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—GEOGRAPHIC REGION: ‘‘Hawaii’’
The complete application is given in
DOT docket MARAD–2016–0129 at
http://www.regulations.gov. Interested
parties may comment on the effect this
action may have on U.S. vessel builders
or businesses in the U.S. that use U.S.flag vessels. If MARAD determines, in
accordance with 46 U.S.C. 12121 and
MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part
388, that the issuance of the waiver will
have an unduly adverse effect on a U.S.vessel builder or a business that uses
U.S.-flag vessels in that business, a
waiver will not be granted. Comments
should refer to the docket number of
this notice and the vessel name in order
for MARAD to properly consider the
comments. Comments should also state
the commenter’s interest in the waiver
application, and address the waiver
criteria given in § 388.4 of MARAD’s
regulations at 46 CFR part 388.
Privacy Act
In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c),
DOT/MARAD solicits comments from
the public to better inform its
rulemaking process. DOT/MARAD posts
these comments, without edit, to
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice, DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS, accessible through
www.dot.gov/privacy. In order to
facilitate comment tracking and
response, we encourage commenters to
provide their name, or the name of their
organization; however, submission of
names is completely optional. Whether
or not commenters identify themselves,
all timely comments will be fully
considered. If you wish to provide
comments containing proprietary or
confidential information, please contact
the agency for alternate submission
instructions.
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.93(a), 46 U.S.C. 55103,
46 U.S.C. 12121)
Date: December 13, 2016.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration (MARAD)
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[Docket No. DOT–MARAD 2016–0127]

Request for Comments of a Previously
Approved Information Collection
Notice and request for
comments.

ACTION:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this

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notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below is being forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comments. A Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting comments on the
following information collection was
published on August 30, 2016 (81 FR
59732).
Comments must be submitted on
or before January 19, 2017.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Rodney McFadden, Office of Workforce
Development, Maritime Administration,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., W23–457,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–366–2647; or email:
[email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Information to Determine
Seamen’s Reemployment Rights—
National Emergency.
OMB Control Number: 2133–0526.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
Previously Approved Information
Collection.
Abstract: This collection is needed in
order to implement Title 46, United
States Code § 52101 which provides the
procedures by which MARAD is able to
certify that certain merchant seamen are
entitled to reemployment rights after
completion of their service on U.S.
vessels during times of national
emergency.
Affected Public: U.S. merchant
seamen who have completed designated
national service during a time of
maritime mobilization need and are
seeking re-employment with a prior
employer.
Average Expected Annual Number of
Activities: 10.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
10.
Estimated Number of Responses: 10.
Annual Estimated Total Annual
Burden Hours: 10.
Frequency of Response: Annually.
Send comments regarding the burden
estimate, including suggestions for
reducing the burden, to the Office of
Management and Budget, Attention:
Desk Officer for the Office of the
Secretary of Transportation, 725 17th
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503.
Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Department’s estimate of the burden
of the proposed information collection;
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
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burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.93.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: December 13, 2016.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA–2016–
0085]

Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping
Requirements
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S.
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Before a Federal agency can
collect certain information from the
public, it must receive approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Under procedures established
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, before seeking OMB approval,
Federal agencies must solicit public
comment on proposed collections of
information, including extensions and
reinstatement of previously approved
collections.This document describes a
collection of information for which
NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be submitted to
OMB on or before January 19, 2017.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, OMB, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo
Yon, Trends Analysis Division (NEF–
170), Room W45–215, NHTSA, 1200
New Jersey Ave., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 366–7028.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for
approval, it must first publish a
document in the Federal Register
providing a 60-day comment period and
otherwise consult with members of the
public and affected agencies concerning
each proposed collection of information.
The OMB has promulgated regulations
describing what must be included in
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such a document. Under OMB’s
regulation, see 5 CFR 1320.8(d), an
agency must ask for public comment on
the following:
(i) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(ii) the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
(iii) how to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(iv) how to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including the use
of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g. permitting
electronic submission of responses.
In compliance with these
requirements, NHTSA asks for public
comments on the following collection of
information:
Title: Reporting of Information and
Documents about Potential Defects.

Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0616.
Affected Public: Businesses or
individuals.
Abstract: This notice requests
comment on NHTSA’s proposed
extension to approved collection of
information OMB No. 2127–0616. The
Transportation Recall Enhancement,
Accountability, and Documentation
(TREAD) Act (Pub. L. 106–414) was
enacted on November 1, 2000. These
TREAD requirements of the Act are
found in 49 U.S.C. 30166 and many of
these requirements are implemented
through, and addressed with more
specificity in, 49 CFR part 579
Reporting of Information and
Communications about Potential
Defects.
These Early Warning Reporting (EWR)
requirements specify that manufacturers
of motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment submit information,
periodically or upon NHTSA’s request,
that includes claims for deaths and
serious injuries, property damage data,
communications from customers and
others, information on incidents
resulting in fatalities or serious injuries
from possible defects in vehicles or

equipment in the United States or in
identical or substantially similar
vehicles or equipment in a foreign
country, and other information that
assist NHTSA in identifying potential
safety-related defects. The intent of this
information collection is to provide
early warning of such potential safetyrelated defects.
Estimated Burden Hours: This
approved information collection was
last renewed in August 2013, when
additional component type codes were
added to manufacturer EWR
submissions. See 78 FR 51412. Due to
one-time investments and other
associated costs, the collection was
approved for 85,193 burden hours and
$10.3 million dollars in the first year.
We estimated subsequent years would
require 45,897 burden hours and $5.75
million dollars. Today we update these
estimates by removing the first-year
costs associated with the 2013
rulemaking, as well as revising
estimates to better align with current
EWR volume.
First, the below estimates are adjusted
to better reflect current EWR submission
volume. Table 1 provides an average
annual submission count for each claim
category submitted per the requirements
of 49 CFR 579:

TABLE 1—ANNUAL AVERAGE OF SUBMISSIONS BY MANUFACTURERS
[2013–2015]
Category of
claims

Light vehicles

Heavy, med
vehicles

Trailers

Motorcycles

Emergency
vehicles

Buses

Child restraints

Tires

Equipment
mfr.

Totals

Injury Fatality .....

9,082

97

13

135

3

12

74

378

8

9,804

Property Damage * ...............

8,554

572

21

16

2

55

2,261

N/A

N/A

11,481

461

N/A

4,259

N/A

79,297

Warranty Claims

Aggregate Data

Consumer Complaints ............

Aggregate Data

Mfr. Field Reports ...............

66,064

7,221

13

1,276

Dealer Field Reports ...............

3
Aggregate Data

Foreign Death
Claims ............

59

1

1

2

0

0

2

35

0

101

Totals .........

83,759

7,891

48

1,429

8

528

2,337

4,672

8

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* Property damage claims are aggregate data but are counted differently because they require more time to manually review.

The above updated submission totals
represent a 17% increase from the
currently approved information
collection. Submission totals for each
category have risen with an average of
9,804 injury and fatality claims
(previously 6,041 claims), 11,481
property damage claims (previously
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field reports (previously 68,574 field
reports), 101 foreign death claims
(previously 41 claims), totaling 100,683
submissions on average (previously
estimated at 86,058 submissions).
The agency estimates that an average
of 5 minutes is required for a
manufacturer to process each report,
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claims. We estimate foreign death
claims require an average of 15 minutes
to process. Multiplying this average
number of minutes by the number of
submissions NHTSA receives in each
reporting category yields the burden
hour estimates found below in Table 2:

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TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS

Category of
claims

Light vehicles

Heavy, med
vehicles

Trailers

Motorcycles

Emergency
vehicles

Buses

Child restraints

Tires

Equipment
mfr.

Totals

Injury Fatality .....

757

8

1

11

0

1

6

32

1

817

Property Damage * ...............

713

48

2

1

0

5

188

N/A

N/A

957

38

N/A

355

N/A

6,608

Warranty Claims

Aggregate Data

Consumer Complaints ............

Aggregate Data

Mfr. Field Reports ...............

5,505

602

1

106

Dealer Field Reports ...............

0
Aggregate Data

Foreign Death
Claims ............

15

0

0

1

0

0

1

9

0

25

Totals .........

6,990

658

4

119

1

44

195

395

1

8,407

* Property damage claims are aggregate data but are counted differently because they require more time to manually review.

