Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for Comment; Incident Reporting for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

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NHTSA invites public comments about our intention to request approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an extension of a currently approved information collection with modifications. 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 reinstatements of previously approved collections. This document describes NHTSA's information collection for incident reporting requirements for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS). NHTSA previously requested and received a three-year approval of this information collection. NHTSA now requests OMB's approval for a three-year extension of this currently approved information collection with modifications. These modifications streamlined reporting requirements to reduce burdens compared to the prior version of this information collection and sharpening the focus on safety critical information.

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[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 42 (Wednesday, March 4, 2026)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10682-10687]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2026-04240]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA-2026-0529]

Agency Information Collection Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Incident Reporting for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and
Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS)

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice and request for comments on a request for extension of a
currently approved information collection with modifications.

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SUMMARY: NHTSA invites public comments about our intention to request
approval from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for an
extension of a currently approved information collection with
modifications. 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 reinstatements of
previously approved collections. This document describes NHTSA's
information collection for incident reporting requirements for
Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance
Systems (ADAS). NHTSA previously requested and received a three-year
approval of this information collection. NHTSA now requests OMB's
approval for a three-year extension of this currently approved
information collection with modifications. These modifications
streamlined reporting requirements to reduce burdens compared to the
prior version of this information collection and sharpening the focus
on safety critical information.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 4, 2026.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket No. NHTSA-
2021-0070 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) 366-9826 or (202) 366-9317 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.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or access
to background documents, contact Michael Kuppersmith, Office of Chief
Counsel, at <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#8ee3e7ede6efebe2a0e5fbfefeebfcfde3e7fae6ceeae1faa0e9e1f8"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="167b7f757e77737a387d6366667364657b7f627e5672796238717960">[email&#160;protected]</span></a>, Telephone: (202) 366-9957;
Mailing address: 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 (including a request for
an extension of a currently approved collection), 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 (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,
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 extension, for which
the agency is seeking approval from OMB, of a currently approved
collection of information with modifications.
Title: Incident Reporting for Automated Driving Systems (ADS) and
Level 2 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS).
OMB Control Number: 2127-0754.
Form Number(s): Form 1612.
Type of Request: Approval of an extension of a currently approved
collection of information with modifications.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Requested Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years from date of
approval.
Summary of the Collection of Information: The currently approved
information collection request (ICR) for which NHTSA intends to request
an extension requires certain manufacturers of motor vehicles and
equipment and operators of motor vehicles to submit incident reports
for certain crashes involving ADS and Level 2 ADAS. These crash
reporting obligations are set forth in NHTSA's Standing General Order
2021-01 (General Order), which requires those manufacturers and
operators named in and served with the General Order to report crashes
that meet specified criteria to NHTSA.\1\
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\1\ A copy of the General Order is available on NHTSA's website
at <a href="https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting">https://www.nhtsa.gov/laws-regulations/standing-general-order-crash-reporting</a>.
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Specifically, the General Order requires the named manufacturers
and operators (the reporting entities) to submit reports if they
receive notice of certain crashes involving an ADS or Level 2 ADAS
equipped vehicle that occur on publicly accessible roads in the United
States. To be reportable, the vehicle, the ADS, or the Level 2 ADAS
must have been manufactured by the reporting entity or the vehicle must
have been operated by an ADS reporting entity at the time of the crash,
and the ADS or Level 2 ADAS must have been engaged at the time of or
immediately before (<=30 seconds) the crash. The reporting obligations
are limited to those entities served with the General Order. The
General Order imposes no reporting obligations on any other companies
and likewise imposes no reporting obligations on any individual
consumers.
In the event of a reportable crash, the General Order requires the
reporting entity to submit an incident report electronically to NHTSA.
The required report includes basic information sufficient for NHTSA to
identify those crashes warranting follow-up. Crashes involving ADS or
Level 2 ADAS equipped vehicles that meet specified criteria must be
reported within five calendar days after the reporting entity receives
notice of the crash, and other crashes involving ADS equipped vehicles
must be reported on a monthly basis. The reporting obligations in the
General Order are specific to these crashes, which are a primary source
of information regarding potential defects in ADS or Level 2 ADAS.
