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Response: FTA concurs that in
general this is allowed. However, if the
agency intends to use the average
passenger trip length from a sample to
estimate passenger miles in subsequent
years, the agency must calculate the trip
length using the unlinked passenger
trips collected by the method that will
be used to report unlinked passenger
trips to the NTD.
Comment: One commenter asked
whether agencies should use all valid
APC data, or should select a sample of
vehicle trips from the available valid
APC data.
Response: FTA encourages agencies to
use all valid data. However, agencies
need to account for the stratified nature
of the sample in this case. The set of all
valid data may be biased toward certain
routes, vehicles, or trips, and thus
cannot be considered a random sample
of the whole service. Instead agencies
must determine average unlinked
passenger trips and passenger miles at a
granular level (the vehicle trip level, for
example) and factor up each group (e.g.,
vehicle trip) individually. Alternatively,
agencies are permitted to use any NTDapproved sampling plan in conjunction
with APCs. Any such plan would
include statistically valid procedures for
replacing selected trips on which data
are not collected.
Comment: One commenter expressed
concern that an agency may be
penalized by reduced formula funding if
they perform their APC maintenance
check mid-year and find that the data no
longer meet the requirements.
Response: FTA reduced the required
timeframe for the maintenance check
from one year to any convenient period.
FTA expects that it will typically take
less than a month. An agency that
performs the check and finds that the
error is over 5% should reexamine its
APC data collection procedures, make
any needed adjustments, perform any
needed maintenance on the system, and
retest. The shortened timeframe should
allow agencies to retest before the end
of the year, thus ensuring that an agency
that encounters problems in its
maintenance check can nonetheless
provide an uninterrupted set of data to
the NTD. FTA will clarify this point in
its final policy.
Comment: One commenter suggested
that FTA provide guidelines to agencies
for accuracy standards and testing that
the agencies can write into their RFPs
when they procure APC systems.
Response: While FTA certainly
encourages agencies to follow best
practices when procuring APC systems,
FTA believes ample guidance is
available through other industry
resources.
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Comment: Two commenters
commented on the proposed sample
size. One commenter recommended a
minimum of 40 and a maximum of 70
vehicle trips. The other commenter
recommended that a minimum number
of boardings (e.g., 1,000) be mandated in
addition to vehicle trips.
Response: In devising the proposed
number of trips (15 to 50) FTA balanced
the need for good data with agency
burden. FTA notes that the proposed
requirements are only a minimum;
agencies are free to use a larger sample
if they believe it will provide better
data.
Comment: One commenter requested
that FTA provide a template that
performs the calculations.
Response: FTA designed the error
criteria to be simple enough that an
agency should be able to calculate them
without the need for a template.
Comment: Eight commenters had
comments about unbalanced error. One
commenter noted that the unbalanced
error criterion would be harder for small
agencies to satisfy than large ones, and
that unbalanced error does not detect
systemic bias. Three commenters
believe the unbalanced error criterion
would be too difficult to meet. Three
commenters noted that unbalanced error
is redundant since unlinked passenger
trips are already being tested. Two
commenters requested clarification of
the definition of unbalanced error.
Response: FTA concurs with the
concerns that commenters have raised
and will withdraw the unbalanced error
criterion from the final policy.
D. Overview of Final Updates to the
USOA and NTD Reporting
Requirements
After considering the comments
submitted on the proposed updates to
the USOA and changes to NTD
reporting requirements, FTA will delay
the implementation of the original
proposed USOA changes to FY 2018.
Additionally, FTA will add line items to
account for ‘‘Deferred Outflows of
Resources’’ and ‘‘Deferred Inflows of
Resources’’ on the F–60 form, as well as
rescind the original proposed changes to
add ‘‘Pension Funds’’ and ‘‘OPEB
Adjustment’’ USOA object classes. FTA
will also publish a new USOA
numbering scheme that is more
consistent with a standard chart of
accounts. These changes will be
reflected in the final Uniform System of
Accounts.
The revised APC certification process
is effective immediately. The final
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requirements can be found on the NTD
Web site: www.transit.dot.gov/ntd.
Carolyn Flowers,
Acting Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2016–24414 Filed 10–7–16; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA–2016–
0085 ]
Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping
Requirements
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S.
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Request for public comment on
an extension of a currently approved
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
reinstatement of previously approved
collections.
This document describes a collection
of information for which NHTSA
intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before December 12, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
using any of the following methods. All
comments must have the applicable
DOT docket number (e.g., NHTSA–
2016–0085) noted conspicuously on
them.
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online 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
20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
Telephone: 1–800–647–5527.
• Fax: 202–493–2251
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number for this proposed collection of
SUMMARY:
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information. 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 is able to search
the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, 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.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
Leo
Yon, Trends Analysis Division (NEF–
170), Room W45–215, NHTSA, 1200
New Jersey Ave., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 366–7028.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for
approval, it must first 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
regulation, see 5 CFR 1320.8(d), an
agency must ask for public comment on
the following:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
(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 for public
comments on the following collection of
information:
Title: Reporting of Information and
Documents about Potential Defects.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0616.
Affected Public: Businesses or
individuals.
Abstract: This notice requests
comment on NHTSA’s proposed
extension to approved collection of
information OMB No. 2127–0616. The
Transportation Recall Enhancement,
Accountability, and Documentation
(TREAD) Act (Pub. L. 106–414) was
enacted on November 1, 2000. These
TREAD requirements of the Act are
found in 49 U.S.C. 30166 and many of
these requirements are implemented
through, and addressed with more
specificity in, 49 CFR part 579
Reporting of Information and
Communications about Potential
Defects.
