Notice2026-04917
Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments for a New Information Collection
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Published
March 13, 2026
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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 91, Number 49 (Friday, March 13, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12483-12484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-04917]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[Docket No. FHWA-2026-0265]
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 12, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
0265 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: Christina Currier,
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#11727963786265787f703f7264636378746351757e653f767e67"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0b68637962787f62656a25687e7979626e794b6f647f256c647d">[email protected]</span></a>, or Stephanie James, <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#700304150018111e19155e1a111d150330141f045e171f06"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="295a5d4c59414847404c074348444c5a694d465d074e465f">[email protected]</span></a>,
(334)-530-0240, Office of Infrastructure, 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:
Title: Performance Measures for Highway Construction Training
Program (HCTP) Grant.
Background: The demand for highway construction, maintenance, and
operations workers is growing, while at the same time, emerging
technologies require these workers to have new skills. According to a
2022 national survey by the Associated General Contractors of America
(AGC), more than 70 percent of construction firms reported difficulty
finding qualified trade and craft workers and 90 percent reported
difficulty filling salaried positions. Government agencies, trade
organizations, private agencies, and local and Tribal communities
nationwide need new, collaborative approaches to meeting this
challenge.
The predecessor to the HCTP, the Transportation Education
Development Program, was originally established as a pilot program in
2005 by the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient, Transportation
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (P.L. 109-59) to provide grants to
institutions of higher education to enhance transportation education
and workforce development through ``partnership[s] with industry and
State departments of transportation (State DOT).'' Now codified at 23
U.S.C. 504(f), amendments in Infrastructure Investment Jobs Act (IIJA)
changed the program name to Transportation Education and Training
Development and Deployment Program, expanded the type of entities
eligible for grants and the activities that can be funded, and for the
first time made State DOTs eligible grant recipients. The program will
now be known as HCTP.
In 2016, FHWA collaborated with the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials, AGC, the American Road &
Transportation Builders Association, and the U.S. Department of Labor's
Employment and Training Administration to establish the Highway
Construction Workforce Partnership (HCWP) Pilot Program. The two-year
HCWP Pilot Program brought together working groups of highway,
education, and workforce system representatives in six cities and six
states to recruit, train, and place individuals into highway
occupations.
In 2021, HCWP was selected as a focus program for the FHWA's Every
Day Counts-6 (EDC-6) Program, a State-based model to identify and
rapidly deploy proven but under-used innovations. The program was
renamed the Strategic Workforce Development (SWD) Initiative and was
also a focus program in EDC-7. The SWD has been adopted by 43 States.
These programs developed valuable resources for workforce development
stakeholders, which can be found in the SWD Toolkit available at
<a href="https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativeprograms/centers/workforce_dev/hcwp/toolkit/">https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/innovativeprograms/centers/workforce_dev/hcwp/toolkit/</a>. The HCTP grants will continue to build on the lessons learned
through the HCWP and the SWD Initiative. This opportunity represents
$4,226,871 in funding available to applicants at no more than $300,000
for each award.
This collection request, included in the NOFO for the HCTP Grant
requirements, provides a resource to track the progress of the awarded
programs through the period of performance of up to two years. The
following performance measures are quarterly and are as follows: the
number of entrants, the number of completed programs, the number of job
placements, the median wages at time of hire and their progression at
180 days into the job placement, the number of trainees retained, and,
if an educational institution, the number of enrollees in a particular
curricula. There are two remaining performance measures to be submitted
annually. They are both related to educational institutions and the
number of credentials attained with the corresponding skill gains in
post-secondary educational opportunities.
Respondents: 50 State DOTs, local and state governments, District
of Columbia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States territories of
American Samoa, Guam, N. Marina Is., and the Virgin Islands (4
territories), and educational institutions may apply. 56 respondents in
total.
Frequency: Performance Measures for the HCTP Grant must be
submitted quarterly and annually, respectively.
Estimated Average Burden per Response: 20 minutes per form
requested.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 19 total 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.)
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Issued on: March 11, 2026.
Jazmyne Lewis,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2026-04917 Filed 3-12-26; 8:45 am]
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