[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 27 (Wednesday, February 10, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7187-7188]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-02715]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2016-0002]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments on
the Renewal of a Previously Approved 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 April 11, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID 2016-
0002 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: 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.
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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: Pamela Woodruff, 202-366-1607, Office
of Civil Rights, 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-Aid Highway Construction Equal Employment
Opportunity.
Background: Title 23, Part 140(a), requires the FHWA to ensure
equal opportunity regarding contractors' employment practices on
Federal-aid highway projects. To carry out this requirement, the
contractors must submit to the State Transportation Agencies (STAs) on
all work being performed on Federal-aid contracts during the month of
July, a report on its employment workforce data. This report provides
the employment workforce data on these contracts and includes the
number of minorities, women, and non-minorities in specific highway
construction job categories. This information is reported on Form PR-
1391, Federal-Aid Highway Construction Contractors Summary of
Employment Data. The statute also requires the STAs to submit a report
to the FHWA summarizing the data entered on the PR-1391 forms. This
summary data is provided on Form PR-1392, Federal-Aid Highway
Construction Contractors Summary of Employment Data. The STAs and FHWA
use this data to identify patterns and trends of employment in the
highway construction industry, and to determine the adequacy and impact
of the STA's and FHWA's contract compliance and on-the-job (OJT)
training programs. The STAs use this information to monitor the
contractors-employment and training of minorities and women in the
traditional highway construction crafts. Additionally, the data is used
by FHWA to provide summarization, trend analyses to Congress, DOT, and
FHWA officials as well as others who request information relating to
the Federal-aid highway construction EEO program. The information is
also used in making decisions regarding resource allocation; program
emphasis; marketing and promotion activities; training; and compliance
efforts.
Respondents: 11,077 annual respondents for form PR-1391, and 52
STAs annual respondents for Form PR-1392, total of 11,129.
Frequency: Annually.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: FHWA estimates it takes 30
minutes for Federal-aid contractors to complete and submit Form PR-1391
and 8 hours for STAs to complete and submit Form PR-1392.
Estimated Total Amount Burden Hours: Form PR-1391-5,539 hours per
year; Form PR-1392-416 hours per year, total of 5,955 hours annually.
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.
Dated: February 5, 2016.
Michael Howell,
Information Collections Officer.
[FR Doc. 2016-02715 Filed 2-9-16; 8:45 am]
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