These Early Warning Reporting (EWR)
requirements specify that manufacturers
of motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment submit information,
periodically or upon NHTSA’s request,
that includes claims for deaths and
serious injuries, property damage data,
communications from customers and
others, information on incidents
resulting in fatalities or serious injuries
from possible defects in vehicles or
equipment in the United States or in
identical or substantially similar
vehicles or equipment in a foreign
country, and other information that
assist NHTSA in identifying potential
safety-related defects. The intent of this
information collection is to provide
early warning of such potential safetyrelated defects.
Estimated Burden Hours: This
approved information collection was
last renewed in August 2013, when
additional component type codes were
added to manufacturer EWR
submissions. See 78 FR 51412. Due to
one-time investments and other
associated costs, the collection was
approved for 85,193 burden hours and
$10.3 million dollars in the first year.
We estimated subsequent years would
require 45,897 burden hours and $5.75
million dollars. Today we update these
estimates by removing the first-year
costs associated with the 2013
rulemaking, as well as revising
estimates to better align with current
EWR volume.
First, the below estimates are adjusted
to better reflect current EWR submission
volume. Table 1 provides an average
annual submission count for each claim
category submitted per the requirements
of 49 CFR 579:
TABLE 1—ANNUAL AVERAGE OF SUBMISSIONS BY MANUFACTURERS (2013–2015)
Category of claims
Injury Fatality .................................
Property Damage * ........................
Light
vehicles
Heavy, med
vehicles
9,082
8,554
Motorcycles
Trailers
97
572
Emergency
vehicles
135
16
3
2
13
21
Buses
Warranty Claims ............................
Totals
12
55
74
2,261
378
N/A
8
N/A
9,804
11,481
461
N/A
4,259
N/A
79,297
Aggregate Data
Mfr. Field Reports .........................
66,064
7,221
13
1,276
Foreign Death Claims ...................
59
1
1
2
0
0
2
35
0
101
Totals .....................................
83,759
7,891
48
1,429
8
528
2,337
4,672
8
100,683
Dealer Field Reports .....................
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Equipment
mfr.
Aggregate Data
Consumer Complaints ...................
Child
restraints
Tires
3
Aggregate Data
* Property damage claims are aggregate data but are counted differently because they require more time to manually review.
The above updated submission totals
represent a 17% increase from the
currently approved information
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collection. Submission totals for each
category have risen with an average of
9,804 injury and fatality claims
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(previously 6,041 claims), 11,481
property damage claims (previously
11,402 claims), 79,297 manufacturer
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field reports (previously 68,574 field
reports), 101 foreign death claims
(previously 41 claims), totaling 100,683
submissions on average (previously
estimated at 86,058 submissions).
to process. Multiplying this average
number of minutes by the number of
submissions NHTSA receives in each
reporting category yields the burden
hour estimates found below in Table 2:
The agency estimates that an average
of 5 minutes is required for a
manufacturer to process each report,
with the exception of foreign death
claims. We estimate foreign death
claims require an average of 15 minutes
TABLE 2—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS
Category of claims
Injury Fatality .................................
Property Damage* .........................
Light
vehicles
Heavy, med
vehicles
757
713
Motorcycles
Trailers
8
48
Emergency
vehicles
11
1
0
0
1
2
Buses
Child
restraints
Tires
Equipment
mfr.
Totals
1
5
1
N/A
817
957
N/A
355
N/A
6,608
Aggregate Data
Consumer Complaints ...................
32
N/A
38
Warranty Claims ............................
6
188
Aggregate Data
Mfr. Field Reports .........................
5,505
602
1
106
Dealer Field Reports .....................
0
Aggregate Data
Foreign Death Claims ...................
15
0
0
1
0
0
1
9
0
25
Totals .....................................
6,990
658
4
119
1
44
195
395
1
8,407
* Property damage claims are aggregate data but are counted differently because they require more time to manually review.
Our previous estimates totaled 7,178
burden hours associated with these
Early Warning submissions. We now
update that total to 8,407 burden hours,
a 17% increase, associated with the
above noted claim categories.
The burden hours associated with
aggregate data submissions for
consumer complaints, warranty claims,
and dealer field reports are included in
reporting and computer maintenance
hours. The burden hours for computer
maintenance are calculated by
multiplying the hours of computer use
(for a given category) by the number of
manufacturers reporting in a category.
Similarly, reporting burden hours are
calculated by multiplying hours used to
report for a given category by the
number of manufacturers for the
category. Using these methods and the
average number of manufacturers who
report annually, we estimate the burden
hours for reporting cost and computer
maintenance below in Table 3:
TABLE 3—ESTIMATED ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS FOR REPORTING AND COMPUTER MAINTENANCE
Avg. Number
of manufacturers
Vehicle/equipment category
Quarterly
hours to
report per
manufacturer
Annual burden
hours for
reporting
Hours for computer maintenance per
manufacturer
Annual burden
hours for
computer
maintenance
39
39
80
15
7
38
34
34
6
8
5
1
2
5
5
5
1
1
1,248
780
320
120
140
760
680
136
24
347
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
-
13,533
3,374
6,920
1,298
606
3,287
2,941
2,941
........................
Totals ............................................................................
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Light Vehicles .......................................................................
Medium-Heavy Vehicles ......................................................
Trailers .................................................................................
Motorcycles ..........................................................................
Emergency Vehicles ............................................................
Buses ...................................................................................
Tires .....................................................................................
Child Restraints ....................................................................
