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compromised or if continuation of the
exemption would not be consistent with
the goals and objectives of 49 U.S.C.
31136(e) and 31315, FMCSA will take
immediate steps to revoke Cliff’s
renewal exemption.
John Van Steenburg,
Executive Director.
[FR Doc. 2021–21233 Filed 9–29–21; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2021–0070]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Incident Reporting for
Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and
Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance
Systems (ADAS)
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a request for extension of
a currently approved 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 an
extension of a currently approved
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, including
extensions and reinstatements of
previously approved collections. This
document describes NHTSA’s
information collection for incident
reporting requirements for Automated
Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(ADAS). NHTSA recently requested
emergency review of its request for
approval of this information collection
and received a six-month approval.
NHTSA now intends to follow the
normal clearance procedures and
request OMB’s approval for a three-year
extension of this currently approved
information collection.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before November 29, 2021.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket No. NHTSA–

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2021–0070 through any of the following
methods:
• Electronic submissions: Go to the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: (202) 493–2251.
• Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket
Management, 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. 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 notice. 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. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets
via internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Jeff
Eyres, Office of Chief Counsel,
telephone (202) 913–4307, or email at
[email protected], U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), before an agency
submits a proposed collection of
information to OMB for approval
(including a request for an extension of
a currently approved collection), 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 such a
document. Under OMB’s regulation (5

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CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask for
public comment on the following: (a)
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;
(b) 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;
(c) how to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) 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
extension of a currently approved
collection of information, for which the
agency is seeking approval from OMB.
Title: Incident Reporting for
Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and
Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance
Systems (ADAS).
OMB Control Number: 2127–0754.
Form Number(s): Form 1612.
Type of Request: Approval of an
extension of a currently approved
collection of information.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Requested Expiration Date of
Approval: 3 years from date of approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The currently approved
information collection request (ICR) for
which NHTSA intends to request an
extension requires certain
manufacturers of motor vehicles and
equipment and operators of motor
vehicles to submit incident reports for
certain crashes involving Automated
Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2
Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
(ADAS). These crash reporting
obligations are set forth in NHTSA’s
Standing General Order 2021–01
(General Order), which requires those
manufacturers and operators named in
and served with the General Order to
report crashes that meet specified
criteria to NHTSA.1
Specifically, the General Order
requires the named manufacturers and
operators (the reporting entities) to
submit reports if they receive notice of
certain crashes involving an ADS or
Level 2 ADAS equipped vehicle that
1 A copy of the General Order is available on
NHTSA’s website at https://www.nhtsa.gov/lawsregulations/standing-general-order-crash-reportinglevels-driving-automation-2-5.

