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III. What is the process for submitting
applications/nominations?
Individuals can self-apply or be
nominated by any individual or
organization. To be considered for the
MTSNAC, applicants/nominators
should submit the following
information:
(1) Contact Information for the
nominee, consisting of:
a. Name
b. Title
c. Organization or Affiliation
d. Address
e. City, State, Zip
f. Telephone number
g. Email address
(2) Statement of interest limited to
250 words on why the nominee wants
to serve on the MTSNAC and the unique
perspectives and experiences the
nominee brings to the Committee;
(3) Resume limited to 3 pages
describing professional and academic
expertise, experience, and knowledge,
including any relevant experience
serving on advisory committees, past
and present;
(4) An affirmative statement that the
nominee is not a federally registered
lobbyist seeking to serve on the
Committee in their individual capacity
and the identity of the interests they
intend to represent, if appointed as
member of the Committee; and
(5) Optional letters of support.
Please do not send company, trade
association, organization brochures, or
any other promotional information.
Materials submitted should total five
pages or less and must be in a 12 font,
formatted in Microsoft Word or PDF.
Should more information be needed,
MARAD staff will contact the nominee,
obtain information from the nominee’s
past affiliations, or obtain information
from publicly available sources. Those
interested in applying to become a
member of the Committee, may send a
completed application package by email
listed in the ADDRESSES section. Please
note that, due to circumstances relating
to the COVID–19 public health
emergency, we will only accept
electronic submissions. If electronic
submission is problematic for you,
please call the Designated Federal
Officer for other options. Applications
must be received by the deadline listed
in the DATES section; however,
candidates are encouraged to send
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IV. How will MARAD select MTSNAC
members?
A selection team comprising
representatives from MARAD will
review the application packages. The
selection team will make
recommendations regarding
membership to the Administrator based
on the following criteria: (1)
Professional or academic expertise,
experience, and knowledge; (2)
stakeholder representation; (3)
availability and willingness to serve; (4)
relevant experience in working in
committees and advisory panels; and (5)
the MTSNAC Charter and Membership
Balance Plan. Nominations are open to
all individuals without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
mental or physical disability, marital
status, or sexual orientation.
(Authority: 49 CFR part 1.93(a); 5 U.S.C.
552b; 41 CFR parts 102–3; 5 U.S.C. app.
Sections 1–16)

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By Order of the Maritime Administrator.
Dated: January 5, 2021.
T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr.,
Secretary, Maritime Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2020–0018]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Reducing the Illegal
Passing of School Buses
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a new information
collection.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below is being submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR
describes the nature of the information
collection and its expected burden. This
new information collection seeks to
assess the knowledge of drivers
nationwide about the laws governing
passing a school bus. A Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was

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published on July 17, 2020. By the close
of the comment period, NHTSA
received six comments.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before February 8, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
should be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
To find this particular information
collection, select ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or
use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Kristin
Rosenthal, Highway Safety Specialist,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, W44–245,
Washington, DC 20590. Ms. Rosenthal’s
phone number is 202–366–8995, and
her email address is kristin.rosenthal@
dot.gov. Please identify the relevant
collection of information by referring to
its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request has been
submitted to OMB. A Federal Register
notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting public comments on the
following information collection was
published on July 17, 2020 (85 FR
43645). NHTSA received six comments
by the close of the comment period. The
National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB), the National School
Transportation Association (NSTA), and
David DeVeau provided comments
supportive of the proposed information
collection. Gardian Angel, LLC (which
submitted the same comment twice)
also provided comments regarding the
proposed collection but expressed
concerns about not including the recent
NTSB recommendations adopted on
March 31, 2020. Gardian Angel, LLC
raised the concern that the data
collection should address the NTSB
recommendation, which includes
evaluating various technologies as well
as the inclusion of Gardian Angel, LLC
products. To the comment regarding the
inclusion of Gardian Angel, LLC
products, NHTSA does not endorse
specific products. This study is focused

