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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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 Collections Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2020–27409 Filed 12–11–20; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2020–0117] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Approval of Reinstated 

Renewal for Information Request: 

Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) 

Skills Testing Delays Annual Survey 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

FMCSA announces its plan to submit 

the Information Collection Request (ICR) 

described below to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for its 

renewal. 

DATES: Please send your comments by 

January 13, 2021. OMB must receive 

your comments by this date in order to 

act quickly on the ICR. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan 

Britton, Office of Analysis, Research, 

and Technology/Research Division, 

Department of Transportation, Federal 

Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 

6th Floor, West Building, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. Telephone: 202–366–9980; 

Email Address: dan.britton@dot.gov. 

Office hours are from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) 

Skills Testing Delays Annual Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 2126–0065. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement of a 

renewal that was discontinued at the 

Agency’s request. 

Respondents: State CDL Coordinators 

(one from each of the 50 States, and one 

from Washington, DC) 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 51 

Estimated Time per Response: 2.3 

hours (137.5 minutes). 

Expiration Date: To be determined. 

Frequency of Response: Annually. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

annual burden is estimated to be no 

more than 2.3 hours (137.5 minutes) per 

respondent, which equates to 116.9 

hours over the universe of 51 

respondents. This estimate contains a 

maximum of 2 hours to gather 

information from State information 

systems, and an estimated maximum of 

17.5 minutes to respond to the survey. 

While States that already track and 

report similar information may need 

much less than 2 hours to gather 

information, discussions with subject 

matter experts led to an agreement that 

2 hours was a reasonable maximum 

time limit to use to estimate the 

maximum annual burden expected. 

The estimated time for survey 

completion was calculated using Versta 

Research’s methodology for calculating 

an estimate of survey length, where each 

question is given a number of points 

based on the estimated burden required 

to respond to the question (for example, 

simple multiple choice questions are 1 

point, whereas short answer questions 

are 3 points per expected short phrase). 

The total number of points for all 

questions is then divided by eight (the 

number of simple questions a user can 

respond to online in 1 minute) to 

determine the estimate required length 

for finishing the survey. 

Background 

Section 5506 of the Fixing America’s 

Surface Transportation Act (‘‘FAST 

Act’’). requires FMCSA to produce a 

study on CDL skills test delays on an 

annual basis. The requirements of the 

study are to submit an annual report 

describing: 

‘‘(A) the average wait time from the 

date an applicant requests to take a 

skills test to the date the applicant has 

the opportunity to complete such test; 

(B) the average wait time from the 

date an applicant, upon failure of a 

skills test, requests a retest to the date 

the applicant has the opportunity to 

complete such retest; 

(C) the actual number of qualified 

commercial driver’s license examiners 

available to test applicants; and 

(D) the number of testing sites 

available through the State department 

of motor vehicles and whether this 

number has increased or decreased from 

the previous year.’’ 

The annual report is also required to 

describe ‘‘specific steps the 

Administrator is taking to address skills 

testing delays in States that have 

average skills test or retest wait times of 

more than 7 days.’’ 

If this information collection does not 

occur, FMCSA will not be able to 

continue to conduct the study on CDL 

skills test delays. This data collection 

aims to continue to create longitudinal 

data where currently there is none. If 

the information collection occurs on a 

less-than-annual basis, FMCSA will not 

be able to make observations on yearly 

trends or analyze differences between 

States. 

For the initial 2017 survey FMCSA 

met with several stakeholders, including 

the American Association of Motor 

Vehicle Administrators, the Commercial 

Vehicle Training Association, and State 

Driver Licensing Agencies to ensure the 

information being collected was not 

already collected elsewhere and was not 

available to FMCSA. FMCSA conducted 

extensive background research to ensure 

the study was not duplicative. A 

previous study, done by the 

Government Accountability Office 

(GAO) in 2015, asked for similar 

information but did not produce 

specific enough data to be used in this 

study. 

The survey will continue to be sent 

out via email, with the option for online 

completion using SurveyMonkey® or 

Qualtrics. Each State can continue to 

respond via email or the online survey 

tool depending on which method is 

more convenient for the respondent. 

The welcome letter will continue to 

indicate that FMCSA prefers responses 

via the online survey tool. 

The information collected will 

continue to be published annually in a 

report to the Committee on Commerce, 

Science, and Transportation of the 

Senate and the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

House of Representatives. 

Prior Publication 

FMCSA published a notice in the 

Federal Register (85 FR 35496) with a 

60-day public comment period to 


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