14612 Federal Register / Vol. 87, No. 50 / Tuesday, March 15, 2022 / Notices 

Background: On November 15, 2021, 

President Biden signed the 

Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act 

(IIJA) (Pub. L. 117–58, also known as the 

‘‘Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’’) into 

law. The 23 U.S.C. 148 note (135 STAT. 

478) requires the USDOT to update the 

HRRR Study, report and Best Practices 

Manual first completed under MAP–21. 

(b) HIGH-RISK RURAL ROADS.— 

(1) STUDY.—Not later than 2 years after 

the date of enactment of this Act, the 

Secretary shall update the study under 

section 1112(b)(1) of MAP–21 (23 U.S.C. 148 

note; Pub. L. 112–141). 

(2) PUBLICATION OF REPORT.—Not later 

than 2 years after the date of enactment of 

this Act, the Secretary shall publish on the 

website of the Department of Transportation 

an update to the report described in section 

1112(b)(2) of MAP–21 (23 U.S.C. 148 note; 

Pub. L. 112–141). 

(3) BEST PRACTICES MANUAL.—Not 

later than 180 days after the date on which 

the report is published under paragraph (2), 

the Secretary shall update the best practices 

manual described in section 1112(b)(3) of 

MAP–21 (23 U.S.C. 148 note; Pub. L. 112– 

141). 

In carrying out the study update, it is 

required to conduct a nationwide survey 

of the current practices of various 

agencies. The results of the survey are 

to be used in conjunction with a 

research study to prepare a report to be 

published on the Department of 

Transportation website. The report is 

required to include: (1) A summary of 

cost-effective roadway safety 

infrastructure improvements; (2) a 

summary of the latest research on the 

financial savings and reductions in 

fatalities and serious bodily injury 

crashes from the implementation of 

cost-effective roadway safety 

infrastructure improvements; (3) and 

recommendations for State and local 

governments on best practice methods 

to install cost-effective roadway safety 

infrastructure on high-risk rural roads. 

The legislation also requires the results 

of the survey and the report to be used 

to update a best practices manual to 

support Federal, State, and local efforts 

to reduce fatalities and serious injuries 

on high risk rural roads. 

Respondents: The respondents will 

include all 52 State Departments of 

Transportation (including the District of 

Columbia and Puerto Rico). In addition, 

a representative sampling of 100 local 

agencies, including county highway 

departments and municipal public 

works agencies will be surveyed. 

Frequency: Once. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Approximately 4 hours per 

participant. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: The total burden for this 

collection is approximately 608 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: March 9, 2022. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05355 Filed 3–14–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[FTA–2021–0010] 

Notice of Availability of Initial 

Guidance Proposals for the Capital 

Investment Grants Program 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration 

(FTA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of initial 

guidance proposals for the capital 

investment grants program. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) invites public 

comment on initial guidance proposals 

to implement changes made to the 

Capital Investment Grants (CIG) 

program by the Infrastructure and 

Investment Jobs Act (IIJA) (also known 

as the ‘‘Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’’). 

The proposed guidance has been placed 

in the docket and posted on the FTA 

website. This policy guidance continues 

to complement FTA’s regulations that 

govern the CIG program. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before April 14, 2022. Late-filed 

comments will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

to DOT docket number FTA–2021–0010 

by any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

U.S. Mail: Docket Management 

Facility, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12– 

140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Fax: 202–493–2251. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name (Federal Transit 

Administration) and docket number 

(FTA–2021–0010) for this notice at the 

beginning of your comments. You must 

submit two copies of your comments if 

you submit them by mail. If you wish 

to receive confirmation FTA received 

your comments, you must include a 

self-addressed, stamped postcard. Due 

to security procedures in effect since 

October 2001, mail received through the 

U.S. Postal Service may be subject to 

delays. Parties submitting comments 

may wish to consider using an express 

mail firm to ensure prompt filing of any 

submissions not filed electronically or 

by hand. 

All comments received will be posted, 

without charge and including any 

personal information provided, to 

http://www.regulations.gov, where they 

will be available to internet users. You 

may review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement published in the Federal 

Register on April 11, 2000, at 65 FR 

19477. For access to the docket and to 

read background documents and 

comments received, go to http://

regulations.gov at any time or to the U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Docket 

Management Facility, West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth Day, FTA Office of Planning 

and Environment, telephone (202) 366– 

5159 or Elizabeth.Day@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FTA is 

seeking comment on three initial 

proposed changes to FTA’s CIG Final 

Interim Policy Guidance last issued in 

June 2016. (https://www.transit.dot.gov/ 

funding/grant-programs/capitalinvestments/final-capital-investmentgrant-program-interim-policy). The 

proposals relate to changes made in the 

Infrastructure and Investment Jobs Act 

(IIJA) (Pub. L. 117–58, also known as the 

‘‘Bipartisan Infrastructure Law’’) to 49 


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U.S.C. 5309 and cover three topics: 

Eligibility as a Core Capacity project; 

how FTA will determine that a CIG 

project sponsor has demonstrated 

progress on meeting Transit Asset 

Management targets; and how bundles 

of CIG projects can enter the Project 

Development phase of the program. The 

proposals being made today are 

available on the agency’s public website 

at https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/ 

grant-programs/capital-investments/ 

capital-investment-grants-programregulations-guidance and in the docket 

to this notice. 

