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49 U.S.C. § 13908 — Registration and other reforms
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**(a) Establishment of Unified Carrier Registration System.—** The Secretary, in cooperation with the States, representatives of the motor carrier, motor private carrier, freight forwarder, and broker industries and after notice and opportunity for public comment, shall issue within 1 year after the date of enactment of the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005 regulations to establish an online Federal registration system, to be named the “Unified Carrier Registration System”, to replace—
(1) the current Department of Transportation identification number system, the single State registration system under section 14504; 11 See References in Text note below.
(2) the registration system contained in this chapter and the financial responsibility information system under section 13906; and
(3) the service of process agent systems under sections 503 and 13304.
**(b) Role as Clearinghouse and Depository of Information.—** The Unified Carrier Registration System shall serve as a clearinghouse and depository of information on, and identification of, all foreign and domestic motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and others required to register with the Department of Transportation, including information with respect to a carrier’s safety rating, compliance with required levels of financial responsibility, and compliance with the provisions of section 14504a. The Secretary shall ensure that Federal agencies, States, representatives of the motor carrier industry, and the public have access to the Unified Carrier Registration System, including the records and information contained in the System.
**(c) Procedures for Correcting Information.—** Not later than 60 days after the effective date of this section, the Secretary shall prescribe regulat
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**(a) Establishment of Unified Carrier Registration System.—** The Secretary, in cooperation with the States, representatives of the motor carrier, motor private carrier, freight forwarder, and broker industries and after notice and opportunity for public comment, shall issue within 1 year after the date of enactment of the Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005 regulations to establish an online Federal registration system, to be named the “Unified Carrier Registration System”, to replace—
(1) the current Department of Transportation identification number system, the single State registration system under section 14504; 11 See References in Text note below.
(2) the registration system contained in this chapter and the financial responsibility information system under section 13906; and
(3) the service of process agent systems under sections 503 and 13304.
**(b) Role as Clearinghouse and Depository of Information.—** The Unified Carrier Registration System shall serve as a clearinghouse and depository of information on, and identification of, all foreign and domestic motor carriers, motor private carriers, brokers, freight forwarders, and others required to register with the Department of Transportation, including information with respect to a carrier’s safety rating, compliance with required levels of financial responsibility, and compliance with the provisions of section 14504a. The Secretary shall ensure that Federal agencies, States, representatives of the motor carrier industry, and the public have access to the Unified Carrier Registration System, including the records and information contained in the System.
**(c) Procedures for Correcting Information.—** Not later than 60 days after the effective date of this section, the Secretary shall prescribe regulations establishing procedures that enable a motor carrier to correct erroneous information contained in any part of the Unified Carrier Registration System.
**(d) Fee System.—** The Secretary shall establish, under [section 9701 of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section9701&num=0&edition=prelim), a fee system for the Unified Carrier Registration System according to the following guidelines:
(1) **Registration and filing evidence of financial responsibility.—** — The fee for new registrants shall as nearly as possible cover the costs of processing the registration.
(2) **Evidence of financial responsibility.—** — The fee for filing evidence of financial responsibility pursuant to this section shall not exceed $10 per filing. No fee shall be charged for a filing for purposes of designating an agent for service of process or the filing of other information relating to financial responsibility.
(3) **Access and retrieval fees.—**
(A) *In general.—* — Except as provided in subparagraph (B), the fee system shall include a nominal fee for the access to or retrieval of information from the Unified Carrier Registration System to cover the costs of operating and upgrading the System, including the personnel costs incurred by the Department and the costs of administration of the unified carrier registration agreement.
(B) *Exceptions.—* — There shall be no fee charged under this paragraph—
(i) to any agency of the Federal Government or a State government or any political subdivision of any such government for the access to or retrieval of information and data from the Unified Carrier Registration System for its own use; or
(ii) to any representative of a motor carrier, motor private carrier, leasing company, broker, or freight forwarder (as each is defined in section 14504a) for the access to or retrieval of the individual information related to such entity from the Unified Carrier Registration System for the individual use of such entity.
**(e) Use of Fees for Unified Carrier Registration System.—** Fees collected under this section may be credited to the Department of Transportation appropriations account for purposes for which such fees are collected and shall be available for expenditure for such purposes until expended.
