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tour operators; Robert Randall, Dick
Hingson, Les Blomberg, and John
Eastman representing environmental
interests; and Carl Slater and Dyan
Youpee representing Native American
tribes. The three-year terms of Mr.
Huling and Mr. Slater expire on
February 28, 2025.
Selections
To retain balance within the NPOAG,
the FAA and NPS are seeking
candidates interested in filling
upcoming vacancies of one representing
Native American tribes and one
representing general aviation . The FAA
and NPS invite persons interested in
these openings on the NPOAG to
contact the person listed in the FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section.
Requests to serve on the NPOAG must
be made in writing and postmarked or
emailed on or before March 17, 2025.
Any request to fill one of these seats
must describe the requestor’s affiliation
with general aviation, commercial air
tour operators, environmental concerns,
or federally recognized Native American
tribes, as appropriate. The request
should also explain what expertise the
requestor would bring to the NPOAG as
related to issues and concerns with
aircraft flights over national parks or
tribal lands. The term of service for
NPOAG members is 3 years. Members
may re-apply for another term.
On August 13, 2014, the Office of
Management and Budget issued revised
guidance regarding the prohibition
against appointing or not reappointing
federally registered lobbyists to serve on
advisory committees (79 FR 47482).
Therefore, before appointing an
applicant to serve on the NPOAG, the
FAA and NPS will require the
prospective candidate to certify that
they are not a federally registered
lobbyist.
Issued in Washington, DC, on February 11,
2025.
Sandra Fox,
Environmental Protection Specialist, FAA
Office of Environment and Energy.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA–2025–0004]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Notice and Request for
Comment; Reporting of Information
and Documents About Potential
Defects
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on an extension without
change of a currently approved
collection of information.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
summarized below will be 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
is an extension without change of a
currently approved information
collection on the reporting of
information and documents about
potential defects, ‘‘Reporting of
Information And Communications
About Potential Defects’’.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before March 17, 2025.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
identified by the Docket No. NHTSA–
2024–0055 through any of the following
methods:
• Electronic submissions: Go to the
Federal eRulemaking Portal at https://
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.
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 https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Privacy Act: Anyone can search for
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,
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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 https://
www.regulations.gov or the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets
via the internet.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Jeff
Quandt, Trends Analysis Division
(NEF–108), Room W48–312, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
1200 New Jersey Ave., Washington, DC
20590. Telephone (202) 366–5207.
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 to OMB.
Title: Reporting of Information and
Documents About Potential Defects.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0616.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: 3 years
from the date of approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: This notice requests
comment on NHTSA’s intention to seek
approval from OMB to extend without
change a currently approved collection
of information, OMB No. 2127–0616,
covering requirements in 49 CFR 579,
‘‘Reporting of Information and
Communications about Potential
Defects’’. Part 579 implements, and
addresses with more specificity,
requirements from the Transportation
Recall Enhancement Accountability and
Documentation (TREAD) Act (Pub. L.
106–414), which was enacted on
November 1, 2000, and is codified at 49
U.S.C. 30166.
The purpose of part 579 is to enhance
motor vehicle safety by specifying
information and documents that
manufacturers of motor vehicles and

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motor vehicle equipment must provide
to NHTSA concerning possible safetyrelated defects and non-compliances in
their products, including the reporting
of safety recalls and other safety
campaigns the manufacturers conduct
outside the United States. Under part
579, there are three categories of
reporting requirements: (1)
Requirements at § 579.5 to submit
notices, bulletins, customer satisfaction
campaigns, consumer advisories, and
other communications (found in subpart
A of part 579); (2) requirements at
§ 579.11 to submit information related
to safety recalls and other safety
campaigns in the foreign countries
(found in Subpart B of part 579); and (3)
requirements at §§ 579.21–28 to submit
Early Warning Information (found in
subpart C of part 579). The Early
Warning Reporting (EWR) requirements
(U.S.C. 30166(m); 49 CFR part 579,
subpart C) specify that manufacturers of
motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment must submit to NHTSA
information periodically or upon
NHTSA’s request, that includes claims
or notices for incidents involving death
or injury; numbers of property damage
claims, consumer complaints, warranty
claims, and field reports; copies of field
reports; and other information that may
assist NHTSA in identifying potential
safety-related defects. The intent of this
information collection is to provide
early warning of such potential safetyrelated defects to NHTSA.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: The information required
under 49 U.S.C. 30166 and 49 CFR part
579 is used by NHTSA to promptly
identify potential safety-related defects
in motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment in the United States. When
a trend in incidents arising from a
potentially safety-related defect is
discovered, NHTSA relies on this
information, along with other agency
data, to determine whether to open a
defect investigation.
60-Day Notice
A Federal Register notice with a 60day comment period soliciting public
comments on the following information
collection was published on September
20, 2024 (89 FR 77228). Three
commenters submitted comments in
response to the 60-day notice.1 2 All
1 Multiple

