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automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Matthew M. Crouch, 

Associate Administrator for Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30335 Filed 12–24–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[FTA Docket No. 2014–0027] 

Notice of Request for the Extension of 

a Currently Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the intention of the 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to 

request the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) to approve the revision of 

the currently approved information 

collection: 49 U.S.C. 5335(a) and (b) 

National Transit Database (NTD). 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

before February 27, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: To ensure that your 

comments are not entered more than 

once into the docket, submit comments 

identified by the docket number by only 

one of the following methods: 

1. Web site: www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments on the U.S. Government 

electronic docket site. (Note: The U.S. 

Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) 

electronic docket is no longer accepting 

electronic comments.) All electronic 

submissions must be made to the U.S. 

Government electronic docket site at 

www.regulations.gov. Commenters 

should follow the directions below for 

mailed and hand-delivered comments. 

2. Fax: 202–493–2251. 

3. Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M–30, 

West Building, Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

4. Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M–30, 

West Building, Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001 

between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except federal 

holidays. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name and docket number for this 

notice at the beginning of your 

comments. Submit two copies of your 

comments if you submit them by mail. 

For confirmation that FTA has received 

your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Note that 

all comments received, including any 

personal information, will be posted 

and will be available to Internet users, 

without change, to www.regulations.gov. 

You may review DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 

Register published April 11, 2000, (65 

FR 19477), or you may visit 

www.regulations.gov. Docket: For access 

to the docket to read background 

documents and comments received, go 

to www.regulations.gov at any time. 

Background documents and comments 

received may also be viewed at the U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Docket 

Operations, M–30, West Building, 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001 between 

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except federal holidays. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

National Transit Database—Mr. Keith 

Gates, Office of Budget and Policy (202) 

366–1794, or email: Keith.Gates@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested 

parties are invited to send comments 

regarding any aspect of this information 

collection, including: (1) The necessity 

and utility of the information collection 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the FTA; (2) the accuracy 

of the estimated burden; (3) ways to 

enhance the quality, utility, and clarity 

of the collected information; and (4) 

ways to minimize the collection burden 

without reducing the quality of the 

collected information. Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval of this 

information collection. 

FTA currently has two (2) pending 

Federal Register notices (docket 

numbers FTA–2014–0006 and FTA– 

2014–0009) covering proposed changes 

to NTD reporting, including updates to 

the Safety and Security Reporting 

Module and the addition of a new Asset 

Inventory Module. The comment period 

on these notices ended in October 2014. 

FTA is currently in the process of 

reviewing and responding to the 

comments received from these notices. 

The estimated burden below is based on 

FTA’s goal of implementing the 

proposed changes with minimal impact 

to current reporting burdens. A revised 

impact analysis and Federal Register 

Notice will be filed, if necessary, based 

on FTA’s final proposal in response to 

the comments. 

Title: 49 U.S.C. 5335(a) and (b) 

National Transit Database. 

OMB Control No.: 2132–0008. 

Background: 49 U.S.C. 5335(a) and (b) 

requires the Secretary of Transportation 

to maintain a reporting system, using a 

uniform system of accounts, to collect 

financial and operating information 

from the nation’s public transportation 

systems. Congress created the NTD to be 

the repository of transit data for the 

nation to support public transportation 

service planning. FTA has established 

the NTD to meet these requirements, 

and has collected data for over 35 years. 

FTA continues to seek ways to reduce 

the burden of NTD reporting, 

introducing a new Sampling Manual in 

2010 to reduce the burden of passenger 

mile sampling and introducing its new 

Small Systems Waiver in 2011 to reduce 

the reporting burden on small transit 

systems. An improved on-line reporting 

system is currently being deployed. The 

NTD is comprised of four modules, 

Rural, Urban Annual, Monthly, and 

Safety Event Reporting. 

Estimated Annual Burden: Currently 

FTA receives reports from 54 State and 

Territorial DOTs. Combined, these 

States and Territories report on behalf of 

approximately 1,300 sub-recipients from 

FTA’s Rural (Section 5311) Formula 

Program. For each sub-recipient, the 

State provides identifying information, 

sources of operating funds, sources of 

capital funds, vehicle revenue miles, 

vehicle revenue hours, and unlinked 

passenger trips. Additionally, a revenue 

vehicle inventory is reported, as well as 

total fatalities, injuries, and safety 

incidents for the year. FTA estimates 

that it takes approximately 20 hours to 

report on behalf of each sub-recipient, 

including the time needed for the subrecipient to gather the information and 

report it to its State DOT, the time for 

the State DOT to assemble the data and 

submit it to FTA, and the time to 

respond to validation questions from 

FTA about the data. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

26,000 hours. 

Frequency: Annual reports. 

NTD Annual Module—Small Systems 

Waiver: Each year about 300 transit 

systems with 30 or fewer vehicles claim 

a Small Systems Waiver and file a 

reduced report. There are an additional 

122 Tribal Transit reporters that 

complete an annual report very similar 

to the small system reduced report. 

Estimated Annual Burden: FTA 

provides reduced reporting 

requirements to urbanized area transit 

systems with 30 or fewer vehicles. 

These systems are exempt from 

sampling for passenger miles and report 

only summary financial and operating 

statistics compared to full reporters in 

urbanized areas, similar to what is 


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required of the rural sub-recipients. 

Additionally, they also report contact 

information, funding allocation 

information, a revenue vehicle 

inventory, the number of stations and 

maintenance facilities, and total 

injuries, fatalities, and safety incidents. 

