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already been accomplished. Moreover,
crash fatalities rose in 2012. Thus
significant effort will be needed just to
preserve the gains that already have
been made. Up-to-date information is
essential to plot the direction of future
activity that will achieve reductions in
crash injuries and fatalities in the
coming years.
As part of its collection of information
used to develop and implement
effective countermeasures to improve
highway traffic safety, NHTSA
conducted its first MVOSS in 1994. The
survey included questions related to
seat belts, child safety seats, air bags,
and Emergency Medical Services. It also
contained small segments on alcohol
use and on speeding. The survey has
been repeated five times since then,
with the survey instrument updated
prior to each survey administration to
incorporate emergent issues and items
of increased interest. The most recent
MVOSS was fielded during the first
quarter of calendar year 2007.
The proposed survey is the seventh
MVOSS. The survey would collect data
on topics included in the preceding
surveys and would monitor changes
over time in the use of occupant
protection devices and in attitudes
related to vehicle occupant safety. It is
important that NHTSA monitor these
changes so that the Agency can
determine the effects of its efforts to
promote the use of safety devices and to
identify areas where its efforts should be
targeted and where new strategies may
be needed. As in earlier years, NHTSA
proposes to make a small number of
revisions to the survey instrument to
address new information needs. If
approved, the proposed survey would
assist NHTSA in addressing motor
vehicle occupant safety and in
formulating programs and
recommendations. The results of the
proposed survey would be used to: (a)
Identify areas to target current programs
and activities to achieve the greatest
benefit; (b) develop new programs and
initiatives aimed at increasing the use of
occupant safety devices by the public;
and (c) provide informational support to
States and localities in their traffic
safety efforts. The findings would also
be used directly by State and local
highway safety and law enforcement
agencies in the development and
implementation of effective
countermeasures to prevent injuries and
fatalities to vehicle occupants.
Description of the Likely Respondents
(Including Estimated Number, and
Proposed Frequency of Response to the
Collection of Information)—This
proposed effort would involve cognitive
testing of the questionnaires, usability
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tests to identify any problems with selfadministration of the Web version of the
questionnaires, a pilot test, and final
survey administration. Businesses are
ineligible for the sample and would not
be interviewed. No more than one
respondent would be selected per
household. Each member of the sample
would complete one interview.
The cognitive testing would consist of
one-on-one cognitive interviews with
each of nine persons selected from the
general public for each questionnaire,
for a total of 18 cognitive interviews. All
would be drivers 18 and older. All
cognitive interviews using the child
restraint use questionnaire would be
conducted with parents of children
under the age of 9. A maximum of 100
licensed drivers 18 and older would be
recruited to participate in usability tests,
with all tests of the child restraint use
questionnaire conducted with parents of
young children. For the pilot test, a
maximum of 1,200 completed
interviews with people age 16 and older
would be obtained. For the final survey,
12,000 completed interviews with
randomly selected members of the
general public age 16 and older would
be obtained, 6,000 per questionnaire.
The respondent sample would be
selected from all 50 States plus the
District of Columbia.
Estimate of the Total Annual
Reporting and Record Keeping Burden
Resulting from the Collection of
Information—NHTSA estimates that the
respondents participating in the
cognitive interviewing would average 1⁄2
hours to carry out that activity, for a
total of 27 hours for the 18 cognitive
interviews. NHTSA estimates that the
respondents participating in the
usability testing would average 1 hour
in carrying out that activity. The
number of usability testing respondents
would not exceed 100, leading to a
maximum burden of 100 hours. The
projected 1,200 maximum completed
interviews for the pilot test, with an
average duration of 15 minutes, would
produce a maximum burden of 300
hours. The 12,000 final survey
interviews, with an average duration of
15 minutes, would produce a burden of
3,000 hours. The maximum reporting
burden for the MVOSS would be 27
hours for the cognitive testing, 100
hours for the usability testing, 300 hours
for the pilot test, and 3,000 hours for the
final survey for a grand total of 3,427
hours.
All interviewing would occur during
a single calendar year. Thus the annual
reporting burden would be the entire
3,427 hours. The respondents would not
incur any reporting cost from the
information collection. The respondents
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also would not incur any record keeping
burden or record keeping cost from the
information collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued on: May 31, 2013.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA–2013–0070]
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 August 5, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA–2013–0070 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://
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www.regulations.gov including any
personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Alan Block, 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. Mr. Block’s phone number is
202–366–6401 and his email address is
alan.block@dot.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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:
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Implementation of a Youth Traffic
Safety Survey
Type of Request—New information
collection requirement.
