Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for Extension of Currently Approved Information Collection Publication: Federal Register Agency: Federal Highway Administration Byline: Jazmyne Lewis Date: 28 March 2024 Subjects: American Government , Roads & Highways, Safety

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 61 (Thursday, March 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21657-21658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06597]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2024-0024]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for 
Extension of Currently Approved Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of request for extension of currently approved 
information collection.

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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 a renewal of information collection. We published a Federal 
Register Notice with a 60-day public comment period on this information 
collection on January 22, 2024. We are required to publish this notice 
in the Federal Register per the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Please submit comments by April 29, 2024.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 
0024 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: Scott Gable, 202-366-2176, Office of 
Safety, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 7:30 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Highway Safety Improvement Program.
    OMB Control: 2125-0025.
    Background: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Pub. 
L. 117-58, also known as the ``Bipartisan Infrastructure Law'' (BIL)) 
continues the

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Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) as a core federal-aid program 
with the purpose to achieve a significant reduction in traffic 
fatalities and serious injuries on all public roads, including non-
State-owned public roads and roads on tribal lands. The HSIP requires a 
data-driven, strategic approach to improving highway safety on all 
public roads that focuses on performance.
    The existing provisions of Title 23 U.S.C. 130, Railway-Highway 
Crossings Program, as well as implementing regulations in 23 CFR 924, 
remain in effect. Included in these combined provisions are 
requirements for State DOTs to annually produce and submit to FHWA by 
August 31 reports related to the implementation and effectiveness of 
their HSIPs, that are to include information on: (a) progress being 
made to implement HSIP projects and the effectiveness of these projects 
in reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries [Sections 148(h)]; 
and (b) progress being made to implement the Railway-Highway Crossings 
Program and the effectiveness of the projects in that program [Sections 
130(g) and 148(h)], which will be used by FRA to produce and submit 
reports to Congress. To be able to produce these reports, State DOTs 
must have safety data and analysis systems capable of identifying and 
determining the relative severity of hazardous highway locations on all 
public roads, based on both crash experience and crash potential, as 
well as determining the effectiveness of highway safety improvement 
projects. FHWA provides an online reporting tool to support the annual 
HSIP reporting process. Additional information is available on the 
Office of Safety website at http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/resources/onrpttool/. Reporting into the online reporting tool meets all report 
requirements and USDOT website compatibility requirements. The 
information contained in the annual HSIP reports provides FHWA with a 
means for monitoring the effectiveness of these programs and may be 
used by Congress for determining the future HSIP program structure and 
funding levels.
    Respondents: 50 State Transportation Departments, the District of 
Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 150 hours for the Highway 
Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) report and 100 Railway-Highway 
Crossing Program (RHCP) report.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Total estimated average annual 
burden is 12,900 hours.
    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: March 25, 2024.
Jazmyne Lewis,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-06597 Filed 3-27-24; 8:45 am]
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