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BILLING CODE 4910–13–M
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2006–25842]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Notice of Request for
Extension of Currently Approved
Information Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the
information collection request described
in this notice to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for an
extension of a currently approved
information collection. We published a
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
public comment period on this
information collection on June 26, 2006.
We are required to publish this notice
in the Federal Register by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
October 23, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments
within 30 days to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget, 725
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17th Street, NW., Washington, DC,
20503, Attention DOT Desk Officer. 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
burden; (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.
All comments should include the
Docket number FHWA–2006–25842.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions concerning the Truck Parking
Initiatives Grant Program, please contact
William F. Mahorney, Office of Freight
Management and Operations, HOFM–1,
(202) 366–6817, Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street,
SW., Washington, DC, 20590. Office
hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Truck Parking Initiative.
OMB Control Number: 2125–0610.
Background
The shortage of long-term truck
parking on the National Highway
System (NHS) is a problem that needs
to be addressed. It is nationally
recognized that truck drivers frequently
cannot find adequate, safe parking in
order to obtain rest needed to comply
with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Regulations and ensure safety. Further,
parking areas are often designed or
maintained for short-term parking only,
and as a result, allow parking for limited
time periods. Section 1305 of the Safe,
Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (SAFETEA–LU) directed the
Secretary of Transportation to establish
a Pilot program to address the long-term
parking shortages along the NHS.
Eligible projects under Section 1305
include:
1. Promoting the real-time
dissemination of publicly or privately
provided commercial motor vehicle
parking availability on the NHS using
ITS and other means;
2. Opening non-traditional facilities to
commercial motor vehicle parking,
including inspection and weigh
stations, and park and ride facilities;
3. Making capital improvements to
public commercial motor vehicle
parking facilities currently closed on a
seasonal basis to allow the facilities to
remain open year round;
4. Constructing turnouts along the
NHS to facilitate commercial motor
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vehicle access to parking facilities, and/
or improving the geometric design of
interchanges to improve access to
commercial motor vehicle parking
facilities;
5. Constructing commercial motor
vehicle parking facilities adjacent to
commercial truck stops and travel
plazas;
6. Constructing safety rest areas that
include parking for commercial motor
vehicles.
It is the belief of FHWA that given the
limited resources available, the broad
dissemination of the availability of
public or private long-term parking
spaces provides the greatest opportunity
to maximize the effectiveness of this
pilot program.
Guidelines and Administration
To administer this program for fiscal
years 2006 through 2009, the FHWA
will collect information necessary to
evaluate and rank projects. The
information collection is intended to
only address the project funding allotted
through the program.
1. The Administrator has determined
that $5.385 million is available for
grants in FY 2006 under Section 1305,
after obligation limitations.
2. Projects funded under this section
shall be treated as projects on a FederalAid System under Chapter 1 of Title 23,
U.S. Code.
3. Grants may be funded at an 80 to
100 percent funding level based on the
criteria specified in Section 120 of Title
23, U.S. Code.
As soon as practicable, a Federal
Register Notice will be published with
information and guidance relating to the
application process. Also, a solicitation
letter will be sent to all FHWA Division
Offices containing the same
information. This information will also
be posted on the FHWA Web site,
https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/. All
applications must be submitted through
a State Department of Transportation to
FHWA’s Office of Freight Management
and Operations, via the FHWA Division
Office in the State in which the
application was submitted. Awarded
projects will be administered by the
applicable State Department of
Transportation as a Federal-aid grant.
Information Proposed for Collection
Information recommended under
SAFETEA–LU and proposed for the
current program includes the following:
1. Project Description. The proposal
should include a detailed project
description, which would include the
extent of the long-term truck parking
shortage in the corridor/area to be
addressed, along with contact
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information for the project’s primary
point of contact, and whether funds are
being requested under 120 U.S. Code (b)
or (c) of Title 23. Data helping to define
the shortage may include truck volume
(Average Daily Truck Traffic—ADTT) in
the corridor to be addressed, current
number of long-term commercial motor
vehicle parking spaces, utilization of
current long-term parking spaces, driver
surveys, observational field studies,
proximity to freight loading/unloading
facilities, proximity to the NHS, etc.
2. Project Rationale. The proposal
should set forth the rationale for the
project and should include an analysis
and demonstration of how the proposed
project will positively affect truck
parking, safety, traffic congestion, or air
quality in the identified corridor.