submissions with attachments from
one of the commenters resulted in higher counts for
Public Comments at federalregister.gov (47) and for
Document Comments (5) at regulations.gov, see
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three commenters expressed support for
the benefits of the Agency’s part 579
information collection. None of the
comments concerned the burden
analysis contained in the notice. Two
commenters identified concerns with
the effectiveness of the information
collection for incidents involving
semitrailer underride collisions and
provided recommendations for
improvements.
One commenter, Mr. Eric Hein,
submitted three comments with a total
of forty-five attachments, each of which
were marked as separate comments.3
Mr. Hein expressed support for the
Agency’s part 579 information
collection but used information about
side underride collisions into
semitrailers ‘‘as an example of how to
improve the information collection
about potential safety defects.’’ He listed
five purported issues that, if addressed,
could ‘‘enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected’’ by the Agency: (1) missing
Early Warning Reporting (EWR) death
and injury incident reports; (2) a lapse
in EWR reporting from one trailer
manufacturer; (3) excessive time lag in
EWR reporting of death and injury
incidents; (4) alleged inaction by the
Agency in not opening a safety defect
investigation of alleged semitrailer
underride defect conditions; and (5)
questions about actions taken to address
Office of Inspector General
recommendations about the process for
determining when to investigate
potential safety defects.
Regarding ‘‘missing EWR reports,’’
Mr. Hein alleged that trailer
manufacturers failed to submit reports
to the Agency regarding seven (7) fatal
side underride crashes between
semitrailers and passenger vehicles that
occurred between 2009 to 2020. He
asked the Agency to confirm that these
incidents should have been reported
and to explain how it ‘‘intend[s] to
correct these omissions and enforce
EWR non-reporting.’’ As background,
the requirements for reporting incidents
involving death or injury by
manufacturers of 5,000 or more trailers
annually are contained in 49 CFR
579.24(b). There are several elements to
the reporting requirement. First,
reporting is required for ‘‘each incident
involving one or more deaths or injuries
www.regulations.gov/document/NHTSA-2024-00550001/comment.
2 See https://www.regulations.gov/document/
NHTSA-2024-0055-0001/comment.
3 See https://www.regulations.gov/comment/
NHTSA-2024-0055-0002, https://
www.regulations.gov/comment/NHTSA-2024-00550003, and https://www.regulations.gov/comment/
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occurring in the United States that is
identified in a claim against and
received by the manufacturer or in a
notice received by the manufacturer
which notice alleges or proves that the
death or injury was caused by a possible
defect in the manufacturer’s trailer’’ as
specified in paragraph (b)(1). Second,
the requirement is limited to claims and
notices received about ‘‘all trailers
manufactured during a model year
covered by the reporting period and the
nine model years prior to the earliest
model year in the reporting period.’’
Last, the claim or notice must identify
the trailer with the minimal specificity
for vehicles as defined in § 579.4.
The Agency reviewed the information
provided by Mr. Hein about the 7
allegedly missing EWR reports and
other public information about the
incidents and found that 4 of the
involved trailers were well over the
reporting age limit on the dates of the
incidents. A fifth incident, which was
the subject of an investigation by the
Agency’s Special Crash Investigations
program, did not contain any evidence
that a claim or notice was ever sent to
the trailer manufacturer. A sixth
incident, which occurred over 15 years
ago, did not contain sufficient
information about the product to
determine whether it should have been
reported to the Agency. Our review
found that just 1 of the 7 incidents cited
by Mr. Hein may meet the requirements
for reporting as an EWR death or injury
claim or notice. The subject incident is
a fatal crash involving a 2012 semitrailer
that occurred in 2017 with a lawsuit
that includes allegations referencing the
absence of side underride guard
protection filed in 2019, approximately
27 months after the incident.
The Agency also reviewed 36
additional fatal crash incidents
submitted by Mr. Hein as attachments to
his comment letter.4 This review found
that just one-third (12) of the incidents
were reported with the minimal
specificity required for identifying the
subject semitrailers. Of these 12
incidents, 5 involved semitrailers that
were beyond the age limit for part 579
reporting on the date of the incident,
and a sixth incident involved a
semitrailer that was approximately 9
years old when the crash occurred and
would likely have been near or beyond
4 These attachments are identified in Mr. Hein’s
comments as ‘‘40 complaint letters of fatal side
underride crashes into semitrailers to Office of
Defects Investigation (ODI) (Attachments 2–41).’’
Our review identified 39 such letters (there was no
Attachment 37 provided), including 3 that
duplicated reports previously reviewed as ‘‘Missing
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the reporting age limit.5 None of the
remaining 7 incidents included any
evidence that any claim or notice was
received by the manufacturer.
The second issue raised by Mr. Hein
concerned a semitrailer manufacturer
that was purportedly not listed in the
online Early Warning Reporting-Data
Search ‘‘even though they from 2020 to
2022 produced an average of 15,480
trailers per year,’’ and that had allegedly
failed to report a fatal side-underride
collision that occurred in 2019. The
Agency’s review found that the
company identified by Mr. Hein failed
to submit EWR production and
aggregate data reports required by
§ 579.24 for multiple reporting quarters.
However, the Agency did not confirm
that the fatal crash cited by Mr. Hein
should have been reported, as it
involved a semitrailer that was greater
than 10 years old when the collision
occurred, and the Agency is not aware
of any record of a claim or notice
received by the trailer manufacturer.
The lawsuit referenced in Mr. Hein’s
comment letter was a claim against the
manufacturer of the vehicle that struck
the trailer, not the trailer manufacturer.
We also note that fatal incidents with
reportable claims or notices must be
reported by all trailer manufacturers
regardless of production volume. The
requirements for reporting information
about incidents involving death for
manufacturers of fewer than 5,000
trailers annually are contained in
§ 579.27(b).
Mr. Hein also questioned the
timeliness of manufacturer reporting of
death and injury incidents, citing as
examples two incidents that were
reported nearly three years after the
crashes occurred. The reporting
requirements for information on
incidents involving death or injury are
triggered by the manufacturer’s receipt
of a claim or notice that ‘‘alleges or
proves that the death or injury was
caused by a possible defect in the
manufacturer’s trailer’’ and not by the
incident date as suggested by Mr. Hein’s
comments. The current regulation
requires incidents involving death or
injury to be reported to NHTSA within
60 days of the end of the quarter in
which the manufacturer received an
initial claim or notice containing such
allegations. Any changes in this
reporting requirement would require
rulemaking and are outside the scope of
5 This incident involved a 2009 trailer and a fatal
crash occurring on July 2, 2018. Any claim or notice
received by the manufacturer after it began
production of 2019 trailers would not meet the
reporting limit for ‘‘nine model years prior to the
earliest model year in the reporting period’’
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this request for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Finally, the Agency reviewed Mr.
Hein’s concerns about the processes
used by the Agency for deciding when
to open a defect investigation and the
resolution of specific recommendations
from a 2015 Office of Inspector General
audit. As background, Mr. Hein has
submitted several petitions to the
Agency requesting the investigation of
certain semitrailers lacking side
underride guards (SUGs) or lacking
effective rear underride guards.6 He
submitted the first petition in
September 2021, requesting that the
Agency investigate the absence of side
underride guards (SUGs) in van-type
and box semitrailers as a safety defect
(see Defect Petition DP21004).7 That
petition was denied in July 2022, citing
the ongoing evaluation of SUGs as
directed by Congress in section 23011 of
the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL)
(November 15, 2021).8 In August 2022,
Mr. Hein petitioned the Agency to
investigate semitrailers lacking effective
rear underride guard protection (see
Defect Petition DP22004).9 That petition
was denied in June 2024, based on an
assessment that the issues raised were
‘‘best addressed through [the Agency’s]
recent rulemaking and the ongoing
actions under BIL.’’ 10 In July 2024, he
petitioned the Agency once more
seeking an investigation of semitrailers
lacking SUGs (see Defect Petition
DP24004).11 The latest petition is
currently pending. Given the nature of
the concerns cited by Mr. Hein about
the processes used by the Agency and
the resolution of specific
recommendations from a 2015 Office of
Inspector General audit, as well as the
petition currently pending with the
Agency, the Agency considers these
concerns to be outside the scope of this
request for an extension of a currently
approved information collection.12
6 The petitions request safety defect investigation
into ‘‘van-type or box semitrailers’’ due to ‘‘a lack
of side underride guards’’ or ‘‘a lack of effective
Rear Impact Guards.’’
7 See DP21–004 opening resume: https://
static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2021/INOA-DP210047938.PDF.
8 See Denial of Motor Vehicle Defect Petition,
DP21–004, 87 FR 39899, 39901 (July 5, 2022).
9 See DP22–004 opening resume: https://
static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2022/INOA-DP220047626.PDF.
10 See Denial of Motor Vehicle Defect Petition,
DP22–004, 89 FR 53476, 53477 (June 26, 2024).
11 See DP24–004 opening resume: https://
static.nhtsa.gov/odi/inv/2024/INOA-DP2400416266.pdf.
12 We note that the OIG audit recommendations
referenced in his comments have all been closed,
effective October 17, 2024. See U.S. Department of
Transportation, Office of Inspection General, Audit
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In summary, our review of 8 incidents
of alleged non-reporting of fatal
incidents submitted in Mr. Hein’s letter
identified one incident that does not
appear to have been reported as
required. We also confirmed the lapse in
certain reporting by one manufacturer
that was identified by Mr. Hein. The
Agency works to resolve isolated errors
or omissions in reporting from a
manufacturer by correcting the reporting
issue, reviewing the reasons for the
error, and reviewing the manufacturer’s
corrective actions for avoiding similar
errors in future reporting. If we detect a
pattern of reporting non-compliance or
other serious violations, we may open a
formal investigation of the
manufacturer’s compliance with part
579 reporting. Manufacturers may be
assessed penalties for non-compliance
with reporting requirements depending
on the severity of the violations. We
appreciate the opportunity to review the
information provided by Mr. Hein about
suspected non-reporting of incidents
involving death or injury and welcome
such questions from anyone who has
specific information indicating potential
part 579 non-compliance.
The second commenter, Mrs.
Marianne Karth, expressed concerns
with the requirements for information
collection about incidents involving
‘‘passenger vehicle and pedestrian/
cyclist underride/override in crashes
with large trucks (truck-tractors, tractortrailers, and single unit trucks).’’ She
recommended updating the EWR
information collection to ‘‘include
detailed information’’ about such
incidents, potentially including a
specific code for reporting underride
incidents for the affected reporting
categories. This recommendation would
require amending the current EWR
reporting regulation and is outside the
scope of this request for an extension of
a currently approved information
collection.
The third and final comments were
submitted by Mr. Thomas J. Karol on
behalf of the National Association of
Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC).
Mr. Karol expressed strong support for
the part 579 information collection
requirements and suggested that the
Agency seek input from representatives
of the insurance industry to improve the
‘‘performance and efficacy of the
proposed reporting.’’
Affected Public: Manufacturers of
motor vehicles and motor vehicle
equipment.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
NHTSA receives part 579 submissions
from approximately 273 manufacturers
per year. We estimate that there will be
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this extension of the currently approved
OMB No. 2127–0616, instead of the
previously estimated 337 respondents
per year. The manufacturer estimate is
an update to the 60-day notice
estimation of 297 respondents and
corrects an error in overcounting
manufacturers in the past.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours and Cost: NHTSA is updating the
estimates to better align with the current
volume of submissions. NHTSA now
estimates the total annual burden hours
associated with this collection to be
51,327 hours based on analysis of EWR
reporting data from the 2021 through
2023 reporting years. This is a change
from the estimated 54,088 annual
burden hours in the 60-day notice
because of the correction to the
estimated number of respondents
described above. When this approved
information collection was last renewed
in April 2022, NHTSA estimated the
annual burden associated with this
collection to be 53,810 burden hours.
NHTSA estimated the burdens
associated with this collection by
calculating the burden associated with
submitting information under each
subpart of part 579. In addition to these
burdens, NHTSA also estimates that
manufacturers will incur computer
maintenance burden hours, which are
estimated on a per-manufacturer basis.
There were no burden-related
comments, in turn, burden-related
changes are not in response to
comments, but rather an overall
estimation update.
Requirements Under Part 579,
Subpart A
The first component of this collection
request covers the requirements found
in part 579 subpart A, § 579.5, Notices,
bulletins, customer satisfaction
campaigns, consumer advisories, and
other communications. Section 579.5
requires manufacturers to furnish (1) a
copy of all notices, bulletins, and other
communications sent to more than one
manufacturer, distributor, dealer, lessor,

