Hazardous Materials: Information Collection Activities

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March 10, 2025

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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 90, Number 45 (Monday, March 10, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11649-11651]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-03737]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0008 (Notice No. 2025-02)]

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
May 9, 2025.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number
PHMSA-2025-0008 (Notice No. 2025-02) 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-2025-0008) 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, Standards and Rulemaking Division, (202) 366-8553,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#16797e7b656664775672796238717960"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="c8a7a0a5bbb8baa988aca7bce6afa7be">[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.
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 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'' for ``proprietary information.'' 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, 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#f99691948a898b98b99d968dd79e968f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="b3dcdbdec0c3c1d2f3d7dcc79dd4dcc5">[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, Standards and
Rulemaking Division, (202) 366-8553, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#0a656267797a786b4a6e657e246d657c"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="2f4047425c5f5d4e6f4b405b01484059">[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 through
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: Radioactive (RAM) Transportation Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0510.
Summary: This OMB Control Number contains information collections
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, obtaining U.S. competent authority for package design,
registering with U.S. competent authority as a 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--Reporting. 50 100 80 8,000
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 of 100 2,000 0.5 1,000
Exclusive Use Shipment Controls to the Carrier--
Reporting............................................
Offeror Obtaining U.S. Competent Authority for Package 10 40 2 80
Design--Reporting....................................
Register with U.S. Competent Authority as User of a 25 50 0.5 25
Package--Reporting...................................
Request for a U.S. Competent Authority as Required by 10 100 2 200
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: 15,347.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
Title: Subsidiary Hazard Class and Number/Type of Packagings.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0613.
Summary: This OMB Control Number contains an information collection
related to the placement of the subsidiary hazard class and type of
packaging on a shipping paper. 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
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 originally applied only to 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.
Title: Flammable Hazardous Materials by Rail Transportation.
OMB Control Number: 2137-0628.
Summary: This OMB control number contains information collections
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. The
following information collections and associated burden hours are
associated with this OMB Control Number:

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Hours per
Information collection Respondents Responses response Total hours
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Sampling and Testing Plan Burden for Subsequent Year 1,801 1,801 10 18,010
Revision...................................................
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class II Railroads....... 10 10 40 400
Routing--Collection by Segment for Class III Railroads...... 160 160 40 6,400
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 Railroads..... 10 40 12 480
Routing Security Analysis Burden for Class III Railroads.... 64 32 4 128
Tank Car Retrofit Burden.................................... 50 50 0.5 25
Incident Reporting for Flammable Liquids by Rail............ 17 17 2 34

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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: 34,757.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 4, 2025 under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
T Glenn Foster,
Chief, Regulatory Review and Reinvention Branch, Office of Hazardous
Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-03737 Filed 3-7-25; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-60-P

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