[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 92 (Monday, May 14, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27168-27169]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-9157]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2007-28156]


Notice of Request for Extension of Currently Approved 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 renew an information collection. We published a Federal Register 
Notice with a 60-day public comment period on this information 
collection on February 26, 2007. We are required to publish this notice 
in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Please submit comments by June 13, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, within 30 days, to the Office of 
Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 
725 17th Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, or e-mail at [email protected], Attention DOT Desk Officer. 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 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, including 
the use of electronic technology, without reducing the quality of the 
collected information. All comments should include the Docket number 
FHWA-2007-28156.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chung Eng, 202-366-8043, Office of 
Transportation Operations, Federal Highway Administration, Department 
of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. 
Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Work Zone Safety and Mobility.
    OMB Control #: 2125-0600 (expiration date July 31, 2007).
    Background: As amended on September 9, 2004, 23 CFR part 630, 
subpart J ``Work Zone Safety and Mobility'' requires State and local 
transportation agencies that receive Federal-aid highway funding to use 
available work zone information and data to assess and manage the work 
zone impacts of highway projects. While this Rule does not require the 
reporting or submission of work zone data, it does:
     Require agencies to use work zone data at both the project 
and process levels to manage and improve work zone safety and mobility;
     At the project level, require agencies to use field 
observations, available work zone crash data, and operational 
information to manage the work zone impacts of individual projects;
     At the process level, require agencies to analyze work 
zone crash and operational data from multiple projects to improve 
agency processes and procedures, and continually pursue the improvement 
of overall work zone safety and mobility; and
     Recommend that agencies maintain elements of the data and 
information resources that are necessary to support the use of work 
zone data for the activities above.
    Most of the data needed to conduct work zone performance monitoring 
during project implementation as well as post-implementation 
assessments should be readily available from pre-existing sources. 
However, data collection or data storage and retrieval systems may need 
to be altered to take full advantage of available information 
resources.

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    Respondents: The State Departments of Transportation (or 
equivalent) in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
    Frequency: Continuous.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: The estimated total annual 
burden for all respondents is 83,200 hours. This involves responses 
from 52 State Departments of Transportation or equivalent with an 
estimated average time of 1,600 hours per respondent over the course of 
a year. This estimate only includes the burden on the respondents to 
provide information that is not usually and customarily collected.

    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.

    Issued on: May 8, 2007.
James R. Kabel,
Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
[FR Doc. E7-9157 Filed 5-11-07; 8:45 am]
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