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electronic technology, without reducing
the quality of the collected information.
All comments should include the
Docket number FHWA–2013–0004.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rosemary Jones, 202–366–2042, Office
of Real Estate Services, 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.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: State Right-of-Way Operations
Manuals.
Background: It is the responsibility of
each State Department of Transportation
(State) to acquire, manage and dispose
of real property in compliance with the
legal requirements of State and Federal
laws and regulations. Part of providing
assurance of compliance is to describe
in a right-of-way procedural (operations)
manual the organization, policies and
procedures of the State to such an extent
that these guide State employees, local
acquiring agencies, and contractors who
acquire and manage real property that is
used for a federally funded
transportation project. Procedural
manuals assure the FHWA that the
requirements of the Uniform Relocation
Assistance and Real Property
Acquisition Policies Act (Uniform Act)
will be met. The State responsibility to
prepare and maintain an up-to-date
right-of-way procedural manual is set
out in 23 CFR 710.201(c). The regulation
allows States flexibility in determining
how to meet the manual requirement.
This flexibility allows States to prepare
manuals in the format of their choosing,
to the level of detail necessitated by
State complexities. Each State decides
how it will provide service to
individuals and businesses affected by
Federal or federally-assisted projects,
while at the same time reducing the
burden of government regulation. States
are required to update manuals to reflect
changes in Federal requirements for
programs administered under Title 23
U.S.C. The State manuals may be
submitted to FHWA electronically or
made available by posting on the State
Web site.
Respondents: 52 State DOTs,
including the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 75 hours per respondent.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 75 hours for each of the 52 State
Departments of Transportation. The
total is 3,900 burden hours annually.
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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: February 14, 2013.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2013–0005]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for the Renewal of
an Information Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
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
published a Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day public comment period
on this information collection on
November 23, 2012. We are required to
publish this notice in the Federal
Register by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
March 25, 2013.
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–2013–0005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Karen Scurry, 609–637–4207, Office of
Safety, Federal Highway
Administration, Department of
Transportation, 840 Bear Tavern Road,
Suite 202, West Trenton, NJ, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
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Title: Highway Safety Improvement
Program.
Background: The Moving Ahead for
Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP–
21) continues the Highway Safety
Improvement Program (HSIP) as a core
federal-aid program with the purpose to
achieve a significant reduction in traffic
fatalities and serious injuries on all
public roads, including non-Stateowned public roads and roads on tribal
lands. The HSIP requires a data-driven,
strategic approach to improving
highway safety on all public roads that
focuses on performance.
The existing provisions of Title 23
U.S.C. 130, Railway-Highway Crossings
Program, as well as implementing
regulations in 23 CFR part 924, remain
in effect. Included in these combined
provisions are requirements for State
DOTs to annually produce and submit
to FHWA by August 31 reports related
to the implementation and effectiveness
of their HSIPs, that are to include
information on: (a) Progress being made
to implement HSIP projects and the
effectiveness of these projects in
reducing traffic fatalities and serious
injuries [Sections 148(h)]; and (b)
progress being made to implement the
Railway-Highway Crossings Program
and the effectiveness of the projects in
that program [Sections 130(g) and
148(h)], which will be used by FHWA
to produce and submit biennial reports
to Congress. To be able to produce these
reports, State DOTs must have safety
data and analysis systems capable of
identifying and determining the relative
severity of hazardous highway locations
on all public roads, based on both crash
experience and crash potential, as well
as determining the effectiveness of
highway safety improvement projects.
FHWA provides an online reporting tool
to support the annual HSIP reporting
process. Additional information is
available on the Office of Safety Web
site at https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/
resources/onrpttool/. Reporting into the
online reporting tool meets all report
requirements and USDOT Web site
compatibility requirements. The
information contained in the annual
HSIP reports provides FHWA with a
means for monitoring the effectiveness
of these programs and may be used by
Congress for determining the future
HSIP program structure and funding
levels.
Respondents: 51 State Transportation
Departments, including the District of
Columbia.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: 250 hours Estimated Total
Annual Burden Hours: 12,750 hours (51
states at an average of 250 hours each).
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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: February 14, 2013.
Michael Howell,
Information Collections Officer.
