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• NAC Chairman Closing Comments 

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Issued in Washington, DC, this 26th day of 

February 2021. 

Tiffany Ottilia McCoy, 

General Engineer, NextGen Office of 

Collaboration and Messaging, ANG–M, Office 

of the Assistant Administrator for NextGen, 

Federal Aviation Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04430 Filed 3–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2025–0005] 

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. 

SUMMARY: The FHWA has forwarded the 

information collection request described 

in this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

approval of a new (periodic) 

information collection. We published a 

Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

public comment period on this 

information collection on November 18, 

2019. We are required to publish this 

notice in the Federal Register by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by 

April 5, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

(FHWA–2125–0005) 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: 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: 

Daniel Jenkins, 202–366–1067, 

daniel.jenkins@dot.gov, National Travel 

Behavior Data Program Manager, 

Federal Highway Administration, Office 

of Policy, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Room E83–414, Washington, DC 20590, 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Next Generation National 

Household Travel Survey (Next Gen 

NHTS) 

Type of Request: New request for 

periodic information collection 

requirement 

Background: Title 23, United States 

Code, Section 502 authorizes the 

USDOT to carry out advanced research 

and transportation research to measure 

the performance of the surface 

transportation systems in the US, 

including the efficiency, energy use, air 

quality, congestion, and safety of the 

highway and intermodal transportation 

systems. The USDOT is charged with 

the overall responsibility to obtain 

current information on national patterns 

of travel, which establishes a data base 

to better understand travel behavior, 

evaluate the use of transportation 

facilities, and gauge the impact of the 

USDOT’s policies and programs. 

The NHTS is the USDOT’s 

authoritative nationally representative 

data source for daily passenger travel. 

This inventory of travel behavior 

reflects travel mode (e.g., private 

vehicles, public transportation, walk 

and bike) and trip purpose (e.g., travel 

to work, school, recreation, personal/ 

family trips) by U.S. household 

residents. Survey results are used by 

federal and state agencies to monitor the 

performance and adequacy of current 

facilities and infrastructure, and to plan 

for future needs. 

The collection and analysis of 

national transportation data has been of 

critical importance for half a century. 

Previous surveys were conducted in 

1969, 1977, 1983, 1990, 1995, 2001, 

2009, and 2017. The current survey will 

be the ninth in this series, and allow 

researchers, planners, and officials at 

the state and federal levels to monitor 

travel trends. 

Data from the NHTS are widely used 

to support research needs within the 

USDOT, and State and local agencies, in 

addition to responding to queries from 

Congress, the research community and 

the media on important issues. Current 

and recent topics of interest include: 

• Travel to work patterns by 

transportation mode for infrastructure 

improvements and congestion 

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• Access to public transit, paratransit, 

and rail services by various 

demographic groups, 

• Measures of travel by mode to 

establish exposure rates for risk 

analyses, 

• Support for Federal, State, and local 

planning activities and policy 

evaluation, 

• Active transportation by walk and 

bike to establish the relationship to 

public health issues, 

• Vehicle usage for energy 

consumption analysis, 

• Traffic behavior of specific 

demographic groups such as Millennials 

and the aging population. 

Within the USDOT, the Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA) holds 

responsibility for technical and funding 

coordination. The National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA), 

and the Bureau of Transportation 

Statistics (BTS) are also primary data 

users and have historically participated 

in project planning and financial 

support. 

Proposed Data Acquisition 

Methodology 

NHTS data are collected from a 

probability-based sample comprised of a 

representative mixture of households 

with respect to various geodemographic 

characteristics. For this purpose, FHWA 

will field two independent survey 

designs using two independent samples: 

(a) An address-based sample (ABS) of 

7,500 households and (b) a panel frame 

sample (PFS) of 7,500 households 

drawn from a previously recruited 

national probability-based online panel. 

The ABS sample will deliver a set of 

national data that will be used for 

official purposes and will be available 

for public use. The PFS sample will 

offer FHWA an opportunity to conduct 

an independent assessment of the 

viability of an alternative data collection 

methodology for future NHTS data 

collection efforts. 

Randomly sampled ABS households 

will be surveyed using a combined 

mail/online survey mode in that they 

will receive a mailing that directs them 

to an online survey system to capture 

household information and core travel 

data. Non-internet ABS households will 

be offered paper versions of the 

questionnaire and trip diary. For the 

PFS sample, an online panel survey 

approach will be used, where email 

invitations will be sent to selected panel 

members inviting them to participate in 

the survey. Follow-ups with 

nonresponding households from the 

ABS and PFS samples will utilize mail, 

telephone, and email communications 

where contact information is available, 

and the contact method is appropriate. 

Monetary incentives will be provided 

for all ABS households that complete 

the survey. As the burden is higher for 

those in households with more people, 

larger households will receive a larger 

incentive amount. Households will 

receive $5 per household member when 

all household members complete the 

travel survey. 

