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REPORTING BURDEN—Continued 

CFR section Respondent universe Total annual 

responses 

Average time per 

response 

Total annual 

burden hours 

—Updated reflectorization implementation plans.685 Railroads/car owners ...................... 5 Failure Reports ... 2 hours ................... 10 hours. 

—Failure reports ............................. 685 Railroads/car owners ...................... 172 reports//forms .. 20 hours ................. 3,440 hours. 

II. Existing Cars with retroreflective 

sheeting (b). Locomotives.

685 Railroads/car owners ...................... 35 reports/forms ..... 15 minutes ............. 9 hours. 

—Existing locomotives w/o 

retroreflective sheeting.

685 Railroads/car owners ...................... 35 reports/forms ..... 3 hours ................... 105 hours. 

—Updated reflectorization implementation plans.685 Railroads/car owners ...................... 1 Failure Report ..... 2 hours ................... 2 hours. 

—Failure reports ............................. 685 Railroads/car owners ...................... 617 reports/forms ... 4 hours ................... 2,468 hours. 

II. Existing locomotives with 

retroreflective sheeting 

224.109—Inspection, repair, replacement—fr. cars.AAR + 300 car shops ............................ 240,000 Notificat .... 10 minutes ............. 40,000 hours. 

—Locomotives: records of restriction.22,800 Locomotives ............................... 4,560 records ......... 3 minutes ............... 228 hours. 

Total Responses: 246,300. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

56,787 hours. 

Status: Regular Review. 

Pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 3507(a) and 5 

CFR 1320.5(b), 1320.8(b)(3)(vi), FRA 

informs all interested parties that it may 

not conduct or sponsor, and a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501–3520. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on January 7, 

2011. 

Kimberly Coronel, 

Director, Office of Financial Management, 

Federal Railroad Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2011–570 Filed 1–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[U.S. DOT Docket No. NHTSA–2010–0179] 

Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping 

Requirements 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Request for public comment on 

proposed collection of information. 

SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can 

collect certain information from the 

public, it must receive approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Under procedures established 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, before seeking OMB approval, 

Federal agencies must solicit public 

comment on proposed collections of 

information, including extensions and 

reinstatements of previously approved 

collections. 

This document describes the 

collection of information for which 

NHTSA intends to seek OMB approval. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before March 14, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by DOT Docket ID Number 

NHTSA–2010–0179 using any of the 

following methods: 

Electronic submissions: Go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the on-line 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

M–30, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590. 

Hand Delivery: West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Instructions: Each submission must 

include the Agency name and the 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Alan Block, Contracting Officer’s 

Technical Representative, Office of 

Behavioral Safety Research (NTI–131), 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., W46–499, Washington, DC 

20590. Mr. Block’s phone number is 

202–366–6401 and his email address is 

alan.block@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before an agency submits a proposed 

collection of information to OMB for 

approval, it must 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 regulations (at 

5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask 

for public comment on the following: 

(I) 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; 

(ii) 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; 

(iii) How to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(iv) How to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

In compliance with these 

requirements, NHTSA asks public 

comment on the following proposed 

collection of information: 

Demonstration Tests of Different High 

Visibility Enforcement Models 

Type of Request—New information 

collection requirement. 

OMB Clearance Number—None. 

Form Number—NHTSA Forms 1121, 

1122, 1123. 

Requested Expiration Date of 

Approval—3 years from date of 

approval. 


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Summary of the Collection of 

Information—The National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 

proposes to collect information from the 

public to evaluate three programs of 

sustained enforcement of the drinking 

and driving laws. The programs will 

extend over a period of 2 years. A 

baseline wave of telephone interviews 

with residents in 3 program sites and 2 

comparison sites not carrying out a 

demonstration program will be 

conducted prior to the start of the 

enforcement program. Additional 

telephone survey waves will be 

conducted at each of the 5 sites at 

approximately 6 month intervals 

following the baseline survey wave until 

a final telephone survey wave is 

conducted after the conclusion of the 

program, for a total of 5 telephone 

survey waves including the baseline. 

