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that a host railroad’s PTC system
complies with Title 49 Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) part 236, subpart I,
before the technology may be operated
in revenue service. Before making
certain changes to an FRA-certified PTC
system or the associated FRA-approved
PTCSP, a host railroad must submit, and
obtain FRA’s approval of, an RFA to its
PTC system or PTCSP under 49 CFR
236.1021.
Under 49 CFR 236.1021(e), FRA’s
regulations provide that FRA will
publish a notice in the Federal Register
and invite public comment in
accordance with 49 CFR part 211, if an
RFA includes a request for approval of
a material modification or
discontinuance of a signal and train
control system. Accordingly, this notice
informs the public that, on March 15,
2023, MNR submitted an RFA to its
Advanced Civil Speed Enforcement
System II (ACSES II), which seeks FRA’s
approval to discontinue its PTC system
temporarily for three months from
September 1, 2023, to December 1, 2023,
while it installs a new interlocking and
makes certain signal system changes.
That RFA is available in Docket No.
FRA–2010–0032.
Interested parties are invited to
comment on MNR’s RFA to its PTC
system by submitting written comments
or data. During FRA’s review of this
railroad’s RFA, FRA will consider any
comments or data submitted within the
timeline specified in this notice and to
the extent practicable, without delaying
implementation of valuable or necessary
modifications to a PTC system. See 49
CFR 236.1021; see also 49 CFR
236.1011(e). Under 49 CFR 236.1021,
FRA maintains the authority to approve,
approve with conditions, or deny a
railroad’s RFA to its PTC system at
FRA’s sole discretion.

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Privacy Act Notice
In accordance with 49 CFR 211.3,
FRA solicits comments from the public
to better inform its decisions. DOT posts
these comments, without edit, including
any personal information the
commenter provides, to https://
www.regulations.gov, as described in
the system of records notice (DOT/ALL–
14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
See https://www.regulations.gov/
privacy-notice for the privacy notice of
regulations.gov. To facilitate comment
tracking, we encourage commenters to
provide their name, or the name of their
organization; however, submission of
names is completely optional. If you
wish to provide comments containing
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please contact FRA for alternate
submission instructions.
Issued in Washington, DC.
Carolyn R. Hayward-Williams,
Director, Office of Railroad Systems and
Technology.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. DOT–NHTSA–2023–0015]

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 for
extension with modification 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. This
document describes an existing
collection of information for NHTSA’s
Automated Vehicle Transparency and
Engagement for Safe Testing (AV TEST)
Initiative for which NHTSA intends to
seek renewed 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 June 5, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket No. DOT–
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NHTSA–2023–0015 through any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• 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 Chris
Wiacek, Office of Data Acquisition,
(NSA–100), Room W53–478, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Mr. Wiacek’s telephone number
is (202) 366–4801.
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
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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 (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: 2127–0748.
Type of Request: Request for approval
of an existing 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
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dramatically decrease the number of
fatalities and injuries on our Nation’s
roadways. NHTSA believes that
Automated Driving System (ADS)
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 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 maintains 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 supports 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 is 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

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activity, high-level (non-confidential)
descriptions of the vehicles and
technology, photos of the test vehicles,
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.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
are 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. This program provides a
central resource for the aforementioned
information concerning ADS testing
across the United States.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
NHTSA anticipates that the Initiative
could expand to include up to 35 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
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
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ADS operator participants, the total
burden is estimated to be 1,920 hours
per year (40 respondents × 48 hours).
NHTSA estimates that each State or
local authority respondent would spend
approximately 10 hours responding to
this collection. Therefore, for the
estimated 35 State or local authority
participants, the total burden is
estimated to be 350 hours per year.
The total burden for the entire
information collection request is
estimated to be 2,270 hours (1,920 hours
+ 350 hours). The total burden hours
have been reduced from the original
estimate of 2,520 when the agency first
sought approval for this information
collection because of the lower
estimated participation. However, the
agency believes the annual hours per
respondent has not changed.
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 0.705 2 (70.5%), for private
industry workers, or 0.619 (61.9%), 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 $60.48 per
hour for ‘‘Project Management
Specialists,’’ Occupation Code 13–1082,
($42.64 3 per hour ÷ 0.705). The labor
cost per private industry respondent for
each year for development and
submission of information is estimated
to be $2,903.04 ($60.48 × 48 hours).
Therefore, the total annual labor cost for
private industry to participate in the AV
TEST Initiative is estimated to be

$116,121.60 ($2,903.04 × 40
respondents).
Labor costs associated with local and
regional authorities, such as states,
counties, and cities are estimated to be
$66.79 per hour for ‘‘Legal Support
Workers,’’ Occupation Code 23–2099,
($41.34 4 per hour ÷ 0.619). The labor
cost per regional authority respondent
for each year for development and
submission of information is estimated
to be $667.90 ($66.79 × 10 hours).
Therefore, the total annual labor cost for
regional authorities to participate in the
AV TEST Initiative is estimated to be
$23,376.50 ($667.9 × 35 respondents).
The total annual labor costs for all
respondents, private industry and
regional authorities together, are
estimated to be $139,499 ($116,122 +
$23.377). See Table 1 below for a
summary of estimated burden hours and
estimated labor costs.

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

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Respondent type

Annual
hours per
respondent

Labor cost
per hour

Annual labor
cost per
respondent

Total estimated
burden hours

Total annual
labor costs

Original Manufacturer of ADS Vehicles or ADS Vehicle Equipment and Operators of ADS Vehicles .........................................
State or Local Authority ..................................................................

40
35

48
10

$60.48
66.79

$2,903.04
667.900

1,920
350

$116,122
23,377

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

75

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

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

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

2,270

139,499

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
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

2 See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Sep. 2022), available
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm
(accessed March 14, 2023).
3 See May 2021 National Industry-Specific
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates.

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amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29.
Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for
Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency
[Docket ID OCC–2023–0006]

Minority Depository Institutions
Advisory Committee
Office of the Comptroller of the
Currency (OCC), Treasury.
ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory
Committee meeting.
AGENCY:

The OCC announces a
meeting of the Minority Depository

SUMMARY:

NAICS 336100—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing,
available (accessed March 14, 2023).
4 See May 2021 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates by ownership.
Federal, state, and local government, including
government-owned schools and hospitals and the
U.S. Postal Service, available at https://

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Institutions Advisory Committee
(MDIAC).
DATES: The OCC MDIAC will hold a
public meeting on Tuesday, April 25,
2023, beginning at 8:15 a.m. Eastern
Daylight Time (EDT). The meeting will
be in person and virtual.
ADDRESSES: The OCC will hold the April
25, 2023 meeting of the MDIAC at the
OCC’s offices at 400 7th Street SW,
Washington, DC 20219 and virtually.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andre´ King, Designated Federal Officer
and Assistant Deputy Comptroller, (202)
649–5420, Office of the Comptroller of
the Currency, 400 Seventh Street SW,
Washington, DC 20219. If you are deaf,
hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access
telecommunications relay services. You
may also access prior MDIAC meeting
materials on the MDIAC page of OCC’s
website.1
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
authority of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (the Act), 5 U.S.C. 1001
www.bls.gov/oes/current/999001.htm#23-0000
(accessed March 14, 2023).
1 https://www.occ.gov/topics/supervision-andexamination/bank-management/minoritydepository-institutions/minority-depositoryinstitutions-advisory-committee.html.

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