Both the ABS and PFS survey modes 

will collect data during an entire 12- 

month period so that all 365 days of the 

year, including weekends and holidays, 

are accounted for. To maximize the 

accuracy of the recall information and to 

provide coverage for every day of the 

year, all surveys will collect information 

about the travel during the previous 24 

hours. A total of 7,500 completed 

households will comprise the ABS 

sample and 7,500 completed 

households will comprise the PFS 

probability-based panel sample. 

Issues Related to Sampling. The 

sampling design reflects the U.S. 

household trends of decreasing landline 

telephone ownership and increasing 

access to the internet. Both the ABS and 

PFS samples will originate from the 

USPS Delivery Sequence File (DSF), 

which includes all points of delivery in 

the US. The requisite address samples 

are obtained from a third party vendor 

that enhances the residential address by 

appending various auxiliary variables to 

the DSF prior to sample selection 

including block-, block group-, and 

tract-level characteristics from the 

Decennial Census, the American 

Community Survey (ACS), and 

commercial databases. 

Sample Size. In total, completed 

surveys will be secured for a nationally 

representative sample of 7,500 

households using the ABS sample and 

an additional 7,500 households will be 

completed from the PFS sample. 

Stratification. The sample for this 

survey will be designed to produce the 

most efficient estimates at the national 

level, as well as those needed for urban 

and rural areas. While different sample 

allocation options for the national 

sample are being considered in order to 

arrive at a final allocation for the NHTS 

sample, the 7,500 households will be 

selected from each sampling frame in a 

manner that ensures estimates can be 

generated for urban, rural, and national 

geographic levels. 

It should be noted that assignments 

for recording travel data by households 

in each sample (ABS and PFS) will be 

equally distributed across all days to 

ensure an approximately balanced day 

of week distribution. To this end, the 

sample will be released periodically 

through a process that will control the 

balance of travel days by month. 

Data Collection Methods 

The questionnaire for this survey will 

be designed to be relevant, aesthetically 

pleasing, and elicit participation by 

including topics of importance to the 

respondents. 

Information Proposed for Collection 

For the ABS sample, households will 

receive an invitation to complete the 

survey through the US mail. The online 

panel survey households will receive an 

emailed invitation. In both survey 

modes, the primary household 

respondent will complete a short roster 

to collect key household information 

(e.g., enumeration of household 

members and household vehicles). 

Then, all travel information about a 

specific day from every household 

member 5 years of age and older will be 

collected using the online travel diary or 

equivalent paper form. 

For households choosing to complete 

the survey online, the primary 

respondent will complete the household 

roster, then complete his or her diary as 

well as serve as a proxy responder for 

all children 5–15 years old in the 

household. Household members 16 and 

older will be invited to complete their 

own online diaries. If they fail to do so 

in a reasonable amount of time after 

multiple reminders, the primary 

household member may be asked to 

serve as a proxy for non-responding 

teens and adults in the household. 

Households electing to complete the 

survey by mail will be provided 

equivalent paper forms, with similar 

proxy-reporting instructions. 

The online household travel diary 

program will allow for sophisticated 

branching and skip patterns to enhance 

data retrieval by asking only those 

questions that are necessary and 

appropriate for the individual 

participant. Look-up tables will be 

included to assist with information such 

as vehicle makes and models. A Google 

Maps API will be used to assist in 

identifying specific place names and 

locations. The location data for the 

participant’s home, workplace, or 

school will be stored and automatically 

inserted in the dataset for trips after the 

first report. Household rostering will 

include a list of all persons in the 

household and trips reported from one 

household member can be referenced 

for ease in reporting that trip by other 

household members who travelled 

together. This automatic insert of 

information reduces the burden of the 

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about a trip already reported by the 

initial respondent. 

Data range, consistency and edit 

checks will be automatically 

programmed to reduce reporting error, 

survey length, and maintain the flow of 

information processing. Data cross 

checks also help reduce the burden by 

ensuring that the reporting is consistent 

within each trip. Surveys completed by 

mail will be entered into the same 

online survey program to ensure 

consistency in quality control efforts. 

Estimated Burden Hours for 

Information Collection 

Frequency: This collection will be 

conducted every 2–4 years in the future. 

Respondents. As mentioned earlier, 

two nationally representative random 

samples of 7,500 households from the 

ABS and PFS samples representing the 

50 states and the District of Columbia 

will be surveyed. Given that each 

household will include an average of 2.5 

members 5-years of age or older, travel 

data for a total of 18,750 individual 

respondents will be collected for the 

ABS survey and an additional 18,750 

individual respondents will complete 

the PFS survey. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response. It will take approximately 5 

minutes to complete the roster data 

form, and 15 minutes to complete the 

travel diary. This results in a total of 20 

minutes for the first household member 

and 15 minutes per additional 

household member (these estimates are 

the same for both ABS and PFS 

respondents). 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours. It is estimated that a total of 

18,750 persons will be included in the 

survey from each sampling frame (ABS 

and PFS). This would result in 

approximately 10,625 hours of support 

for this data collection effort, assuming 

an average of 17 minutes per person 

across the roster data form and retrieval 

survey. 

