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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 121 / Monday, June 28, 2021 / Notices
Description of Collection 2
Title: Quarterly Condensed Balance SheetRailroads Form CBS.
OMB Control Number: 21400014.
Form Number: Form CBS.
Type of Review: Extension without change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: Six hours.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 168 hours annually.
Total Annual Non-Hour Burden Cost: None identified. Filings are submitted electronically to the Board.
Needs and Uses: This collection shows the balance, quarterly and cumulative, for the current and prior year of the carriers assets and liabilities, gross capital expenditures, and revenue tons carried. See 49 CFR 1243.2. The Board uses the information in this report to ensure competitive, efficient, and safe transportation through general oversight programs that monitor and forecast the financial and operating condition of railroads, and through specific regulation of railroad rate and service issues and rail restructuring proposals, including railroad mergers, consolidations, acquisitions of control, and abandonments. Information from these reports is used by the Board, other Federal agencies, and industry groups to assess industry growth and operations, detect changes in carrier financial stability, and identify trends that may affect the national transportation system. Revenue ton-miles, which are reported in these reports, are compiled and published by the Board in its quarterly Selected Earnings Data Report, which is published on the Boards website, https www.stb.gov/stb/
industry/econ_reports.html. The information contained in these reports is not available from any other source.

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Description of Collection 3
Title: Report of Railroad Employees, Service and Compensation Wage Forms A and B.
OMB Control Number: 21400004.
Form Number: Wage Form A; and Wage Form B.
Type of Review: Extension without change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: No more than 3 hours per quarterly report and 4 hours per annual summation.
Frequency of Response: Quarterly, with an annual summation.
Total Annual Hour Burden: No more than 112 hours annually.

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Total Annual Non-Hour Burden Cost: None identified. Filings are submitted electronically to the Board.
Needs and Uses: This collection shows the number of employees, service hours, and compensation, by employee group e.g., executive, professional, maintenance-of-way and equipment, and transportation, of the reporting railroads. See 49 CFR 1245. The information is used by the Board to forecast labor costs and measure the efficiency of the reporting railroads. The information is also used by the Board to evaluate proposed regulated transactions that may impact rail employees, including mergers and consolidations, acquisitions of control, purchases, and abandonments. Other Federal agencies and industry groups, including the Railroad Retirement Board RRB, Bureau of Labor Statistics BLS, and Association of American Railroads AAR, use the information contained in the reports to monitor railroad operations. Certain information from these reports is compiled and published on the Boards website, https
www.stb.gov/stb/industry/econ_
reports.html. The information contained in these reports is not available from any other source.
Description of Collection 4
Title: Monthly Report of Number of Employees of Class I Railroads Wage Form C.
OMB Control Number: 21400007.
Form Number: STB Form C.
Type of Review: Extension without change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: 1.25
hours.
Frequency of Response: Monthly.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 105 hours annually.
Total Annual Non-Hour Burden Cost: None identified. Filings are submitted electronically to the Board.
Needs and Uses: This collection shows, for each reporting carrier, the average number of employees at midmonth in the six job-classification groups that encompass all railroad employees. See 49 CFR 1246. The information is used by the Board to forecast labor costs and measure the efficiency of the reporting railroads. The information is also used by the Board to evaluate the impact on rail employees of proposed regulated transactions, including mergers and consolidations, acquisitions of control, purchases, and abandonments. Other Federal agencies and industry groups, including the RRB, BLS, and AAR, use the information contained in these reports to monitor
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railroad operations. Certain information from these reports is compiled and published on the Boards website, https www.stb.gov/stb/industry/econ_
reports.html. The information contained in these reports is not available from any other source.
Description of Collection 5
Title: Annual Report of Cars Loaded and Cars Terminated.
OMB Control Number: 21400011.
Form Number: Form STB54.
Type of Review: Extension without change.
Respondents: Class I railroads.
Number of Respondents: Seven.
Estimated Time per Response: Four hours.
Frequency of Response: Annual.
Total Annual Hour Burden: 28 hours annually.
Total Annual Non-Hour Burden Cost: None identified. Filings are submitted electronically to the Board.
Needs and Uses: This collection reports the number of cars loaded and cars terminated on the reporting carriers line. See 49 CFR 1247.
Information in this report is entered into the Boards Uniform Rail Costing System URCS, which is a cost measurement methodology. URCS, which was developed by the Board pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 11161, is used as a tool in rail rate proceedings, in accordance with 49 U.S.C. 10707d, to calculate the variable costs associated with providing a particular service. The Board also uses URCS to carry out more effectively other of its regulatory responsibilities, including: Acting on railroad requests for authority to engage in Board-regulated financial transactions such as mergers, acquisitions of control, and consolidations, see 49 U.S.C. 11323
11324; analyzing the information that the Board obtains through the annual railroad industry waybill sample, see 49
CFR 1244; measuring off-branch costs in railroad abandonment proceedings, in accordance with 49 CFR 1152.32n;
developing the rail cost adjustment factors, in accordance with 49 U.S.C.
10708; and conducting investigations and rulemakings. This collection is compiled and published on the Boards website, https www.stb.gov/stb/
industry/econ_reports.html. There is no other source for the information contained in this report.
Description of Collection 6
Title: Quarterly Report of Freight Commodity Statistics Form QCS.
OMB Control Number: 21400001.
Form Number: Form QCS.
Type of Review: Extension without change.

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