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travel regulations. Reimbursement is 

subject to funding availability. 

III. What is the process for submitting 

applications/nominations? 

Individuals can self-apply or be 

nominated by any individual or 

organization. To be considered for the 

MTSNAC, applicants/nominators 

should submit the following 

information: 

(1) Contact Information for the 

nominee, consisting of: 

a. Name 

b. Title 

c. Organization or Affiliation 

d. Address 

e. City, State, Zip 

f. Telephone number 

g. Email address 

(2) Statement of interest limited to 

250 words on why the nominee wants 

to serve on the MTSNAC and the unique 

perspectives and experiences the 

nominee brings to the Committee; 

(3) Resume limited to 3 pages 

describing professional and academic 

expertise, experience, and knowledge, 

including any relevant experience 

serving on advisory committees, past 

and present; 

(4) An affirmative statement that the 

nominee is not a federally registered 

lobbyist seeking to serve on the 

Committee in their individual capacity 

and the identity of the interests they 

intend to represent, if appointed as 

member of the Committee; and 

(5) Optional letters of support. 

Please do not send company, trade 

association, organization brochures, or 

any other promotional information. 

Materials submitted should total five 

pages or less and must be in a 12 font, 

formatted in Microsoft Word or PDF. 

Should more information be needed, 

MARAD staff will contact the nominee, 

obtain information from the nominee’s 

past affiliations, or obtain information 

from publicly available sources. Those 

interested in applying to become a 

member of the Committee, may send a 

completed application package by email 

listed in the ADDRESSES section. Please 

note that, due to circumstances relating 

to the COVID–19 public health 

emergency, we will only accept 

electronic submissions. If electronic 

submission is problematic for you, 

please call the Designated Federal 

Officer for other options. Applications 

must be received by the deadline listed 

in the DATES section; however, 

candidates are encouraged to send 

application any time before the 

deadline. 

IV. How will MARAD select MTSNAC 

members? 

A selection team comprising 

representatives from MARAD will 

review the application packages. The 

selection team will make 

recommendations regarding 

membership to the Administrator based 

on the following criteria: (1) 

Professional or academic expertise, 

experience, and knowledge; (2) 

stakeholder representation; (3) 

availability and willingness to serve; (4) 

relevant experience in working in 

committees and advisory panels; and (5) 

the MTSNAC Charter and Membership 

Balance Plan. Nominations are open to 

all individuals without regard to race, 

color, religion, sex, national origin, age, 

mental or physical disability, marital 

status, or sexual orientation. 

(Authority: 49 CFR part 1.93(a); 5 U.S.C. 

552b; 41 CFR parts 102–3; 5 U.S.C. app. 

Sections 1–16) 

* * * * * 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Dated: January 5, 2021. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00121 Filed 1–7–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2020–0018] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Reducing the Illegal 

Passing of School Buses 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments on a new information 

collection. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), this notice announces that the 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

abstracted below is being submitted to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval. The ICR 

describes the nature of the information 

collection and its expected burden. This 

new information collection seeks to 

assess the knowledge of drivers 

nationwide about the laws governing 

passing a school bus. A Federal Register 

notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting public comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on July 17, 2020. By the close 

of the comment period, NHTSA 

received six comments. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before February 8, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, 

should be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget at 

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

To find this particular information 

collection, select ‘‘Currently under 

Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or 

use the search function. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

additional information or access to 

background documents, contact Kristin 

Rosenthal, Highway Safety Specialist, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, W44–245, 

Washington, DC 20590. Ms. Rosenthal’s 

phone number is 202–366–8995, and 

her email address is kristin.rosenthal@

dot.gov. Please identify the relevant 

collection of information by referring to 

its OMB Control Number. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal 

agency must receive approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) before it collects certain 

information from the public and a 

person is not required to respond to a 

collection of information by a Federal 

agency unless the collection displays a 

valid OMB control number. In 

compliance with these requirements, 

this notice announces that the following 

information collection request has been 

submitted to OMB. A Federal Register 

notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting public comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on July 17, 2020 (85 FR 

