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Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Evaluation of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria Program Publication: Federal Register Signing Official: Chou-Lin Chen Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Date: 29 August 2022 
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 166 (Monday, August 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52840-52842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18492]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2022-0028]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Evaluation of
the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria Program
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments on a new information
collection.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below will be submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR describes a new
information collection to survey a national sample of law enforcement
and its expected burden. A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on the following information
collection was published on March 29, 2022. NHTSA received two
comments. As explained in this document, neither of the comments
necessitates revisions to the information collection or burden
estimates.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 28, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including suggestions for reducing burden,
should be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. To find this particular information
collection, select ``Currently under Review--Open for Public Comment''
or use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or access
to background documents, contact John Siegler, National Center for
Statistic and Analysis (NSA-221), (202) 366-1268, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, W55-233, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, Please
identify the relevant collection of information by referring to its OMB
Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a
Federal agency must receive approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) before it collects certain information from the public and
a person is not required to respond to a collection of information by a
Federal agency unless the collection displays a valid OMB control
number. In compliance with these requirements, this notice announces
that the following information collection request will be submitted
OMB.
A Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting
public comments on the following information collection was published
on March 29, 2022 (87 FR 18065).
Title: Evaluation of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
Program.
OMB Control Number: New.
Form Number:
Type of Request: New Information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three years.
Summary of the Collection of Information: NHTSA is authorized by 49
U.S.C. 30182 and 23 U.S.C. 403 to collect data on motor vehicle traffic
crashes to aid in the identification of issues and the development,
implementation, and evaluation of motor vehicle and highway safety
countermeasures.
The MMUCC guideline identifies a minimum set of motor vehicle crash
data variables and their attributes that States should consider
collecting and including in their State crash data systems. MMUCC is a
voluntary, minimum set of standardized data variables for describing
motor vehicle traffic crashes. MMUCC promotes data uniformity within
the highway safety community by creating a foundation for State crash
data systems to provide the information necessary to improve highway
safety. The crash data is used to identify issues, determine highway
safety messages and strategic communication campaigns, optimize the
location of selective law enforcement, inform decision-makers of needed
highway safety legislation, and
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evaluate the impact of highway safety countermeasures. NHTSA developed
MMUCC with the Governors Highway Safety Association in 1998 and have
regularly updated the guidelines together, with the most recent fifth
edition published in 2017.
NHTSA is seeking approval to conduct a voluntary national survey of
active law enforcement officers. The purpose of the survey would be to
solicit officers' judgement about collecting the crash data variables
described in the current fifth edition of the Model Minimum Uniform
Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Guideline (DOT HS 812 433, July 2017) as well as
to test officers' abilities to accurately collect both existing MMUCC
variables and proposed new or modified variables.
First, NHTSA will hire a contractor to contact police chiefs within
the 397 sampling units used by NHTSA's Crash Reporting Sampling System
(CRSS) to request the nomination of four law enforcement officers in
their department who collect crash data to participate in the study.
Specifically, NHTSA is requesting the police chiefs to provide
personally identifiable information (PII) about the nominated law
enforcement officers, including names and contact information (email,
phone, and address) so that NHTSA can contact these officers to
administer a survey on MMUCC data elements and arrange payment of an
honorarium.
Second, NHTSA will send the officers who were nominated to
participate in this study a unique link to one of two online surveys,
which will examine the feasibility of collecting the MMUCC crash data.
The surveys will collect limited information about each respondent
including the State where they work as a law enforcement officer, the
extent of their training for collecting crash data, and the number of
years the respondents have completed crash reports. The surveys will
collect information about respondents' beliefs and abilities to
accurately collect crash data according to the MMUCC guidelines. The
surveys will ask respondents to rate the difficulty of accurately
collecting specific MMUCC data elements, assess respondents ability to
collect information using MMUCC data elements for fictitious crash
scenarios, and ask for suggestions on how MMUCC data elements can be
improved.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: States' adoption of MMUCC variables has been slow and
inconsistent. Currently the variables collected on State's police crash
reports alignment to MMUCC variables is less than 50 percent, NHTSA
intends to conduct this information collection to learn why the
alignment rate is so low. Before embarking on the sixth edition of
MMUCC, NHTSA seeks to assess the feasibility of collecting the data
variables in MMUCC and to identify problematic data variables and other
factors that impede States from adopting the MMUCC variables.
To assess the ability of law enforcement officers to accurately
collect MMUCC crash data variables, NHTSA will conduct an electronic
survey of a national sample of law enforcement officers who complete
crash reports. The survey will ask respondents to review fictitious
crash scenarios and collect the MMUCC data variables. In addition, law
enforcement officers will be asked about their confidence to accurately
collect MMUCC data variables and to provide suggestions for improving
each data variable as needed. Examples of the types of crash data
variables in MMUCC that law enforcement will be asked about include
Direction of Travel, Sequence of Events, Type of Intersection, and
Restraint System Use. The information collected will allow NHTSA to
identify data variables in MMUCC that officers might interpret
differently. The results will inform deliberations about the content of
the next edition of MMUCC. A summary of this research will be published
as an appendix to the next edition of MMUCC.
