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• Place drivers out of service if
drivers are found to be operating a CMV
without completing the RTD process.
• Ensure medical review officers
(MROs) and substance abuse
professionals (SAPs) meet their
reporting requirements.
Only authorized users, including
employers and their service agents, and
Federal and State enforcement
personnel and State Driver Licensing
Agencies (SDLAs) may register and
access the Clearinghouse for designated
purposes. State enforcement personnel
may also receive the driver’s eligibility
status to operate a CMV, based on
Clearinghouse information, when they
check Query Central, the Commercial
Driver’s License Information System, or
The National Law Enforcement
Telecommunications System (NLets) for
driver information. The FMCSA will
share a driver’s drug and alcohol
violation information with the National
Transportation Safety Board when it is
investigating a crash involving that
driver.
Drivers may access their own
information, but not information of
other drivers. The Clearinghouse meets
all relevant federal security standards
and FMCSA continuously monitors
compliance with applicable security
regulations.
Title: Commercial Driver’s License
Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse.
OMB Control Number: 2126–0057.
Type of Request: Renewal of a
currently approved information
collection.
Respondents: Motor carriers
(employers), drivers, MROs, SAPs,
consortia/third-party administrators (C/
TPAs), and SDLAs.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
10,289,839.
Estimated Time per Response: Varies;
10 to 20 minutes.
Expiration Date: February 28, 2023.
Frequency of Response: On occasion.
A user’s role will determine the
frequency of the response in the
Clearinghouse.
• Employers, or C/TPAs acting on
behalf of an employer: at a minimum,
employers are required to query the
Clearinghouse for each driver they
currently employ at least once a year.
Employers must query the
Clearinghouse for all prospective
employees, as needed. In addition,
employers report to the Clearinghouse
alcohol confirmation tests with a
concentration of 0.04 or higher, refusal
to test (alcohol), refusal to test (drug)
that is not determined by an MRO, and
actual knowledge of violations, negative
RTD testing, and completion of the
follow-up testing plan. Employer
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reporting must be completed by the
close of the third business day following
the date they obtained the information
on a driver.
• MROs: verified positive, adulterated
or substituted drug test result and
refusals to tests (drug) must be entered
to the Clearinghouse on occasion, but no
later than two business days after
making a determination or verification.
• SAPs: must enter the initial
assessment date and the date the driver
successfully complied with RTD
requirements. SAPs are required to enter
this information on occasion by the
close of business day following the date
of the initial assessment or completion
of the RTD process.
• SDLAs may query the
Clearinghouse prior to specified
licensing transactions to determine if
there are existing drug or alcohol
program violations.
• Drivers must provide their specific
consent to pre-employment queries
electronically through the
Clearinghouse.
Estimated Total Annual Burden:
1,761,149.
Estimated Total Number
Respondents: 10,289,839.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including: (1)
whether the proposed collection is
necessary for the performance of
FMCSA’s functions; (2) the accuracy of
the estimated burden; (3) ways for
FMCSA to enhance the quality,
usefulness, and clarity of the collected
information; and (4) ways that the
burden could be minimized without
reducing the quality of the collected
information. The agency will summarize
or include your comments in the request
for OMB’s clearance of this information
collection.
Issued under the authority of 49 CFR 1.87
on:
Thomas P. Keane,
Associate Administrator, Office of Research
and Registration.
[FR Doc. 2022–23981 Filed 11–3–22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. DOT–NHTSA–2022–0011]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Record Retention
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
AGENCY:
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This is a reinstatement of a
previous approved information
collection.
ACTION:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below is being forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. A
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
the following information collection
was published on July 20, 2022. No
comments were received.
SUMMARY:
Comments must be submitted on
or before December 5, 2022.
DATES:
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing burden, should
be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
To find this particular information
collection, select ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or
use the search function.
ADDRESSES:
For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Paul
Simmons, Office of Defect Investigation
(NEF–110), (202) 366–2315, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590, email paul.simmons@dot.gov.