The agency has been receiving incident reports under its existing
approval. Based on the agency's experience in reviewing these reports
and on the public comments it has received previously, NHTSA has
amended the General Order. These amendments streamlined the reporting
requirements of prior versions of the General Order to reduce burdens
and more efficiently collect actionable information. These amendments
refined the focus of reporting on critical safety information while
removing unnecessary and duplicative requirements. The specific
requirements are detailed later in this notice. In general, they
streamline the reporting requirements in several key ways: (1) making
reports of the most severe types of crashes due within five days and
reports of less severe crashes due monthly; (2) refining the scope of
crashes that are reportable for ADS and ADAS, such as by adding a
property damage threshold for less severe crashes involving ADS; (3)
eliminating the requirement in prior versions of the General Order that
multiple entities report the same crash, except in situations where
entities have different information from one another; (4) eliminating
requirements that entities must update reports at designated intervals
even if no new information exists; (5) eliminating the requirement that
entities submit reports to NHTSA each month even if they have no
crashes to report for that month; and (6) streamlining the electronic
form used for reporting by eliminating data elements that are not
safety critical.
More specifically, under Request No. 1 of the General Order, a
reporting entity must report any crash involving an ADS or Level 2 ADAS
equipped vehicle that results in any individual being transported to a
hospital for medical treatment, a fatality, an air bag deployment, or
that involves a strike of a vulnerable road user. If the crash involved
a subject vehicle equipped with an ADS, a reporting entity must also
report any crash resulting in a vehicle tow-away. Under any of these
circumstances, the reporting entity must submit a report within five
days after the reporting entity receives notice of the crash. Under
Request No. 3, reporting entities must submit an updated report if they
receive notice of any materially new or materially different
information for specified fields: VIN, engagement status, source,
highest severity alleged, subject vehicle damage, subject vehicle pre-
crash movement, air bags deployment status for any vehicle involved,
data availability, and narrative. This updated report is due on the
fifteenth day of the month following the month in which they received
notice of the new or different information.
Separately, under Request No. 2 of the General Order, a reporting
entity must report any crash involving an ADS equipped vehicle that
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previous criteria but nonetheless involves property damage. These
reports are due on the fifteenth day of the month after the reporting
entity receives notice of the crash. Specifically, Request No. 2
requires reports for crashes in which the property damage is reasonably
expected to exceed $1,000, the subject vehicle was the only vehicle
involved in the crash, or the subject vehicle struck another vehicle or
object (as opposed to being struck). The reports required under Request
No. 2 and Request No. 3 utilize the same form and request the same
information as the five-day reports required under Request No. 1.
This information collection provides NHTSA with information it
needs to carry out its statutory mandate to protect the public against
unreasonable risk of accidents occurring because of the design,
construction, or performance of a motor vehicle, and against
unreasonable risk of death or injury in an accident.
On March 6, 2023, OMB approved NHTSA's three-year extension of its
information collection for the previous version of the General Order
(OMB Control No. 2127-0754). NHTSA is publishing this document to seek
an extension of this information collection with modifications.
NHTSA significantly reduced the burden of this information
collection through its changes to streamline the General Order.
Specifically, the changes eliminated some categories of burden
addressed in the prior Paperwork Reduction Act analysis, saving 5,639
burden hours annually. For other categories, NHTSA significantly
reduced the burdens by eliminating unnecessary and duplicative
reporting requirements. NHTSA also expects reporting to be more
efficient now that most of the reporting entities have more than five
years of experience and established internal processes. With these
changes, along with NHTSA's improved ability to estimate burdens after
more than five years of reporting under the General Order, NHTSA now
estimates an annual burden of 19,208 hours--a substantial reduction
from the estimated burden associated with the prior versions of the
General Order. NHTSA requests comment on these estimates.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: Under the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act,
as amended (the Safety Act), 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301, NHTSA is charged
with authority ``to reduce traffic accidents and deaths and injuries
resulting from traffic accidents.'' To carry out this statutory
mandate, NHTSA has broad information gathering authority, including
authority to obtain information on vehicle crashes, potential defects
related to motor vehicle safety, and compliance with legal requirements
to timely identify and conduct recalls for safety defects. 49 U.S.C.
