Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on the Renewal of a Previously Approved Information Collection

Michael Howell
Federal Highway Administration
18 September 2020

[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 182 (Friday, September 18, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 58419-58420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-20641]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2020-0013]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on 
the Renewal of a Previously Approved Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to 
request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval for a new 
information collection, which is summarized below under Supplementary 
Information. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal 
Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Please submit comments by November 17, 2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID 2020-
0013 by any of the following methods:
    website: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
    Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. Department of Transportation, West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christine Thorkildsen, 518-487-1186,

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Office of Civil Rights, Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. 
and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Federal-Aid Highway Construction 
Equal Employment Opportunity.
    Background: Title 23, Part 140(a), requires the FHWA to ensure 
equal opportunity regarding contractors' employment practices on 
Federal-aid highway projects. To carry out this requirement, the 
contractors must submit employment workforce data to the State 
Transportation Agencies (STAs) on all work being performed on Federal-
aid contracts during all or any part of the last payroll period 
preceding the end of July. This report provides the employment 
workforce data on these contracts and includes the number of 
minorities, women, and non-minorities in specific highway construction 
job categories. This information is reported on Form PR-1391, Federal-
Aid Highway Construction Contractors Summary of Employment Data. The 
statute also requires the STAs to submit a report to the FHWA 
summarizing the data entered on the PR-1391 forms. This summary data is 
provided on Form PR-1392, Federal-Aid Highway Construction Contractors 
Summary of Employment Data. The STAs and FHWA use this data to identify 
patterns and trends of employment in the highway construction industry, 
and to determine the adequacy and impact of the STA's and FHWA's 
contract compliance and on-the-job (OJT) training programs. The STAs 
use this information to monitor the contractors-employment and training 
of minorities and women in the traditional highway construction crafts. 
Additionally, the data is used by FHWA to provide summarization, trend 
analyses to Congress, DOT, and FHWA officials as well as others who 
request information relating to the Federal-aid highway construction 
EEO program. The information is also used in making decisions regarding 
resource allocation; program emphasis; marketing and promotion 
activities; training; and compliance efforts.
    Respondents: 11,077 annual respondents for form PR-1391, and 53 
STAs and Territory annual respondents for Form PR-1392that, total of 
11,130.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: FHWA estimates it takes 30 
minutes for Federal-aid contractors to complete and submit Form PR-1391 
and 8 hours for STAs to complete and submit Form PR-1392.
    Estimated Total Amount Burden Hours: Form PR-1391- 5,539 hours per 
year; Form PR-1392- 416 hours per year, total of 5,955 hours annually.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for the FHWA's performance; (2) the accuracy of 
the estimated burdens; (3) ways for the FHWA to enhance the quality, 
usefulness, and clarity of the collected information; and (4) ways that 
the burden could be minimized, including the use of electronic 
technology, without reducing the quality of the collected information. 
The agency will summarize and/or include your comments in the request 
for OMB's clearance of this information collection.

    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.

     Issued On: September 15, 2020.
Michael Howell,
Information Collections Officer.
[FR Doc. 2020-20641 Filed 9-17-20; 8:45 am]
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