Please identify the relevant collection of
information by referring to its OMB
Control Number 2121–0042.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request will be
submitted OMB.
Title of Collection: Record
Retention—49 CFR part 576.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0042.
Form Numbers(s): N/A.
Type of Request: This is a
reinstatement of a previous approved
Information Collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Summary of the Collection of
Information
Under 49 U.S.C. 30166(e), NHTSA
‘‘reasonably may require a manufacturer
of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle
equipment to keep records, and a
manufacturer, distributor or dealer to
make reports, to enable [NHTSA] to
decide whether the manufacturer,
distributor, or dealer has complied or is
complying with this chapter or a
regulation prescribed under this
chapter.’’
To ensure that NHTSA will have
access to this type of information, the
agency exercised the authority granted
in 49 U.S.C. 30166(e) and promulgated
49 CFR part 576 Record Retention,
initially published on August 20, 1974
and most recently amended on July 10,
2002 (67 FR 45873), requiring
manufacturers to retain one copy of all
records that contain information
concerning malfunctions that may be
related to motor vehicle safety for a
period of five calendar years after the
record is generated or acquired by the
manufacturer. Manufacturers are also
required to retain for five years the
underlying records related to early
warning reporting (EWR) information
submitted under 49 CFR part 579. The
information collections support
NHTSA’s mission by increasing the
effectiveness of NHTSA’s investigations
into potential safety related defects.
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Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information
The records that are required to be
retained per 49 CFR part 576 are used
to promptly identify potential safetyrelated defects in motor vehicles and
motor vehicle equipment in the United
States. When a trend in incidents arising
from a potentially safety-related defect
is discovered, NHTSA relies on this
information, along with other agency
data, to determine whether or not to
open a formal defect investigation (as
authorized by Title 49 U.S.C. chapter
301—Motor Vehicle Safety). NHTSA
normally becomes aware of possible
safety-related defects because it receives
consumer complaints.
Agency experience has shown that
manufacturers receive significantly
more consumer complaints than does
the agency. This is because the
consumer with the product does not
know whether their particular vehicle or
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equipment has a problem that is
common with an entire group of
vehicles or equipment. Whereas
consumers know the manufacturer of
their vehicle or equipment, relatively
few know how to file a complaint with
the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration’s Auto Safety Hotline.
The complaints filed with the
manufacturer give the agency a fair
indication of how widespread the
potential problem may be.
If the manufacturer did not retain its
records, NHTSA would be unable to
enforce the statutory requirements that
the manufacturer notify the agency and
other persons of a safety-related defect
when the manufacturer ‘‘learns’’ of the
defect, and notify the agency and other
persons of a noncompliance when it
‘‘decides in good faith’’ that the
noncompliance exists. Without access to
the manufacturer’s records, it would be
impossible for anyone other than the
manufacturer to show when or if that
manufacturer had obtained knowledge
of a potential defect or had determined
in good faith that the noncompliance
did or did not exist. Without access to
manufacturers’ records, NHTSA’s
examinations of potential defects and
non-compliances would be seriously
handicapped. NHTSA could conduct
surveys of vehicle owners or use other
means to learn of problems with
vehicles and equipment, but any of
these other methods would require
significantly more information
collections by the agency and
necessitate a larger staff of the agency’s
Office of Defect Investigations.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
information collection was published on
July 20, 2022. No comments were
received.
Affected Public: Manufacturers of
motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
1,030.
NHTSA estimates that approximately
1,030 manufacturers of vehicles and
equipment (including tires, child
restraint systems and trailers) are
required to maintain records under Part
576.
Frequency: As needed.
Number of Responses: 1,030.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 40,225.
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NHTSA estimates the total annual
burden for each vehicle, tire, and child
restraint manufacturer to be 40 hours for
a subtotal of 40,200 hours (1,005
respondents × 40 hours). In addition,
there are approximately 23,660
equipment manufacturers (excluding
tires, child seat restraint systems and
trailer manufacturers) whose record
retention requirements under part 576
are limited to the documents underlying
their part 579 reporting requirements.