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occur on publicly accessible roads in
the United States. To be reportable, the
vehicle, the ADS, or the Level 2 ADAS
must have been manufactured by the
reporting entity or the vehicle must
have been operated by a reporting entity
at the time of the crash, and the ADS or
Level 2 ADAS must have been engaged
at the time of or immediately before
(≤30 seconds) the crash. The reporting
obligations are limited to those entities
named in and served with the General
Order. The General Order imposes no
reporting obligations on any other
companies and likewise imposes no
reporting obligations on any individual
consumers.
In the event of a reportable crash, the
General Order requires the reporting
entity to submit an incident report
electronically to NHTSA. The required
report includes basic information
sufficient for NHTSA to identify those
crashes warranting follow-up. Crashes
involving ADS or Level 2 ADAS
equipped vehicles that meet specified
criteria must be reported within one
calendar day after the reporting entity
receives notice of the crash, and other
crashes involving ADS equipped
vehicles must be reported on a monthly
basis. The reporting obligations in the
General Order are specific to these
crashes, which are a primary source of
information regarding potential defects
in ADS or Level 2 ADAS.
Under Request No. 1 of the General
Order, a reporting entity must report
any crash involving an ADS or Level 2
ADAS equipped vehicle that results in
any individual being transported to a
hospital for medical treatment, a
fatality, a vehicle tow-away, or an air
bag deployment or involves a vulnerable
road user. Under these circumstances,
the reporting entity must submit a
report within one day after the reporting
entity receives notice of the crash, and
an updated report is due 10 days after
receiving notice.
The 10-day report utilizes the same
form and requests the same information
as the one-day report. The 10-day report
is a required follow up to the one-day
report because it is anticipated that, for
some of these reportable crashes, the
reporting entity will have minimal
information on the day after it first
receives notice. The General Order
therefore requires both the one-day
report, to give the agency prompt notice
of a crash that may justify immediate
follow up, and the 10-day report, to give
the reporting entity more time to gather
information required by the incident
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Separately, under Request No. 2 of the
General Order, a reporting entity must
report any crash involving an ADS
equipped vehicle that does not meet the
previous criteria but nonetheless
involves personal injury or property
damage on the fifteenth day of the
month after the reporting entity receives
notice of the crash. Under Request No.
3 of the General Order, a reporting
entity that receives new material or
materially different information
regarding a crash previously reported to
NHTSA is required to file an updated
report the following month. Finally,
under Request No. 4 of the General
Order, a reporting entity that has no
new or updated crash reports under
Request No. 2 or Request No. 3 for a
given month must file a report stating so
on the fifteenth day of the following
month. The monthly reports and
updated reports required under Request
No. 2, Request No. 3, and Request No.
4 utilize the same form and request the
same information as the one-day reports
required under Request No. 1.
This information collection provides
NHTSA with information it needs to
carry out its statutory mandate to
protect the public against unreasonable
risk of accidents occurring because of
the design, construction, or performance
of a motor vehicle, and against
unreasonable risk of death or injury in
an accident.
NHTSA recently requested and
received emergency review and
approval of this information collection.
NHTSA submitted the request on June
29, 2021. On June 30, 2021, OMB
granted NHTSA a six-month approval
for this information collection and
assigned this information collection the
OMB control number 2127–0754.
NHTSA is publishing this document to
seek an extension of this information
collection.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information
Under the National Traffic and Motor
Vehicle Safety Act, as amended (the
Safety Act), 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301,
NHTSA is charged with authority ‘‘to
reduce traffic accidents and deaths and
injuries resulting from traffic
accidents.’’ To carry out this statutory
mandate, NHTSA has broad information
gathering authority, including authority
to obtain information on vehicle
crashes, potential defects related to
motor vehicle safety, and compliance
with legal requirements to timely
identify and conduct recalls for safety
defects. 49 U.S.C. 30166(e), (g), 30118–
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NHTSA’s statutory mandate includes
the exercise of its authority to
proactively ensure that motor vehicles
and motor vehicle equipment, including
those with novel technologies, perform
in ways that protect the public against
unreasonable risk of accidents occurring
because of the design, construction, or
performance of a motor vehicle, and
against unreasonable risk of death or
injury in an accident. 49 U.S.C. 30102.
Both ADS and ADAS are ‘‘motor vehicle
equipment’’ subject to the requirements
of the Safety Act. Given the rapid
evolution of these technologies and
increasing testing of new technologies
and features on publicly accessible
roads, it is critical for NHTSA to
exercise its oversight over potential
safety defects in vehicles operating with
ADS and Level 2 ADAS. The Safety Act
is preventive, and the identification of
safety defects does not and should not
wait for injuries or deaths to occur.
ADS and ADAS are new technologies
that fundamentally alter the task of
driving a motor vehicle. Crashes
involving vehicles equipped with these
technologies have resulted in multiple
