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activation; preventing defeat or
circumvention of the device by
unauthorized persons; preventing
operation of the vehicle by
unauthorized entrants; and ensuring the
reliability and durability of the device.
The agency notes that 49 CFR part
541, Appendix A–1, identifies those
lines that are exempted from the Theft
Prevention Standard for a given model
year. 49 CFR 543.8(f) contains
publication requirements incident to the
disposition of all Part 543 petitions.
Advanced listing, including the release
of future product nameplates, the
beginning model year for which the
petition is granted and a general
description of the antitheft device is
necessary in order to notify law
enforcement agencies of new vehicle
lines exempted from the parts-marking
requirements of the Theft Prevention
Standard.
If GM decides not to use the
exemption for its requested vehicle line,
the manufacturer must formally notify
the agency. If such a decision is made,
the line must be fully marked as
required by 49 CFR 541.5 and 541.6
(marking of major component parts and
replacement parts).
NHTSA notes that if GM wishes in the
future to modify the device on which
this exemption is based, the company
may have to submit a petition to modify
the exemption. Section 543.8(d) states
that a part 543 exemption applies only
to vehicles that belong to a line
exempted under this part and equipped
with the antitheft device on which the
line’s exemption is based. Further,
section 543.10(c)(2) provides for the
submission of petitions ‘‘to modify an
exemption to permit the use of an
antitheft device similar to but differing
from the one specified in the
exemption.’’
The agency wishes to minimize the
administrative burden that section
543.10(c)(2) could place on exempted
vehicle manufacturers and itself. The
agency did not intend in drafting part
543 to require the submission of a
modification petition for every change
to the components or design of an
antitheft device. The significance of
many such changes could be de
minimis. Therefore, NHTSA suggests
that if GM contemplates making any
changes, the effects of which might be
characterized as de minimis, it should
consult the agency before preparing and
submitting a petition to modify.
devices from being effective protection against theft,
where the theft data indicate a decline in theft rates
for vehicle lines that have been equipped with
devices similar to that what the petitioner is
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For the foregoing reasons, the agency
hereby grants in full GM’s petition for
exemption for the Buick Envision
vehicle line from the parts-marking
requirements of 49 CFR part 541,
beginning with its MY 2023 vehicles.
Issued under authority delegated in 49 CFR
1.95, 501.5 and 501.8.
Milton E. Cooper,
Director, Rulemaking Operations.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2022–0028]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Evaluation of the Model
Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
Program
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
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 will be submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR
describes a new information collection
to survey a national sample of law
enforcement and its expected burden. A
Federal Register Notice with a 60-day
comment period soliciting comments on
the following information collection
was published on March 29, 2022.
NHTSA received two comments. As
explained in this document, neither of
the comments necessitates revisions to
the information collection or burden
estimates.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 28, 2022.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing burden, should
be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
To find this particular information
collection, select ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or
use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
SUMMARY:

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background documents, contact John
Siegler, National Center for Statistic and
Analysis (NSA–221), (202) 366–1268,
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, W55–233, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590, Please identify the relevant
collection of information by referring to
its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request will be
submitted OMB.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day comment period soliciting public
comments on the following information
collection was published on March 29,
2022 (87 FR 18065).
Title: Evaluation of the Model
Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria
Program.
OMB Control Number: New.
Form Number:
Type of Request: New Information
collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: NHTSA is authorized by
49 U.S.C. 30182 and 23 U.S.C. 403 to
collect data on motor vehicle traffic
crashes to aid in the identification of
issues and the development,
implementation, and evaluation of
motor vehicle and highway safety
countermeasures.
The MMUCC guideline identifies a
minimum set of motor vehicle crash
data variables and their attributes that
States should consider collecting and
including in their State crash data
systems. MMUCC is a voluntary,
minimum set of standardized data
variables for describing motor vehicle
traffic crashes. MMUCC promotes data
uniformity within the highway safety
community by creating a foundation for
State crash data systems to provide the
information necessary to improve
highway safety. The crash data is used
to identify issues, determine highway
safety messages and strategic
communication campaigns, optimize
the location of selective law
enforcement, inform decision-makers of
needed highway safety legislation, and