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on assessing a high-visibility
enforcement approach that includes the
use of automated cameras on the school
bus. NHTSA will take under
consideration the suggestion to evaluate
other technologies at another time. One
anonymous post asked NHTSA to
include pedestrian and bicyclist safety;
however, this data collection is specific
to school buses. We appreciate the
comments from NTSB, NSTA, Gardian
Angel, LLC, and the individual who
provided comment and thank them for
thoughtfully considering the described
program.
Title: Reducing the Illegal Passing of
School Buses.
OMB Control Number: New.
Form Number: 1559.
Type of Request: Request for approval
of a new information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years from date of approval.
Affected Public: Drivers in the
AmeriSpeak panel run by National
Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the
University of Chicago and driver
volunteers in two selected communities.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
was established by the Highway Safety
Act of 1970 to reduce deaths, injuries,
and economic losses due to road traffic
crashes on the Nation’s highways. Even
though every State has a law requiring
drivers to stop for a stopped school bus
displaying flashing red lights, illegal
passing of stopped school buses is a
frequent occurrence across the country.
Title 23, Section 403 of the United
States Code gives the Secretary
authorization to use funds appropriated
to conduct research and development
activities, including demonstration
projects and the collection and analysis
of highway and motor vehicle safety
data and related information needed to
carry out that section. NHTSA seeks to
assess the knowledge and attitudes of
drivers nationwide about the laws
governing passing a school bus (under
the specific State laws where the driver
lives) as a function of varying roadway
configurations, flashing yellow and red
light deployment on the school bus, and
activation of the stop swing arm on the
bus.
To make this assessment, NHTSA will
conduct a study that consists of two
new voluntary surveys of drivers in the
general public. The first survey will
collect data from current drivers of
motor vehicles in the AmeriSpeak panel
who volunteer to participate.
AmeriSpeak is funded and operated by
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is a probability-based panel designed to
be representative of the U.S. household
population to take part in online and
telephone surveys. Screening and data
collection for this national survey will
take place in the respondents’ homes or
wherever respondents choose to operate
their own computer, laptop, or mobile
device. The second will evaluate the
effectiveness of a high visibility
enforcement (HVE) program, including
the use of automated cameras on the
school bus in two communities, aimed
at reducing violations of the school bus
passing laws. A survey in each
community before and after the HVE
application will be part of the
evaluation. Screening and data
collection for the community survey
will take place on a computer or tablet
provided by the study at a public venue
frequented by drivers across the
socioeconomic and demographic
spectra, such as a mall or motor vehicle
department office. All collection of data
will be anonymous.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: NHTSA’s mission is to
save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce
economic costs due to road traffic
crashes, through education, research,
safety standards and enforcement
activity. The agency develops,
promotes, and implements educational,
enforcement, engineering, and
emergency response programs with the
goal of ending preventable tragedies and
reducing economic costs associated
with vehicle use and highway travel.
One highway safety problem NHTSA
has been following closely involves
school children struck by passing
motorists while entering or exiting a
stopped school bus with its red lights
flashing and its stop arm extended. Even
though there have been some highlypublicized child fatalities of this type
and the annual national stop-arm
violation count by the National
Association of State Directors of Pupil
Transportation Services (NASDPTS)
continues to show a surprisingly high
incidence of these illegal passes, to date,
no national survey has assessed the
levels of driver knowledge and
understanding of the laws regarding
passing of school buses. The findings
from this proposed collection of
information will assist NHTSA in
designing, targeting, and implementing
programs intended to mitigate illegal
passing of school buses on the roadways
and to provide data to States, localities,
and law enforcement agencies that will
aid in their efforts to reduce crashes and
injuries due to illegal school bus
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
The study anticipates collecting 3,000
responses to the national survey from
members of the AmeriSpeak panel. It is
estimated that up to 3,400 AmeriSpeak
panelists will have to be screened to
obtain 3,100 qualified volunteers who
take the national survey (100 of these
volunteers are estimated not to complete
the entire survey). For the community
surveys, NHTSA estimates that 400
volunteers will have to be screened for
each wave (400 for the before-program
implementation and 400 for the afterprogram implementation) for each of the
two communities. Therefore, a total of
1,600 volunteers will have to be
screened for the estimated yield of 300
completed surveys for each wave for the
two communities, or 1,200 total
responses in the two waves of
community surveys at the two selected
sites.
Frequency of Collection: Respondents
will only respond to the national survey
request a single time during the study
period. The community survey will be
conducted twice at the same locations
in each of the two selected communities
over a period of approximately 10
months. Therefore, an extremely small
possibility exists that an individual
might be invited to participate more
than once for the community survey. If
an individual is asked to participate a
second time, they will be prompted to
decline.
Estimated Time per Participant: Both
the national and community surveys
will be administered via an internethosted survey on a tablet or other small
computer. The national and community
surveys will have the same core items
related to knowledge of and attitudes
towards school bus passing laws. The
community survey will have additional
items about awareness of
countermeasure program activities and
basic respondent demographic
information. Demographic information
for the panelists in the national survey
is part of their AmeriSpeak profile. The
intent is for each participant to
complete a survey only once. However,
no identifying information will be
collected for the community survey, so
a slight possibility exists that an
individual will participate more than
once. The estimated average time to
complete the survey per participant in
either the national or community
sample is 15 minutes. The screening
involving (1) reading a recruitment
communication, such as an email or
listening to a researcher describe the
study, and (2) determining an
individual’s eligibility (e.g., 18+ years
old, current driver, lives in the
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to three minutes for the community
surveys and two minutes for the
national survey.
Total Estimated Annual Burden
Hours: 1,268 hours for the total study.
NHTSA estimates that for the 3,400
AmeriSpeak panelists that will have to
be screened, the estimated total burden
is 113 hours (3,400 × 2 min./60). For the

