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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2023–0019]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; State Data Transfer for
Vehicle Crash Information
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on an extension with
modification of a currently approved
information collection.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below will be submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its expected burden. This
document describes a currently
approved collection of information for
which NHTSA intends to seek approval
from OMB for extension with
modification on NHTSA’s State Data
Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information.
A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
the following information collection
was published on May 3, 2023. One
supporting comment was received.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before October 5, 2023.
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 Liza
Lemaster-Sandbank, Office of State Data
Reporting System Division, (NSA–
0130), (202) 366–4257, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
W53–306, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
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
SUMMARY:
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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 to OMB.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day comment period soliciting public
comments on the following information
collection was published on May 3,
2023.
Title: State Data Transfer (SDT) for
Vehicle Crash Information.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0753.
Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Modification a
currently approved information
collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years from date of approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The State Data Transfer
(SDT) program is a voluntary collection
of motor vehicle crash data. State
agencies collect this information about
motor vehicle crashes on Police
Accident Reports (PARs) 1 for their own
needs. In general, a PAR includes
information about the vehicles and
individuals involved in a crash, injuries
or fatalities resulting from a crash,
roadway information, environmental
information, information to reconstruct
the crash scenes, etc. The SDT is a
process through which participating
States transfer their PAR data to
NHTSA. SDT has two components that
NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics
and Analysis (NCSA) calls protocols:
1. The State Data System (SDS)
protocol obtains PAR crash data from
States that submit data on an annual
basis to NCSA. The data is submitted
via electronic media, such as encrypted
CD–ROM/DVD, or through secured mail
or a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP).
Files submitted through the SDS
protocol are referred to as ‘‘annual crash
files.’’
2. The Electronic Data Transfer (EDT)
protocol obtains PAR crash data, crash
reports, and crash images from
participating State crash systems
through an electronic data transfer.
Generally, this transfer occurs on a
nightly basis following State data
quality control checks and acceptance
from each State’s centralized database.
The information is transmitted using
Extensible Markup Language (XML) or
JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files
through a web service using Hypertext
Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS)
protocol between a State’s crash data
system and NHTSA. NHTSA started
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using this EDT protocol in 2015. The
data NHTSA receives is in the States’
format, which is not standardized.
NHTSA does not currently provide
regular funding to the States to
participate in EDT.
On November 15, 2021, President
Biden signed the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA or the
Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), Public
Law 117–58. Section 24108 (d)
authorizes the Secretary of
Transportation to establish the State
Electronic Data Collection (SEDC)
program to provide grants to States to
establish, upgrade, and standardize their
centralized statewide crash data
repositories to enable electronic data
collection, intrastate data sharing, and
electronic data transfer to NHTSA. The
objective is to increase the accuracy,
timeliness, and accessibility of the data,
including data related to fatalities
involving vulnerable road users.
Through SEDC, NHTSA will award
grants to States to modernize or
establish a centralized statewide crash
data repository to enable full electronic
data transfer to NHTSA, increase their
alignment to the Model Minimum
Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Sixth
Edition data, and transmit the data in a
standardized format to NHTSA. This
information collection request is to
modify NHTSA’s existing information
collection for SDT to account for
changes resulting from the new grant
program. The new grant program will
not only increase the number of States
using the EDT protocol, but it will also
request data standardization and
increased alignment with the MMUCC.
States awarded the SEDC grant will be
referred to as SEDC States; States that
continue to electronically transmit their
crash data to NHTSA through the EDT
protocol without SEDC grant funds will
be referred to as non-SEDC States.
The SDT process allows States to
submit all their PAR data to NHTSA.
NCSA uses this data to develop a census
of the participating State’s crashes. The
dataset helps NCSA identify existing
and emerging highway safety trends and
assess the effectiveness of motor vehicle
safety standards and new and emerging
technologies on vehicle and highway
safety programs. NHTSA also uses the
dataset to support NHTSA’s Corporate
Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program.
Specifically, NHTSA uses the data to
analyze the effects vehicle mass has on
fatalities in cost benefit analyses for
CAFE rulemakings.
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Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information
NHTSA utilizes the SDT data to
identify existing and emerging highway
safety trends, assess the effectiveness of
motor vehicle safety standards, and
study the impact of new and emerging
technologies on vehicles and highway
safety programs. For example, NHTSA
combines data from the SDT with
information about the type of advanced
driver assistance systems (ADAS) on
crash-involved vehicles to estimate the
effectiveness of ADAS technologies
such as lane keeping support, automatic
emergency braking, and blind spot
detection.
NHTSA also uses the SDT data to
automatically pre-populate the motor
vehicle crash data it collects for several
other NHTSA data collection programs.
The following are brief descriptions of
these data collection programs:
• FARS (OMB Control No. 2127–
0006) is a nationwide census of fatalities
caused by motor vehicle traffic crashes.
In addition to PAR data, FARS includes
detailed information regarding the
location of the crash, the vehicles, and
the people involved. FARS cases can
also include toxicology report data,
medical records, medical examiner
reports, etc.2
• CRSS (OMB Control No. 2127–
0714) is a nationally representative
sample of police-reported crashes
involving all types of motor vehicles,
pedestrians, and cyclists, ranging from
property-damage-only crashes to those
that result in fatalities. CRSS data
elements are a subset of the data
elements on each State’s PAR.3
• Investigation-based Crash Data
Studies (OMB Control Number 2127–
0706) includes CISS, SCI and Special
Studies. CISS is a nationally
representative sample of minor, serious,
and fatal crashes involving at least one
passenger vehicle—cars, light trucks,
sport utility vehicles, and vans—towed
from the scene. CISS collects data at
both the crash level through scene
analysis and the vehicle level through
vehicle damage assessment together
with injury coding. Data collected
through CISS expands upon the
information that is collected in a PAR.4
• The SCI Program provides NHTSA
with the most in-depth crash data
collected by the agency. The data
collected ranges from basic information
contained in routine police and
insurance crash reports, to
comprehensive data from special reports
produced by professional crash
investigation teams. Hundreds of data
elements relevant to the vehicle,
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occupants, injury mechanisms,
roadway, and safety systems are
collected for each of the over 100
crashes designated for study annually.
