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Type of Request: Extension without
change (with changes in estimates) of a
currently approved collection.
Affected Public: Businesses
(railroads).
Form(s): N/A.
Respondent Universe: 34 railroads.
Frequency of Submission: On
occasion.
Total Estimated Annual Responses:
8,335.
Total Estimated Annual Burden: 755.
Total Estimated Annual Burden Hour
Dollar Cost Equivalent: $64,841.
FRA informs all interested parties that
it may not conduct or sponsor, and a
respondent is not required to respond
to, a collection of information that does
not display a currently valid OMB
control number.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520.
Christopher S. Van Nostrand,
Acting Deputy Chief Counsel.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2022–0077]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Request for Comment;
Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Segmentation Study
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a request for approval of
a new information collection.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
summarized 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 new information
collection for consumer research
purposes regarding a one-time online
voluntary study to better understand
attitudes and behaviors related to
alcohol-impaired driving that will
enhance and refine communication
strategy and tactics. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
information collection was published on
June 7, 2023, Document 2023–12102.
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Two (2) comments were received before
the closing date of August 7, 2023.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before November 20, 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 Kil-Jae
Hong, Marketing Specialist, Office of
Communications and Consumer
Information (NCO–200), 202–493–0524,
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Please identify the relevant collection of
information by referring to its OMB
Control Number.
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: Alcohol-Impaired Driving
Segmentation Study.
OMB Control Number: 2127–New.
Form Number: NHTSA Form 1710,
NHTSA Form 1711.
Type of Request: Request for approval
of a new information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years from approval date.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
under the U.S. Department of
Transportation (USDOT), was
established to reduce the number of
deaths, injuries and economic losses
resulting from motor vehicle crashes on
the nation’s highways. In keeping with
this mission and to fulfill a
congressional mandate to improve
highway traffic safety, NHTSA’s Office
of Communications and Consumer
Information (OCCI) is dedicated to
eliminating risky behaviors on our
nation’s roads through public awareness
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campaigns. One of the most significant
NHTSA’s OCCI seeks to address through
these efforts is drunk driving.
Drunk driving is a significant cause of
highway fatalities, injuries and
economic losses. Alcohol-impaired
driving fatalities totaled 11,654 in 2020,
accounting for 30% of all motor-vehiclecrash fatalities.1 On average, in 2020,
there was an alcohol-impaired driving
fatality every 45 minutes.2 Among
motorcycle riders, in particular, 27% of
riders in fatal crashes were legally
drunk—a rate exceeding that of
passenger car drivers (23%) and the
highest among all vehicle types
measured.3 Aside from the fatalities,
alcohol-impaired driving crashes carried
an economic cost of an estimated $44
billion in 2010 (the most recent year for
which cost data is available).4
In order for NHTSA’s public
awareness campaigns on drunk driving
to be effective, they must effectively
‘‘compete’’ for audience attention in the
public domain among hundreds of other
major marketers, including those in the
alcoholic beverage industry that
strategically target messages to
particular groups of the public
marketplace. In the consumer marketing
context and environment, NHTSA must
work to convince members of the
driving/riding public not to operate
vehicles when impaired by alcohol.
Accordingly, NHTSA finds that it is
necessary to conduct research, as
authorized by the National Traffic Motor
Vehicle Safety Act, to conduct research
that will allow NHTSA to better tailor
its communication strategies.
Specifically, NHTSA believes a
segmentation analysis would be
especially useful to NHTSA. More
closely understanding and segmenting
drunk drivers and motorcycle riders
will enable more effective
communications programs. Insights
about drunk drivers’/motorcycle riders’
lifestyle characteristics, alcoholconsumption behaviors and attitudes
towards drunk driving will provide
useful, pragmatic information for
NHTSA’s continuing efforts to address
the drunk driving/motorcycle riding
issue responsible for so many deaths.
Accordingly, NHTSA is seeking
approval to conduct a one-time
voluntary study to obtain information to
better understand attitudes and
1 2020 Alcohol Impaired Driving (Traffic Safety
Facts. Report No. DOT HS 813 294).
2 Ibid.
3 Ibid.
4 National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
(2015, July). Overview: 2013 data. (Traffic Safety
Facts. Report No. DOT HS 812 169). Washington,
DC: National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
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behaviors related to alcohol-impaired
driving that will be used to enhance and
refine communication strategy and
tactics (i.e., more effectively target and
message at-risk drivers and motorcycle
riders). The study will survey drivers
and motorcycle riders ages 21- to 54years-old because this age range
represents the greatest number of
alcohol-related driving/riding fatalities
according to NHTSA’s Fatality Analysis
Reporting System (FARS).5
The research study will include two
components, both being one-time
collections. The first component will
involve a series of online webcam
interviews that will collect qualitative
information that will serve as a
cognitive test to improve the
quantitative survey that will be
administered in the second component.
