Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection

Published date11 May 2021
Record Number2021-09960
SectionNotices
CourtFederal Highway Administration,Transportation Department
Federal Register, Volume 86 Issue 89 (Tuesday, May 11, 2021)
[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 89 (Tuesday, May 11, 2021)]
                [Notices]
                [Page 25937]
                From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
                [FR Doc No: 2021-09960]
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                DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
                Federal Highway Administration
                [Docket No. FHWA-2021-0005]
                Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
                for a New 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 July 12, 2021.
                ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
                2021-0005 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: 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: May 6, 2018.
                Michael Howell,
                Information Collection Officer.
                [FR Doc. 2021-09960 Filed 5-10-21; 8:45 am]
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