The Metropolitan and Statewide and
Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning programs provides funding
and procedural requirements for multimodal transportation planning
in metropolitan areas and states that is cooperative, continuous,
and comprehensive, resulting in long-range plans and short-range
programs of transportation investment priorities. The planning
programs are jointly administered by FTA and the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), which provides additional funding. This
submission is associated with a request for a revision of a
currently approved information collection and the publication of a
Final Rule on May 27, 2016 Vol. 81 No. 103, that requires
metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) and State Departments of
Transportation (DOTs) to implement performance-based planning and
programming, and reference performance measures and targets within
the Metropolitan Transportation Plans, Metropolitan Transportation
Improvement Programs, Long Range Statewide Transportation Plans,
and Statewide Transportation Improvement Programs.
US Code: 49 USC Section 5303/MAP-21 Sec 20005
Name of Law: Metropolitan Transportation Planning
US Code: 49 USC Section 5304/MAP-21 Sec 20006 Name of Law:
Statewide and Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning
US Code: 49 USC Section 5305 Name of Law: Planning Programs
PL: Pub.L. 114 - 84 1202 Name of Law: Fixing America’s Surface
Transportation Act (FAST)
This justification includes
estimates of burden hours and costs to complete the major planning
products required by the Final Rule on Statewide and
Nonmetropolitan Transportation Planning and Metropolitan
Transportation Planning published on May 27, 2016. The increase in
burden from 3,780,045 to 4,199,279 is a difference of 419,234
burden hours. This increase in hours is the additional time and
effort it will take grantees to implement performance-based
planning and programming, and reference performance measures and
targets within the Metropolitan Transportation Plans, Metropolitan
Transportation Improvement Programs, Long Range Statewide
Transportation Plans, and Statewide Transportation Improvement
Programs.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.