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approval. A list of certified TVMs is 

posted on FTA’s web page at 

www.transit.dot.gov/TVM. Recipients 

should contact FTA before accepting 

bids from entities not listed on this webposting. 

In lieu of restricting eligibility to 

certified TVMs, a recipient may, with 

FTA’s approval, establish projectspecific goals for DBE participation in 

the procurement of transit vehicles. 

For more information on DBE 

requirements, please contact Monica 

McCallum, FTA Office of Civil Rights, 

206–220–7519, Monica.McCallum@

dot.gov. 

vi. Planning 

FTA encourages applicants to notify 

the appropriate State Departments of 

Transportation and MPOs in areas likely 

to be served by the project funds made 

available under these initiatives and 

programs. Selected projects must be 

incorporated into the long-range plans 

and transportation improvement 

programs of States and metropolitan 

areas before they are eligible for FTA 

funding. As described under the 

evaluation criteria, FTA may consider 

whether a project is consistent with or 

already included in these plans when 

evaluating a project. 

vii. Standard Assurances 

The applicant assures that it will 

comply with all applicable Federal 

statutes, regulations, executive orders, 

directives, FTA circulars, and other 

Federal administrative requirements in 

carrying out any project supported by 

the FTA grant. The applicant 

acknowledges that it is under a 

continuing obligation to comply with 

the terms and conditions of the grant 

agreement issued for its project with 

FTA. The applicant understands that 

Federal laws, regulations, policies, and 

administrative practices might be 

modified from time to time and may 

affect the implementation of the project. 

The applicant agrees that the most 

recent Federal requirements will apply 

to the project, unless FTA issues a 

written determination otherwise. The 

applicant must submit the Certifications 

and Assurances before receiving a grant 

if it does not have current certifications 

on file. 

vii. Reporting 

Post-award reporting requirements 

include the electronic submission of 

Federal Financial Reports and Milestone 

Progress Reports. Applicant should 

include goals, targets, and indicators 

referenced in their application to the 

project in the Executive Summary of the 

TrAMS application. Recipients or 

beneficiaries of funds made available 

through this NOFO are also required to 

regularly submit data to the National 

Transit Database. National Transit 

Database reports include total sources of 

revenue and complete expenditure 

reports for all public transportation 

operations, not just those funded by this 

project. Applicants partnering with a 

private operator should ensure that the 

private operator will meet all of the 

comprehensive reporting requirements 

of the National Transit Database. 

FTA is committed to making 

evidence-based decisions guided by the 

best available science and data. In 

accordance with the Foundations for 

Evidence-based Policymaking Act of 

2018 (Evidence Act), FTA may use 

information submitted in discretionary 

funding applications; information in 

FTA’s Transit Award Management 

System (TrAMS), including grant 

applications, Milestone Progress Reports 

(MPRs), Federal Financial Reports 

(FFRs); transit service, ridership and 

operational data submitted in FTA’s 

National Transit Database; 

documentation and results of FTA 

oversight reviews, including triennial 

and state management reviews; and 

other publicly available sources of data 

to build evidence to support policy, 

budget, operational, regulatory, and 

management processes and decisions 

affecting FTA’s grant programs. 

As part of completing the annual 

certifications and assurances required of 

FTA grant recipients, a successful 

applicant must report on the suspension 

or debarment status of itself and its 

principals. If the award recipient’s 

active grants, cooperative agreements, 

and procurement contracts from all 

Federal awarding agencies exceeds 

$10,000,000 for any period of time 

during the period of performance of an 

award made pursuant to this Notice, the 

recipient must comply with the 

Recipient Integrity and Performance 

Matters reporting requirements 

described in Appendix XII to 2 CFR part 

200. 

G. Federal Awarding Agency Contacts 

For further information concerning 

this notice, please contact the 

FTAFerryPrograms@dot.gov, or Vanessa 

Williams, by phone at (202) 366–4818 or 

Sarah Clements at (202) 366–3062. A 

TDD is available for individuals who are 

deaf or hard of hearing at 800–877– 

8339. In addition, FTA will post 

answers to questions and requests for 

clarifications on FTA’s website at 

https://www.transit.dot.gov/grants/ftaferry-programs. To ensure receipt of 

accurate information about eligibility or 

the program, the applicant is 

encouraged to contact FTA directly, 

rather than through intermediaries or 

third parties. For issues with 

GRANTS.GOV, please contact 

GRANTS.GOV by phone at 1–800–518– 

4726 or by email at support@grants.gov. 

Contact information for FTA’s regional 

offices can be found on FTA’s website 

at http://www.transit.dot.gov/. 

H. Other Information 

This program is not subject to 

Executive Order 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’ FTA will consider 

applications for funding only from 

eligible recipients for eligible projects 

listed in Section C. 