30166(e), (g), 30118-30120; 49 CFR part 510.
Both ADS and ADAS are ``motor vehicle equipment'' subject to the
requirements of the Safety Act. Given the rapid evolution of these
technologies and increasing testing of new technologies and features on
publicly accessible roads, it is critical for NHTSA to exercise its
oversight over potential safety defects in vehicles operating with ADS
and Level 2 ADAS.
NHTSA uses the information to evaluate whether specific
manufacturers (including manufacturers of prototype vehicles and
equipment) are meeting their statutory obligations to ensure that their
vehicles and equipment are free of defects that pose an unreasonable
risk to motor vehicle safety or are recalled if such a safety defect is
identified. NHTSA's oversight of potential safety defects in vehicles
operating on publicly accessible roads using ADS or Level 2 ADAS
requires that NHTSA have timely information on incidents involving
those vehicles. In carrying out the Safety Act, NHTSA may ``require, by
general or special order, any person to file reports or answers to
specific questions.'' 49 U.S.C. 30166(g)(1)(A).
Affected Public: Vehicle and equipment manufacturers and operators
of ADS or Level 2 ADAS equipped vehicles.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 110 entities.
Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 9,574 responses.
Frequency: Monthly and on occasion.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 19,208 hours.
To estimate the burden associated with this information collection,
NHTSA separated the requirements of the General Order into seven
components: (1) incident reports involving Level 2 ADAS that must be
submitted within five days; (2) updates to incident reports involving
Level 2 ADAS that must be submitted in the following month; (3)
incident reports involving ADS that must be submitted within five days;
(4) updates to incident reports involving ADS that must be submitted in
the following month; (5) initial incident reports involving ADS that
must be submitted in the following month; (6) training employees on the
requirements; and (7) time to set up an account to submit the reports.
The burden associated with categories (6) and (7) are one-time start-up
burdens that will be incurred during the proposed extension only for
new reporting entities that were added to the General Order during this
period. For the approximately 114 reporting entities named in the
previous General Order, this burden has already been and was accounted
for under the currently approved information collection request.
The estimated number of respondents consists of the number of
reporting entities. NHTSA estimates that there will be an average of
110 reporting entities during each year of the proposed extension.
Currently, there are 106 reporting entities named in the General Order.
NHTSA believes that additional reporting entities may be added to the
General Order during the proposed extension as new companies enter the
market and begin developing and manufacturing ADS and ADAS technology
and vehicles equipped with these technologies. NHTSA also believes that
some existing reporting entities may be removed from the General Order
due to the cessation of operations or market consolidation.
