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Information Collection Activities:
Submission for the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB)
Review; Request for Comment
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of
information collection and solicitation
of public comment.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
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U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below will be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its
expected burden. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on January 13, 2011 (Federal
Register/Vol. 76, No. 9/pp. 2442–2444).
DATES: Submit comments to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) on or
before January 17, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alan Block at the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of
Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–131),
W46–499, Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr.
Block’s phone number is (202) 366–
6401 and his email address is
alan.block@dot.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2127–New.
Title: Demonstration Tests of Different
High Visibility Enforcement Models.
Form No.: NHTSA Forms 1121 and
1122.
Type of Review: Regular.
Respondents: Telephone interviews
will be administered to residents in
each of five selected communities who
are drivers, age 18 and older, have
access to a residential landline and/or a
personal cell phone, and have
consumed alcohol in the past year. Inperson interviews will be conducted in
each of the five selected communities
with bar patrons age 21 and older.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
18,750 telephone interviews and 6,000
bar patron interviews.
Estimated Time per Response: 10
minutes per interview.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 4,125 hours.
Frequency of Collection: There will be
three survey waves at each of the five
community sites. For the telephone
survey, most respondents will be
interviewed once. A small subset will be
re-interviewed during the second and
third survey waves. For the bar patron
survey, which also will involve three
survey waves at each of the five
community sites, each respondent will
be interviewed once. That interview
will be split such that questions will be
asked of each respondent both during
entry and exit from the bar.
Abstract: Highly visible enforcement
(HVE) has had the strongest support in
the research literature for effectiveness
in reducing alcohol-impaired driving.
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The unknown at this time is the
relationship of the amount of HVE to
perceived risk within a community of
an alcohol-impaired driver being
stopped by law enforcement. In
particular, does the perceived risk
increase as the amount of HVE
increases? And is the optimum effect on
awareness and perceived risk achieved
through an integrated program where
HVE is integrated into regular law
enforcement operations? NHTSA
proposes to answer those questions by
selecting community sites that will
engage in different levels of HVE
activity during a one-year intervention
period, and monitoring community
awareness of those enforcement
programs and the perceived risk of an
alcohol-impaired driver being stopped
by law enforcement. Five sites will be
selected encompassing integrated,
intermediate, and more limited HVE
programs.
Data collection to assess program
awareness and perceived risk will be of
two forms. A telephone survey will be
conducted in each of the five
communities prior to the onset of the
intervention, at an interim point in the
program, and at its conclusion, for a
total of three survey waves per
community. Most respondents will be
interviewed once; however, a subset
will be re-interviewed during the
second and third survey waves to
examine individual changes in
perceptions and awareness over time.
The initial survey wave in each
community will be composed of 1,200
completed interviews. One hundred
respondents in each community from
the first survey wave will be reinterviewed during the second survey
wave. The second wave will also
include interviews with 1,200 new
respondents per community for a total
of 1,300 interviews. Fifty respondents
re-interviewed during the second survey
wave will be interviewed a final time
during the third survey wave. They will
be added to 1,200 new survey
respondents per community for a total
of 1,250 interviews.
The second form of data collection
will be in-person interviews with bar
patrons. The intent here is to collect
information on program awareness and
perceived risk from a population with a
heavier concentration of individuals atrisk of driving at illegal blood alcohol
concentrations (BACs) than one would
find in a general population survey.
Similar to the telephone surveys, there
will be a baseline, interim and final data
collection wave at each of the five
community sites. Four hundred bar
patrons will be interviewed per
community per survey wave.
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Respondents will be asked a few
questions both upon entry and exit from
the bar. Breath samples will also be
taken in order to correlate BAC with
awareness and perceived risk. The
breath test results will not be available
on-site but will be downloaded later.
In conducting the telephone
interviews, the interviewers would use
computer-assisted telephone
interviewing to reduce interview length
and minimize recording errors. The data
collection at bars would be anonymous;
no personal information that would
allow anyone to identify respondents
will be collected. The telephone
interviews during the initial survey
wave will include collection of
personally identifying information from
a subset of respondents in order to
conduct a small number of re-interviews
with them during the two subsequent
survey waves. However, that
information will be held exclusively by
the survey contractor, protected from
disclosure to any other parties, and
destroyed once no longer needed for recontacting prospective respondents.
Moreover, the personally identifiable
information will be separated from the
survey responses.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding
the burden estimate, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to
the Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk
Officer for Department of
Transportation, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, or by
email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov,
or fax: (202) 395–5806.
Comments Are Invited On: whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department of
Transportation, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
the accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30
days of publication of this notice.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. Section 3506(c)(2)(A).
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
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Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA–2011–0170]
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping
Requirements
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Request for public comment on
proposed collection of information.
AGENCY:
Before a Federal agency can
collect certain information from the
public, it must receive approval from
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB). Under procedures established
by the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995, before seeking OMB approval,
Federal agencies must solicit public
comment on proposed collections of
information, including extensions and
reinstatements of previously approved
collections.
This document describes the
collection of information for which
NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before February 14, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA–2011–0068 using any of the
following methods:
Electronic submissions: Go to https://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line
instructions for submitting comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility,
M–30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC
20590.
Hand Delivery: West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9
a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 1–(202) 493–2251.
Instructions: Each submission must
include the Agency name and the
Docket number for this Notice. Note that
all comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov including any
personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Carole Guzzetta, Contracting Officer’s
Technical Representative, Office of
Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–131),
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., W46–499, Washington, DC
20590. Ms. Guzzetta’s phone number is
(202) 366–6401 and her email address is
carole.guzzetta@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for
approval, it must publish a document in
the Federal Register providing a 60-day
comment period and otherwise consult
with members of the public and affected
agencies concerning each proposed
collection of information. The OMB has
promulgated regulations describing
what must be included in such a
document. Under OMB’s regulations (at
5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask
for public comment on the following:
(i) 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;
(ii) 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;
(iii) How to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(iv) How to minimize the burden of
the collection of information on those
who are to respond, 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.