Vehicle Equipment ...............................................................
........................
........................
4,208
........................
34,899
Thus, the total burden hours for EWR
death and injury data, aggregate data
and non-dealer field reports is 8,407
(Table 2) + 4,208 (Table 3) + 34,899
(Table 3) = 47,514 burden hours.
In order to provide the information
required for foreign safety campaigns,
manufacturers must (1) determine
whether vehicles or equipment that are
covered by a foreign safety recall or
other safety campaign are identical or
substantially similar to vehicles or
equipment sold in the United States, (2)
prepare and submit reports of these
campaigns to the agency, and (3) where
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a determination or notice has been made
in a language other than English,
translate the determination or notice
into English before transmitting it to the
agency. NHTSA estimates that preparing
and submitting each foreign defect
report (foreign recall campaign) requires
1 hour of clerical staff and that
translation of determinations into
English requires 2 hours of technical
staff (note: this assumes that all foreign
campaign reports require translation,
which is unlikely). Between 2013 and
2015, NHTSA received a yearly average
of 133 foreign recall reports which
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results in 133 hours for preparation and
submission of the reports (133 defect
reports × 1 hour clerical = 133 hours)
and 266 hours for technical time (133
foreign recall reports × 2 hours technical
= 266 hours.
With respect to the burden of
determining identical or substantially
similar vehicles or equipment to those
sold in the United States, manufacturers
of motor vehicles are required to submit
not later than November 1 of each year,
a document that identifies foreign
products and their domestic
counterparts. NHTSA continues to
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estimate that the annual list could be
developed with 8 attorney hours and 1
hour for IT work. NHTSA receives these
lists from 83 manufacturers, on average,
resulting in 747 burden hours (83
vehicle manufacturers ×x 8 hours for
attorney support = 664 hours) + (83
vehicle manufacturers × 1 hour for IT
support = 83 hours).
TABLE 4—HOURLY BURDEN FOR FOREIGN REPORTING
Burden hours
Task
Qty
Occupation
Per unit
Total
Annual List ...............................................................................
Annual list—Electronic ............................................................
Foreign Defect Report .............................................................
Foreign Defect report ..............................................................
83
83
133
133
Attorney ..................................
IT ............................................
Clerical ...................................
Technical ................................
8
1
1
2
664
83
133
266
Total .................................................................................
........................
................................................
........................
1,146
Therefore, the total annual hour
burden on manufacturers for reporting
foreign safety campaigns and
substantially similar vehicles/
equipment is 1,146 hours (774 hours
professional time + 133 hours clerical
time + 266 hours technical time). This
is an increase of 154 burden hours from
our previous estimate (1,146 hours for
current estimate—992 hours for
previous estimate).
Section 579.5 also requires
manufacturers to submit notices,
bulletins, customer satisfaction
campaigns, consumer advisories and
other communications that are sent to
more than one dealer or owner.
Manufacturers are required to submit
this information monthly. Section 579.5
does not require manufacturer to create
these documents; rather, only copies of
these documents must be submitted to
NHTSA. Therefore, the burden hours
are only those associated with collecting
the documents and submitting copies to
NHTSA. Manufacturers must index
these communications and email them
to NHTSA within 5 working days after
the end of the month in which they
were issued.
NHTSA continues to estimate that we
receive about 7,000 notices a year. We
estimate that it takes about 5 minutes to
collect, index, and send each notice to
NHTSA. Therefore, we continue to
estimate that it takes 7,000 documents ×
5 minutes = 35,000 minutes or 583
hours for manufacturers to submit
notices as required under Part 579.5.
adjusted wages and salaries, for private
industry workers, were referenced to
calculate the following updated 2016
wage rates:
TABLE 6—HOURLY WAGE RATES BY
OCCUPATION
TABLE 5—TOTAL BURDEN HOURS FOR
THIS COLLECTION
Annual burden
hours
Reporting type
Wage rate
Occupation
2011
Attorney ............
Engineer ...........
IT .......................
Technical ..........
Clerical ..............
2016
$130.39
130.39
145.59
94.09
30.69
$144.47
144.47
161.31
104.25
34.00
EWR Reporting (Table 3) .....
Foreign Reporting (Table 4)
Part 579.5 .............................
47,514
1,146
583
Total ...............................
49,243
2016 wage data from U.S. Department of
Labor.
Estimated Cost Burdens—We now
estimate the calculated cost burdens
that this collection imposes on industry.
The hourly wage rates shown below
have been utilized in previous renewals
of this collection and are now updated
through June 2016. These current rate
adjustments are derived from the
Employment Cost Index Historical
Listing (Volume III) provided by the
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to adjust
for inflation. The non-seasonally
We have also constructed various
breakdowns of the average five minutes
of labor among the various occupations
depending on the type of document that
was reviewed. For example, to combine
three minutes of technical labor and two
minutes of clerical labor produces a
combined wage rate of $76.15 per hour,
using the adjusted 2016 wage rates in
Table 6. Table 7 shows the time
allocations and weighted hourly rate by
report:
TABLE 7—TIME ALLOCATION AND WEIGHTED HOURLY RATE BY REPORT
Claim type
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Claims of Injury/Death .............................
Property Damage .....................................
Mfr. Field Reports ....................................
Foreign Deaths ........................................
The total cost for 2016 Claims
documents were obtained using the
following formula:
K × T × W = Costs for claim type
Where:
K = Documents submitted by industry
T = Average time spent on a document
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Engineer
3
0
0
3
IT
0
0
0
10
Technical
0
0
0
0
W = Wage rate based on U.S. Department of
Labor and skill mix
For example, the estimated cost to
report light vehicle death and injury
claims is $75,899 (9,082 death and
injury claims reported × 5/60 hours ×
$100.29 wage rate).
