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electronic technology, without reducing
the quality of the collected information.
All comments should include the
Docket number FHWA–2007–28797.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Heather Contrino, 202–366–5060, or
Ralph Gillman, 202–366–5042, Office of
Highway Policy Information, Federal
Highway Administration, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: National Household Travel
Survey.
OMB Control #: 2125–0545.
Background: The collection of
passenger travel data is authorized in
Title 23, Section 502, which authorizes
the DOT to engage in studies to collect
data for planning future highway
programs. The 2008 National Household
Travel Survey (NHTS) will provide an
updated benchmark of travel activity
and a measure of the impact of
household travel behavior on system
performance including safety,
accessibility, economic factors, and
congestion. This continuity is important
in identifying, assessing, and forecasting
travel trends. The many changes in
travel and the related social patterns
point to the need for a 2008 NHTS.
Continuing changes in household
structure, commuting levels and
patterns, the location of households and
workplaces, and increases in the
mobility of the older population, as well
as issues of air quality and traffic
congestion, have all resulted in
significant changes in travel in recent
years. Historically, FHWA has had the
responsibility for the administration of
the NHTS; however, FHWA coordinates
with other agencies within the DOT on
information needs and program
applications. The Bureau of
Transportation Statistics (BTS), National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
(NHTSA), and the Federal Transit
Administration (FTA) have provided
supplemental funding in past NHTS
program activities. In addition, several
organizations outside DOT rely on the
NHTS for transportation information
relating to health (Centers for Disease
Control), energy consumption (Energy
Information Administration), and
emergency planning (Department of
Homeland Security). The DOT has a
continuing need for current and
improved data to determine the nature
and extent of present travel needs and
to plan for meeting the nation’s travel
needs of the future. Specifically, data is
needed to:
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• Examine the availability and use of
transportation to various population
groups, including those whose mobility
has historically been lower than that of
the general population, such as the
elderly, low-income, people of color,
and new immigrants;
• Identify factors affecting the use of
private vehicles and other means of
transportation as they relate to trip
purposes including travel to work,
school, shopping, medical care, other
personal business, social and
recreational travel;
• Forecast trends in highway
transportation in light of projected
demographic changes;
• Obtain the public’s response to
changes in transportation systems and
services;
• Evaluate factors relating to the
safety of the surface transportation
system;
• Provide data for the evaluation of
the impacts of various policy initiatives;
and
• Provide cost-effective information
that supports transportation planning
and decision making by Federal, State,
and local governments.
The DOT uses the data to analyze the
amount and nature of household travel,
the relationship between socioeconomic
characteristics and travel patterns, and
trends in passenger travel. Because
demographic information is collected on
each person and each household
surveyed in the NHTS, the dataset is
excellent for describing travel behavior
of population groups. The
transportation community has seen the
influence of changes in travel behavior
on the amount and type of travel
demand, including the increasing
participation of women in the
workforce, trip chaining for other
purposes as part of the work journey, an
increase in single-occupant vehicles,
increased development of the outer
suburbs and exurbs, and changes in
household structure. NHTS is also
critical in assessing emerging travel
roles of older populations and how this
is changing over time, as the older
cohort is more and more composed of
those who have grown up driving.
Understanding household travel today
means understanding the complexity
and variety of travel needs under these
changing conditions. As our society
addresses air quality and congestion
issues, it is vital that the various trends
be understood along with their
implications for the different segments
of the population.
Respondents: Approximately 25,000
households will complete the survey.
The survey households will be selected
using random digit dialing (RDD). The
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NHTS is a two-stage study. In the first
stage, households are contacted via
computer assisted telephone
interviewing (CATI) to collect basic
information about the household and its
vehicles. During this initial contact,
households are recruited to participate
in the diary phase (second stage of the
study). Each household is assigned a
specific travel day and asked to record
details about each trip taken on that
day. The stage two trip information is
obtained via computer assisted
telephone interviewing (CATI).
Frequency: The NHTS has been
conducted by the DOT every 5–7 years
since 1969. The 2008 NHTS will be
conducted during calendar year 2008.