Our previous estimates totaled 7,178
burden hours associated with these
Early Warning submissions. We now
update that total to 8,407 burden hours,
a 17% increase, associated with the
above noted claim categories.
The burden hours associated with
aggregate data submissions for
consumer complaints, warranty claims,

and dealer field reports are included in
reporting and computer maintenance
hours. The burden hours for computer
maintenance are calculated by
multiplying the hours of computer use
(for a given category) by the number of
manufacturers reporting in a category.
Similarly, reporting burden hours are

calculated by multiplying hours used to
report for a given category by the
number of manufacturers for the
category. Using these methods and the
average number of manufacturers who
report annually, we estimate the burden
hours for reporting cost and computer
maintenance below in Table 3:

TABLE 3—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS FOR REPORTING AND COMPUTER MAINTENANCE
Average
number of
manufacturers

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Vehicle/equipment category

Quarterly
hours to
report per
manufacturer

Annual burden
hours for
reporting

Hours for
computer
maintenance
per
manufacturer

Annual
burden hours
for computer
maintenance

Light Vehicles .......................................................................
Medium-Heavy Vehicles ......................................................
Trailers .................................................................................
Motorcycles ..........................................................................
Emergency Vehicles ............................................................
Buses ...................................................................................
Tires .....................................................................................
Child Restraints ....................................................................
Vehicle Equipment ...............................................................

39
39
80
15
7
38
34
34
6

8
5
1
2
5
5
5
1
1

1,248
780
320
120
140
760
680
136
24

347
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
........................

13,533
3,374
6,920
1,298
606
3,287
2,941
2,941
........................

Totals ............................................................................

........................

........................

4,208

........................

34,899

Thus, the total burden hours for EWR
death and injury data, aggregate data
and non-dealer field reports is 8,407
(Table 2) + 4,208 (Table 3) + 34,899
(Table 3) = 47,514 burden hours.
In order to provide the information
required for foreign safety campaigns,
manufacturers must (1) determine
whether vehicles or equipment that are
covered by a foreign safety recall or
other safety campaign are identical or
substantially similar to vehicles or
equipment sold in the United States, (2)
prepare and submit reports of these
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in a language other than English,
translate the determination or notice
into English before transmitting it to the
agency. NHTSA estimates that preparing
and submitting each foreign defect
report (foreign recall campaign) requires
1 hour of clerical staff and that
translation of determinations into
English requires 2 hours of technical
staff (note: This assumes that all foreign
campaign reports require translation,
which is unlikely). Between 2013 and
2015, NHTSA received a yearly average
of 133 foreign recall reports which
results in 133 hours for preparation and
submission of the reports (133 defect

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reports × 1 hour clerical = 133 hours)
and 266 hours for technical time (133
foreign recall reports × 2 hours technical
= 266 hours.
With respect to the burden of
determining identical or substantially
similar vehicles or equipment to those
sold in the United States, manufacturers
of motor vehicles are required to submit
not later than November 1 of each year,
a document that identifies foreign
products and their domestic
counterparts. NHTSA continues to
estimate that the annual list could be
developed with 8 attorney hours and 1
hour for IT work. NHTSA receives these

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lists from 83 manufacturers, on average,
resulting in 747 burden hours (83

vehicle manufacturers × 8 hours for
attorney support = 664 hours) + (83

vehicle manufacturers × 1 hour for IT
support = 83 hours).

TABLE 4—HOURLY BURDEN FOR FOREIGN REPORTING
Burden hours
Task

Quantity

Occupation
Per unit

Total

Annual List .......................................................................................................
Annual list—Electronic .....................................................................................
Foreign Defect Report .....................................................................................
Foreign Defect report ......................................................................................

83
83
133
133

Attorney .........
IT ....................
Clerical ...........
Technical .......

8
1
1
2

664
83
133
266

Total ..........................................................................................................

........................

........................

........................

1,146

Therefore, the total annual hour
burden on manufacturers for reporting
foreign safety campaigns and
substantially similar vehicles/
equipment is 1,146 hours (774 hours
professional time + 133 hours clerical
time + 266 hours technical time). This
is an increase of 154 burden hours from
our previous estimate (1,146 hours for
current estimate ¥ 992 hours for
previous estimate).
Section 579.5 also requires
manufacturers to submit notices,
bulletins, customer satisfaction
campaigns, consumer advisories and
other communications that are sent to
more than one dealer or owner.
Manufacturers are required to submit
this information monthly. Section 579.5
does not require manufacturer to create
these documents; rather, only copies of
these documents must be submitted to
NHTSA. Therefore, the burden hours
are only those associated with collecting
the documents and submitting copies to
NHTSA. Manufacturers must index
these communications and email them
to NHTSA within 5 working days after
the end of the month in which they
were issued.
NHTSA continues to estimate that we
receive about 7,000 notices a year. We

estimate that it takes about 5 minutes to
collect, index, and send each notice to
NHTSA. Therefore, we continue to
estimate that it takes 7,000 documents ×
5 minutes = 35,000 minutes or 583
hours for manufacturers to submit
notices as required under Part 579.5.

