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value relative to the administrative
burden on transit agencies and FTA.
Consistent with the Administration’s
focus on reducing regulations, FTA
proposes rescinding the WE–20
reporting requirement.
DATES: Comments should be filed by
December 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may send comments,
identified by docket number FTA–
2025–0134, by any of the following
methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov and follow
the online instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Send comments to Docket
Management Facility; U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, between 9:00
a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Fax: Fax comments to Docket
Management Facility, U.S. Department
of Transportation, at (202) 493–2251.
Instructions: You must include the
agency name (Federal Transit
Administration) and Docket Number
(FTA–2025–0134) for this notice, at the
beginning of your comments. If sent by
mail, submit two copies of your
comments.
Electronic Access and Filing: This
document and all comments received
may be viewed online through the
Federal eRulemaking portal at https://
www.regulations.gov or at the street
address listed above. Electronic
submission, retrieval help, and
guidelines are available on the Federal
eRulemaking portal website. The
website is available 24 hours each day,
365 days a year. Please follow the
instructions. An electronic copy of this
document may also be downloaded
from the Office of the Federal Register’s
home page at https://
www.federalregister.gov.
Privacy Act: Except as provided
below, all comments received into the
docket will be made public in their
entirety. The comments will be
searchable 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 should not include
information in your comment you do
not want to be made public. You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19477–78) or at https://
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For
program questions, Chelsea Champlin,
National Transit Database Program
Manager, FTA Office of Budget and
Policy, 202–366–4050, or
[email protected]. For legal
questions, Alexander Lipow, AttorneyAdvisor, 202–366–4011, or
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
The NTD was established by Congress
to be the Nation’s primary source for
information and statistics on the transit
systems of the United States. Recipients
and beneficiaries of FTA grants under
either the Urbanized Area Formula
Program (49 U.S.C. 5307) or Rural Area
Formula Program (49 U.S.C. 5311) are
required by law to report data to the
NTD. Recipients generally report data
on an annual or monthly basis.
During the COVID–19 pandemic, FTA
found it did not have sufficient and
timely data on transit ridership or
transit service levels to inform decisionmakers at the Federal, State, and local
levels during the rapidly changing crisis
situation. To better understand changes
in the transit industry on a timely basis
during the tumultuous time, FTA went
through the notice and comment
process (Docket number FTA–2022–
0018) pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5334(k) to,
among other things, enable FTA to
collect additional data from a sample set
of modal reports from across the
universe of full, reduced, tribal, and
rural reporters on a weekly reference
WE–20 Form. FTA finalized the WE–20
reporting requirements in March 2023
(88 FR 13497).
The goal of the sample data collection
(received from approximately 400 FTA
recipients) was to obtain a
representative nationwide snapshot of
transit ridership and transit service
levels. The sampling methodology uses
a stratified random sampling based on
region, mode, and other factors. FTA
then made sampling adjustments as
needed based on unavailable modes,
recipients without weekly data access,
or other factors.
Although the WE–20 reporting
requirement provided important data as
the country recovered from the
pandemic, it is not required by statute,
and after two years of experience with
this data collection, FTA has now
determined the WE–20 reporting
requirement no longer offers sufficient
value relative to the administrative
burden on transit agencies and is
inconsistent with this Administration’s
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Proposed Recission of the WE–20
Reporting Requirement
In consideration of the foregoing, and
consistent with the Administration’s
focus on reducing regulatory burdens,
FTA proposes to rescind the WE–20
reporting requirement. The requirement
is not mandated by statute and no
longer offers sufficient value relative to
the administrative burden on transit
agencies. FTA welcomes public
comments on the proposed recission.
Marcus J. Molinaro,
Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2025–0053]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Request for Comment;
49 CFR Part 585, Phase-In Reporting
Requirements
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a request for reinstatement
with modification of a previously
approved information collection.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), 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 and its expected burden. This
notice describes a collection of
information for phase-in reporting
requirements as part of a final rule in
which NHTSA amended Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No.
208, ‘‘Occupant crash protection.’’ A
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
the following information collection
was published on May 28,2025. NHTSA
received one public comment that was
not relevant to the information
collection request.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before December 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing burden, should
be submitted to the Office of
SUMMARY:

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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.
Carla Rush ([email protected]), U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590, 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: 49 CFR part 585; Phase-In
Reporting Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0535.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Request: Reinstatement with
modification of a previously approved
information collection.1
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Requested Expiration Date of
Approval: 3 years from date of approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: On August 22, 2024,
NHTSA published a final rule amending
FMVSS No. 208, ‘‘Occupant crash
protection.’’ 2 Among other
requirements, FMVSS No. 208 mandates
that motor vehicles be equipped with
advanced air bag systems capable of
deactivating or adjusting the force with
which the air bags deploy depending on
size of the occupant seated in positions
with frontal air bags. Manufacturers
must certify that their advanced air bag
systems comply with the requirements
when certain child restraint systems
(CRSs) are installed in their vehicles
with specific dummies listed in the
standard. These specific CRSs are listed
1 This information collection request (ICR) is to
request a reinstatement with modification of a
previously approved information collection for
mandatory phase-in reporting for vehicle
manufacturers (OMB Control No. 2127–0535) and
requesting that it be renamed as ‘‘49 CFR part 585;
Phase-In Reporting Requirements.’’ This ICR will be
used to consolidate all phase-in reporting
requirements that are included in 49 CFR part 585
and was chosen because the OMB Control Number
is currently listed in 49 CFR 509 as being associated
with information collections contained in part 585.