The quantitative survey will be
administered online and by phone (and
potentially supplemented by mail if
needed). After collecting the data,
segmentation analysis will be done to
classify drivers and motorcycle riders
according to segments based on
common demographics, drinking
behaviors, attitudes about drinking and
driving/motorcycle riding, and lifestyle
characteristics. The segmentation
profiles will be used by NHTSA’s Office
of Communications and Consumer
Information (OCCI) to better target and
reach intended audiences with
communications messages and
techniques that are relevant and
meaningful to people within the target
market.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on June 7, 2023 (FR Doc.
2023–12102). NHTSA received two (2)
comments. NHTSA received comments
from the National Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and
Responsibility.org. Both NAMIC and
Responsibility.org supported NHTSA’s
alcohol-segmentation study efforts to
inform communications initiatives to
prevent alcohol-impaired driving and
both requested future consideration to
collaborate on communications efforts.
[insert whether we received comments
and if so, how many.
NHTSA Response: NHTSA
appreciates the support from NAMIC
and Responsibility.org. NHTSA
recognizes the actions that both are
taking to help communicate the dangers
of impaired driving and the efforts that
they are taking to decrease this behavior
on US roadways. NHTSA looks forward
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to completing this study, sharing the
results, and having discussions with
both NAMIC and Responsibility.org on
how we can work together to decrease
impaired-driving crashes, injuries and
fatalities in the US.
Affected Public: Vehicle Drivers and
Motorcycle Riders ages 21–54 (English
and Spanish-speaking).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
5,400.
Frequency: One-time.
Number of Responses: 5,400.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3,574.67.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
$119,250.99.
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
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(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
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29A.
Issued on October 16, 2023.
Juliette Marie Vallese,
Associate Administrator, Office of
Communications and Consumer Information.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[DOT–OST–2023–0137]
Advisory Committee on Transportation
Equity (ACTE); Notice of Public
Meeting
Office of the Secretary,
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
DOT OST announces a
meeting of ACTE, which will take place
via Zoom.
DATES: The meeting will be held Friday,
November 3, 2023, from 2:30 to 4:30
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p.m. Eastern Time. Requests for
accommodations because of a disability
must be received by Friday, October 27.
Requests to submit questions must be
received no later than Friday, October
27. The registration form will close on
Friday, October 27.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held
via Zoom. Those members of the public
who would like to participate virtually
should go to https://
www.transportation.gov/civil-rights/
acte/meetinginfo to access the meeting,
a detailed agenda for the entire meeting,
meeting minutes, and additional
information on ACTE and its activities.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sandra Norman, Senior Advisor and
Designated Federal Officer,
Departmental Office of Civil Rights, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590, (804) 836–2893, ACTE@dot.gov.
Any ACTE-related request or
submissions should be sent via email to
the point of contact listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Purpose of the Committee
ACTE was established to provide
independent advice and
recommendations to the Secretary of
Transportation about comprehensive,
interdisciplinary issues related to civil
rights and transportation equity in the
planning, design, research, policy, and
advocacy contexts from a variety of
transportation equity practitioners and
community leaders. Specifically, the
Committee will provide advice and
recommendations to inform the
Department’s efforts to:
Implement the Agency’s Equity
Action Plan and Strategic Plan, helping
to institutionalize equity into Agency
programs, policies, regulations, and
activities;
Strengthen and establish partnerships
with overburdened and underserved
communities who have been historically
underrepresented in the Department’s
outreach and engagement, including
those in rural and urban areas;
Empower communities to have a
meaningful voice in local and regional
transportation decisions; and
Ensure the compliance of Federal
funding recipients with civil rights laws
and nondiscrimination programs,
policies, regulations, and activities.
Meeting Agenda
The agenda for the meeting will
consist of:
Setting the full committee schedule
Formalizing committee goals
Reviewing community agreements
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2022-0077]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Request for
Comment; Alcohol-Impaired Driving Segmentation Study
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments on a request for approval of a
new information collection.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
summarized 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 new information collection for consumer research purposes
regarding a one-time online voluntary study to better understand
attitudes and behaviors related to alcohol-impaired driving that will
enhance and refine communication strategy and tactics. A Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the
following information collection was published on June 7, 2023,
Document 2023-12102. Two (2) comments were received before the closing
date of August 7, 2023.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before November 20, 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 Kil-Jae Hong, Marketing Specialist,
Office of Communications and Consumer Information (NCO-200), 202-493-
0524, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Please identify the relevant collection of information by referring to
its OMB Control Number.
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: Alcohol-Impaired Driving Segmentation Study.
OMB Control Number: 2127-New.
Form Number: NHTSA Form 1710, NHTSA Form 1711.
Type of Request: Request for approval of a new information
collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three years from approval date.
Summary of the Collection of Information: The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), under the U.S. Department of
Transportation (USDOT), was established to reduce the number of deaths,
injuries and economic losses resulting from motor vehicle crashes on
the nation's highways. In keeping with this mission and to fulfill a
congressional mandate to improve highway traffic safety, NHTSA's Office
of Communications and Consumer Information (OCCI) is dedicated to
eliminating risky behaviors on our nation's roads through public
awareness campaigns. One of the most significant NHTSA's OCCI seeks to
address through these efforts is drunk driving.
