[Federal Register: February 13, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 29)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2007-26977]
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 invites public comments about our intention to
request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval for
renewal of an existing 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 April 16, 2007.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT DMS Docket Number
FHWA-2007-26977 by any of the following methods:
Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments on the DOT electronic docket site.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401,
Washington, DC, 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery: Room PL-401 on the plaza level of the
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room 401
on the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob Bini, 202-366-6799, or Cynthia
Hatley, 202-493-0426, Office of Federal Lands Highway, Federal Highway
Administration, Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, 20590. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Federal Lands Highway Program.
OMB Control #: 2125-0598.
Background: Title 23 U.S.C. 204 requires the Secretary of
Transportation and the Secretary of each appropriate Federal land
management agency to develop, to the extent appropriate, safety,
bridge, pavement, and congestion management systems for roads funded
under the Federal Lands Highway Program (FLHP). A management system is
a process for collecting, organizing, and analyzing data to provide a
strategic approach to transportation planning, program development, and
project selection. Its purposes are to improve transportation system
performance and safety, and to develop alternative strategies for
enhancing mobility of people and goods. This data collection clearance
addresses the management systems for the National Park Service (NPS)
and the Park Roads and Parkways (PRP) Program; Bureau of Indian Affairs
(BIA) and the Indian Reservation Roads (IRR) Program; Fish and Wildlife
Service (FWS) and the Refuge Roads (RR) Program; and Forest Service
(FS) and the Forest Highway (FH) Program.
Outputs from the management systems are important tools for the
development of transportation plans and transportation improvement
programs, and in making project selection decisions consistent with 23
U.S.C. 204. Further, management system outputs also provide important
information to the FHWA for their stewardship and oversight roles for
the Park Roads and Parkways, Indian Reservation Roads, Refuge Roads,
and Forest Highway Programs. The data collection required to implement
these management systems supports the DOT Strategic Objectives of
Safety, Mobility, Environmental Stewardship, and Organizational
Excellence. The proposed data collection also directly supports the
FHWA's Vital Few Initiative of Safety, Congestion Mitigation, and
Environmental Stewardship and Streamlining that represent the three
most important strategic planning and performance goals for the agency.
The National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and
Wildlife Service, and Forest Service are continuing to implement the
required management systems and the associated information collections.
Completion of this phase-in of the management systems is expected to
occur during the time period covered by this information collection,
and the average annual burden estimates are based on expected increases
in the overall burden over that time period. The management systems
vary in complexity among the four agencies and reflect differences in
the characteristics of the transportation systems involved such as
size, ownership, and eligibility for inclusion in the program. These
variations result in differences among the agencies in the expected
number of respondents to the information collection, and in the
anticipated time necessary to respond to the information collection.
Typical information that might be collected for the management
systems includes:
Traffic information including volumes, speeds, and vehicle
classification;
Pavement features such as number of lanes, length, width,
surface type, functional classification, and shoulder information; and
pavement condition information such as roughness, distress, rutting,
and surface friction;
Bridge features such as deck width, under/over-clearance,
details of structural elements such as girders, joints, railings,
bearings, abutments, and piers; and information on the condition of the
bridge elements sufficient to describe the nature, extent, and severity
of deterioration;
Safety information such as crash records, crash rates, and
an inventory of safety appurtenances such as signs and guardrails; or
Congestion measures such as roadway level of service or
travel delay.
Respondents to the information collection might be collecting and
submitting information in one or more of these categories for the
portion of their transportation system that is covered under the FLHP.
For example, this might include the collection and submission of these
types of information for State or county-owned roads that are Forest
Highways, or Indian Reservation Roads owned by Indian Tribal
Governments. Typically, the respondents would collect information each
year on a portion of their system. Burden estimates have been developed
using this assumption combined with an estimate of the time needed to
collect and provide the information.
Respondents: The estimated average annual number of respondents for
the management systems for each of the agencies addressed by this
information collection is: NPS management systems--35 States and 40
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), regional transportation
planning agencies, counties, local or tribal governments. BIA
management systems--35 States and 50 MPOs, regional transportation
planning agencies, counties, local or tribal governments. FWS
management systems--35 States and 40 MPOs, regional transportation
planning agencies, counties, local or tribal governments. FS management
systems--35 States and 50 MPOs, regional transportation planning
agencies, counties, local or tribal governments.
Frequency: Annual.
Estimated Average Annual Burden per Response: NPS management
systems--Approximately 40 hours per respondent. BIA management
systems--Approximately 60 hours per respondent. FWS management
systems--Approximately 20 hours per respondent. FS management systems--
Approximately 60 hours per respondent.
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Total estimated average annual
burden is 14,700 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: February 7, 2007.
James R. Kabel,
Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
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