Sample size for the program sites will be 

1,200 while sample size for the 

comparisons sites will be 500, totaling 

23,000 interviews. During the 3rd and 

5th survey waves, 50 individuals 

interviewed during the baseline wave at 

each of the sites will be re-interviewed. 

This will add 500 interviews, for a 

grand total of 23,500 telephone 

interviews over a period of 

approximately 26 months. The survey 

will ask questions about drinking 

behavior, awareness of the enforcement 

program, impressions of the program’s 

effectiveness and utility, and perceived 

risk of alcohol-impaired drivers being 

stopped by law enforcement officers. 

Interview length will average 10 

minutes. 

Augmenting the telephone surveys at 

each of the 3 program sites will be data 

collected from individuals at locations 

where there is an increased likelihood 

of persons at high risk of driving while 

alcohol-impaired, i.e., at bars. Data will 

be collected from 100 bar patrons 

concurrent with each of the 5 telephone 

survey waves for a total of 1,500 faceto-face interviews. Interview length will 

average 5 minutes and ask about 

awareness of the program and perceived 

risk of alcohol-impaired drivers being 

stopped by law enforcement officers. 

Data will also be collected from 

drivers at the program and comparison 

sites through a roadside survey before, 

midway, and after the 2-year 

intervention period. Breath samples will 

be obtained to identify any changes in 

the distribution of roadside BACs 

(Blood Alcohol Concentration) across 

data collection periods, and the drivers 

will also be administered a 5-minute 

face-to-face interview. Sample size will 

be 100 drivers per site per data 

collection wave, for a total of 1,500 

drivers. The interviews will collect 

information on program awareness and 

perceived risk of an alcohol-impaired 

driver being stopped by law 

enforcement officers. 

In conducting the proposed telephone 

interviews, the interviewers would use 

computer-assisted telephone 

interviewing to reduce interview length 

and minimize recording errors. The 

proposed data collection at bars and the 

roadside survey would be anonymous; 

they would not collect any personal 

information that would allow anyone to 

identify respondents. The telephone 

interviews during wave 1 will include 

some collection of personally 

identifying information in order to 

conduct a small number of re-interviews 

during waves 3 and 5. However, that 

information will be held exclusively by 

the survey contractor, protected from 

disclosure to any other parties, and 

destroyed once no longer needed for recontacting prospective respondents. 

Moreover, the personally identifiable 

information will be separated from the 

survey responses. No personally 

identifiable information will be 

collected during telephone survey 

waves 2 through 5. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information—NHTSA was established 

to reduce the number of deaths, injuries, 

and economic losses resulting from 

motor vehicle crashes on the Nation’s 

highways. As part of this statutory 

mandate, NHTSA is authorized to 

conduct research as a foundation for the 

development of motor vehicle standards 

and traffic safety programs. 

The heavy toll that alcohol-impaired 

driving exacts on the nation in fatalities, 

injuries, and economic costs is well 

documented. High visibility 

enforcement has historically had the 

strongest support in the research 

literature for effectiveness in reducing 

alcohol-impaired driving. Studies have 

demonstrated that prolonged 

commitment to highly visible and wellpublicized enforcement of the drinking 

and driving laws, with enforcement and 

communication activities conducted on 

a regular basis, can result in substantial 

reduction in alcohol-related and 

alcohol-impaired driving crashes. In 

practice, however, law enforcement 

agencies have consolidated their high 

visibility alcohol enforcement efforts 

into a small number of enforcement 

waves that occur each year. The high 

visibility enforcement becomes an 

enhanced form of enforcement rather 

than something that the officers 

normally do. Thus attempting to sustain 

the high visibility enforcement over 

time entails determining how law 

enforcement agencies can integrate high 

visibility enforcement of the drinking 

and driving laws so that it is not 

producing an extra burden for officers 

but is rather a normal and regular part 

of their work. 

