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(B) 70 percent of the total cost of a project 

carried out by an eligible entity that has 

received at least 1 grant under this section. 

(c) Limitation on Revenue Collected.—Any 

revenue collected through a user-based 

alternative revenue mechanism established 

using funds provided under this section shall 

not be considered a toll under section 301 of 

title 23, United States Code. 

(d) Recommendations and Report.—Not 

later than 3 years after the date of enactment 

of this Act, the Secretary, in coordination 

with the Secretary of the Treasury and the 

Federal System Funding Alternative 

Advisory Board established under section 

13002(g)(1), shall submit to the Committee on 

Environment and Public Works of the Senate 

and the Committee on Transportation and 

Infrastructure of the House of Representatives 

a report that— 

(1) summarizes the results of the pilot 

projects under this section and the national 

pilot program under section 13002; and 

(2) provides recommendations, if 

applicable, to enable potential 

implementation of a nationwide user-based 

alternative revenue mechanism. 

(e) Funding.—(1) In General.—Of the funds 

made available to carry out section 503(b) of 

title 23, United States Code, for each of fiscal 

years 2022 through 2026 $15,000,000 shall be 

used for pilot projects under this section. 

(2) Flexibility.—If, by August 1 of each 

fiscal year, the Secretary determines that 

there are not enough grant applications to 

meet the requirements of this section for that 

fiscal year, the Secretary shall transfer to the 

national pilot program under section 13002 

or to the highway research and development 

program under section 503(b) of title 23, 

United States Code—(A) any funds reserved 

for a fiscal year under paragraph (1) that the 

Secretary has not yet awarded under this 

section; and (B) an amount of obligation 

limitation equal to the amount of funds that 

the Secretary transfers under subparagraph 

(A). 

(f) Repeal.— 

(1) In General.—Section 6020 of the FAST 

Act (23 U.S.C. 503 note; Pub. L. 114–94) is 

repealed. 

(2) Clerical Amendment.—The table of 

contents in section 1(b) of the FAST Act 

(Pub. L. 114–94; 129 Stat. 1312) is amended 

by striking the item relating to section 6020. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2023–0039] 

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 

the Office of Management and Budget’s 

(OMB) approval for an 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 

December 18, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

0039 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: 

Steven Jessberger, (202) 366 5052/ 

steven.jessberger@dot.gov; Patrick 

Zhang, (202) 366–1941/patrick.zhang@

dot.gov, Department of Transportation, 

Federal Highway Administration, Office 

Highway Policy Information, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590. Office hours are from 7 a.m. to 

4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal Holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Travel Monitoring Analysis 

System. 

Background and Justification: The 

purpose of this document is to request 

OMB’s three-year extension for a 

currently approved information 

collection titled ‘‘Heavy Vehicle Travel 

Information System (HVTIS),’’ covered 

by OMB Control No. 2125–0587. This 

information collection is due to expire 

on August 30, 2021. The Travel 

Monitoring Analysis System (TMAS) is 

the current system used to collect 

HVTIS information; therefore, the 

extension should now be titled Travel 

Monitoring Analysis System. 

Part A. Justification 

1. Circumstances That Make the 

Collection of Information Necessary 

23 U. S. Code 150 National Goals and 

Performance Management Measures 

requires that the U.S. DOT to establish 

a performance management system for 

its Federal-aid highway program. The 

Federal Highway Administration 

(FHWA), U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT) promulgated the 

performance management via 23 CFR 

490: National Performance Management 

Measures. Traffic data, including 

volume (# of vehicles and travelers), 

class (types of vehicles), weight (weight 

of vehicles), and travel time (speed), are 

parameters the performance 

management program relies upon. 

The FHWA is planning to continue to 

collect these traffic data through the 

TMAS system. To carry out the data 

collection, the FHWA will request that 

State Departments of Transportations 

(SDOTs) provide traffic volume, vehicle 

classification, vehicle speed, vehicle 

weight data, and nonmotorized data, 

which they collect as part of their traffic 

monitoring programs. 

In addition, 23 CFR 1.5 and 49 CFR 

1.48 provide the Federal Highway 

Administrator with authority to request 

such information deemed necessary to 

administer the Federal-aid highway 

program. Traffic data are used for 

assessing highway system performance 

under FHWA’s strategic planning and 

performance reporting process in 

accordance with the requirement of the 

Government Performance and Results 

Act (GPRA, Sections 3 and 4). 

Finally, both the 23 U. S. Code 503 

and the 23 CFR 420.105(b) require 

States to provide data that support 

FHWA’s responsibilities carrying out 

the Federal-aid highway program to 

Congress and the public. 