Nuria I. Fernandez, 

Administrator. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–57–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2022–0017] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Request for Comment; 

National Driver Register 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation. 

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 is being forwarded 

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 a currently 

approved collection of information on 

NHTSA’s National Driver Register for 

which NHTSA intends to seek approval 

from OMB for extension. A Federal 

Register Notice with a 60-day comment 

period soliciting comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on March 28, 2022. No 

comments were received. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before August 10, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, including 


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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 Miriam 

Chege, NSA 200, National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration, Room 

W55–210, Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. 

Miriam Chege’s telephone number is 

(202) 366–2571. 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 to OMB. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day comment period soliciting 

comments on the information collection 

was published on March 28, 2022 (87 

FR 17408). No comments were received. 

Title: National Driver Register (NDR). 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0001. 

Form Number(s): This collection of 

information is electronically submitted 

to NHTSA. There are no standard forms. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Type of Review Requested: Regular. 

Requested Expiration Date of 

Approval: 3 years from date of approval. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: The National Driver 

Register Act of 1982, Title 49 U.S.C., 

Subtitle VI, Part A, Chapter 303 (as 

amended) requires the Secretary of 

Transportation (NHTSA by delegation) 

to maintain a National Driver Register 

(NDR) to assist the State chief driver 

licensing officials in the exchange of 

information about the motor vehicle 

driving records of individuals. The chief 

driver licensing official of a 

participating State must report to the 

NDR identification information 

regarding any individual who is denied 

a motor vehicle operator’s license for 

cause, whose motor vehicle operator’s 

license is withdrawn for cause, or who 

is convicted of certain serious motor 

vehicle related offenses (specified in the 

Act at 49 U.S.C. 30304) or comparable 

offenses. (23 U.S.C. 30304(a); 23 CFR 

1327, appendix A). Participating States 

are required to submit an inquiry to the 

NDR on all applicants for driver’s 

licenses before issuing a license to the 

applicant. In addition, when requested 

by other authorized users (e.g., the 

Federal Aviation Administration), 

participating States are required to 

submit inquires to the NDR and provide 

responses to the other authorized users 

of the NDR for transportation safety 

purposes. All 50 States and the District 

of Columbia participate in the NDR. 

The NDR maintains the computerized 

database known as the Problem Driver 

Pointer System (PDPS) which contains 

information on individuals whose 

privilege to operate a motor vehicle has 

been revoked, suspended, canceled or 

denied or who have been convicted of 

serious traffic-related offenses. The 

records maintained at the NDR consist 

of identification information including 

name, date of birth, sex, driver license 

number, and reporting State which is 

collected on a daily basis. 

States use interactive communication 

for their routine transactions with the 

NDR which allows them to submit the 

required information automatically at 

the same time the individual’s 

information is entered into the State’s 

system. Specifically, when an 

individual applies for a driver’s license, 

an inquiry is automatically transmitted 

to the NDR when the driver’s 

application is entered into the State’s 

system. Likewise, when a State records 

license actions that have been taken 

against an individual that require 

reporting to the NDR, a transaction 

submitting the individual’s 

identification information is 

automatically generated and transmitted 

to the NDR. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information: The purpose of the 

information collection is to improve 

traffic and transportation safety by 

assisting States in keeping problem 

drivers off the nation’s highways. The 

NDR was established to serve as the 

central repository of information on 

problem drivers to promote information 

sharing among States, eliminating the 

need for States to contact each of the 

other 50 jurisdictions, and the District of 

Columbia individually. The information 

collected is used by State driver 

licensing agencies to identify problem 

drivers prior to issuing a driver’s license 

and to develop and implement driver 

improvement programs. The following 

groups are also authorized to receive 

information upon inquiry to a State 

driver licensing agency for 

transportation safety purposes: 

a. Employers of motor vehicle 

operators, 

b. Employers of locomotive operators, 

c. Federal Aviation Administration 

regarding applications for or holders of 

airman’s certificates, 

d. U.S. Coast Guard regarding 

applicants for or holders of licenses, 

certificates of registry, or merchant 

mariner’s documents, and for Coast 

Guard crew members, 

e. National Transportation Safety 

Board and Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration in connection with 

accident investigations, 

f. Air carriers regarding individuals 

seeking employment as pilots, and 

g. Individuals who have or are seeking 

access to national security information 

for purposes under E.O. 12968 or who 

are being investigated for Federal 

employment. 

60-Day Notice: A Federal Register 

notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on the information 

collection was published on March 28, 

2022 (87 FR 17408). No comments were 

received. 

Affected Public: Participating States. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The number of respondents is 51—all 50 

States and the District of Columbia. 

