46 CFR Part 520 - Carrier Automated Tariff Systems and Related Form FMC-1
Reinstatement without change of a previously approved collection
No
Regular
03/04/2021
Requested
Previously Approved
36 Months From Approved
99,181
0
2,295
0
0
0
Except with respect to certain specified commodities, section 8(a) of the Shipping Act of 1984 requires that each common carrier and conference shall keep open to public inspection, in an automated tariff system, tariffs showing its rates, charges, classifications, rules, and practices between all ports and points on its own route and on any through transportation route that has been established. In addition, individual carriers or agreements among carriers are required to make available in tariff format certain enumerated essential terms of their service contracts. The Commission is responsible for reviewing the accessibility and accuracy of automated tariff systems in accordance with its regulations set forth at 46 CFR 520. The respondents in this information collection are ocean common carriers and conferences of ocean common carriers.
The burden estimate for this information collection has been slightly reduced from the 2017 estimate of 2,408 hours, by 113 hours. We arrived at the estimate by using the actual respondent numbers and annual instances for FY 2018 through FY 2020 and divided by 3. Therefore, the total number of annual hours requested is 2,295.
The start-up costs and operations and maintenance costs previously reported under question 13 have been eliminated due to advances in technology associated with publishing and making tariffs available to the public. Notably, 96% of all tariffs are published by the 14 major tariff publishers, and those start-up costs were incurred long ago, in many cases, decades ago. The remaining 4% of tariffs are published using commercially available software.
$67,259
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Gary Kardian 202 523-5856
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
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