After review and consideration of the 

comments provided on the three initial 

CIG proposals in this document, FTA 

will issue a final notice and incorporate 

these changes into the existing CIG 

Policy Guidance. No other changes to 

the CIG Policy Guidance are being 

proposed at this time. Instead, FTA 

intends in the future to propose a more 

comprehensive update of the CIG Policy 

Guidance for notice and comment, 

incorporating feedback FTA received in 

response to its Request for Information 

published in the Federal Register in 

July 2021 (86 FR 37402). The three 

initial topics covered in this document 

are intended to assist FTA in managing 

the CIG program in the near term while 

the more comprehensive CIG policy 

guidance changes are developed and 

proposed. 

Nuria I. Fernandez, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05466 Filed 3–14–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2021–0085] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Request for Comment; 

Driver Alcohol Detection System for 

Safety Field Operational Test 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments on an extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), this notice announces that the 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

summarized below will be submitted to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its expected burden. This 

document describes the collection of 

information for which NHTSA intends 

to seek OMB approval to allow NHTSA 

to continue to conduct research on the 

development of a driver alcohol 

detection system. NHTSA is seeking an 

extension of the information collection, 

titled ‘‘Driver Alcohol Detection System 

for Safety Field Operational Test’’ (OMB 

Control Number 2127–0734), which is 

currently approved through March 31, 

2022. The extension is necessary to 

complete data collection that was 

delayed due to COVID–19 restrictions. 

The burden hour and cost calculations 

have been adjusted to reflect only the 

remaining data collection, adjustments 

for recruitment based on current 

experience, and adjustments in 

participation based on current 

experience. A Federal Register Notice 

with a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following information 

collection was published on December 

30, 2021. One comment was received in 

response to this notice. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 14, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing burden, should 

be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget at 

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

To find this particular information 

collection, select ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or 

use the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or access to 

background documents, contact Eric 

Traube, Vehicle Safety Research, 

Human Factors/Engineering Integration 

Division (NSR–310), (202) 366–5673, 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration, W46–424, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590. Please identify the relevant 

collection of information by referring to 

its OMB Control Number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal 

agency must receive approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) before it collects certain 

information from the public and a 

person is not required to respond to a 

collection of information by a Federal 

agency unless the collection displays a 

valid OMB control number. In 

compliance with these requirements, 

this notice announces that the following 

information collection request will be 

submitted OMB. 

Title: Driver Alcohol Detection 

System for Safety Field Operational 

Test. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0734. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Type of Review Requested: Regular. 

Length of Approval Requested: Three 

years. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: NHTSA and the 

Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety 

(ACTS) began research in February 2008 

to try to find potential in-vehicle 

approaches to the problem of alcoholimpaired driving. Members of ACTS 

comprise motor vehicle manufacturers 

representing approximately 99 percent 

of light vehicle sales in the U.S. This 

cooperative research partnership, 

known as the Driver Alcohol Detection 

System for Safety (DADSS) Program, is 

exploring the feasibility, the potential 

benefits of, and the public policy 

challenges associated with a more 

widespread use of non-invasive 

technology to prevent alcohol-impaired 

driving. The 2008 cooperative 

agreement between NHTSA and ACTS 

for Phases I and II outlined a program 

of research to assess the state of 

detection technologies that are capable 

of measuring blood alcohol 

concentration (BAC) or Breath Alcohol 

Concentration (BrAC). The 2008 

cooperative agreement and a subsequent 

2013 cooperative agreement support the 

creation and testing of prototypes and 

subsequent hardware that could be 

installed in vehicles. As part of this 

research program, and pursuant to the 

2013 cooperative agreement, NHTSA 

and ACTS developed both breath- and 

touch-based sensors to evaluate the 

potential implementation and 

integration of both breath-and touchbased sensor technologies. The sensors 

are to be integrated into a vehicle in a 

manner that does not significantly alter 

the appearance of the vehicle interior. 

Further research is needed to evaluate 

the potential implementation and 

integration of both breath- and touchbased sensor technologies. 

The purpose of this information 

collection is to collect data needed to 

evaluate the functionality of the touchand breath- based sensors in varying 

operating conditions by having study 

participants provide breath and touch 

samples in DADSS research vehicles 

equipped with the sensors. Although 

the sensors will undergo significant 

laboratory testing, it is necessary to 

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