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f. Data Access and Data Sharing
FTA seeks to improve public
transportation for America’s
communities by sharing digital data or
source code collected or developed
through its research with the public.
This allows research organizations,
transit agencies, and other stakeholders
to learn from and expand upon the
insights developed from FTA-funded
research.
An award made pursuant to this
NOFO will be subject to the latest
version of FTA’s Master Agreement
(available at https://
www.transit.dot.gov/funding/granteeresources/sample-fta-agreements/ftagrant-agreements), including Section 17
Patent Rights and Section 18 Rights in
Data and Copyrights.
All work funded under this NOFO
must follow the Department’s data
collection and sharing policies outlined
in the DOT Public Access Plan at:
https://www.transportation.gov/
mission/open/official-dot-public-accessplan-v11. Recipients are required to
include these obligations in any subawards or other related funding
agreements.
Public Data Access requirements
include developing a Data Management
Plan (DMP) and submitting the DMP for
FTA review. A DMP is a document that
describes how recipients plan to handle
digital datasets, software, or code
generated over the course of a research
project pursuant to federal and
Departmental requirements. A DMP
must be provided as a condition of
receiving FTA funds under the Section
5312 Research Program and should
adequately identify: (1) The data to be
collected, (2) how the data will further
the goals of this effort, (3) how the data
will be made accessible, and (4) how the
data will be stored. DMPs can be
updated over time if the scope of the
project or the type of data that will be
collected changes.
FTA staff is available to assist
recipients with complying with public
data access requirements.

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g. External Communications
Recipients must communicate with
their FTA Project Manager prior to
engaging in any external
communications regarding their project.
This includes any work developing
news or magazine stories with media
organizations, including print, video,
online, or otherwise. Additionally, the
FTA project manager must be notified if
project information, including results
and metrics, will be shared during a
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recipient itself or another organization.
Recipients should consult with their
FTA Project Manager at the beginning of
their agreement to discuss and plan any
external communications about their
project.
h. Independent Evaluation
Projects funded under this
announcement will be subject to
evaluation by an independent evaluator
selected by FTA. Recipients will be
required to coordinate with the
independent evaluator to assist in
developing an evaluation plan and
collecting, storing and managing data
required to fulfill that evaluation plan.
i. Mobility Metrics
Projects funded under this notice will
be required to support the efforts of FTA
or its designee to evaluate the project
and its outcomes against mobilityspecific metrics. FTA will work with the
project team to implement evaluation
plans that are consistent with FTA’s
mobility-specific metrics as detailed in
the FTA report, Mobility Performance
Metrics (MPM) For Integrated Mobility
and Beyond (February 2020), available
at https://www.transit.dot.gov/sites/
fta.dot.gov/files/docs/researchinnovation/147791/mobilityperformance-metrics-integratedmobility-and-beyond-fta-report-no0152.pdf.
j. Software Provisions
Any software developed as a part of
this solicitation will be subject to
provisions of FTA’s Master Agreement
(version 28, February 9, 2021) and
evaluated for the potential to be shared
for use by public transportation
agencies.
3. Reporting
Post-award reporting requirements
include the electronic submission of
Federal Financial Reports and Milestone
Progress Reports in FTA’s electronic
grants management system.
Applicants should include any goals,
targets, and indicators referenced in
their application in the Executive
Summary of the TrAMS application.
As part of completing the annual
certifications and assurances required of
FTA grant recipients, a successful
applicant must report on the suspension
or debarment status of itself and its
principals. If the award recipient’s
active grants, cooperative agreements,
and procurement contracts from all
Federal awarding agencies exceed
$10,000,000 for any period of time
during the period of performance of an
award made pursuant to this Notice, the
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Recipient Integrity and Performance
Matters reporting requirements
described in Appendix XII to 2 CFR part
200.
G. Federal Awarding Agency Contacts
For further information concerning
this notice, please contact Christina
Gikakis, in the FTA Office of Mobility
Innovation, by phone at 202–366–2637,
or by email at [email protected].
A TDD is available for individuals who
are deaf or hard of hearing at 800–877–
8339. In addition, FTA will post
answers to questions and requests for
clarifications on FTA’s website at
https://www.transit.dot.gov/funding/
grants/EMI. To ensure applicants
receive accurate information about
eligibility or the program, applicants are
encouraged to contact FTA directly,
rather than through intermediaries or
third parties, with questions. FTA staff
may also conduct briefings on the FY
2021 competitive grants selection and
award process upon request.
For issues with GRANTS.GOV, please
contact GRANTS.GOV by phone at 1–
800–518- 4726 or by email at support@
grants.gov.
H. Other Information
This program is not subject to
Executive Order 12372,
‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal
Programs.’’
Nuria I. Fernandez,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2021–24671 Filed 11–10–21; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2019–0113]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Vehicle Information for the
General Public
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a reinstatement of a
previously approved collection of
information.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) summarized
below will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection,

