Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 108 / Tuesday, June 8, 2021 / Notices 30515 

1 2nd National Performance Management 

Measures Rule (PM2): Assessing Pavement 

Condition for National Highway Performance 

Program and Bridge Condition for National 

Highway Performance Program; Assessing 

Performance of National Highway System, etc. (RIN: 

2125–AF53 https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/ 

FR-2017-01-18/pdf/2017-00550.pdf. 

3rd National Performance Management Measures 

Rule (PM3): Assessing Performance of National 

Highway System, Freight Movement on Interstate 

System, and Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality 

Improvement Program (RIN 2125–AF54) https://

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2017-01-18/pdf/ 

2017-00681.pdf. 

The organization collects and 

analyzes safety data and maintains 

training and communications records 

for its SMS. Data and records are 

essential for an SMS. Any organization 

that volunteers for this process is 

required to maintain records of SMS 

outputs, training records, and 

communications materials used to 

promote safety. An organization may 

create a gap analysis to identify what 

already exists within that organization 

and what needs to be created to 

complete the SMS implementation plan. 

The organization’s implementation plan 

is submitted once to FAA for approval. 

As needed, other information may be 

requested or submitted as part of 

ongoing SMS evaluation. 

Respondents: The FAA estimates that 

a total of three companies will 

voluntarily implement an SMS. 

Frequency: The FAA assumes that the 

implementation plan is a one-time 

burden that takes place over three (3) 

years for organizations that choose to 

comply. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: 6,680 hours reporting and 

170 hours recordkeeping. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

20,040 hours reporting and 6,120 hours 

recordkeeping. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on June 3, 2021. 

Daniel Benjamin Supko, 

Executive Director, FAA, Office of Hazardous 

Materials Safety. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11971 Filed 6–7–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[Docket No. FHWA–2021–0008] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments for a 

New Information Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of request for the renewal 

of a previously approved information 

collection and request for comments. 

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 May 11, 2021. 

We are required to publish this notice 

in the Federal Register by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Please submit comments by July 

8, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

within 30 days identified by DOT 

Docket ID Number (FHWA–2021–0008) 

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: 

Susanna Hughes Reck, Office of 

Infrastructure, HISM–20, (202) 366– 

1548, Federal Highway Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are 

from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. ET, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Biennial Performance Reporting 

for the TPM Program. 

Background: The MAP–21 (Pub. L. 

112–141) and FAST Act (Pub. L. 114– 

94) transformed the Federal-aid 

highway program by establishing new 

requirements for transportation 

performance management (TPM) to 

ensure the most efficient investment of 

Federal transportation funds. Prior to 

MAP–21, there were no explicit 

requirements for State DOTs to 

demonstrate how their transportation 

program supported national 

performance outcomes. State DOTs were 

not required to measure condition or 

performance, establish targets, assess 

progress toward targets, or report on 

condition or performance in a nationally 

consistent manner that FHWA could use 

to assess the entire system. It has been 

difficult for FHWA to examine the 

effectiveness of the Federal-aid highway 

program as a means to address surface 

transportation performance at a national 

level without States reporting on the 

above factors. The new TPM 

requirements, as established by MAP–21 

and FAST Act, change this paradigm 

and require states to measure condition 

or performance, establish targets, assess 

progress towards targets and report on 

condition or performance. 

State DOTs now must submit biennial 

performance reports (23 U.S.C. 150 (e) 

and 23 CFR 490.107). The information 

being requested in the TPM Biennial 

Reports has been provided to the DOT 

in an electronic format through an 

online data form called the Performance 

Management Form (PMF). State DOTs 

have successfully submitted the 

required biennial reports in October 

2018 and 2020. Alternative formats will 

be made available where necessary. As 

part of the rulemaking 1 implementing 

the MAP–21 and FAST Act 

requirements, FHWA evaluated all of 

the Biennial Reporting requirements in 

the individual regulatory impact 

assessments (RIA) and determined the 

following: 

Respondents: 52 State DOTs, 

including Washington DC and Puerto 

Rico. 

Frequency: Biennially. 

Estimated Average Burden per 

Response: Approximately 2,128 hours 

annually for an individual State DOT to 

compile, organize, and submit the report 

to FHWA. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: Approximately 110,656 hours 

annually. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including: (1) 

Ways for the FHWA to enhance the 

quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 

collected information; and (2) 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: June 2, 2021. 

Michael Howell, 

Information Collection Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2021–11918 Filed 6–7–21; 8:45 am] 

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