Notice and Request for Comments

Terry T. Shelton
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
31 May 2018

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 105 (Thursday, May 31, 2018)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket Number DOT-NHTSA-2018-0034]


Notice and Request for Comments

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation (DOT) invites public comments 
about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) approval to start a new information collection. 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 
reinstatement of previously approved collections.

DATES: Comments must be received on or before July 30, 2018.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments [identified by Docket No. DOT-NHTSA-
2018-0034] through one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
     Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management Facility, 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.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Frenchik, Office of Data 
Acquisition, Safety Systems Management Division (NSA-0130), Room W53-
303, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Mr. Frenchik's 
telephone number is (202) 366-0641. Please identify the relevant 
collection of information by referring to its OMB Control Number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: State Data Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information.
    OMB Control Number: xxxx-xxxx.
    Type of Request: Collection of motor vehicle crash data.
    Abstract: The U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) was established by Congress to 
save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce economic costs due to motor 
vehicle crashes through education, research, safety standards, and 
enforcement activity. Within NHTSA, the National Center for Statistics 
and Analysis is responsible for providing timely, complete, and high-
quality data for use by NHTSA, other Federal, State, and local 
governmental agencies, as well as others in motor vehicle safety 
research and analysis to reduce crashes, injuries, deaths, and 
associated medical costs. NHTSA conducts these activities pursuant to 
49 U.S.C. Chapter 301.
    Historically, NHTSA has been collecting vehicle crash data from 
States through several programs, including, the State Data System 
(SDS), the Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), the Crash Report 
Sampling System (CRSS) and the Crash Investigation Sampling System 
(CISS). Even though each of these data collection programs collects 
data for its own focus area, all these programs include crash data from 
the States' crash data systems. Each of these programs retrieves data 
from the States separately. The process of retrieving data from States 
is also not automated, requiring manual data entry. The following are 
brief descriptions of these data collection programs:
     FARS is a nationwide census of fatalities suffered in 
motor vehicle traffic crashes;
     CRSS is a nationally representative sample of police-
reported crashes involving all types of motor vehicles, pedestrians, 
and cyclists, ranging from property-damage-only crashes to those that 
result in fatalities;
     CISS is a nationally representative sample of minor, 
serious, and fatal crashes involving at least one passenger vehicle--
cars, light trucks, sport utility vehicles, and vans--towed from the 
scene;
     SDS collects vehicle crash data files from a limited 
number of States.
    Over the last decade or so, efforts have been underway to 
consolidate, improve, and automate data management at Federal and State 
levels. Many States have built centralized databases for their crash 
data. With the adoption of new data management technologies and 
increased adoption of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) 
guideline, the timing is now ideal to pursue the electronic transfer of 
State crash data to NHTSA. The State Data Transfer effort will automate 
the transfer of the State's motor vehicle crash data, including crashes 
resulting in fatalities, injuries and property damage only, into a 
federal data warehouse. NHTSA will use the data collected in this 
federal data warehouse to replace the manual data collection and coding 
to the extent possible for SDS, FARS, CRSS, and CISS. Data in this 
federal data warehouse will also be available to other federal agencies 
to analyze safety trends and identify safety issues across the nation. 
Through NHTSA's State Data Transfer collection effort, NHTSA seeks to 
reduce or eliminate the redundant processes and have more accurate, 
high quality and timely data to help save lives, prevent injuries, and 
reduce economic costs due to motor vehicle crashes.
    Affected Public: State Governments.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 15.
    Frequency: Mutually agreed upon between NHTSA and States; 
potentially from daily to annual.
    Estimated Total One-Time Initial Implementation Burden Hours: 200 
hours per State.
    Estimated Total One-Time Initial Implementation Burden Cost: $8,800 
per State.
    Estimated Total Annual Maintenance Burden Hours: 5 hours per State.
    Estimated Total Annual Maintenance Burden Cost: $1,000 per State.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including (a) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the Department's 
performance; (b) the accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) ways for the 
Department to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the 
information collection; and (d) ways that the burden could be minimized 
without reducing the quality of the collected information. The agency 
will summarize and/or include your comments in the request for OMB's 
clearance of this information collection.

    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1:48.

Terry T. Shelton,
Associate Administrator, National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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