OMB Clearance Number—None.
Form Number—NHTSA Form 1199.
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 conduct a survey of young
drivers ages 16 through 20 concerning
traffic safety issues affecting young
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people in that age range. The survey
would use Web as the primary response
mode and mail as a second response
mode. The sample would be drawn from
driver license databases of States that
choose to participate in the study.
NHTSA would seek participation by
eight States, two per Census Region.
Contact with prospective respondents
would be conducted through the mail.
Young drivers would be asked to go to
a designated Web site to take the survey.
Follow up mailings would include as a
second response option a paper version
of the questionnaire that respondents
can fill out and mail back. The survey
would also provide the capability for
the interview to be conducted by
telephone if the prospective respondent
requests that option. The questionnaire
would cover topics such as general
driving behavior, driver education and
graduated driver licensing, parental
oversight of driving, distraction and
driving, drinking and driving, seat belt
use, speeding and racing, crash
experience, and traffic violations.
The survey would first be pilot-tested
in a single State. One purpose of the
pilot test would be to determine if it is
feasible to administer the full version of
the questionnaire to all respondents, or
whether the questionnaire would need
to be split into two shorter versions. The
average amount of time for respondents
to complete the full version of the
questionnaire is estimated to be 25
minutes. The average amount of time
estimated to complete the shorter
versions is 15 minutes. The pilot test
would compare the response rates of
groups receiving the different
questionnaire versions. Combined with
other test conditions being used to
assess survey administration issues,
there would be a total of 9 respondent
groups whose response rates would be
compared.
The survey would be conducted
primarily on-line, with the on-line
technology serving to reduce length and
minimize recording errors. Each
respondent would be assigned a unique
randomly generated PIN (Personal
Identification Number) that must be
used to access the questionnaire on the
Web site. The personally identifiable
information used to contact respondents
would be held separately from the
information provided by respondents to
the survey so that no connection can be
made between the two. No personally
identifiable information would be
collected during the interviews.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information—NHTSA was established
to reduce the number of deaths, injuries,
and economic losses resulting from
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motor vehicle crashes on the Nation’s
highways. As part of this statutory
mandate, NHTSA is authorized to
conduct research as a foundation for the
development of motor vehicle standards
and traffic safety programs.
Young drivers 16- to 20-years old are
especially vulnerable to death and
injury on our roadways, with traffic
crashes being the leading cause of death
for teenagers in America. It is essential
that NHTSA be proactive in addressing
young driver traffic safety. As a datadriven organization, this means
collecting and analyzing quality data to
identify the nature of young driver
traffic safety problems, to guide
development of intervention
approaches, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of interventions. While
crash and fatality databases are
invaluable sources of data applicable to
these tasks, they do not tell the entire
story. Attitudes, perceptions,
knowledge, beliefs, preferences, and
related factors often play a role in how
the circumstances underlying a crash
evolved. Situational and experiential
factors also figure into the equation.
Taking a comprehensive approach to
preventing young driver crashes
requires an understanding of this
contextual information in order to fully
assess the young driver crash problem
and identify specific problems while
also locating strategic points for
intervention. This survey responds to
those information needs.
This survey will fill in gaps in the
information that NHTSA has regarding
young drivers, and will be used by the
agency to help guide its strategic
planning of activities to improve traffic
safety of people in this age group. States
that participate in the survey will be
provided with a snapshot picture of
attitudes, knowledge, and self-reported
driving-related behavior of young
people in their State that they can use
in their own traffic safety planning
activities, and that they can disseminate
to their local jurisdictions. The
aggregated data across States will
provide a status report on where young
drivers stand with regards to key traffic
safety issues for use by traffic safety
professionals and other concerned
individuals in planning, developing,
refining, and implementing measures to
improve young driver safety.
Description of the Likely Respondents
(Including Estimated Number, and
Proposed Frequency of Response to the
Collection of Information)—A maximum
of 100 licensed drivers ages 18 through
20 would be recruited to participate in
usability tests to identify any problems
with self-administration of the Webbased questionnaire. Sixteen- and
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seventeen-year-olds would not yet be
included as not all steps that need to be
carried out to allow participation by
people this young would have been
completed at this stage of the project.
