Docket No. PHMSA-2019-0195 (Notice No. 2019-11)]
                Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities
                AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
                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 a revision to the information collection pertaining
                to hazardous materials public sector training and planning grants for
                which PHMSA intends to request a renewal with revision from the Office
                of Management and Budget.
                DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
                January 27, 2020.
                ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number
                PHMSA-2019-0195 (Notice No. 2019-11) 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-2019-0195) 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 include any personal
                information you provide.
                 Requests for a copy of an information collection should be directed
                to Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, (202) 366-8553, U.S. Department of
                Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,
                Standards and Rulemaking Division, 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.
                FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller, (202)
                366-8553, U.S. Department of Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous
                Materials Safety Administration, Standards and Rulemaking Division,
                1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
                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 an
                information collection request that PHMSA will be submitting to the
                Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for revision. Specifically, PHMSA
                is notifying the public of its intent to seek additional information in
                hazardous materials planning grant applications. This information
                collection is 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 a proposed revision to this information
                collection. The following information is provided for this 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.
                 On February 28, 2019, PHMSA published a final rule titled
                ``Hazardous Materials: Oil Spill Response Plans and Information Sharing
                for High-Hazard Flammable Trains (FAST Act)'' [HM-251B; 84 FR 6910]
                which revised and clarified requirements for Comprehensive Oil Spill
                Response Plans (COSRPs) and expanded their applicability based on
                petroleum oil thresholds that apply to an entire train consist. The
                final rule also required a railroad to share information about high-
                hazard flammable train (HHFT) operations with each State emergency
                response commissions (SERC, Tribal Emergency Response, Commission
                (TERC), or other appropriate State-delegated agency in each State
                through which it operates to improve community preparedness. At a
                minimum, railroads must provide: (1) A reasonable estimate of the
                number of HHFTs that the railroad expects to operate each week, through
                each county within the State or through each tribal jurisdiction; (2)
                the routes over which the HHFTs will operate; (3) a description of the
                hazardous materials being transported and all applicable emergency
                response information required by the shipping papers and emergency
                response information requirements of the HMR; (4) an HHFT point of
                contact; and (5) a description of the response zones (including
                counties and states) and the contact information for the qualified
                individual and alternate as specified under Sec. 130.120(c) if a route
                identified above is additionally subject to the comprehensive spill
                plan requirements. In addition, the HHFT notification must be
                maintained and transmitted in accordance with the following: (1)
                Railroads must update the notifications for changes in volume greater
                than 25%; (2) notifications and updates may be transmitted
                electronically or by hard copy; (3) if the disclosure includes
                information that a railroad believes is security sensitive or
                proprietary and exempt from public disclosure, the railroad should
                indicate that in the notification; (4) each point of contact must be
                clearly identified by name or title, and contact role (e.g., qualified
                individual, HHFT point of contact) in association with the telephone
                number. One point of contact may fulfill multiple roles; and (5) copies
                of the railroad's notifications must be made
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                available to the Department of Transportation upon request.
                 Following an audit conducted by the General Accounting Office
                (GAO), PHMSA received a recommendation (GAO-17-91) to develop a process
                for regularly collecting information from SERCs on the distribution of
                the railroad-provided hazardous materials shipping information to local
                planning entities. In response to this recommendation, PHMSA is seeking
                to have grant applicants declare if SERCs have received copies of the
                railroad-provided information detailed above. In addition, PHMSA is
                seeking to determine if the SERCs are disseminating this information to
                local planning entities. PHMSA expects that requesting grantees to
                provide this additional information will add approximately 2 minutes of
                burden time per respondent. For 62 grantees, this is appropriately
                2.067 additional burden hours (62 grantees x 2 minutes).
                 The time to complete each component of an HMEP grantee application,
                including the additional information-sharing compliance questions, is
                as follows:
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                 Responses per Number of Hours per Total burden
                 Question/topic Respondents respondent responses response hours
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                General Grantee and Sub-grantee 62 1 62 16 992
                 information....................
                Information on LEPCs............ 62 1 62 16 992
                Assessment of Potential Chemical 62 1 62 8 496
                 Threats........................
                Assessment of Response 62 1 62 8 496
                 Capabilities for Accidents/
                 Incidents......................
                HMEP Planning and Training Grant 62 1 62 7 434
                 Reporting......................
                HMEP Planning Goals and 62 1 62 7 434
                 Objectives.....................
                HMEP Training and Planning 62 1 62 7 434
                 Assessment.....................
                Hazmat Transportation Fees...... 62 1 62 3.23 200.26
                Grant Applicant is NIMS 62 1 62 5.5 341
                 Compliant/Grant Application Is
                 Reviewed By SERC...............
                HMEP Grant Program 62 1 62 5.5 341
                 Administration.................
                HHFT Information-Sharing 62 1 62 0.033 2.067
                 Compliance Questions...........
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                 Title: Hazardous Materials Public Sector Training and Planning
                Grants.
                 OMB Control Number: 2137-0586.
                 Summary: Part 110 of 49 CFR sets forth the procedures for
                reimbursable grants for public sector planning and training in support
                of the emergency planning and training efforts of States, Indian
                tribes, and local communities to manage hazardous materials
                emergencies, particularly those involving transportation. Sections in
                this part address information collection and recordkeeping regarding
                the application for grants, the monitoring of expenditures, and the
                reporting and requesting of modifications.
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                 Total annual Hours per Total annual
                 Information collection Respondents responses response burden hours
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                Hazardous Materials Grants Applications..... 62 62 83.26 5,162
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                 Affected Public: State and local governments, Indian tribes.
                 Increase in Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
                 Increase in Annual Respondents: 0.
                 Increase in Annual Responses: 0.
                 Increase in Annual Burden Hours: 2.
                 Frequency of collection: On occasion.
                 Issued in Washington, DC on November 20, 2019.
                William S. Schoonover,
                Associate Administrator of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and
                Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
                [FR Doc. 2019-25567 Filed 11-25-19; 8:45 am]
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