Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP)

This is a revision of a currently approved information collection Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) associated with a Final Rulemaking. The Final Rulemaking proposes new requirements for PTASP as a result of Section 30012 of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), enacted as the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Pub. L. 117-58 (Nov. 15, 2021). The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was published on April 26, 2023. OIRA filed comment on the proposed rule on July 14, 2023. The respondents are public transportation systems that receive federal funds under FTA's Urbanized Area Formula Grants program. In order to received federal funding, they must develop and maintain an Agency Safety Plans (ASP) that include the processes and procedures to implement a Safety Management System (SMS). This ASP is the information that FTA collects. All of the respondents have an existing ASP and the proposed new requirements in the rulemaking merely need to be added to their existing plans. This supporting statement reflects a small increase in the respondent universe from 755 in the previous submittal to 758 as a result of three new transit agencies. More significantly, this updated supporting statement also reflects a change in the burden hours as a result of proposals and comments received during the NPRM stage from the respondent universe. Under the current collection, the estimated total annual burden hours is 252,855. Based on the burden requirements adopted from the comments and proposals during the NPRM phase, FTA estimates that burden hours would be increased by 299,990 hours, totaling 552,845 hours.

The latest form for Public Transportation Agency Safety Plan (PTASP) expires 2027-11-30 and can be found here.

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