SUMMARY:

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Vehicle Information for the General
Public, and its expected burden. A
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
the information collection was
published on July 7, 2020. One
comment was received in general
support of this collection request.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before December 13, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
should be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
To find this particular information
collection, select ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or
use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Ms.
Johanna Lowrie, U.S. Department of
Transportation, NHTSA, Room W43–
410, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE,
Washington, DC 20590. Ms. Lowrie’s
telephone number is (202) 366–5269.
Please identify the relevant collection of
information by referring to its OMB
Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request will be
submitted OMB.
Title: Vehicle Information for the
General Public.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0629.
Form Numbers: N/A.
Type of Request: Reinstatement of a
previously approved collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.

Length of Approval Requested: Three
years.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: NHTSA’s mission is to
save lives, prevent injury, and reduce
motor vehicle crashes. Consumer
information programs are an important
tool for improving vehicle safety
through market forces. Pursuant to 49
U.S.C. 32302, the Secretary of
Transportation (NHTSA by delegation)
is directed to provide to the public the
following information about passenger
motor vehicles: Damage susceptibility;
crashworthiness, crash avoidance, and
any other areas the Secretary determines
will improve safety of passenger motor
vehicles; and the degree of difficulty of
diagnosis and repair of damage to, or
failure of, mechanical and electrical
systems. For more than 40 years, under
its New Car Assessment Program,
NHTSA has been providing consumers
with vehicle safety information such as
frontal and side crash test results,
advanced crash avoidance technology
system performance test results, rollover
propensity, and the availability of a
wide array of safety features provided
on new model year vehicles. The
information collection includes new
model year vehicle information such as
vehicle make, model, body style,
certification style, projected sales
volume, crashworthiness features,
advanced crash avoidance technologies,
crash avoidance technologies test data,
vehicle setup information, and side air
bag information.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: The consumer information
collected will be used to disseminate
vehicle safety information via the
agency’s www.nhtsa.gov website, in the
‘‘Purchasing with Safety in Mind: What
to look for when buying a new vehicle’’
brochure, and in other consumer
publications. Additionally, the Agency
uses this information collection to
respond to consumer inquiries, analyze
rulemaking petitions, and provide
technical assistance to Congress.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period

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soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on July 7, 2020 (85 FR
40733). NHTSA received one public
comment stating general support of the
collection request.
Affected Public: Manufacturers that
sell passenger cars and light truck
vehicles (including sport utility
vehicles, pickup trucks, and vans) that
have a Gross Vehicle Weight Rating
(GVWR) of 10,000 pounds or less in the
United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
21.
Frequency: Annually.
Number of Responses: 1.
There are approximately 21 vehicle
manufacturers that sell passenger cars
and light truck vehicles (including sport
utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and
vans) in the United States with a Gross
Vehicle Weight Rating of 10,000 pounds
or less, that NHTSA requests annually
to respond to this information request.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,995 hours.
NHTSA estimates that these 21
vehicle manufacturers produce an
aggregate of approximately 400 vehicle
models each year, for an average of 19
models per manufacturer. NHTSA
estimates the burden associated with
this collection based on an expected 5
hours to prepare a response for each
vehicle model. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the annual burden to be 95
hours per manufacturer (19 vehicle
models × 5 hours) and estimates that the
total burden will be approximately
1,995 hours per year (95 hours per
manufacturer × 21 manufacturers). This
is a slight recalculation from the 60-day
notice in which NHTSA estimated the
total burden to be 400 hours. However,
as NHTSA needs to estimate the burden
on a per response basis, NHTSA needed
to change its calculation to estimate the
total burden associated with each
response (i.e., the average burden a
manufacturer would spend providing
responses for their vehicle models).
Table 1 provides a summary of the
estimated burden hours.