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in Appendix A–1 of FMVSS No. 208,
and the August 2024 final rule updated
the list of CRSs listed in Appendix A–
1 to ensure the CRSs being used for
testing are representative of the current
CRS market.
As part of the update to FMVSS No.
208, there is a phase-in of the
requirements for testing with the new
CRSs listed in Appendix A–1. As with
all phase-ins, the agency is adopting a
reporting and recordkeeping
requirement to facilitate the agency’s
enforcement of the standard by aiding
NHTSA in determining whether a
manufacturer has complied with the
phase-in requirements during the phasein period. The reporting and
recordkeeping requirements require that
manufacturers submit an annual
production report to NHTSA that
includes the number of vehicles
manufactured in the current production
year and the production of complying
vehicles and retain records of
compliance with the phase-in
requirements for five years. NHTSA
estimates this collection will impact 22
manufacturers each year and will have
a total annual burden of 22 hours and
$0 in total annual cost.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: The purpose of the
reporting requirements is to aid NHTSA
in determining whether a manufacturer
has complied with the phase-in
requirements during the phase-in
period. Without the reporting
requirements, NHTSA would have no
way of knowing whether a manufacturer
has complied with the phase-in
requirements during the phase-in
period.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on May 28, 2025 (90 FR
22574). NHTSA received one public
comment that was not relevant to the
information collection request.
Affected Public: The only required
respondents for the reporting
requirements are applicable light
vehicle manufacturers.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
The agency expects 22 vehicle
manufacturers to be required to respond
to the information collection request.
Frequency: The final rule requires the
following implementation schedule:
Forty percent of all of a manufacturer’s
light vehicles must comply with the
revised appendix by September 1, 2025,
and all light vehicles must be fully
compliant no later than September 1,
2026. The phase-in plan requires
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the annual production quota in the
phase-in period. These requirements are
found in 49 CFR part 585, ‘‘Phase-In
Reporting Requirements.’’ The reporting
and recordkeeping requirements require
that manufacturers submit an annual
production report to NHTSA that
includes the number of vehicles
manufactured in the current production
year and the production of complying
vehicles and that they retain records of
compliance with the phase-in
requirements for five years. The report
is due within 60 days after the end of
the production year ending August 31,
2026. After the report is received,
requirements will cease and no further
report will be required during that year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: The
annual burden involves the tasks of
collection of the information required
by the annual report as well as placing
the information in a form suitable for
record keeping and data retrieval. Since
almost all of the information required is
already recorded by the manufacturers
as part of their production control and
tracking systems, a nominal assessment
of half a burden hour per respondent is
estimated for data retrieval and report
preparation and half a burden hour per
respondent for the record keeping of the
data.
NHTSA estimates the labor costs
associated with these labor hours using
hourly labor rates published by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). BLS
estimates that hourly wages represent
approximately 70.5 percent of total
compensation for private industry
workers.3 For the labor costs associated
with this ICR, NHTSA uses the mean
hourly wage of $40.64 per hour for
‘‘Technical Writers’’ (occupational code
27–3042) for the Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing Industry 4 and applies
the 70.5 percent factor to find the total
compensation rate of $57.65 per hour
($40.64 per hour divided by 0.705). The
total annual labor cost associated with
the burden hours is estimated to be
$1,268.20 (time burden of 22 hours ×
$57.65 cost per hour).
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
$0. There are no additional costs to
respondents other than the labor cost
associated with the burden hours
described above.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects of this
3 See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Dec. 2024), available
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf
(accessed April 1, 2025).
4 See May 2023 National Industry-Specific
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates,
NAICS 336100—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/
naics4_336100.htm#27-0000 (accessed April 1,
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information collection, including (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) 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
appropriate 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, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29A.
David Hines,
Acting Associate Administrator for
Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2025–0721]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Fatality Analysis Reporting
System (FARS) and Non-Traffic
Surveillance (NTS)
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:

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 reinstatement
of previously approved collections. This
document describes a collection of
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to seek OMB approval that collect data
on motor vehicle crashes involving
fatalities.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before January 20, 2026.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket No. NHTSA–
2025–0721 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.
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 Barbara
Rhea, State Data Reporting Systems
Division (NSA–120), (202) 560–6724,
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, Room W53–304, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Please identify the relevant
collection of information by referring to
its OMB Control Number (2127–0006).
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, it
must first publish a document in the
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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 (at
5 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
collection of information for which the
agency is seeking approval from OMB.
Title: Fatality Analysis Reporting
System (FARS) and Non-Traffic
Surveillance (NTS).
OMB Control Number: 2127–0006.
Form Number(s): NHTSA Form 2100.
Type of Request: Revision 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
NHTSA is authorized by 49 U.S.C.
30182 and 23 U.S.C. 402, 403 & 405, the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
(IIJA) (Pub. L. 117–58) and the Cameron
Gulbransen Kids Transportation Safety
Act of 2007 (K.T. Safety Act) (Pub. L.
110–189) to collect data on motor
vehicle traffic crashes to aid in the
identification of issues and the
development, implementation, and
evaluation of motor vehicle and
highway safety countermeasures to
reduce fatalities and the property
damage associated with motor vehicle
crashes. Using this authority, NHTSA
established the Fatal Analysis Reporting
System (FARS) and the Non-Traffic
Surveillance (NTS), which collect data
on fatal motor vehicle traffic crashes.
Among other things, the information
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