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Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Committee Publication: Federal Register Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Chou-Lin Chen Date: 5 July 2022 Subjects: American Government  , Safety
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39898-39899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14240]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2022-0047]
Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Committee
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of the Transportation (DOT).
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ACTION: Notice of the creation of the MMUCC Committee.
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SUMMARY: NHTSA has led the development of the Model Minimum Uniform
Crash Criteria (MMUCC) since the first edition was published in 1998.
NHTSA announces that it will form a MMUCC Committee to inform the
development and revision of the MMUCC Guideline, sixth edition. The
MMUCC Committee's objectives are: (1) to exchange views, information,
and advice to further refine the collection of motor vehicle crash data
and (2) to exchange views, information, and advice on institutional
barriers preventing MMUCC implementation.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket
Management System Docket ID NHTSA-2022-0047 using any of the following
methods:
Federal rulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Send comments to: Docket Management Facility, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building,
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
Fax: Written comments may be faxed to (202) 493-2251.
Hand Delivery: If you plan to submit written comments by
hand or courier, please do so at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and
5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Please submit all comments to the Docket by September 6, 2022.
Whichever way you submit your comments, please remember to mention
the agency and the docket number of this document within your
correspondence. Please note that all comments received will be posted
without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal
information provided. Please see the ``Privacy Act'' heading below.
Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comments (or signing the comments, if submitted on
behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review
DOT's complete Privacy Act statement in the Federal Register published
on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit https://DocketInfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information, please contact John
Siegler, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, NHTSA (telephone:
202-366-1268 or email: john.siegler@dot.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MMUCC Guideline identifies a voluntary,
minimum set of motor vehicle crash data elements and their set of
attributes that States can consider collecting and including on their
law enforcement traffic crash report forms and in their electronic
crash data systems. MMUCC promotes data uniformity within the highway
safety community by creating a common foundation for State crash data
systems to provide the information necessary to improve highway safety.
Crash data is used to identify problems, determine highway safety
messages and strategic communication campaigns, optimize the location
of selective law enforcement, inform decision-makers of needed highway
safety legislation, and evaluate the impact of highway safety
countermeasures. NHTSA first published MMUCC with the Governors Highway
Safety Association, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, State and industry partners in 1998. The
Guideline has been regularly updated to address emerging highway safety
issues, with the most recent 5th Edition published in 2017.
While MMUCC is a voluntary Guideline for States, the crash data
that NHTSA obtains from the States feeds both the Fatality Analysis
Reporting System (FARS) and the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS),
which are essential to traffic safety research by NHTSA as well as by
other agencies. Therefore, it is critical that the recommended MMUCC
data elements be designed with clarity, purpose, and efficiency.
The MMUCC Committee will be comprised of employees of State, Local,
or Tribal governments acting in their official capacity that
collectively will represent government agencies that are stakeholders
in the collection, management, and analysis of crash data. These
employees will include law enforcement officers, data analysts, IT
database administrators or managers, traffic records coordinating
committee members, governors' representatives for highway safety, and
Federal liaisons. The MMUCC Committee will exist until NHTSA determines
that it has fulfilled its mission, and Committee members will serve
until they resign or are replaced by NHTSA.
The intent of the MMUCC Committee will be for NHTSA to obtain
information or viewpoints specific to the expertise of the Committee
members on changes to the MMUCC Guideline. While MMUCC is a voluntary
guideline for States, it is fundamental for NHTSA's crash data programs
and, therefore, important that MMUCC data elements and attributes agree
with CRSS and FARS. NHTSA, in consultation with this Committee, intends
to produce the next edition of the MMUCC Guideline.
Issued in Washington, DC, on July 5, 2022 under authority delegated
in 49 CFR part 1.95.
Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2022-14240 Filed 7-1-22; 8:45 am]
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