Examples may include: advance
information on availability of parking
that may help to reduce the number of
trucks parked on roadsides and increase
the utilization of available truck parking
spaces, etc.
3. Scope of work. The scope of work
should include a complete listing of
activities to be funded through the
grant; including technology
development, information processing,
information integration activities,
developmental phase activities
(planning, feasibility analysis,
environmental review, engineering or
design work, and other activities),
construction, reconstruction, acquisition
of real property (including land related
to the project and improvements to
land), environmental mitigation,
construction contingencies, acquisition
of equipment, and operational
improvements. Also to be included
should be a 3-year performance
measurement plan that continues
beyond the demonstration period of the
project.
4. Stakeholder identification.
Stakeholder identification should
include evidence of prior consultation
and/or partnership with affected MPOs,
local governments, community groups,
private providers of commercial motor
vehicle parking, and motorist and
trucking organizations. It should
include a listing of all public and
private partners, and the role each will
play in the execution of the project.
Consultation examples may include:
Memorandums of Agreement,
Memorandums of Understanding,
contracts, meeting minutes, letters of
support/commitment, documentation in
a State’s TIPS/STIPS plans, etc.
5. Cost estimate. Applicants should
provide a detailed quantification of
eligible project costs by activity, an
identification of all funding sources that
will supplement the grant and be
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necessary to fully fund the project, and
the anticipated dates on which the
additional funds are to be made
available. Public and private sources of
funds (non-federal commitment) will be
considered by FHWA as an in-kind
match contributing to the project. State
matching funds will be required for
projects eligible under 120 U.S. Code
(b).
6. Timeline. Applicants should also
submit a timeline that includes work to
be completed and anticipated funding
cycles. Gantt charts are preferred.
7. Environmental process. Applicants
should show the timeline for complying
with the National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA), if applicable.
8. Project map. Applicants should
include a project map consisting of
schematic illustrations depicting the
project and connecting transportation
infrastructure.
9. Proposals should not exceed 20
pages in length.
Burden Hours for Information
Collection
Frequency: Annual.
Respondents: The 50 State DOTs and
Puerto Rico and the District of
Columbia.
Estimated Average Burden per
response: Burden hours estimates and
discussions are provided for each item
presented and required within the
application submittal process.
• Project Description 16 hours.
• The project description will be
submitted through the submitting
State agency, in conjunction with
local governments, MPOs, and other
potential partners.
• Project Rationale 8 hours.
• Project rationale should include an
analysis and demonstration of how
the proposed project will positively
effect truck parking, safety, traffic
congestion, or air quality in the
identified corridor.
• Scope of Work 6 hours.
• A complete listing of activities to be
funded through the grant including
technology development,
information processing, information
integration activities,
developmental phase activities
(planning, feasibility analysis,
environmental review, engineering
or design work, and other
activities), construction,
reconstruction, acquisition of real
property (including land related to
the project and improvements to
land), environmental mitigation,
construction contingencies,
acquisition of equipment,
operational improvements, and a 3year performance measurement
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plan that continues beyond the
demonstration period of the project.
• Stakeholder Identification 1 hour.
• Evidence of prior consultation and/
or partnership with affected MPOs,
local governments, community
groups, private providers of
commercial motor vehicle parking,
and motorist and trucking
organizations. A listing of all public
and private partners, and the role
each will play in the execution of
the project should also be included.
• Cost estimate 4 hours.
• A detailed quantification of eligible
project costs by activity, and an
identification of all funding sources
that will supplement the grant and
be necessary to fully fund the
project, and the anticipated dates
on which the additional funds are
to be made available. Public and
private sources of funds (nonfederal commitment) will be
considered. State matching funds
will be required for projects eligible
under 120 U.S. Code (b).
• Project Timeline 1 hour 30 minutes.
• Includes work to be completed and
anticipated funding cycles; Gantt
charts preferred.
• Environmental process 2 hours.
• Applicant should show the timeline
for complying with the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA),
if applicable.
• Project Map 1 hour.
• Consisting of schematic illustrations
depicting the project and
connecting transportation
infrastructure.
• Contact information for the State
DOT, Local Agency, or MPO (if
applicable), FHWA Division Office
5 minutes.
• This requires providing a list of
contacts and involves a nominal
amount of time.
The total amount of time estimated to
complete the application is 39 hours
and 35 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1187 total burden hours. It is
estimated 30 applications will be
processed annually.