• The Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS)
is a data collection effort for collecting
information about non-traffic crashes
and non-crash incidents. The NTS data
provide counts and details regarding
fatalities and injuries that occur in nontraffic crashes and in non-crash
incidents. The NTS non-traffic crash
data are obtained through NHTSA’s data
collection efforts for the Crash Report
Sampling System (CRSS), the Crash
Investigation Sampling System (CISS),
and the Fatality Analysis Reporting
System (FARS). NTS also includes data
outside of NHTSA’s own data
collections. NTS’ non-crash injury data
is based upon emergency department
records from a special study conducted
by the Consumer Product Safety
Commission’s National Electronic Injury
Surveillance System (NEISS) All Injury
Program. NTS non-crash fatality data is
derived from death certificate
information from the Centers for Disease
Control’s National Vital Statistics
System.
• CIREN combines crash data
collection with professional
multidisciplinary analysis of medical
and engineering evidence to determine
injury causation in every crash
investigation conducted. The mission of
the CIREN is to improve the prevention,
treatment, and rehabilitation of motor
vehicle crash injuries to reduce deaths,
disabilities, and human and economic
costs.
Before EDT, the transfer of motor
vehicle crash data from a State’s crash
data system to NHTSA’s FARS, CRSS
and CISS required individuals to
manually enter all State vehicle crash
data into each of the crash data systems
operated by NHTSA. The SDT
program’s EDT protocol enabled
NHTSA to automate the transfer of State
motor vehicle crash data into NHTSA’s
data collection systems and automate
some of the data coding processes in
FARS, CRSS and CISS. Through the
SEDC program, participating States will
build and modernize their centralized
statewide crash data repositories and
increase their alignment to the MMUCC
Sixth Edition; NHTSA will receive more
standardized and timely data and
increase the usability of the data.
NHTSA’s SDT program will reduce
the burden of manual data entry and
result in more accurate and timely data
to help save lives, prevent injuries, and
reduce economic costs due to motor
vehicle crashes.
In addition, the SDT data are made
available to other DOT agencies, such as
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the Federal Highway Administration
and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety
Administration, to support their mission
to save lives on our national roadways.
The SDT data received through SEDC
grant will be made available to public as
required in BIL.
60-Day Notice: NHTSA published a
60-day notice in the Federal Register on
May 3, 2023 (88 FR 27949). NHTSA
received one comment in support of the
data collection from the National
Association of Mutual Insurance
Companies (NAMIC). NAMIC
emphasized the information collection
is not only necessary but ‘‘critical for
the proper performance of the functions
of NHTSA and there is every reason to
believe that the results of the study will
have great practical utility.’’
Furthermore, NAMIC is interested in
working with NHTSA on areas of
studies and analysis. NAMIC is
supportive of the Notice and strongly
urges NHTSA to propose more wide and
extensive auto safety data recording and
reporting.
Burden to Respondents: NHTSA has
provided a description of the affected
public, estimated number of
respondents, description of frequency,
and estimates of the total burden hours
and costs for SDT. In aggregate, NHTSA
estimates that the total annual burden is
312,663 hours and $25,000,000.
Program: SDT.
Affected Public: This voluntary
information collection involves State
agencies that collect crash data.
Specifically, the collection involves
State governments, the District of
Columbia government, U.S. Territory
governments and the Secretary of the
Interior, acting on behalf of an Indian
Tribe. For purposes of this collection,
we refer to the respondents generically
as ‘‘States.’’
Estimated Number of Respondents:
43.
There are currently 39 States
participating in the SDT: 31 States
participating using the SDS protocol,
and 20 States participating using the
EDT protocol. There are 15 States
providing data using both protocols.
NHTSA expects that in the next three
(3) years, these thirty-nine (39) States
will continue to submit their data using
either SDS or EDT protocol. NHTSA
also expects that, in the next three years,
ten (10) out of the twenty (20) existing
EDT States will apply and be awarded
SEDC grants and start sending more
MMUCC-aligned data to NHTSA; three
(3) SDS States, that are not EDT States,
will apply and be awarded SEDC grants
and begin sending MMUCC-aligned data
to NHTSA; and two (2) new States,
neither SDS nor EDT participating
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States, will apply and be awarded SEDC
grants and begin collecting and
transmitting standardized data to
NHTSA. Therefore, NHTSA estimates
the total number of States participating
in the SDT will increase by four (4), to
a total of forty-three (43), which is the
existing thirty-nine (39) SDT States plus
the four (4) new SEDC States in the next
three (3) years.
Frequency: The frequency of this
information collection varies State-byState, potentially from daily to annually,
as agreed upon by NHTSA and the
individual States. State participating in
the SDS protocol typically send a file to
NHTSA once a year with all the crashes
occurring during a calendar year. States
send these files when it has completed
its quality control process. For the EDT
States, the data is usually transferred
every night with the crash cases that
have completed the quality control
process since the last nightly transfer.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 312,663 hours.
As mentioned above, this information
collection request is being updated to
incorporate the burden hour and cost
estimates for the new SEDC program
under the EDT protocol. Due to the
different requirements for SDS States,
EDT non-SEDC States and EDT SEDC
States, the annual burden for these three
types of data transmissions is described
separately below.
SDS Protocol
SDS information is obtained annually
from States and is submitted in a more
traditional method via electronic media
through secured mail or a Secure File
Transfer Protocol (SFTP). NHTSA
assumes a participating State already
has a centralized statewide crash data
repository. Currently, thirty-one (31)
States are voluntarily submitting their
annual crash database to NHTSA, with
five (5) States sending electronic media
and twenty-six (26) states uploading the
database to an SFTP site. Since NHTSA
accepts the States’ centralized statewide
crash data repository without changes,
NHTSA estimates that it will require
eight (8) hours for a State Database
Administrator to save a copy of the
State’s annual crash database onto a
SFTP site or electronic media. We
estimate an additional four (4) hours
will be required for an administrative
assistant to package and send the
electronic media to NHTSA. Therefore,
the burden hours for thirty-one (31) SDS
States to save a copy of the State’s
annual crash database onto a SFTP site
or electronic media is 248 hours (8
hours × 31 States). An additional burden
for the five (5) SDS States to package
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and send the electronic media to
NHTSA is 20 hours (4 hours × 5 States).
To estimate the labor cost associated
with submitting the SDS information,
NHTSA looked at wage estimates for the
type of personnel involved with
copying, packaging and sending the
data. NHTSA estimates the total labor
costs associated with copying the
database by looking at the average wage
for Database and Network
Administrators and Architects. The
Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
estimates that the average hourly wage
for Database and Network
Administrators and Architects
(Standard Occupational Classification
#15–1240, May 2021) is $49.25 5 The
Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that
State and local government workers’
wages represent 61.9% of total labor
compensation costs.6 Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the hourly labor costs for
copying the database to be $79.56
($49.25 ÷ 61.9%) for Database and
Network Administrator and Architects.