adjusted wages and salaries, for private
industry workers, were referenced to
calculate the following updated 2016
wage rates:

TABLE 6—HOURLY WAGE RATES BY
OCCUPATION

TABLE 5—TOTAL BURDEN HOURS FOR
THIS COLLECTION
Annual
burden hours

Reporting type

Wage rate
Occupation
Attorney ........................
Engineer .......................
IT ...................................
Technical ......................
Clerical ..........................

2011

2016

$130.39
130.39
145.59
94.09
30.69

$144.47
144.47
161.31
104.25
34.00

EWR Reporting (Table 3) .....
Foreign Reporting (Table 4)
Part 579.5 .............................

47,514
1,146
583

Total ...............................

49,243

2016 wage data from U.S. Department of
Labor.

Estimated Cost Burdens—We now
estimate the calculated cost burdens
that this collection imposes on industry.
The hourly wage rates shown below
have been utilized in previous renewals
of this collection and are now updated
through June 2016. These current rate
adjustments are derived from the
Employment Cost Index Historical
Listing (Volume III) provided by the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to adjust
for inflation. The non-seasonally

We have also constructed various
breakdowns of the average five minutes
of labor among the various occupations
depending on the type of document that
was reviewed. For example, to combine
three minutes of technical labor and two
minutes of clerical labor produces a
combined wage rate of $76.15 per hour,
using the adjusted 2016 wage rates in
Table 6. Table 7 shows the time
allocations and weighted hourly rate by
report:

TABLE 7—TIME ALLOCATION AND WEIGHTED HOURLY RATE BY REPORT
Claim type

Attorney

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Claims of Injury/Death
Property Damage .........
Mfr. Field Reports ........
Foreign Deaths ............

Engineer
3
0
0
3

0
0
0
10

The total cost for 2016 Claims
documents were obtained using the
following formula:
K × T × W = Costs for claim type
Where:
K = Documents submitted by industry
T = Average time spent on a document
W = Wage rate based on U.S. Department of
Labor and skill mix.

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IT

Technical
0
0
0
0

Clerical
0
3
3
0

For example, the estimated cost to
report light vehicle death and injury
claims is $75,899 (9,082 death and
injury claims reported × 5/60 hours ×
$100.29 wage rate).
NHTSA estimates the reporting costs
as a function of
• The number of manufacturers
reporting;

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Weighted
hourly rate

Total time
2
2
2
2

5
5
5
15

$100.29
76.15
76.15
129.74

• The frequency of required reports;
• The number of hours required per
report; and
• The cost of personnel to report.
The number of manufacturers
reporting is estimated from EWR
submission. The frequency of reports is
fixed at 4 times per year. The number
of hours for reporting ranges from 1

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hour for trailer manufacturer to 8 hours
for light vehicle manufacturers (See
Table 3). In addition, we assume that 50
percent of the total burden hours are
utilized by technical personnel while
clerical staff consumes the remaining 50
percent. In other words, the hourly wage
rate for each quarterly report is split
evenly between technical and clerical
personnel and a weighted average of the
wage hour is developed from this
assumption. For 2016 the wage rate is
$69.13 ([$104.25 × 0.5] + [$34.00 × 0.5]).
The reporting costs are calculated as
follows:
M × Tp × 4 × $69.13 = cost of reporting

Where:
M = Manufacturers reporting data in the
category
Tp = Reporting time for the category
4 = Quarterly reports per year
$69.13 = Reporting cost wage rate (rounded).

Where:
M = Manufacturers reporting data in the
category
Tc = Annual computer maintenance time per
manufacturer for the category
IT = IT wage rate

Thus, the estimated reporting cost for
light vehicles is $86,272 (39
manufacturers × 8 hours × 4 quarters ×
$69.13 wage rate).
The costs for computer maintenance
including software, hardware, data
storage, etc. were calculated using the
following formula:
M × Tc × IT = cost of computer
maintenance

The computer maintenance costs for
light vehicles are $2,183,059 (39
manufacturers × 347 hours × $161.31
wage rate).
Table 8 shows the annual cost of
reporting EWR information to NHTSA
using the information outlined in tables
1, 2, 3, 6, and 7:

TABLE 8—ESTIMATE EWR COSTS BY SUBMISSION TYPE
Category
(Injury/Fatality) ...
Property
Damage* ........