The data to be collected will continue 

to be used by the FHWA and other DOT 

agencies to (a) manage its Federal-aid 

highway program through the 

performance management mechanism, 

(b) evaluate changes in vehicular and 

nonmotorized travel to assess impacts 

on highway safety, (c) analyze the role 

of travel in economic development and 

productivity, (d) assess impacts from 

truck travel on infrastructure demands, 

and (e) maintain and improve our 

Nation’s mobility while protecting the 

human and natural environment. 

2. How, by Whom, and for What 

Purpose Is the Information Used 

The data submitted through TMAS 

will provide the amount and nature of 

vehicular travel at the national, regional, 

and state levels. The data also provide 

information on how vehicular travel 

pattern varies by hour of the day, day 

of the week, the month of the year, and 

year to year. 

Data submitted under the TMAS 

program are essential to the FHWA and 

the U.S. DOT in determining: 


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• The effectiveness of current 

highway programs in supporting travel 

demands, safety improvement, and 

travel reliability 

• The potential of possible 

modifications to the Federal-aid 

highway program, and 

• The need for new programs 

• The adequacy of the U.S. DOT 

Strategic Goals in areas of: 

i. Safety exposures: providing 

accurate and detailed exposure 

information related to travel and 

especially the roles of different vehicles 

in the same traffic stream 

ii. Mobility: providing data on the 

relative usage of system capacity by 

various vehicles by time of day and the 

associated share of congestion that may 

be implicit in such travel 

iii. Productivity: providing data 

necessary to estimate the tonnage of 

goods and number of people being 

moved by time of day, and season of the 

year over the various highway systems 

and 

iv. Human and Natural Environment: 

providing data needed for the highway 

noise and air quality effect assessments. 

State highway agencies use the traffic 

data for project and program level 

applications such as geometric design, 

pavement design, safety analysis, 

overweight and oversize vehicle 

permitting, designating truck routes, 

estimating trends in freight movement, 

highway noise abatement needs 

assessment. 

In addition to the usage by the Federal 

and State governmental agencies, 

institutions of higher learning, industry, 

consultants, professional organizations, 

and the public are using the data for 

research and education, business 

development, and general information. 

3. Extent of Automated Information 

Collection 

All data for the TMAS will be 

submitted electronically to the FHWA 

by all State highway and local agencies, 

including the District of Columbia and 

Puerto Rico Departments of 

Transportation. Reliance on electronic 

reporting is responsive to limited staff 

resources at both the local, State and 

Federal levels. With the unlimited data 

upload file size, online electronic 

submission reduces burden to all 

respondents. 

The collected data will be further 

inserted into a Geographical Information 

System by the FHWA in order to 

support the analysis of point-specific 

vehicle travel data on a network basis. 

This is expected to allow: 

• Correlation of pavement loadings 

generated by vehicles to data in other 

FHWA systems that report pavement 

condition; 

• Major truck and interregional 

passenger corridors will be more readily 

identifiable among the links comprising 

the Nation’s highway network, and; 

• Weather, natural disaster and other 

geographically related phenomena can 

be more readily related to associated 

changes in travel patterns 

All data summarization, processing, 

and editing are fully automated. The 

TMAS is supported by various software 

browsers for use by the local, States and 

FHWA staff in order to report, edit and 

summarize the collected data. 

Respondents: State Departments of 

Transportation Agencies and 

Metropolitan Planning Organizations 

and Local Agencies responsible for 

submitting traffic data (both motorized 

and micromobility) to FHWA. 

Frequency: All data for the TMAS will 

be submitted electronically monthly to 

the FHWA by all State highway and 

local agencies, including the District of 

Columbia and Puerto Rico Departments 

of Transportation. Reliance on 

electronic reporting is responsive to 

limited staff resources at both the local, 

State and Federal levels. With the 

unlimited data upload file size, online 

electronic submission reduces burden to 

all respondents. 

The collected data will be further 

inserted into a Geographical Information 

System by the FHWA in order to 

support the analysis of point-specific 

vehicle travel data on a network basis. 