lessee, owner, or purchaser, in the
United States, regarding any defect in its
vehicles or items of equipment
(including any failure of malfunction
beyond normal deterioration in use, or
any failure of performance, or any flaw
or unintended deviation from design
specifications), whether or not such
defect is safety-related and (2) a copy of
each communication relating to a
customer satisfaction campaign,
consumer advisory, recall, or other
safety activity involving the repair or
replacement of motor vehicles or
equipment, that the manufacturer issued
to, or made available to, more than one
dealer, distributor, lessor, lessee,
another manufacturer, owner, or
purchaser, in the United States.
Manufacturers are required to submit
these documents monthly. Section 579.5
does not require manufacturers to create
these documents. Instead, only copies of
these documents must be submitted to
NHTSA, and manufacturers must index
these communications and email them
to NHTSA within 5 working days after
the end of the month in which they
were issued. Therefore, the burden
hours are only those associated with
collecting the documents and
submitting copies to NHTSA.
NHTSA estimates that it receives
approximately 17,615 notices a year. We
estimate that it takes about 5 minutes to
collect, index, and submit each notice to
NHTSA. Therefore, we estimate that it
takes 1,468 hours for manufacturers to
submit notices as required under § 579.5
(17,615 notices × 5 minutes = 88,075
minutes or 1,468 hours) annually.
To calculate the labor cost associated
with submitting § 579.5 notices,
bulletins, customer satisfaction
campaigns, consumer advisories, and
other communications that are sent to
more than one dealer or owner, NHTSA
looked at wage estimates for the type of
personnel submitting the documents.
While some manufacturers employ
clerical staff to collect and submit the
documents, others use technical
computer support staff to complete the

