[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 61 (Thursday, March 28, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21657-21658]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-06597]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2024-0024]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for
Extension of Currently Approved Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of request for extension of currently approved
information collection.
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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 a renewal of information collection. We published a Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day public comment period on this information
collection on January 22, 2024. We are required to publish this notice
in the Federal Register per the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by April 29, 2024.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
0024 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 http://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: Scott Gable, 202-366-2176, Office of
Safety, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 7:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Highway Safety Improvement Program.
OMB Control: 2125-0025.
Background: The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) (Pub.
L. 117-58, also known as the ``Bipartisan Infrastructure Law'' (BIL))
continues the
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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 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 FRA to produce and submit
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 website at http://safety.fhwa.dot.gov/hsip/resources/onrpttool/. Reporting into the online reporting tool meets all report
requirements and USDOT website 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: 50 State Transportation Departments, the District of
Columbia, and Puerto Rico.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: 150 hours for the Highway
Safety Improvement Program (HSIP) report and 100 Railway-Highway
Crossing Program (RHCP) report.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Total estimated average annual
burden is 12,900 hours.
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 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: March 25, 2024.
Jazmyne Lewis,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2024-06597 Filed 3-27-24; 8:45 am]
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