Light
vehicles

Heavy, med
vehicles

Trailers

Motorcycles

Emergency
vehicles

Buses

Equipment
mfr.

Totals

75,899

811

109

1,128

25

100

618

3,159

67

81,916

54,284

3,630

133

102

13

349

14,348

0

0

72,859

2,926

0

27,028

0

503,224

Warranty Claims

Aggregate Data

Consumer Complaints ............

Aggregate Data

Mfr. Field Reports ...............

Child
restraints

Tires

419,247

45,825

82

8,098

Dealer Field Reports ...............

19
Aggregate Data

Foreign Death
Claims ............

1,914

32

32

65

0

0

65

1,135

0

3,244

Reporting Cost ..

86,272

53,920

22,121

8,295

9,678

52,537

47,007

9,401

1,659

290,891

Computer Maintenance ..........

2,183,059

544,192

1,116,291

209,305

97,675

530,238

474,424

474,424

0

5,629,607

Totals .........

2,820,674

648,410

1,138,769

226,992

107,410

586,150

536,463

515,147

1,726

6,581,741

Note: Totals may not be exact due to rounding.

Table 9 details the total annual costs
for reporting annual list of substantially

similar vehicles and foreign safety
campaigns:

TABLE 9—ESTIMATED ANNUAL COSTS FOR SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR VEHICLES AND FOREIGN SAFETY CAMPAIGNS

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Task

Qty

2016 wage rate
(from Table 6)

Occupation

Burden hours
Cost
Per unit

Total

Annual list ..............................................
Annual list—Electronic ...........................
Defect report ..........................................
Defect report ..........................................

83
83
133
133

Attorney .........
IT ....................
Clerical ...........
Technical .......

$144.47
161.31
34.00
104.25

8
1
1
2

664
83
133
266

$95,929
13,389
4,523
27,731

Foreign Campaign Totals ...............

........................

........................

..........................

........................

1,146

141,572

The cost associated for manufacturers
to submit Part 579.5 notices, bulletins,
customer satisfaction campaigns,
consumer advisories and other
communications that are sent to more
than one dealer or owner can be
estimated from the number of hours and
wage of personal submitting the
documents. We understand that some

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manufacturers have clerical staff collect
and submit the documents and other
have technical staff. Because we do not
know how many documents are sent by
a particular staff we will assume they
are done the higher paid staff. Thus, we
estimated the cost to collect and submit
Part 579.5 documents at 583 hours ×
$104.25 for Technical staff = $60,779 for

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manufacturers to submit notices as
required under Part 579.5.
Table 10 shows the estimated cost for
manufacturers to report EWR data,
foreign campaigns, and Part 579.5
documents through this collection:

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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 244 / Tuesday, December 20, 2016 / Notices
TABLE 10—TOTAL DOLLAR ESTIMATES year associated with OMB No. 2127–
FOR MANUFACTURERS TO COMPLY 0616.
WITH EWR REPORTING, FOREIGN Michael L. Brown,
REPORTING, AND PART 579.5 RE- Acting Director, Office of Defects,
Investigation.

PORTING

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Reporting type

Annual cost
($)

EWR Reporting (Table 8) .....
Foreign Reporting (Table 9)
Part 579.5 Submissions .......

$6,581,741
141,572
60,779

Total ...............................

6,784,092

Removed Burdens—Our previous
renewal of this collection included onetime cost estimates associated with
adding a new vehicle type, fuel and/or
propulsion system type, and four new
components (stability control, forward
collision avoidance, lane departure
prevention, and backover prevention) to
vehicle EWR reporting. These one-time
costs were estimated for manufacturers
to amend their reporting templates and
revise their software system to support
the new reporting requirements. See 78
FR 51415. Manufacturers were required
to make these changes to their vehicle
EWR reporting by January 1, 2015. See
79 FR 47591. As these one-time costs
have already been incurred and
manufacturers have already made the
necessary modifications to their
systems, a total of 39,296 burden hours
and $4.57 million dollars will be
removed from this collection.
Summary of Burden Estimate—Based
on the foregoing, we estimate the
burden hours for industry to comply
with the current EWR requirements,
foreign campaign requirements and Part
579.5 requirements total 49,243 burden
hours (47,514 for EWR requirements +
1,146 hours for foreign campaign
requirements + 583 hours for Part
579.5). This is a decrease of 35,950
hours from the currently approved
collection, mostly due to the one-time
costs we previously estimated and have
now removed from this collection. We
now estimate the cost burden for current
EWR requirements, foreign campaign
requirements, and Part 579.5
requirements to total $6,784,092
annually.
Estimated Number of Respondents—
NHTSA receives EWR submissions,
foreign campaigns, and Part 579.5
submissions from roughly 292
manufacturers per year.
In summary, we estimate that there
will be a total of 292 respondents per