NHTSA plans to demonstrate three 

community programs of high visibility 

enforcement of the drinking and driving 

laws. Two of those programs will be 

designed as fully integrated high 

visibility enforcement programs. Since 

many law enforcement agencies would 

be unable to move directly to a fully 

integrated program, a third program will 

be demonstrated that is operating at an 

intermediate level between current 

common practice and full integration. 

NHTSA will collect information to 

assess the extent to which the programs 

penetrate public awareness, how 

effective the programs are perceived by 

residents in the intervention 

communities, and whether changes 

occur over the course of the programs in 

the perceived risk of an alcoholimpaired driver being stopped by law 

enforcement officers. Because the 

alcohol crash fatality problem is 

concentrated among certain groups, 

particular attention will be paid to 

assessing this information for drivers 

most likely to drive at BACs above the 

legal limit. In addition to self-report 

information, NHTSA will collect 

roadside BAC data to obtain a measure 

of the distribution of BACs among 

drivers on the road. 

NHTSA will use the findings from 

this proposed collection of information 

to assist States, localities, and law 

enforcement agencies to design and 

implement sustained programs of high 

visibility enforcement of the drinking 

and driving laws. 

Description of the Likely Respondents 

(Including Estimated Number, and 

Proposed Frequency of Response to the 

Collection of Information)—Under this 

proposed effort, the Contractor would 

conduct 23,500 telephone interviews, 

1,500 face-to-face interviews with bar 

patrons, and 1,500 face-to-face 

interviews with drivers who participate 

during roadside surveys. The telephone 

interviews will be conducted with 

drivers age 18 and older in the five 

selected communities, with oversampling of drivers 18 through 34. 

Interview length will average 10 

minutes. Interviews would be 

conducted with drivers at residential 

phone numbers selected through 

random digit dialing. Businesses are 

ineligible for the sample and would not 

be interviewed. A total of 250 

respondents who complete the 

interview during the initial baseline 

survey wave will be administered the 

survey two additional times separated 


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by 1-year intervals, for a total of three 

administrations of the survey over 

slightly more than a 2 year period. All 

other members of the sample will be 

administered the survey one time only. 

The interviews with bar patrons will 

be conducted with individuals 21 years 

of age and older. Interview length will 

average approximately 5 minutes, and 

each member of the sample would 

complete one interview. Businesses are 

ineligible for the sample and would not 

be interviewed. 

The roadside survey interviews will 

be conducted with drivers 18 and older. 

Interviews would average 5 minutes, 

and each member of the sample would 

complete one interview. Businesses are 

ineligible for the sample and would not 

be interviewed. 

Estimate of the Total Annual 

Reporting and Record Keeping Burden 

Resulting from the Collection of 

Information—NHTSA estimates that 

respondents would require an average of 

10 minutes to complete the telephone 

interviews or a total of 3,917 hours for 

the 23,500 respondents. The interviews 

with bar patrons will average 5 minutes 

or a total of 125 hours for the 1,500 

respondents. The roadside survey 

interviews will also average 5 minutes 

or a total of 125 hours for the 1,500 

respondents. The total number of 

estimated reporting burden hours on the 

general public would be 4,167. The 

annual reporting burden would be 1,923 

hours based on a 26 month data 

collection period. The respondents 

would not incur any reporting cost from 

the information collection. The 

respondents also would not incur any 

record keeping burden or record 

keeping cost from the information 

collection. 

Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(2)(A). 

Jeffrey Michael, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2011–645 Filed 1–12–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

Petition for Exemption From the 

Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard; 

Ford Motor Company 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA). 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Grant of petition for exemption. 

SUMMARY: This document grants in full 

the Ford Motor Company’s (Ford) 

petition for an exemption of the Fusion 

vehicle line in accordance with 49 CFR 

Part 543, Exemption from the Theft 

Prevention Standard. This petition is 

granted because the agency has 

determined that the antitheft device to 

be placed on the line as standard 

equipment is likely to be as effective in 

reducing and deterring motor vehicle 

theft as compliance with the partsmarking requirements of the 49 CFR 

Part 541, Federal Motor Vehicle Theft 

Prevention Standard. 

