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reviews, grants, or denies requests for
waivers and applications for
exemptions. The final rule included
requirements for publishing notice of
exemption applications in the Federal
Register to afford the public an
opportunity for comment. There is no
statutory requirement to publish
Federal Register notices concerning
waiver applications.
The ICR estimates the burden an
individual, motor carriers, States, or
State driver’s licensing agency (SDLA)
incurs to comply with the reporting
tasks required for requesting waivers,
exemptions and renewals of existing
exemptions in 49 CFR part 381. The
current burden estimate associated with
this information collection, approved by
OMB on May 23, 2022, is 97 hours.
Through this ICR renewal, the Agency
requests an increase in the burden hours
from 97 hours to 119 hours. The
increase is the result of the increase in
estimated waiver and exemption
applications the Agency expects to
receive in the next 3 years.
On December 6, 2024, FMCSA
published a 60-day notice (89 FR 97165)
requesting comment on the renewal of
this ICR. No comments were received 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.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting Associate Administrator Office of
Research and Registration.
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Agency Information Collection
Activities; Approval of an Information
Collection Request: Commercial Driver
Licensing and Testing Standards
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).

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Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
FMCSA announces its plan to submit
the Information Collection Request (ICR)
described below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. FMCSA requests
approval to renew an ICR titled,
‘‘Commercial Driver Licensing and Test
Standards.’’ This ICR is needed to
ensure that drivers, motor carriers, and
the States are complying with
notification and recordkeeping
requirements for information related to
testing, licensing, violations,
convictions, and disqualifications and
that the information is accurate,
complete, transmitted, and recorded
within certain time periods as required
by the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety
Act of 1986 (CMVSA or the Act), as
amended.

SUMMARY:

Comments must be received on
or before May 16, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of publication
of this notice to www.reginfo.gov/
public/do/PRAMain. 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:
Isabella Marra, Transportation
Specialist, Office of Safety Programs,
Commercial Driver’s License Division,
DOT, FMCSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE, Washington, DC 20590–0001; 202–
843–2454; isabella.marra@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Commercial Driver Licensing
and Test Standards.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0011.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
currently approved ICR.
Respondents: Drivers with a
commercial learner’s permit (CLP) or
commercial driver’s license (CDL) and
State driver licensing agencies.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
7,748,964, consisting of 7,712,074 driver
respondents and 36,890 State
respondents.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies
from 5 seconds to 40 hours.
Expiration Date: April 30, 2025.
Frequency of Response: Varies.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
2,806,735, which is the total of four
tasks for CDL drivers (2,067,271 hours),
added to a total of eight tasks for State
driver licensing agency CDL activities
(739,464 hours).
DATES:

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Background: The licensed drivers in
the United States deserve reasonable
assurances that their fellow motorists
are properly qualified to drive the
vehicles they operate. Before the
CMVSA (Pub. L. 99–570, Title XII, 100
Stat. 3207–170, codified at 49 U.S.C.
chapter 313) was signed by the
President on October 27, 1986, 18 States
and the District of Columbia authorized
any person licensed to drive an
automobile to also legally drive a large
truck or bus. No special training or
special license was required to drive
these vehicles, even though it was
widely recognized that operation of
certain types of vehicles called for
special skills, knowledge, and training.
Even in the 32 States that had a
classified driver licensing system in
place, only 12 of those States required
an applicant to take a skills test in a
representative vehicle. Equally serious
was the problem of drivers possessing
multiple driver’s licenses. By spreading
their convictions among several States,
commercial motor vehicle (CMV)
drivers could avoid punishment for
their infringements and stay behind the
wheel.
The CMVSA addressed these
problems by requiring the Federal
government to act and place minimum
standards on all jurisdictions, including
the District of Columbia. Section 12002
of the Act made it illegal for a CMV
operator to have more than one driver’s
license. Section 12003 required the
CMV driver conducting operations in
commerce to notify both the designated
State of licensure official and the
driver’s employer of any convictions of
State or local laws relating to traffic
control (except parking tickets). This
section also required the promulgation
of regulations to ensure each person
who applies for employment as a CMV
operator notifies prospective employers
of all previous employment as a CMV
operator for at least the previous 10
years. In section 12005 of the Act, the
Secretary of Transportation (Secretary)
is required to develop minimum Federal
standards for testing and licensing of
operators of CMVs. Section 12007 of the
Act also directed the Secretary, in
cooperation with the States, to develop
a clearinghouse to aid the States in
implementing the one driver, one
license, and one driving record
requirement. This clearinghouse is
known as the Commercial Driver’s
License Information System. The
CMVSA further required each person
who has their CDL suspended, revoked,
or canceled by a State, or who is
disqualified from operating a CMV for
any period, to notify his or her employer

