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Charles E. Johnson (KS)
Michael Littleton (CO)
Robert Newhand (NY)
Kristopher Pettitt (CA)
Taylor Ramey (TX)
Herbert Spike (CT)
Scott Stone (WY)
Andrew Toler (VA)
In accordance with 49 U.S.C.
31315(b), each exemption will be valid
for 2 years from the effective date unless
revoked earlier by FMCSA. The
exemption will be revoked if the
following occurs: (1) the person fails to
comply with the terms and conditions
of the exemption; (2) the exemption has
resulted in a lower level of safety than
was maintained prior to being granted;
or (3) continuation of the exemption
would not be consistent with the goals
and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 31136, 49
U.S.C. chapter 313, or the FMCSRs.

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BILLING CODE 4910–06–P

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

Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.

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:

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Railroad Administration
[Docket No. FRA–2022–0004]

Equivalent Protective Arrangements
for Railroad Employees; Withdrawal of
Notice of Final Guidance
Federal Railroad
Administration (FRA), Department of
Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice; withdrawal.
AGENCY:

On November 28, 2022, the
Federal Railroad Administration (FRA)
published a notice in the Federal
Register announcing the availability of
final guidance issued by FRA in
connection with statutorily required
protective arrangements for employees
impacted by certain projects financed by
the Federal government. This document
withdraws that notice, FR Doc. 2022–
25882. The final guidance issued by
FRA remains in effect.
DATES: As of May 3, 2023, FR Doc.
2202–25882, published on November
28, 2022, is withdrawn.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information, please contact
Kevin MacWhorter, Attorney-Adviser,
Development Law Office, at telephone:
(202) 641–8727, email:
Kevin.MacWhorter@dot.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FR Doc.
2202–25882, published on November
28, 2022, (87 FR 73064), is withdrawn
by this notice.
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AGENCY:

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:
• Electronic Submissions: Go to the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://
www.regulations.gov. Follow the online
instructions for submitting comments.
• Fax: (202) 493–2251.
• 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
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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 http://
www.regulations.gov, 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 https://
www.transportation.gov/privacy.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to http://
www.regulations.gov 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
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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:
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
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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
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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:
• 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
• 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
• 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
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
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.
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.
4 Additional details about CISS and how the
agency collects this information are available in the
supporting statements for the ICR with OMB
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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.
• 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 nontraffic 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.
• 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.
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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-byState, 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
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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 × 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 × 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’
5 See May 2021 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates United States,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_
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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 × 8 hours) per
respondent.
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 × 4 hours) per
respondent.
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 × 31 States) for
copying, and $703 ($140.60 × 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
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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
6 See table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Sept. 2022), available
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm
(accessed March 13, 2023).
7 See May 2021 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates United States,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_
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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 nonSEDC 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.
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 × 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 × 365 nightly responses).
Therefore, the annual maintenance cost
for the States is a total of $6,626
8 May 2021 National Occupational Employment
and Wage Estimates United States, Occupational
Employment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics,
U.S. Department of Labor, https://www.bls.gov/oes/
current/oes_nat.htm#15-0000, last accessed March
13, 2023.
9 Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by
ownership (Sept. 2022), available at https://
www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm (accessed
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($441.70 × 15 States) per year. The
number of total burden hours for the 15
States is 75 hours (5 × 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.
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:
• Manually entering PAR data if there
are legacy paper PARs to be input into
the new and/or updated centralized
statewide crash data repository.
• Developing a new PAR to increase
alignment with the updated MMUCC.
• Adopting the new State PAR by law
enforcement agencies.
• Setting up information technology
infrastructure for the electronic
centralized statewide crash data
repository.
• Identifying and implementing the
system changes to align with the
updated MMUCC.
• Developing a user guide, data
dictionary and training materials for the
new and/or updated data collection
system.
• Developing and implementing
database and data warehouse for the
data collection.
• Developing and implementing data
transfer protocols for collecting data
10 Please see detailed information at this website:
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from law enforcement agencies to
centralized statewide crash data
repository.
• Developing and implementing edit
and validation rules for quality
assurance for the data collection.
• Developing and implementing data
transfer protocols for sharing data
among States and sending data to
NHTSA.
• Integrating the reporting from other
vendors if some law enforcement
agencies within a state use other
vendor’s software.
• 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.
Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit = Labor
Rate w/o Fringe Benefit ÷ Fringe
Benefit Rate
The total cost for implementation and
maintenance in table 1 are calculated as
follows:
Implementation Total Cost =
Implementation Total Hours × Labor
Rate with Fringe Benefit
Maintenance Total Cost = Maintenance
Total Hours × Labor Rate with Fringe
Benefit

TABLE 1—BURDEN ESTIMATES FOR SECD EDT STATES USING EDT PROTOCOL
Labor category

Labor series

Program Manager
Computer System
Analyst ...............
Web and Digital
Interface Designer .................
Software Developer
Web Developers ....
Software Quality
Assurance Analysts and Testers
Database Architects ...................
Information Security Analysts .......
Data Entry and Information Processing Workers ..

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

Implementation
total hours
(hrs)

Maintenance
total hours
(hrs)

Implementation
labor rate w/o
fringe and benefit
($/hr)

Overhead rate
(%)

Maintenance
labor rate with
fringe and
benefit
($/hr)

Maintenance
total labor cost
(per state)
($)

11–3021

1,888

832

$78.33

61.90

126.54

238,908

105,281

15–1211

5,080

160

49.14

61.90

79.39

403,301

12,702

15–1255
15–1252
15–1254

1,760
10,240
5,920

416
1,280
1,280

49.50
58.17
39.09

61.90
61.90
61.90

79.97
93.97
63.15

140,747
962,253
373,848

33,268
120,282
80,832

15–1252

7,040

1,280

46.97

61.90

75.88

534,195

97,126

15–1243

3,520

960

58.58

61.90

94.64

333,133

90,854

15–1212

1,384

80

54.46

61.90

87.98

121,764

7,038

43–9020

4,192

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

18.70

61.90

30.21

126,640

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

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

41,024

6,288

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

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

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

3,234,789

547,384

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 ×
$3,234,789) with burden hours as
287,168 hours (7 × 41,024 hours); the
average annual maintenance cost will be
$2,189,536 (4 × $547,384) with burden

11 See May 2021 National Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates United States,
available at https://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes_
nat.htm#00-0000.

12 See table 1. Employer Costs for Employee
Compensation by ownership (Sept. 2022), available
at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/ecec.t01.htm
(accessed Feb. 24, 2023).

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hours as 25,152 hours (4 × 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 × 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)
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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
Number of
states

Labor cost
($)

SDS Copying ...............................................................................................................................
SDS Packing and Sending ..........................................................................................................
Non-SEDC EDT Maintenance .....................................................................................................
SEDC EDT Implementation .........................................................................................................
SEDC EDT Maintenance .............................................................................................................

31
5
15
7
4

248
20
75
287,168
25,152

19,731
703
4,270
22,643,526
2,189,536

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

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

312,663

24,860,121

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
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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
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