task. Because we do not know what
percent of the work is completed by
clerical or technical computer support
staff, NHTSA estimates the total labor
costs associated with these burden
hours by looking at the average wage for
the higher-paid technical computer
support staff. The Bureau of Labor
Statistics (BLS) estimates that the
average hourly wage for Computer
Support Specialists (BLS Occupation
code 15–1230) in the Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing Industry is $37.62.13 The
Bureau of Labor Statistics estimated that
private industry workers’ wages
represented 70.4 percent of employer
costs for employee compensation in
December 2023 (ECEC adjustment).14
Based on the BLS average hourly wage
and ECEC adjustment factor, NHTSA
estimates the hourly labor costs to be
$53.44 for Computer Support Specialists
($37.62 ÷ 0.704 = $53.44). The
incremental labor cost per submission is
estimated to be $4.45 ($53.44 per hour
× 5 minutes). NHTSA estimates the total
labor cost associated with the 1,468
burden hours for § 579.5 submissions to
be $78,387 ($4.45 × 17,615
submissions). Table 1 provides a
summary of the burden estimates using
the average annual submission count for
monthly reports submitted pursuant to
§ 579.5 and the estimated burden hours
and labor costs associated with those
submissions. The average number of
annual submissions under § 579.5
decreased by approximately 29 percent
from the currently approved
information collection, dropping from
24,884 to 17,615 manufacturer
communication submissions. The
incremental cost per submission rose
from $3.73 to $4.45, a 19 percent
increase. The annual burden hours
dropped from 2,074 to 1,468, matching
the 29 percent drop in submissions. The
annual labor costs dropped from
$92,817 to $78,387, a 16 percent
decrease with the reduction in
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TABLE 1—ANNUAL BURDEN ESTIMATE FOR § 579.5 SUBMISSIONS
Average annual
§ 579.5 submissions

Estimated burden
per submission
(minutes)

Average hourly
labor cost

Labor cost per
submission

Total annual
burden hours

17,615

5

$53.44

$4.45

1,468

13 May 2023 National Industry-Specific Wage
Estimates—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Computer Support
Analyst (Code 15–1230), $37.62, https://
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0000, divided by 70.4 percent for total employer
costs for employee compensation, https://
www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/ecec_
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Total annual
labor costs
$78,386.75 or $78,387.

14 March 2024 News Release—Employer Costs for
Employee Compensation—December 2023, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics. Last Accessed August 12,
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Requirements Under Part 579,
Subpart B (Foreign Reporting)
The second component of this
information collection request covers
the requirements found in part 579
subpart B, ‘‘Reporting of Safety Recalls
and Other Safety Campaigns in Foreign
Countries.’’ Pursuant to § 579.11,
whenever a manufacturer determines to
conduct a safety recall or other safety
campaign in a foreign country, or
whenever a foreign government has
determined that a safety recall or other
safety campaign must be conducted,
covering a motor vehicle, item of motor
vehicle equipment, or tire that is
identical or substantially similar to a
vehicle, item of equipment, or tire sold
or offered for sale in the United States,
the manufacturer must report to NHTSA
not later than 5 working days after the
manufacturer makes such determination
or receives written notification of the
foreign government’s determination.
Section 579.11(e) also requires each
manufacturer of motor vehicles to
submit, not later than November 1 of
each year, a document that identifies
foreign products and their domestic
counterparts.
To provide the information required
for foreign safety campaigns,
manufacturers must (1) determine
whether vehicles or equipment that are
covered by a foreign safety recall or

other safety campaign are identical or
substantially similar to vehicles or
equipment sold in the United States, (2)
prepare and submit reports of these
campaigns to the agency, and (3) where
a determination or notice has been made
in a language other than English,
translate the determination or notice
into English before transmitting it to the
agency.
NHTSA estimates that there is no
burden associated with determining
whether an individual safety recall
covers a foreign motor vehicle or item
of motor vehicle equipment that is
identical or substantially similar to
those sold in the United States because
manufacturers can simply consult the
list that they are required to submit each
year. Therefore, the only burden
associated with determining whether a
foreign safety recall or other safety
campaign is required to be reported to
NHTSA is the burden associated with
creating the annual list. NHTSA
continues to estimate that it takes
approximately 9 hours per manufacturer
to develop and submit the list. The 9
hours are comprised of 8 attorney hours
and 1 hour for IT work. NHTSA receives
these lists from 99 manufacturers, on
average, resulting in 891 burden hours
(99 vehicle manufacturers × 8 hours for
attorney support = 792 hours) + (99
vehicle manufacturers × 1 hour for IT
support = 99 hours).

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NHTSA estimates that preparing and
submitting each foreign defect report
(foreign recall campaign) requires 1
hour of clerical staff and that translation
of determinations into English requires
2 hours of technical staff (note: This
assumes that all foreign campaign
reports require translation, which is
unlikely). Between 2021 and 2023
NHTSA received a yearly average of 262
foreign campaign reports. NHTSA
estimates that in each of the next three
years, NHTSA will receive, on average,
262 foreign recall reports. NHTSA
estimates that each report will take 3
hours (1 hour to prepare by a clerical
employee and 2 hours for translation).
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that the
burden hours associated with
submitting these reports will be 786
hours (3 hours per report × 262 reports).
Therefore, NHTSA estimates the total
annual burden hours for reporting
foreign campaigns and substantially
similar vehicles is 1,677 hours (891
hours for submitting annual lists + 786
hours for submitting foreign recall and
safety campaign reports). This is an
increase of 87 burden hours from our
previous estimate (1,677 hours for the
current estimate ¥1,590 hours for the
previous estimate). Table 2 provides a
summary of the estimated burden hours
for part 579 subpart B submissions.

