[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 320-321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33749]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2011-0134]
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 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 March 5, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
2011-0134 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: 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.
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: Keith Williams, (202) 366-9212,
Highway Safety Specialist, Program Planning Team, Office of Safety
Programs, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation,
545 John Knox Road Suite 200, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room E73-405,
Washington, DC 20590, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Compendium of State Performance Management Practices and
Methodologies for Setting a National Safety Performance Target.
Type of request: New information collection requirement.
Background: This information collection effort is part of a larger
project to document the methodologies currently used by the States to
develop highway safety performance measures and targets. The research
project includes a literature review of current guidance and practices,
a technical report on performance management and target setting in
comparable non-highway safety environments, a peer exchange to explore
methodologies and establish promising practices and finally,
alternative methodologies for setting a national highway safety
performance target.
This information collection will specifically support a compendium
and evaluation of how baseline information is used in individual
States, the District of Columbia, Metropolitan Planning Organizations
(MPOs), local and tribal agencies to select, set and evaluate
performance based highway safety measures and how they affect the
overall State's highway safety programs. FHWA proposes to conduct a
Web-based survey to evaluate the methodologies used by State
Departments of Transportation, State Governor's Highway Safety Offices,
select Metropolitan Planning Organizations and local departments of
transportation to identify methodologies for selecting highway safety
performance measures and methodologies for setting performance targets
based on those measures. Sample size will be approximately 150 to 160
persons, representing each of the State Departments of Transportation;
each of the Governor's Highway Safety Offices, the District of
Columbia, and select MPOs and local departments of transportation.
Interview length will be approximately 30 minutes.
The surveys will be conducted by emailing a URL link to the
appropriate representative within each organization. A standardized
questionnaire will be
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used to collect the information from the representatives. This
information collection will not require complex statistical analysis
and will not be published for general public consumption. The
collection will be used to support further research in developing and
evaluating a methodology to set and support National and State highway
safety performance measures and targets. Respondents: State DOT's the
District of Columbia, and select MPOs and local departments of
transportation (160 total).
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: It will take approximately
30 minutes per participant.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Approximately 30 hours
annually.
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: December 28, 2011.
Michael Howell,
Acting Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
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