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Clerical
0
3
3
0
Total time
2
2
2
2
5
5
5
15
Weighted
hourly rate
$100.29
76.15
76.15
129.74
NHTSA estimates the reporting costs
as a function of
• The number of manufacturers
reporting;
• The frequency of required reports;
• The number of hours required per
report; and
• The cost of personnel to report.
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The number of manufacturers
reporting is estimated from EWR
submission. The frequency of reports is
fixed at 4 times per year. The number
of hours for reporting ranges from 1
hour for trailer manufacturer to 8 hours
for light vehicle manufacturers (See
Table 3). In addition, we assume that 50
percent of the total burden hours are
utilized by technical personnel while
clerical staff consumes the remaining 50
percent. In other words, the hourly wage
rate for each quarterly report is split
evenly between technical and clerical
personnel and a weighted average of the
wage hour is developed from this
assumption. For 2016 the wage rate is
$69.13 ([$104.25 × 0.5] + [$34.00 × 0.5]).
M × Tc × IT = cost of computer
maintenance
Where:
The reporting costs are calculated as
follows:
M × Tp × 4 × $69.13 = cost of reporting
Where:
M = Manufacturers reporting data in the
category
Tp = Reporting time for the category
4 = Quarterly reports per year
$69.13 = Reporting cost wage rate (rounded)
Thus, the estimated reporting cost for
light vehicles is $86,272 (39
manufacturers × 8 hours × 4 quarters ×
$69.13 wage rate).
The costs for computer maintenance
including software, hardware, data
storage, etc. were calculated using the
following formula:
M = Manufacturers reporting data in the
category
Tc = Annual computer maintenance time per
manufacturer for the category
IT = IT wage rate
The computer maintenance costs for
light vehicles are $2,183,059 (39
manufacturers × 347 hours × $161.31
wage rate).
Table 8 shows the annual cost of
reporting EWR information to NHTSA
using the information outlined in tables
1, 2, 3, 6, and 7:
TABLE 8—ESTIMATE EWR COSTS BY SUBMISSION TYPE
Category
(Injury/Fatality) ...............................
Property Damage * ........................
Light
vehicles
Heavy, med
vehicles
$75,899
54,284
$811
3,630
Motorcycles
Trailers
Emergency
vehicles
$1,128
102
$25
13
$109
133
Buses
Child
restraints
Tires
Equipment
mfr.
Totals
$100
349
$67
0
$81,916
72,859
0
27,028
0
503,224
Aggregate Data
Consumer Complaints ...................
$3,159
0
2,926
Warranty Claims ............................
$618
14,348
Aggregate Data
Mfr. Field Reports .........................
419,247
45,825
82
8,098
Dealer Field Reports .....................
19
Aggregate Data
Foreign Death Claims ...................
Reporting Cost ..............................
Computer Maintenance .................
1,914
86,272
2,183,059
32
53,920
544,192
32
22,121
1,116,291
65
8,295
209,305
0
9,678
97,675
0
52,537
530,238
65
47,007
474,424
1,135
9,401
474,424
0
1,659
0
3,244
290,891
5,629,607
Totals: ....................................
2,820,674
648,410
1,138,769
226,992
107,410
586,150
536,463
515,147
1,726
6,581,741
Note: Totals may not be exact due to rounding.
Table 9 details the total annual costs
for reproting annual list of substatially
similar vehicles and foreign safety
campaigns:
TABLE 9—ESTIMATED ANNUAL COSTS FOR SUBSTANTIALLY SIMILAR VEHICLES AND FOREIGN SAFETY CAMPAIGNS
Task
Qty
Occupation
2016 Wage
rate (from
Table 6)
Burden hours
Cost
Per unit
Total
83
83
133
133
Attorney .............
IT .......................
Clerical ..............
Technical ...........
$144.47
161.31
34.00
104.25
8
1
1
2
664
83
133
266
$95,929
13,389
4,523
27,731
Foreign Campaign Totals ......
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Annual list—Electronic ..................
Defect report .................................
Defect report .................................
........................
...........................
........................
........................
1,146
141,572
The cost associated for manufacturers
to submit Part 579.5 notices, bulletins,
customer satisfaction campaigns,
consumer advisories and other
communications that are sent to more
than one dealer or owner can be
estimated from the number of hours and
wage of personal submitting the
documents. We understand that some
manufacturers have clerical staff collect
and submit the documents and other
have technical staff. Because we do not
know how many documents are sent by
a particular staff we will assume they
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are done the higher paid staff. Thus, we
estimated the cost to collect and submit
Part 579.5 documents at 583 hours ×
$104.25 for Technical staff = $60,779 for
manufacturers to submit notices as
required under Part 579.5.
Table 10 shows the estimated cost for
manufacturers to report EWR data,
foreign campaigns, and Part 579.5
documents through this collection:
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REPORTING, AND PART 579.5 REPORTING
Reporting Type
Annual Cost
($)
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141,572
60,779
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Foreign Reporting (Table 9)
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Removed Burdens— Our previous
renewal of this collection included onetime cost estimates associated with
adding a new vehicle type, fuel and/or
propulsion system type, and four new
components (stability control, forward
collision avoidance, lane departure
prevention, and backover prevention) to
vehicle EWR reporting. These one-time
costs were estimated for manufacturers
to amend their reporting templates and
revise their software system to support
the new reporting requirements. See 78
FR 51415. Manufacturers were required
to make these changes to their vehicle
EWR reporting by January 1, 2015. See
79 FR 47591. As these one-time costs
have already been incurred and
manufacturers have already made the
necessary modifications to their
systems, a total of 39,296 burden hours
and $4.57 million dollars will be
removed from this collection.
