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Steven K. Smith
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
7 October 2016
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 195 (Friday, October 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 69900-69901]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24288]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2016-0089]
Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments .
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SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), in
coordination with the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA), the
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and the Federal Motor Carrier
Safety Administration (FMCSA), is in the process of reviewing the
Guidelines for the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Fourth
Edition, December 2012, and requests comments to determine appropriate
improvements to address stakeholder concerns. The MMUCC provides States
with a dataset for describing crashes of motor vehicles in transport
that generates the information necessary to improve highway safety
within each State and nationally. NHTSA and GHSA established an expert
panel to review the proposed changes and comments received from Federal
Register Notice FR Doc. 2016-09231. On July 27-28, 2016, the MMUCC
expert panel met and decided on initial changes to MMUCC based on input
from the subject matter experts in attendance and written comments
submitted in response to a April 21, 2016 request for comments. The
MMUCC panel will meet again on October 27-28, 2016, to continue
deliberating changes to MMUCC and is seeking public input on additional
changes. Crash data users may comment on the utility of the current
MMUCC guidelines, the draft changes to MMUCC, and suggest additional
changes for the next update to MMUCC. Based on the input received in
response to this notice, NHTSA and GHSA anticipate issuing changes to
the Guidelines in 2017.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before October 28, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID number
NHTSA-2016-0089 or by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, M-30 U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery or Courier: Docket Management Facility, M-30
U.S. Department of Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m.
and 5 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Governors Highway Safety Association Web site: Go to
www.ghsa.org. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Regardless of how you submit your comments, you should identify the
Docket number of this notice. Note that all comments received in
response to this notice at www.regulations.gov or www.ghsa.org will be
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please read 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,
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business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's complete Privacy
Statement in the Federal Register published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR
19477-78) or you may visit http://docketsInfo.dot.gov.
Confidential Information: If you wish to submit any information
under a claim of confidentiality, you should submit three copies of
your complete submission, including the information you claim to be
confidential business information, to the Chief Counsel, NHTSA, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. In addition, you
should submit two copies, from which you have deleted the claimed
confidential business information, to Docket Management at the address
given above under ADDRESSES. When you send a comment containing
information claimed to be confidential business information, you should
include a cover letter setting forth the information specified in our
confidential business information regulation. (49 CFR part 512).
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.
Docket: For access to the docket to read the proposed changes to
MMUCC, background documents, or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For programmatic issues: John Siegler,
Office of Traffic Records and Analysis, NSA-221, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington,
DC 20590. Telephone (202) 366-1268.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
(MMUCC) provides data elements for describing crashes of motor vehicles
in transport that generates the information necessary to improve
highway safety within each State and nationally. Statewide motor
vehicle traffic crash data systems provide the basic information
necessary for effective highway and traffic safety efforts at any level
of government--local, State, or Federal. State crash data are used to
perform problem identification, establish goals and performance
measures, allocate resources, determine the progress of specific
programs, and support the development and evaluation of highway and
vehicle safety countermeasures. The use of State crash data can be
hindered by the lack of uniformity between and within States.
MMUCC represents a voluntary and collaborative effort to generate
uniform crash data that are accurate, reliable, and credible for data-
driven highway safety decisions within a State, between States, and at
the national level. MMUCC was originally developed in response to
requests by States interested in improving and standardizing their
State crash data. Lack of uniform reporting made the sharing and
comparison of State crash data difficult. Different elements and
definitions resulted in incomplete data and misleading results. MMUCC
recommends voluntary implementation of a ``minimum set'' of
standardized data elements to promote comparability of data within the
highway safety community. It serves as a foundation for State crash
data systems. The next planned update of the MMUCC Guideline is
scheduled for 2017.
Implementation of MMUCC is an ongoing and collaborative effort.
Changes to MMUCC approved during the first panel meeting on July 27-28,
2016, included creating new subsections for crashes involving (a)
fatalities, (b) large vehicles/hazardous materials, and (c) non
motorists; and modifications to existing crash, vehicle and person data
elements. This second request for information will provide additional
input to the MMUCC expert panel on a number of stakeholders' proposals
including the addition of a new data element for ``Motor Vehicle
Automation Equipped and Use.'' These topics will be discussed during
the second meeting on October 27-28, 2016, after which, NHTSA, in
collaboration with GHSA, FHWA, and FMCSA, will review and finalize the
MMUCC 5th edition for publication in 2017. Additional information about
the MMUCC update can be found on the Governor's Highway Safety
Association Web site www.ghsa.org. Full text of the draft revised
version of MMUCC can be viewed in the docket. The MMUCC 4th edition can
be viewed on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's Web
site at http://www-nrd.nhtsa.dot.gov/Pubs/811631.pdf.
Steven K. Smith,
Acting Associate Administrator for NHTSA's National Center for
Statistics and Analysis.
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