The cost associated with the eight (8)
hours of Database and Network
Administrator labor is estimated to be
$636.48 ($79.56 × 8 hours) per
respondent.
For the 5 States sending electronic
media, NHTSA estimates the total labor
costs for packing and sending the
database by looking at the average wage
for Secretaries and Administrative
Assistants. The BLS estimates that the
average hourly wage for Secretaries and
Administrative Assistants (Standard
Occupational Classification #43–6014,
May 2021) is $21.76.7 By using the same
estimate that wages represent 61.9% of
the total compensation cost of labor,
NHTSA estimates the total labor hour
for packing and sending the database on
electronic media to be $35.15 ($21.76 ÷
61.9%). Therefore, the cost associated
with the four (4) hours to send the
electronic media is estimated to be
$140.60 ($35.15 × 4 hours) per
respondent.
Combining these copying, packing,
and sending burden estimates for SDS,
NHTSA estimates that the total burden
hours associated with this collection
will be 268 (248 + 20) hours and total
labor cost associated with the collection
will be $19,731 ($638.48 × 31 States) for
copying, and $703 ($140.60 × 5 States)
for packing and sending, for a total of
$20,434 ($19,731 + $703) for the SDS
protocol.
States Using the EDT Protocol
Due to the different requirements
including data standardization and
alignment to MMUCC for SEDC and
non-SEDC State, the cost estimates for
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these two groups under EDT protocol
will be different as described below.
Non-SEDC States Using EDT Protocol
The non-SEDC States using the EDT
protocol burden hour estimate is based
on the level of effort reported by the
States that have fully implemented EDT.
NHTSA estimates that in the next three
years, there will not be any new States
joining the twenty (20) States already
participating in the SDT program using
the EDT protocol. Any new State will
participate in EDT by applying for the
SEDC grant and meeting SEDC
requirements. In addition, NHTSA
estimates that over the next three years,
starting in year two (10) existing EDT
States will begin participating in the
new SEDC grant program and will start
sending data aligned to MMUCC.
NHTSA estimates that in year one, year
two and year three, the number of nonSEDC EDT states will be 20, 15 and 10,
respectively. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates that there will be, on average,
fifteen (15) non-SEDC EDT protocol
States in each of the next three years.
Since these fifteen (15) non-SEDC States
are already using the EDT protocol, the
cost and burden estimates for these
States only account for annual
maintenance effort. The estimates
assume a participating State already has
a centralized statewide crash data
repository. The hourly burden for
maintenance on States associated with
non-SEDC EDT is estimated at five (5)
hours per year, based upon currently
participating States’ experiences. This
time is generally used to troubleshoot
any connection issues or refine mapping
protocols for any data elements that
have changed.
NHTSA estimates the cost for IT
personnel burden hours using the
Bureau of Labor Statistics’ mean wage
estimate for Software and Web
Developers, Programmers, and Testers
(Standard Occupational Classification
#15–1250, May 2021) of $54.68.8 The
Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that
for State and local government workers,
wages represent 61.9% of total
compensation.9 Therefore, the total
hourly cost associated with the IT
burden hours is estimated to be $88.34
($54.68 ÷ 61.9%) per hour.
Per the loaded labor rates for State IT
staff outlined above, five (5) hours of
work translates to an estimated total
annual maintenance burden of $441.70
($88.34 × 5 hours) per State respondent
maintaining participation in the EDT
program. NHTSA estimates that there
will be, on average, 15 States
participating in non-SEDC EDT program
in each of the next three years. The total
annual responses are 5,475 (15 EDT
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States × 365 nightly responses).
Therefore, the annual maintenance cost
for the States is a total of $6,626
($441.70 × 15 States) per year. The
number of total burden hours for the 15
States is 75 hours (5 × 15 States).
SEDC States Using EDT Protocol
NHTSA published a Request for
Information (RFI)10 from May 2, 2022, to
July 15, 2022, to assist the agency with
the development and implementation of
a new discretionary grant program to
increase the number of States, U.S.
territories, and Indian tribes
electronically transferring their motor
vehicle crash data to the NHTSA.
Sixteen (16) States and Territories
responded to the RFI with cost
information for updating their
centralized statewide crash data
repositories and aligning to previous
versions of MMUCC. NHTSA used that
information to inform NHTSA’s burden
estimates and estimates the burden as
follows.
The cost and burden estimates for the
EDT protocol are divided into two
efforts: a one-time implementation
effort, and an annual maintenance
effort. To increase their alignment with
the new MMUCC, the States will need
to either develop a new electronic
Police Accident Report (PAR) and build
a centralized statewide crash data
repository if they don’t already have one
or update the existing PAR and
centralized statewide crash data
repository to increase their alignment to
the new MMUCC. In addition, States
will need to electronically transfer their
data in a standardized format to
NHTSA. NHTSA predicts the States will
need to take the following specific
actions:
• Manually entering PAR data if there
are legacy paper PARs to be input into
the new and/or updated centralized
statewide crash data repository.
• Developing a new PAR to increase
alignment with the updated MMUCC.
• Adopting the new State PAR by law
enforcement agencies.
• Setting up information technology
infrastructure for the electronic
centralized statewide crash data
repository.
• Identifying and implementing the
system changes to align with the
updated MMUCC.
• Developing a user guide, data
dictionary and training materials for the
new and/or updated data collection
system.
• Developing and implementing
database and data warehouse for the
data collection.
• Developing and implementing data
transfer protocols for collecting data
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from law enforcement agencies to
centralized statewide crash data
repository.
• Developing and implementing edit
and validation rules for quality
assurance for the data collection.
• Developing and implementing data
transfer protocols for sharing data
among States and sending data to
NHTSA.
• Integrating the reporting from other
vendors if some law enforcement
agencies within a state use other
vendor’s software.
• Creating data analytics and
dashboard for data monitoring and
reporting.
NHTSA estimates the labor categories
in the rows of Table 1 are required for
the implementation of tasks above.
Based on the information received from
the RFI, NHTSA estimates the labor
hours for implementation and
maintenance for each labor category as
in the column ‘‘Implementation Total
Hours’’ and ‘‘Maintenance Total Hours’’
in Table 1. Labor category ‘‘Data Entry
and Information Processing Workers’’ is
needed when the States transition from
a manual/paper system to an electronic
system. Once the transition is complete,
this labor category is no longer
necessary and therefore is not included
in the maintenance burden estimates.