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TABLE 1—BURDEN HOUR ESTIMATES
Number of respondents

Annual
responses

Estimated
burden per
response
(hours)

Total
burden hours

21 ...............................................................................................................................

19

5

1,995

To calculate the labor cost associated
with submitting the vehicle
questionnaires, NHTSA looked at wage

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estimates for the type of personnel
involved with compiling and submitting
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will involve 2.5 hours of data entry
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information validation (40% of the
total), and 0.5 hour for technical content
approval (10% of the total). Therefore,
NHTSA estimates that each submission
will require 47.5 data entry hours, 38
technical information validation hours,
and 9.5 technical content approval
hours, for an annual total of 997.5 data
entry hours, 798 technical information

validation hours, and 199.5 technical
content approval hours.
NHTSA estimates the total labor costs
associated with the data entry burden
hours by looking at estimates from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) for the
average hourly wage for Business
Operations Specialists (BLS Occupation
code 13–1000) in the Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing Industry. BLS estimates

the average hourly wage is $39.46.1 The
Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that
private industry workers’ wages
represent 70.4% of total labor
compensation costs.2 Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the hourly labor costs to be
$56.05 for data entry. Table 2 provides
a summary of the labor costs associated
with the burden hours.

TABLE 2—LABOR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH BURDEN HOURS
Average
hourly
labor cost

Job function
Data Entry ........................................................................................................................
Technical Information Validation .....................................................................................
Technical Content Approval ............................................................................................

$55,909.88
69,848.94
18,796.89

Estimated Annual Labor Cost Associated with Burden Hours ................................................................................................

144,555.71
($144,556)

Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2021–24634 Filed 11–10–21; 8:45 am]
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1 See May 2020 National Industry-Specific
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates,
NAICS 336100—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Petition for Exemption From the
Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention
Standard; American Honda Motor Co.,
Inc.
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Grant of petition for exemption.
AGENCY:

This document grants in full
the American Honda Motor Co., Inc.’s
(Honda) petition for exemption from the
Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention
Standard (theft prevention standard) for
its Acura Integra vehicle line beginning
in model year (MY) 2023. The petition
is granted because the agency has
determined that the antitheft device to
be placed on the line as standard
equipment is likely to be as effective in
reducing and deterring motor vehicle
theft as compliance with the partsmarking requirements of the theft
prevention standard.
DATES: The exemption granted by this
notice is effective beginning with the
2023 model year.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carlita Ballard, Office of International
Policy, Fuel Economy, and Consumer
Programs, NHTSA, West Building,
W43–439, NRM–310, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Ms.
Ballard’s phone number is (202) 366–
5222. Her fax number is (202) 493–2990.
SUMMARY:

naics4_336100.htm#15–0000 (accessed May 4,
2020).
2 See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Mar. 2021), available

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$56.05
87.53
94.22

Total labor
cost

997.5
798
199.5

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
There are no costs associated with this
collection other than the labor costs
associated with the burden hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects 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, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity 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, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35; and
delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95
and DOT Order 1351.29.

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Total burden
hours

Under 49
U.S.C. Chapter 331, the Secretary of
Transportation (and the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA) by delegation) is required to
promulgate a theft prevention standard
to provide for the identification of
certain motor vehicles and their major
replacement parts to impede motor
vehicle theft. NHTSA promulgated
regulations at 49 CFR part 541 (theft
prevention standard) to require partsmarking for specified passenger motor
vehicles and light trucks. Pursuant to 49
U.S.C. 33106, manufacturers that are
subject to the parts-marking
requirements may petition the Secretary
of Transportation for an exemption for
a line of passenger motor vehicles
equipped with an antitheft device as
standard equipment that the Secretary
decides is likely to be as effective in
reducing and deterring motor vehicle
theft as compliance with the partsmarking requirements. In accordance
with this statute, NHTSA promulgated
49 CFR part 543, which establishes the
process through which manufacturers
may seek an exemption from the theft
prevention standard.
49 CFR 543.5 provides general
submission requirements for petitions
and states that each manufacturer may
petition NHTSA for an exemption of
one vehicle line per model year. Among
other requirements, manufacturers must
identify whether the exemption is
sought under section 543.6 or section
543.7. Under section 543.6, a
manufacturer may request an exemption

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm
(accessed August 2, 2021).

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