Estimated Average Burden per
Response: The estimated burden per
household averages 68 minutes, which
includes interviewing an average of 2.5
persons per household. The burden per
person averages 20 minutes for the
interview and another 7 minutes for
keeping the diary.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: The estimated total annual
burden hours are 28,333.
Electronic Access: Internet users may
access all comments received by the
U.S. DOT Dockets, by using the
universal resource locator (URL):
https://dms.dot.gov, 24 hours each day,
365 days each year. Please follow the
instructions online for more information
and help.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended;
and 49 CFR 1.48.
Issued on: July 23, 2007.
James R. Kabel,
Chief, Management Programs and Analysis
Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
Maintenance and Repair
Reimbursement Pilot Program
Maritime Administration,
Department of Transportation
ACTION: Notice of extension of
application deadline.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration
is hereby giving notice that the closing
date for filing applications to enroll in
the Maintenance and Repair
Reimbursement Pilot Program is
extended until October 30, 2007. The
notice announcing the initial
application deadline was published in
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the Federal Register on July 2, 2007 (72
FR 36103).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean
E. McKeever, Associate Administrator
for Business and Workforce
Development, Maritime Administration,
1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington,
DC 20590; phone: (202) 366–5737; fax:
(202) 366–3511; or e-mail:
Jean.McKeever@dot.gov.
Section
3517 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007
(Pub. L. 109–163) requires a person who
is awarded a Maritime Security Program
(‘‘MSP’’) agreement to also enter into an
agreement with the Maritime
Administration to perform maintenance
and repair (‘‘M&R’’) work in United
States shipyards as a condition of the
MSP award. The Maritime
Administration’s M&R regulations do
not apply the M&R condition to
contractors who have already been
awarded an M&R agreement. Thus, the
Maritime Administration’s M&R
regulations make the M&R obligation
mandatory on new awardees, including
transferees, of MSP agreements, and
voluntary for existing MSP contractors.
The John Warner National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007,
(Pub. L. 109–364) grants a priority,
during times of insufficient
appropriations, in allocation of MSP
payments to MSP contractors that have
entered into M&R agreements. The M&R
regulations were published in the
Federal Register on February 6, 2007
(72 FR 5342–01), but did not specify a
time period for submitting applications.
In order to administer the priority
provisions of Public Law 109–364, we
need to close the application period.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66)
Dated: July 23, 2007.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Daron T. Threet,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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[Docket No. NHTSA–2007–28629]
Statistical Analysis of the
Effectiveness of Electronic Stability
Control (ESC) Systems—Final Report
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
AGENCY:
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Request for comments on
technical report.
ACTION:
SUMMARY: This notice announces
NHTSA’s publication of a Technical
Report evaluating the effectiveness of
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
Systems. The report’s title is: Statistical
Analysis of the Effectiveness of
Electronic Stability Control (ESC)
Systems—Final Report.
DATES: Please submit comments by
November 27, 2007.
ADDRESSES:
Report: The report is available for
viewing online in PDF format at the
Docket Management System (DMS) Web
page of the Department of
Transportation, https://dms.dot.gov.
Click on ‘‘Simple Search’’; type in the
five-digit docket number shown at the
beginning of this Notice (28629) and
click on ‘‘Search’’; that brings up a list
of every item in the docket, starting with
a copy of the Federal Register notice
(item NHTSA–2007–28629–1) and a
copy of the report in PDF format (item
NHTSA–2007–28629–2).
Comments: You may submit
comments [identified by DOT DMS
Docket Number NHTSA–2007–28629]
by any of the following methods:
• Web Site: https://dms.dot.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting
comments on the DOT electronic docket
site.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation,
Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., West Building, Room
W12–140, Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
You may call Docket Management at
1–800–647–5527 and visit the Docket
from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Jennifer N. Dang, Evaluation Division,
NPO–131, National Center for Statistics
and Analysis, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Room W53–455,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE.,
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone:
202–493–0598. FAX: 202–366–3189. Email: Jenny.Dang@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 2004,
NHTSA initiated an evaluation to assess
the effectiveness of ESC in reducing
single-vehicle crashes in various
domestic and imported passenger cars
and Sport Utility Vehicles (SUVs). The
preliminary results from that study
indicated that ESC was highly effective
in reducing single-vehicle crashes. In
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2006, NHTSA published a draft of this
report (an update and modification to
the 2004 report) in support of a
proposed rulemaking to establish a new
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard,
FMVSS No. 126, which requires ESC
systems on passenger cars,
multipurpose passenger vehicles,
trucks, and buses with a gross vehicle
weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less.