Incident reports involving Level 2 ADAS that must be submitted
within five days. To estimate the burden associated with submitting
Level 2 ADAS crash reports, NHTSA first looked to the category of
crashes that must be reported. As explained above, the General Order
only requires reporting of Level 2 ADAS crashes when (1) the crash
occurred on a publicly accessible road in the United States (including
any of its territories); (2) the Level 2 ADAS was engaged at any time
during the period from 30 seconds immediately prior to the commencement
of the crash through the conclusion of the crash; and (3) the crash
resulted in any individual being transported to a hospital for medical
treatment, a fatality, an air bag deployment, or the strike of a
vulnerable road user.\2\ These crashes must be reported within five
days. Based on the number of manufacturers that manufacture vehicles
equipped with Level 2 ADAS systems in calendar year 2025, NHTSA
estimates that it will receive responses from approximately 43
respondents reporting Level 2 ADAS

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crashes each year. Further, after evaluating information available to
the agency regarding the number of Level 2 ADAS crashes and the number
of vehicles equipped with Level 2 ADAS, NHTSA estimates that it will
receive, on average, 3,704 Level 2 ADAS related crash reports each
year. This estimate includes projections based on amended reporting
criteria and increasing market penetration and consumer acceptance of
partial automation technologies. NHTSA believes this is a high-end
estimate and will refine it further after seeking public comment. NHTSA
expects that the number of crash reports submitted by each respondent
will vary significantly, with some respondents submitting many more
reports than others. However, on average, NHTSA estimates that each
respondent will submit, on average, 86 crash reports per year. NHTSA
estimates that it will take respondents approximately 2 hours to
compile and submit each crash report (Engineer: 1 hour; Engineering
Manager: 20 minutes; Lawyer: 20 minutes; and Computer and Information
Manager: 20 minutes). Therefore, NHTSA estimates the total annual
burden hours for submitting Level 2 ADAS crash reports to be
approximately 172 hours per respondent (2 hours x 86 crash reports) and
approximately 7,396 hours for all respondents (172 hours x 43
respondents).
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\2\ A ``vulnerable road user'' is defined in the General Order
to mean and include ``any person who is not an occupant of a motor
vehicle with more than three wheels. This definition includes, but
is not limited to, pedestrians, persons traveling in wheelchairs,
bicyclists, motorcyclists, and riders or occupants of other
transport vehicles that are not motor vehicles, such as all-terrain
vehicles and tractors.''
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Updates to incident reports involving Level 2 ADAS that must be
submitted in the following month. In addition to submitting information
on certain Level 2 ADAS crashes within five days, reporting entities
must also submit updated information, if any, by the fifteenth day in
the following month. Based on NHTSA's experience with reports submitted
so far, NHTSA estimates that for 9% of Level 2 ADAS crashes first
reported in a five-day report, respondents may need to submit updated
information. Therefore, NHTSA estimates that approximately 333 monthly
reports will include updated crash information (3,704 Level 2 ADAS
five-day crashes x 9%) or approximately eight updated crash reports for
each of the 43 Level 2 ADAS respondents. NHTSA estimates that updating
the updated crash reports will take approximately 2 hours per report.
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that it will take each Level 2 ADAS
respondent approximately 16 hours each year to submit Level 2 ADAS
crash reports updates (2 hours x 8 crash reports) and approximately 688
hours for all Level 2 ADAS respondents (16 hours x 43 respondents).
Incident reports involving ADS that must be submitted within five
days. To estimate the number of five-day ADS crash reports, NHTSA first
looked to the category of crashes that must be reported. The
requirements for when ADS crashes must be reported within five days are
nearly the same as for Level 2 ADAS crashes, except ADS crashes
involving a vehicle tow away are required to be reported. This
difference accounts for the greater degree of oversight warranted for
ADS-equipped vehicles, which allow the vehicle automation systems more
extensive control authority over the Dynamic Driving Task (DDT). The
General Order requires reporting ADS crashes when (1) the crash
occurred on a publicly accessible road in the United States (including
any of its territories); (2) the ADS was engaged at any time during the
period from 30 seconds immediately prior to the commencement of the
crash through the conclusion of the crash; and (3) the crash resulted
in any individual being transported to a hospital for medical
treatment, a fatality, an air bag deployment, vehicle tow away, or the
strike of a vulnerable road user. These crashes must be reported within
five days. Based on these criteria and crash reports submitted in prior
versions of the General Order, NHTSA estimates that it will receive
responses from 67 respondents reporting ADS crashes each year and
expects that there will be approximately 5,425 ADS crashes in a year
that manufacturers and operators will be required to report to NHTSA.
Some of these crashes will be required to be submitted within five
days, and the rest will be required to be submitted in the following
month in a monthly report.