Number of
responses
per participant

per wave × 2 communities x 2 waves)
is 80 hours (1,600 × 3 min./60). The
estimated total burden hours for the
1,200 fully completed surveys (300 per
wave × 2 communities × 2 waves) is 300
hours (1,200 × 15 min./60). Table 1
provides a summary of the burden hours
per survey.
Estimate burden per
response
(min.)

Number of
participants

Total burden
hours

Participant group

Form name

National Survey ........................................
National Survey ........................................
Community Survey ...................................
Community Survey ...................................

Screening ..................................
Online Survey ...........................
Screening ..................................
Online Survey ...........................

1
1
1
1

2
15
3
15

3,400
3,100
1,600
1,200

113
775
80
300

Total ..................................................

...................................................

........................

........................

........................

1,268

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
The only cost to participants will be
time spent responding to the screening
and the subsequent survey if they
volunteer. Participants who volunteer
and begin the survey will receive
compensation for this time.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspect of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways for the department to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses
without reducing the quality of the
collected information.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
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3,100 qualified volunteers who take the
national survey, the estimated total
burden hours are 775 hours (3,100 × 15
min./60), yielding at least 3,000 fully
completed surveys. Likewise, the total
estimated burden for the maximum of
1,600 potential participants to be
screened for the community survey (400

Issued in Washington, DC.
Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan,
Associate Administrator, Research and
Program Development.
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Administration
[Docket No. DOT–NHTSA–2020–0103]

National Emergency Medical Services
Advisory Council Notice of Public
Meeting
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:

This notice announces a
meeting of the National Emergency
Medical Services Advisory Council
(NEMSAC).

SUMMARY:

The meeting will be held
February 10–11, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to
5:00 p.m. EST.
Requests to attend the meeting must
be received by February 5, 2021.
Requests for accommodations to a
disability must be received by February
5, 2021.
If you wish to speak during the
meeting, you must submit a written
copy of your remarks to DOT by
February 5, 2021.
Requests to submit written materials
to be reviewed during the meeting must
be received no later than February 5,
2021.

DATES:

The meeting will be held
virtually. Copies of the meeting minutes
will be available on the NEMSAC
internet website at EMS.gov. The
detailed agenda will be posted on the
NEMSAC internet website at EMS.gov at
least one week in advance of the
meeting.

ADDRESSES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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Clary Mole, EMS Specialist, DOT, at
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Any committee related requests should
be sent to the person listed in this
section.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Background
The NEMSAC was established
pursuant to Section 31108 of the
Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st
Century (MAP–21) Act of 2012, under
the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
The purpose of NEMSAC is to serve as
a nationally recognized council of
emergency medical services (EMS)
representatives to provide advice and
consult with:
a. The Federal Interagency Committee
on Emergency Medical Services
(FICEMS) on matters relating to EMS
issues; and
b. The Secretary of Transportation on
matters relating to EMS issues affecting
DOT.
The NEMSAC provides an important
national forum for the non-Federal
deliberation of national EMS issues and
serves as a platform for advice on DOT’s
national EMS activities. NEMSAC also
provides advice and recommendations
to the FICEMS. NEMSAC is authorized
under Section 31108 of the MAP–21 Act
of 2012, codified at 42 U.S.C. 300d–4.
II. Agenda
At the meeting, the agenda will cover
the following topics:
• Updates from Federal Emergency
Services Liaisons
• Emergency Services Personnel Safety
and Wellness
• Information on FICEMS Initiatives
• Update on NHTSA Initiatives
• Committee Reports
III. Public Participation
The meeting will be open to the
public. Members of the public who wish

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