fatalities and serious injuries, and
NHTSA anticipates that the number of
these crashes will continue to grow in
the near future given the increased
number of these vehicles on the road
and the increased number of vehicle
and equipment manufacturers in the
market. The General Order provides the
agency with critical and timely safety
data, which assists the agency in
identifying potential safety issues
resulting from the operation of
advanced technologies on public roads.
Access to this crash data may show
whether there are common patterns in
vehicle crashes or systematic problems
with specific vehicles or systems, any of
which may reflect a potential safety
defect.
NHTSA intends to evaluate whether
specific manufacturers (including
manufacturers of prototype vehicles and
equipment) are meeting their statutory
obligations to ensure that their vehicles
and equipment are free of defects that
pose an unreasonable risk to motor
vehicle safety, or are recalled if such a
safety defect is identified. NHTSA’s
oversight of potential safety defects in
vehicles operating on publicly
accessible roads using ADS or Level 2
ADAS requires that NHTSA have timely
information on incidents involving
those vehicles. In carrying out the Safety
Act, NHTSA may ‘‘require, by general or
special order, any person to file reports
or answers to specific questions.’’ 49
U.S.C. 30166(g)(1)(A).
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of ADS or Level 2 ADAS equipped
vehicles.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
110.
Frequency: Monthly and on occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 11,745 hours.
To estimate the burden associated
with this information collection,
NHTSA separated the requirements of
the General Order into seven
components: (1) Incident reports
involving Level 2 ADAS that must be
submitted within one business day; (2)
updates to incident reports involving
Level 2 ADAS that must be submitted
within ten days; (3) incident reports
involving ADS that must be submitted
within one business day; (4) updates to
incident reports involving ADS that
must be submitted within ten days; (5)
monthly reports; (6) training employees
on the requirements; and (7) time to set
up an account to submit the reports. The
burden associated with categories (6)
and (7) are one-time start-up burdens
that will be incurred during the
proposed extension only to the extent
that new reporting entities are added to
the General Order during this period.
For the 108 reporting entities currently
named in the General Order, this burden
has already been and was accounted for
under the currently approved
information collection request.
The estimated number of respondents
consists of the number of reporting
entities. NHTSA estimates that there
will be an average of 110 reporting
entities during each year of the
proposed extension. Currently, there are
108 reporting entities named in the
General Order. NHTSA believes that
additional reporting entities will be
added to the General Order during the
proposed extension as new companies
enter the market and begin developing
and manufacturing ADS and ADAS
technology and vehicles equipped with
these technologies. NHTSA also
believes that some existing reporting
entities will be removed from the
General Order due to the cessation of
operations or market consolidation.
Incident reports involving Level 2
ADAS that must be submitted within
one business day. To estimate the
burden associated with submitting Level
2 ADAS crash reports, NHTSA first
looked to the category of crashes that
must be reported. As explained above,
the General Order only requires
reporting of Level 2 ADAS crashes when
(1) the crash occurred on a publicly
accessible road in the United States
(including any of its territories); (2) the
Level 2 ADAS was engaged at any time
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commencement of the crash through the
conclusion of the crash; and (3) the
crash resulted in any individual being
transported to a hospital for medical
treatment, a fatality, a vehicle tow-away,
an air bag deployment, or involved a
vulnerable road user.2 These crashes
must be reported within one business
day. Based on the number of
manufacturers that manufacture
vehicles equipped with Level 2 ADAS
systems, NHTSA estimates that it will
receive responses from 20 respondents
reporting Level 2 ADAS crashes each
year.
Further, after evaluating information
available to the agency regarding the
number of Level 2 ADAS crashes and
the number of vehicles equipped with
Level 2 ADAS, NHTSA estimates that it
will receive, on average, 3,400 Level 2
ADAS crash reports each year. NHTSA
believes this is a high-end estimate and
will refine this estimate after seeking
public comment. NHTSA expects that
the number of crash reports submitted
by each respondent will vary
significantly, with some manufacturers
submitting many more reports than
others. However, on average, NHTSA
estimates that each respondent will
submit, on average 170 crash reports per
year. NHTSA estimates that it will take
respondents approximately 2 hours to
compile and submit each crash report.
Therefore, NHTSA estimates the total
annual burden hours for submitting
Level 2 ADAS crash reports to be 340
hours per manufacturer (2 hours × 170
crash reports) and 6,800 hours for all
manufacturers (340 hours × 20
manufacturers).
Updates to incident reports involving
Level 2 ADAS that must be submitted
within ten days. In addition to
submitting information on certain Level
2 ADAS crashes within one day,
manufacturers must also submit
updated information within ten days.
NHTSA estimates that updating the
crash reports will take approximately 1
hour per report. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates that it will take each
manufacturer approximately 170 hours
each year to submit updated Level 2
ADAS crash reports (1 hour × 170 crash
reports) and 3,400 hours for all Level 2
ADAS manufacturers (170 hours × 20
manufacturers).
2A