Frequency: On a daily basis. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 13,739 hours. 

States use routine electronic 

interactive communication for 

transactions with the NDR, which 

allows the States to submit the required 

information automatically at the same 

time the information is entered into the 

State’s own system. Although States are 

required to report and check for a 

problem driver when issuing a driver’s 

license, no burden hours are incurred 

for these queries for this information 

collection because the State’s computer 

systems automatically transmit the 

information that is entered as a part of 

normal business practice. Therefore, the 

estimated hour burden is based on the 

States’ PDPS IT infrastructure 

maintenance and States’ participation in 

the optional Clean File process. 

To estimate the annual maintenance 

and infrastructure burden to report and 

check for problem drivers, NDR asked a 

small sample of States for information 

about their annual burden. NDR 

received formatted estimates from two 

States which included the maintenance 

and infrastructure labor hours and cost 

used to send and maintain information 

to PDPS. Together, the burden from 

these two States was 530 hours and the 

associated labor cost was $17,400. Using 


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1May 2020 National Occupational Employment 

and Wage Estimates United States, Occupational 

Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 

U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.bls.gov/oes/ 

current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000, last accessed July 23, 

2021. 2Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by 

ownership (Dec. 2020), available at https://

www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm (accessed 

July 23, 2021). 

these estimates, NHTSA calculates an 

average of 265 hours per State, with an 

annual labor cost of $8,700. There are 51 

respondents per year (the 50 States and 

the District of Columbia). Therefore, 

total annual burden hours for 

maintenance and infrastructure is 

estimated to be 13,515 hours (51 

respondents × 265 hours). The total 

annual maintenance and infrastructure 

labor cost per year is estimated to be 

$443,700 ($8,700 × 51). 

To ensure that the information 

contained in the NDR is accurate, States 

sometimes submit a ‘‘clean file’’ which 

is a confirmation of all drivers of that 

State who should be listed in the NDR 

file. NHTSA estimates that an average of 

28 clean files will be submitted 

annually by States. States use SFTP to 

submit this information, and NHTSA 

estimates it takes an IT specialist 8 

hours to prepare and run the data. 

NHTSA estimates the cost for IT 

personnel burden hours using the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics’ mean wage 

estimate for Software and Web 

Developers, Programmers, and Testers 

(Standard Occupational Classification 

#15–1250, May 2020) of $52.86.1 The 

Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 

for State and local government workers, 

wages represent 61.9% of total 

compensation.2 Therefore, the total 

hourly cost associated with the IT 

burden hours is estimated to be $85.40 

($52.86 ÷ 61.9%) per hour. The total 

annual burden hours to prepare and 

submit clean files is 224 hours (8 × 28). 

The total annual clean file labor cost per 

year is estimated to be $19,130 ($85.40 

× 224). 

Submission type Annual 

submissions 

Estimated 

burden per 

submission 

Average 

hourly labor 

cost 

Labor cost per 

submission 

Total burden 

hours 

Total labor 

costs 

Maintenance and Infrastructure ............... 51 265 N/A $8,700 13,515 $443,700 

Clean files ................................................ 28 8 85.40 683.20 224 19,130 

Total .................................................. 51 ........................ ........................ ........................ 13,739 462,830 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: 

There are no annual costs. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility 

and clarity of the information collection; 

and (d) ways minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT 

Order 1351.29A. 

Chou-Lin Chen, 

Associate Administrator for the National 

Center for Statistics and Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2022–14725 Filed 7–8–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2022–0043; Notice No. 

2022–06] 

Hazardous Materials: Request for 

Information on Electronic Hazard 

Communication Alternatives 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), Department of Transportation 

(DOT). 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: PHMSA seeks input on the 

potential use of electronic 

communication as an alternative to 

current, physical documentation 

requirements for hazard 

communication. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

September 9, 2022. Comments received 

after that date will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by the Docket Number 

PHMSA–2021–0043 by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management System; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

West Building, Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Routing Symbol M–30, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Hand Delivery: Docket Management 

System; Room W12–140 on the ground 

floor of the West Building, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 

20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and Docket 

Number (PHMSA–2022–0043) for this 

notice. To avoid duplication, please use 

only one of these four methods. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) and will 

include any personal information you 

provide. 

Docket: For access to the dockets to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or DOT’s Docket 

Operations Office (see ADDRESSES). 

Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 

U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments 

from the public. DOT posts these 

comments, without edit, including any 

personal information the commenter 

provides, to http://www.regulations.gov, 

as described in the system of records 

notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can 

be reviewed at http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy. 

Confidential Business Information 

(CBI): CBI is commercial or financial 

information that is both customarily and 

actually treated as private by its owner. 

Under the Freedom of Information Act 

(FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt 


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