[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 2 (Wednesday, January 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 320-321]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33749]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2011-0134]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for 
Approval of a New Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of request for approval of a new information collection.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to 
request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new 
information collection that 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 5, 2012.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 
2011-0134 by any of the following methods:
    Web Site: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 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.
    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: Keith Williams, (202) 366-9212, 
Highway Safety Specialist, Program Planning Team, Office of Safety 
Programs, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, 
545 John Knox Road Suite 200, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room E73-405, 
Washington, DC 20590, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Compendium of State Performance Management Practices and 
Methodologies for Setting a National Safety Performance Target.
    Type of request: New information collection requirement.
    Background: This information collection effort is part of a larger 
project to document the methodologies currently used by the States to 
develop highway safety performance measures and targets. The research 
project includes a literature review of current guidance and practices, 
a technical report on performance management and target setting in 
comparable non-highway safety environments, a peer exchange to explore 
methodologies and establish promising practices and finally, 
alternative methodologies for setting a national highway safety 
performance target.
    This information collection will specifically support a compendium 
and evaluation of how baseline information is used in individual 
States, the District of Columbia, Metropolitan Planning Organizations 
(MPOs), local and tribal agencies to select, set and evaluate 
performance based highway safety measures and how they affect the 
overall State's highway safety programs. FHWA proposes to conduct a 
Web-based survey to evaluate the methodologies used by State 
Departments of Transportation, State Governor's Highway Safety Offices, 
select Metropolitan Planning Organizations and local departments of 
transportation to identify methodologies for selecting highway safety 
performance measures and methodologies for setting performance targets 
based on those measures. Sample size will be approximately 150 to 160 
persons, representing each of the State Departments of Transportation; 
each of the Governor's Highway Safety Offices, the District of 
Columbia, and select MPOs and local departments of transportation. 
Interview length will be approximately 30 minutes.
    The surveys will be conducted by emailing a URL link to the 
appropriate representative within each organization. A standardized 
questionnaire will be

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used to collect the information from the representatives. This 
information collection will not require complex statistical analysis 
and will not be published for general public consumption. The 
collection will be used to support further research in developing and 
evaluating a methodology to set and support National and State highway 
safety performance measures and targets. Respondents: State DOT's the 
District of Columbia, and select MPOs and local departments of 
transportation (160 total).
    Frequency: Annually.
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: It will take approximately 
30 minutes per participant.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Approximately 30 hours 
annually.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the U.S. DOT's performance, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the 
accuracy of the U.S. DOT's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
information collection; (3) ways 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 28, 2011.
Michael Howell,
Acting Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
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