‘‘vulnerable road user’’ is defined in the
General Order to mean and include ‘‘any person
who is not an occupant of a motor vehicle with
more than three wheels. This definition includes,
but is not limited to, pedestrians, persons traveling
in wheelchairs, bicyclists, motorcyclists, and riders
or occupants of other transport vehicles that are not
motor vehicles, such as all-terrain vehicles and
tractors.’’

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Incident reports involving ADS that
must be submitted within one business
day. To estimate the number of one-day
ADS crash reports NHTSA will receive
in each year, NHTSA looked at the
number of ADS crashes reported to
California.3 There were 105 ADS
crashes reported to California in 2019.4
NHTSA believes that it is reasonable to
assume that about half of all ADS testing
in the United States is occurring in
California. Therefore, NHTSA expects
that there will be approximately 200
ADS crashes in a year that
manufacturers and operators will be
required to report to NHTSA. Some of
these crashes will be required to be
submitted within one day and the rest
will be required to be submitted on a
monthly basis. The requirements for
when ADS crashes must be reported
within one day are the same as for Level
2 ADAS crashes: (1) The crash occurred
on a publicly accessible road in the
United States (including any of its
territories); (2) the ADS was engaged at
any time during the period from 30
seconds immediately prior to the
commencement of the crash through the
conclusion of the crash; and (3) the
crash resulted in any individual being
transported to a hospital for medical
treatment, a fatality, a vehicle tow-away,
or an air bag deployment or involves a
vulnerable road user.
Based on NHTSA’s review of the
California crash reports, NHTSA
believes that about half of the ADS
crashes will be submitted in monthly
reports, with the other half of crashes
being submitted within one day.
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that 100
ADS crash reports a year will be
submitted within one day. NHTSA
estimates that each ADS crash report
will take 2 hours to complete and
submit, including the time to submit
updated reports. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the burden per respondent to
be 2 hours (1 crash report × 2 hours) and
200 hours for all respondents (100 ADS
crash reports × 2 hours).
Updates to incident reports involving
ADS that must be submitted within ten
days. In addition to submitting
information on certain ADS crashes
within one day, manufacturers and
operators must also submit updated
information within ten days. NHTSA
3 See https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/vehicleindustry-services/autonomous-vehicles/
autonomous-vehicle-collision-reports/.
4 NHTSA chose to use the 2019 data instead of
using data from 2020 or an average of the two years
because of the impact of the COVID–19 health
emergency on ADS operations. We note that this is
overinclusive because reports are only due to
NHTSA when the ADS was in operation shortly
before or during the crash.