DATES: The exemption granted by this 

notice is effective beginning with the 

2012 model year. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Carlita Ballard, Office of International 

Policy, Fuel Economy and Consumer 

Programs, NHTSA, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Ms. Ballard’s telephone number is (202) 

366–0846. Her fax number is (202) 493– 

2990. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In a 

petition dated September 21, 2010, Ford 

requested an exemption from the partsmarking requirements of the Theft 

Prevention Standard (49 CFR Part 541) 

for the MY 2012 Ford Fusion vehicle 

line. The petition requested an 

exemption from parts-marking pursuant 

to 49 CFR Part 543, Exemption from 

Vehicle Theft Prevention Standard, 

based on the installation of an antitheft 

device as standard equipment for an 

entire vehicle line. 

Under § 543.5(a), a manufacturer may 

petition NHTSA to grant exemptions for 

one vehicle line per model year. Ford 

has petitioned the agency to grant an 

exemption for its Fusion vehicle line 

beginning with MY 2012. In its petition, 

Ford provided a detailed description 

and diagram of the identity, design, and 

location of the components of the 

antitheft device for the Fusion vehicle 

line. Ford will install its ‘‘SecuriLock’’ 

passive transponder-based electronic 

immobilizer antitheft device as standard 

equipment on the vehicle line. Features 

of the antitheft device will include an 

electronic key, ignition lock, and a 

passive immobilizer. Ford stated that 

since it’s MY 2006 introduction, the 

Fusion has been equipped with the 

‘‘SecuriLock’’ device as standard 

equipment. The device does not 

incorporate an audible or visual alarm 

as standard equipment however, Ford 

stated that the Fusion vehicles will 

come equipped with a separate 

perimeter alarm system that utilizes 

both a visible and audible alarm if 

unauthorized access is attempted. 

Ford’s submission is considered a 

complete petition as required by 49 CFR 

543.7, in that it meets the general 

requirements contained in § 543.5 and 

the specific content requirements of 

§ 543.6. 

Ford stated that the devices 

integration of the transponder into the 

normal operation of the ignition key 

assures activation of the system. When 

the ignition key is turned to the ‘‘start’’ 

position, the transceiver module reads 

the ignition key code and transmits an 

encrypted message to the cluster. 

Validation of the key is determined and 

start of the engine is authorized once a 

separate encrypted message is sent to 

the powertrain control module/ 

transmission control module (PCM/ 

TCM). The powertrain will function 

only if the key code matches the unique 

identification key code previously 

programmed into the PCM. If the codes 

do not match, the engine starter, 

ignition and fuel systems will be 

disabled. Ford stated that the device 

functions automatically each time an 

engine start sequence occurs. Therefore, 

no owner/operator actions are required 

to deactivate the device. 

In addressing the specific content 

requirements of 543.6, Ford provided 

information on the reliability and 

durability of its proposed device. To 

ensure reliability and durability of the 

device, Ford conducted tests based on 

its own specified standards. Ford 

provided a detailed list of the tests 

conducted and believes that the device 

is reliable and durable since the device 

complied with its specified 

requirements for each test. 

Ford stated that incorporation of 

several features in both devices further 

support reliability and durability of the 

device. Specifically, some of those 

features include: encrypted 

communication between the 

transponder, control function and the 

power train control module; no moving 

parts; inability to mechanically override 

the device to start the vehicle; and the 

body control module/remote function 

actuator and the power train control 

module share security data that form 

matched modules during vehicle 

assembly that if separated from each 

other will not function in other vehicles. 

Ford stated that the Fusion will be 

equipped with several other standard 

antitheft features (i.e., a hood release, 

counterfeit resistant VIN plates, 

secondary VINs inscribed on the body, 

and an exterior key lock that will be 

located only on the driver door to limit 

cabin access). Ford also stated that the 

device’s encrypted transponder 

technology will make key duplication 

virtually impossible. 

Additionally, Ford noted that with the 

prevalence of electronic engine 

immobilizer systems on nearly all new 


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