Their part 579 requirements include
only the reporting of incidents involving
deaths. Therefore, based on the number
of death reports submitted to date by
these equipment manufacturers, we
estimate that an additional 25
equipment manufacturers have record
retention requirements imposed by part
576. We estimate that it will take one
hour each to maintain the necessary
records each year for a subtotal burden
of 25 hours (25 respondents × one hour).
Accordingly, NHTSA estimates that the
total annual burden hours is 40,225
hours ((1,005 respondents × 40 hours) +
(25 respondents × 1 hour)).
To calculate the labor cost associated
with maintaining, NHTSA looked at
wage estimates for the type of personnel
involved with compiling and submitting
the documents. NHTSA estimates the
total labor costs associated with these
burden hours by looking at the average
wage for clerical workers. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that the
average hourly wage for office clerks
(BLS Occupation code 43–9061) in the
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry
is $20.98.1 The Bureau of Labor
Statistics estimates that private industry
workers’ wages represent 70.2% of total
labor compensation costs.2 Therefore,
NHTSA estimates the hourly labor costs
to be $29.89 and NHTSA estimates the
total labor cost associated with the
40,225 burden hours to be
$1,202,325.25. Table 1 provides a
summary of the estimated burden hours
and labor costs associated with those
submissions.
1 May 2020 National Industry-Specific
Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates,
NAICS 336100—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/
naics4_336100.htm#43-0000 (accessed March 25,
2022).
2 See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Mar. 2020), available
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_
06182020.pdf (accessed March 25, 2022).
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TABLE 1—BURDEN ESTIMATES
Annual responses
Estimated
burden per response
(hours)
Average
hourly labor
cost
Labor cost
per response
Total burden hours
Total labor costs
1,030
39.05
$29.89
$1,167.31
40,225
$1,202,325.25
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
$0.
NHTSA estimates that there are no
costs resulting from this collection of
information other than labor costs
associated with the burden hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
Department, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the Department’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
information collection; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity
of the information to be collected; and
(d) ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A comment to OMB is most effective
if OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29A.
Stephen A. Ridella,
Director, Office of Defects Investigation.
[FR Doc. 2022–24032 Filed 11–3–22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–59–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[Docket No.: PHMSA–2022–0131; Notice No.
2022–16]
Hazardous Materials: Public Meeting
Notice for the Research, Development
& Technology Virtual Forum
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), DOT.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
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AGENCY:
The Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration’s
(PHMSA) Office of Hazardous Materials
Safety (OHMS) will hold a public
Research, Development & Technology
Forum on December 1, 2022, virtually
on Microsoft Teams (MS Teams) to
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December 1, 2022, from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
DATES:
The meeting will be held
virtually on MS Teams.
Registration: DOT requests that
attendees pre-register for these meetings
by completing the form, at: https://
forms.office.com/g/NPs7v18VmL.
Conference call-in and ‘‘live meeting’’
capability will be provided.
Specific information about conference
call-in and live meeting access will be
posted at: https://www.phmsa.dot.gov/
research-and-development/hazmat/rdmeetings-and-events under ‘‘Upcoming
Events.’’
ADDRESSES:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Andrew Leyder, Research, Development
& Technology, Andrew.Leyder@dot.gov,
(202) 360–0664, Office of Hazardous
Materials Safety, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, Washington, DC.
During the
meeting, OHMS will solicit comments
related to new research topics that may
be considered for inclusion in its future
work. OHMS is particularly interested
in the research gaps associated with the
characterization and transportation of
energetic materials (explosives), safe
transportation of energy products (e.g.,
crude oil), safe containment and
transportation of compressed gases, and
safe packaging and transportation of
charge storage devices (e.g., lithium ion
batteries), and how these might aid in
mitigation of climate change. The forum
will also include an opportunity for
stakeholder input that identifies other
research gaps related to the
transportation of hazardous materials.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
SUMMARY:
present the results of recently
completed projects, brief new project
plans, and obtain stakeholder input on
the direction of current and future
research projects on topics including
mitigation of climate change, risk
management and mitigation, packaging
integrity, emerging technology, and
technical analysis to aid risk
assessment.
