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other than the designated recipient(s),
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to the direct recipient.
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application in FY 2020. Split letters
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Apportionment letters), must also be on
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2020 funding are finalized, recipients
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Grantees should refer to applicable
regulations and statutes referenced in
this document.
K. Jane Williams,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2020–14249 Filed 7–1–20; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. DOT–NHTSA–2020–0070]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Automated Vehicle
Transparency and Engagement for
Safe Testing (AV TEST) Initiative
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a request for approval of
a new information collection.
AGENCY:

The National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA) invites
public comments about our intention to
request approval from the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for a
new information collection. Before a
Federal agency can collect certain
information from the public, it must
receive approval from 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.
This document describes a collection of
information for NHTSA’s planned
Automated Vehicle Transparency and
Engagement for Safe Testing (AV TEST)
Initiative for which NHTSA intends to
seek OMB approval. The AV TEST
Initiative involves the voluntary
collection of information from entities
testing vehicles equipped with
automated driving systems (ADS) and
from States and local authorities
involved in the regulation of ADS
testing. The purpose of this collection is
to provide information to the public
about ADS testing operations in the U.S.
and applicable State and local laws,
regulations, and guidelines.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before August 31, 2020.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket No. DOT–
NHTSA–2020–0070 through any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
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• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Room W12–140, Washington, DC 20590,
between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except on
Federal holidays.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590–0001 between
9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
To be sure someone is there to help you,
please call (202) 366–9322 before
coming.
• Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number for this proposed collection of
information. Note that all comments
received will be posted without change
to http://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided.
Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
• Privacy Act: Anyone is able to
search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our
dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the
comment, if submitted on behalf of an
association, business, labor union, etc.).
You may review DOT’s complete
Privacy Act Statement in the Federal
Register published on April 11, 2000
(65 FR 19477–78) or you may visit
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
• Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov or the street
address listed above. To be sure
someone is there to help you, please call
(202) 366–9322 before coming. Follow
the online instructions for accessing the
dockets via internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Michael
Frenchik, Office of Data Acquisition,
Safety Systems Management Division
(NSA–0130), Room W53–303, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Mr. Frenchik’s telephone
number is (202) 366–0641.
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 (at 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; (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 proposed
collection of information:
Title: Automated Vehicle
Transparency and Engagement for Safe
Testing (‘‘AV TEST’’) Initiative.
OMB Control Number: New.
Type of Request: Request for approval
of a new information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Affected Public: There are two
information collection components to
this request. The first affects entities
engaged in testing of ADS vehicles,
including original manufacturers of
ADS vehicles and ADS vehicle
equipment, and operators of ADS
vehicles. The second affects local
authorities regulating testing of ADS
vehicles within their jurisdictions,
including States, cities, counties, and
other municipalities.
Request Expiration Date of Approval:
Three years from date of approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The U.S. Department of
Transportation (DOT), National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) was established by Congress
to save lives, prevent injuries, and
reduce economic costs due to motor
vehicle crashes through education,
research, safety standards, and
enforcement activity. DOT and NHTSA
are fully committed to reaching an era
of crash-free roadways through the
deployment of innovative lifesaving
technologies. The prevalence of
automotive crashes in the United States
underscores the urgency to develop and
deploy lifesaving technologies that can
dramatically decrease the number of
fatalities and injuries on our Nation’s
roadways. NHTSA believes that
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technology, including technology
contemplating no human driver at all,
has the potential to significantly
improve roadway safety in the United
States. This technology remains
substantially in development phases
with companies across the United States
performing varying levels of
development, research, and testing
relating to the performance of various
aspects of ADS vehicle technologies.
While much of these development
operations occur in private facilities and
closed-course test tracks, many
stakeholders have progressed to
conducting ADS vehicle testing on
public roads or in public
demonstrations. Moreover, to regulate
such operations in their jurisdictions,
many local authorities, such as States
and cities, have passed laws governing
ADS vehicle testing on public roads.
These statutes, regulations, and
ordinances vary, ranging from
operational requirements to mandating
the submission of periodic reports
detailing ADS vehicle operation.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: The AV TEST Initiative
seeks to enhance public education and
engagement with public ADS vehicle
testing by coalescing information
regarding respondents’ various testing
operations or requirements into a
centralized resource. This information
collections seeks voluntarily-provided
information from entities performing
ADS testing about their operations and
information from local authorities about
requirements or recommendations for
such operations. NHTSA will maintain
a digital platform on its website that
collects information from respondents
and makes the information about ADS
operations and applicable State and
local requirements and
recommendations available to members
of the public.
The program will support two main
objectives. The first objective is to
provide the public with access to
geographic visualizations of testing at
the national, State, and local levels. This
information will be displayed on a
graphic of the United States, with
projects overlaid on the geographic
areas in which the testing project is
taking place. By clicking on a testing
location, members of the public will be
able see additional information about
the operation and the ADS operator.
Additional information may include
basic information about the ADS
operator, a brief statement about the
entity, specific details of the testing
activity, high-level (non-confidential)
descriptions of the vehicles and
technology, photos of the test vehicles,