Post–Collection Independent Analysis 

The two proposed survey approaches 

will provide FHWA the opportunity to 

assess validity and reliability of the 

panel frame sample approach for use in 

future NHTS data collection cycles. At 

the conclusion of this data collection 

effort, FHWA will conduct an 

independent assessment of the results 

from both survey designs, with a focus 

on identifying similarities and 

differences with respect to survey 

administration metrics, including 

response rates, unit and item nonresponse, etc. In addition, the 

differences in travel patterns will also 

be assessed. This includes assessing the 

differences in trip rates, miles traveled, 

distance traveled, trip purpose, travel 

mode, and time of day of trip-making by 

specific demographic and geographic 

subpopulation groupings. The results 

from both survey modes will also be 

vetted against external data sources 

such as the Census, the American 

Community Survey, the National 

Transit Database, and FHWA data on 

vehicle miles traveled. 

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 USDOT’s performance, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) the data acquisition 

methods; (3) the accuracy of the 

USDOT’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; (4) the 

types of data being acquired; (5) ways to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the collected information; and 

(6) ways that the burden could be 

minimized 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 1, 2021. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer, Federal 

Highway Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2021–04456 Filed 3–3–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Community Development Financial 

Institutions Fund 

Bond Guarantee Program, FY 2021; 

Notice of Guarantee Availability 

Funding Opportunity Title: Notice of 

Guarantee Availability (NOGA) inviting 

Qualified Issuer Applications and 

Guarantee Applications for the 

Community Development Financial 

Institutions (CDFI) Bond Guarantee 

Program. 

Announcement Type: Announcement 

of opportunity to submit Qualified 

Issuer Applications and Guarantee 

Applications. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 21.011. 

Key Dates: Qualified Issuer 

Applications and Guarantee 

Applications may be submitted to the 

CDFI Fund starting on the date of 

publication of this NOGA. In order to be 

considered for the issuance of a 

Guarantee in fiscal year (FY) 2021, 

Qualified Issuer Applications must be 

submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time 

(ET) on April 26, 2021 and Guarantee 

Applications must be submitted by 

11:59 p.m. ET on May 3, 2021. If 

applicable, CDFI Certification 

Applications must be received by the 

CDFI Fund by 11:59 p.m. ET on April 

2, 2021. Under FY 2021 authority Bond 

Documents and Bond Loan documents 

must be executed, and Guarantees will 

be provided, in the order in which 

Guarantee Applications are approved or 

by such other criteria that the CDFI 

Fund may establish, in its sole 

discretion, and in any event by 

September 30, 2021. 

Executive Summary: This NOGA is 

published in connection with the CDFI 

Bond Guarantee Program, administered 

by the Community Development 

Financial Institutions Fund (CDFI 

Fund), the U.S. Department of the 

Treasury (Treasury). Through this 

NOGA, the CDFI Fund announces the 

availability of up to $500 million of 

Guarantee Authority in FY 2021. This 

NOGA explains application submission 

and evaluation requirements and 

processes, and provides agency contacts 

and information on CDFI Bond 

Guarantee Program outreach. Parties 

interested in being approved for a 

Guarantee under the CDFI Bond 

Guarantee Program must submit 

Qualified Issuer Applications and 

Guarantee Applications for 

consideration in accordance with this 

NOGA. The required minimum overcollateralization rates established in FY 

2020 have been removed for the FY 

2021 round. In the FY 2021 round, overcollateralization rates will be 

determined during the underwriting 

process for each applicant. Capitalized 

terms used in this NOGA and not 

defined elsewhere are defined in the 

CDFI Bond Guarantee Program 

regulations (12 CFR 1808.102) and the 

CDFI Program regulations (12 CFR 

1805.104). 

I. Guarantee Opportunity Description 

A. Authority. The CDFI Bond 

Guarantee Program was authorized by 

the Small Business Jobs Act of 2010 

(Pub. L. 111–240; 12 U.S.C. 4713a) (the 

Act). Section 1134 of the Act amended 

the Riegle Community Development and 

Regulatory Improvement Act of 1994 (12 

U.S.C. 4701, et seq.) to provide authority 

to the Secretary of the Treasury 

(Secretary) to establish and administer 

the CDFI Bond Guarantee Program. 

B. Bond Issue size; Amount of 

Guarantee authority. In FY 2021, the 

Secretary may guarantee Bond Issues 


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