Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection |
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Michael Howell
Federal Highway Administration
8 June 2021
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 108 (Tuesday, June 8, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Page 30515]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-11918]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2021-0008]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
for a New Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of request for the renewal of a previously approved
information collection and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the information collection request
described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
for approval of a new (periodic) information collection. We published a
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day public comment period on this
information collection on May 11, 2021. We are required to publish this
notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by July 8, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments within 30 days identified by DOT
Docket ID Number (FHWA-2021-0008) 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: 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.
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: Susanna Hughes Reck, Office of
Infrastructure, HISM-20, (202) 366-1548, Federal Highway
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Office
hours are from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Biennial Performance Reporting for the TPM Program.
Background: The MAP-21 (Pub. L. 112-141) and FAST Act (Pub. L. 114-
94) transformed the Federal-aid highway program by establishing new
requirements for transportation performance management (TPM) to ensure
the most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds. Prior to
MAP-21, there were no explicit requirements for State DOTs to
demonstrate how their transportation program supported national
performance outcomes. State DOTs were not required to measure condition
or performance, establish targets, assess progress toward targets, or
report on condition or performance in a nationally consistent manner
that FHWA could use to assess the entire system. It has been difficult
for FHWA to examine the effectiveness of the Federal-aid highway
program as a means to address surface transportation performance at a
national level without States reporting on the above factors. The new
TPM requirements, as established by MAP-21 and FAST Act, change this
paradigm and require states to measure condition or performance,
establish targets, assess progress towards targets and report on
condition or performance.
State DOTs now must submit biennial performance reports (23 U.S.C.
150 (e) and 23 CFR 490.107). The information being requested in the TPM
Biennial Reports has been provided to the DOT in an electronic format
through an online data form called the Performance Management Form
(PMF). State DOTs have successfully submitted the required biennial
reports in October 2018 and 2020. Alternative formats will be made
available where necessary. As part of the rulemaking \1\ implementing
the MAP-21 and FAST Act requirements, FHWA evaluated all of the
Biennial Reporting requirements in the individual regulatory impact
assessments (RIA) and determined the following:
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\1\ 2nd National Performance Management Measures Rule (PM2):
Assessing Pavement Condition for National Highway Performance
Program and Bridge Condition for National Highway Performance
Program; Assessing Performance of National Highway System, etc.
(RIN: 2125-AF53 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-18/pdf/2017-00550.pdf.
3rd National Performance Management Measures Rule (PM3):
Assessing Performance of National Highway System, Freight Movement
on Interstate System, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality
Improvement Program (RIN 2125-AF54) https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-18/pdf/2017-00681.pdf.
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Respondents: 52 State DOTs, including Washington DC and Puerto
Rico.
Frequency: Biennially.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: Approximately 2,128 hours
annually for an individual State DOT to compile, organize, and submit
the report to FHWA.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Approximately 110,656 hours
annually.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (1) Ways for the FHWA to
enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (2) ways that the burden could be minimized, 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: June 2, 2021.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2021-11918 Filed 6-7-21; 8:45 am]
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