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ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

the Office of 

Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

approval for an information collection, 

which is summarized below under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 

published a Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day public comment period 

on this information collection on 

September 28, 2020. We are required to 

publish this notice in the Federal 

Register by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

January 13, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID 2020–0031 

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: 

Karen Scurry, 202 897–7168, Office of 

Safety, Federal Highway 

Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 840 Bear Tavern Road, 

Suite 202, West Trenton, NJ, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Highway Safety Improvement Program. 

Background: 

The Fixing America’s Surface 

Transportation (FAST) Act (Pub. L. 114– 

94) continues the 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-Stateowned 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. Sections 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 FHWA 

to produce and submit biennial 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: 51 State Transportation 

Departments, including the District of 

Columbia 

Frequency: Annually 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 250 hours Estimated Total 

Annual Burden Hours: 12,750 hours (51 

states at an average of 250 hours each). 

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: December 9, 2020. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27407 Filed 12–11–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2020–0032] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments for a 

New Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public 

comments about our intention to request 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for a new 

information collection, which is 

summarized below under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 

published a Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day public comment period 

on this information collection on 

September 28, 2020. We are required to 

publish this notice in the Federal 

Register by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

January 13, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID 2020–0032 

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: Mr. 

David Bartz, (512) 536–5906, Office of 

Program Administration, Federal 

Highway Administration, Department of 

Transportation, 300 East 8th Street, 


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80886 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 240 / Monday, December 14, 2020 / Notices 

Suite 826, Austin, Texas, 78701. Office 

hours are from 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Preparation and Execution of the Project 

Agreement and Modifications 

OMB Control Number: 2125–0529 

Background: Formal agreements 

between State Transportation 

Departments and the FHWA are 

required for Federal-aid highway 

projects. These agreements, referred to 

as ‘‘project agreements’’ are written 

contracts between the State and the 

Federal government that define the 

extent of work to be undertaken and 

commitments made concerning a 

highway project. Section 1305 of the 

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 

Century (TEA–21, Public Law 105–178) 

amended 23 U.S.C. 106(a) and 

combined authorization of work and 

execution of the project agreement for a 

Federal-aid project into a single action. 

States continue to have the flexibility to 

use whatever format is suitable to 

provide the statutory information 

required, and burden estimates for this 

information collection are not changed. 

Respondents: There are 56 

respondents, including 50 State 

Transportation Departments, the District 

of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth of the 

Northern Mariana Islands, the 

Territories of Guam, the Virgin Islands 

and American Samoa. 

Frequency: On an on-going basis as 

project agreements are written. 

Estimated Average Annual Burden 

per Response: There is an average of 400 

annual agreements per respondent. Each 

agreement requires 1 hour to complete. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 22,400 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: December 9, 2020. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27408 Filed 12–11–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2020–0032] 

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. 

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 

published a Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day public comment period 

on this information collection on 

September 18, 2020. We are required to 

publish this notice in the Federal 

Register by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

January 13, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID 2020–0032 

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: 

Christine Thorkildsen, 518–487–1186, 

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 employment workforce data to 

the State Transportation Agencies 

(STAs) on all work being performed on 

Federal-aid contracts during all or any 

part of the last payroll period preceding 

the end of July. 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 contractorsemployment 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 53 

STAs and Territory annual respondents 

for Form PR–1392 that, total of 11,130. 

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 


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