Summary of Burden Estimate—Based
on the foregoing, we estimate the
burden hours for industry to comply
with the current EWR requirements,
foreign campaign requirements and Part
579.5 requirements total 49,243 burden
hours (47,514 for EWR requirements +
1,146 hours for foreign campaign
requirements + 583 hours for Part
579.5). This is a decrease of 35,950
hours from the currently approved
collection, mostly due to the one-time
costs we previously estimated and have
now removed from this collection. We
now estimate the cost burden for current
EWR requirements, foreign campaign
requirements, and Part 579.5
requirements to total $6,784,092
annually.
Estimated Number of Respondents—
NHTSA receives EWR submissions,
foreign campaigns, and Part 579.5
submissions from roughly 292
manufacturers per year.
In summary, we estimate that there
will be a total of 292 respondents per
year associated with OMB No. 2127–
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA–2016–
0065]
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping
Requirements
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S.
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collections
and their expected burden. The Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period was published on June 27, 2016
(81 FR 41644).
DATES: Comments must be submitted to
OMB on or before November 10, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Send comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, OMB, 725 17th Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk
Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex
Ansley, Recall Management Division
(NVS–215), Room W48–301, NHTSA,
1200 New Jersey Ave., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 493–0481.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for
approval, it must first 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
regulation, see 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
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(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 for public
comments on the following collection of
information:
Title: Defect and Noncompliance
Reporting and Notification.
Type of Request: Extension of a
currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0004.
Affected Public: Businesses or
individuals.
Abstract: The 60-day notice for this
information collection received one (1)
comment submitted by Nissan North
America, Inc. (Nissan). Nissan agreed
with many of the estimates presented in
the 60-day notice but did offer
substantive comments on six different
estimates related to safety recall
reporting and owner notification
obligations. A summary of Nissan’s
comments are found below in the
corresponding burden estimate along
with the Agency’s response.
This collection covers the information
collection requirements found within
various statutory sections in the Motor
Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 (Act), 49
U.S.C. 30101, et seq., that address and
require manufacturer notifications to
NHTSA of safety-related defects and
failures to comply with Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) in
motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment, as well as the provision of
particular information related to the
ensuing owner and dealers notifications
and free remedy campaigns that follow
those notifications.
Pursuant to the Act, motor vehicle
and motor vehicle equipment
manufacturers are obligated to notify,
and then provide various information
and documents, to NHTSA in the event
a safety defect or noncompliance with
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
(FMVSS) is identified in products they
manufactured. See 49 U.S.C. 30118(b)
and 49 CFR 573.6 (requiring
manufacturers to notify NHTSA, and
provide certain information, when they
learn of a safety defect or
noncompliance). Manufacturers are
further required to notify owners,
purchasers, dealers and distributors
about the safety defect or
noncompliance. See 49 U.S.C. 30118(b),
30120(a), and 49 CFR 577.7, 577.13.
They are required to provide to NHTSA
copies of communications pertaining to
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA-2016-0085 ]
Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping Requirements
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S.
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Request for public comment on an extension of a currently
approved 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 reinstatement of previously approved collections.
This document describes a collection of information for which NHTSA
intends to seek OMB approval.
DATES: Comments must be received on or before December 12, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments using any of the following methods.
All comments must have the applicable DOT docket number (e.g., NHTSA-
2016-0085) noted conspicuously on them.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 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 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. Telephone: 1-800-647-
5527.
Fax: 202-493-2251
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number for this proposed collection of
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information. 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 is able to search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, 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.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov or the street
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the
dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Leo Yon, Trends Analysis Division
(NEF-170), Room W45-215, NHTSA, 1200 New Jersey Ave., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 366-7028.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
before an agency submits a proposed collection of information to OMB
for approval, it must first 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 regulation, see 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 for public
comments on the following collection of information:
Title: Reporting of Information and Documents about Potential
Defects.
Type of Request: Revision of a currently approved information
collection.
OMB Control Number: 2127-0616.
Affected Public: Businesses or individuals.
Abstract: This notice requests comment on NHTSA's proposed
extension to approved collection of information OMB No. 2127-0616. The
Transportation Recall Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation
(TREAD) Act (Pub. L. 106-414) was enacted on November 1, 2000. These
TREAD requirements of the Act are found in 49 U.S.C. 30166 and many of
these requirements are implemented through, and addressed with more
specificity in, 49 CFR part 579 Reporting of Information and
Communications about Potential Defects.
These Early Warning Reporting (EWR) requirements specify that
manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment submit
information, periodically or upon NHTSA's request, that includes claims
for deaths and serious injuries, property damage data, communications
from customers and others, information on incidents resulting in
fatalities or serious injuries from possible defects in vehicles or
equipment in the United States or in identical or substantially similar
vehicles or equipment in a foreign country, and other information that
assist NHTSA in identifying potential safety-related defects. The
intent of this information collection is to provide early warning of
such potential safety-related defects.
Estimated Burden Hours: This approved information collection was
last renewed in August 2013, when additional component type codes were
added to manufacturer EWR submissions. See 78 FR 51412. Due to one-time
investments and other associated costs, the collection was approved for
85,193 burden hours and $10.3 million dollars in the first year. We
estimated subsequent years would require 45,897 burden hours and $5.75
million dollars. Today we update these estimates by removing the first-
year costs associated with the 2013 rulemaking, as well as revising
estimates to better align with current EWR volume.
