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Jeffrey Michael
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
October 30, 2013
[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 210 (Wednesday, October 30, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65038-65040]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-25793]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA-2013-0113]
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping Requirements
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Request for public comment on proposed collection of
information.
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SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from
the public, it must receive approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB). Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federal agencies must solicit
public comment on proposed collections of information, including
extensions and
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reinstatements of previously approved collections.
This document describes the collection of information for which
NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 30, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA-2013-0113 using any of the following methods:
Electronic submissions: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the on-line instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, M-30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 1-(202) 493-2251.
Instructions: Each submission must include the Agency name and the
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 for all
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comments (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 http://DocketsInfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Russell Pierce, Contracting
Officer's Technical Representative, Office of Behavioral Safety
Research (NTI-132), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., W46-472, Washington, DC 20590. Dr. Pierce's
phone number is (202) 366-5599 and his email address is
russell.pierce@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed collection of information to OMB
for approval, it must 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 regulations (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; and
(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 public comment on
the following proposed collection of information:
Medical Review Guidelines and Medical Advisory Board Practices
Type of Request--New Information Collection.
OMB Clearance Number--None.
Form Number--NHTSA 1228.
Requested Expiration Date of Approval--3 years from date of
approval.
Summary of the Collection of Information--The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) proposes to collect information
from an individual in the Medical Review Department in each of the 50
State Driver Licensing Agencies and The District of Columbia about
their State's driver medical review structure and processes. The
information collected will be used to produce a short narrative
describing each State's medical review structure and processes, plus
several appendices with tables displaying each individual State's
responses to the questions, and totals for each response. Data will be
collected, according to each respondent's preference, via a Microsoft
Word document distributed and collected via email or a print version
distributed and collected via US mail, and the responses will consist
primarily of checkbox response types and fill-in-the-blank options when
non-standard checkboxes are selected. Additionally, survey respondents
will be provided with a short narrative that describes their State's
medical review processes, and asked to review and edit/update the
narrative as necessary to ensure its accuracy.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information--NHTSA was established to reduce the number of deaths,
injuries, and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes on
the Nation's highways. As part of this statutory mandate, NHTSA is
authorized to conduct research as a foundation for the development of
motor vehicle standards and traffic safety programs.
As our population ages, age-related impairments in safe driving
abilities will become more prevalent. The private automobile remains by
far the most often used and most preferred means of meeting community
mobility needs among older adults. Along with the increase in the
number of older drivers, an increase in the driving exposure of older
adults is likely, both in terms of the frequency of their trips and the
distances they drive. In addition, due to increased physical frailty,
older individuals are also most likely to be seriously injured or
killed in an automotive crash. Therefore, driver medical review
practices are likely to assume a more prominent role in the years
ahead.
Medical review guidelines and practices can help evaluate drivers
referred to a State motor vehicle licensing agency for reexamination
due to concerns about unsafe driving performance possibly resulting
from suspected age or medical condition related impairments in visual,
physical, or mental abilities. Society has an interest in ensuring that
these medical review guidelines and practices are in place and are
effective in reducing motor vehicle crashes, injury, and death. This
data collection will provide NHTSA with an accurate description of
current medical review practices across the country. This is a
necessary first step in identifying which structures and processes work
best.
Description of the Likely Respondents (Including Estimated Number,
and Proposed Frequency of Response to the Collection of Information)--
TransAnalytics (NHTSA's Contractor) plans to enlist the assistance of
the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) to
identify the most appropriate contact in each State, for distribution
of the survey and the narrative summary for review and update.
Estimate of the Total Annual Reporting and Record Keeping Burden
Resulting from the Collection of Information--There will be
approximately 70 questions on the survey requiring checkbox responses,
and an occasional fill-in-the-blank response required when ``other'' is
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checked. We estimate the time to complete the survey for the medical
review contact in each State to be 2.5 hours. Additionally, we estimate
2.5 hours of time for each medical review contact to review and edit
the narrative describing their State's medical review structure and
process. This estimate includes the time that may be required to
respond to telephone contacts made by TransAnalytics if necessary, to
follow-up or clarify survey responses. The total estimated annual
burden will be 255 hours (5 hours for each respondent, 50 States +
Washington, DC). Survey respondents will incur no costs from the data
collection and will incur no record keeping burden and no record
keeping cost from the information collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued on October 25, 2013.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2013-25793 Filed 10-29-13; 8:45 am]
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