[FR Doc. 2013–03935 Filed 2–20–13; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2013–0006]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments for a
New Information Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
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
published a Federal Register Notice
with a 60-day public comment period
on this information collection on
November 23, 2012. We are required to
publish this notice in the Federal
Register by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by
March 25, 2013.
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–2013–0006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joyce Gottlieb, 202–366–3664, 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:
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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 to the State Transportation
Agencies (STAs) on all work being
performed on Federal-aid contracts
during the month of July, a report on its
employment workforce data. This report
provides the employment workforce
data on these contracts and includes the
number of minorities, women, and nonminorities 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 contractorsemployment 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 52
STAs annual respondents for Form PR–
1392, total of 11,129.
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.
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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: February 14, 2013.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2013–0019]
Greenkraft Inc.; Receipt of Application
for Temporary Exemption From FMVSS
No. 108
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of receipt of petition for
a temporary exemption from Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS)
No. 108, Lamps, Reflective Devices, and
Associated Equipment.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
procedures in 49 CFR Part 555,
Greenkraft, Inc. has applied for a
temporary exemption for its 1061 and
1082 model trucks from the
requirements of paragraph S7 of FMVSS
No. 108 applicable to headlamps. The
basis of the application is that the
exemption would make development or
field evaluation of a low-emission
vehicle easier without unreasonably
lowering the safety performance of the
vehicle.
NHTSA is publishing this notice of
receipt of the application in accordance
with the requirements of 49 U.S.C.
30113(b)(2), and has made no judgment
on the merits of the application.
DATES: You should submit your
comments not later than March 25,
2013.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Thomas Healy, Office of the Chief
Counsel, NCC–112, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., West Building 4th
Floor, Room W41–212, Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 366–2992; Fax:
(202) 366–3820.
Comments: We invite you to submit
comments on the application described
above. You may submit comments
identified by the docket number at the
heading of this notice by any of the
following methods:
• Web Site: https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
on the electronic docket site by clicking
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2013-0005]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for the Renewal
of an Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: 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 published a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
public comment period on this information collection on November 23,
2012. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register by
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by March 25, 2013.
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-2013-0005.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Scurry, 609-637-4207, Office of
Safety, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation,
840 Bear Tavern Road, Suite 202, West Trenton, NJ, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Highway Safety Improvement Program.
Background: The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act
(MAP-21) continues the Highway Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) as a
core federal-aid program with the purpose to achieve a significant
reduction in traffic fatalities and serious injuries on all public
roads, including non-State-owned public roads and roads on tribal
lands. The HSIP requires a data-driven, strategic approach to improving
highway safety on all public roads that focuses on performance.
The existing provisions of Title 23 U.S.C. 130, Railway-Highway
Crossings Program, as well as implementing regulations in 23 CFR part
924, remain in effect. Included in these combined provisions are
requirements for State DOTs to annually produce and submit to FHWA by
August 31 reports related to the implementation and effectiveness of
their HSIPs, that are to include information on: (a) Progress being
made to implement HSIP projects and the effectiveness of these projects
in reducing traffic fatalities and serious injuries [Sections 148(h)];
and (b) progress being made to implement the Railway-Highway Crossings
Program and the effectiveness of the projects in that program [Sections
130(g) and 148(h)], which will be used by FHWA to produce and submit
biennial reports to Congress. To be able to produce these reports,
State DOTs must have safety data and analysis systems capable of
identifying and determining the relative severity of hazardous highway
locations on all public roads, based on both crash experience and crash
potential, as well as determining the effectiveness of highway safety
improvement projects. FHWA provides an online reporting tool to support
the annual HSIP reporting process. Additional information is available
on the Office of Safety Web site at https://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/resources/onrpttool/. Reporting into the online reporting tool meets
all report requirements and USDOT Web site compatibility requirements.
The information contained in the annual HSIP reports provides FHWA with
a means for monitoring the effectiveness of these programs and may be
used by Congress for determining the future HSIP program structure and
funding levels.
Respondents: 51 State Transportation Departments, including the
District of Columbia.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: 250 hours Estimated Total
Annual Burden Hours: 12,750 hours (51 states at an average of 250 hours
each).
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Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued On: February 14, 2013.
Michael Howell,
Information Collections Officer.
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