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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2015–0013]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice of Request for
Approval of a New Information
Collection
Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Request for Approval
of a New Information Collection.
AGENCY:
The FHWA invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of Management and Budget’s
(OMB) approval of a new information
collection that is summarized below.
DATES: Please submit comments by
August 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
2015–0013 by any of the following
methods:
Web site: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to the Federal
eRulemaking Portal: https://
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.
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:
Michael Nesbitt (michael.nesbitt@
dot.gov), 202–366–1179, Office of
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Infrastructure, Federal Highway
Administration, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Transportation
Performance Management (TPM)
Implementation Review, TPM Toolbox,
and TPM State-of-Practice
Questionnaires.
Type of request: New information
collection requirement.
Background: Moving Ahead for
Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP–
21) transformed the Federal-aid
highway program by establishing new
requirements for transportation
performance management to ensure the
most efficient investment of Federal
transportation funds. Transportation
performance management increases the
accountability and transparency of the
Federal-aid highway program and
provides for a framework to support
improved investment decision making
through a focus on performance
outcomes for key national transportation
goals. State transportation agencies
(STAs) will be expected to use the
information and data generated as a
result of the new regulations to make
better informed transportation planning
and programming decisions. The new
performance aspects of the Federal-aid
program will allow FHWA to better
communicate a national performance
story and to more reliably assess the
impacts of Federal funding investments.
Overview: Under the ‘‘National
Transportation Performance
Management (TPM) Implementation
Review, TPM State-of-Practice
Questionnaires, and TPM Toolbox ’’
information collection request, the
FHWA will collect information on the
current state of the practice, data,
methods, and systems used by state,
metropolitan, regional, local, and/or
tribal transportation entities to support
their TPM processes in accordance with
MAP–21 §§ 1106, 1112–1113, 1201–
1203; 23 U.S.C. 119, 134–135, and 148–
150. This information will also be used
to develop and deliver existing and
future Federal Highway Programs
through successful partnerships, valueadded stewardship, and risk-based
oversight. Underpinning this effort will
be a robust focus on improving FHWA
and its partners’ capacity to implement
performance provisions. The
information collected from these
activities will translate into having a
better skilled workforce, effective
supporting systems, and clearly
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articulated programs that are optimally
positioned and equipped to deliver the
FHWA’s mission. In general, the
components of the ‘‘National TPM
Implementation Review, TPM State-ofPractice Questionnaires, and TPM
Toolbox’’ will involve questions related
to:
1. TPM and MAP–21 related
implementation efforts, programs, and
activities,
2. Needs for guidance and policy
concerning MAP–21’s TPM related
provisions;
3. TPM capacity building needs;
4. Effectiveness implementing
performance based planning and
programming and TPM processes.
The most consequential activity
covered by the ICR is the ‘‘National
TPM Implementation Review,’’ which
will be conducted twice. The first
National TPM Implementation Review
is scheduled to be administered in the
spring of 2016 and will establish a
baseline to assess:
1. FHWA and its partners progress
implementing MAP–21 performance
provisions and related TPM best
practices; and
2. The effectiveness of performancebased planning and programming
processes and transportation
performance management.
The second National TPM
Implementation Review will be
conducted several years later and will
be used to assess FHWA and its
partners’ progress addressing any gaps
or issues identified during the first
review.
The findings from the first review will
be used in a pair of statutory reports to
Congress due in 2017 on the
effectiveness of performance-based
planning and programming processes
and transportation performance
management (23 U.S.C. 119, 134(l)(2)–
135(h)(2)). The findings from the second
review will be used in a subsequent
follow-up report. It is important to note
that this is not a compliance review. The
overall focus of the National TPM
Implementation Review is on the TPM
and performance-based planning
processes used by STAs and
Metropolitan Planning Organizations
(MPOs), not the outcomes of those
processes. Due to the sensitivity of the
collected information, FHWA will only
report aggregated information to the
general public and in its report to
Congress. However, information from
individual reviews will be made readily
available to the respective respondent
(i.e., STA, MPOs, etc), FHWA staff for
internal uses, and a limited number of
FHWA partners and associations who
sign nondisclosure agreements.
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In addition to the more formal
National TPM Implementation Review,
FHWA will conduct yearly informal
voluntary TPM State-of-Practice
questionnaires related to TPM policy
and guidance, technical assistance, and
capacity needs. These voluntary
information collection actions will
occur 1 to 2 times per year. The
information will be collected from state,
metropolitan, regional, local, and/or
tribal transportation agencies via
internet-based questionnaires or web
applications and used to help FHWA:
• Strategically plan to meet ever
growing demand for TPM technical
assistance needs;
• Develop and refine TPM policy and
guidance based on stakeholder
feedback;
• Channel resources to meet capacity
development and training needs; and
• Identify and prioritize TPM
research needs.
Lastly, as part of FHWA’s ongoing
technical assistance efforts, a TPM
Toolbox is being created to help
FHWA’s partners self-assess and
benchmark their TPM implementation
progress, capabilities, and gaps. The
TPM Toolbox also helps FHWA
streamline the integration and
administration of all the efforts
described above. To maximize the
effectiveness and efficiency of the TPM
Toolbox, FHWA will collect business
contact and organizational demographic
(size of organization, location, etc.)
information along with the responses
submitted as part of the TPM Toolbox’s
self-assessment applications.