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the dates on which testing occurs,
frequency of vehicle operations, the
number of vehicles participating in the
project, the specific streets or areas
comprising the testing routes,
information about safety drivers and
their training, information about
engagement with the community and/or
local government, weblinks to the
company’s websites with brief
introductory statements, and a link to
the company’s Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment (VSSA).1
The second objective is to provide
members of the public with information
collected from States and local
authorities that regulate ADS
operations. State and local authorities
will be asked to provide weblinks for
specific ADS-related topics, such as
statutes, regulations, or guidelines for
ADS operations, privacy-related issues,
emergency response policies and
training, or other activities that cultivate
ADS testing. The implementation of this
program will provide a central resource
for the aforementioned information
concerning ADS testing across the
United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
NHTSA anticipates that the Initiative
will include up to 60 State or local
government respondents and 40 ADS
developer, ADS vehicle manufacturer,
or ADS operator respondents per year.
Frequency: Participation is
completely voluntary and each
participant will choose its respective
degree of involvement and the
frequency of its submissions. Therefore,
the frequency of a participant’s response
may vary due to a variety of factors,
such as the degree of the entity’s
participation in the initiative or the
frequency with which each entity
modifies its ADS testing operations or,
in the case of local authorities, amends
its regulations governing such
operations.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: NHTSA estimates that the
annual burden of participation will be
approximately 48 hours for private
industry respondents that include ADS
operators, developers, or vehicle
manufacturers. This total number of
hours represents approximately four
hours per month to perform data entry
for testing projects (4 hours × 12 months
= 48). Therefore, for the estimated 40
ADS operator participants, the total
burden is estimated to be 1,920 hours
per year (40 respondents × 48 hours).
1 Voluntary Self-Assessments are described in
Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for
Safety, available at https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/
nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/13069a-ads2.0_
090617_v9a_tag.pdf. VSSAs are covered by the PRA
Clearance with OMB Control Number 2127–0723.

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NHTSA estimates that the annual
burden of participation will be
approximately 10 hours for State or
local authorities because the amount of
information requested is more limited
and also less likely to require frequent
updating. Therefore, for the estimated
60 State or local authority participants,
the total burden is estimated to be 600
hours per year.
The total annual burden for the entire
information collection request is
estimated to 2,520 hours (1,920 hours +
600 hours).
The labor cost associated with this
collection of information is derived by
(1) applying the appropriate average
hourly labor rate published by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics, (2) dividing

by either 0.701 2 (70.1%), for private
industry workers, or 0.623 (62.3%), for
state and local government workers, to
obtain the total cost of compensation,
and (3) multiplying by the estimated
burden hours for each respondent type.
Labor costs associated with original
manufacturers of ADS Vehicles or ADS
vehicle equipment and operators of ADS
vehicles are estimated to be $60.96 per
hour for ‘‘Project Management
Specialists,’’ Occupation Code 13–1198,
($42.73 3 per hour ÷ 0.701). The
estimated labor cost per private industry
respondent is estimated to be $2,926.08
per year ($60.96 × 48 hours). Therefore,
the total annual labor cost for private
industry to participate in the AV TEST
Initiative is estimated to be $117,043.

Labor costs associated with local and
regional authorities, such as States,
counties, and cities are estimated to be
$60.84 per hour for ‘‘Legal Support
Workers,’’ Occupation Code 23–2099,
($37.90 4 per hour ÷ 0.623). The labor
cost per regional authority respondent is
estimated to be $608.40 per year ($60.84
× 10 hours). Therefore, the total annual
labor cost for regional authorities to
participate in the AV TEST Initiative is
estimated to be $36,504 per year.
The total annual labor costs for all
respondents, private industry and
regional authorities together, are
estimated to be $153,547 per year. See
Table 1 below for a summary of
estimated annual burden hours and
estimated labor costs.

TABLE 1—SUMMARY OF ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS AND ESTIMATED LABOR COSTS
Number of
respondents

Respondent type

Annual labor
cost per
respondent

Labor cost
per hour

Total annual
estimated
burden hours

Total annual
labor costs

Original Manufacturer of ADS Vehicles or ADS Vehicle Equipment and Operators of ADS Vehicles ...................................

40

48

$60.96

$2,926.08

1,920

State or Local Authority ............................................................

60

10

60.84

608.40

600

$117,043.20
117,043
36,504

Total All Respondents ........................................................

100

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

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

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

5,000

153,547

Estimated Total Annual Burden Costs:
NHTSA estimates that there will be no
costs to respondents other than costs
associated with burden hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
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;
(b) the accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (c) ways to
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of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the 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;
49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29.
2 See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Dec. 2019), available
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm
(accessed May 4, 2020).
3 See May 2019 National Industry-Specific
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates,

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Issued on June 26, 2020.
Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for
Statistics and Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2020–14227 Filed 7–1–20; 8:45 am]
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NAICS 336100—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/
naics4_336100.htm#15-0000 (accessed May 4,
2020).
4 See May 2019 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates by ownership,
Federal, state, and local government, available at
https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/999001.htm#230000 (accessed May 4, 2020).

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