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Issued in Washington, DC, on October 31,
2022.
William S. Schoonover,
Associate Administrator for Hazardous
Materials Safety, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022–23980 Filed 11–3–22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–60–P
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No: PHMSA–2022–0009]
Pipeline Safety: Information Collection
Activities: Natural Gas Distribution
Infrastructure Safety and
Modernization Grant Program
Notice and request for
comments.
ACTION:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the information
collection request abstracted below is
being forwarded to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. A Federal
Register notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting comments on the
information collections was published
on June 16, 2022.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before
December 5, 2022.
ADDRESSES: The public is invited to
submit comments regarding these
information collection requests,
including suggestions for reducing the
burden, to Office of Management and
Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for the
Office of the Secretary of
Transportation, 725 17th Street NW,
Washington, DC 20503. Comments can
also be submitted electronically at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Angela Hill by telephone at 202–680–
2034 or by email at angela.hill@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations
(CFR) section 1320.8(d), requires the
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration (PHMSA) to provide
interested members of the public and
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. DOT-NHTSA-2022-0011]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Record Retention
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: This is a reinstatement of a previous approved information
collection.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below is being forwarded to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. A Federal Register Notice with a
60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following information
collection was published on July 20, 2022. No comments were received.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 5, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including suggestions for reducing burden,
should be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. To find this particular information
collection, select ``Currently under Review--Open for Public Comment''
or use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or access
to background documents, contact Paul Simmons, Office of Defect
Investigation (NEF-110), (202) 366-2315, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, email [email protected]. Please
identify the relevant collection of information by referring to its OMB
Control Number 2121-0042.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a
Federal agency must receive approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) before it collects certain information from the public and
a person is not required to respond to a collection of information by a
Federal agency unless the collection displays a valid OMB control
number. In compliance with these requirements, this notice announces
that the following information collection request will be submitted
OMB.
Title of Collection: Record Retention--49 CFR part 576.
OMB Control Number: 2127-0042.
Form Numbers(s): N/A.
Type of Request: This is a reinstatement of a previous approved
Information Collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three years.
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Summary of the Collection of Information
Under 49 U.S.C. 30166(e), NHTSA ``reasonably may require a
manufacturer of a motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment to keep
records, and a manufacturer, distributor or dealer to make reports, to
enable [NHTSA] to decide whether the manufacturer, distributor, or
dealer has complied or is complying with this chapter or a regulation
prescribed under this chapter.''
To ensure that NHTSA will have access to this type of information,
the agency exercised the authority granted in 49 U.S.C. 30166(e) and
promulgated 49 CFR part 576 Record Retention, initially published on
August 20, 1974 and most recently amended on July 10, 2002 (67 FR
45873), requiring manufacturers to retain one copy of all records that
contain information concerning malfunctions that may be related to
motor vehicle safety for a period of five calendar years after the
record is generated or acquired by the manufacturer. Manufacturers are
also required to retain for five years the underlying records related
to early warning reporting (EWR) information submitted under 49 CFR
part 579. The information collections support NHTSA's mission by
increasing the effectiveness of NHTSA's investigations into potential
safety related defects.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information
The records that are required to be retained per 49 CFR part 576
are used to promptly identify potential safety-related defects in motor
vehicles and motor vehicle equipment in the United States. When a trend
in incidents arising from a potentially safety-related defect is
discovered, NHTSA relies on this information, along with other agency
data, to determine whether or not to open a formal defect investigation
(as authorized by Title 49 U.S.C. chapter 301--Motor Vehicle Safety).
NHTSA normally becomes aware of possible safety-related defects because
it receives consumer complaints.
Agency experience has shown that manufacturers receive
significantly more consumer complaints than does the agency. This is
because the consumer with the product does not know whether their
particular vehicle or equipment has a problem that is common with an
entire group of vehicles or equipment. Whereas consumers know the
manufacturer of their vehicle or equipment, relatively few know how to
file a complaint with the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration's Auto Safety Hotline. The complaints filed with the
manufacturer give the agency a fair indication of how widespread the
potential problem may be.
