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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 230 (Friday, November 29, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 94871]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-28076]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2024-0005]

Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for 
Budget and Programs; U.S. Department of Transportation Learning Agenda: 
Fiscal Years 2024-2026, Response to Comments Received

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation 
(DOT).

ACTION: Notice of availability of the learning agenda.

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SUMMARY: This document provides the public with responses to the 
comments received for Federal Register Request for Information ``Office 
of the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Budget and 
Programs; U.S. Department of Transportation Learning Agenda Supplement: 
Fiscal Years 2024-2026'' (Docket No. DOT-OST-2024-0005).

DATES: November 29, 2024.

ADDRESSES: For access to DOT Docket Number DOT-OST 2024-0005 to read 
background document and comments received, go to www.regulations.gov at 
any time or to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE, Docket Operations, M-30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 
W12-140, Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern 
Standard Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please email [email protected] or call John 
D. Giorgis at (202) 366-6513 for further information. Office hours are 
from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. EDT, Monday through Friday, except for Federal 
holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) 
systematically plans for building evidence to inform policy, 
regulatory, and operational decisions. This systematic plan, known as a 
learning agenda, is developed in accordance with Title I of the 
Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.\1\
    In March 2022, DOT published the first Department-wide Learning 
Agenda: Fiscal Years (FY) 2022-2026, in conjunction with the 
Department's Strategic Plan: FY 2022-2026.\2\ DOT reviews and assesses 
the Learning Agenda on an annual basis in accordance with Section 290.8 
of Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-11 and OMB Memoranda M-
19-23 and M-21-27.\3\ Upon reaching the mid-point of the Learning 
Agenda: FY 2022-2026, the Department determined it was beneficial to 
update it and issue the Learning Agenda: FY 2024-2026.
    As part of the development process for the Learning Agenda: FY 
2024-2026, DOT's Office of the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant 
Secretary for Budget and Programs issued a Request for Information 
(RFI).\4\ The RFI sought public comment regarding potential updates to 
DOT's first Learning Agenda in three main areas:
     Whether there were new priority learning questions;
     Whether there were new priority data needs; and
     Whether the learning questions or data needs in the 
Learning Agenda: FY 2022-2026 needed to be adjusted.
    The RFI was published on February 13, 2024, and accepted responses 
during a 60-day comment period.
    DOT received eight comments through the Request for Information and 
took them into consideration when developing the Learning Agenda: FY 
2024-2026. Most comments offered broad input. One comment sent by the 
Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law 
focused on the Corporate Annual Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards; it was 
forwarded to the appropriate office within the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration for their consideration.
    DOT published the Learning Agenda: FY 2024-2026 on November 13, 
2024. It is available on the DOT's web page under the Office of the 
Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for Budget and 
Programs.\5\

    Issued in Washington, DC.
Victoria Wassmer,
Assistant Secretary for Budget and Programs and Chief Financial 
Officer, U.S. Department of Transportation.

Endnotes

    \1\ Public Law 115-435, title I, sec. 101(a)(2); 5 U.S.C. 
312(a).
    \2\ DOT (2022), Learning Agenda: FY 2024-2026, https://www.transportation.gov/mission/budget/learning-agenda-fy-2022-2026; 
Strategic Plan: FY 2022-2026, https://www.transportation.gov/mission/us-dot-strategic-plan-fy-2022-2026.
    \3\ Office of Management and Budget (2024), Circular A-11: 
Preparation, Submission and Execution of the Budget, Section 290.8, 
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/s290.pdf; (2019), 
``Memoranda 19-23,'' https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/M-19-23.pdf; (2021), ``Memoranda M-21-27,'' https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/M-21-27.pdf.
    \4\ 89 FR 10155 (February 13, 2024), www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/02/13/2024-02669/office-of-the-chief-financial-officer-and-assistant-secretary-for-budget-and-programs-us-department.
    \5\ DOT (2024), Learning Agenda: FY 2024-2026, https://www.transportation.gov/mission/budget/learning-agenda-fy-24-26.

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