First, the below estimates are adjusted to better reflect current
EWR submission volume. Table 1 provides an average annual submission
count for each claim category submitted per the requirements of 49 CFR
579:
Table 1--Annual Average of Submissions by Manufacturers (2013-2015)
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Light Heavy, med Emergency Child Equipment
Category of claims vehicles vehicles Trailers Motorcycles vehicles Buses Tires restraints mfr. Totals
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Injury Fatality.................... 9,082 97 13 135 3 12 74 378 8 9,804
Property Damage *.................. 8,554 572 21 16 2 55 2,261 N/A N/A 11,481
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Warranty Claims.................... Aggregate Data
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Consumer Complaints................ Aggregate Data
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Mfr. Field Reports................. 66,064 7,221 13 1,276 3 461 N/A 4,259 N/A 79,297
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Dealer Field Reports............... Aggregate Data
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Foreign Death Claims............... 59 1 1 2 0 0 2 35 0 101
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Totals......................... 83,759 7,891 48 1,429 8 528 2,337 4,672 8 100,683
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* Property damage claims are aggregate data but are counted differently because they require more time to manually review.
The above updated submission totals represent a 17% increase from
the currently approved information collection. Submission totals for
each category have risen with an average of 9,804 injury and fatality
claims (previously 6,041 claims), 11,481 property damage claims
(previously 11,402 claims), 79,297 manufacturer
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field reports (previously 68,574 field reports), 101 foreign death
claims (previously 41 claims), totaling 100,683 submissions on average
(previously estimated at 86,058 submissions).
The agency estimates that an average of 5 minutes is required for a
manufacturer to process each report, with the exception of foreign
death claims. We estimate foreign death claims require an average of 15
minutes to process. Multiplying this average number of minutes by the
number of submissions NHTSA receives in each reporting category yields
the burden hour estimates found below in Table 2:
Table 2--Estimated Annual Burden Hours
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Light Heavy, med Emergency Child Equipment
Category of claims vehicles vehicles Trailers Motorcycles vehicles Buses Tires restraints mfr. Totals
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Injury Fatality.................... 757 8 1 11 0 1 6 32 1 817
Property Damage*................... 713 48 2 1 0 5 188 N/A N/A 957
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Warranty Claims.................... Aggregate Data
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Consumer Complaints................ Aggregate Data
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Mfr. Field Reports................. 5,505 602 1 106 0 38 N/A 355 N/A 6,608
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Dealer Field Reports............... Aggregate Data
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Foreign Death Claims............... 15 0 0 1 0 0 1 9 0 25
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Totals......................... 6,990 658 4 119 1 44 195 395 1 8,407
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* Property damage claims are aggregate data but are counted differently because they require more time to manually review.
Our previous estimates totaled 7,178 burden hours associated with
these Early Warning submissions. We now update that total to 8,407
burden hours, a 17% increase, associated with the above noted claim
categories.
The burden hours associated with aggregate data submissions for
consumer complaints, warranty claims, and dealer field reports are
included in reporting and computer maintenance hours. The burden hours
for computer maintenance are calculated by multiplying the hours of
computer use (for a given category) by the number of manufacturers
reporting in a category. Similarly, reporting burden hours are
calculated by multiplying hours used to report for a given category by
the number of manufacturers for the category. Using these methods and
the average number of manufacturers who report annually, we estimate
the burden hours for reporting cost and computer maintenance below in
Table 3:
Table 3--Estimated Annual Burden Hours for Reporting and Computer Maintenance
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Hours for
Quarterly Annual burden computer Annual burden
Vehicle/equipment category Avg. Number of hours to hours for maintenance hours for
manufacturers report per reporting per computer
manufacturer manufacturer maintenance
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Light Vehicles.................. 39 8 1,248 347 13,533
Medium-Heavy Vehicles........... 39 5 780 86.5 3,374
Trailers........................ 80 1 320 86.5 6,920
Motorcycles..................... 15 2 120 86.5 1,298
Emergency Vehicles.............. 7 5 140 86.5 606
Buses........................... 38 5 760 86.5 3,287
Tires........................... 34 5 680 86.5 2,941
Child Restraints................ 34 1 136 86.5 2,941
Vehicle Equipment............... 6 1 24 - ..............
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Totals...................... .............. .............. 4,208 .............. 34,899
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Thus, the total burden hours for EWR death and injury data,
aggregate data and non-dealer field reports is 8,407 (Table 2) + 4,208
(Table 3) + 34,899 (Table 3) = 47,514 burden hours.
In order to provide the information required for foreign safety
campaigns, manufacturers must (1) determine whether vehicles or
equipment that are covered by a foreign safety recall or other safety
campaign are identical or substantially similar to vehicles or
equipment sold in the United States, (2) prepare and submit reports of
these campaigns to the agency, and (3) where a determination or notice
has been made in a language other than English, translate the
determination or notice into English before transmitting it to the
agency. NHTSA estimates that preparing and submitting each foreign
defect report (foreign recall campaign) requires 1 hour of clerical
staff and that translation of determinations into English requires 2
hours of technical staff (note: this assumes that all foreign campaign
reports require translation, which is unlikely). Between 2013 and 2015,
NHTSA received a yearly average of 133 foreign recall reports which
results in 133 hours for preparation and submission of the reports (133
defect reports x 1 hour clerical = 133 hours) and 266 hours for
technical time (133 foreign recall reports x 2 hours technical = 266
hours.