Those steps would be completed by the
time the project is ready to conduct the
pilot test, in which 6,300 young people
ages 16 through 20 listed in the driver
license database of one State would be
mailed a request to participate in the
survey. For purposes of burden
estimation this project will assume a
response rate upper limit of 50%, or a
maximum of 3,150 completed pilot test
interviews.
The final survey would be
administered to young people ages 16
through 20 listed in the driver license
database of one of the States
participating in the survey. There would
be eight participating States. The
number of respondents would depend
on results of the pilot test in addition to
the response rate. For each of the eight
States, 8,000 young drivers would be
mailed the request to participate in the
survey if the pilot test determines that
it is feasible to administer the longer
version of the questionnaire. An upper
limit response rate of 50% equates to a
maximum of 4,000 completed
interviews per State, or 32,000 for the
survey. But if the pilot test indicates
that the questionnaire will need to be
split into two shorter questionnaires,
then the number of respondents would
double to a maximum of 64,000 as 8,000
requests to participate in the survey
would be mailed per questionnaire in
each State.
Businesses are ineligible for the
sample and would not be interviewed.
All respondents would be administered
the survey one time only.
Estimate of the Total Annual
Reporting and Record Keeping Burden
Resulting From the Collection of
Information—NHTSA estimates that the
respondents participating in the
usability testing would average 1 hour
in carrying out that activity. The
number of respondents would not
exceed 100, producing a maximum
burden of 100 hours.
The projected 3,150 maximum
completed interviews for the pilot test
would be split among those receiving
the full questionnaire (one-third of
respondents) and those receiving the
shortened versions (two-thirds of
respondents, divided between those
who get shortened Version A and those
who get shortened Version B). The full
version would require an average of 25
minutes for the 1,050 respondents for a
burden of 437.5 hours. The shortened
versions would require an average of 15
minutes for the 2,100 respondents for a
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burden of 525 hours. The total burden
for the pilot test would therefore be a
maximum of 962.5 hours.
If the pilot test indicates that
administration of the full version of the
questionnaire is feasible, then a
maximum of 32,000 respondents would
spend an average of 25 minutes
completing the final survey, for a
burden of 13,333.33 hours. If the pilot
test instead indicates that the final
survey will need to employ the shorter
questionnaires, then a maximum of
64,000 respondents would spend an
average of 15 minutes completing the
survey, for a burden of 16,000 hours.
The maximum reporting burden for
the Implementation of a Youth Traffic
Safety Survey would be 100 hours for
the usability testing, 962.5 hours for the
pilot test, and 16,000 hours for the final
survey if two questionnaires are used for
a grand total of 17,062.5 hours.
All interviewing would occur during
a single calendar year. Thus the annual
reporting burden would be the entire
17,062.5 hours. The respondents would
not incur any reporting cost from the
information collection. The respondents
also would not incur any record keeping
burden or record keeping cost from the
information collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued on: May 31, 2013.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2013–0123, Notice
No.13–09]
Hazardous Materials: Emergency
Recall Order
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Emergency Recall Order.
AGENCY:
This notice publishes
Emergency Recall Order 2013–002 (DOT
Docket Number PHMSA–2013–0123),
issued on May 24, 2013 to The Lite
Cylinder Company, Inc. The Office of
Hazardous Materials Safety issued this
Emergency Order pursuant to authority
granted in 49 U.S.C. 5121(d) and 49 CFR
109.17(c), and is published in
accordance with 49 CFR 109.19(f)(2)(iv).
Emergency Order 2013–002 mandates a
recall of (1) all cylinders manufactured
SUMMARY:
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by The Lite Cylinder Company, Inc. and
marked as authorized under DOT–SP
14562 (and DOT–SP 13957 as
authorized therein) and DOT–SP 13105,
(2) any cylinder requalified under H706,
and (3) any cylinders manufactured
under M5729 (collectively, ‘‘the affected
packaging’’), and was issued after
PHMSA’s finding that the affected
packaging constitutes, or are causing, an
imminent hazard to public safety.