Based on NHTSA's review of crash reports already received under all
versions of the General Order, NHTSA estimates that 2,810 ADS crash
reports a year will be submitted within five days, or approximately 42
crash reports from each of the 67 respondents. NHTSA estimates that
each ADS crash report will take 2 hours to complete and submit
(Engineer: 1 hour; Engineering Manager: 20 minutes; Lawyer: 20 minutes;
and Computer and Information Manager: 20 minutes). Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the burden per respondent to be approximately 84 hours (42
crash reports x 2 hours) and approximately 5,628 hours for all
respondents (84 hours x 67 respondents).
Updates to incident reports involving ADS that must be submitted in
the following month. In addition to submitting information on certain
ADS crashes within five days, manufacturers and operators must also
submit updated information, if any, by the fifteenth day of the
following month. NHTSA estimates that for 4% of ADS crashes first
reported in a five-day report, respondents may need to submit updated
information. Therefore, NHTSA estimates that approximately 112 monthly
reports will include updated crash information (2,810 ADS five-day
crashes x 4%), or approximately 2 reports from each of the 67
respondents. ADS typically utilize multiple sensors and cameras and
tend to have relatively advanced data recording and telemetry
capabilities. As a result, crashes involving vehicles where the ADS is
performing the DDT can generally be reported with detail. NHTSA
estimates that updating the crash reports will take approximately 2
hours per report. Therefore, NHTSA estimates that it will take each
respondent approximately 4 hours each year to submit updated ADS crash
reports (2 hours x 2 crash reports) and approximately 268 hours for all
ADS respondents (4 hours x 67 respondents).
Initial incident reports involving ADS that must be submitted in
the following month. This information collection requires ADS
manufacturers and operators to submit reports of certain incidents--
reportable incidents that do not meet any of the criteria for a five-
day report--by the fifteenth day of the following month. To estimate
the burden of these monthly reports, NHTSA considered the burden of
reports of initial ADS crash reports that it has already received.
NHTSA estimates there will be 67 ADS vehicle manufacturers and
operators that will be required to submit monthly reports each year,
for a total of approximately 2,615 monthly reports annually or
approximately 39 reports per respondent.
NHTSA estimates that each monthly report submitted by an ADS
manufacturer or operator will take 2 hours to submit. NHTSA estimates
that there will be at least 67 ADS manufacturers and operators with
some manufacturers producing both ADAS and ADS equipped vehicles.
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that respondents will spend approximately
5,226 hours annually preparing and submitting monthly reports (67 ADS
manufacturers and operators x 39 monthly reports x 2 hours).
Training employees on the requirements. In addition to the burden
associated with preparing and submitting reports, any new reporting
entities added to the General Order may also need to train employees on
the reporting requirements. As explained above, the existing 106
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named in the General Order will not incur this burden during the
requested extension. NHTSA estimates that there will be an average of 4
new reporting entities added to the General Order each year during the
proposed extension, that an average of 4 of these new reporting
entities will be ADS manufacturers or operators and that an average of
0 of these new reporting entities will be Level 2 ADAS manufacturers.
However, NHTSA expects that ADS manufacturers and operators normally
monitor all crashes and, therefore, will not need to train personnel on
how to respond to this new information collection. Accordingly, NHTSA
does not believe this category will measurably increase the burden.
Time to set up an account to submit the reports. NHTSA also
estimates that new responding entities added to the General Order
during the proposed extension period will need to set up a new account
with NHTSA to allow them to submit reports. NHTSA estimates that each
of the estimated average of 4 responding entities added to the General
Order annually need to set up new accounts with NHTSA. NHTSA estimates
that setting up an account will take 0.5 hours. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates the total annual burden to be 2 hours.
NHTSA estimates the total annual burden hours for the seven
components of this ICR to be 19,208 hours (7,396 hours for initial
five-day Level 2 ADAS reports, 688 hours for updated Level 2 ADAS
reports, 5,628 hours for initial five-day ADS reports, 268 hours for
updated ADS reports, 5,226 hours for initial ADS monthly reports, 0
hours for training, and 2 hours for setting up new accounts), a
reduction from the 31,319 hours under the previously approved
collection.