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evaluate the impact of highway safety
countermeasures. NHTSA developed
MMUCC with the Governors Highway
Safety Association in 1998 and have
regularly updated the guidelines
together, with the most recent fifth
edition published in 2017.
NHTSA is seeking approval to
conduct a voluntary national survey of
active law enforcement officers. The
purpose of the survey would be to
solicit officers’ judgement about
collecting the crash data variables
described in the current fifth edition of
the Model Minimum Uniform Crash
Criteria (MMUCC) Guideline (DOT HS
812 433, July 2017) as well as to test
officers’ abilities to accurately collect
both existing MMUCC variables and
proposed new or modified variables.
First, NHTSA will hire a contractor to
contact police chiefs within the 397
sampling units used by NHTSA’s Crash
Reporting Sampling System (CRSS) to
request the nomination of four law
enforcement officers in their department
who collect crash data to participate in
the study. Specifically, NHTSA is
requesting the police chiefs to provide
personally identifiable information (PII)
about the nominated law enforcement
officers, including names and contact
information (email, phone, and address)
so that NHTSA can contact these
officers to administer a survey on
MMUCC data elements and arrange
payment of an honorarium.
Second, NHTSA will send the officers
who were nominated to participate in
this study a unique link to one of two
online surveys, which will examine the
feasibility of collecting the MMUCC
crash data. The surveys will collect
limited information about each
respondent including the State where
they work as a law enforcement officer,
the extent of their training for collecting
crash data, and the number of years the
respondents have completed crash
reports. The surveys will collect
information about respondents’ beliefs
and abilities to accurately collect crash
data according to the MMUCC
guidelines. The surveys will ask
respondents to rate the difficulty of
accurately collecting specific MMUCC
data elements, assess respondents
ability to collect information using
MMUCC data elements for fictitious
crash scenarios, and ask for suggestions
on how MMUCC data elements can be
improved.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: States’ adoption of
MMUCC variables has been slow and
inconsistent. Currently the variables
collected on State’s police crash reports
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than 50 percent, NHTSA intends to
conduct this information collection to
learn why the alignment rate is so low.
Before embarking on the sixth edition of
MMUCC, NHTSA seeks to assess the
feasibility of collecting the data
variables in MMUCC and to identify
problematic data variables and other
factors that impede States from adopting
the MMUCC variables.
To assess the ability of law
enforcement officers to accurately
collect MMUCC crash data variables,
NHTSA will conduct an electronic
survey of a national sample of law
enforcement officers who complete
crash reports. The survey will ask
respondents to review fictitious crash
scenarios and collect the MMUCC data
variables. In addition, law enforcement
officers will be asked about their
confidence to accurately collect
MMUCC data variables and to provide
suggestions for improving each data
variable as needed. Examples of the
types of crash data variables in MMUCC
that law enforcement will be asked
about include Direction of Travel,
Sequence of Events, Type of
Intersection, and Restraint System Use.
The information collected will allow
NHTSA to identify data variables in
MMUCC that officers might interpret
differently. The results will inform
deliberations about the content of the
next edition of MMUCC. A summary of
this research will be published as an
appendix to the next edition of
MMUCC.
60-Day Notice: NHTSA published a
60-day notice in the Federal Register on
March 29, 2022 (87 FR 18065),
requesting comments on NHTSA’s
intention to request approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for a new information collection
to survey a national sample of law
enforcement officers on their knowledge
and understanding of MMUCC. NHTSA
received two comments on the 60-day
notice. One organization, Trucking with
the Schmitt’s, asked about the expense
of the data collection and recommended
data to collect for crashes involving
commercial motor vehicles. The
National Association of Mutual
Insurance Companies (NAMIC) wrote a
letter in support of NHTSA’s proposed
collection of information, stating that
the information collection is necessary
and appropriate and that it believes that
the information collected will have
significant practical utility. Neither of
the comments necessitate a revision of
the scope of the information collection
or the estimates of the annual cost or
burden hours. NHTSA notes that this
information collection only seeks
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alignment to current MMUCC variables
is low and how to improve alignment.
Therefore, considering additional data
variables regarding CMV is outside the
scope of this ICR. NHTSA also notes
that the estimated cost to the Federal
government associated with this
information collection is $441,852.74.
Affected Public: Law enforcement.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
NHTSA will send a short letter to 397
chief police officers to request they
identify four police officers within their
department to participate in the
MMUCC survey. The total sample is
1,985 (397 police chiefs + 1,588 police
officers).
Frequency: NHTSA plans to conduct
this data collection once to prepare for
the sixth edition of MMUCC.
Number of Responses: 1,985.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: To calculate the hour burden and
labor Costs associated with submitting
the Evaluation of the Model Minimum
Uniform Crash Criteria, NHTSA looked
at wage estimates for Front Line
Supervisors of Police and Detectives
and Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers
who complete crash forms. NHTSA
estimates the total opportunity costs
associated with these burden hours by
looking at the average wage for (1) Front
line Supervisors of Police and
Detectives and (2) Police and Sheriff’s
Patrol Officers. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) estimates that the
average hourly wage for Front line
Supervisors of Police and Detectives
(BLS Occupation Code 33–1012) 1 is
$46.72 and Police and Sheriff’s Patrol
Officers (BLS Occupation code 33–3051)
is $33.66.2 The Bureau of Labor
Statistics estimates that wages represent
62.2 percent of total compensation for
State and local government workers, on
average.3 Therefore, NHTSA estimates
the hourly labor costs to be
$75.11($46.72/.622) for Supervisors of
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers and
$54.12 ($33.66/622) for Police and
Sheriff’s Patrol Officers. NHTSA
estimates that it will take about 10
minutes (0.17 of an hour) for the police
chiefs to nominate four law enforcement
officers who investigate motor vehicle
crashes, resulting in 67.49 (0.17 × 397)
1 See May 2020 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates. National
Estimates for First-Line Supervisors of Police and
Detectives. Available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/
2020/may/oes331012.htm (accessed July 1, 2021).
2 See May 2020 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates. National
Estimates for Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers.
Available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/2020/may/
oes333051.htm (accessed July 1, 2021).
3 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation—
March 2020, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
archives/ecec_06182020.pdf. Accessed 12/21/2021.

