Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Request for Comment

Jeff Michael
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
November 5, 2014

[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 214 (Wednesday, November 5, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 65767-65768]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-26337]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Request for Comment

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces that the Information 
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below will be submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The ICR describes the 
nature of the information collection and its expected burden. A Federal 
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting public comments 
on the following information collection was published on February 14, 
2014 (Federal Register/Vol. 79, No. 31/pp. 9038-9040).

DATES: Submit comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on 
or before December 5, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Block at the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Behavioral Safety Research 
(NTI-131), W46-499, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr. Block's phone number is 202-366-
6401 and his email address is alan.block@dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB Control Number: 2127-New.
    Title: Demonstration Tests of Different High Visibility Enforcement 
Models.
    Form No.: NHTSA Forms 1121 and 1122.
    Type of Review: Regular.
    Respondents: Telephone interviews will be administered to residents 
in each of five selected communities who are drivers, age 18 and older, 
have access to a residential landline and/or a personal cell phone, and 
have consumed alcohol in the past year. In-person interviews will be 
conducted in each of the five selected communities at bars or other 
establishments serving alcohol with patrons age 21 and older.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: A maximum of 18,000 telephone 
interviews and 6,000 in-person interviews with patrons of bars or other 
establishments serving alcohol.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes per telephone interview and 
10 minutes per interview with patrons of bars or other establishments 
serving alcohol.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,000 hours.
    Frequency of Collection: There will be a maximum of three survey 
waves at each of the five community sites. A telephone survey and a 
survey of patrons at bars or other establishments serving alcohol will 
be conducted during each survey wave, with each respondent interviewed 
once. The drinking establishment interview will be split such that 
questions will be asked of each respondent both during entry and exit 
from the establishment.
    Abstract: Highly visible enforcement (HVE) has had the strongest 
support in the research literature for effectiveness in reducing 
alcohol-impaired driving. The unknown at this time is the relationship 
of the amount of HVE to perceived likelihood within a community of an 
alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law enforcement. In 
particular, does the perceived likelihood increase as the amount of HVE 
increases? And is the optimum effect on awareness and perceived 
likelihood achieved through an integrated program where HVE is 
integrated into regular law enforcement operations? NHTSA proposes to 
answer those questions by selecting community sites engaging in 
different levels of HVE activity during a one-year period, and 
measuring community awareness of those enforcement programs and the 
perceived likelihood of an alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law 
enforcement.
    Data collection to assess program awareness and perceptions of 
enforcement will be of two forms. Telephone surveys will be conducted 
in each community, with each survey wave composed of 1,200 completed 
interviews with drivers age 18 and older who have consumed alcohol in 
the past year. The second form of data collection will be in-person 
interviews with patrons at bars or other establishments serving 
alcohol. The intent here is to collect information on program awareness 
and perceived likelihood of an alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by 
law enforcement from a population with a heavier concentration of 
individuals at-risk of driving at illegal blood alcohol concentrations 
(BACs) than one would find in a community-wide telephone survey. The 
drinking establishment surveys will be conducted during the same times 
of the year as the telephone surveys. Four hundred bar patrons will be 
interviewed per community per survey wave, with a maximum of three 
survey waves. Respondents will be asked a few questions both upon entry 
and exit from the establishment. Breath samples will also be taken. The 
breath test results will not be available on-site but will be 
downloaded later.
    In conducting the telephone interviews, the interviewers would use 
computer-assisted telephone interviewing to reduce interview length and 
minimize recording errors. No personal information will be collected 
that would allow any respondent to be identified. The data collection 
at drinking establishments would be anonymous; no personal information 
that would allow anyone to identify respondents will be collected.

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for Department of 
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or by 
email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or fax: 202-395-5806.
    Comments Are Invited on: whether the proposed collection of 
information

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is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the 
Department of Transportation, including whether the information will 
have practical utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of 
the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance the 
quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and 
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. A comment to OMB is most 
effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication of this 
notice.

    Authority:  44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).

    Issued in Washington, DC on October 31, 2014.
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2014-26337 Filed 11-4-14; 8:45 am]
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