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Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 105 / Thursday, May 31, 2018 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket Number DOT–NHTSA–2018–0034]

Notice and Request for Comments
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

The Department of
Transportation (DOT) invites public
comments about our intention to request
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) approval to start a new
information collection. 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.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 30, 2018.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
[identified by Docket No. DOT–
NHTSA–2018–0034] through one of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12–
140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except on Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 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. Please identify the relevant
collection of information by referring to
its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: State Data Transfer for Vehicle
Crash Information.
OMB Control Number: xxxx-xxxx.
Type of Request: Collection of motor
vehicle crash data.
Abstract: The U.S. Department of
Transportation, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
was established by Congress to save

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lives, prevent injuries, and reduce
economic costs due to motor vehicle
crashes through education, research,
safety standards, and enforcement
activity. Within NHTSA, the National
Center for Statistics and Analysis is
responsible for providing timely,
complete, and high-quality data for use
by NHTSA, other Federal, State, and
local governmental agencies, as well as
others in motor vehicle safety research
and analysis to reduce crashes, injuries,
deaths, and associated medical costs.
NHTSA conducts these activities
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301.
Historically, NHTSA has been
collecting vehicle crash data from States
through several programs, including, the
State Data System (SDS), the Fatality
Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the
Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS)
and the Crash Investigation Sampling
System (CISS). Even though each of
these data collection programs collects
data for its own focus area, all these
programs include crash data from the
States’ crash data systems. Each of these
programs retrieves data from the States
separately. The process of retrieving
data from States is also not automated,
requiring manual data entry. The
following are brief descriptions of these
data collection programs:
• FARS is a nationwide census of
fatalities suffered in motor vehicle
traffic crashes;
• CRSS is a nationally representative
sample of police-reported crashes
involving all types of motor vehicles,
pedestrians, and cyclists, ranging from
property-damage-only crashes to those
that result in fatalities;
• CISS is a nationally representative
sample of minor, serious, and fatal
crashes involving at least one passenger
vehicle—cars, light trucks, sport utility
vehicles, and vans—towed from the
scene;
• SDS collects vehicle crash data files
from a limited number of States.
Over the last decade or so, efforts
have been underway to consolidate,
improve, and automate data
management at Federal and State levels.
Many States have built centralized
databases for their crash data. With the
adoption of new data management
technologies and increased adoption of
the Model Minimum Uniform Crash
Criteria (MMUCC) guideline, the timing
is now ideal to pursue the electronic
transfer of State crash data to NHTSA.
The State Data Transfer effort will
automate the transfer of the State’s
motor vehicle crash data, including
crashes resulting in fatalities, injuries
and property damage only, into a federal
data warehouse. NHTSA will use the
data collected in this federal data

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warehouse to replace the manual data
collection and coding to the extent
possible for SDS, FARS, CRSS, and
CISS. Data in this federal data
warehouse will also be available to
other federal agencies to analyze safety
trends and identify safety issues across
the nation. Through NHTSA’s State Data
Transfer collection effort, NHTSA seeks
to reduce or eliminate the redundant
processes and have more accurate, high
quality and timely data to help save
lives, prevent injuries, and reduce
economic costs due to motor vehicle
crashes.
Affected Public: State Governments.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
15.
Frequency: Mutually agreed upon
between NHTSA and States; potentially
from daily to annual.
Estimated Total One-Time Initial
Implementation Burden Hours: 200
hours per State.
Estimated Total One-Time Initial
Implementation Burden Cost: $8,800 per
State.
Estimated Total Annual Maintenance
Burden Hours: 5 hours per State.
Estimated Total Annual Maintenance
Burden Cost: $1,000 per State.
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
Department’s performance; (b) the
accuracy of the estimated burden; (c)
ways for the Department to enhance the
quality, utility and clarity of the
information collection; and (d) ways
that the burden could be minimized
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.
Terry T. Shelton,
Associate Administrator, National Center for
Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2018–0031]

30-Day Notice of Application for New
Information Collection Request
Office of the Secretary (OST),
Department of Transportation
(Department) or (DOT).

AGENCY:

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