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2016–0093; Notice 2]

General Motors, LLC, Grant of Petition
for Decision of Inconsequential
Noncompliance
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Grant of petition.
AGENCY:

General Motors, LLC (GM),
has determined that certain model year
(MY) 2016–2017 Cadillac CTS, CT6,
XTS and Escalade motor vehicles do not
fully comply with Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No.
135, Light Vehicle Brake Systems. GM
filed a defect report dated August 17,
2016. GM then petitioned NHTSA on
August 22, 2016, for a decision that the
subject noncompliance is
inconsequential as it relates to motor
vehicle safety.
ADDRESSES: For further information on
this decision contact Stu Seigel, Office
of Vehicle Safety Compliance, the
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA), telephone
(202) 366–5287, facsimile (202) 366–
3081.
SUMMARY:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Overview
General Motors, LLC (GM), has
determined that certain model year
(MY) 2016–2017 Cadillac CTS, CT6,
XTS and Escalade motor vehicles do not
fully comply with paragraph S5.5.5(a) of
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
(FMVSS) No. 135, Light Vehicle Brake
Systems. GM filed a defect report dated
August 17, 2016, pursuant to 49 CFR
part 573, Defect and Noncompliance
Responsibility and Reports. GM then
petitioned NHTSA on August 22, 2016,
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and
30120(h) and their implementing
regulations at 49 CFR part 556, for an
exemption from the notification and
remedy requirements of 49 U.S.C.
Chapter 301 on the basis that this
noncompliance is inconsequential as it
relates to motor vehicle safety.

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Notice of receipt of the petition was
published, with a 30-day public
comment period, on September 29,
2016, in the Federal Register (81 FR
67057). No comments were received. To
view the petition and all supporting
documents log onto the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) Web site
at: https://www.regulations.gov/. Then
follow the online search instructions to
locate docket number ‘‘NHTSA–2016–
0093.’’
II. Vehicles Involved
Affected are 46,205 of the following
MY 2016–2017 Cadillac motor vehicles
manufactured between March 10, 2015,
and June 13, 2016.
• Cadillac CT6
• Cadillac CTS
• Cadillac Escalade
• Cadillac Escalade ESV
• Cadillac XTS
III. Noncompliance
GM explains that the noncompliance
is that when the parking brake is
applied on the subject vehicles the
indicator light that illuminates within
the cluster does not meet the lettering
height requirements as specified in
paragraph S5.5.5(a) of FMVSS No. 135
and also referenced in table 1; column
1, of FMVSS No. 101. Specifically, the
lettering height for the indicator on the
subject vehicles is 2.44 mm when it
should be a minimum height of 3.2 mm.
IV. Rule Text
Paragraph S5.5.5(a) of FMVSS No. 135
states, in pertinent part:
S5.5.5 Labeling. (a) Each visual indicator
shall display a word or words in accordance
with the requirements of Standard No. 101
(49 CFR 571.101) and this section, which
shall be legible to the driver under all
daytime and nighttime conditions when
activated. Unless otherwise specified, the
words shall have letters not less than 3.2 mm
(1⁄8 inch) high and the letters and background
shall be of contrasting colors, one of which
is red . . .

V. Summary of GM’s Petition
GM described the subject
noncompliance and stated its belief that
the noncompliance is inconsequential
as it relates to motor vehicle safety.
In support of its petition, GM
submitted the following reasoning:
(a) The park brake applied telltale
(identified by the word ‘‘PARK’’) is red
in color contrasted against a black
screen, as required by S5.5.5(a) and
(d)(4), conspicuously located and
readily visible at the top left-of-center
position of the instrument panel cluster.
Additionally, the four letters of the
word ‘‘PARK’’ are all capitalized such

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