TABLE 2—ANNUAL BURDEN HOUR ESTIMATES FOR FOREIGN REPORTING
Annual number
of submissions

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Submission type

Burden hours per report

Total annual
burden hours

Foreign Campaign Report .......................
Annual List ...............................................

262
99

1 hour clerical + 2 hours translation = 3 hours ........................
8 hours attorney + 1 hour IT = 9 hours ....................................

786
891

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

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

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

1,677

To calculate the labor cost associated
with part 579 foreign reporting
submissions, NHTSA looked at wage
estimates for the type of personnel
submitting the documents. As stated
above, NHTSA estimates that submitting
annual lists under § 579.11(e) will
involve 8 hours of attorney time and 1
hour of IT work. The average hourly
wage for Lawyers (BLS Occupation code
23–1000) in the Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing Industry is $112.21.15
After applying the 70.4 percent ECEC
adjustment, NHTSA estimates the
15 May 2023 National Industry-Specific Wage
Estimates,—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Lawyers (Code 23–1011),
$112.21, https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/naics4_
336100.htm#23-0000, divided by 70.4 percent for
total employer costs for employee compensation,
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hourly labor costs for manufacturers to
be $159.39 for Lawyers. The ECEC
adjusted hourly cost for Computer
Support Specialists (BLS Occupation
code 15–1230) in the Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing Industry is $53.44 as
reviewed in the discussion of table 1
data in the subpart A reporting burden
analysis. NHTSA estimates the
incremental labor cost associated with
submitting each annual list to be
$1,328.56 or $1,329 ($159.39 per hour ×
8 attorney hours + $53.44 per hour × 1
IT hour), resulting in an estimated
annual labor cost of $131,527 for
submitting all 99 annual lists each year.
NHTSA estimates that submitting
each foreign recall or safety campaign
report involves 1 hour of clerical work
and 2 hours of translation work. The
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(BLS Occupation code 43–9061) in the
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry
is $26.65 16 and the average hourly wage
for Interpreters and Translators (BLS
Occupation code 27–3091) is $30.33.17
Therefore, NHTSA estimates the ECEC
adjusted hourly labor costs to be $37.86
16 May 2023 National Industry-Specific Wage
Estimates—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Office Clerks (Code 43–
9061), $26.65, https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/
naics4_336100.htm#43-0000, divided by 70.4
percent for total employer costs for employee
compensation, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
archives/ecec_03132024.pdf. Last Accessed August
12, 2024.
17 May 2023 National Occupational Employment
and Wage Estimates United States, U.S. Bureau of
Labor Statistics, Interpreters and Translators (Code
27–3091), $30.33, https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/
may/oes273091.htm, divided by 70.4 percent for
total employer costs for employee compensation,
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for Office Clerks and $43.08 for
Interpreters and Translators. NHTSA
estimates the total labor cost associated
with submitting one foreign recall or
safety campaign report to be $124.02 or
$124 ($37.86 per hour × 1 Clerical hour
+ $43.08 per hour × 2 Translator hours)

and $32,493.24 or $32,493 for all 262
foreign recall or safety campaign reports
NHTSA estimates will be submitted
annually.
Table 3 provides a summary of the
labor costs associated with the foreign
reporting requirements in part 579,

subpart B. NHTSA estimates that the
total labor costs associated with the
annual list requirement and the
requirement to report foreign recalls and
safety campaigns are $164,020.68 or
$164,021 ($131,527.44 + $32,493.24).

TABLE 3—ANNUAL LABOR COST ESTIMATES FOR FOREIGN REPORTING
Hours per
submission

Submission type and labor category

Hourly
labor cost

Labor cost per
submission

Number of
submissions

Annual List-Lawyer .....................................................
Annual List-Computer Specialist .................................

8
1

$159.39
53.44

$1,275.12
53.44

99
99

$126,236.88.
$5,290.56.

Totals for Annual List ...........................................
Foreign Campaign Report-Clerical .............................
Foreign Campaign Report-Translator .........................
Totals for Foreign Campaign Report ...................

9
1
2
3

....................
37.86
43.08
....................

1,328.56
37.86
86.16
124.02

....................
262
262
....................

$131,527.44.
$9,919.32.
$22,573.92.
$32,493.24

Total Labor Costs for Part 579 Subpart B Requirements ...............................................................................

Requirements Under Part 579, Subpart
C, Reporting of Early Warning
Information

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Total annual
labor cost

The third component of this
information collection covers the
requirements found in part 579 subpart
C, ‘‘Reporting of Early Warning
Information.’’ Besides production
information, there are five major
categories requiring reporting of
incidents or claims in subpart C, with
the specific requirements and
applicability of those categories varying
by vehicle and equipment type and, in
some circumstances, manufacturer
volume. Sections 579.21 through 27
require manufacturers to submit the
following:
(1) Production information; (2) reports
on incidents involving death or injury
in the United States that are identified
in claims or notices alleging that the
death or injury was caused by a possible
defect; (3) reports on incidents
identified in a claim against a
manufacturer that involves one or more
deaths in a foreign country and involve
a vehicle or item of equipment that is
identical or substantially similar to a
vehicle or item of equipment that is
offered for sale in the United States; (4)
separate reports on the number of
property damage claims, consumer
complaints, warranty claims, and field
reports that involve a specified system
or event; (5) copies of field reports; and,
for manufacturers of tires, (6) a list of
common green tires (applicable to only
tire manufacturers). Section 579.28(l)
allows NHTSA to request additional
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regulation specifies the time frame for
reporting for each category. Foreign
recalls of substantially similar vehicles
and manufacturer communications are
required to be submitted monthly,
substantially similar vehicle listings are
required annually, and all other report
types are required to be submitted every
quarter.
Quarterly Reporting
Manufacturers are required to report
specific information to NHTSA every
quarter. Manufacturers are required to
submit production information,18 nondealer field reports, aggregate
submissions, and death and injury
submissions every quarter. Estimates of
the burden hours and reporting costs are
based on:
• The number of manufacturers
reporting;
• The frequency of required reports;
• The number of hours required per
report; and
• The cost of personnel to report.
The number of hours for reporting
ranges from 1 hour for trailer, child
restraint, low volume vehicle, and
equipment manufacturers to 8 hours for
light vehicle manufacturers (table 4).
Quarterly reporting burden hours are
calculated by multiplying hours used to
report for a given category by the
number of manufacturers for the
category and by the four times per-year
quarterly reporting. Using these
methods and the average number of
manufacturers who report annually, we
18 Low volume and equipment manufacturers are
not required to submit production information.