With respect to the burden of determining identical or
substantially similar vehicles or equipment to those sold in the United
States, manufacturers of motor vehicles are required to submit not
later than November 1 of each year, a document that identifies foreign
products and their domestic counterparts. NHTSA continues to
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estimate that the annual list could be developed with 8 attorney hours
and 1 hour for IT work. NHTSA receives these lists from 83
manufacturers, on average, resulting in 747 burden hours (83 vehicle
manufacturers xx 8 hours for attorney support = 664 hours) + (83
vehicle manufacturers x 1 hour for IT support = 83 hours).
Table 4--Hourly Burden for Foreign Reporting
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Burden hours
Task Qty Occupation -------------------------------
Per unit Total
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Annual List........................... 83 Attorney................ 8 664
Annual list--Electronic............... 83 IT...................... 1 83
Foreign Defect Report................. 133 Clerical................ 1 133
Foreign Defect report................. 133 Technical............... 2 266
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Total............................. .............. ........................ .............. 1,146
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Therefore, the total annual hour burden on manufacturers for
reporting foreign safety campaigns and substantially similar vehicles/
equipment is 1,146 hours (774 hours professional time + 133 hours
clerical time + 266 hours technical time). This is an increase of 154
burden hours from our previous estimate (1,146 hours for current
estimate--992 hours for previous estimate).
Section 579.5 also requires manufacturers to submit notices,
bulletins, customer satisfaction campaigns, consumer advisories and
other communications that are sent to more than one dealer or owner.
Manufacturers are required to submit this information monthly. Section
579.5 does not require manufacturer to create these documents; rather,
only copies of these documents must be submitted to NHTSA. Therefore,
the burden hours are only those associated with collecting the
documents and submitting copies to NHTSA. Manufacturers must index
these communications and email them to NHTSA within 5 working days
after the end of the month in which they were issued.
NHTSA continues to estimate that we receive about 7,000 notices a
year. We estimate that it takes about 5 minutes to collect, index, and
send each notice to NHTSA. Therefore, we continue to estimate that it
takes 7,000 documents x 5 minutes = 35,000 minutes or 583 hours for
manufacturers to submit notices as required under Part 579.5.
Table 5--Total Burden Hours for This Collection
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Annual burden
Reporting type hours
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EWR Reporting (Table 3)................................. 47,514
Foreign Reporting (Table 4)............................. 1,146
Part 579.5.............................................. 583
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Total............................................... 49,243
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Estimated Cost Burdens--We now estimate the calculated cost burdens
that this collection imposes on industry. The hourly wage rates shown
below have been utilized in previous renewals of this collection and
are now updated through June 2016. These current rate adjustments are
derived from the Employment Cost Index Historical Listing (Volume III)
provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to adjust for
inflation. The non-seasonally adjusted wages and salaries, for private
industry workers, were referenced to calculate the following updated
2016 wage rates:
Table 6--Hourly Wage Rates by Occupation
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Wage rate
Occupation -------------------------
2011 2016
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Attorney...................................... $130.39 $144.47
Engineer...................................... 130.39 144.47
IT............................................ 145.59 161.31
Technical..................................... 94.09 104.25
Clerical...................................... 30.69 34.00
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2016 wage data from U.S. Department of Labor.
We have also constructed various breakdowns of the average five
minutes of labor among the various occupations depending on the type of
document that was reviewed. For example, to combine three minutes of
technical labor and two minutes of clerical labor produces a combined
wage rate of $76.15 per hour, using the adjusted 2016 wage rates in
Table 6. Table 7 shows the time allocations and weighted hourly rate by
report:
Table 7--Time Allocation and Weighted Hourly Rate by Report
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Weighted
Claim type Attorney Engineer IT Technical Clerical Total time hourly rate
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Claims of Injury/Death....................................... 3 0 0 0 2 5 $100.29
Property Damage.............................................. 0 0 0 3 2 5 76.15
Mfr. Field Reports........................................... 0 0 0 3 2 5 76.15
Foreign Deaths............................................... 3 10 0 0 2 15 129.74
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The total cost for 2016 Claims documents were obtained using the
following formula:
K x T x W = Costs for claim type
Where:
K = Documents submitted by industry
T = Average time spent on a document
W = Wage rate based on U.S. Department of Labor and skill mix
For example, the estimated cost to report light vehicle death and
injury claims is $75,899 (9,082 death and injury claims reported x 5/60
hours x $100.29 wage rate).
NHTSA estimates the reporting costs as a function of
The number of manufacturers reporting;
The frequency of required reports;
The number of hours required per report; and
The cost of personnel to report.
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The number of manufacturers reporting is estimated from EWR
submission. The frequency of reports is fixed at 4 times per year. The
number of hours for reporting ranges from 1 hour for trailer
manufacturer to 8 hours for light vehicle manufacturers (See Table 3).
In addition, we assume that 50 percent of the total burden hours are
utilized by technical personnel while clerical staff consumes the
remaining 50 percent. In other words, the hourly wage rate for each
quarterly report is split evenly between technical and clerical
personnel and a weighted average of the wage hour is developed from
this assumption. For 2016 the wage rate is $69.13 ([$104.25 x 0.5] +
[$34.00 x 0.5]).