NHTSA uses the Bureau of Labor
Statistics’ mean hourly wage estimate
for each Labor Category in the column
labeled ‘‘’Labor Rate w/o Fringe and
Benefit’’ 11 in Table 1. The Bureau of
Labor Statistics estimates that for State
and local government workers, wages
represent 61.9% of total
compensation.12 Therefore, the total
hourly rate with fringe and benefit
associated with the burden hours is
calculated as below as shown in column
‘‘Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit’’ in
Table 1.
Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit = Labor
Rate w/o Fringe Benefit ÷ Fringe
Benefit Rate
The total cost for implementation and
maintenance in Table 1 are calculated as
follows:
Implementation Total Cost =
Implementation Total Hours ×
Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit
Maintenance Total Cost = Maintenance
Total Hours × Labor Rate with
Fringe Benefit
TABLE 1—BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR SECD EDT STATES USING EDT PROTOCOL
Labor category
Program manager ...........
Computer System Analyst
Web and Digital Interface
Designer ......................
Software Developer .........
Web Developers ..............
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and
Testers .........................
Database Architects ........
Information Security Analysts ..............................
Data Entry and Information Processing Workers ................................
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Total .........................
Implementation
total hours
(hrs.)
Labor
series
Implementation
labor rate w/o
fringe and benefit
($/hr.)
Overhead
rate
(%)
Maintenance
labor rate with
Fringe and
Benefit
($/hr.)
Implementation
total labor cost
(per state)
($)
Maintenance
total labor cost
(per state)
($)
11–3021
15–1211
1,888
5,080
832
160
$78.33
49.14
61.90
61.90
$126.54
79.39
$238,908
403,301
$105,281
12,702
15–1255
15–1252
15–1254
1,760
10,240
5,920
416
1,280
1,280
49.50
58.17
39.09
61.90
61.90
61.90
79.97
93.97
63.15
140,747
962,253
373,848
33,268
120,282
80,832
15–1252
15–1243
7,040
3,520
1,280
960
46.97
58.58
61.90
61.90
75.88
94.64
534,195
333,133
97,126
90,854
15–1212
1,384
80
54.46
61.90
87.98
121,764
7,038
43–9020
4,192
........................
18.70
61.90
30.21
126,640
........................
................
41,024
6,288
..............................
................
........................
3,234,789
547,384
Thus, total labor cost for SEDC EDT
implementation cost per State are
estimated to be $3,234,789 with burden
hours to be 41,024. The total annual
maintenance burden cost per year per
State is estimated to be $547,384 with
burden hour as 6,288.
NHTSA anticipates that during the
first year of the grant, States will be in
the development and implementation
phase, where data transmission is not
expected. Beginning with year two (2),
and into year three (3), it is estimated
that approximately ten (10) States per
year will start transmitting data to
NHTSA using the EDT protocol.
Therefore, the average of number of
State to transmit data to NHTSA for the
three (3) years is 7 ((10 +10) ÷ 3 = 6.77,
rounded to the nearest integer). In this
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case during year three (3), there will be
ten (10) states in maintenance phase.
These are the ten (10) States which start
transmission data to NHTSA during
year two (2). The average number of
states in maintenance phase is 4 (10 ÷
3 = 3.33, then round 3.33 up to the
nearest integer which is 4).
As NHTSA estimated that there will
be average 7 new SEDC EDT States each
year, the total implementation cost per
year will be $22,643,526 (7 ×
$3,234,789) with burden hours as
287,168 hours (7 × 41,024 hours); the
average annual maintenance cost will be
$2,189,536 (4 × $547,384) with burden
hours as 25,152 hours (4 × 6,288 hours).
The total SEDC EDT labor costs are
$24,833,062 ($22,643,526 for
implementation and $2,189,536 for
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annual maintenance). This estimate
includes total labor costs to the State
respondents, but States may choose to
have contractors incur some or all of
these labor cost. The total annual
responses for SEDC EDT States are 4,015
(11 EDT States × 365 nightly responses).
Summary for SDT Burden Estimates
The total estimated burden for SDT is
312,663 hours (268 hours for SDS + 75
hours for non-SEDC EDT + (287,168
hours + 25,152 hours) for SEDC EDT)
and total estimated labor cost is
$24,860,121 ($20,434 for SDS + $6,626
for non-SEDC EDT + ($22,643,526 +
$2,1289,536) for SEDC EDT).
A summary of the burden estimates
for SDT is provided in Table 2.
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TABLE 2—SUMMARY FOR ESTIMATED SDT BURDEN
Number of
states
Labor cost
($)
SDS Copying ...............................................................................................................
SDS Packing and Sending ..........................................................................................
Non-SEDC EDT Maintenance .....................................................................................
SEDC EDT Implementation .........................................................................................
SEDC EDT Maintenance .............................................................................................
31
5
15
7
4
248
20
75
287,168
25,152
19,731
703
4,270
22,643,526
2,189,536
Total ......................................................................................................................
........................
312,663
24,860,121
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
$25,000,000.
The SEDC grant, in compliance with
BIL, requires a twenty (20) percent
match from participating State
respondents. NHTSA estimates about
half of the program cost for the SEDC
grants will be labor costs. NHTSA
estimates the total annual burden cost
for the SEDC program (beyond the labor
costs discussed in question 12) will be
about $25,000,000 to respondents. Since
the Grant respondents only have to
provide at least 20 percent of the total
cost, the respondents will have to fund
about $5,000,000 annually.
NHTSA does not expect respondents
to incur any additional costs for the SDS
or non-SEDC States using EDT Protocol
(beyond labor costs as discussed in
question 12) as a result of this
information collection.
Public Comments Invited
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You are asked to comment on any
aspects 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)
whether the States will use contractor(s)
to help implement the SEDC grant or
manage the implementation in-house
with the State’s own IT department; (d)
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (e) 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.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29.
Chou Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for
Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
[DOT–OST–2023–0133]
Department of Transportation Advisory
Committee on Human Trafficking:
Notice of Public Meeting
Office of the Secretary of
Transportation, U.S. Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
This notice announces a
hybrid meeting of the Department of
Transportation Advisory Committee on
Human Trafficking. Committee
members are highly encouraged to
attend in-person.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
October 3, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00
p.m. EDT.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the U.S. Department of Transportation,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590. Any person
requiring accessibility accommodations
should contact the Official listed in the
next section.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Maha Alkhateeb, Office of International
Transportation and Trade, U.S.
Department of Transportation, at
trafficking@dot.gov or (202) 366–4398.