Electronic Access: Internet users may
access all comments received by the
U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL–401, by
using the universal resource locator
(URL): https://dms.dot.gov, 24 hours
each day, 365 days each year. Please
follow the instructions online for more
information and help.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
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Issued on: September 15, 2006.
James R. Kabel,
Chief, Management Programs and Analysis
Division.
[FR Doc. 06–7832 Filed 9–20–06; 8:45 am]
20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m.
to 4:15 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Mechanistic Empirical
Pavement Design National Status
Survey.
BILLING CODE 4910–22–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2006–25848]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments for
New Information Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
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AGENCY:
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 20, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT DMS Docket Number
FHWA–2006–25848 by any of the
following methods:
• Web site: https://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 https://
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 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
questions concerning the Mechanistic
Empirical Pavement Design National
Status Survey, please contact Gary
Crawford, Office of Pavement
Technology, HIPT–1, (202) 366–1286,
Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC
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Background
In June 2004, the National
Cooperative Highway Research Program
(NCHRP) released the Mechanistic
Empirical Pavement Design Guide
(MEPDG) for New and Rehabilitated
Pavement Structures. The Federal
Highway Administration (FHWA)
organized a Design Guide
Implementation Team (DGIT) to
immediately begin the process of
informing, educating, and assisting the
FHWA field offices, State Highway
Agencies (DOTs), Industry, and others
about the new design guide. The FHWA
considers implementation of
mechanistic empirical pavement design
a critical element in improving the
National Highway System. It ties
directly into objectives listed in The
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient
Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for
Users (SAFETEA–LU) section 1503,
which supports longer life pavements
through design-build efforts. The
impacts of long-life pavements include
congestion mitigation and improved
work zone safety. The MEPDG
represents a significant advancement in
pavement design and includes the best
available engineering theory and
mechanistic principles to determine the
structural response and predict
performance over the lifetime of a
pavement structure. The mechanistic
theory is balanced with over 525
empirical observations from the Long
Term Pavement Performance database
that represents a wide range of both
material and climatic conditions. The
use of both the mechanistic theory and
a wide range of empirical observations
make the MEPDG a robust design
procedure. The MEPDG can be
considered a 40-year step forward in
pavement design. The MEPDG is a more
theoretical and mathematical based
procedure, strongly bolstered by
fundamental engineering principles and
is readily useful to academia,
researchers, and practitioners of
pavement analysis and design. The
MEPDG provides significant potential
benefits over the current AASHTO
Guide in achieving cost-effective
pavement designs and rehabilitation
strategies. Most importantly, its useroriented computational software
implements an integrated analysis
approach for predicting pavement
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condition over time. This analysis
considers the complex interaction
between traffic loadings, climatic
conditions, materials and pavement
structure. Implementation of the
MEPDG will require a significant
amount of time, resources, and funding.
However, the adoption of the guide has
the potential for providing a substantial
long term savings based on the sheer
magnitude of annual expenditures for
highway pavements. In 2003, over 79
billion dollars was used for highway
purposes; based on data published in
Highway Statistics 2003 from the FHWA
Office of Highway Policy Information.
Any improvement in the designs will
have a significant implication in
reducing costs to maintain these
pavements and more than offset the
resources required to implement the
new pavement design guide.
The DGIT has put forth a strategic
plan of action to aid the transportation
community in deploying this new
technology. The DGIT is an integral part
of an extensive outreach campaign
including enhancement, education, and
implementation strategies to promote
the MEPDG. These activities include
onsite and web-based workshops that
have already educated more than 1,200
engineers across the U.S. in 21 States
and around the globe in Canada,
Europe, China, India, Mexico, and
Central and South America. The FHWA
encourages States to evaluate the utility
that the Mechanistic Empirical
Pavement Design Guide offers and to
carefully implement the guidelines and
recommendations. The long-term goal of
the AASHTO Joint Technical Committee
on Pavements is to adopt the guide as
an AASHTOWare product to replace the
AASHTO 1993 design guide. Moving
towards a mechanistic empirical design
process represents a huge paradigm shift
for the majority of States and will
require a significant amount of
education, training, new equipment,
new testing requirements, and data
collection. Most importantly it will
require better communication and
coordination between the designers,
materials engineers, traffic engineers,
and consultants to collect and maintain
the data needed to optimize the
pavement designs and continue to
validate and calibrate the models in the
Guide. The DGIT is focused on being a
leader in this effort, providing
education, enhancement, and
implementation activities to the
transportation community.
