Notice2025-06345
Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of a Currently Approved Collection: Driver Qualification Files
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Published
April 15, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
Abstract
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), FMCSA announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for its review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA requests approval to revise and renew an ICR titled "Driver Qualification Files." The ICR estimates the burden commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers and motor carriers incur to comply with the reporting and recordkeeping tasks required for motor carriers to maintain driver qualification (DQ) files. The Agency's regulations pertaining to maintaining DQ files are unchanged and impose no increased information collection (IC) burden on individual drivers and motor carriers. The December 23, 2024, Federal Register notice contained incorrect estimates for burden hours and respondents. The Agency corrects these errors.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 71 (Tuesday, April 15, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15782-15783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-06345]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA-2024-0204]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Renewal of a Currently
Approved Collection: Driver Qualification Files
AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
FMCSA announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request
(ICR) described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for
its review and approval and invites public comment. FMCSA requests
approval to revise and renew an ICR titled ``Driver Qualification
Files.'' The ICR estimates the burden commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers and motor carriers incur to comply with the reporting and
recordkeeping tasks required for motor carriers to maintain driver
qualification (DQ) files. The Agency's regulations pertaining to
maintaining DQ files are unchanged and impose no increased information
collection (IC) burden on individual drivers and motor carriers. The
December 23, 2024, Federal Register notice contained incorrect
estimates for burden hours and respondents. The Agency corrects these
errors.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before May 15,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this information
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Pearlie Robinson, Driver and
Carrier Operations Division, DOT, FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590-0001; 202-366-4225; <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#1c6c797d6e707579326e737e75726f73725c787368327b736a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a5d5c0c4d7c9ccc08bd7cac7cccbd6cacbe5c1cad18bc2cad3">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Driver Qualification Files.
OMB Control Number: 2126-0004.
Type of Request: Renewal of a currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: CMV motor carriers and drivers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 9.86 million (9.05 million drivers
+ 0.81 million motor carriers).
Expiration Date: May 31, 2025.
Frequency of Response: The information on some DQ documents is only
provided one time, such as that furnished at the time the individual
applies for employment as a driver.
Other information must be obtained by the motor carrier within 30
days of the date the driver begins to drive a CMV for the employer.
Other information, such as the driver's motor vehicle record, is only
updated once a year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 14.15 million hours.
Definitions: N/A.
Background: The Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984 (Pub. L. 98-554,
Title II, 98 Stat. 2834 (Oct. 30, 1984)) requires the Secretary of
Transportation to issue regulations pertaining to CMV safety. Part 391
of volume 49 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) contains the
minimum qualifications of drivers of CMVs in interstate commerce.
Motor carriers may not require or permit an unqualified driver to
operate a CMV. The foremost proof of driver qualification is the
information that part 391 requires be collected and maintained in the
DQ file (49 CFR 391.51). Motor carriers must obtain this information
from sources specified in the regulations, such as the driver, previous
employers of the driver, and officials of the State of driver
licensure. Motor carriers are not required to forward DQ information to
FMCSA but must maintain the information in a DQ file and make it
available to State and Federal safety investigators on demand.
The Federal Register notice (89 FR 104604) published on December
23, 2024, contained incorrect estimates for burden hours and
respondents. Burden
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hours were reported as 18.39 million hours instead of 14.15 million
hours, and respondents were reported as 9.87 million instead of 9.86
million. These errors resulted in an increase in both burden hours and
respondents. This notice corrects those errors indicating a decrease in
burden hours and a decrease in respondents.
Renewal of This IC
The current IC burden estimate associated with this IC, approved by
OMB on May 22, 2022, is 14.23 million hours. The expiration date of the
current ICR is May 31, 2025. Through this ICR revision and renewal, the
Agency estimates a reduction in the burden hours from 14.23 million
hours to 14.15 million hours. The decrease is the result of a decrease
in the driver population and a decrease in the driver turnover rate,
both of which affect the volume of documents produced and filed in DQ
files.
On December 23, 2024, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice
allowing for a 60-day comment period on this ICR (89 FR 104604). The
comment period closed on January 21, 2025. There were no comments
submitted in response to that notice.
Public Comments Invited
You are asked to comment on any aspect of this information
collection, including: (1) whether the proposed collection is necessary
for the performance of FMCSA's functions; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected information; and (4) ways that
the burden could be minimized without reducing the quality of the
collected information. The Agency will summarize or include your
comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this ICR.
Issued under the authority delegated in 49 CFR 1.87.
Kenneth Riddle,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2025-06345 Filed 4-14-25; 8:45 am]
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