Notice of Request for Comments: Drug-Impaired Driving Criminal Justice Evaluation Tool |
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Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
27 February 2020
[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 39 (Thursday, February 27, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 11449-11450]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-03917]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2019-0122]
Notice of Request for Comments: Drug-Impaired Driving Criminal
Justice Evaluation Tool
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is
engaged in numerous activities to reduce drug-impaired driving,
including conducting research and developing tools, resources, and
promising practices to assist States and local communities. To aid in
evaluating efforts to address drug-impaired driving, NHTSA has
developed the Drug-Impaired Driving Criminal Justice Evaluation Tool.
The tool is designed to assist with identifying program strengths and
opportunities for improvements. After asking two organizations to test
the model to explore weaknesses and identify areas for refinement,
NHTSA now wishes to learn from other practitioners about any
improvements and refinements that could add value to the tool. This
notice requests comment on the completeness and usability of the tool.
DATES: Comments are due by April 27, 2020. See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section on ``Public Participation,'' below, for more
information about written comments.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the DOT docket above
using any of the following methods:
Electronic Submissions: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow
the online instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251
Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments, see
the Public Participation heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document. Note that all comments received will be
posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided.
Privacy Act: Except for Confidential Information, as discussed
below, all comments received into the docket will be made public in
their entirety. The comments will be searchable by the name of the
individual submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted
on behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You should
not include information in your comment that you do not want to be made
public. You may review the DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement at
https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov or to the street
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the
docket.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please contact Jennifer Davidson at
jennifer.davidson@dot.gov or (202) 366-2163.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Drug-Impaired Driving Criminal Justice
Evaluation Tool is designed to allow State, local, territorial, and
tribal governments to assess and strengthen their drug-impaired driving
programs. The tool consists of questions divided into ten sections
representative of critical criminal justice and programmatic elements.
The categories include law enforcement, prosecution, judiciary,
community supervision, toxicology, treatment, emergency medical
services, data, legislation, and program and communications. The Excel
file, which can be downloaded from NHTSA's website at https://www.nhtsa.gov/DUIDtool, allows individual sections to be sent to the
appropriate organizational representative for completion.
The Drug-Impaired Driving Criminal Justice Evaluation Tool allows
users to assess their existing programs to reduce drug-impaired driving
through a systematic review of activities, policies, and procedures
being implemented. The completed tool is intended purely for the use of
State, local, territorial or tribal governments for self-assessment and
will not be collected by NHTSA. The tool can help jurisdictions
identify gaps in their drug-impaired driving programs, inform
strategies to strengthen the programs, and help track progress over
time against baseline results. The tool includes links to best
practices and resources for strengthening drug-impaired driving
programs.
The Drug-Impaired Driving Criminal Justice Evaluation Tool is
designed to be completed in consultation with representatives most
familiar with the relevant program areas, either individually or via
group discussion (e.g., with the State DWI Task Force). The tool can be
completed in its entirety for a comprehensive program evaluation of the
criminal justice system's ability to respond to drug-impaired driving,
or where appropriate to assess one component of the criminal justice
system.
The evaluation is based on the Capability Maturity Model, used by
other Federal agencies, to develop and refine an organization's
software or program development process. The model utilizes a five-step
hierarchy of program growth and maturity. The Capability Maturity Model
can serve as a benchmark and be repeated to show progress over time.
After answering the questions for each subsection of the tool, raters
note their program strength level for each component using a defined 0-
5 point scale. Scores are tabulated on the final ``Scoring'' sheet to
provide an overall view of program performance for each component and
to compare against baseline results for repeat evaluations. Planning
sections are included for each issue area following ratings to document
program strengths, opportunities, and goals for improvement.
NHTSA conducted a limited test of the evaluation tool to obtain
feedback on how to enhance and improve its value. Since making
refinements recommended during testing, NHTSA is interested in learning
more about potential end-users' impressions of the tool.
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We believe the questions below may help guide commenters in
developing their submissions.
1. Is the information provided adequate to understand how to use
the tool?
2. Is the format easy to use?
3. Are there other resources that should be included?
4. Will this tool be beneficial to State, local, territorial and
tribal drug-impaired driving criminal justice programs?
5. What changes are needed to make the tool more beneficial?
Public Participation:
How do I prepare and submit comments?
Your comments must be written and in English. To ensure that your
comments are filed correctly in the docket, please include the docket
number of this document in your comments.
Please submit one copy (two copies if submitting by mail or hand
delivery) of your comments, including any attachments, to the docket
following the instructions given above under ADDRESSES. Please note, if
you are submitting comments electronically as a PDF (Adobe) file, we
ask that the documents submitted be scanned using an Optical Character
Recognition (OCR) process, thus allowing the agency to search and copy
certain portions of your submissions.
How do I submit confidential business information?
Any submissions containing Confidential Information must be
delivered to NHTSA in the following manner:
Submitted in a sealed envelope marked ``confidential
treatment requested'';
Accompanied by an index listing the document(s) or
information that the submitter would like the Departments to withhold.
The index should include information such as numbers used to identify
the relevant document(s) or information, document title and
description, and relevant page numbers and/or section numbers within a
document; and
Submitted with a statement explaining the submitter's
grounds for objecting to disclosure of the information to the public.
NHTSA also requests that submitters of Confidential Information
include a non-confidential version (either redacted or summarized) of
those confidential submissions in the public docket. In the event that
the submitter cannot provide a non-confidential version of its
submission, NHTSA requests that the submitter post a notice in the
docket stating that it has provided NHTSA with Confidential
Information. Should a submitter fail to docket either a non-
confidential version of its submission or to post a notice that
Confidential Information has been provided, we will note the receipt of
the submission on the docket, with the submitter's organization or name
(to the degree permitted by law) and the date of submission.
Will the Agency consider late comments?
NHTSA will consider all comments received before the close of
business on the comment closing date indicated above under DATES. To
the extent possible, the agency will also consider comments received
after that date.
How can I read the comments submitted by other people?
You may read the comments received at the address given above under
COMMENTS. The hours of the docket are indicated above in the same
location. You may also see the comments on the internet, identified by
the docket number at the heading of this notice, at https://www.regulations.gov.
Authority: 23 U.S.C. 403(b).
Issued in Washington, DC.
Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
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