43645). NHTSA received six comments 

by the close of the comment period. The 

National Transportation Safety Board 

(NTSB), the National School 

Transportation Association (NSTA), and 

David DeVeau provided comments 

supportive of the proposed information 

collection. Gardian Angel, LLC (which 

submitted the same comment twice) 

also provided comments regarding the 

proposed collection but expressed 

concerns about not including the recent 

NTSB recommendations adopted on 

March 31, 2020. Gardian Angel, LLC 

raised the concern that the data 

collection should address the NTSB 

recommendation, which includes 

evaluating various technologies as well 

as the inclusion of Gardian Angel, LLC 

products. To the comment regarding the 

inclusion of Gardian Angel, LLC 

products, NHTSA does not endorse 

specific products. This study is focused 


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on assessing a high-visibility 

enforcement approach that includes the 

use of automated cameras on the school 

bus. NHTSA will take under 

consideration the suggestion to evaluate 

other technologies at another time. One 

anonymous post asked NHTSA to 

include pedestrian and bicyclist safety; 

however, this data collection is specific 

to school buses. We appreciate the 

comments from NTSB, NSTA, Gardian 

Angel, LLC, and the individual who 

provided comment and thank them for 

thoughtfully considering the described 

program. 

Title: Reducing the Illegal Passing of 

School Buses. 

OMB Control Number: New. 

Form Number: 1559. 

Type of Request: Request for approval 

of a new information collection. 

Type of Review Requested: Regular. 

Length of Approval Requested: Three 

years from date of approval. 

Affected Public: Drivers in the 

AmeriSpeak panel run by National 

Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the 

University of Chicago and driver 

volunteers in two selected communities. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: The National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 

was established by the Highway Safety 

Act of 1970 to reduce deaths, injuries, 

and economic losses due to road traffic 

crashes on the Nation’s highways. Even 

though every State has a law requiring 

drivers to stop for a stopped school bus 

displaying flashing red lights, illegal 

passing of stopped school buses is a 

frequent occurrence across the country. 

Title 23, Section 403 of the United 

States Code gives the Secretary 

authorization to use funds appropriated 

to conduct research and development 

activities, including demonstration 

projects and the collection and analysis 

of highway and motor vehicle safety 

data and related information needed to 

carry out that section. NHTSA seeks to 

assess the knowledge and attitudes of 

drivers nationwide about the laws 

governing passing a school bus (under 

the specific State laws where the driver 

lives) as a function of varying roadway 

configurations, flashing yellow and red 

light deployment on the school bus, and 

activation of the stop swing arm on the 

bus. 

To make this assessment, NHTSA will 

conduct a study that consists of two 

new voluntary surveys of drivers in the 

general public. The first survey will 

collect data from current drivers of 

motor vehicles in the AmeriSpeak panel 

who volunteer to participate. 

AmeriSpeak is funded and operated by 

National Opinion Research Center 

(NORC) at the University of Chicago and 

is a probability-based panel designed to 

be representative of the U.S. household 

population to take part in online and 

telephone surveys. Screening and data 

collection for this national survey will 

take place in the respondents’ homes or 

wherever respondents choose to operate 

their own computer, laptop, or mobile 

device. The second will evaluate the 

effectiveness of a high visibility 

enforcement (HVE) program, including 

the use of automated cameras on the 

school bus in two communities, aimed 

at reducing violations of the school bus 

passing laws. A survey in each 

community before and after the HVE 

application will be part of the 

evaluation. Screening and data 

collection for the community survey 

will take place on a computer or tablet 

provided by the study at a public venue 

frequented by drivers across the 

socioeconomic and demographic 

spectra, such as a mall or motor vehicle 

department office. All collection of data 

will be anonymous. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information: NHTSA’s mission is to 

save lives, prevent injuries, and reduce 

economic costs due to road traffic 

crashes, through education, research, 

safety standards and enforcement 

activity. The agency develops, 

promotes, and implements educational, 

enforcement, engineering, and 

emergency response programs with the 

goal of ending preventable tragedies and 

reducing economic costs associated 

with vehicle use and highway travel. 

