[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 5 (Tuesday, January 9, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 1049-1050]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-80]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA 2006-26654]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Request for Comments 
for New Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comment regarding our intention to 
request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve 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 March 12, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT DMS Docket Number 
FHWA-2006-26654 to the Docket Clerk, by any of the following methods:
     Web Site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for 
submitting comments on the DOT electronic docket site.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery: Room PL-401 on the plaza level of the 
Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received go to http://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room 401 
on the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, 
except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marshall Wainright, 202-366-4842, 
Office of Real Estate Services, Federal Highway Administration, 
Department of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20590. Office hours are from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: Fixed Residential Moving Cost 
Schedule.
    Background: Relocation assistance payments to owners and tenants 
who move personal property for a Federal or federally-assisted program 
or project is governed by the Uniform Relocation Assistance and Real 
Property Acquisition Policies Act of 1970, as amended (Uniform Act). 49 
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Part 24, is the implementing 
regulation for the Uniform Act. 49 CFR 24.301 addresses payments for 
actual and reasonable moving and related expenses. The fixed 
residential moving cost schedule is an administrative alternative to 
reimbursement of actual moving costs. This option provides flexibility 
for the agency and affected property owners and tenants. The FHWA 
requests the State Departments of Transportation (State DOTs) to 
analyze moving cost data periodically to assure that the fixed 
residential moving cost schedules accurately reflect reasonable moving 
and related expenses. The regulation allows State DOTs flexibility in 
determining how to collect the cost data in order to reduce the burden 
of government regulation. Updated State fixed residential moving costs 
are submitted to the FHWA electronically.
    Respondents: State Departments of Transportation (52, including the 
District of Columbia and Puerto Rico).
    Frequency: Once every 3 years.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: 24 hours per respondent.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 24 hours for each of the 52 
State Departments of Transportation. The total is 1,248 burden hours, 
once every 3 years, or 416 hours annually.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary; (2) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (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 without reducing the quality of the collected

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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: January 3, 2007.
James R. Kabel,
Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
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