[Federal Register: June 20, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 118)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Transit Administration
[FTA Docket No. FTA-2006-25082]
Notice of Request for the Extension of Currently Approved
Information Collections
AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice of request for comments.
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SUMMARY: The Federal Transit Administration invites public comments
about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's
(OMB) approval to renew the following information collections:
(1) Bus Testing Program.
(2) Transit Research, Development, Demonstration and Deployment
Projects.
The collections involve our Bus Testing and Transit Research
Programs. The information to be collected for the Bus Testing Program
is necessary to ensure that buses have been tested at the Bus Testing
Center for maintainability, reliability, safety, performance,
structural integrity, fuel economy, emissions, and noise. The
information to be collected for Transit Research, Development,
Demonstration and Deployment Projects is necessary to determine
eligibility of applicants and ensure mass transportation service at a
minimum cost. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal
Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Comments must be submitted before August 21, 2006.
ADDRESSES: You may mail or hand deliver comments to the U.S. Department
of Transportation, Dockets Management Facility, Room PL-401, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590; telefax comments to (202)
493-2251; or submit electronically at http://dms.dot.gov. All comments
should include the docket number in this notice's heading. All comments
may be examined and copied at the above address from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. If you desire a
receipt, you must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope or
postcard or, if you submit your comments electronically, you may print
the acknowledgement page.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
--Mr. Marcel Belanger, FTA Office of Research, Demonstration and
Innovation, (202) 366-0725, for the Bus Testing Program.
--Mr. Bruce Robinson, FTA Office of Research, Demonstration and
Innovation, (202) 366-4209, for Transit Research, Development,
Demonstration and Deployment Projects.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Interested parties are invited to send
comments regarding any aspect of these information collections,
including: (1) The necessity and utility of the information collection
for the proper performance of the functions of the FTA; (2) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the collected information; and (4) ways to
minimize the collection burden without reducing the quality of the
collected information. Comments submitted in response to this notice
will be summarized and/or included in the request for OMB approval of
these information collections.
Title: Bus Testing Program.
OMB Control No.: 2132-0550.
Background: 49 U.S.C. 5323(c) provides that no Federal funds
appropriated or made available after September 30, 1989, may be
obligated or expended for the acquisition of a new bus model (including
any model using alternative fuels) unless the bus has been tested at
the Bus Testing Center (Center) in Altoona, Pennsylvania. 49 U.S.C.
5318(a) further specifies that each new bus model is to be tested for
maintainability, reliability, safety, performance (including braking
performance), structural integrity, fuel economy, emissions, and noise.
The operator of the Bus Testing Center, the Pennsylvania
Transportation Institute (PTI), has entered into a cooperative
agreement with FTA. PTI operates and maintains the Center, and
establishes and collects fees for the testing of the vehicles at the
facility. Upon completion of the testing of the vehicle at the Center,
a test report is provided to the manufacturer of the new bus model. The
bus manufacturer certifies to an FTA grantee that the bus the grantee
is purchasing has been tested at the Center. Also, grantees about to
purchase a bus use this report to assist them in making their
purchasing decisions. PTI maintains a reference file for all the test
reports which are made available to the public.
Respondents: Bus manufacturers.
each.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 404 hours.
Frequency: On occasion.
Title: 49 U.S.C. Section 5312(a) Transit Research, Development,
Demonstration and Deployment Projects
OMB Control No.: 2132-0546
Background: 49 U.S.C. 5312(a) authorizes the Secretary of
Transportation to make grants or contracts for research, development,
demonstration and deployment projects, and evaluation of technology of
national significance to public transportation, that the Secretary
determines will improve mass transportation service or help
transportation service meet the total urban transportation needs at a
minimum cost. In carrying out the provisions of this section, the
Secretary is also authorized to request and receive
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appropriate information from any source.
The information collected is submitted as part of the application
for grants and cooperative agreements and is used to determine
eligibility of applicants. Collection of this information also provides
documentation that the applicants and recipients are meeting program
objectives and are complying with FTA Circular 6100.1B and other
federal requirements.
Respondents: FTA grants recipients.
Estimated Annual Burden on Respondents: 56 hours for each of the
200 respondents.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 11,240 hours.
Frequency: Annual.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed
collection is necessary for FTA's performance; (2) the accuracy of the
estimated burden; (3) ways for FTA 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
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: June 15, 2006.
Ann Linnertz,
Acting Associate Administrator for Administration.
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