Drunk driving is a significant cause of highway fatalities,
injuries and economic losses. Alcohol-impaired driving fatalities
totaled 11,654 in 2020, accounting for 30% of all motor-vehicle-crash
fatalities.\1\ On average, in 2020, there was an alcohol-impaired
driving fatality every 45 minutes.\2\ Among motorcycle riders, in
particular, 27% of riders in fatal crashes were legally drunk--a rate
exceeding that of passenger car drivers (23%) and the highest among all
vehicle types measured.\3\ Aside from the fatalities, alcohol-impaired
driving crashes carried an economic cost of an estimated $44 billion in
2010 (the most recent year for which cost data is available).\4\
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\1\ 2020 Alcohol Impaired Driving (Traffic Safety Facts. Report
No. DOT HS 813 294).
\2\ Ibid.
\3\ Ibid.
\4\ National Center for Statistics and Analysis. (2015, July).
Overview: 2013 data. (Traffic Safety Facts. Report No. DOT HS 812
169). Washington, DC: National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
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In order for NHTSA's public awareness campaigns on drunk driving to
be effective, they must effectively ``compete'' for audience attention
in the public domain among hundreds of other major marketers, including
those in the alcoholic beverage industry that strategically target
messages to particular groups of the public marketplace. In the
consumer marketing context and environment, NHTSA must work to convince
members of the driving/riding public not to operate vehicles when
impaired by alcohol. Accordingly, NHTSA finds that it is necessary to
conduct research, as authorized by the National Traffic Motor Vehicle
Safety Act, to conduct research that will allow NHTSA to better tailor
its communication strategies.
Specifically, NHTSA believes a segmentation analysis would be
especially useful to NHTSA. More closely understanding and segmenting
drunk drivers and motorcycle riders will enable more effective
communications programs. Insights about drunk drivers'/motorcycle
riders' lifestyle characteristics, alcohol-consumption behaviors and
attitudes towards drunk driving will provide useful, pragmatic
information for NHTSA's continuing efforts to address the drunk
driving/motorcycle riding issue responsible for so many deaths.
Accordingly, NHTSA is seeking approval to conduct a one-time
voluntary study to obtain information to better understand attitudes
and
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behaviors related to alcohol-impaired driving that will be used to
enhance and refine communication strategy and tactics (i.e., more
effectively target and message at-risk drivers and motorcycle riders).
The study will survey drivers and motorcycle riders ages 21- to 54-
years-old because this age range represents the greatest number of
alcohol-related driving/riding fatalities according to NHTSA's Fatality
Analysis Reporting System (FARS).\5\
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\5\ 2020 Alcohol Impaired Driving (Traffic Safety Facts. Report
No. DOT HS 813 294).
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The research study will include two components, both being one-time
collections. The first component will involve a series of online webcam
interviews that will collect qualitative information that will serve as
a cognitive test to improve the quantitative survey that will be
administered in the second component. The quantitative survey will be
administered online and by phone (and potentially supplemented by mail
if needed). After collecting the data, segmentation analysis will be
done to classify drivers and motorcycle riders according to segments
based on common demographics, drinking behaviors, attitudes about
drinking and driving/motorcycle riding, and lifestyle characteristics.
The segmentation profiles will be used by NHTSA's Office of
Communications and Consumer Information (OCCI) to better target and
reach intended audiences with communications messages and techniques
that are relevant and meaningful to people within the target market.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting public comments on the following information
collection was published on June 7, 2023 (FR Doc. 2023-12102). NHTSA
received two (2) comments. NHTSA received comments from the National
Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC) and
Responsibility.org. Both NAMIC and Responsibility.org supported NHTSA's
alcohol-segmentation study efforts to inform communications initiatives
to prevent alcohol-impaired driving and both requested future
consideration to collaborate on communications efforts. [insert whether
we received comments and if so, how many.
NHTSA Response: NHTSA appreciates the support from NAMIC and
Responsibility.org. NHTSA recognizes the actions that both are taking
to help communicate the dangers of impaired driving and the efforts
that they are taking to decrease this behavior on US roadways. NHTSA
looks forward to completing this study, sharing the results, and having
discussions with both NAMIC and Responsibility.org on how we can work
together to decrease impaired-driving crashes, injuries and fatalities
in the US.
Affected Public: Vehicle Drivers and Motorcycle Riders ages 21-54
(English and Spanish-speaking).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 5,400.
Frequency: One-time.
Number of Responses: 5,400.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3,574.67.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: $119,250.99.
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 agency, including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (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 appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of
responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29A.
Issued on October 16, 2023.
Juliette Marie Vallese,
Associate Administrator, Office of Communications and Consumer
Information.
[FR Doc. 2023-23076 Filed 10-18-23; 8:45 am]
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