Also visit the ACHT website at https://
www.transportation.gov/
stophumantrafficking/acht.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
SUMMARY:
I. Background
ACHT was re-chartered on July 29,
2022, using the Department’s authorities
under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law
(BIL) (Pub. L. 117–58). The ACHT was
initially established as mandated by
Sec. 5(a) of the 2018 Combating Human
Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act
(Pub. L. 115–99). Sec. 23020 of the BIL
requires the Secretary of Transportation,
acting through the ACHT and in
coordination with the Attorney General,
to submit a triennial counter-trafficking
report with recommendations for
countering human trafficking, an
assessment of best practices by
transportation stakeholders, and human
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trafficking violations involving
commercial motor vehicles.
II. Agenda
At the October 3, 2023 meeting, the
agenda will cover the following topics:
• Welcome and Introductions
• ACHT Overview and Requirements
• DOT’s Counter-Trafficking Efforts
• Public Participation
• Subcommittees, Next Steps, and
Timeline
A final agenda that includes a virtual
participation link will be posted on the
ACHT internet website at https://
www.transportation.gov/
stophumantrafficking/acht at least one
week in advance of the meeting.
III. Public Participation
The hybrid meeting will be open to
the public in-person and virtually.
Members of the public who wish to
attend are asked to register, including
name, affiliation, and whether they plan
to attend in-person or virtually, to
trafficking@dot.gov by September 25,
2023. Individuals requesting
accessibility accommodations, such as
sign language, interpretation, or other
ancillary aids, may do so via email at:
trafficking@dot.gov by September 25,
2023.
There will be 30 minutes allotted for
oral comments from members of the
public joining the meeting. To
accommodate as many speakers as
possible, the time for public comments
may be limited. Individuals wishing to
reserve speaking time during the
meeting must submit a request at the
time of registration, as well as the name,
address, and organizational affiliation of
the proposed speaker. If the number of
registrants requesting to make
statements is greater than can be
reasonably accommodated during the
meeting, the Office of the Secretary may
conduct a lottery to determine the
speakers. Speakers are requested to
submit a written copy of their prepared
remarks by 5:00 p.m. EDT on September
25, 2023, for inclusion in the meeting
records and for circulation to ACHT
members. Written comments timely
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2023-0019]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; State Data
Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments on an extension with
modification of a currently 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 will be submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its expected burden. This document
describes a currently approved collection of information for which
NHTSA intends to seek approval from OMB for extension with modification
on NHTSA's State Data Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information. A Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the
following information collection was published on May 3, 2023. One
supporting comment was received.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before October 5, 2023.
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 Liza Lemaster-Sandbank, Office of
State Data Reporting System Division, (NSA-0130), (202) 366-4257,
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, W53-306, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590.
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
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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 to OMB.
A Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting
public comments on the following information collection was published
on May 3, 2023.
Title: State Data Transfer (SDT) for Vehicle Crash Information.
OMB Control Number: 2127-0753.
Form Number: None.
Type of Request: Modification a currently approved information
collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three years from date of approval.
Summary of the Collection of Information: The State Data Transfer
(SDT) program is a voluntary collection of motor vehicle crash data.
State agencies collect this information about motor vehicle crashes on
Police Accident Reports (PARs) \1\ for their own needs. In general, a
PAR includes information about the vehicles and individuals involved in
a crash, injuries or fatalities resulting from a crash, roadway
information, environmental information, information to reconstruct the
crash scenes, etc. The SDT is a process through which participating
States transfer their PAR data to NHTSA. SDT has two components that
NHTSA's National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) calls
protocols:
1. The State Data System (SDS) protocol obtains PAR crash data from
States that submit data on an annual basis to NCSA. The data is
submitted via electronic media, such as encrypted CD-ROM/DVD, or
through secured mail or a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP). Files
submitted through the SDS protocol are referred to as ``annual crash
files.''
2. The Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) protocol obtains PAR crash
data, crash reports, and crash images from participating State crash
systems through an electronic data transfer. Generally, this transfer
occurs on a nightly basis following State data quality control checks
and acceptance from each State's centralized database. The information
is transmitted using Extensible Markup Language (XML) or JavaScript
Object Notation (JSON) files through a web service using Hypertext
Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol between a State's crash data
system and NHTSA. NHTSA started using this EDT protocol in 2015. The
data NHTSA receives is in the States' format, which is not
standardized. NHTSA does not currently provide regular funding to the
States to participate in EDT.
On November 15, 2021, President Biden signed the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA or the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law),
Public Law 117-58. Section 24108 (d) authorizes the Secretary of
Transportation to establish the State Electronic Data Collection (SEDC)
program to provide grants to States to establish, upgrade, and
standardize their centralized statewide crash data repositories to
enable electronic data collection, intrastate data sharing, and
electronic data transfer to NHTSA. The objective is to increase the
accuracy, timeliness, and accessibility of the data, including data
related to fatalities involving vulnerable road users. Through SEDC,
NHTSA will award grants to States to modernize or establish a
centralized statewide crash data repository to enable full electronic
data transfer to NHTSA, increase their alignment to the Model Minimum
Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Sixth Edition data, and transmit the
data in a standardized format to NHTSA. This information collection
request is to modify NHTSA's existing information collection for SDT to
account for changes resulting from the new grant program. The new grant
program will not only increase the number of States using the EDT
protocol, but it will also request data standardization and increased
alignment with the MMUCC. States awarded the SEDC grant will be
referred to as SEDC States; States that continue to electronically
transmit their crash data to NHTSA through the EDT protocol without
SEDC grant funds will be referred to as non-SEDC States.
The SDT process allows States to submit all their PAR data to
NHTSA. NCSA uses this data to develop a census of the participating
State's crashes. The dataset helps NCSA identify existing and emerging
highway safety trends and assess the effectiveness of motor vehicle
safety standards and new and emerging technologies on vehicle and
highway safety programs. NHTSA also uses the dataset to support NHTSA's
Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. Specifically, NHTSA uses
the data to analyze the effects vehicle mass has on fatalities in cost
benefit analyses for CAFE rulemakings.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information
NHTSA utilizes the SDT data to identify existing and emerging
highway safety trends, assess the effectiveness of motor vehicle safety
standards, and study the impact of new and emerging technologies on
vehicles and highway safety programs. For example, NHTSA combines data
from the SDT with information about the type of advanced driver
assistance systems (ADAS) on crash-involved vehicles to estimate the
effectiveness of ADAS technologies such as lane keeping support,
automatic emergency braking, and blind spot detection.
