97-14386. Invitation for Public Comments on DOT Draft Cargo Liability Study

[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 106 (Tuesday, June 3, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 30371]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-14386]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary of Transportation


Invitation for Public Comments on DOT Draft Cargo Liability Study

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOT.

ACTION: Invitation for Public Comments on DOT Draft Cargo Liability 
Study.

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    The Department of Transportation (DOT) is required by the 
Interstate Commerce study to determine whether any modifications or 
reforms should be made to the loss and damage provisions on motor 
carriage, including those relating to limitations of liability. The 
statute requires the Secretary, at a minimum, to consider the following 
factors:

a. Efficient delivery of transportation services
b. International harmony
c. Intermodal harmony
d. The public interest; and
e. The interests of carriers and shippers

    The study is to be submitted to the Congress. DOT has previously 
invited public comments (see Federal Register, Vol. 61 (6056) February 
15, 1996).
    The public is now invited to comment on a draft of the DOT study. 
The draft may be accessed electronically on http://ostpxweb.dot.gov/ and a hard copy may be obtained from the contact person listed below. 
In the current draft the statistics of the 1975 DOT study of cargo 
liability are used in several places as markers and as basis for 
requests to shippers, carriers and insurance interest either to produce 
better statistics or to verify that the loss and damage component of 
the value of cargo remains approximately as before.
    DOT will accept comments for thirty days from the date of 
publication of this notice. At the end of the comment period DOT plans 
to review all comments and to complete the study.
    For further information contact: Paul B. Larsen, Office of the 
General Counsel, room 10102, 400 7th Street SW., Washington DC 20590. 
[phone]. E-mail: [e-mail]

    Dated: May 19, 1997.
Joseph F. Camy,
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Transportation for Transportation Policy.
[FR Doc. 97-14386 Filed 6-2-97; 8:45 am]
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