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$164,020.68 or $164,021.

estimate the annual burden hours for
quarterly reporting of production
information at 3,664 hours as detailed
below in table 4.
NHTSA assumes that the hourly wage
rate for each quarterly report is split
evenly between technical and clerical
personnel and a weighted hourly rate is
developed from this assumption.
Therefore, using the BLS total hourly
compensation rates discussed above of
$53.44 for a Computer Support
Specialist and $37.86 for an Office
Clerk, the weighted hourly rate is $45.65
(Technical Mean Hourly Wage of $53.44
× 0.5 + Clerical Mean Hourly Wage of
$37.86 × 0.5). The estimated reporting
costs are calculated as follows:
(M × Tp × $45.65) = Quarterly cost of
reporting × 4 = Annual cost of
reporting *
*M = Manufacturers reporting data in the
category; Tp = Reporting time for the
category; $45.65 = Reporting labor cost
compensation rate; 4 = Quarterly reports
per year

For example, the estimated annual
reporting cost for light vehicles is
$59,892.80 (41 manufacturers × 8 hours
× $45.65 compensation rate × 4
quarters), and the total annual labor
costs associated with quarterly reporting
are estimated to be $167,262. Table 4
includes the estimated burden hours
and reporting costs for production
information, non-dealer field reports,
aggregate submissions, and death and
injury submissions, as well as the
quarterly and annual labor costs
associated with reporting.

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TABLE 4—ESTIMATED MANUFACTURER ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND LABOR COSTS FOR QUARTERLY REPORTING
Quarterly
hours to
report per
manufacturer

Average
number of
manufacturers

Vehicle/equipment category

Blended
hourly
comp. rate

Quarterly
labor costs per
manufacturer

Annual burden
hours for
reporting

Annual
labor costs

Light Vehicles ..............................................
Bus, Emergency, and Medium-Heavy Vehicles.
Motorcycles ..................................................
Trailers .........................................................
Child Restraints ...........................................
Tires .............................................................
Low Volume & Equipment 19 .......................

41
54

8
5

$45.65
45.65

$365.20
228.25

1,312
1,080

$59,892.80.
$49,302.00.

16
91
35
31
5

2
1
1
5
1

45.65
45.65
45.65
45.65
45.65

91.30
45.65
45.65
228.25
45.65

128
364
140
620
20

$5,843.20.
$16,616.60.
$6,391.00.
$28,303.00.
$913.00.

Totals ....................................................

273

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

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

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

3,664

Early Warning Reporting Field Data
Submissions
Table 5 provides an average annual
submission count for each category
submitted per the requirements of 49
CFR part 579, subpart C: reports on
incidents identified in claims or notices
involving death or injury in the United
States; reports on incidents involving

one or more deaths in a foreign country
identified in claims involving a vehicle
or item of equipment that is identical or
substantially similar to a vehicle or item
of equipment that is offered for sale in
the United States; separate reports on
the number of property damage claims,
consumer complaints, warranty claims,
and field reports that involve a specified
system or event; copies of field reports;

$167,261.60 or $167,262.

and, for manufacturers of tires; a list of
common green tires; and additional
follow-up information per 579.28(l)
related to injury and fatality claims.
Each reporting category has specific
requirements and types of reports that
need to be submitted and we state ‘‘N/
A’’ where there is no requirement for
that reporting category.

TABLE 5—ANNUAL AVERAGE OF EWR SUBMISSIONS BY MANUFACTURERS
[2021—2023]

Light
vehicles
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Category of claims

Bus,
emergency,
heavy, &
medium
vehicles
§ 579.22

Motorcycles
§ 579.23

Trailers
§ 579.24

Child
restraints
§ 579.25

Tires
§ 579.26

Low volume
vehicles &
equipment
§ 579.27

Annual
average
totals

Incidents Involving Injury or Fatality in U.S ....................
Incidents Involving Fatality in Foreign Country ...............
Reports on Number of Claims Involving Specific Systems or Event ..............................................................
Mfr. Field Reports ...........................................................
Common Green Tire Reporting ......................................
Average Number of Follow-Up Sequences per 579.28(l)

6,338
38

223
0

109
2

44
1

133
0

35
0

10
0

6,892
41

7,985
83,360
NA
1,425

831
18,650
NA
91

23
1,456
NA
67

55
81
NA
14

NA
2,859
NA
64

298
NA
99
44

NA
NA
NA
14

9,192
106,406
99
1,719

Totals .......................................................................

99,146

19.795

1,657

195

3,056

476

24

124,349

The submission totals summarized in
Table 5 represent a 10 percent increase
from the currently approved
information collection with two
reporting categories responsible for all
of the increase. Submission totals
increased for manufacturer field reports
and follow-up sequence inquiries
conducted per § 579.28(l) but saw a net
decrease of 34 percent for the other four
categories combined. Average annual
injury and fatality claims in the United
States dropped from 11,887 to 6,892
claims per year, a 42 percent decrease;
foreign death claims dropped from 330
to 41 per year, an 88 percent decrease;
claims involving specific systems or
events dropped from 12,212 to 9,192, a

25 percent decrease; and common green
tire reports dropped from 112 to 99 per
year, a 12 percent decrease.
Manufacturer field reports, which
accounted for the majority of
submissions in both the current and
prior approved information collection
requests, rose from 88,409 to 106,406
per year, a 20 percent increase.20 Death
and injury follow-up sequence inquiries
conducted per § 579.28(l) saw a much
larger change, rising from 190 to 1,719
average incident inquiries per year, an
increase of 805 percent. The net effect
of these changes was an increase from
113,140 to 124,349 submissions per year
on average.