To calculate the labor cost associated with preparing and
submitting crash reports and reports, training, and setting up new
accounts, NHTSA looked at wage estimates for the type of personnel
involved with these activities. NHTSA estimates the total labor costs
associated with these burden hours by looking at the average wage for
architectural and engineering managers in the motor vehicle
manufacturing industry (Architectural and Engineering Managers,
Standard Occupational Classification #11-9041), Engineers (17-2000),
Lawyers (23-1011), and Computer and Information System Managers (11-
3021). NHTSA estimates the total labor costs associated with these
burden hours by looking at the seventy-fifth percentile wage for
architectural and engineering managers, computer and information
systems managers, and engineers in the motor vehicle manufacturing
industry and the seventy-fifth percentile wage for lawyers.\3\ The
Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that private industry workers'
wages represent 70.2% of total labor compensation costs.\4\ Therefore,
NHTSA has weighted the wages accordingly, as shown in Table 1, and,
based on the estimates of each role's time spent per report, calculates
the average weighted hourly wage to be approximately $126.29.
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\3\ See May 2024 National Industry-Specific Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates, NAICS 336100--Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing, available at <a href="https://www.bls">https://www.bls</a>.gov/oes/current/
naics4_336100.htm; May 2024 National Occupational Employment and
Wage Estimates, available at <a href="https://www.bls">https://www.bls</a>.gov/oes/current/
oes_nat.htm. Note that the seventy-fifth percentile wage for lawyers
and computer and information systems managers were not provided by
the Bureau of Labor Statistics because they are equal to or greater
than $115 per hour. Without additional information, NHTSA used $115
per hour for those wages in its calculations.
\4\ See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by
ownership (June 2025), available at <a href="https://www.bls">https://www.bls</a>./.release/
ecec.t01.htm.

Table 1--Labor Costs
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Estimated time
Labor category Wage Hourly labor spent per crash
cost report (minutes)
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Computer and Information System Managers (11-13021) in the $115.00 $163.82 20
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry (75th percentile).......
Architectural and Engineering Managers (11-9041) in the Motor 104.50 148.86 20
Vehicle Manufacturing Industry (75th percentile).............
Engineers (17-2000) in the Motor Vehicle Manufacturing 65.81 93.75 60
Industry (75th percentile)...................................
Lawyers (23-1011) in the Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry 115.00 163.82 20
(75th percentile)............................................
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Accordingly, NHTSA estimates the total labor cost associated with
the estimated 19,208 annual burden hours to be approximately
$2,425,778.32.
Table 2 provides a summary of the estimated burden hours and labor
costs associated with each submission, resulting in a modestly
different estimated annual labor cost due to rounding and excluding the
time spent setting up new accounts.

Table 2--Estimated Burden Hours and Labor Costs
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Average time
Annual average to process Weighted Estimated labor Estimated
Category of claims of incident each report hourly rate cost per annual labor
submissions (hours) submission cost
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Level 2 ADAS 5-day reports, 3,704 2 $126.29 $252.58 $935,556.32
initial.......................
Level 2 ADAS 5-day reports, 333 2 126.29 252.58 84,109.14
monthly update................
ADS 5-day reports, initial..... 2,810 2 126.29 252.58 709,749.80
ADS 5-day reports, monthly 112 2 126.29 252.58 28,288.96
update........................
ADS monthly reports, initial... 2,615 2 126.29 252.58 660,496.70
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Totals..................... 9,574 .............. .............. ............... 2,418,200.92
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: NHTSA is not aware of any
additional costs respondents will incur nor does NHTSA have a basis for
estimating any such costs without additional information. NHTSA
believes respondents will be able to comply with requirements by only
incurring labor costs associated with the burden hours.
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) ways to
enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of
information on respondents, including the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information technology; (e) ways in which
the information collection could be further streamlined to reduce even
more burdens while ensuring that crash reporting enables NHTSA to
identify potential defects with ADS and ADAS timely.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29A.

Peter Simshauser,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2026-04240 Filed 3-3-26; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910-59-P

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