**(f) Application to Certain Intrastate Operations.—** Nothing in this section requires the registration of a motor carrier, a motor private carrier of property, or a transporter of waste or recyclable materials operating exclusively in intrastate transportation not otherwise required to register with the Secretary under another provision of this title.
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**(a)** The national objectives of general welfare, economic growth and stability, and security of the United States require the development of transportation policies and programs that contribute to providing fast, safe, efficient, and convenient transportation at the lowest cost consistent with those and other national objectives, including the efficient use and conservation of the resources of the United States.
**(b)** A Department of Transportation is necessary in the public interest and to—
(1) ensure the coordinated and effective administration of the transportation programs of the United States Government;
(2) make easier the development and improvement of coordinated transportation service to be provided by private enterprise to the greatest extent feasible;
(3) encourage cooperation of Federal, State, and local governments, carriers, labor, and other interested persons to achieve transportation objectives;
(4) stimulate technological advances in transportation, through research and development or otherwise;
(5) provide general leadership in identifying and solving transportation problems; and
(6) develop and recommend to the President and Congress transportation policies and programs to achieve transportation objectives considering the needs of the public, users, carriers, industry, labor, and national defense.
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**(a) Establishment.—** The Surface Transportation Board is an independent establishment of the United States Government.
**(b) Membership.—**
(1) The Board shall consist of 5 members, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Not more than 3 members may be appointed from the same political party.
(2) At all times—
(A) at least 3 members of the Board shall be individuals with professional standing and demonstrated knowledge in the fields of transportation, transportation regulation, or economic regulation; and
(B) at least 2 members shall be individuals with professional or business experience (including agriculture) in the private sector.
(3) The term of each member of the Board shall be 5 years and shall begin when the term of the predecessor of that member ends. An individual appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for which the predecessor of that individual was appointed, shall be appointed for the remainder of that term. When the term of office of a member ends, the member may continue to serve until a successor is appointed and qualified, but for a period not to exceed one year. The President may remove a member for inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
(4) No individual may serve as a member of the Board for more than 2 terms. In the case of an individual appointed to fill a vacancy occurring before the expiration of the term for which the predecessor of that individual was appointed, such individual may not be appointed for more than one additional term.
(5) A member of the Board may not have a pecuniary interest in, hold an official relation to, or own stock in or bonds of, a carrier providing transportation by any mode and may not engage in another busines
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**(a)** It is the sense of Congress that each service or thing of value provided by an agency (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) to a person (except a person on official business of the United States Government) is to be self-sustaining to the extent possible.
**(b)** The head of each agency (except a mixed-ownership Government corporation) may prescribe regulations establishing the charge for a service or thing of value provided by the agency. Regulations prescribed by the heads of executive agencies are subject to policies prescribed by the President and shall be as uniform as practicable. Each charge shall be—
(1) fair; and
(2) based on—
(A) the costs to the Government;
(B) the value of the service or thing to the recipient;
(C) public policy or interest served; and
(D) other relevant facts.
**(c)** This section does not affect a law of the United States—
(1) prohibiting the determination and collection of charges and the disposition of those charges; and
(2) prescribing bases for determining charges, but a charge may be redetermined under this section consistent with the prescribed bases.
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**(a) Definitions.—** In this title, the following definitions apply:
(1) **Apportionment.—** — The term “apportionment” includes unexpended apportionments made under prior authorization laws.
(2) **Asset management.—** — The term “asset management” means a strategic and systematic process of operating, maintaining, and improving physical assets, with a focus on both engineering and economic analysis based upon quality information, to identify a structured sequence of maintenance, preservation, repair, rehabilitation, and replacement actions that will achieve and sustain a desired state of good repair over the lifecycle of the assets at minimum practicable cost.
(3) **Carpool project.—** — The term “carpool project” means any project to encourage the use of carpools and vanpools, including provision of carpooling opportunities to the elderly and individuals with disabilities, systems for locating potential riders and informing them of carpool opportunities, acquiring vehicles for carpool use, designating existing highway lanes as preferential carpool highway lanes, providing related traffic control devices, designating existing facilities for use for preferential parking for carpools, and real-time ridesharing projects, such as projects where drivers, using an electronic transfer of funds, recover costs directly associated with the trip provided through the use of location technology to quantify those direct costs, subject to the condition that the cost recovered does not exceed the cost of the trip provided.
