Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection, 31589-31590 [2023-10549]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA–2023–0015]
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments for a
New Information Collection
U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The DOT 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
17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
2023–0015 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 20590–0001.
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:
Govind Vadakpat Ph.D., 202–366–5004,
Smart Infrastructure Program Manager,
Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint
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Program Office (ITS JPO), 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: U.S. DOT Intersection Safety
Challenge—System Assessment and
Virtual Testing Competition.
Background: Improving the safety of
pedestrians, bicyclists, and other
vulnerable road users is of critical
importance to achieving the objectives
of the U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT) National Roadway
Safety Strategy (NRSS) and DOT’s
vision of zero fatalities and serious
injuries across our transportation
system. According to data from the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA), in 2020 there
were 10,626 traffic fatalities in the
United States at roadway intersections,
including 1,674 pedestrian and 355
bicyclist fatalities. These fatalities at
intersections represent 27% of the total
of 38,824 road traffic deaths recorded in
2020.
In response to these growing concerns
and as part of the NRSS Call to Action,
the DOT Intersection Safety Challenge
(hereafter, ‘‘the Challenge’’) incentivizes
the development of new, cost-effective,
real-time roadway Intersection Safety
System (ISS) concepts that apply
emerging technologies to identify and
mitigate unsafe roadway intersection
conditions involving vehicles and
vulnerable road users. Innovative ISS
concepts may utilize emerging
technologies, e.g., machine sensing and
perception, data fusion, artificial
intelligence (AI) and machine learning
(ML), trajectory and path prediction,
vehicle-to-everything (V2X)
communications, and real-time
decision-making to generate
anticipatory warning systems and other
safety-countermeasures. In the U.S. DOT
Intersection Safety Challenge—System
Assessment and Virtual Testing
Competition, participants will develop
and improve algorithms for the
detection, localization, and
classification of vulnerable road users
and vehicles using government-supplied
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sensor data. These government-supplied
data include contemporaneous feeds
from diverse sensor technology
deployed at the roadside in a controlled
test intersection. Participants will use
these data and their resulting algorithms
to predict future intersection conditions
and identify potentially unsafe
conditions (current or predicted). The
accuracy of these predictions will be
measured against observed ground truth
conditions as part of a broader set of
judging criteria. To be eligible for a
prize, submissions must include a
structured description of identified and
predicted intersection conditions as
well as the executable computer
programming code required to support
independent validation. Participants
may submit an optional Concept Paper
describing their ISS concept and the
potential of this concept to address the
vision and objectives of the Challenge.
The government anticipates awarding
multiple prizes. Detailed rules and
judging criteria will be provided when
the prize competition is formally
announced.
Respondents: Approximately 40
participants (or participant teams) are
expected to respond to the prize
competition.
Frequency: Participants may submit
the structured description and
supporting computer programming code
(for validation) up to three times during
the duration of the U.S. DOT
Intersection Safety Challenge—System
Assessment and Virtual Testing
Competition. Participants may submit
an optional Concept Paper at any time
prior to the close of the prize
competition.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: Approximately 2,000 total
staff-hours is estimated for a participant
to complete up to 3 submissions with all
required elements for the U.S. DOT
Intersection Safety Challenge—System
Assessment and Virtual Testing
Competition. Further, the completion of
the optional Concept Paper is estimated
at 170 staff-hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 40 respondents × 2,170 hours =
86,800 hours.
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Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
Whether the proposed collection is
necessary for DOT’s performance; (2)
the accuracy of the estimated burdens;
(3) ways for DOT 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: May 12, 2023.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2010–0052]
Utah Transit Authority FrontRunner
Commuter Rail’s Request To Amend
Its Positive Train Control Safety Plan
and Positive Train Control System
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of availability and
request for comments.
AGENCY:
This document provides the
public with notice that, on May 4, 2023,
Utah Transit Authority FrontRunner
Commuter Rail System (UTA) submitted
a request for amendment (RFA) to its
FRA-approved Positive Train Control
Safety Plan (PTCSP). As this RFA
involves a request for FRA’s approval of
proposed material modifications to an
FRA-certified positive train control
(PTC) system, FRA is publishing this
notice and inviting public comment on
the railroad’s RFA to its PTCSP.
DATES: FRA will consider comments
received by June 6, 2023. FRA may
consider comments received after that
date to the extent practicable and
without delaying implementation of
valuable or necessary modifications to a
PTC system.
ADDRESSES:
Comments: Comments may be
submitted by going to https://
www.regulations.gov and following the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Gabe Neal, Staff Director, Signal, Train
Control, and Crossings Division,
telephone: 816–516–7168, email:
Gabe.Neal@dot.gov.
In general,
Title 49 United States Code (U.S.C.)
Section 20157(h) requires FRA to certify
that a host railroad’s PTC system
complies with Title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) part 236, subpart I,
before the technology may be operated
in revenue service. Before making
certain changes to an FRA-certified PTC
system or the associated FRA-approved
PTCSP, a host railroad must submit, and
obtain FRA’s approval of, an RFA to its
PTCSP under 49 CFR 236.1021.