DATES: Effective Date: May 24, 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Horsley, Attorney, Office of the
Chief Counsel, PHMSA, 202–366–4400.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The full
text of Emergency Recall Order 2013–
002 is as follows:
This notice constitutes an Emergency
Recall Order by the United States
Department of Transportation (DOT)
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 5121(d) and 49
CFR 109.17(c); and pursuant to
delegation of authority to the Associate
Administrator, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), Office of Hazardous Materials
Safety. By this Order, PHMSA is
mandating a recall of all cylinders
manufactured by The Lite Cylinder
Company, Inc. (Lite Cylinder) and
marked as authorized under DOT–SP
14562 (and DOT–SP 13957 as
authorized therein), DOT–SP 13105; any
cylinder requalified under H706; and
any cylinders manufactured under
M5729 (hereinafter referred to as
affected packaging(s)). In addition, this
order applies to any person who is in
possession of an affected packaging
subject to this order.
PHMSA finds that the affected
packagings constitute or are causing an
imminent hazard to public safety. For
more detailed information see
‘‘Background/Basis for Order’’ below.
This Order Applies to
(1) Lite Cylinder, its officers,
directors, employees, subcontractors,
investors and agents (‘‘Lite Cylinder’’);
and
(2) Any person who is in possession
of an affected packaging, including any
officers, directors, employees,
subcontractors, investors, and agents of
said person (for purposes of this Order,
‘‘Cylinder Owners’’).
Under no circumstances should a
cylinder described in this emergency
recall order be filled, refilled, or used
for the transportation of hazardous
materials.
Effective Immediately, Lite Cylinder
Must
(1) Contact all Cylinder Owners to
whom affected packagings have been
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA-2013-0070]
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping Requirements
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Request for public comment on proposed collection of
information.
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SUMMARY: 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 August 5, 2013.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA-2013-0070 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://
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www.regulations.gov including any personal information provided.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Alan Block, 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. Mr. Block's phone number is
202-366-6401 and his email address is alan.block@dot.gov
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
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:
Implementation of a Youth Traffic Safety Survey
Type of Request--New information collection requirement.
OMB Clearance Number--None.
Form Number--NHTSA Form 1199.
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 conduct a survey of
young drivers ages 16 through 20 concerning traffic safety issues
affecting young people in that age range. The survey would use Web as
the primary response mode and mail as a second response mode. The
sample would be drawn from driver license databases of States that
choose to participate in the study. NHTSA would seek participation by
eight States, two per Census Region. Contact with prospective
respondents would be conducted through the mail. Young drivers would be
asked to go to a designated Web site to take the survey. Follow up
mailings would include as a second response option a paper version of
the questionnaire that respondents can fill out and mail back. The
survey would also provide the capability for the interview to be
conducted by telephone if the prospective respondent requests that
option. The questionnaire would cover topics such as general driving
behavior, driver education and graduated driver licensing, parental
oversight of driving, distraction and driving, drinking and driving,
seat belt use, speeding and racing, crash experience, and traffic
violations.
The survey would first be pilot-tested in a single State. One
purpose of the pilot test would be to determine if it is feasible to
administer the full version of the questionnaire to all respondents, or
whether the questionnaire would need to be split into two shorter
versions. The average amount of time for respondents to complete the
full version of the questionnaire is estimated to be 25 minutes. The
average amount of time estimated to complete the shorter versions is 15
minutes. The pilot test would compare the response rates of groups
receiving the different questionnaire versions. Combined with other
test conditions being used to assess survey administration issues,
there would be a total of 9 respondent groups whose response rates
would be compared.
The survey would be conducted primarily on-line, with the on-line
technology serving to reduce length and minimize recording errors. Each
respondent would be assigned a unique randomly generated PIN (Personal
Identification Number) that must be used to access the questionnaire on
the Web site. The personally identifiable information used to contact
respondents would be held separately from the information provided by
respondents to the survey so that no connection can be made between the
two. No personally identifiable information would be collected during
the interviews.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information--NHTSA was established to reduce the number of deaths,
injuries, and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes on
the Nation's highways. As part of this statutory mandate, NHTSA is
authorized to conduct research as a foundation for the development of
motor vehicle standards and traffic safety programs.