Guidelines and Administration
This Survey will be a continuation of
a previous informal assessment of State
Practices in MEPDG Pavement Design
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2006-25842]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for
Extension of Currently Approved Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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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 an extension of a currently approved information collection. We
published a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day public comment period
on this information collection on June 26, 2006. We are required to
publish this notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by October 23, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments within 30 days to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget,
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC, 20503, Attention DOT Desk
Officer. 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 burden;
(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. All comments should include
the Docket number FHWA-2006-25842.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions concerning the Truck
Parking Initiatives Grant Program, please contact William F. Mahorney,
Office of Freight Management and Operations, HOFM-1, (202) 366-6817,
Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC,
20590. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Truck Parking Initiative.
OMB Control Number: 2125-0610.
Background
The shortage of long-term truck parking on the National Highway
System (NHS) is a problem that needs to be addressed. It is nationally
recognized that truck drivers frequently cannot find adequate, safe
parking in order to obtain rest needed to comply with the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Regulations and ensure safety. Further, parking areas
are often designed or maintained for short-term parking only, and as a
result, allow parking for limited time periods. Section 1305 of the
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) directed the Secretary of Transportation
to establish a Pilot program to address the long-term parking shortages
along the NHS. Eligible projects under Section 1305 include:
1. Promoting the real-time dissemination of publicly or privately
provided commercial motor vehicle parking availability on the NHS using
ITS and other means;
2. Opening non-traditional facilities to commercial motor vehicle
parking, including inspection and weigh stations, and park and ride
facilities;
3. Making capital improvements to public commercial motor vehicle
parking facilities currently closed on a seasonal basis to allow the
facilities to remain open year round;
4. Constructing turnouts along the NHS to facilitate commercial
motor vehicle access to parking facilities, and/or improving the
geometric design of interchanges to improve access to commercial motor
vehicle parking facilities;
5. Constructing commercial motor vehicle parking facilities
adjacent to commercial truck stops and travel plazas;
6. Constructing safety rest areas that include parking for
commercial motor vehicles.
It is the belief of FHWA that given the limited resources
available, the broad dissemination of the availability of public or
private long-term parking spaces provides the greatest opportunity to
maximize the effectiveness of this pilot program.
Guidelines and Administration
To administer this program for fiscal years 2006 through 2009, the
FHWA will collect information necessary to evaluate and rank projects.
The information collection is intended to only address the project
funding allotted through the program.
1. The Administrator has determined that $5.385 million is
available for grants in FY 2006 under Section 1305, after obligation
limitations.
2. Projects funded under this section shall be treated as projects
on a Federal-Aid System under Chapter 1 of Title 23, U.S. Code.
3. Grants may be funded at an 80 to 100 percent funding level based
on the criteria specified in Section 120 of Title 23, U.S. Code.
As soon as practicable, a Federal Register Notice will be published
with information and guidance relating to the application process.
Also, a solicitation letter will be sent to all FHWA Division Offices
containing the same information. This information will also be posted
on the FHWA Web site, https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/. All applications must
be submitted through a State Department of Transportation to FHWA's
Office of Freight Management and Operations, via the FHWA Division
Office in the State in which the application was submitted. Awarded
projects will be administered by the applicable State Department of
Transportation as a Federal-aid grant.
Information Proposed for Collection
Information recommended under SAFETEA-LU and proposed for the
current program includes the following:
1. Project Description. The proposal should include a detailed
project description, which would include the extent of the long-term
truck parking shortage in the corridor/area to be addressed, along with
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information for the project's primary point of contact, and whether
funds are being requested under 120 U.S. Code (b) or (c) of Title 23.
Data helping to define the shortage may include truck volume (Average
Daily Truck Traffic--ADTT) in the corridor to be addressed, current
number of long-term commercial motor vehicle parking spaces,
utilization of current long-term parking spaces, driver surveys,
observational field studies, proximity to freight loading/unloading
facilities, proximity to the NHS, etc.
2. Project Rationale. The proposal should set forth the rationale
for the project and should include an analysis and demonstration of how
the proposed project will positively affect truck parking, safety,
traffic congestion, or air quality in the identified corridor. Examples
may include: advance information on availability of parking that may
help to reduce the number of trucks parked on roadsides and increase
the utilization of available truck parking spaces, etc.
