Notice2022-00575
Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities
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Published
January 13, 2022
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA invites comments on this information collection pertaining to hazardous materials transportation for which PHMSA intends to request renewal from the Office of Management and Budget.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 9 (Thursday, January 13, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2238-2239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-00575]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2021-0117 (Notice No. 2022-01)]
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 this information collection 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
March 14, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket No. PHMSA-
2021-0117 (Notice No. 2022-01) by any of the following methods:
<bullet> Federal eRulemaking Portal: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
<bullet> Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
<bullet> 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.
<bullet> 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-2021-0117) 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, 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 <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> 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 <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">www.regulations.gov</a>, as described in the
system of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
<a href="http://www.dot.gov/privacy">www.dot.gov/privacy</a>.
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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#2c5f58495a4942024d42485e495b5f6c484358024b435a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="ddaea9b8abb8b3f3bcb3b9afb8aaae9db9b2a9f3bab2ab">[email protected]</span></a>. 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 an
information collection request that PHMSA will be submitting to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for renewal and extension. 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 changes in proposed or final rules
published since this information collection was last approved. The
following 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
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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: Flammable Hazardous Materials by Rail Transportation.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0628.
Summary: This OMB control number is used for information and
recordkeeping requirements pertaining to the sampling and testing
certification, routing analysis, and incident reporting for flammable
liquids by rail transportation. Rail carriers, shippers, PHMSA's Office
of Hazardous Materials Safety (OHMS), the Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), and the Association of American Railroads (AAR)
may use this information to ensure that rail tank cars transporting
flammable liquids are properly classified, ensure trains are routed
appropriately, and collect all relevant incident data.
This OMB control number is being submitted for renewal and includes
the following information collections and associated burden hours:
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Hours per
Information collection Respondents Responses response Total hours
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Sampling and Testing Plan Burden for Subsequent 1,801 1,801 10 18,010
Year Revision..................................
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class II 10 10 40 400
Railroads......................................
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class III 160 160 40 6,400
Railroads......................................
Routing Analysis Burden for Class II Railroads.. 10 50 16 800
Routing Analysis Burden for Class III Railroads. 160 320 8 2,560
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class II 10 40 12 480
Railroads......................................
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class III 64 32 4 128
Railroads......................................
Tank Car Retrofit Burden........................ 50 50 0.5 25
Crude Oil Incident Reporting.................... 17 17 2 34
Oil Spill Response Plans--Submit Reports........ 73 14.6 0.5 7.3
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class I................ 7 7 162 1,134
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class II............... 11 11 54 594
Oil Spill Response Plan--Class III.............. 55 55 36 1,980
Notification Plans--Maintenance................. 73 2,190 1 2,190
Notification Plans--DOT Request................. 73 15.33 1 15.33
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Affected Public: Shippers and carriers of petroleum liquids
transported by rail.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 2,574.
Total Annual Responses: 4,773.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 34,758.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Issued in Washington, DC, on January 7, 2022.
William A. Quade,
Deputy Associate Administrator of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline
and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022-00575 Filed 1-12-22; 8:45 am]
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