Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on the Renewal of a Previously Approved Information Collection
| Published date | 18 September 2020 |
| Citation | 85 FR 58419 |
| Record Number | 2020-20641 |
| Section | Notices |
| Court | Federal Highway Administration,Transportation Department |
Federal Register, Volume 85 Issue 182 (Friday, September 18, 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.
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