Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved the revisions of an information collection request (ICR) from the DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) on Rail Carrier and Tank Car Tanks Requirements, Rail Tank Car Tanks - Transportation of Hazardous Materials by Rail. This revision supported the new requirements imposed by PHMSA’s final rule (removed from paywall) on “Hazardous Materials: FAST Act Requirements for Real-Time Train Consist Information”.
The table below shows the revised burden estimate.
|
Burden Revision |
Existing |
Revised |
|
Responses |
21,653 |
155,377 |
|
Time Burden (hrs) |
4,472 |
18,556 |
According to yesterday’s announcement, this increase in burden is due to the final rule creating 6 additional information collections for:
Requiring railroads
to provide expanded hazardous material train consist information that includes
the origin and destination of hazardous materials on a train and the specific
identification of hazardous material location in rail cars,
Requiring railroads
to provide advance notice to state-authorized local responders when an accident
or incident involving hazardous material occurs,
Creation and retention of test records related to the emergency system notification test, and
Creation and retention of the Class III alternative emergency response information plan.
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