[Federal Register: November 30, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 230)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2007-27181 (Notice No. 07-11)]

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 certain information collections pertaining to
hazardous materials transportation for which PHMSA intends to request
renewal from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
January 29, 2008.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the docket number
(PHMSA-2007-27181) by any of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.

Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management System, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
     Hand Delivery: Docket Operations, M-30, West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC
20590, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
    Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number or Regulation Identification Number (RIN) for this
notice. Internet users may access comments received by DOT at: http://www.regulations.gov.
 Note that comments received will be posted without

change to: http://www.regulations.gov. including any personal

information provided.
    Requests for a copy of an information collection should be directed
to Deborah Boothe or T. Glenn Foster, Office of Hazardous Materials
Standards (PHH-11), Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., East Building, 2nd Floor,
Washington, DC 20590-0001, Telephone<PHONE_NUMBER>.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Deborah Boothe or T. Glenn Foster,
Office of Hazardous Materials Standards (PHH-11), Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
East Building, 2nd Floor, Washington, DC 20590-0001, Telephone (202)
366-8553.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of Federal
Regulations 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 OMB
for renewal and extension. These information collections are contained
in 49 CFR 171.6 and 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 three-year term of approval for each information collection
activity and, when approved by OMB, publish notice of the approval in
the Federal Register.
    PHMSA requests comments on the following information collections:

    Title: Testing, Inspection and Marking Requirements for Cylinders.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0022.
    Summary: Requirements in Sec.  173.301 for qualification,
maintenance and use of cylinders require that cylinders be periodically
inspected and retested to ensure continuing compliance with packaging
standards. Information collection requirements address registration of
retesters and marking of cylinders by retesters with their
identification number and retest date following conduct of tests.
Records showing the results of inspections and retests must be kept by
the cylinder owner or designated agent until expiration of the retest
period or until the cylinder is reinspected or retested, whichever
occurs first. These requirements are intended to ensure that retesters
have the qualifications to perform tests and to identify to cylinder
fillers and users that cylinders are qualified for continuing use.
Information collection requirements in Sec.  173.303 require that
fillers of acetylene cylinders keep, for at least 30 days, a daily
record of the representative pressure to which cylinders are filled.
    Affected Public: Fillers, owners, users and retesters of reusable
cylinders.
    Recordkeeping:

Number of Respondents: 139,352.
Total Annual Responses: 153,287.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 168,431.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.

    Title: Approvals for Hazardous Materials.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0557.
    Summary: Without these requirements there is no means to: (1)
Determine whether applicants who apply to become designated approval
agencies are qualified to evaluate package design, test packages,
classify hazardous materials, etc.; (2) verify that various containers
and special loading requirements for vessels meet the requirements of
the HMR; and (3) assure that regulated hazardous materials pose no
danger to life and property during transportation.
    Affected Public: Businesses and other entities who must meet the
approval requirements in the HMR.
    Recordkeeping:

Number of Respondents: 10,723.
Total Annual Responses: 11,074.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 25,605.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.

    Title: Rail Carrier and Tank Car Tank Requirements.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0559.
    Summary: This information collection consolidates and describes the
information provisions in parts 172, 173, 174, 179, and 180 of the HMR
on the transportation of hazardous materials by rail and the
manufacture, qualification, maintenance and use of tank cars. The types
of information collected include:
    (1) Approvals of the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Tank
Car Committee: An approval is required from the AAR Tank Car Committee
for a tank car to be used for a commodity other than those specified in
part 173 and on the certificate of construction. This information is
used to ascertain whether a commodity is suitable for transportation in
a tank car. AAR approval also is required for an application for
approval of designs, materials and construction, conversion or
alteration of tank car tanks constructed to a specification in part 179
or an application for construction of tank cars to any new
specification. This information is used to ensure that the design,
construction or modification of a tank car or the construction of a
tank car to a new specification is performed in accordance with the
applicable requirements.
    (2) Progress Reports: Each owner of a tank car that is required to
be modified to meet certain requirements specified in Sec.  173.31 must
submit a progress report to the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA).
This information is used by FRA to ensure that all affected tank cars
are modified before the regulatory compliance date.
    (3) FRA Approvals: An approval is required from FRA to transport a
bulk packaging (such as a portable tank, IM portable tank, intermediate
bulk container, cargo tank, or multi-unit tank

