Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements

Jack Danielson
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
28 April 2017

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 81 (Friday, April 28, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19785-19786]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-08641]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket Number NHTSA-2016-0131]


Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping Requirements

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 
Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) this notice announces NHTSA has submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a request for emergency clearance 
and review for existing information collection 2127-0025. Approval of 
this collection is essential to the mission of the agency.
    While NHTSA has requested a temporary emergency clearance for this 
collection, the agency is also in the process of requesting a full 
clearance for this collection and has already published a 30-day 
Federal Register notice requesting comment. This notice repeats that 
request for comments.

DATES: Comments on the already published request for comments must be 
received on or before May 22, 2017. We

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have requested that OMB take action on the emergency collection by 
April 30, 2017.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, by May 22, 2017, to the Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th 
Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: NHTSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Kuppersmith, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of the Chief Counsel (NCC-0010), 
(202) 366-5263, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA has requested emergency Paperwork 
Reduction Act clearance for its confidential business information 
collection (2127-0025) given the agency's current collection expires 
April 30, 2017, and use of this collection is essential to the mission 
of the agency. NHTSA published a 60-day renewal for this collection on 
December 28, 2016 (81 FR 95729), and received no comments. NHTSA 
published a 30-day notice for this collection on April 21, 2017 (82 FR 
18825), and the comment period remains open until May 22, 2017. The 
agency again requests any comments from the public on this request by 
that date.
    NHTSA expects that it will receive approximately 500 requests for 
confidentiality per year. With an estimated eight hours of preparation 
to collect and provide the information for each request, at an assumed 
rate of $24.92 per hour, the annual estimated cost of collecting and 
preparing the information necessary for 500 complete requests for 
confidential treatment is about $99,680 (8 hours of preparation x 500 
requests x $24.92). Adding in a postage cost of $3,325 (500 requests at 
a cost of $6.65 for postage (priority flat rate envelope from USPS)), 
we estimate that it will cost $103,005 per year for persons to prepare 
and submit the information necessary to satisfy the confidential 
business information provisions of 49 CFR part 512.
    Comments are invited on: 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; 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 by May 22, 2017.

    Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 
1.95.
Jack Danielson,
Acting Deputy Administrator, NHTSA.
[FR Doc. 2017-08641 Filed 4-27-17; 8:45 am]
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