NHTSA also uses the SDT data to automatically pre-populate the
motor vehicle crash data it collects for several other NHTSA data
collection programs. The following are brief descriptions of these data
collection programs:
FARS (OMB Control No. 2127-0006) is a nationwide census of
fatalities caused by motor vehicle traffic crashes. In addition to PAR
data, FARS includes detailed information regarding the location of the
crash, the vehicles, and the people involved. FARS cases can also
include toxicology report data, medical records, medical examiner
reports, etc.\2\
CRSS (OMB Control No. 2127-0714) is a nationally
representative sample of police-reported crashes involving all types of
motor vehicles, pedestrians, and cyclists, ranging from property-
damage-only crashes to those that result in fatalities. CRSS data
elements are a subset of the data elements on each State's PAR.\3\
Investigation-based Crash Data Studies (OMB Control Number
2127-0706) includes CISS, SCI and Special Studies. CISS is a nationally
representative sample of minor, serious, and fatal crashes involving at
least one passenger vehicle--cars, light trucks, sport utility
vehicles, and vans--towed from the scene. CISS collects data at both
the crash level through scene analysis and the vehicle level through
vehicle damage assessment together with injury coding. Data collected
through CISS expands upon the information that is collected in a
PAR.\4\
The SCI Program provides NHTSA with the most in-depth
crash data collected by the agency. The data collected ranges from
basic information contained in routine police and insurance crash
reports, to comprehensive data from special reports produced by
professional crash investigation teams. Hundreds of data elements
relevant to the vehicle,
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occupants, injury mechanisms, roadway, and safety systems are collected
for each of the over 100 crashes designated for study annually.
The Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) is a data collection
effort for collecting information about non-traffic crashes and non-
crash incidents. The NTS data provide counts and details regarding
fatalities and injuries that occur in non-traffic crashes and in non-
crash incidents. The NTS non-traffic crash data are obtained through
NHTSA's data collection efforts for the Crash Report Sampling System
(CRSS), the Crash Investigation Sampling System (CISS), and the
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS). NTS also includes data
outside of NHTSA's own data collections. NTS' non-crash injury data is
based upon emergency department records from a special study conducted
by the Consumer Product Safety Commission's National Electronic Injury
Surveillance System (NEISS) All Injury Program. NTS non-crash fatality
data is derived from death certificate information from the Centers for
Disease Control's National Vital Statistics System.
CIREN combines crash data collection with professional
multidisciplinary analysis of medical and engineering evidence to
determine injury causation in every crash investigation conducted. The
mission of the CIREN is to improve the prevention, treatment, and
rehabilitation of motor vehicle crash injuries to reduce deaths,
disabilities, and human and economic costs.
Before EDT, the transfer of motor vehicle crash data from a State's
crash data system to NHTSA's FARS, CRSS and CISS required individuals
to manually enter all State vehicle crash data into each of the crash
data systems operated by NHTSA. The SDT program's EDT protocol enabled
NHTSA to automate the transfer of State motor vehicle crash data into
NHTSA's data collection systems and automate some of the data coding
processes in FARS, CRSS and CISS. Through the SEDC program,
participating States will build and modernize their centralized
statewide crash data repositories and increase their alignment to the
MMUCC Sixth Edition; NHTSA will receive more standardized and timely
data and increase the usability of the data.
NHTSA's SDT program will reduce the burden of manual data entry and
result in more accurate and timely data to help save lives, prevent
injuries, and reduce economic costs due to motor vehicle crashes.
In addition, the SDT data are made available to other DOT agencies,
such as the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Motor
Carrier Safety Administration, to support their mission to save lives
on our national roadways. The SDT data received through SEDC grant will
be made available to public as required in BIL.
60-Day Notice: NHTSA published a 60-day notice in the Federal
Register on May 3, 2023 (88 FR 27949). NHTSA received one comment in
support of the data collection from the National Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies (NAMIC). NAMIC emphasized the information
collection is not only necessary but ``critical for the proper
performance of the functions of NHTSA and there is every reason to
believe that the results of the study will have great practical
utility.'' Furthermore, NAMIC is interested in working with NHTSA on
areas of studies and analysis. NAMIC is supportive of the Notice and
strongly urges NHTSA to propose more wide and extensive auto safety
data recording and reporting.
Burden to Respondents: NHTSA has provided a description of the
affected public, estimated number of respondents, description of
frequency, and estimates of the total burden hours and costs for SDT.
In aggregate, NHTSA estimates that the total annual burden is 312,663
hours and $25,000,000.
Program: SDT.
Affected Public: This voluntary information collection involves
State agencies that collect crash data. Specifically, the collection
involves State governments, the District of Columbia government, U.S.
Territory governments and the Secretary of the Interior, acting on
behalf of an Indian Tribe. For purposes of this collection, we refer to
the respondents generically as ``States.''
Estimated Number of Respondents: 43.
There are currently 39 States participating in the SDT: 31 States
participating using the SDS protocol, and 20 States participating using
the EDT protocol. There are 15 States providing data using both
protocols.
NHTSA expects that in the next three (3) years, these thirty-nine
(39) States will continue to submit their data using either SDS or EDT
protocol. NHTSA also expects that, in the next three years, ten (10)
out of the twenty (20) existing EDT States will apply and be awarded
SEDC grants and start sending more MMUCC-aligned data to NHTSA; three
(3) SDS States, that are not EDT States, will apply and be awarded SEDC
grants and begin sending MMUCC-aligned data to NHTSA; and two (2) new
States, neither SDS nor EDT participating States, will apply and be
awarded SEDC grants and begin collecting and transmitting standardized
data to NHTSA. Therefore, NHTSA estimates the total number of States
participating in the SDT will increase by four (4), to a total of
forty-three (43), which is the existing thirty-nine (39) SDT States
plus the four (4) new SEDC States in the next three (3) years.
Frequency: The frequency of this information collection varies
State-by-State, potentially from daily to annually, as agreed upon by
NHTSA and the individual States. State participating in the SDS
protocol typically send a file to NHTSA once a year with all the
crashes occurring during a calendar year. States send these files when
it has completed its quality control process. For the EDT States, the
data is usually transferred every night with the crash cases that have
completed the quality control process since the last nightly transfer.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 312,663 hours.
As mentioned above, this information collection request is being
updated to incorporate the burden hour and cost estimates for the new
SEDC program under the EDT protocol. Due to the different requirements
for SDS States, EDT non-SEDC States and EDT SEDC States, the annual
burden for these three types of data transmissions is described
separately below.
