Notice2022-09408
Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities
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Published
May 3, 2022
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
Abstract
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.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 3, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 26259-26261]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[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:
<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-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 <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#cfbcbbaab9aaa1e1aea1abbdaab8bc8faba0bbe1a8a0b9"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e497908192818aca858a8096819397a4808b90ca838b92">[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
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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