The reports are also required to be 

reviewed by an auditor and certified by 

the CEO. Systems with this waiver are 

also exempt from the Monthly and 

Safety & Security Modules. FTA 

estimates that completing a report for a 

Small Systems Waiver requires 

approximately 27 hours, including time 

to assemble the information and 

respond to validation questions from 

FTA about the report. 

Estimated Total Annual Urban 

Burden: 11,400 hours. 

Frequency: Annually. 

NTD Annual Module—Full Reports: 

FTA expects about 550 transit systems 

to file complete reports. 

Estimated Annual Burden: The Full 

Report to the Annual Module is 

comprehensive. Basic contact 

information, as well as information on 

sub-recipients and purchased 

transportation contracts must be 

provided. Sources of funds for operating 

expenses and capital expenses must be 

provided, as well as detailed operating 

and capital expenses for each mode by 

function and object class. Key service 

data collected includes vehicle revenue 

miles, vehicle revenue hours, unlinked 

passenger trips, and passenger miles 

traveled; these must be provided by 

average, weekday, average Saturday, 

average Sunday, and as an annual total. 

Most systems that do not inherently 

collect passenger mile information (such 

as a ferryboat or commuter rail) must 

conduct random sampling for passenger 

mile information. Large systems with 

more than 100 vehicles are required to 

sample for passenger miles every year, 

whereas smaller systems are only 

required to sample every third year. A 

comprehensive revenue vehicle 

inventory is collected, as well as 

information on fixed guide-way mileage, 

passenger stations, maintenance 

facilities, fuel consumption, employee 

hours, and maintenance breakdowns. 

Reports are also required to be reviewed 

by an auditor and certified by the 

system CEO. 

Approximately 100 large systems are 

required to sample for passenger miles 

each year and approximately 450 midsize systems sample every three years. 

FTA estimates that it takes 

approximately 340 hours per year to 

sample for passenger miles, which is 

amortized over three years for mid-sized 

systems. FTA estimates that completing 

the remaining financial, operating, 

resource, and capital asset information 

requires approximately 250 hours per 

year per transit system, including 

gathering the information, completing 

the forms, and responding to validation 

questions. 

Estimated Total Burden: 222,500 

hours. 

Frequency: Annually. 

NTD Monthly Module: FTA expects 

about 550 transit systems to report to 

the Monthly Module. 

Estimated Annual Burden: Each 

month, vehicle revenue miles, vehicle 

revenue hours, unlinked passenger 

trips, and vehicles operated in 

maximum service are submitted to the 

Monthly Module. FTA estimates that it 

takes approximately 4 hours each month 

for each system to report the data, 

including collecting and assembling the 

data for each mode, filling out the form, 

and responding to any validation 

questions in regards to the data. 

Estimated Total Annual Urban 

Burden: 26,400 hours. 

Frequency: Monthly. 

NTD Safety Event Reporting Module: 

FTA expects about 550 transit systems 

to report to the Safety & Security 

Module. 

Estimated Annual Burden: Each 

system provides an annual report on the 

total number of system security 

personnel, and an annual CEO 

certification of the safety data. Each 

month, systems provide a summary 

report of all minor fires and all 

incidents resulting in single-person 

injuries due to slips, falls, or electrical 

shocks. Additionally, systems must 

provide a detailed report within 30 days 

of any incident involving one or more 

fatalities, one or more injuries, or total 

property damage in excess of $25,000. 

FTA currently receives about 6,000 

major incident reports per year, and 

estimates that it takes on average about 

2 hours to collect data for each incident, 

enter it into the NTD, and respond to 

any validation question. Additionally, 

FTA estimates that each of the 550 full 

reporters spend on average one hour 

each month completing the minor 

incident summary reports. 

Estimated Total Annual Urban 

Burden: 18,600 hours. 

Frequency: Monthly. 

Total Annual NTD Burden: 304,900 

hours. 

Matthew M. Crouch, 

Associate Administrator for Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30334 Filed 12–24–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[FTA Docket No. 2014–0028] 

Notice of Request for the Extension of 

a Currently Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the intention of the 

Federal Transit Administration (FTA) to 

request the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) to approve the revision of 

the currently approved information 

collection: 49 U.S.C. 5320 Paul S. 

Sarbanes Transit in the Parks Program. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted 

before February 27, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: To ensure that your 

comments are not entered more than 

once into the docket, submit comments 

identified by the docket number by only 

one of the following methods: 

1. Web site: www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments on the U.S. Government 

electronic docket site. (Note: The U.S. 

Department of Transportation’s (DOT’s) 

electronic docket is no longer accepting 

electronic comments.) All electronic 

submissions must be made to the U.S. 

Government electronic docket site at 

www.regulations.gov. Commenters 

should follow the directions below for 

mailed and hand-delivered comments. 

2. Fax: 202–493–2251. 

3. Mail: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M–30, 

West Building, Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

4. Hand Delivery: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Docket Operations, M–30, 

West Building, Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC 20590–0001 

between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except federal 

holidays. 

Instructions: You must include the 

agency name and docket number for this 

notice at the beginning of your 

comments. Submit two copies of your 

comments if you submit them by mail. 

For confirmation that FTA has received 

your comments, include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Note that 

all comments received, including any 

personal information, will be posted 

and will be available to Internet users, 

without change, to www.regulations.gov. 

You may review DOT’s complete 


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