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estimates that updating the crash reports
will take approximately 1 hour per
report. Therefore, NHTSA estimates that
it will take each manufacturer
approximately 1 hour each year to
submit updated ADS crash reports and
100 hours for all ADS manufacturers
and operators (1 hour × 100 crash
reports).
Monthly reports. This information
collection requires respondents to
submit monthly reports. ADS
manufacturers and operators must
report crashes in these monthly reports
that are reportable but were not required
to be submitted within one day.
Additionally, both ADS manufacturers
and operators and ADAS manufacturers
will be required to submit information
in monthly reports if they receive new
material or materially different
information about crashes for which the
respondent already submitted reports
(via one-day reports, 10-day update
reports, or prior monthly reports).
Further, as explained above,
manufacturers and operators of ADSequipped vehicles and Level 2 ADAS
vehicles are required to submit monthly
reports even when they do not have any
new or updated crash reports under
Request No. 2 or Request No. 3 to
submit. If they do not have any
reportable information under Requests
Nos. 2 or 3, their monthly report is a
simple certification. To estimate the
burden of monthly reports, NHTSA
considered the burden for monthly
reports with initial ADS crash reports,
monthly reports with updates to
previously submitted crash reports, and
those with certifications of no reportable
information. NHTSA estimates there
will be 110 Level 2 ADAS and ADS
vehicle manufacturers and operators
that will be required to submit monthly
reports each year, for a total of 1,320
monthly reports annually.
NHTSA estimates that the burden for
preparing and submitting monthly
reports will vary depending on whether
the monthly report includes no
reportable information, new reportable
information, or updates to previously
submitted information. Some of these
respondents may be required to submit
only information about ADS crashes or
Level 2 ADAS crashes and some may be
required to submit information about
both types of crashes. NHTSA estimates
that because ADS equipped vehicles are
often operated in small, controlled
fleets, the reporting entities will readily
know whether there have been any
crashes that must be reported to
NHTSA. Level 2 ADAS vehicles,
however, are typically produced by
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that each monthly report submitted by
an ADS manufacturer or operator will
take 15 minutes to submit, and for ADS
manufacturers that have no reportable
information to submit, this will be the
only burden associated with submitting
the monthly report. For manufacturers
that also produce ADAS Level 2
vehicles, NHTSA estimates that
submitting monthly reports will take 2
hours, which allow the manufacturer to
verify whether the manufacturers have
received any reportable information.
NHTSA estimates that there will be 90
ADS manufacturers and operators and
20 manufacturers of Level 2 ADAS
vehicles each year (including
manufacturers that produce both Level
2 ADAS vehicles and ADS vehicles).
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that
annually respondents will spend 750
hours preparing and submitting
monthly reports not including burden
associated with providing new or
updated reportable information (90 ADS
manufacturers and operators × 12
monthly reports × 0.25 hours = 270
hours; 20 Level 2 ADAS manufacturers
× 12 monthly reports × 2 hours = 480
hours; 270 + 480 = 750).
As described above, NHTSA estimates
that there will be 200 ADS crash reports
each year and 100 of those will be
required to be submitted within one
business day. The remaining 100 ADS
crash reports will be submitted via
monthly reports. NHTSA estimates that
preparing and submitting monthly
reports that contain crash reports to
take, on average, 2 hours to prepare and
submit. Therefore, NHTSA estimates the
burden associated with preparing and
submitting ADS crash report
information that will be submitted in
monthly reports to be 200 hours (100
monthly reports × 2 hours).
In addition to submitting information
about new ADS crashes in monthly
reports, respondents also are required to
submit updated information in the
following month if any new material or
materially different information about
any ADS or Level 2 ADAS incident is
received. NHTSA estimates that for 20%
of ADS crashes first reported in a
monthly report (i.e., not a one-day
report), respondents will need to submit
updated information. For ADS and
Level 2 ADAS crashes that are reported
within one business day, NHTSA
estimates that respondents will need to
submit updated information in monthly
reports for 5% of those crashes (these
would be updates in addition to those
reported within ten days). Therefore,
NHTSA estimates that 195 monthly
reports will include updated crash
information (100 ADS crashes first
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3,400 Level 2 ADAS one-day crashes ×
0.05 = 170; 100 ADS one-day crashes ×
0.05 = 5; 20 + 170 + 5 = 195). NHTSA
estimates that providing updated
information within a monthly report
will take 1 hour. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the burden for monthly
reports with updated information to be
195 hours (195 monthly reports × 1
hour).
The total burden associated with
monthly reports is estimated to be 1,145
hours (750 hours + 200 hours + 195
hours), which averages to about 10.4
hours per respondent.
Training employees on the
requirements. In addition to the burden
associated with preparing and
submitting reports, any new reporting
entities added to the General Order are
also expected to incur burden associated
with training employees on the
reporting requirements. As explained
above, the existing 108 reporting entities
named in the General Order will not
incur this burden during the requested
extension. NHTSA estimates that there
will be an average of seven new
reporting entities added to the General
Order each year during the proposed
extension, that an average of five of
these new reporting entities will be ADS
manufacturers or operators and that an
average of two of these new reporting
entities will be Level 2 ADAS
manufacturers.
NHTSA expects that ADS
manufacturers and operators normally
monitor all crashes and, therefore, will
not need to train personnel on how to
respond to this new information
collection. NHTSA, however, does
expect that some Level 2 ADAS
manufacturers may need to spend time
training personnel on the requirements.
Although the amount of time may vary
by manufacturer, NHTSA estimates that,
on average, the two Level 2 ADAS
manufacturers will spend 40 hours on
training. Therefore, NHTSA estimates
the total annual burden for training to
be 80 hours (2 manufacturers × 40
hours).
Time to set up an account to submit
the reports. NHTSA also estimates that
new responding entities added to the
General Order during the proposed
extension period will need to set up a
new account with NHTSA to allow
them to submit reports. NHTSA
estimates that each of the estimated
average of 10 responding entities added
to the General Order annually need to
set up new accounts with NHTSA.
NHTSA estimates that setting up an
account will take 2 hours. Therefore,
NHTSA estimates the total annual
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NHTSA estimates the total annual
burden hours for the seven components
of this ICR to be 11,745 hours (6,800
hours for initial one-day Level 2 ADAS
reports, 3,400 hours for updated oneday Level 2 ADAS reports, 200 hours for
initial one-day ADS reports, 100 hours
for updated ADS reports, 945 hours for
monthly reports, 80 hours for training,
and 20 hours for setting up new
accounts).
To calculate the labor cost associated
with preparing and submitting crash