60-Day Notice: NHTSA published a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register on March 29, 2022 (87 FR 18065), requesting comments on
NHTSA's intention to request approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for a new information collection to survey a national
sample of law enforcement officers on their knowledge and understanding
of MMUCC. NHTSA received two comments on the 60-day notice. One
organization, Trucking with the Schmitt's, asked about the expense of
the data collection and recommended data to collect for crashes
involving commercial motor vehicles. The National Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies (NAMIC) wrote a letter in support of NHTSA's
proposed collection of information, stating that the information
collection is necessary and appropriate and that it believes that the
information collected will have significant practical utility. Neither
of the comments necessitate a revision of the scope of the information
collection or the estimates of the annual cost or burden hours. NHTSA
notes that this information collection only seeks information to better
understand why alignment to current MMUCC variables is low and how to
improve alignment. Therefore, considering additional data variables
regarding CMV is outside the scope of this ICR. NHTSA also notes that
the estimated cost to the Federal government associated with this
information collection is $441,852.74.
Affected Public: Law enforcement.
Estimated Number of Respondents: NHTSA will send a short letter to
397 chief police officers to request they identify four police officers
within their department to participate in the MMUCC survey. The total
sample is 1,985 (397 police chiefs + 1,588 police officers).
Frequency: NHTSA plans to conduct this data collection once to
prepare for the sixth edition of MMUCC.
Number of Responses: 1,985.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: To calculate the hour burden
and labor Costs associated with submitting the Evaluation of the Model
Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria, NHTSA looked at wage estimates for
Front Line Supervisors of Police and Detectives and Police and
Sheriff's Patrol Officers who complete crash forms. NHTSA estimates the
total opportunity costs associated with these burden hours by looking
at the average wage for (1) Front line Supervisors of Police and
Detectives and (2) Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that the average hourly wage for Front
line Supervisors of Police and Detectives (BLS Occupation Code 33-1012)
\1\ is $46.72 and Police and Sheriff's Patrol Officers (BLS Occupation
code 33-3051) is $33.66.\2\ The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates
that wages represent 62.2 percent of total compensation for State and
local government workers, on average.\3\ Therefore, NHTSA estimates the
hourly labor costs to be $75.11($46.72/.622) for Supervisors of Police
and Sheriff's Patrol Officers and $54.12 ($33.66/622) for Police and
Sheriff's Patrol Officers. NHTSA estimates that it will take about 10
minutes (0.17 of an hour) for the police chiefs to nominate four law
enforcement officers who investigate motor vehicle crashes, resulting
in 67.49 (0.17 x 397)
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hours for 397 police chiefs. From pilot testing the survey instruments
with six former law enforcement officers who work at NHTSA, the agency
estimates that it will take the law enforcement officers one hour to
complete the survey. Therefore, 1,588 hours for 1,588 law enforcement
officers. NHTSA estimates the total hourly compensation cost for police
chiefs to be $5,069.17 ($75.11 x 67.49 hours). NHTSA estimates the
total hourly compensation cost for law enforcement officers to be
$85,942.56 ($54.12 x 1,588 hours). Table 1 provides a summary of the
estimated burden hours and labor costs associated with those
respondents.
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\1\ See May 2020 National Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates. National Estimates for First-Line Supervisors of Police
and Detectives. Available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/oes331012.htm (accessed July 1, 2021).
\2\ See May 2020 National Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates. National Estimates for Police and Sheriff's Patrol
Officers. Available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/oes333051.htm (accessed July 1, 2021).
\3\ Employer Costs for Employee Compensation--March 2020,
https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_06182020.pdf.
Accessed 12/21/2021.
Table 1--Burden Estimates
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Average Labor cost Total
Responses Estimated burden hourly per burden Total labor
per response labor cost response hours costs
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Police Chiefs nomination of 397 0.17 hour (10 $75.11 $12.76 67.49 $5,069.17
law enforcement officer for minutes).
study participation.
Survey of Law Enforcement 1,588 1 hour.......... 54.12 54.12 1,588.00 85,942.56
Officers.
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Total.................... 1,985 ................ ........... ........... 1,655.49 91,011.73
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: This collection is not expected
to result in any increase in costs to respondents other than the
opportunity cost associated with the burden hours. Both the police
chiefs who will nominate respondents and the law enforcement officers
completing the survey on MMUCC possess the information needed to
complete each survey.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspects of
this information collection, including (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected;
and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29A.
Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator for the National Center for Statistics and
Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2022-18492 Filed 8-26-22; 8:45 am]
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