82_FR_28068 82 FR 27952 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for Approval of a New Information Collection

82 FR 27952 - Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for Approval of a New Information Collection

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 116 (June 19, 2017)

Page Range27952-27953
FR Document2017-12636

The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new information collection that is summarized below. We are required to publish this notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 116 (Monday, June 19, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 116 (Monday, June 19, 2017)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12636]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

[Docket No. FHWA-2017-0022]


Agency Information Collection Activities: Notice of Request for 
Approval of a New Information Collection

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Request for Approval of a New Information Collection.

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SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public comments about our intention to 
request the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new 
information collection that is summarized below. We are required to 
publish this notice in the Federal Register by the Paperwork Reduction 
Act of 1995.

DATES: Please submit comments by August 18, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by DOT Docket ID Number 
2017-0022 by any of the following methods:
    Web site: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
    Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
    Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
    Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. Department of Transportation, West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith Williams, 202-366-9212, Highway 
Safety Specialist, Office of Safety Programs, Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE., Room E71-119, Washington, DC 20590, Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Inventory of State Compliance on Serious Injury Reporting 
Using the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria 4th Edition
    Type of request: New information collection requirement.
    Background: The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of 
Safety's mission is to exercise leadership throughout the highway 
community to make the Nation's roadways safer by developing, 
evaluating, and deploying life-saving countermeasures; advancing the 
use of scientific methods and data-driven decisions, fostering a safety 
culture, and promoting an integrated, multidisciplinary 4 E's 
(Engineering, Education, Enforcement, Education) approach to safety. 
The mission is carried out through the Highway Safety Improvement 
Program (HSIP), a data driven strategic approach to improving highway 
safety on all public roads that focuses on performance. The goal of the 
program is to achieve a significant reduction in traffic fatalities and 
serious injuries on all public roads, including non-State-owned public 
roads and roads on tribal lands.
    In keeping with that mission, the United States Congress on June 
29, 2012 passed the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act 
(MAP-21), which was signed into law (Pub. L. 112-141) on July 6, 2012 
by President Barack Obama and continued in the Fixing America's Surface 
Transportation Act (FAST Act). MAP-21 is a milestone for the U.S. 
economy and the Nation's surface transportation program as it 
transformed the policy and programmatic framework for investments to 
guide the system's growth and development and created a streamlined 
performance-based surface transportation program. The FHWA defines 
Transportation Performance Management (TPM) as a strategic approach 
that uses system information to make investment and policy decisions to 
achieve national performance goals.
    MAP-21 required the Secretary of Transportation to establish 
performance measures for States to use to assess

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serious injuries and fatalities per vehicle mile traveled; and the 
number of serious injuries and fatalities, for the purposes of carrying 
out the HSIP under 23 U.S.C. 148. The HSIP is applicable to all public 
roads and therefore requires crash reporting by law enforcement 
agencies that have jurisdiction over them. In defining performance 
measures for serious injuries, FHWA requires national reporting by 
States using a uniform definition for national reporting in this 
performance area, as required by MAP-21. An established standard for 
defining serious injuries as a result of motor vehicle related crashes 
has been developed in the 4th edition of the Model Minimum Uniform 
Crash Criteria (MMUCC). MMUCC represents a voluntary and collaborative 
effort to generate uniform crash data that are accurate, reliable and 
credible for data-driven highway safety decisions within a State, 
between States, and at the national level. The MMUCC defines a serious 
injury resulting from traffic crashes as ``Suspected Serious Injury 
(A)'' whose attributes are: Any injury, other than fatal, which results 
in one or more of the following: Severe laceration resulting in 
exposure of underlying tissues, muscle, organs, or resulting in 
significant loss of blood; broken or distorted extremity (arm or leg); 
crush injuries; suspected skull, chest, or abdominal injury other than 
bruises or minor lacerations; significant burns (second and third 
degree burns over 10 percent or more of the body); unconsciousness when 
taken from the crash scene; or paralysis.
    As part of the national requirement to report serious injuries 
using the MMUCC 4th Edition definition, the FHWA seeks to determine if 
States have adopted the MMUCC 4th edition definition, attribute and 
coding convention by the required April 15, 2019 date. Specifically, 
States will be considered compliant with the serious injury definition 
requirement if it: Maintains a statewide crash database capable of 
accurately aggregating the MMUCC 4th Edition injury status attribute 
for ``Suspected Serious Injury (A); Ensures the State crash database, 
data dictionary and crash report user manual employs the verbatim 
terminology and definitions for the MMUCC 4th Edition injury status 
attribute Suspected Serious Injury (A); Ensures the police crash form 
employs the verbatim MMUCC 4th Edition injury status attribute for 
Suspected Serious Injury (A); Ensures that the seven serious injury 
types specified in the Suspected Serious Injury (A) attribute are not 
included in any of the other attributes listed in the States' injury 
status data elements are MMUCC compliant.
    The purpose of the information collection is to assess each States' 
ability to report serious injuries using the new Federal definition. 
This assessment will require consultation with the State database 
owner, State law enforcement agency and possibly county and municipal 
law enforcement agencies that don't use the State form.
    Respondents: State, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, tribal 
and local traffic records management agencies and law enforcement. (75 
total).
    Frequency: One time collection
    Estimated Average Burden per Response: It will take approximately 
30 minutes per participant.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: Approximately 37 hours for a 
one-time collection.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection of information is necessary for the U.S. DOT's performance, 
including whether the information will have practical utility; (2) the 
accuracy of the U.S. DOT's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
information collection; (3) ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, 
and clarity of the collected information; and (4) ways that the burden 
could be minimized, including the use of electronic technology, without 
reducing the quality of the collected information. The agency will 
summarize and/or include your comments in the request for OMB's 
clearance of this information collection.