Under 49 CFR 236.1021(e), FRA’s
regulations provide that FRA will
publish a notice in the Federal Register
and invite public comment in
accordance with 49 CFR part 211, if an
RFA includes a request for approval of
a material modification of a signal and
train control system. Accordingly, this
notice informs the public that, on May
4, 2023, UTA submitted an RFA to its
PTCSP for its Enhanced Automatic
Train Control, seeking FRA’s approval
of the Expedient Release of Mandatory
Directives functionality and changes to
Office Blocking and Temporary Speed
Restriction functions. This RFA is
available in Docket No. FRA–2010–
0052.
Interested parties are invited to
comment on UTA’s RFA to its PTCSP by
submitting written comments or data.
During FRA’s review of this railroad’s
RFA, FRA will consider any comments
or data submitted within the timeline
specified in this notice and to the extent
practicable, without delaying
implementation of valuable or necessary
modifications to a PTC system. See 49
CFR 236.1021; see also 49 CFR
236.1011(e). Under 49 CFR 236.1021,
FRA maintains the authority to approve,
approve with conditions, or deny a
railroad’s RFA to its PTCSP at FRA’s
sole discretion.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and the
applicable docket number. The relevant
PTC docket number for this host
railroad is Docket No. FRA–2010–0052.
For convenience, all active PTC dockets
are hyperlinked on FRA’s website at
https://railroads.dot.gov/researchdevelopment/program-areas/traincontrol/ptc/railroads-ptc-dockets. All
comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov; this includes any
personal information.
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Privacy Act Notice
In accordance with 49 CFR 211.3,
FRA solicits comments from the public
to better inform its decisions. DOT posts
these comments, without edit, including
any personal information the
commenter provides, to https://
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
See https://www.regulations.gov/
privacy-notice for the privacy notice of
regulations.gov. To facilitate comment
tracking, we encourage commenters to
provide their name, or the name of their
organization; however, submission of
names is completely optional. If you
wish to provide comments containing
proprietary or confidential information,
please contact FRA for alternate
submission instructions.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Carolyn R. Hayward-Williams,
Director, Office of Railroad Systems and
Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2023–0002–N–6]
Proposed Agency Information
Collection Activities; Comment
Request
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:
Under the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) and its
implementing regulations, this notice
announces that FRA is forwarding the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the information collection and its
expected burden. On March 2, 2023,
FRA published a notice providing a 60day period for public comment on the
ICR.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before June 16,
2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed ICR
should be sent within 30 days of
publication of this notice to
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find the particular ICR by selecting
‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2023-0015]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
for a New Information Collection
AGENCY: U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The DOT 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 17, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
2023-0015 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 20590-0001.
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: Govind Vadakpat Ph.D., 202-366-5004,
Smart Infrastructure Program Manager, Intelligent Transportation
Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), 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: U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge--System Assessment
and Virtual Testing Competition.
Background: Improving the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists, and
other vulnerable road users is of critical importance to achieving the
objectives of the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) National
Roadway Safety Strategy (NRSS) and DOT's vision of zero fatalities and
serious injuries across our transportation system. According to data
from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in
2020 there were 10,626 traffic fatalities in the United States at
roadway intersections, including 1,674 pedestrian and 355 bicyclist
fatalities. These fatalities at intersections represent 27% of the
total of 38,824 road traffic deaths recorded in 2020.
In response to these growing concerns and as part of the NRSS Call
to Action, the DOT Intersection Safety Challenge (hereafter, ``the
Challenge'') incentivizes the development of new, cost-effective, real-
time roadway Intersection Safety System (ISS) concepts that apply
emerging technologies to identify and mitigate unsafe roadway
intersection conditions involving vehicles and vulnerable road users.
Innovative ISS concepts may utilize emerging technologies, e.g.,
machine sensing and perception, data fusion, artificial intelligence
(AI) and machine learning (ML), trajectory and path prediction,
vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications, and real-time decision-
making to generate anticipatory warning systems and other safety-
countermeasures. In the U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge--System
Assessment and Virtual Testing Competition, participants will develop
and improve algorithms for the detection, localization, and
classification of vulnerable road users and vehicles using government-
supplied sensor data. These government-supplied data include
contemporaneous feeds from diverse sensor technology deployed at the
roadside in a controlled test intersection. Participants will use these
data and their resulting algorithms to predict future intersection
conditions and identify potentially unsafe conditions (current or
predicted). The accuracy of these predictions will be measured against
observed ground truth conditions as part of a broader set of judging
criteria. To be eligible for a prize, submissions must include a
structured description of identified and predicted intersection
conditions as well as the executable computer programming code required
to support independent validation. Participants may submit an optional
Concept Paper describing their ISS concept and the potential of this
concept to address the vision and objectives of the Challenge. The
government anticipates awarding multiple prizes. Detailed rules and
judging criteria will be provided when the prize competition is
formally announced.
Respondents: Approximately 40 participants (or participant teams)
are expected to respond to the prize competition.
Frequency: Participants may submit the structured description and
supporting computer programming code (for validation) up to three times
during the duration of the U.S. DOT Intersection Safety Challenge--
System Assessment and Virtual Testing Competition. Participants may
submit an optional Concept Paper at any time prior to the close of the
prize competition.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: Approximately 2,000 total
staff-hours is estimated for a participant to complete up to 3
submissions with all required elements for the U.S. DOT Intersection
Safety Challenge--System Assessment and Virtual Testing Competition.
Further, the completion of the optional Concept Paper is estimated at
170 staff-hours.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 40 respondents x 2,170 hours =
86,800 hours.
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Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for DOT's performance; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burdens; (3) ways for DOT 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: May 12, 2023.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
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