Notice2025-21969
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection
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Published
December 5, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentFederal Highway Administration
Abstract
The FHWA has forwarded the information collection request described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve a new information collection. 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 90, Number 232 (Friday, December 5, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56253-56254]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-21969]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2025-0433]
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 has forwarded the information collection request
described in this notice to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)
to approve a new information collection. We are required to publish
this notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995.
DATES: Please submit comments by January 5, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
0433 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.
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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: Bronwen Keiner,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#e587978a8b92808bcb8e808c8b8097a5818a91cb828a93"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="1f7d6d7071687a7131747a76717a6d5f7b706b31787069">[email protected]</span></a>, or Edward Starks, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c5a0a1b2a4b7a1ebb6b1a4b7aeb685a1aab1eba2aab3"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="513435263023357f222530233a2211353e257f363e27">[email protected]</span></a>, (202)
366-4000, Office of Planning, Environment, and Realty, Federal Highway
Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue
SE, Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We published a Federal Register Notice with
a 60-day public comment period on this information collection on
September 19, 2025, at [90 FR 45306]. The notice received no comments.
Title: National Scenic Byway Program (NSBP).
Background: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) administers
the NSBP. It was established by the Intermodal Surface Transportation
Efficiency Act of 1991 in Section 162 of Title 23, United States Code
(U.S.C.), and reauthorized and expanded significantly in 1998 under the
Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century and again under the
Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A
Legacy for Users in 2005. The NSBP is a grass-roots collaborative
effort established to help recognize, preserve, and enhance selected
roads throughout the United States. Before 2019, Congress last
authorized discretionary NSBP funds in 2012 under the Surface
Transportation Extension Act of 2012. Between 1992 and 2012, FHWA
awarded over $505 million in NSBP grants. In 2022, FHWA awarded
approximately $21.8 million in grants to 33 projects.
Respondents: The Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO), announcing
up to $26.95 million of Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 and 2024 funding for the
National Scenic Byways Program (NSBP) competitive grants, was available
for State DOTs and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes to respond on
<a href="http://grants.gov">grants.gov</a> from September 17, 2024 through December 16, 2024. FHWA will
be publishing an Amendment No. 1 to this NOFO. FHWA is not soliciting
new applications for FY 2023 and 2024 NSBP NOFO. Applicants who
submitted an application in accordance with the FY 2023 and 2024 NSBP
NOFO requirements prior to December 16, 2024, will be notified of this
Amendment No. 1 and will be provided 21 calendar days, from the date of
Amendment No. 1 to indicate they are retaining their existing
application, submit an amended application, or request withdrawal of
their application from consideration for NSBP grant funding. FHWA is
expecting the 93 applicants who submitted their applications prior to
the December 16, 2024 date to respond. If no response is received by
the deadline date, FHWA will retain and consider the previously
submitted application.
Frequency: NOFOs and grant solicitations will be published annually
by FHWA but are subject to the availability of funds in appropriations,
or any legislation signed into law authorizing funds.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: The average burden per
response varies depending on the project stage. The application stage
takes approximately 3 hours per respondent. The email attachment takes
approximately 30 minutes to complete per respondent.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: It is expected that the
respondents will complete 93 applications for an estimated total of 326
annual burden 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; and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued on: December 2, 2025.
Jazmyne Lewis,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-21969 Filed 12-4-25; 8:45 am]
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