The reporting costs are calculated as follows:
M x Tp x 4 x $69.13 = cost of reporting
Where:
M = Manufacturers reporting data in the category
Tp = Reporting time for the category
4 = Quarterly reports per year
$69.13 = Reporting cost wage rate (rounded)
Thus, the estimated reporting cost for light vehicles is $86,272
(39 manufacturers x 8 hours x 4 quarters x $69.13 wage rate).
The costs for computer maintenance including software, hardware,
data storage, etc. were calculated using the following formula:
M x Tc x IT = cost of computer maintenance
Where:
M = Manufacturers reporting data in the category
Tc = Annual computer maintenance time per manufacturer
for the category
IT = IT wage rate
The computer maintenance costs for light vehicles are $2,183,059
(39 manufacturers x 347 hours x $161.31 wage rate).
Table 8 shows the annual cost of reporting EWR information to NHTSA
using the information outlined in tables 1, 2, 3, 6, and 7:
Table 8--Estimate EWR Costs by Submission Type
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Light Heavy, med Emergency Child Equipment
Category vehicles vehicles Trailers Motorcycles vehicles Buses Tires restraints mfr. Totals
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(Injury/Fatality).................. $75,899 $811 $109 $1,128 $25 $100 $618 $3,159 $67 $81,916
Property Damage *.................. 54,284 3,630 133 102 13 349 14,348 0 0 72,859
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Warranty Claims.................... Aggregate Data
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Consumer Complaints................ Aggregate Data
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Mfr. Field Reports................. 419,247 45,825 82 8,098 19 2,926 0 27,028 0 503,224
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Dealer Field Reports............... Aggregate Data
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Foreign Death Claims............... 1,914 32 32 65 0 0 65 1,135 0 3,244
Reporting Cost..................... 86,272 53,920 22,121 8,295 9,678 52,537 47,007 9,401 1,659 290,891
Computer Maintenance............... 2,183,059 544,192 1,116,291 209,305 97,675 530,238 474,424 474,424 0 5,629,607
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Totals:........................ 2,820,674 648,410 1,138,769 226,992 107,410 586,150 536,463 515,147 1,726 6,581,741
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Note: Totals may not be exact due to rounding.
Table 9 details the total annual costs for reproting annual list of
substatially similar vehicles and foreign safety campaigns:
Table 9--Estimated Annual Costs for Substantially Similar Vehicles and Foreign Safety Campaigns
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Burden hours
Task Qty Occupation 2016 Wage rate ------------------------------------ Cost
(from Table 6) Per unit Total
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Annual list............................. 83 Attorney.................. $144.47 8 664 $95,929
Annual list--Electronic................. 83 IT........................ 161.31 1 83 13,389
Defect report........................... 133 Clerical.................. 34.00 1 133 4,523
Defect report........................... 133 Technical................. 104.25 2 266 27,731
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Foreign Campaign Totals............. .............. .......................... .............. .............. 1,146 141,572
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The cost associated for manufacturers to submit Part 579.5 notices,
bulletins, customer satisfaction campaigns, consumer advisories and
other communications that are sent to more than one dealer or owner can
be estimated from the number of hours and wage of personal submitting
the documents. We understand that some manufacturers have clerical
staff collect and submit the documents and other have technical staff.
Because we do not know how many documents are sent by a particular
staff we will assume they are done the higher paid staff. Thus, we
estimated the cost to collect and submit Part 579.5 documents at 583
hours x $104.25 for Technical staff = $60,779 for manufacturers to
submit notices as required under Part 579.5.
Table 10 shows the estimated cost for manufacturers to report EWR
data, foreign campaigns, and Part 579.5 documents through this
collection:
Table 10--Total Dollar Estimates for Manufacturers To Comply With EWR
Reporting, Foreign Reporting, and Part 579.5 Reporting
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Annual Cost
Reporting Type ($)
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EWR Reporting (Table 8)................................. $6,581,741
Foreign Reporting (Table 9)............................. 141,572
Part 579.5 Submissions.................................. 60,779
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Total............................................... 6,784,092
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Removed Burdens-- Our previous renewal of this collection included
one-time cost estimates associated with adding a new vehicle type, fuel
and/or propulsion system type, and four new components (stability
control, forward collision avoidance, lane departure prevention, and
backover prevention) to vehicle EWR reporting. These one-time costs
were estimated for manufacturers to amend their reporting templates and
revise their software system to support the new reporting requirements.
See 78 FR 51415. Manufacturers were required to make these changes to
their vehicle EWR reporting by January 1, 2015. See 79 FR 47591. As
these one-time costs have already been incurred and manufacturers have
already made the necessary modifications to their systems, a total of
39,296 burden hours and $4.57 million dollars will be removed from this
collection.
Summary of Burden Estimate--Based on the foregoing, we estimate the
burden hours for industry to comply with the current EWR requirements,
foreign campaign requirements and Part 579.5 requirements total 49,243
burden hours (47,514 for EWR requirements + 1,146 hours for foreign
campaign requirements + 583 hours for Part 579.5). This is a decrease
of 35,950 hours from the currently approved collection, mostly due to
the one-time costs we previously estimated and have now removed from
this collection. We now estimate the cost burden for current EWR
requirements, foreign campaign requirements, and Part 579.5
requirements to total $6,784,092 annually.
Estimated Number of Respondents--NHTSA receives EWR submissions,
foreign campaigns, and Part 579.5 submissions from roughly 292
manufacturers per year.
In summary, we estimate that there will be a total of 292
respondents per year associated with OMB No. 2127-0616.
Issued on: October 4, 2016.
Michael L. Brown,
Acting Director, Office of Defects Investigation.
[FR Doc. 2016-24526 Filed 10-7-16; 8:45 am]
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