SDS Protocol
SDS information is obtained annually from States and is submitted
in a more traditional method via electronic media through secured mail
or a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). NHTSA assumes a
participating State already has a centralized statewide crash data
repository. Currently, thirty-one (31) States are voluntarily
submitting their annual crash database to NHTSA, with five (5) States
sending electronic media and twenty-six (26) states uploading the
database to an SFTP site. Since NHTSA accepts the States' centralized
statewide crash data repository without changes, NHTSA estimates that
it will require eight (8) hours for a State Database Administrator to
save a copy of the State's annual crash database onto a SFTP site or
electronic media. We estimate an additional four (4) hours will be
required for an administrative assistant to package and send the
electronic media to NHTSA. Therefore, the burden hours for thirty-one
(31) SDS States to save a copy of the State's annual crash database
onto a SFTP site or electronic media is 248 hours (8 hours x 31
States). An additional burden for the five (5) SDS States to package
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and send the electronic media to NHTSA is 20 hours (4 hours x 5
States).
To estimate the labor cost associated with submitting the SDS
information, NHTSA looked at wage estimates for the type of personnel
involved with copying, packaging and sending the data. NHTSA estimates
the total labor costs associated with copying the database by looking
at the average wage for Database and Network Administrators and
Architects. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) estimates that the
average hourly wage for Database and Network Administrators and
Architects (Standard Occupational Classification #15-1240, May 2021) is
$49.25 \5\ The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that State and
local government workers' wages represent 61.9% of total labor
compensation costs.\6\ Therefore, NHTSA estimates the hourly labor
costs for copying the database to be $79.56 ($49.25 / 61.9%) for
Database and Network Administrator and Architects. The cost associated
with the eight (8) hours of Database and Network Administrator labor is
estimated to be $636.48 ($79.56 x 8 hours) per respondent.
For the 5 States sending electronic media, NHTSA estimates the
total labor costs for packing and sending the database by looking at
the average wage for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants. The BLS
estimates that the average hourly wage for Secretaries and
Administrative Assistants (Standard Occupational Classification #43-
6014, May 2021) is $21.76.\7\ By using the same estimate that wages
represent 61.9% of the total compensation cost of labor, NHTSA
estimates the total labor hour for packing and sending the database on
electronic media to be $35.15 ($21.76 / 61.9%). Therefore, the cost
associated with the four (4) hours to send the electronic media is
estimated to be $140.60 ($35.15 x 4 hours) per respondent.
Combining these copying, packing, and sending burden estimates for
SDS, NHTSA estimates that the total burden hours associated with this
collection will be 268 (248 + 20) hours and total labor cost associated
with the collection will be $19,731 ($638.48 x 31 States) for copying,
and $703 ($140.60 x 5 States) for packing and sending, for a total of
$20,434 ($19,731 + $703) for the SDS protocol.
States Using the EDT Protocol
Due to the different requirements including data standardization
and alignment to MMUCC for SEDC and non-SEDC State, the cost estimates
for these two groups under EDT protocol will be different as described
below.
Non-SEDC States Using EDT Protocol
The non-SEDC States using the EDT protocol burden hour estimate is
based on the level of effort reported by the States that have fully
implemented EDT. NHTSA estimates that in the next three years, there
will not be any new States joining the twenty (20) States already
participating in the SDT program using the EDT protocol. Any new State
will participate in EDT by applying for the SEDC grant and meeting SEDC
requirements. In addition, NHTSA estimates that over the next three
years, starting in year two (10) existing EDT States will begin
participating in the new SEDC grant program and will start sending data
aligned to MMUCC. NHTSA estimates that in year one, year two and year
three, the number of non-SEDC EDT states will be 20, 15 and 10,
respectively. Therefore, NHTSA estimates that there will be, on
average, fifteen (15) non-SEDC EDT protocol States in each of the next
three years. Since these fifteen (15) non-SEDC States are already using
the EDT protocol, the cost and burden estimates for these States only
account for annual maintenance effort. The estimates assume a
participating State already has a centralized statewide crash data
repository. The hourly burden for maintenance on States associated with
non-SEDC EDT is estimated at five (5) hours per year, based upon
currently participating States' experiences. This time is generally
used to troubleshoot any connection issues or refine mapping protocols
for any data elements that have changed.
NHTSA estimates the cost for IT personnel burden hours using the
Bureau of Labor Statistics' mean wage estimate for Software and Web
Developers, Programmers, and Testers (Standard Occupational
Classification #15-1250, May 2021) of $54.68.\8\ The Bureau of Labor
Statistics estimates that for State and local government workers, wages
represent 61.9% of total compensation.\9\ Therefore, the total hourly
cost associated with the IT burden hours is estimated to be $88.34
($54.68 / 61.9%) per hour.
Per the loaded labor rates for State IT staff outlined above, five
(5) hours of work translates to an estimated total annual maintenance
burden of $441.70 ($88.34 x 5 hours) per State respondent maintaining
participation in the EDT program. NHTSA estimates that there will be,
on average, 15 States participating in non-SEDC EDT program in each of
the next three years. The total annual responses are 5,475 (15 EDT
States x 365 nightly responses). Therefore, the annual maintenance cost
for the States is a total of $6,626 ($441.70 x 15 States) per year. The
number of total burden hours for the 15 States is 75 hours (5 x 15
States).
SEDC States Using EDT Protocol
NHTSA published a Request for Information (RFI)\10\ from May 2,
2022, to July 15, 2022, to assist the agency with the development and
implementation of a new discretionary grant program to increase the
number of States, U.S. territories, and Indian tribes electronically
transferring their motor vehicle crash data to the NHTSA. Sixteen (16)
States and Territories responded to the RFI with cost information for
updating their centralized statewide crash data repositories and
aligning to previous versions of MMUCC. NHTSA used that information to
inform NHTSA's burden estimates and estimates the burden as follows.
The cost and burden estimates for the EDT protocol are divided into
two efforts: a one-time implementation effort, and an annual
maintenance effort. To increase their alignment with the new MMUCC, the
States will need to either develop a new electronic Police Accident
Report (PAR) and build a centralized statewide crash data repository if
they don't already have one or update the existing PAR and centralized
statewide crash data repository to increase their alignment to the new
MMUCC. In addition, States will need to electronically transfer their
data in a standardized format to NHTSA. NHTSA predicts the States will
need to take the following specific actions:
Manually entering PAR data if there are legacy paper PARs
to be input into the new and/or updated centralized statewide crash
data repository.
Developing a new PAR to increase alignment with the
updated MMUCC.
Adopting the new State PAR by law enforcement agencies.
Setting up information technology infrastructure for the
electronic centralized statewide crash data repository.
Identifying and implementing the system changes to align
with the updated MMUCC.
Developing a user guide, data dictionary and training
materials for the new and/or updated data collection system.
Developing and implementing database and data warehouse
for the data collection.
Developing and implementing data transfer protocols for
collecting data
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from law enforcement agencies to centralized statewide crash data
repository.
