Notice2023-09357
Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for Comment; State Data Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information
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May 3, 2023
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Abstract
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) invites public comments about our intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a modification of a currently approved information collection. Before a Federal agency can collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval from OMB. Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federal agencies must solicit public comment on proposed collections of information, including extensions and reinstatement of previously approved collections. This document describes a collection of information for which NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval on State Data Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information collection.
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[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 85 (Wednesday, May 3, 2023)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2023-09357]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2023-0019]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; 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 a request for modification
of a currently approved information collection.
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SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
invites public comments about our intention to request approval from
the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for a modification of a
currently approved information collection. Before a Federal agency can
collect certain information from the public, it must receive approval
from OMB. Under procedures established by the Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, before seeking OMB approval, Federal agencies must solicit
public comment on proposed collections of information, including
extensions and reinstatement of previously approved collections. This
document describes a collection of information for which NHTSA intends
to seek OMB approval on State Data Transfer for Vehicle Crash
Information collection.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before July 3, 2023.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket No. NHTSA-
2021-0039 through any of the following methods:
<bullet> Electronic Submissions: Go to the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>. Follow the online instructions
for submitting comments.
<bullet> Fax: (202) 493-2251.
<bullet> Mail or Hand Delivery: Docket Management, U.S. Department
of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-
140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through
Friday, except on Federal holidays. To be sure someone is there to help
you, please call (202) 366-9322 before coming.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number for this notice. Note that all comments received will be
posted without change to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, including any
personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit <a href="https://www.transportation.gov/privacy">https://www.transportation.gov/privacy</a>.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> or the street
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the
dockets via internet.
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 Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.,), before an agency submits a proposed
collection of information to OMB for approval, it must first publish a
document in the Federal Register providing a 60-day comment period and
otherwise consult with members of the public and affected agencies
concerning each proposed collection of information. The OMB has
promulgated regulations describing what must be included in such a
document. Under OMB's regulation (at 5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must
ask for public comment on the following: (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) how to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected;
and (d) how to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated,
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electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g. permitting electronic
submission of responses. In compliance with these requirements, NHTSA
asks for public comments on the following proposed collection of
information for which the agency is seeking approval from OMB.
Title: State Data Transfer (SDT) for Vehicle Crash Information.
OMB Control Number: 2127-0753.
Form Number(s): None.
Type of Request: Modification a currently approved information
collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Requested Expiration Date of Approval: 3 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:
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\1\ Police Accident Reports (PARs) are also known as Police
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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:
<bullet> 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\
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\2\ Additional details about FARS and how the agency collects
this information are available in the supporting statements for the
ICR with OMB Control No. 2127-0006.
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<bullet> 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\
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\3\ Additional details about CRSS and how the agency collects
this information are available in the supporting statements for the
ICR with OMB Control No. 2127-0714.
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<bullet> 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\
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\4\ Additional details about CISS and how the agency collects
this information are available in the supporting statements for the
ICR with OMB Control No. 2127-0706.
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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
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produced by professional crash investigation teams. Hundreds of data
elements relevant to the vehicle, occupants, injury mechanisms,
roadway, and safety systems are collected for each of the over 100
crashes designated for study annually.
<bullet> 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.
<bullet> 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.
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 are 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
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'
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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.
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\5\ See May 2021 National Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates United States, available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm</a> (accessed March 13, 2023).
\6\ See table 1. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by
ownership (Sept. 2022), available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm">https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm</a> (accessed March 13, 2023).
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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.
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\7\ See May 2021 National Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates United States, available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm</a> (accessed March 13, 2023).
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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.
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\8\ May 2021 National Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates
United States, Occupational Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor
Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, <a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000</a>, last accessed March 13, 2023.
\9\ Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by ownership (Sept.
2022), available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm">https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm</a>
(accessed March 13, 2023).
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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.
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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:
<bullet> Manually entering PAR data if there are legacy paper PARs
to be input into the new and/or updated centralized statewide crash
data repository.
<bullet> Developing a new PAR to increase alignment with the
updated MMUCC.
<bullet> Adopting the new State PAR by law enforcement agencies.
<bullet> Setting up information technology infrastructure for the
electronic centralized statewide crash data repository.
<bullet> Identifying and implementing the system changes to align
with the updated MMUCC.
<bullet> Developing a user guide, data dictionary and training
materials for the new and/or updated data collection system.
<bullet> Developing and implementing database and data warehouse
for the data collection.
<bullet> Developing and implementing data transfer protocols for
collecting data
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from law enforcement agencies to centralized statewide crash data
repository.
<bullet> Developing and implementing edit and validation rules for
quality assurance for the data collection.
<bullet> Developing and implementing data transfer protocols for
sharing data among States and sending data to NHTSA.
<bullet> Integrating the reporting from other vendors if some law
enforcement agencies within a state use other vendor's software.
<bullet> 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.
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\11\ See May 2021 National Occupational Employment and Wage
Estimates United States, available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000">https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_nat.htm#00-0000</a>.
\12\ See table 1. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by
ownership (Sept. 2022), available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm">https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm</a> (accessed Feb. 24, 2023).
Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit = Labor Rate w/o Fringe Benefit / Fringe
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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 series total hours total hours labor rate w/o Overhead rate with fringe total labor cost total labor
(hrs) (hrs) fringe and (%) 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 + 15 hours for non-SEDC EDT + (287,168 hours + 25,152 hours) for
SEDC EDT) and total estimated labor cost is
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$24,860,121 ($20,434 for SDS + $6,626 for non-SEDC EDT + ($22,643,526 +
$2,1289,536) for SEDC EDT).
A summary of the burden estimates for SDT is provided in table 2.
Table 2--Summary for Estimated SDT Burden
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Number of
states Burden hours Labor cost ($)
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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.
[FR Doc. 2023-09357 Filed 5-2-23; 8:45 am]
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