Statistical analyses of 1997–2004 crash
data from the Fatality Analysis
Reporting System (FARS) and 1997–
2003 crash data from the State data files
estimate reductions with ESC for
various types of crash involvements.
• ESC reduced fatal run-off-road
crashes by 36 percent for passenger cars
and 70 percent for light trucks and vans
(LTVs). The reductions are statistically
significant.
• Police-reported run-off-road
involvements were decreased by 45
percent in passenger cars and 72 percent
in LTVs. The decreases are statistically
significant.
• Fatal single-vehicle crashes that did
not involve pedestrians, bicycles, and
animals decreased (due to ESC) by 36
percent in passenger cars and 63 percent
in LTVs. The decreases are statistically
significant.
• ESC reduced police-reported singlevehicle crashes (excluding pedestrian,
bicycle, animal crashes) by 26 percent
for passenger cars and 48 percent for
LTVs. The reductions are statistically
significant.
• Rollover involvements in fatal
crashes were decreased by 70 percent in
passenger cars and 88 percent in LTVs.
The decreases are statistically
significant.
• Police-reported crashes involving
rollovers were reduced by 64 percent in
passenger cars and 85 percent in LTVs.
The reductions are statistically
significant.
• ESC reduced culpable fatal multivehicle crashes by 19 percent for
passenger cars and 34 percent for LTVs.
Only the reduction involving LTVs is
statistically significant.
• Culpable involvements in policereported multi-vehicle crashes were
decreased by 13 percent in passenger
cars and 16 percent in LTVs. The
decreases are statistically significant.
• Overall, ESC reduced all fatal
crashes by 14 percent for passenger cars
and 28 percent for LTVs. Only the
reduction in LTVs is statistically
significant.
• Overall, police-reported crash
involvements decreased by 8 percent in
passenger cars and 10 percent in LTVs.
The decreases are statistically
significant.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Maritime Administration
Maintenance and Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program
AGENCY: Maritime Administration, Department of Transportation
ACTION: Notice of extension of application deadline.
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SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration is hereby giving notice that the
closing date for filing applications to enroll in the Maintenance and
Repair Reimbursement Pilot Program is extended until October 30, 2007.
The notice announcing the initial application deadline was published in
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the Federal Register on July 2, 2007 (72 FR 36103).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jean E. McKeever, Associate
Administrator for Business and Workforce Development, Maritime
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC 20590; phone:
(202) 366-5737; fax: (202) 366-3511; or e-mail: Jean.McKeever@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 3517 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for fiscal year 2007 (Pub. L. 109-163) requires a
person who is awarded a Maritime Security Program (``MSP'') agreement
to also enter into an agreement with the Maritime Administration to
perform maintenance and repair (``M&R'') work in United States
shipyards as a condition of the MSP award. The Maritime
Administration's M&R regulations do not apply the M&R condition to
contractors who have already been awarded an M&R agreement. Thus, the
Maritime Administration's M&R regulations make the M&R obligation
mandatory on new awardees, including transferees, of MSP agreements,
and voluntary for existing MSP contractors.
The John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2007, (Pub. L. 109-364) grants a priority, during times of insufficient
appropriations, in allocation of MSP payments to MSP contractors that
have entered into M&R agreements. The M&R regulations were published in
the Federal Register on February 6, 2007 (72 FR 5342-01), but did not
specify a time period for submitting applications. In order to
administer the priority provisions of Public Law 109-364, we need to
close the application period.
(Authority: 49 CFR 1.66)
Dated: July 23, 2007.
By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Daron T. Threet,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
[FR Doc. E7-14636 Filed 7-27-07; 8:45 am]
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