Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection, 27947 [2023-09313]

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• Federal Highway Administration
• DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Page 27947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-09313]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2023-0011]


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 3, 2023.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 
2023-0011 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 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 20590-00012.
    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: Dan Parker, Senior Program Analyst at 
[email protected], 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: 
    Title: Federal Share Flexibility Pilot Program.
    Background: This is a request for Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) emergency clearance for a new information collection request 
(ICR) to enable the Department of Transportation (DOT) Federal Highway 
Administration (FHWA) to implement the Federal Share Flexibility Pilot 
Program (FSFPP). The FSFPP was authorized in the Bipartisan 
Infrastructure Law (BIL), enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and 
Jobs Act (Act) (Pub. L. 117-58) on November 15, 2021. This historic Act 
is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to support transformational 
investments in our Nation's transportation infrastructure that will 
create good jobs, modernize our infrastructure, improve safety, tackle 
the climate crisis, and invest in communities that have too often been 
left behind. The Act includes the FSFPP to improve the safety, 
efficiency, and reliability of the movement of people and freight by 
replacing, rehabilitating, preserving, and protecting bridges in the 
National Bridge Inventory (NBI).
    The FSFPP is critical to enabling State Department of 
Transportation (State DOT) agencies participating in the pilot added 
flexibility in the management and reimbursement of FHWA funded 
programs. The statutory requirements of the FSFPP are found under 
section 11107 of the BIL and codified at 23 U.S.C. 120(l). This new 
provision under Title 23 requires the establishment of a FSFPP not 
later than 180 days after the date of enactment of the BIL. Under the 
pilot, up to 10 State DOTs may be selected to participate. Selected 
State DOTs in the pilot are allowed to determine the Federal share on 
an individual project that is more than 0 percent and up to 100 percent 
as long as the average annual Federal share of all participating 
projects does not exceed the average of the maximum Federal share of 
those projects if those projects were not carried out under the pilot 
program.
    Respondents: States, units of local government, and an Indian Tribe 
as defined in section 4 of the Indian Self-Determination and Education 
Assistance Act (25 U.S.C. 5304).
    Expected Number of Respondents: 50.
    Frequency: One-time application, to be followed by project 
agreement execution, reimbursement of funds, reporting, and project 
closeout.
    Estimated Average Burden Hours per Response: 16.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 800.
    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 thecollected 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; 23 U.S.C. 134 and 135; and 23 CFR chapter 1, subchapter 
E, part 450.

    Dated: April 27, 2023.
Michael Howell,
FHWA Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2023-09313 Filed 5-2-23; 8:45 am]
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