In compliance with these
requirements, NHTSA asks public
comment on the following proposed
collection of information:
Effectiveness of Child passenger Safety
Information for the Safe Transportation
of Children
Type of Request—New information
collection requirement.
OMB Clearance Number—None.
Form Number—NHTSA Form.
Requested Expiration Date of
Approval—3 years from date of
approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information—The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
proposes to collect information from
parents and caregivers of children less
than 13 years of age about their
knowledge, behavior, and perceptions of
various child passenger safety messages.
Participation in the study will be
voluntary. Parents and caregivers will
be recruited at various locations where
they often go with child passengers (e.g.,
child care centers). They will be asked
to participate in the study which will
require them to go to a computer lab
center and read and respond to Child
Passenger Safety (CPS) messages and
questions on a personal computer. A
project assistant will be present to
answer all questions that participants
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Request for Comment
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and
solicitation of public comment.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below will be submitted to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The ICR describes the
nature of the information collection and its expected burden. A Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting public comments
on the following information collection was published on January 13,
2011 (Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 9/pp. 2442-2444).
DATES: Submit comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on
or before January 17, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Block at the National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Behavioral Safety Research
(NTI-131), W46-499, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr. Block's phone number is (202)
366-6401 and his email address is alan.block@dot.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 2127-New.
Title: Demonstration Tests of Different High Visibility Enforcement
Models.
Form No.: NHTSA Forms 1121 and 1122.
Type of Review: Regular.
Respondents: Telephone interviews will be administered to residents
in each of five selected communities who are drivers, age 18 and older,
have access to a residential landline and/or a personal cell phone, and
have consumed alcohol in the past year. In-person interviews will be
conducted in each of the five selected communities with bar patrons age
21 and older.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 18,750 telephone interviews and
6,000 bar patron interviews.
Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes per interview.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,125 hours.
Frequency of Collection: There will be three survey waves at each
of the five community sites. For the telephone survey, most respondents
will be interviewed once. A small subset will be re-interviewed during
the second and third survey waves. For the bar patron survey, which
also will involve three survey waves at each of the five community
sites, each respondent will be interviewed once. That interview will be
split such that questions will be asked of each respondent both during
entry and exit from the bar.
Abstract: Highly visible enforcement (HVE) has had the strongest
support in the research literature for effectiveness in reducing
alcohol-impaired driving. The unknown at this time is the relationship
of the amount of HVE to perceived risk within a community of an
alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law enforcement. In
particular, does the perceived risk increase as the amount of HVE
increases? And is the optimum effect on awareness and perceived risk
achieved through an integrated program where HVE is integrated into
regular law enforcement operations? NHTSA proposes to answer those
questions by selecting community sites that will engage in different
levels of HVE activity during a one-year intervention period, and
monitoring community awareness of those enforcement programs and the
perceived risk of an alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law
enforcement. Five sites will be selected encompassing integrated,
intermediate, and more limited HVE programs.
Data collection to assess program awareness and perceived risk will
be of two forms. A telephone survey will be conducted in each of the
five communities prior to the onset of the intervention, at an interim
point in the program, and at its conclusion, for a total of three
survey waves per community. Most respondents will be interviewed once;
however, a subset will be re-interviewed during the second and third
survey waves to examine individual changes in perceptions and awareness
over time. The initial survey wave in each community will be composed
of 1,200 completed interviews. One hundred respondents in each
community from the first survey wave will be re-interviewed during the
second survey wave. The second wave will also include interviews with
1,200 new respondents per community for a total of 1,300 interviews.
Fifty respondents re-interviewed during the second survey wave will be
interviewed a final time during the third survey wave. They will be
added to 1,200 new survey respondents per community for a total of
1,250 interviews.
The second form of data collection will be in-person interviews
with bar patrons. The intent here is to collect information on program
awareness and perceived risk from a population with a heavier
concentration of individuals at-risk of driving at illegal blood
alcohol concentrations (BACs) than one would find in a general
population survey. Similar to the telephone surveys, there will be a
baseline, interim and final data collection wave at each of the five
community sites. Four hundred bar patrons will be interviewed per
community per survey wave.
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Respondents will be asked a few questions both upon entry and exit from
the bar. Breath samples will also be taken in order to correlate BAC
with awareness and perceived risk. The breath test results will not be
available on-site but will be downloaded later.
In conducting the telephone interviews, the interviewers would use
computer-assisted telephone interviewing to reduce interview length and
minimize recording errors. The data collection at bars would be
anonymous; no personal information that would allow anyone to identify
respondents will be collected. The telephone interviews during the
initial survey wave will include collection of personally identifying
information from a subset of respondents in order to conduct a small
number of re-interviews with them during the two subsequent survey
waves. However, that information will be held exclusively by the survey
contractor, protected from disclosure to any other parties, and
destroyed once no longer needed for re-contacting prospective
respondents. Moreover, the personally identifiable information will be
separated from the survey responses.
ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for Department of
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or by
email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, or fax: (202) 395-5806.
Comments Are Invited On: whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Department of Transportation, including whether the information
will have practical utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate
of the burden of the proposed information collection; ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected;
and ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including the use of automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology. A comment to OMB is most
effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication of this
notice.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. Section 3506(c)(2)(A).
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
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