Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements; Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements; Agency Information

Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information

Collection(ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICRs describes

the nature of the information collection and their expected burden. The

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting

comments on the following collection of information was published in 62

FR 60117, November 6, 1997.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before March 2, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott A. Poyer, Chief Economist, Saint

Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, Office of Great Lakes

Pilotage, United States Department of Transportation, 400 7th Street

SW., Suite 5424, Washington, DC 20590, (800) 785-2779, or Marc C. Owen,

Chief Counsel, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Suite 5424, Washington, DC 20590, (800) 785-2779.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Saint Lawrence Seaway Development

Corporation, DOT.

Title: Great Lakes Pilotage Rate Methodology.

OMB Control Number: 2135-0501.

Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved collection.

Affected Public: Great Lakes Pilot Associations.

Affected Public: The Great Lakes Pilotage Act of 1960 authorizes

the Director of Great Lakes Pilotage to

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prescribe a uniform system of accounts and to perform audits and

inspections of Great Lakes pilot associations. The Director uses this

information to carry out financial oversight of the Great Lakes pilot

associations and to set pilotage rates. The specific information to be

filed by respondents is set forth in 33 CFR parts 404-407.

Average Annual Burden on Respondents: 18 hours.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory

Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725-17th Street, NW.,

Washington, DC 20503, Attention SLSDC Desk Officer.

Comments are Invited on: Whether the proposed collection of

information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of

the Department, including whether the information will have practical

utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the

proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility

and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize

the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including

the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of

information technology.

Issued in Washington, DC on January 22, 1997.

Phillip A. Leach,

Clearance Officer, United States Department of Transportation.

[FR Doc. 98-2302 Filed 1-29-98; 8:45 am]

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