Respondents: The 975 respondents
estimate is based on soliciting input
from all 52 state transportation agencies,
409 MPOS, and a sampling of transit
agencies, RPOs, and other transportation
entities.
Frequency: Each State, MPO, RPO,
and a sampling of transit agencies will
be solicited to provide information up to
4 times per year. This is dependent on
whether information is being collected
on the National Transportation
Performance Management
Implementation Review and the
frequency of state-of-practice
questionnaires.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: Up to 2 hours per response or
8 hours per year for all responses (4
questionnaires per year times up to 2
hours per questionnaire).
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: The total annual burden for all
respondents is estimated to be 7,800
burden hours per year (8 burden hours
per respondent times 975 respondents).
The annual number of burden hours
(professional and clerical staff) per
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respondent to answer questions on the
current state of the practice, data,
methods, and systems used by state,
metropolitan, regional, local, and/or
tribal transportation entities to support
their required TPM processes is
estimated to be up to 8 (4 questionnaires
per year times up to 2 hours per
questionnaire). This annual burden per
respondent consists of the staff time of
each respondent. The burden was
determined as follows:
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Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
Professional Staff Time:
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1.5 hour/respondent × 975
respondents × 4 questionnaires per year
= 5850 hours
0.5 hours/respondent × 975
respondents × 4 questionnaires per year
= 1,950 hours
The total annual associated salary cost
to respondents is estimated to be
$257,400 based on an average salary of
$38 per hour (approximately $79,000
per year) for professional staff and $18
per hour (approximately $37,000 year)
for clerical staff.
Professional staff cost for preparation of
work programs:
5,850 hours × $38 per hour =
$222,300
Clerical staff time:
1,950 hours × $18 per hour = $35,100
Total annual costs:
Subtotal Direct Salaries $257,400
Overhead/fringe benefits at 33%:
$84,942
Total annual respondent cost:
$342,342
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the U.S.
DOT’s performance, including whether
the information will have practical
utility; (2) the accuracy of the U.S.
DOT’s estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; (3)
ways 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.
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Maritime Administration
[Docket No. MARAD–2015–0076]
Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
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As authorized by 46 U.S.C.
12121, the Secretary of Transportation,
as represented by the Maritime
Administration (MARAD), is authorized
to grant waivers of the U.S.-build
requirement of the coastwise laws under
certain circumstances. A request for
such a waiver has been received by
MARAD. The vessel, and a brief
description of the proposed service, is
listed below.
DATES: Submit comments on or before
July 23, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to
docket number MARAD–2015–0076.
Written comments may be submitted by
hand or by mail to the Docket Clerk,
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Docket Operations, M–30, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. You may also
send comments electronically via the
Internet at https://www.regulations.gov.
All comments will become part of this
docket and will be available for
inspection and copying at the above
address between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
E.T., Monday through Friday, except
federal holidays. An electronic version
of this document and all documents
entered into this docket is available on
the World Wide Web at https://
www.regulations.gov.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Linda Williams, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Room W23–453,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone 202–
366–0903, Email Linda.Williams@
dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
As described by the applicant the
intended service of the vessel VELA
ANDATO is:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2015-0013]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice of Request for
Approval of a New Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of Request for Approval of a New 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 of a new
information collection that is summarized below.
DATES: Please submit comments by August 24, 2015.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
2015-0013 by any of the following methods:
Web site: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://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.
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: Michael Nesbitt
(michael.nesbitt@dot.gov), 202-366-1179, Office of Infrastructure,
Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 8 a.m.
to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Transportation Performance Management (TPM)
Implementation Review, TPM Toolbox, and TPM State-of-Practice
Questionnaires.
Type of request: New information collection requirement.
Background: Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-
21) transformed the Federal-aid highway program by establishing new
requirements for transportation performance management to ensure the
most efficient investment of Federal transportation funds.
Transportation performance management increases the accountability and
transparency of the Federal-aid highway program and provides for a
framework to support improved investment decision making through a
focus on performance outcomes for key national transportation goals.
State transportation agencies (STAs) will be expected to use the
information and data generated as a result of the new regulations to
make better informed transportation planning and programming decisions.
The new performance aspects of the Federal-aid program will allow FHWA
to better communicate a national performance story and to more reliably
assess the impacts of Federal funding investments.
