FMCSA’s OCE-46 Notice Opens Paperwork Comments—It Is Not an Order to Close Your Authority
A new Federal Register notice seeks comments through November 23 on the information collection used for voluntary operating-authority revocation. Here is how to read its scope.
A comment notice, not a revocation decision
FMCSA’s October 23 Federal Register notice concerns renewing the information collection for Form OCE-46, used by certain registrants to request voluntary revocation of all or part of their operating authority. The docket is FMCSA-2026-1090, with comments due November 23, 2026. The notice is not an instruction for every carrier to submit that form. It does not identify a particular business whose authority has been revoked. A carrier should separate this general paperwork announcement from any individual account communication or business decision.
What comments are invited to address
The notice directs comments to reginfo.gov under the information collections currently in 30-day review. It discusses paperwork burden, including an estimated 15 minutes per response. That is an administrative estimate, not a promise about the time needed to make a business decision or complete agency processing. Our editorial suggestion for a business that has used this process is to describe the actual paperwork experience: what was unclear, what information took time to assemble and what would make the instructions easier to follow. Use a concrete example rather than a general complaint about regulation.
Keep a comment separate from an account action
A public comment on an information collection and a request affecting a business’s authority serve different purposes. Do not assume that submitting one accomplishes the other. This article reports the notice; it does not recommend revocation or provide a filing instruction for a particular business. Before making a consequential account change, identify the exact registration involved and obtain guidance appropriate to the business. A phrase copied from a general news headline is not enough to determine which action fits an operation with more than one registration or service.
Prepare a useful submission without exposing customers
Our editorial recommendation is to write a short, organized comment: identify the collection, describe the problem encountered, and suggest a specific improvement. If giving a time estimate, explain what work it includes. Keep the business’s private customer, driver and financial information out of an unnecessary example. Save the final text and submission confirmation for the business file. Record which official notice the comment addressed so a later reviewer can understand its purpose. Follow the current official submission instructions rather than treating this article as the submission portal. Source checked October 24, 2026.
Sources & verification
- Federal Register: FMCSA information collection, OCE-46; October 23, 2026
Checked 2026-10-24 - Official OMB information-collection review portal
Checked 2026-10-24
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