[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Page 12934]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04563]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Maritime Administration

[Docket No. MARAD-2025-0005]


Request for Comments on the Reinstatement of a Previously 
Approved Collection: United States Marine Highway Program

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration (MARAD) invites public comments on 
our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) 
approval to renew an information collection in accordance with the 
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed collection OMB 2133-0541 
(United States Marine Highway Program) (the Program) will be used to 
evaluate and review applications being submitted for grant award 
consideration. The James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2023 made substantive changes to the Program, including 
eliminating the requirement for MARAD to designate projects before they 
are eligible to compete from grants. As a result, on August 28, 2023, 
MARAD discontinued this collection. The Maritime Administration intends 
to reinstate this collection to facilitate operation of the Program, 
which provides funding to develop, expand, or promote marine highway 
transportation or shipper use of marine highway transportation, this 
collection is being reinstated. We are required to publish this notice 
in the Federal Register to obtain comments from the public and affected 
agencies.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed 
information collections should be sent within 30 days of publication of 
this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. Find this information 
collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--Open for 
Public Comments'' or by using the search function.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Timothy Pickering, 202-366-0704, 
Office of Ports & Waterways Planning, Maritime Administration, 1200 New 
Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, DC 20590, Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: United States Marine Highway Program.
    OMB Control Number: 2133-0541.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement of a previously approved information 
collection.
    Abstract: The Department of Transportation will solicit grant 
applications for Marine Highway Grant funding should Congress 
appropriate funding. In the event of such appropriations, MARAD will 
publish a Notice of Funding Opportunity that will include instructions 
for applicants and Administration priorities for the Program.
    Respondents: States, political subdivisions of a State, or a local 
government, a United States metropolitan planning organization, a 
United States port authority, a Tribal government, or a United States 
private sector operator of marine highway projects.
    Affected Public: Vessel Operators.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 25.
    Estimated Number of Responses: 225.
    Annual Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,700.
    Frequency of Response: Annually.
    A 60-day Federal Register Notice soliciting comments on this 
information collection was published on December 6, 2024 (FR 97167, 
Vol. 89, No. 235).

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49.)
    By Order of the Executive Director in lieu of the Maritime 
Administrator.

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. 2025-04563 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
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