Notice2022-05575
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection
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Published
March 17, 2022
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Transportation DepartmentFederal Highway Administration
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The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval for a new information collection, which is summarized below under Supplementary Information. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 52 (Thursday, March 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Page 15301]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05575]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2022-0003]
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments
for a New Information Collection
AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to
request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval for a new
information collection, which is summarized below under Supplementary
Information. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal
Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by May 16, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID FHWA
2022-0003 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: Go to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. 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 20590-0001.
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: Kenneth Petty, Office of Planning
(HEPP-1), 202-366-6654, and Spencer Stevens, Office of Planning (HEPP-
20), 202-366-6221, Federal Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Office
hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Survey of Metropolitan Planning Organizations and State
Departments of Transportation Regarding Practices for Incorporating
Equity and Meaningful Public Involvement in Transportation Planning and
Project Decision-Making.
Background: The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT, or ``the
Department'') is committed to pursuing a comprehensive approach to
advancing equity for all. In response to Executive Order 13985:
Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities through
the Federal Government (86 FR 7009), DOT is working to expand access
and opportunity to all communities while focusing on underserved,
overburdened, and disadvantaged communities.
One focus area for DOT relates to the Department's programmatic
enforcement of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act (DOT Order 1000.12C),
including emphasizing agency review of the potential discriminatory
impacts of plans, investment programs, and projects to prevent
disparate impacts on protected classes, and empower communities,
including limited English proficient communities, in transportation
decision-making (49 CFR 21.5, 21.7, 21.9 and 28 CFR 406).
FHWA plans to conduct a survey of all State departments of
transportation (State DOTs) and metropolitan planning organizations
(MPOs) to better understand how these agencies consider equity and
comply with Title VI in transportation planning and programming
activities. This will include questions about how each State DOT or MPO
is using quantitative data or tools to analyze equity factors for
transportation plans and investment programs, as well as how each
agency provides a meaningful and representative role to members of all
communities, including underserved and limited English proficient
communities, in shaping these plans and programs (28 CFR 407).
Information from the survey will be used to inform future research
products and capacity-building activities for State DOTs and MPOs, to
help them improve practices related to equity and meaningful public
involvement in transportation planning and programming. Survey
responses may also inform future revisions to existing guidance, or the
development of new guidance, to DOT funding recipients on meeting the
requirements of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, the National
Environmental Policy Act, transportation planning and programming, or
other legal or regulatory requirements that relate to transportation
equity and public involvement.
FHWA plans to conduct the survey on a voluntary-response basis,
utilizing an electronic survey platform. This is planned as a one-time
information collection, and FHWA estimates that the survey will take
approximately one hour to complete. The survey will consist of both
multiple-choice and short-answer question formats.
Respondents: 52 State DOTs and approximately 405 MPOs.
Frequency: Once.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: Approximately 60 minutes per
respondent.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Approximately 457 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; 23 U.S.C. 134 and 135; and 23 CFR chapter 1,
subchapter E, part 450.)
Issued On: March 11, 2022.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-05575 Filed 3-16-22; 8:45 am]
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