# Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for Approval of a New Information Collection
**AGENCY:**
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.
**ACTION:**
Notice of Request for the Renewal of a Previously Approved Collection.
**SUMMARY:**
The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new information collection that is summarized below under *SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION* . We are required to publish this notice in the *Federal Register* by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.
**DATES:**
Please submit comments by November 7, 2011.
**ADDRESSES:**
You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 2011-0094 by any of the following methods:
*Web Site:* For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: *http://www.regulations.gov.* Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
*Fax:* 1-202-493-2251.
*Mail:* Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
*Hand Delivery or Courier:* U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Silvio Cutuli, 202-366-2025, Planning, Environment, and Realty, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
*Title:* Relocation Assistance and Real Property Acquisition Statistics Collection on Federal and Federally Assisted Programs.
*Type of request:* Renewal without change, of a previously approved collection.
*Background:* The statistics collected concerns acquisition of real property and relocation of displaced persons for Federal and federally-assisted programs. It tabulates the real property acquisition activity and residential and non-residential relocation activity on a state-by-state annual basis. The statistics collected consists of a count of: The number of parcels acquired; the number of parcels acquired through condemnation; the number of parcels acquired through administrative settlement; the total amounts paid, deposited in court or otherwise made available to a property owner; the number of households permanently displaced; the total amount paid for residential moving expenses; the total amount paid for replacement housing payments; the number of housing of last resort cases completed; the number of tenant households permanently displaced; the number of businesses, non-profit organizations and farms permanently displaced; the total amount paid for nonresidential moving expenses; the total amount paid for nonresidential reestablishment expenses; and the total number of relocation appeals.
*Respondents:* State highway agencies and local government highway agencies receiving financial assistance for expenditures of Federal Funds on acquisition and relocation payments and required services to displaced persons.
*Frequency:* Annually.
*Estimated Number of Respondents:* 1,460 for file maintenance and 52 state highway agencies for statistical reports.
*Estimated Total Burden on Respondents:* 25,000 hours.
*Estimated Average Burden per Response:* 17 hours.
*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: August 29, 2011.
Michael Howell,
Acting Chief, Management Programs and Analysis Division.