The agency estimates that an average
of 5 minutes is required for a
manufacturer to process each report,
except for foreign death claims and
follow-up responses. We estimate
foreign death claims and follow-up
responses per § 579.28(l) require an
average of 15 minutes to process.
Multiplying the total average number of
minutes by the number of submissions
NHTSA receives in each reporting
category yields the burden hour
estimates found below in Table 6. Our
previous estimates of EWR associated
submission burden hours totaled 9,515
hours, and we now update that total to
10,655 burden hours, a 12 percent

19 Reporting requirements for low volume vehicle
and equipment manufacturers are limited to
reporting fatal incidents in the United States and
foreign countries and responding to inquiries about
those incidents, see § 579.27 and § 579.28(l). Table
4 manufacturer counts are calculated by dividing

the number of total manufacturer reporting quarters
(1 manufacturer reporting in 1 quarter = 1
manufacturer reporting quarter) by 4 quarters to
show the number of equivalent full manufacturer
reporting years (4 manufacturer reporting quarters).

20 Manufacturer field reports rose from 78 percent
of EWR submissions in the currently approved
information collection to 86 percent of submissions
in the current information collection request.

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increase, associated with the abovenoted claim categories.

TABLE 6—ANNUAL MANUFACTURER BURDEN HOUR ESTIMATES FOR EWR SUBMISSIONS
Annual average
of EWR
Submissions

Category of claims

Average time
to process
each report

Estimated annual
burden hours

Incidents Involving Injury or Fatality in U.S ...................................................................
Incidents Involving Fatality in Foreign Country .............................................................
Reports on Number of Claims Involving Specific System or Event ..............................
Mfr. Field Reports ..........................................................................................................
Common Green Tire Reporting .....................................................................................
Average Number of Follow-Up Sequences per 579.28(l) .............................................

6,892
41
9,192
106,406
99
1,719

5
15
5
5
5
15

574
10
766
8,867
8
430

Totals ......................................................................................................................

124,349

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

10,655

We have also calculated hourly labor
costs for each claim type with an
incremental reporting burden based on
time to process and labor costs for
employee positions required for
processing each submission. Table 7
shows the employee positions required
for processing submissions for each
claim type, the time required for each
position to process each submission,
and the weighted hourly rates for each
claim type. The employee positions
analyzed in table 7 include three that

have been introduced in prior sections
of this information collection request:
Lawyers (BLS Occupation code 23–
1000), Computer Support Specialists
(BLS Occupation code 15–1230), and
Office Clerks (BLS Occupation code 43–
9061).21 Cost analysis for Computer
Support Specialists was provided in the
discussion of table 1 data for subpart A
labor costs analysis and analyses for
Lawyers and Office Clerks were
provided in the discussion of table 3
data for subpart B labor cost burden

analysis. Labor cost analysis for
Engineers (BLS Occupation code 17–
2000) is introduced in table 7. The
average hourly wage for Engineers in the
Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry
is $52.56.22 After applying the 70.4
percent ECEC adjustment, NHTSA
estimates the hourly labor costs for
manufacturers to be $74.66 for
Engineers. Table 7 shows the weighted
hourly rates for each submission claim
type.

TABLE 7—ESTIMATED MANUFACTURER TIME ALLOCATION BY CLAIM TYPE AND WEIGHTED HOURLY RATE
Estimated time (in minutes) to review a claim
Lawyer
(rate:
$159.39)

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Incidents Involving Injury or Fatality in U.S ..................................................................
Incidents Involving Fatality in Foreign Country .............................................................
Reports on Number of Claims Involving Specific System or Event .............................
Mfr. Field Reports .........................................................................................................
Common Green Tire Reporting ....................................................................................
Average Number of Follow-Up Sequences per 579.28(l) ............................................

Engineer
(rate:
$74.66)
3
3
0
0
0
3

Technical
(rate:
$53.44)

0
10
0
0
0
10

0
0
3
3
0
0

Clerical
(rate:
$37.86)

Weighted
hourly
rate

Total
time
2
2
2
2
5
2

5
15
5
5
5
15

$110.78
86.70
47.21
47.21
37.86
86.70

These rates are calculated by
summing the weighted employer costs
for each employee position required to

review each submission claim type
using the formula:

The annual labor costs for
submissions of claims data are shown in
table 8. Labor Cost per Submission is

the product of the Average Time to
Process Each Report and the Weight
Hourly Rate calculated in table 7.

Annual labor cost is the product of the
labor cost per submission and the
average annual submissions.

21 Table 7 references Computer Support
Specialists as ‘‘Technical’’ and Office Clerks as
‘‘Clerical’’.

22 May 2023 National Industry-Specific Wage
Estimates—Motor Vehicle Manufacturing, U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, Engineers (Code 17–
2000), $52.56, https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/
naics4_336100.htm#17-0000, divided by 70.4

percent for total employer costs for employee
compensation, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
archives/ecec_03132024.pdf. Last Accessed August
12, 2024.

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TABLE 8—ESTIMATED EWR ANNUAL LABOR COSTS BY CATEGORY
Annual average
of EWR
submissions

Category of claims

Average time
to process
each report

Estimated
labor cost per
submission

Weighted
hourly rate

Estimated annual
labor cost

Incidents Involving Injury or Fatality in U.S ...............................
Incidents Involving Fatality in Foreign Country .........................
Reports on Number of Claims Involving Specific System or
Event.
Mfr. Field Reports ......................................................................
Common Green Tire Reporting .................................................
Average Number of Follow-Up Sequences per 579.28(l) .........

6,892
41
9,192

5
15
5

$110.78
86.70
47.21

$9.23
21.68
3.93

$63,624.65.
$888.68.
$36,162.86.

106,406
99
1,719

5
5
15

47.21
37.86
86.70

3.93
3.16
21.68

$418,618.94.
$312.35
$37,259.33.

Totals ..................................................................................

