Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for Approval of a New Information Collection

Topics:  Federal Highway Administration

Michael Howell
Federal Register
September 6, 2011

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 172 (Tuesday, September 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55159-55160]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-22604]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2011-0094]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for 
Approval of a New Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Request for the Renewal of a Previously Approved 
Collection.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to 
request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new 
information collection that 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 7, 2011.

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ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 
2011-0094 by any of the following methods:
    Web Site: 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: Silvio Cutuli, 202-366-2025, Planning, 
Environment, and Realty, Federal Highway Administration, Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, 
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition 
Statistics Collection on Federal and Federally Assisted Programs.
    Type of request: Renewal without change, of a previously approved 
collection.
    Background: The statistics collected concerns acquisition of real 
property and relocation of displaced persons for Federal and federally-
assisted programs. It tabulates the real property acquisition activity 
and residential and non-residential relocation activity on a state-by-
state annual basis. The statistics collected consists of a count of: 
The number of parcels acquired; the number of parcels acquired through 
condemnation; the number of parcels acquired through administrative 
settlement; the total amounts paid, deposited in court or otherwise 
made available to a property owner; the number of households 
permanently displaced; the total amount paid for residential moving 
expenses; the total amount paid for replacement housing payments; the 
number of housing of last resort cases completed; the number of tenant 
households permanently displaced; the number of businesses, non-profit 
organizations and farms permanently displaced; the total amount paid 
for nonresidential moving expenses; the total amount paid for 
nonresidential reestablishment expenses; and the total number of 
relocation appeals.
    Respondents: State highway agencies and local government highway 
agencies receiving financial assistance for expenditures of Federal 
Funds on acquisition and relocation payments and required services to 
displaced persons.
    Frequency: Annually.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,460 for file maintenance and 52 
state highway agencies for statistical reports.
    Estimated Total Burden on Respondents: 25,000 hours.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 17 hours.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the U.S. DOT's performance, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the 
accuracy of the U.S. DOT's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
information collection; (3) ways 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: August 29, 2011.
Michael Howell,
Acting Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
[FR Doc. 2011-22604 Filed 9-2-11; 8:45 am]
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