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of such actions. Drivers of CMVs must
notify their employers within 1 business
day of being notified of the license
suspension, revocation, and
cancellation, or of the lost right to
operate or disqualification. These
requirements are reflected in 49 CFR
part 383, titled ‘‘Commercial Driver’s
License Standards; Requirements and
Penalties.’’ Specifically, § 383.21
prohibits a person from having more
than one license; § 383.31 requires
notification of convictions for driver
violations; § 383.33 requires notification
of driver’s license suspensions; § 383.35
requires notification of previous
employment; and § 383.37 outlines
employer responsibilities. Section
383.111 requires the passing of a
knowledge test by the driver and
§ 383.113 requires the passing of a skills
test by the driver. Section 383.115
contains the requirement for the double/
triple trailer endorsement; § 383.117
contains the requirement for the
passenger endorsement; § 383.119
contains the requirement for the tank
vehicle endorsement; and § 383.121
contains the requirement for the
hazardous materials endorsement. The
10-year employment history information
supplied by the CDL holder to the
employer upon application for
employment (§ 383.35) is used to assist
the employer in meeting his/her
responsibilities to ensure that the
applicant does not have a history of
high safety risk behavior. State officials
use the information collected on the
license application form (§ 383.71), the
medical certificate information that is
posted to the driving record, and the
conviction and disqualification data
posted to the driving record (§ 383.73) to
prevent unqualified and/or disqualified
CDL holders from operating CMVs on
the nation’s highways. State officials are
required to adopt and administer an
FMCSA approved program for testing
and ensuring the fitness of persons to
operate CMVs (§ 384.201). State officials
are also required to administer
knowledge and skills tests to CDL driver
applicants (§ 384.202). The driver
applicant is required to correctly answer
at least 80 percent of the questions on
each knowledge test to achieve a
passing score on that test. To achieve a
passing score on the skills test, the
driver applicant must demonstrate that
he/she can successfully perform all the
skills listed in the regulations. During
State CDL program reviews, FMCSA
officials review this information to
ensure that the provisions of the
regulations are being carried out.
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uniform control over driver licensing
practices to prevent unqualified and/or
disqualified drivers from being issued a
CDL and to prevent unsafe drivers from
spreading their convictions among
several licenses in several States and
remaining behind the wheel of a CMV.
Failure to collect this information
would render the regulations
unenforceable.
On February 2, 2024, FMCSA
published an NPRM titled
‘‘Amendments to the Commercial
Driver’s License Requirements;
Increased Flexibility for Testing and for
Drivers After Passing the Skills Test’’
(89 FR 7327) with a 60-day comment
period announcing its intention to seek
OMB review and approval to update
this ICR. The comment period closed on
April 2, 2024, and 646 comments were
received. In accordance with 5 CFR
1320.11, the NPRM served as the 60-day
ICR notice. Because FMCSA has not yet
finalized the NPRM, today’s notice
serves as the 30-day notice required
under 5 CFR 1320.10, and it covers only
the renewal of the existing information
collection, not the revisions proposed in
the NPRM.
FMCSA received one comment in
reference to the original ICR itself, as
opposed to the comments on the
impacts of the NPRM on the ICR. That
commenter, the National Propane Gas
Association, stated they had no
objections to the information collection
requirements. Comments received in
reference to the proposed changes in the
NPRM are not included in this ICR, but
will be addressed in the final rule,
assuming a final rule is to be published.
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.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87.
Kenneth Riddle,
Acting Associate Administrator, Office of
Research and Registration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration
[Docket No. FMCSA–2024–0238]

Parts and Accessories Necessary for
Safe Operation; Application for an
Exemption From Coffeyville Resources
Crude Transportation,
USDOT#1236378
Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration (FMCSA), Department
of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of final disposition; grant
of exemption.
AGENCY:

The Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (FMCSA)
announces its decision to grant an
application from Coffeyville Resources
Crude Transportation, USDOT
#1236378, (Coffeyville) for an
exemption to allow it to operate
commercial motor vehicles (CMVs)
equipped with a module manufactured
by Intellistop, Inc. (Intellistop). The
Intellistop module is designed to pulse
the required rear clearance,
identification, and brake lamps from a
lower-level lighting intensity to a
higher-level lighting intensity 4 times in
2 seconds when the brakes are applied
and then return the lights to a steadyburning state while the brakes remain
engaged. FMCSA has determined that
granting the exemption to Coffeyville
would likely achieve a level of safety
equivalent to, or greater than, the level
of safety achieved by the regulation.
DATES: This exemption is effective April
16, 2025 and ending April 16, 2030.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
David Sutula, Vehicle and Roadside
Operations Division, Office of Carrier,
Driver, and Vehicle Safety, MC–PSV,
(202) 366–9209, Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590–
0001; MCPSV@dot.gov.
SUMMARY:

I. Viewing Comments and Documents
To view comments, go to
www.regulations.gov, insert the docket
number ‘‘FMCSA–2024–0238’’ in the
keyword box, and click ‘‘Search.’’ Next,
sort the results by ‘‘Posted (NewerOlder),’’ choose the first notice listed,
click ‘‘Browse Comments.’’
To view documents mentioned in this
notice as being available in the docket,
go to www.regulations.gov, insert the
docket number ‘‘FMCSA–2024–0238’’ in
the keyword box, click ‘‘Search,’’ and
chose the document to review.
If you do not have access to the
internet, you may view the docket
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