Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities

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May 10, 2024

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Transportation DepartmentPipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

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In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, PHMSA invites comments on three Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control numbers pertaining to hazardous materials transportation. PHMSA intends to request renewal and extension for these three control numbers from OMB.

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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 92 (Friday, May 10, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 40535-40537]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-10241]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2024-0056 (Notice No. 2024-08)]

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 three Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control
numbers pertaining to hazardous materials transportation. PHMSA intends
to request renewal and extension for these three control numbers from
OMB.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
July 9, 2024.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number
PHMSA-2024-0056 (Notice No. 2024-08) 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-2024-0056) 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 Nina Vore, Standards and Rulemaking Division,
(202) 366-8553, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#503f383d2320223110343f247e373f26"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d4bbbcb9a7a4a6b594b0bba0fab3bba2">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey

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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 Nina Vore, 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 <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#89e6e1e4faf9fbe8c9ede6fda7eee6ff"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="e38c8b8e90939182a3878c97cd848c95">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>. Comments
received by PHMSA which are not specifically designated as ``CBI'' will
be placed in the public docket for this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Steven Andrews or Nina Vore, Standards
and Rulemaking Division, (202) 366-8553, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#cca3a4a1bfbcbead8ca8a3b8e2aba3ba"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="650a0d081615170425010a114b020a13">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 1320.8(d), title 5, Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) requires the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (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 PHMSA will be submitting to 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 the information collections were last
approved. The following information 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 each information collection activity and will
publish a notice in the Federal Register upon OMB's approval. PHMSA
requests comments on the following information collections:
Title: Flammable Cryogenic Liquids.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0542.
Summary: Provisions in Sec. 177.840(a)(2) specify certain safety
procedures and documentation requirements for drivers of motor vehicles
transporting flammable cryogenic liquids. This information allows the
driver to take appropriate remedial actions to prevent a catastrophic
release of the flammable cryogenics should the temperature of the
material begin to rise excessively or if the travel time will exceed
the safe travel time. These requirements are intended to ensure a high
level of safety when transporting flammable cryogenics due to their
extreme flammability and high compression ratio when in a liquid state.
The following information collections and their burdens are associated
with this OMB Control Number.

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Total annual Total annual
Information collection Respondents responses Time per response burden hours
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Flammable Cryogenic Liquids--Reporting 175 18,200 3.5 minutes............. 1,062
Flammable Cryogenic Liquids-- 175 18,200 30 seconds.............. 152
Recordkeeping.
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Affected Public: Carriers of cryogenic materials.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 350.
Total Annual Responses: 36,400.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,214.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Title: Response Plans for Shipments of Oil.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0591.
Summary: Under authority of the Federal Water Pollution Control
Act, as amended by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 1251 et
seq.), PHMSA issued regulations in 49 CFR part 130 that require
preparation of written spill response plans. The following information
collections and their burdens are associated with this OMB Control
Number.

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Time per
Information collection Respondents Total annual response Total annual
responses (hours) burden hours
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Basic Written Response Plan--New Plans.......... 80 80 33 2,640
Basic Written Response Plan--Updating Plans..... 7,920 7,920 1 7,920
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Affected Public: Carriers that transport oil in bulk, by motor
vehicle or rail.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 8,000.
Total Annual Responses: 8,000.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 10,560.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Title: Requirements for United Nations (UN) Cylinders.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0621.

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Summary: This information collection and recordkeeping burden is
the result of efforts to amend the HMR to adopt standards for the
design, construction, maintenance, and use of cylinders and multiple-
element gas containers (MEGCs) based on the standards contained in the
UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods. Aligning the
HMR with the UN Recommendations promotes flexibility, permits the use
of technological advances for the manufacture of the pressure
receptacles, provides for a broader selection of pressure receptacles,
reduces the need for special permits, and facilitates international
commerce in the transportation of compressed gases. Information
collection requirements address domestic and international
manufacturers of cylinders that request approval by the approval agency
for cylinder design types. The approval process for each cylinder
design type includes review, filing, and recordkeeping of the approval
application. The approval agency is required to maintain a set of the
approved drawings and calculations for each design it reviews and a
copy of each initial design type approval certificate approved by the
Associate Administrator for the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety
for not less than 20 years. The following information collections and
their burdens are associated with this OMB Control Number.

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Total annual Total annual
Information collection Respondents responses Time per response burden hours
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UN Pressure Receptacle Approval--New 35 35 6 hours................. 210
Request.
UN Pressure Receptacle Approval-- 100 100 6 hours................. 600
Modified Request.
UN Pressure Receptacle Approval-- 75 75 6 minutes............... 8
Recordkeeping.
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Affected Public: Fillers, owners, users, and retesters of UN
cylinders.
Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
Number of Respondents: 210.
Total Annual Responses: 210.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 818.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 7, 2024, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
Steven W. Andrews Jr.,
Acting Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch, Office of
Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-10241 Filed 5-9-24; 8:45 am]
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