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Agency Request for Information; State Electronic Data Collection Grant Program: Extension of Comment Period Publication: Federal Register Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Byline: Chou-Lin Chen Date: 17 May 2022 Subjects: American Government  , Safety
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 95 (Tuesday, May 17, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29999-30000]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-10510]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2022-0030]
Agency Request for Information; State Electronic Data Collection
Grant Program: Extension of Comment Period
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
received one petition to extend the comment period for a request for
information (RFI) notice on the agency's efforts to develop and
implement a new discretionary grant program to increase the number of
States, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes electronically transferring
their motor vehicle crash data to NHTSA. NHTSA published an RFI notice
requesting information from interested parties on April 29, 2022. The
comment period for the RFI notice was scheduled to end on May 31, 2022.
NHTSA is extending the comment period for the April 29, 2022, RFI
notice by 45 days.
DATES: The comment period for the RFI notice published on April 29,
2022 is extended to July 15, 2022.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments to the docket number identified in
the heading of this document by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility, M-30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Rm. W12-140, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building, Ground Floor,
Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.
Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. To be
sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 366-9332 before
coming.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Regardless of how you submit your comments, please mention the
docket number identified in the heading of this document.
Note that all comments received will be posted without change to
http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information
provided.
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits
comments
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from the public to better inform its decision-making process. DOT posts
these comments, without edit, including any personal information the
commenter provides, to www.regulations.gov, as described in the system
of records notice (DOT/ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at
www.transportation.gov/privacy. In order to facilitate comment tracking
and response, the Agency encourages commenters to provide their name,
or the name of their organization; however, submission of names is
completely optional. Whether or not commenters identify themselves, all
timely comments will be fully considered.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to www.regulations.gov, or the street address
listed above. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call
(202) 366-9332 before coming. Follow the online instructions for
accessing the dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For technical issues, you may contact
Ms. Barbara Rhea, State Data Reporting Systems Division Chief, NHTSA
(phone: 202-366-2714) or you may send an email to Ms. Rhea at
Barbara.rhea@dot.gov. Address: National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, West Building, Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 29, 2022, pursuant to Section
24108(d) of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, NHTSA published
an RFI notice seeking comment on its plans to develop a new State
electronic data collection program that requires NHTSA to develop and
implement a new discretionary grant program. The new grant program is
to provide support to States to upgrade and standardize their State
crash data systems to enable electronic data collection, intrastate
data sharing, and electronic data transfer to NHTSA. The new program
will increase the accuracy, timeliness, and accessibility of the data
including data relating to fatalities involving vulnerable road users
to States and NHTSA. See Public Law 117-58, 24108(d)(3), 135 Stat 429.
Eligible States \1\ may use these grants for the costs of equipment to
upgrade a statewide crash data repository; adoption of electronic crash
reporting by law enforcement agencies and increasing alignment of State
crash data with the latest Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria.\2\
This notice requests information from interested parties, including
State crash data owners, highway safety offices, law enforcement, and
other stakeholders to assist NHTSA in the development of a new State
electronic data collection program that supports State crash data
system improvements, enhances NHTSA's National Center for Statistics
and Analysis (NCSA) data infrastructure where these data will be
stored, and shares a subset of the resulting data with the public.
NHTSA plans to utilize the information provided under this RFI notice
to enhance and support the development of the State electronic data
collection discretionary grant program. The comment period for the RFI
notice was scheduled to end on May 31, 2022.
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\1\ Under BIL, ``State'' is defined as each of the 50 States,
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern
Mariana Islands and the Secretary of the Interior, acting on behalf
of an Indian Tribe. See Public Law 117-58, 24108(d)(1)(A).
\2\ Sec. 24108(d)(3)(C).
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Comment Period Extension Requests
The Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) requested a 60-day
extension of the comment period. The requestor states that the RFI
notice addresses several complex topics that would require conducting
in-depth review and analysis to develop informed feedback. They
suggested the additional time would allow them to conduct the detailed
review of the notice and develop appropriate responses. The requestor
stated that the additional time would allow for more fully developed
feedback to support the agency's next steps.
Agency Decision
NHTSA determined that the requestor provided sufficient
justification for an extension, and that the extension is consistent
with the public interest. NHTSA agrees that allowing additional time
for the public and its stakeholders to provide comments to the
questions raised in the RFI notice would better inform NHTSA regarding
the various program areas and topics discussed in the RFI notice.
Therefore, NHTSA is granting the aforementioned request to extend the
comment period; however, NHTSA is extending it for 45 days. A 45-day
extension appropriately balances NHTSA's interest in providing the
public with sufficient time to comment on the questions raised in the
RFI notice with its interest to pursue development of this program in a
timely manner and its ability to present proposals at the 2022 Traffic
Records Forum, scheduled for August 7-10, 2022.
Authority: S. 24108, Pub. L. 117-58, 135 Stat 429; 49 U.S.C. 30166
and 30182; delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 49 CFR 501.8.
Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator for the National Center for Statistics and
Analysis.
[FR Doc. 2022-10510 Filed 5-16-22; 8:45 am]
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