124,349

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

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

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

The total annual manufacturer burden
hours for subpart C reporting of EWR
data (§§ 579.21 through 28) is calculated
by summing the burden hour estimates
for quarterly reporting in table 4 (3,664
hours) and submission reporting in table
6 (10,655 hours). This produces an EWR
annual burden hour estimate of 14,319
hours. The total annual labor cost for
subpart C reporting is calculated by
summing the labor cost estimates in
table 4 ($167,261.60) and table 8
($556,866.81), producing a total annual
labor cost estimate for subpart C
reporting of $724,128.41 or $724,128.
Computer Maintenance Burden
In addition to the burden associated
with submitting documents under each
subpart of part 579, NHTSA also
estimates that manufacturers will incur
computer maintenance burden hours
associated with the information
collection requirements. The estimated
manufacturer burden hours associated
with aggregate data submissions for
consumer complaints, warranty claims,
and dealer field reports are included in
reporting and computer maintenance

hours. The burden hours for computer
maintenance are calculated by
multiplying the hours of computer use
(for a given category) by the number of
manufacturers reporting in a category.
NHTSA estimates that light vehicle
manufacturers will spend
approximately 347 hours per year on
computer maintenance and that other
vehicle manufacturers will spend about
22 percent as much time as light vehicle
manufacturers on computer
maintenance. Therefore, NHTSA
estimates that bus, emergency, and
medium-heavy truck; motorcycle; and
trailer manufacturers will each spend
approximately 86.5 hours on computer
maintenance each year. NHTSA
estimates that child restraint and tire
manufacturers will also spend 86.5
hours on computer maintenance per
year. Therefore, NHTSA estimates the
total burden for computer maintenance
to be 33,863 hours per year (based on
there being an estimated 41 light vehicle
manufacturers; 54 bus, emergency, and
medium-heavy vehicle manufacturers;
16 motorcycle manufacturers; 91 trailer

$556,866.81 or $556,867.

manufacturers; 35 child restraint
manufacturers; and 31 tire
manufacturers). This burden estimation
is an update from the 60-day notice due
to corrections to the number of bus,
emergency, and medium-heavy vehicle
manufacturers reporting to NHTSA.
To calculate the labor cost associated
with computer maintenance hours,
NHTSA looked at wage estimates for the
type of personnel submitting the
documents. The ECEC adjusted average
hourly wage for Computer Support
Specialists (BLS Occupation code 15–
1230) in the Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing Industry is $53.44 as
reviewed in the discussion of table 1
data in the subpart A reporting burden
analysis. For the estimated total of
33,863 annual computer maintenance
burden hours, NHTSA estimates the
associated labor costs will be
approximately $1,809,612 annually.
Table 9 shows the annual estimated
burden hours for computer maintenance
by vehicle/equipment category and the
estimated labor costs associated with
those burden hours.

TABLE 9—ESTIMATED MANUFACTURER ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS FOR COMPUTER MAINTENANCE FOR REPORTING
Average
number of
manufacturers

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Vehicle/equipment category

Hours for
computer
maintenance
per
manufacturer

Average
hourly
labor cost

Annual labor
cost per
manufacturer

Total annual
burden hours

Total annual
labor costs

Light Vehicles ....................................................
Bus, Emergency, and Medium-Heavy Vehicles
Motorcycles ........................................................
Trailers ...............................................................
Child Restraints .................................................
Tires ...................................................................

41
54
16
91
35
31

347
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5
86.5

$53.44
53.44
53.44
53.44
53.44
53.44

$18,543.68
4,622.56
4,622.56
4,622.56
4,622.56
4,622.56

14,227
4,671
1,384
7,872
3,028
2,682

$760,290.88
$249,618.24.
$73,960.96.
$420,652.96.
$161,789.60.
$143,299.36.

Totals ..........................................................

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

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

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

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

33,863

$1,809,612.00 or $1,809,612.

Total Annual Burden Hours and Labor
Costs Summary
Based on the foregoing, we estimate
the burden hours for the industry to
comply with the current part 579
reporting requirements (EWR
requirements, foreign campaign
requirements, and part 579.5
requirements) to be 51,327 hours per

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year. This a change from the 60-day
notice estimates of 54,088 annual
burden hours due to updates of
estimation from the early warning
reports and computer maintenance
tables resulting from corrections in the
number of bus, emergency, and
medium-heavy vehicle manufacturers
reporting each year. The total annual

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burden hours, labor costs, and changes
from for this information collection
consisting of manufacturer
communications under § 579.5 (subpart
A), foreign reporting (subpart B), EWR
submissions and reporting (subpart C),
and computer maintenance are outlined
in table 10 below.

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TABLE 10—TOTAL MANUFACTURER ANNUAL BURDEN HOURS AND LABOR COSTS
Currently approved part
579 information
collection request

Pending part 579
information
collection request

Reporting type
Annual
burden
hours

Annual
labor
costs

Annual
burden
hours

Annual
labor
costs

Changes in burden hours
and labor costs
Annual
burden
hours

Annual
labor
costs

Subpart A: Manufacturer Communications § 579.5 (Table 1) ..................................
Subpart B: Foreign Reporting (Tables 2 & 3) ...........................................................
Subpart C: EWR Submissions and Quarterly Reporting (Tables 4 & 6⁄8) ................
Computer Maintenance (Table 9) .............................................................................

2,074
1,590
14,731
35,415

$92,817
139,464
621,260
1,585,861

1,468
1,677
14,319
33,863

$78,387
164,021
724,128
1,809,612

* (606)
87
* (412)
* (1,552)

* ($14,430)
24,557
102,868
223,751.

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

53,810

2,439,402

51,327

2,776,148

* (2,483)

336,746

* Reduction from currently approved ICR.

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The burden estimates show an overall
decrease in annual burden hours of
2,483 hours and an increase in annual
labor costs of $336,746 from the part
579 information collection request
approved in April 2022. These represent
a decrease of 4.6 percent in burden
hours and an increase of 13.8 percent in
labor costs. The changes in annual
burden hours are due to changes in the
number of submissions in tables 1, 2,
and 6 and changes in the number of
manufacturers reporting in each
category in tables 4 and 9. Most of the
decrease resulted from corrections in
the number of manufacturers reporting
subpart C information in the bus,
emergency, and medium and heavy
vehicle categories. The changes in
annual labor costs are also affected by
reductions in manufacturer counts and
burden hours but are offset by increases
in labor costs for the manufacturer
employee positions required for
reporting part 579 information. The
wage estimates have been adjusted to
reflect the latest available rates from the
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
NHTSA estimates the collection
requires no additional costs to the
respondents beyond the labor costs
associated with the burden hours to
collect and submit the reports to
NHTSA and the labor hours and
associated labor costs for computer
maintenance.
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects of this

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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.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29A.

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have been placed on OFAC’s Specially
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OFAC’s determination that one or more
applicable legal criteria were satisfied.
All property and interests in property
subject to U.S. jurisdiction of these
individuals and entity are blocked, and
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This action was issued on
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DATES:

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OFAC: Associate Director for Global
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