reports and reports, training, and setting
up new accounts, NHTSA looked at
wage estimates for the type of personnel
involved with these activities. NHTSA
estimates the total labor costs associated
with these burden hours by looking at
the average wage for architectural and
engineering managers in the motor
vehicle manufacturing industry
(Standard Occupational Classification #
11–9041). The Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS) estimates that the average hourly
wage is $65.62.5 The Bureau of Labor

Statistics estimates that private industry
workers’ wages represent 70.4% of total
labor compensation costs.6 Therefore,
NHTSA estimates the hourly labor costs
to be $93.21. Accordingly, NHTSA
estimates the total labor cost associated
with the 11,745 burden hours to be
$1,168,760.
Table 1 provides a summary of the
estimated burden hours and labor costs
associated with those submissions.

TABLE 1—BURDEN ESTIMATES
Number of
responses
(number of
respondents)

Description of information
collection component

Level 2 ADAS one-day reports,
initial.
Level 2 ADAS one-day reports,
update.
ADS one-day reports, initial .........
ADS one-day reports, update ......
Monthly Reports ...........................
Training ........................................
Setting Up Account ......................
Total ......................................

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Labor cost per
response

Total burden
hours

Total labor costs

2 (340)

$93.21

$186.42

6,800

$633,828.

3,400 (20)

1 (170)

93.21

93.21

3,400

316,914.

100
100
1,320 (110)
2 (2)
10 (10)

2
1
0.87 (10.4)
40 (40)
2 (2)

93.21
93.21
93.21
93.21
93.21

186.42
93.21
80.85
3,728.40
186.42

200
100
1,145
80
20

18,642.
9,321.
106,724.45 (106,724).
7,456.80 (7,457).
1,864.20 (1,864).

8,320 (110)

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

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

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

11,745

NHTSA does not currently know
whether manufacturers will incur
additional costs, nor does NHTSA have
a basis for estimating these costs.
However, in the interim, NHTSA
believes manufacturers will be able to
comply with requirements by only
incurring 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; (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 collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as
5 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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Average
hourly labor
cost

3,400 (20)

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost

VerDate Sep<11>2014

Estimated
burden per
response
(burden per
respondent)
(hours)

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amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29.
Ann E. Carlson,
Chief Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Petition for Exemption From the
Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention
Standard; Nissan North America, Inc.
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Grant of petition for exemption.
AGENCY:

This document grants in full
the Nissan North America, Inc.’s
(Nissan) petition for exemption from the
Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention
Standard (theft prevention standard) for
its ARIYA vehicle line beginning in
model year (MY) 2023. The petition is
granted because the agency has
determined that the antitheft device to

SUMMARY:

naics4_336100.htm#15-0000 (accessed June 21,
2021).
6 See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Mar. 2021), available

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1,094,751.

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. Nissan also
requested confidential treatment for
specific information in its petition.
Therefore, no confidential information
provided for purposes of this notice has
been disclosed.
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.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm
(accessed June 21, 2021).

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