car tank) containing a hazardous material in container-on-flat-car or
trailer-on-flat-car service other than as authorized by Sec.  174.63.
FRA uses this information to ensure that the bulk package is properly
secured using an adequate restraint system during transportation. Also
an FRA approval is required for the movement of any tank car that does
not conform to the applicable requirements in the HMR. These latter
movements are currently being reported under the information collection
for exemption applications.
    (4) Manufacturer Reports and Certificate of Construction: These
documents are prepared by tank car manufacturers and used by owners,
users and FRA personnel to verify that rail tank cars conform to the
applicable specification.
    (5) Quality Assurance Program: Facilities that build, repair, and
ensure the structural integrity of tank cars are required to develop
and implement a quality assurance program. This information is used by
the facility and DOT compliance personnel to ensure that each tank car
is constructed or repaired in accordance with the applicable
requirements.
    (6) Inspection Reports: A written report must be prepared and
retained for each tank car that is inspected and tested in accordance
with Sec.  180.509 of the HMR. Rail carriers, users, and the FRA use
this information to ensure that rail tank cars are properly maintained
and in safe condition for transporting hazardous materials.
    Affected Public: Manufacturers, owners and rail carriers of tank
cars.
    Recordkeeping:

Number of Respondents: 266.
Total Annual Responses: 16,782.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,689.
Frequency of collection: Annually.

    Title: Inspection and Testing of Meter Provers.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0620.
    Summary: This information collection and recordkeeping burden is
the result of efforts to eliminate exemptions that are no longer needed
and incorporate the use, inspection, and maintenance of mechanical
displacement meter provers (meter provers) used to check the accurate
flow of liquid hazardous materials into bulk packagings, such as
portable tanks and cargo tank motor vehicles, under the HMR. These
meter provers are used to ensure that the proper amount of liquid
hazardous materials is being loaded and unloaded involving bulk
packagings, such as cargo tanks and portable tanks. These meter provers
consist of a gauge and several pipes that always contain small amounts
of the liquid hazardous material in the pipes as residual material,
and, therefore, must be inspected and maintained in accordance with the
HMR to ensure they are in proper calibration and working order. These
meter provers are not subject to the specification testing and
inspection requirements in part 178. However, these meter provers must
be visually inspected annually and hydrostatic pressure tested every
five years in order to ensure they are properly working as specified in
Sec.  173.5a of the FHMR. Therefore, this information collection
requires that:
    (1) Each meter prover must undergo and pass an external visual
inspection annually to ensure that the meter provers used in the flow
of liquid hazardous materials into bulk packagings are accurate and in
conformance with the performance standards in the HMR.
    (2) Each meter prover must undergo and pass a hydrostatic pressure
test at least every five years to ensure that the meter provers used in
the flow of liquid hazardous materials into bulk packagings are
accurate and in conformance with the performance standards in the HMR.
    (3) Each meter prover must successfully complete the test and
inspection and must be marked in accordance with Sec.  180.415(b) and
in accordance with Sec.  173.5a.
    (4) Each owner must retain a record of the most recent visual
inspection and pressure test until the meter prover is requalified.
    Affected Public: Owners of meter provers used to measure liquid
hazardous materials flow into bulk packagings such as cargo tanks and
portable tanks.
    Recordkeeping:

Number of Respondents: 50.
Total Annual Responses: 250.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 175.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.

    Title: Requirements for United Nations (UN) Cylinders.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0621.
    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
United Nations (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 exemptions, 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 not less than 20 years.
    Affected Public: Fillers, owners, users, and retesters of UN
cylinders.
    Recordkeeping:

Number of Respondents: 50.
Total Annual Responses: 150.
Total Annual Burden Hours: 900.
Frequency of collection: On occasion.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on November 26, 2007.
Edward T. Mazzullo,
Director, Office of Hazardous Materials Standards.
 [FR Doc. E7-23244 Filed 11-29-07; 8:45 am]

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