3. Scope of work. The scope of work should include a complete
listing of activities to be funded through the grant; including
technology development, information processing, information integration
activities, developmental phase activities (planning, feasibility
analysis, environmental review, engineering or design work, and other
activities), construction, reconstruction, acquisition of real property
(including land related to the project and improvements to land),
environmental mitigation, construction contingencies, acquisition of
equipment, and operational improvements. Also to be included should be
a 3-year performance measurement plan that continues beyond the
demonstration period of the project.
4. Stakeholder identification. Stakeholder identification should
include evidence of prior consultation and/or partnership with affected
MPOs, local governments, community groups, private providers of
commercial motor vehicle parking, and motorist and trucking
organizations. It should include a listing of all public and private
partners, and the role each will play in the execution of the project.
Consultation examples may include: Memorandums of Agreement,
Memorandums of Understanding, contracts, meeting minutes, letters of
support/commitment, documentation in a State's TIPS/STIPS plans, etc.
5. Cost estimate. Applicants should provide a detailed
quantification of eligible project costs by activity, an identification
of all funding sources that will supplement the grant and be necessary
to fully fund the project, and the anticipated dates on which the
additional funds are to be made available. Public and private sources
of funds (non-federal commitment) will be considered by FHWA as an in-
kind match contributing to the project. State matching funds will be
required for projects eligible under 120 U.S. Code (b).
6. Timeline. Applicants should also submit a timeline that includes
work to be completed and anticipated funding cycles. Gantt charts are
preferred.
7. Environmental process. Applicants should show the timeline for
complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), if
applicable.
8. Project map. Applicants should include a project map consisting
of schematic illustrations depicting the project and connecting
transportation infrastructure.
9. Proposals should not exceed 20 pages in length.
Burden Hours for Information Collection
Frequency: Annual.
Respondents: The 50 State DOTs and Puerto Rico and the District of
Columbia.
Estimated Average Burden per response: Burden hours estimates and
discussions are provided for each item presented and required within
the application submittal process.
Project Description 16 hours.
The project description will be submitted through the
submitting State agency, in conjunction with local governments, MPOs,
and other potential partners.
Project Rationale 8 hours.
Project rationale should include an analysis and
demonstration of how the proposed project will positively effect truck
parking, safety, traffic congestion, or air quality in the identified
corridor.
Scope of Work 6 hours.
A complete listing of activities to be funded through the
grant including technology development, information processing,
information integration activities, developmental phase activities
(planning, feasibility analysis, environmental review, engineering or
design work, and other activities), construction, reconstruction,
acquisition of real property (including land related to the project and
improvements to land), environmental mitigation, construction
contingencies, acquisition of equipment, operational improvements, and
a 3-year performance measurement plan that continues beyond the
demonstration period of the project.
Stakeholder Identification 1 hour.
Evidence of prior consultation and/or partnership with
affected MPOs, local governments, community groups, private providers
of commercial motor vehicle parking, and motorist and trucking
organizations. A listing of all public and private partners, and the
role each will play in the execution of the project should also be
included.
Cost estimate 4 hours.
A detailed quantification of eligible project costs by
activity, and an identification of all funding sources that will
supplement the grant and be necessary to fully fund the project, and
the anticipated dates on which the additional funds are to be made
available. Public and private sources of funds (non-federal commitment)
will be considered. State matching funds will be required for projects
eligible under 120 U.S. Code (b).
Project Timeline 1 hour 30 minutes.
Includes work to be completed and anticipated funding
cycles; Gantt charts preferred.
Environmental process 2 hours.
Applicant should show the timeline for complying with the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), if applicable.
Project Map 1 hour.
Consisting of schematic illustrations depicting the project
and connecting transportation infrastructure.
Contact information for the State DOT, Local Agency, or MPO
(if applicable), FHWA Division Office 5 minutes.
This requires providing a list of contacts and involves a
nominal amount of time.
The total amount of time estimated to complete the application is
39 hours and 35 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1187 total burden hours. It is
estimated 30 applications will be processed annually.
Electronic Access: Internet users may access all comments received
by the U.S. DOT Dockets, Room PL-401, by using the universal resource
locator (URL): https://dms.dot.gov, 24 hours each day, 365 days each
year. Please follow the instructions online for more information and
help.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.
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Issued on: September 15, 2006.
James R. Kabel,
Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
[FR Doc. 06-7832 Filed 9-20-06; 8:45 am]
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