This is expected to allow: 

• Correlation of pavement loadings 

generated by vehicles to data in other 

FHWA systems that report pavement 

condition; 

• Major truck and interregional 

passenger corridors will be more readily 

identifiable among the links comprising 

the Nation’s highway network, and; 

• Weather, natural disaster and other 

geographically related phenomena can 

be more readily related to associated 

changes in travel patterns 

All data summarization, processing, 

and editing are fully automated. The 

TMAS is supported by various software 

browsers for use by the local, States and 

FHWA staff in order to report, edit and 

summarize the collected data. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: FHWA estimates that the 

average State DOT operates 60 

continuous vehicle classification 

installations, and 15 weigh-in-motion 

sites. State highway agencies have 

established their Traffic Monitoring 

System (TMS) under the Intermodal 

Surface Transportation Efficiency Act, 

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st 

Century, and the Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act: A Legacy for Users. The data 

collection burden relevant for this 

notice is the additional burden for each 

State to provide a copy of its traffic data 

per data formats specified in the FHWA 

Traffic Monitoring Guide. Automation 

and online tools continue to be 

developed and improved in support of 

the TMAS and the capability now exists 

for online submission and validation of 

volume, speed, classification and weight 

data. The combined burden for the 

monthly report is estimated to be 50 

hours per respondent. The estimated 

total burden for all States, the District of 

Columbia, and Puerto Rico are 2,600 

hours. 

Salary costs associated with burden 

hours are estimated at an average of 

$35.50 per hour for the technical 

specialists dealing with the TMAS data 

types. The hourly rate is taken from 

Table 452 of the 2007 Statistical 

Abstract of the United States Census 

Bureau. These costs are calculated as 

follows: $35.50 × 2,600 hours = $92,300. 

ESTIMATED TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Data type 

Reportings 

per year 

per site 

Average 

hours per 

response 

Hours 

per year 

per state 

Site Description ............................................................................................................................ 1 2 2 

Vehicle Classification ................................................................................................................... 12 1 12 

Vehicle Speed .............................................................................................................................. 12 1 12 

Vehicle Weight ............................................................................................................................. 12 1 12 

Total Volume ................................................................................................................................ 12 0.5 6 

Total Nonmotorized Volume ........................................................................................................ 12 0.5 6 


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ESTIMATED TOTAL ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Data type 

Reportings 

per year 

per site 

Average 

hours per 

response 

Hours 

per year 

per state 

Total Hours per State per Year ............................................................................................ ........................ ........................ 50 

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: October 12, 2023. 

Jazmyne Lewis, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22908 Filed 10–17–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0706] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

under OMB Review: Application For 

Reimbursement of National Exam Fee 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Veterans Benefits Administration 

(VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

will submit the collection of 

information abstracted below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

PRA submission describes the nature of 

the information collection and its 

expected cost and burden, and it 

includes the actual data collection 

instrument. 

DATES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice by clicking on the following link 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain, 

select ‘‘Currently under Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’, then search the 

list for the information collection by 

Title or ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0706.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise 

and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics (008), 810 Vermont Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20420, (202) 266–4688 

or email Maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0706’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Public Law 108–454 and 

Public Law 111–377; 38 U.S.C. 5101 and 

CFR 21.1030. 

Title: Application for Reimbursement 

of National Exam Fee, VA Form 22– 

0810. 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0706. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: VA will use the information 

collected to determine whether the 

claimant qualifies to receive 

reimbursement for a claimed national 

test, and if so, the amount of the 

reimbursement of the fee charged. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on this collection 

of information was published at 88 FR 

60743 on Tuesday, September 5, 2023, 

Page 60743. 

Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 57 hours. 

Estimated Average Burden Time per 

Respondent: 15 minutes. 

Frequency of Response: Once. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

230. 

By direction of the Secretary. 

Maribel Aponte, 

VA PRA Clearance Officer, Office of 

Enterprise and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics, Department of Veterans Affairs. 

[FR Doc. 2023–22918 Filed 10–17–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 8320–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS 

AFFAIRS 

[OMB Control No. 2900–0215] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

Under OMB Review: Request for 

Information To Make Direct Payment to 

Child Reaching Majority 

AGENCY: Veterans Benefits 

Administration, Department of Veterans 

Affairs. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, this notice announces that the 

Veterans Benefits Administration 

(VBA), Department of Veterans Affairs, 

will submit the collection of 

information abstracted below to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and comment. The 

PRA submission describes the nature of 

the information collection and its 

expected cost and burden and it 

includes the actual data collection 

instrument. 

DATES: 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. Refer to ‘‘OMB Control 

No. 2900–0215. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maribel Aponte, Office of Enterprise 

and Integration, Data Governance 

Analytics (008), 810 Vermont Ave. NW, 

Washington, DC 20420, (202) 266–4688 

or email maribel.aponte@va.gov. Please 

refer to ‘‘OMB Control No. 2900–0215’’ 

in any correspondence. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority: Title 38 U.S.C. 1310, 1313, 

1542, and 101(4). 

Title: Request for Information to Make 

Direct Payment to Child Reaching 

Majority (VA Form Letter 21P–863) 

OMB Control Number: 2900–0215. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Abstract: The Department of Veterans 

Affairs (VA), through its Veterans 

Benefits Administration (VBA), 


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