[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 14, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15180-15181]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6200]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2012-0022]


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 published a Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 
public comment period on this information collection on January 5, 
2012. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register by 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Please submit comments by April 13, 2012.

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, 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;

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(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-2012-0022.

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 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 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 80 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: March 9, 2012.
Michael Howell,
Acting Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.
[FR Doc. 2012-6200 Filed 3-13-12; 8:45 am]
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