Overview: Under the ``National Transportation Performance
Management (TPM) Implementation Review, TPM State-of-Practice
Questionnaires, and TPM Toolbox '' information collection request, the
FHWA will collect information on the current state of the practice,
data, methods, and systems used by state, metropolitan, regional,
local, and/or tribal transportation entities to support their TPM
processes in accordance with MAP-21 Sec. Sec. 1106, 1112-1113, 1201-
1203; 23 U.S.C. 119, 134-135, and 148-150. This information will also
be used to develop and deliver existing and future Federal Highway
Programs through successful partnerships, value-added stewardship, and
risk-based oversight. Underpinning this effort will be a robust focus
on improving FHWA and its partners' capacity to implement performance
provisions. The information collected from these activities will
translate into having a better skilled workforce, effective supporting
systems, and clearly articulated programs that are optimally positioned
and equipped to deliver the FHWA's mission. In general, the components
of the ``National TPM Implementation Review, TPM State-of-Practice
Questionnaires, and TPM Toolbox'' will involve questions related to:
1. TPM and MAP-21 related implementation efforts, programs, and
activities,
2. Needs for guidance and policy concerning MAP-21's TPM related
provisions;
3. TPM capacity building needs;
4. Effectiveness implementing performance based planning and
programming and TPM processes.
The most consequential activity covered by the ICR is the
``National TPM Implementation Review,'' which will be conducted twice.
The first National TPM Implementation Review is scheduled to be
administered in the spring of 2016 and will establish a baseline to
assess:
1. FHWA and its partners progress implementing MAP-21 performance
provisions and related TPM best practices; and
2. The effectiveness of performance-based planning and programming
processes and transportation performance management.
The second National TPM Implementation Review will be conducted
several years later and will be used to assess FHWA and its partners'
progress addressing any gaps or issues identified during the first
review.
The findings from the first review will be used in a pair of
statutory reports to Congress due in 2017 on the effectiveness of
performance-based planning and programming processes and transportation
performance management (23 U.S.C. 119, 134(l)(2)-135(h)(2)). The
findings from the second review will be used in a subsequent follow-up
report. It is important to note that this is not a compliance review.
The overall focus of the National TPM Implementation Review is on the
TPM and performance-based planning processes used by STAs and
Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPOs), not the outcomes of those
processes. Due to the sensitivity of the collected information, FHWA
will only report aggregated information to the general public and in
its report to Congress. However, information from individual reviews
will be made readily available to the respective respondent (i.e., STA,
MPOs, etc), FHWA staff for internal uses, and a limited number of FHWA
partners and associations who sign nondisclosure agreements.
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In addition to the more formal National TPM Implementation Review,
FHWA will conduct yearly informal voluntary TPM State-of-Practice
questionnaires related to TPM policy and guidance, technical
assistance, and capacity needs. These voluntary information collection
actions will occur 1 to 2 times per year. The information will be
collected from state, metropolitan, regional, local, and/or tribal
transportation agencies via internet-based questionnaires or web
applications and used to help FHWA:
Strategically plan to meet ever growing demand for TPM
technical assistance needs;
Develop and refine TPM policy and guidance based on
stakeholder feedback;
Channel resources to meet capacity development and
training needs; and
Identify and prioritize TPM research needs.
Lastly, as part of FHWA's ongoing technical assistance efforts, a
TPM Toolbox is being created to help FHWA's partners self-assess and
benchmark their TPM implementation progress, capabilities, and gaps.
The TPM Toolbox also helps FHWA streamline the integration and
administration of all the efforts described above. To maximize the
effectiveness and efficiency of the TPM Toolbox, FHWA will collect
business contact and organizational demographic (size of organization,
location, etc.) information along with the responses submitted as part
of the TPM Toolbox's self-assessment applications.
Respondents: The 975 respondents estimate is based on soliciting
input from all 52 state transportation agencies, 409 MPOS, and a
sampling of transit agencies, RPOs, and other transportation entities.
Frequency: Each State, MPO, RPO, and a sampling of transit agencies
will be solicited to provide information up to 4 times per year. This
is dependent on whether information is being collected on the National
Transportation Performance Management Implementation Review and the
frequency of state-of-practice questionnaires.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: Up to 2 hours per response
or 8 hours per year for all responses (4 questionnaires per year times
up to 2 hours per questionnaire).
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: The total annual burden for
all respondents is estimated to be 7,800 burden hours per year (8
burden hours per respondent times 975 respondents). The annual number
of burden hours (professional and clerical staff) per respondent to
answer questions on the current state of the practice, data, methods,
and systems used by state, metropolitan, regional, local, and/or tribal
transportation entities to support their required TPM processes is
estimated to be up to 8 (4 questionnaires per year times up to 2 hours
per questionnaire). This annual burden per respondent consists of the
staff time of each respondent. The burden was determined as follows:
Professional Staff Time:
1.5 hour/respondent x 975 respondents x 4 questionnaires per year =
5850 hours
Clerical staff time:
0.5 hours/respondent x 975 respondents x 4 questionnaires per year
= 1,950 hours
The total annual associated salary cost to respondents is estimated
to be $257,400 based on an average salary of $38 per hour
(approximately $79,000 per year) for professional staff and $18 per
hour (approximately $37,000 year) for clerical staff.
Professional staff cost for preparation of work programs:
5,850 hours x $38 per hour = $222,300
Clerical staff time:
1,950 hours x $18 per hour = $35,100
Total annual costs:
Subtotal Direct Salaries $257,400
Overhead/fringe benefits at 33%: $84,942
Total annual respondent cost: $342,342
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the U.S. DOT's performance,
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the
accuracy of the U.S. DOT's estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (3) ways 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: June 15, 2015.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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