Developing and implementing edit and validation rules for
quality assurance for the data collection.
Developing and implementing data transfer protocols for
sharing data among States and sending data to NHTSA.
Integrating the reporting from other vendors if some law
enforcement agencies within a state use other vendor's software.
Creating data analytics and dashboard for data monitoring
and reporting.
NHTSA estimates the labor categories in the rows of Table 1 are
required for the implementation of tasks above. Based on the
information received from the RFI, NHTSA estimates the labor hours for
implementation and maintenance for each labor category as in the column
``Implementation Total Hours'' and ``Maintenance Total Hours'' in Table
1. Labor category ``Data Entry and Information Processing Workers'' is
needed when the States transition from a manual/paper system to an
electronic system. Once the transition is complete, this labor category
is no longer necessary and therefore is not included in the maintenance
burden estimates.
NHTSA uses the Bureau of Labor Statistics' mean hourly wage
estimate for each Labor Category in the column labeled ``'Labor Rate w/
o Fringe and Benefit'' \11\ in Table 1. The Bureau of Labor Statistics
estimates that for State and local government workers, wages represent
61.9% of total compensation.\12\ Therefore, the total hourly rate with
fringe and benefit associated with the burden hours is calculated as
below as shown in column ``Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit'' in Table 1.
Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit = Labor Rate w/o Fringe Benefit / Fringe
Benefit Rate
The total cost for implementation and maintenance in Table 1 are
calculated as follows:
Implementation Total Cost = Implementation Total Hours x Labor Rate
with Fringe Benefit
Maintenance Total Cost = Maintenance Total Hours x Labor Rate with
Fringe Benefit
Table 1--Burden Estimates for SECD EDT States Using EDT Protocol
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Maintenance
Implementation Maintenance Implementation labor rate Implementation Maintenance
Labor category Labor total hours total hours labor rate w/o Overhead with Fringe total labor cost total labor
series (hrs.) (hrs.) fringe and rate (%) and Benefit ($/ (per state) ($) cost (per
benefit ($/hr.) hr.) state) ($)
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Program manager.................................................. 11-3021 1,888 832 $78.33 61.90 $126.54 $238,908 $105,281
Computer System Analyst.......................................... 15-1211 5,080 160 49.14 61.90 79.39 403,301 12,702
Web and Digital Interface Designer............................... 15-1255 1,760 416 49.50 61.90 79.97 140,747 33,268
Software Developer............................................... 15-1252 10,240 1,280 58.17 61.90 93.97 962,253 120,282
Web Developers................................................... 15-1254 5,920 1,280 39.09 61.90 63.15 373,848 80,832
Software Quality Assurance Analysts and Testers.................. 15-1252 7,040 1,280 46.97 61.90 75.88 534,195 97,126
Database Architects.............................................. 15-1243 3,520 960 58.58 61.90 94.64 333,133 90,854
Information Security Analysts.................................... 15-1212 1,384 80 54.46 61.90 87.98 121,764 7,038
Data Entry and Information Processing Workers.................... 43-9020 4,192 .............. 18.70 61.90 30.21 126,640 ..............
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Total........................................................ ......... 41,024 6,288 ................. ......... .............. 3,234,789 547,384
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Thus, total labor cost for SEDC EDT implementation cost per State
are estimated to be $3,234,789 with burden hours to be 41,024. The
total annual maintenance burden cost per year per State is estimated to
be $547,384 with burden hour as 6,288.
NHTSA anticipates that during the first year of the grant, States
will be in the development and implementation phase, where data
transmission is not expected. Beginning with year two (2), and into
year three (3), it is estimated that approximately ten (10) States per
year will start transmitting data to NHTSA using the EDT protocol.
Therefore, the average of number of State to transmit data to NHTSA for
the three (3) years is 7 ((10 +10) / 3 = 6.77, rounded to the nearest
integer). In this case during year three (3), there will be ten (10)
states in maintenance phase. These are the ten (10) States which start
transmission data to NHTSA during year two (2). The average number of
states in maintenance phase is 4 (10 / 3 = 3.33, then round 3.33 up to
the nearest integer which is 4).
As NHTSA estimated that there will be average 7 new SEDC EDT States
each year, the total implementation cost per year will be $22,643,526
(7 x $3,234,789) with burden hours as 287,168 hours (7 x 41,024 hours);
the average annual maintenance cost will be $2,189,536 (4 x $547,384)
with burden hours as 25,152 hours (4 x 6,288 hours). The total SEDC EDT
labor costs are $24,833,062 ($22,643,526 for implementation and
$2,189,536 for annual maintenance). This estimate includes total labor
costs to the State respondents, but States may choose to have
contractors incur some or all of these labor cost. The total annual
responses for SEDC EDT States are 4,015 (11 EDT States x 365 nightly
responses).
Summary for SDT Burden Estimates
The total estimated burden for SDT is 312,663 hours (268 hours for
SDS + 75 hours for non-SEDC EDT + (287,168 hours + 25,152 hours) for
SEDC EDT) and total estimated labor cost is $24,860,121 ($20,434 for
SDS + $6,626 for non-SEDC EDT + ($22,643,526 + $2,1289,536) for SEDC
EDT).
A summary of the burden estimates for SDT is provided in Table 2.
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Table 2--Summary for Estimated SDT Burden
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Number of
states Burden hours Labor cost ($)
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SDS Copying............................................ 31 248 19,731
SDS Packing and Sending................................ 5 20 703
Non-SEDC EDT Maintenance............................... 15 75 4,270
SEDC EDT Implementation................................ 7 287,168 22,643,526
SEDC EDT Maintenance................................... 4 25,152 2,189,536
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Total.............................................. .............. 312,663 24,860,121
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: $25,000,000.
The SEDC grant, in compliance with BIL, requires a twenty (20)
percent match from participating State respondents. NHTSA estimates
about half of the program cost for the SEDC grants will be labor costs.
NHTSA estimates the total annual burden cost for the SEDC program
(beyond the labor costs discussed in question 12) will be about
$25,000,000 to respondents. Since the Grant respondents only have to
provide at least 20 percent of the total cost, the respondents will
have to fund about $5,000,000 annually.
NHTSA does not expect respondents to incur any additional costs for
the SDS or non-SEDC States using EDT Protocol (beyond labor costs as
discussed in question 12) as a result of this information collection.
Public Comments Invited
You are asked to comment on any aspects 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) whether the States will use
contractor(s) to help implement the SEDC grant or manage the
implementation in-house with the State's own IT department; (d) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (e) 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.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29.
Chou Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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