    Authority:  The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. 
Chapter 35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.

     Issued On: June 8, 2017.
Michael Howell,
Information Collection Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-12636 Filed 6-16-17; 8:45 am]
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27952 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 116 / Monday, June 19, 2017 / Notices W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., burden; (3) ways for the FHWA to and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, Washington, DC 20590–0001. enhance the quality, usefulness, and except Federal holidays. Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. clarity of the collected information; and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Department of Transportation, West (4) ways that the burden could be Keith Williams, 202–366–9212, Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, minimized, including the use of Highway Safety Specialist, Office of 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., computer technology, without reducing Safety Programs, Federal Highway Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. the quality of the collected information. Administration, Department of and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, The agency will summarize and/or Transportation, 1200 New Jersey except Federal holidays. include your comments in the request Avenue SE., Room E71–119, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John for OMB’s clearance of this information Washington, DC 20590, Monday Moulden, 202–493–3470, Turner- collection. through Friday, except Federal holidays. Fairbank Highway Research Center, Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Office of Corporate Research, of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; Title: Inventory of State Compliance Technology, and Innovation and 49 CFR 1.48. on Serious Injury Reporting Using the Management, Federal Highway Issued On: June 13, 2017. Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria Administration, Department of Michael Howell, 4th Edition Transportation, 6300 Georgetown Pike, Information Collection Coordinator. Type of request: New information McLean, VA 22101. Office hours are collection requirement. [FR Doc. 2017–12639 Filed 6–16–17; 8:45 am] from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Background: The Federal Highway BILLING CODE P Friday, except Federal holidays. Administration (FHWA) Office of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Safety’s mission is to exercise Title: Federal Highway DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION leadership throughout the highway Administration Research, Development community to make the Nation’s and Technology Agenda Web site. Federal Highway Administration roadways safer by developing, Background: Title 23, United States evaluating, and deploying life-saving Code, Section 502(a)(5) requires that [Docket No. FHWA–2017–0022] countermeasures; advancing the use of Federal surface transportation research scientific methods and data-driven and development activities address the Agency Information Collection decisions, fostering a safety culture, and needs of stakeholders, including Activities: Notice of Request for promoting an integrated, ‘‘States, metropolitan planning Approval of a New Information multidisciplinary 4 E’s (Engineering, organizations, local governments, the Collection Education, Enforcement, Education) private sector, researchers, research approach to safety. The mission is sponsors, and other affected parties, AGENCY: Federal Highway carried out through the Highway Safety including public interest groups.’’ As Administration (FHWA), DOT. Improvement Program (HSIP), a data part of its effort to ensure that Federal ACTION: Notice of Request for Approval driven strategic approach to improving research, development and technology of a New Information Collection. highway safety on all public roads that (RD&T) activities are addressing the focuses on performance. The goal of the SUMMARY: The FHWA invites public program is to achieve a significant most critical national challenges, the comments about our intention to request reduction in traffic fatalities and serious Federal Highway Administration the Office of Management and Budget’s injuries on all public roads, including (FHWA) is developing the RD&T (OMB) approval of a new information non-State-owned public roads and roads Agenda Web site. This Web site will collection that is summarized below. on tribal lands. communicate FHWA’s RD&T goals, We are required to publish this notice In keeping with that mission, the objectives and strategies to its in the Federal Register by the United States Congress on June 29, 2012 stakeholders and highlight notable Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. passed the Moving Ahead for Progress initiatives or projects that illustrate FHWA’s RD&T approach. The Web site DATES: Please submit comments by in the 21st Century Act (MAP–21), will include an electronic mechanism August 18, 2017. which was signed into law (Pub. L. 112– for stakeholders to provide feedback on ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 141) on July 6, 2012 by President Barack the overall RD&T Agenda, FHWA’s identified by DOT Docket ID Number Obama and continued in the Fixing approach to addressing national 2017–0022 by any of the following America’s Surface Transportation Act transportation challenges, and potential methods: (FAST Act). MAP–21 is a milestone for opportunities for FHWA to collaborate Web site: For access to the docket to the U.S. economy and the Nation’s with stakeholders to address them. read background documents or surface transportation program as it Respondents: Approximately 1,000 comments received, go to the Federal transformed the policy and annual respondents. eRulemaking Portal: http:// programmatic framework for Frequency: Annually. www.regulations.gov. Follow the online investments to guide the system’s Estimated Average Burden per instructions for submitting comments. growth and development and created a Response: Approximately 10 minutes Fax: 1–202–493–2251. streamlined performance-based surface per respondent per year. Mail: Docket Management Facility, transportation program. The FHWA asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Estimated Total Annual Burden U.S. Department of Transportation, defines Transportation Performance Hours: Approximately 167 hours per West Building Ground Floor, Room Management (TPM) as a strategic year. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., approach that uses system information Public Comments Invited: You are Washington, DC 20590. to make investment and policy asked to comment on any aspect of this Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. decisions to achieve national information collection, including: (1) Department of Transportation, West performance goals. Whether the proposed collection is Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, MAP–21 required the Secretary of necessary for the FHWA’s performance; 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Transportation to establish performance (2) the accuracy of the estimated Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. measures for States to use to assess VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:09 Jun 16, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00171 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JNN1.SGM 19JNN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 116 / Monday, June 19, 2017 / Notices 27953 serious injuries and fatalities per vehicle attributes listed in the States’ injury the Office of Management and Budget’s mile traveled; and the number of serious status data elements are MMUCC (OMB) approval for a new information injuries and fatalities, for the purposes compliant. collection, which is summarized below of carrying out the HSIP under 23 U.S.C. The purpose of the information under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. We 148. The HSIP is applicable to all public collection is to assess each States’ are required to publish this notice in the roads and therefore requires crash ability to report serious injuries using Federal Register by the Paperwork reporting by law enforcement agencies the new Federal definition. This Reduction Act of 1995. that have jurisdiction over them. In assessment will require consultation DATES: Please submit comments by defining performance measures for with the State database owner, State law August 18, 2017. serious injuries, FHWA requires enforcement agency and possibly ADDRESSES: You may submit comments national reporting by States using a county and municipal law enforcement identified by DOT Docket ID 2017–0015 uniform definition for national reporting agencies that don’t use the State form. by any of the following methods: in this performance area, as required by Respondents: State, the District of Web site: For access to the docket to MAP–21. An established standard for Columbia, Puerto Rico, tribal and local read background documents or defining serious injuries as a result of traffic records management agencies and comments received go to the Federal motor vehicle related crashes has been law enforcement. (75 total). eRulemaking Portal: Go to http:// developed in the 4th edition of the Frequency: One time collection Estimated Average Burden per www.regulations.gov. Follow the online Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria instructions for submitting comments. (MMUCC). MMUCC represents a Response: It will take approximately 30 Fax: 1–202–493–2251. voluntary and collaborative effort to minutes per participant. Estimated Total Annual Burden Mail: Docket Management Facility, generate uniform crash data that are U.S. Department of Transportation, Hours: Approximately 37 hours for a accurate, reliable and credible for data- West Building Ground Floor, Room one-time collection. driven highway safety decisions within W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Public Comments Invited: You are a State, between States, and at the Washington, DC 20590–0001. asked to comment on any aspect of this national level. The MMUCC defines a Hand Delivery or Courier: U.S. information collection, including: (1) serious injury resulting from traffic