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hours for 397 police chiefs. From pilot
testing the survey instruments with six
former law enforcement officers who
work at NHTSA, the agency estimates
that it will take the law enforcement
officers one hour to complete the

cost for law enforcement officers to be
$85,942.56 ($54.12 × 1,588 hours). Table
1 provides a summary of the estimated
burden hours and labor costs associated
with those respondents.

survey. Therefore, 1,588 hours for 1,588
law enforcement officers. NHTSA
estimates the total hourly compensation
cost for police chiefs to be $5,069.17
($75.11 × 67.49 hours). NHTSA
estimates the total hourly compensation

TABLE 1—BURDEN ESTIMATES
Estimated
burden per
response

Responses

Labor cost
per
response

Total
burden
hours

Total labor
costs

Police Chiefs nomination of law enforcement officer for study
participation.
Survey of Law Enforcement Officers ..........................................

397

0.17 hour (10 minutes) ....

$75.11

$12.76

67.49

$5,069.17

1,588

1 hour ..............................

54.12

54.12

1,588.00

85,942.56

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

1,985

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

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

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

1,655.49

91,011.73

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
This collection is not expected to result
in any increase in costs to respondents
other than the opportunity cost
associated with the burden hours. Both
the police chiefs who will nominate
respondents and the law enforcement
officers completing the survey on
MMUCC possess the information
needed to complete each survey.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29A.
Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator for the National
Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2022–0043; Notice No.
2022–06]

Hazardous Materials: Request for
Information on Electronic Hazard
Communication Alternatives;
Extension of Comment Period
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Request for information;
extension of comment period.
AGENCY:

On July 11, 2022, PHMSA
announced a request for information
seeking input on the potential use of
electronic communication as an
alternative to current, physical
documentation requirements for hazard
communication. In this notice, PHMSA
is extending the comment period from
September 9, 2022, until October 24,
2022.

SUMMARY:

Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
24, 2022. Comments received after that
date will be considered to the extent
practicable.

DATES:

You may submit comments
identified by the Docket Number
PHMSA–2022–0043 by any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal:
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
• Mail: Docket Management System;
U.S. Department of Transportation,
West Building, Ground Floor, Room
W12–140, Routing Symbol M–30, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590.
• Hand Delivery: Docket Management
System; Room W12–140 on the ground

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floor of the West Building, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday, except Federal
holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and Docket
Number (PHMSA–2022–0043) for this
notice. To avoid duplication, please use
only one of these four methods. All
comments received will be posted
without change to the Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) and will
include any personal information you
provide.
Docket: For access to the dockets to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
www.regulations.gov or DOT’s Docket
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5
U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits comments
from the public. DOT posts these
comments, without edit, including any
personal information the commenter
provides, to http://www.regulations.gov,
as described in the system of records
notice (DOT/ALL–14 FDMS), which can
be reviewed at https://www.dot.gov/
privacy.
Confidential Business Information
(CBI): CBI is commercial or financial
information that is both customarily and
actually treated as private by its owner.
Under the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) (5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt
from public disclosure. If your
comments responsive to this notice
contain commercial or financial
information that is customarily treated
as private, that you actually treat as
private, and that is relevant or
responsive to this notice, it is important
that you clearly designate the submitted
comments as CBI. Please mark each
page of your submission containing CBI
as ‘‘PROPIN.’’ PHMSA will treat such
marked submissions as confidential
under FOIA. Submissions containing
CBI should be sent to Eamonn Patrick,
Standards and Rulemaking Division,

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