If the manufacturer did not retain its records, NHTSA would be
unable to enforce the statutory requirements that the manufacturer
notify the agency and other persons of a safety-related defect when the
manufacturer ``learns'' of the defect, and notify the agency and other
persons of a noncompliance when it ``decides in good faith'' that the
noncompliance exists. Without access to the manufacturer's records, it
would be impossible for anyone other than the manufacturer to show when
or if that manufacturer had obtained knowledge of a potential defect or
had determined in good faith that the noncompliance did or did not
exist. Without access to manufacturers' records, NHTSA's examinations
of potential defects and non-compliances would be seriously
handicapped. NHTSA could conduct surveys of vehicle owners or use other
means to learn of problems with vehicles and equipment, but any of
these other methods would require significantly more information
collections by the agency and necessitate a larger staff of the
agency's Office of Defect Investigations.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting comments on the following information collection was
published on July 20, 2022. No comments were received.
Affected Public: Manufacturers of motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 1,030.
NHTSA estimates that approximately 1,030 manufacturers of vehicles
and equipment (including tires, child restraint systems and trailers)
are required to maintain records under Part 576.
Frequency: As needed.
Number of Responses: 1,030.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 40,225.
NHTSA estimates the total annual burden for each vehicle, tire, and
child restraint manufacturer to be 40 hours for a subtotal of 40,200
hours (1,005 respondents x 40 hours). In addition, there are
approximately 23,660 equipment manufacturers (excluding tires, child
seat restraint systems and trailer manufacturers) whose record
retention requirements under part 576 are limited to the documents
underlying their part 579 reporting requirements. Their part 579
requirements include only the reporting of incidents involving deaths.
Therefore, based on the number of death reports submitted to date by
these equipment manufacturers, we estimate that an additional 25
equipment manufacturers have record retention requirements imposed by
part 576. We estimate that it will take one hour each to maintain the
necessary records each year for a subtotal burden of 25 hours (25
respondents x one hour). Accordingly, NHTSA estimates that the total
annual burden hours is 40,225 hours ((1,005 respondents x 40 hours) +
(25 respondents x 1 hour)).
To calculate the labor cost associated with maintaining, NHTSA
looked at wage estimates for the type of personnel involved with
compiling and submitting the documents. NHTSA estimates the total labor
costs associated with these burden hours by looking at the average wage
for clerical workers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates
that the average hourly wage for office clerks (BLS Occupation code 43-
9061) in the Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry is $20.98.\1\ The
Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that private industry workers'
wages represent 70.2% of total labor compensation costs.\2\ Therefore,
NHTSA estimates the hourly labor costs to be $29.89 and NHTSA estimates
the total labor cost associated with the 40,225 burden hours to be
$1,202,325.25. Table 1 provides a summary of the estimated burden hours
and labor costs associated with those submissions.
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\1\ May 2020 National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment
and Wage Estimates, NAICS 336100--Motor Vehicle Manufacturing,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/naics4_336100.htm#43-0000 (accessed March 25, 2022).
\2\ See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by
ownership (Mar. 2020), available at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_06182020.pdf (accessed March 25, 2022).
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Table 1--Burden Estimates
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Estimated burden per Average hourly Labor cost per Total burden
Annual responses response (hours) labor cost response hours Total labor costs
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1,030 39.05 $29.89 $1,167.31 40,225 $1,202,325.25
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: $0.
NHTSA estimates that there are no costs resulting from this
collection of information other than labor costs associated with the
burden hours.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of
this information collection, including (a) whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of
the functions of the Department, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the Department's estimate
of the burden of the proposed information collection; (c) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology.
A comment to OMB is most effective if OMB receives it within 30
days of publication.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29A.
Stephen A. Ridella,
Director, Office of Defects Investigation.
[FR Doc. 2022-24032 Filed 11-3-22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-59-P