Department of Transportation, West Whether the proposed collection of crashes as ‘‘Suspected Serious Injury Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, information is necessary for the U.S. (A)’’ whose attributes are: Any injury, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., DOT’s performance, including whether other than fatal, which results in one or Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. the information will have practical more of the following: Severe laceration and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, utility; (2) the accuracy of the U.S. resulting in exposure of underlying except Federal holidays. DOT’s estimate of the burden of the tissues, muscle, organs, or resulting in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: proposed information collection; (3) significant loss of blood; broken or Bruce Bradley, 202–493–0564, ways to enhance the quality, usefulness, distorted extremity (arm or leg); crush Department of Transportation, Federal and clarity of the collected information; injuries; suspected skull, chest, or Highway Administration, Office of Real and (4) ways that the burden could be abdominal injury other than bruises or Estate Services, 1200 New Jersey minimized, including the use of minor lacerations; significant burns Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. electronic technology, without reducing (second and third degree burns over 10 Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., the quality of the collected information. percent or more of the body); Monday through Friday, except Federal The agency will summarize and/or unconsciousness when taken from the holidays. include your comments in the request crash scene; or paralysis. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: for OMB’s clearance of this information As part of the national requirement to collection. Title: FHWA Excellence in Right-of- report serious injuries using the Way Awards and Utility Relocation and Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act MMUCC 4th Edition definition, the of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; Accommodation Awards. FHWA seeks to determine if States have and 49 CFR 1.48. Background: In 1995, the Federal adopted the MMUCC 4th edition Highway Administration established the Issued On: June 8, 2017. definition, attribute and coding biennial Excellence in Right-of-Way convention by the required April 15, Michael Howell, Awards Program to recognize partners, 2019 date. Specifically, States will be Information Collection Officer. projects, and processes that use FHWA considered compliant with the serious [FR Doc. 2017–12636 Filed 6–16–17; 8:45 am] funding sources to go beyond regulatory injury definition requirement if it: BILLING CODE 4910–22–P compliance and achieve right-of-way Maintains a statewide crash database excellence. Excellence in Right-of-Way capable of accurately aggregating the awardees have contributed to MMUCC 4th Edition injury status DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION outstanding innovations that enhance attribute for ‘‘Suspected Serious Injury the right-of-way professional’s ability to Federal Highway Administration (A); Ensures the State crash database, meet the challenges associated with data dictionary and crash report user [Docket No. FHWA–2014–0015] acquiring real property for Federal-aid manual employs the verbatim projects. Similarly, FHWA established terminology and definitions for the Agency Information Collection the Excellence in Utility Relocation and Activities: Request for Comments for a asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES MMUCC 4th Edition injury status Accommodation Awards Program to attribute Suspected Serious Injury (A); New Information Collection honor the use of innovative practices Ensures the police crash form employs AGENCY: Federal Highway and outstanding achievements in the verbatim MMUCC 4th Edition injury Administration (FHWA), DOT. reducing the cost or shortening the time status attribute for Suspected Serious ACTION: Notice and request for required to accommodate or relocate Injury (A); Ensures that the seven comments. utilities associated with highway serious injury types specified in the improvement projects. The goal of the Suspected Serious Injury (A) attribute SUMMARY:The FHWA invites public program is to showcase exemplary and are not included in any of the other comments about our intention to request innovative projects, programs, VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:09 Jun 16, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00172 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JNN1.SGM 19JNN1


Document Created: 2017-06-17 01:48:00
Document Modified: 2017-06-17 01:48:00
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of Request for Approval of a New Information Collection.
DatesPlease submit comments by August 18, 2017.
ContactKeith Williams, 202-366-9212, Highway Safety Specialist, Office of Safety Programs, Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Room E71-119, Washington, DC 20590, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
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