(4) **Construction.—** — The term “construction” means the supervising, inspecting, actual building, and incurrence of all costs incidental to the construction or reconstruction of a highway or any project eligible for assistance under this title, including bon
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**(a) Motor Carrier Generally.—**
(1) **In general.—** — Except as otherwise provided in this section, the Secretary of Transportation shall register a person to provide transportation subject to jurisdiction under subchapter I of chapter 135 as a motor carrier using self-propelled vehicles the motor carrier owns, rents, or leases only if the Secretary determines that the person—
(A) is willing and able to comply with—
(i) this part and the applicable regulations of the Secretary and the Board;
(ii) any safety regulations imposed by the Secretary;
(iii) the duties of employers and employees established by the Secretary under section 31135;
(iv) the safety fitness requirements established by the Secretary under section 31144;
(v) the accessibility requirements established by the Secretary under subpart H of part 37 of title 49, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor regulations), for transportation provided by an over-the-road bus; and
(vi) the minimum financial responsibility requirements established by the Secretary under sections 13906, 31138, and 31139;
(B) has been issued a USDOT number under section 31134;
(C) has disclosed any relationship involving common ownership, common management, common control, or common familial relationship between that person and any other motor carrier, freight forwarder, or broker, or any other applicant for motor carrier, freight forwarder, or broker registration, if the relationship occurred in the 3-year period preceding the date of the filing of the application for registration; and
(D) after the Secretary establishes a written proficiency examination pursuant to section 32101(b) of the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Enhancement Act of 2012, has passed the written proficiency examinati
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### Statutory Notes
Section, added Pub. L. 104–88, title I, § 103, Dec. 29, 1995, 109 Stat. 902; amended Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1537(a), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 467, related to registration of motor carriers by a State.
Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in [section 11506 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section11506&num=0&edition=prelim) prior to the general amendment of this subtitle by Pub. L. 104–88, § 102(a).
#### Effective Date of Repeal
Pub. L. 109–59, title IV, § 4305(a), Aug. 10, 2005, 119 Stat. 1764, as amended by Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1537(c), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 467, provided that this section and the item relating to this section in the analysis for this chapter are repealed effective Jan. 1, 2008.
#### Temporary Reenactment of Section
Pub. L. 110–53, title XV, § 1537(a), Aug. 3, 2007, 121 Stat. 467, provided that [section 14504 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section14504&num=0&edition=prelim), as in effect on Dec. 31, 2006, was to be in effect for the period beginning on Jan. 1, 2007, and ending on the earlier of Jan. 1, 2008, or the effective date of final regulations issued (none issued as of Jan. 1, 2008) pursuant to section 1537(b) of Pub. L. 110–53, set out as a note under [section 13908 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title49-section13908&num=0&edition=prelim).
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TITLE 49—TRANSPORTATION
§ 13908
1 See References in Text note below.
ABOLITION OF INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION
Interstate Commerce Commission abolished by sec-
tion 101 of Pub. L. 104–88, set out as a note under sec-
tion 1301 of this title.
§ 13908. Registration and other reforms
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF UNIFIED CARRIER REG-
ISTRATION SYSTEM.—The Secretary, in coopera-
tion with the States, representatives of the
motor carrier, motor private carrier, freight for-
warder, and broker industries and after notice
and opportunity for public comment, shall issue
within 1 year after the date of enactment of the
Unified Carrier Registration Act of 2005 regula-
tions to establish an online Federal registration
system, to be named the ‘‘Unified Carrier Reg-
istration System’’, to replace—
(1) the current Department of Transpor-
tation identification number system, the sin-
gle State registration system under section
14504; 1
(2) the registration system contained in this
chapter and the financial responsibility infor-
mation system under section 13906; and
(3) the service of process agent systems
under sections 503 and 13304.
(b) ROLE AS CLEARINGHOUSE AND DEPOSITORY
OF INFORMATION.—The Unified Carrier Registra-
tion System shall serve as a clearinghouse and
depository of information on, and identification
of, all foreign and domestic motor carriers,
motor private carriers, brokers, freight for-
warders, and others required to register with the
Department of Transportation, including infor-
mation with respect to a carrier’s safety rating,
compliance with required levels of financial re-
sponsibility, and compliance with the provisions
of section 14504a. The Secretary shall ensure
that Federal agencies, States, representatives of
the motor carrier ind
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