Young drivers 16- to 20-years old are especially vulnerable to
death and injury on our roadways, with traffic crashes being the
leading cause of death for teenagers in America. It is essential that
NHTSA be proactive in addressing young driver traffic safety. As a
data-driven organization, this means collecting and analyzing quality
data to identify the nature of young driver traffic safety problems, to
guide development of intervention approaches, and to evaluate the
effectiveness of interventions. While crash and fatality databases are
invaluable sources of data applicable to these tasks, they do not tell
the entire story. Attitudes, perceptions, knowledge, beliefs,
preferences, and related factors often play a role in how the
circumstances underlying a crash evolved. Situational and experiential
factors also figure into the equation. Taking a comprehensive approach
to preventing young driver crashes requires an understanding of this
contextual information in order to fully assess the young driver crash
problem and identify specific problems while also locating strategic
points for intervention. This survey responds to those information
needs.
This survey will fill in gaps in the information that NHTSA has
regarding young drivers, and will be used by the agency to help guide
its strategic planning of activities to improve traffic safety of
people in this age group. States that participate in the survey will be
provided with a snapshot picture of attitudes, knowledge, and self-
reported driving-related behavior of young people in their State that
they can use in their own traffic safety planning activities, and that
they can disseminate to their local jurisdictions. The aggregated data
across States will provide a status report on where young drivers stand
with regards to key traffic safety issues for use by traffic safety
professionals and other concerned individuals in planning, developing,
refining, and implementing measures to improve young driver safety.
Description of the Likely Respondents (Including Estimated Number,
and Proposed Frequency of Response to the Collection of Information)--A
maximum of 100 licensed drivers ages 18 through 20 would be recruited
to participate in usability tests to identify any problems with self-
administration of the Web-based questionnaire. Sixteen- and
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seventeen-year-olds would not yet be included as not all steps that
need to be carried out to allow participation by people this young
would have been completed at this stage of the project. Those steps
would be completed by the time the project is ready to conduct the
pilot test, in which 6,300 young people ages 16 through 20 listed in
the driver license database of one State would be mailed a request to
participate in the survey. For purposes of burden estimation this
project will assume a response rate upper limit of 50%, or a maximum of
3,150 completed pilot test interviews.
The final survey would be administered to young people ages 16
through 20 listed in the driver license database of one of the States
participating in the survey. There would be eight participating States.
The number of respondents would depend on results of the pilot test in
addition to the response rate. For each of the eight States, 8,000
young drivers would be mailed the request to participate in the survey
if the pilot test determines that it is feasible to administer the
longer version of the questionnaire. An upper limit response rate of
50% equates to a maximum of 4,000 completed interviews per State, or
32,000 for the survey. But if the pilot test indicates that the
questionnaire will need to be split into two shorter questionnaires,
then the number of respondents would double to a maximum of 64,000 as
8,000 requests to participate in the survey would be mailed per
questionnaire in each State.
Businesses are ineligible for the sample and would not be
interviewed. All respondents would be administered the survey one time
only.
Estimate of the Total Annual Reporting and Record Keeping Burden
Resulting From the Collection of Information--NHTSA estimates that the
respondents participating in the usability testing would average 1 hour
in carrying out that activity. The number of respondents would not
exceed 100, producing a maximum burden of 100 hours.
The projected 3,150 maximum completed interviews for the pilot test
would be split among those receiving the full questionnaire (one-third
of respondents) and those receiving the shortened versions (two-thirds
of respondents, divided between those who get shortened Version A and
those who get shortened Version B). The full version would require an
average of 25 minutes for the 1,050 respondents for a burden of 437.5
hours. The shortened versions would require an average of 15 minutes
for the 2,100 respondents for a burden of 525 hours. The total burden
for the pilot test would therefore be a maximum of 962.5 hours.
If the pilot test indicates that administration of the full version
of the questionnaire is feasible, then a maximum of 32,000 respondents
would spend an average of 25 minutes completing the final survey, for a
burden of 13,333.33 hours. If the pilot test instead indicates that the
final survey will need to employ the shorter questionnaires, then a
maximum of 64,000 respondents would spend an average of 15 minutes
completing the survey, for a burden of 16,000 hours.
The maximum reporting burden for the Implementation of a Youth
Traffic Safety Survey would be 100 hours for the usability testing,
962.5 hours for the pilot test, and 16,000 hours for the final survey
if two questionnaires are used for a grand total of 17,062.5 hours.
All interviewing would occur during a single calendar year. Thus
the annual reporting burden would be the entire 17,062.5 hours. The
respondents would not incur any reporting cost from the information
collection. The respondents also would not incur any record keeping
burden or record keeping cost from the information collection.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A).
Issued on: May 31, 2013.
Jeffrey Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2013-13415 Filed 6-5-13; 8:45 am]
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