One highway safety problem NHTSA 

has been following closely involves 

school children struck by passing 

motorists while entering or exiting a 

stopped school bus with its red lights 

flashing and its stop arm extended. Even 

though there have been some highlypublicized child fatalities of this type 

and the annual national stop-arm 

violation count by the National 

Association of State Directors of Pupil 

Transportation Services (NASDPTS) 

continues to show a surprisingly high 

incidence of these illegal passes, to date, 

no national survey has assessed the 

levels of driver knowledge and 

understanding of the laws regarding 

passing of school buses. The findings 

from this proposed collection of 

information will assist NHTSA in 

designing, targeting, and implementing 

programs intended to mitigate illegal 

passing of school buses on the roadways 

and to provide data to States, localities, 

and law enforcement agencies that will 

aid in their efforts to reduce crashes and 

injuries due to illegal school bus 

passing. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The study anticipates collecting 3,000 

responses to the national survey from 

members of the AmeriSpeak panel. It is 

estimated that up to 3,400 AmeriSpeak 

panelists will have to be screened to 

obtain 3,100 qualified volunteers who 

take the national survey (100 of these 

volunteers are estimated not to complete 

the entire survey). For the community 

surveys, NHTSA estimates that 400 

volunteers will have to be screened for 

each wave (400 for the before-program 

implementation and 400 for the afterprogram implementation) for each of the 

two communities. Therefore, a total of 

1,600 volunteers will have to be 

screened for the estimated yield of 300 

completed surveys for each wave for the 

two communities, or 1,200 total 

responses in the two waves of 

community surveys at the two selected 

sites. 

Frequency of Collection: Respondents 

will only respond to the national survey 

request a single time during the study 

period. The community survey will be 

conducted twice at the same locations 

in each of the two selected communities 

over a period of approximately 10 

months. Therefore, an extremely small 

possibility exists that an individual 

might be invited to participate more 

than once for the community survey. If 

an individual is asked to participate a 

second time, they will be prompted to 

decline. 

Estimated Time per Participant: Both 

the national and community surveys 

will be administered via an internethosted survey on a tablet or other small 

computer. The national and community 

surveys will have the same core items 

related to knowledge of and attitudes 

towards school bus passing laws. The 

community survey will have additional 

items about awareness of 

countermeasure program activities and 

basic respondent demographic 

information. Demographic information 

for the panelists in the national survey 

is part of their AmeriSpeak profile. The 

intent is for each participant to 

complete a survey only once. However, 

no identifying information will be 

collected for the community survey, so 

a slight possibility exists that an 

individual will participate more than 

once. The estimated average time to 

complete the survey per participant in 

either the national or community 

sample is 15 minutes. The screening 

involving (1) reading a recruitment 

communication, such as an email or 

listening to a researcher describe the 

study, and (2) determining an 

individual’s eligibility (e.g., 18+ years 

old, current driver, lives in the 

community being studied) can take up 


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to three minutes for the community 

surveys and two minutes for the 

national survey. 

Total Estimated Annual Burden 

Hours: 1,268 hours for the total study. 

NHTSA estimates that for the 3,400 

AmeriSpeak panelists that will have to 

be screened, the estimated total burden 

is 113 hours (3,400 × 2 min./60). For the 

3,100 qualified volunteers who take the 

national survey, the estimated total 

burden hours are 775 hours (3,100 × 15 

min./60), yielding at least 3,000 fully 

completed surveys. Likewise, the total 

estimated burden for the maximum of 

1,600 potential participants to be 

screened for the community survey (400 

per wave × 2 communities x 2 waves) 

is 80 hours (1,600 × 3 min./60). The 

estimated total burden hours for the 

1,200 fully completed surveys (300 per 

wave × 2 communities × 2 waves) is 300 

hours (1,200 × 15 min./60). Table 1 

provides a summary of the burden hours 

per survey. 

Participant group Form name 

Number of 

responses 

per participant 

Estimate burden per 

response 

(min.) 

Number of 

participants 

Total burden 

hours 

National Survey ........................................ Screening .................................. 1 2 3,400 113 

National Survey ........................................ Online Survey ........................... 1 15 3,100 775 

Community Survey ................................... Screening .................................. 1 3 1,600 80 

Community Survey ................................... Online Survey ........................... 1 15 1,200 300 

Total .................................................. ................................................... ........................ ........................ ........................ 1,268 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: 

The only cost to participants will be 

time spent responding to the screening 

and the subsequent survey if they 

volunteer. Participants who volunteer 

and begin the survey will receive 

compensation for this time. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the proposed collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(c) ways for the department to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses 

without reducing the quality of the 

collected information. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as 

amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 

1351.29. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2021–00136 Filed 1–7–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. DOT–NHTSA–2020–0103] 

National Emergency Medical Services 

Advisory Council Notice of Public 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the National Emergency 

Medical Services Advisory Council 

(NEMSAC). 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

February 10–11, 2021, from 9:00 a.m. to 

5:00 p.m. EST. 

Requests to attend the meeting must 

be received by February 5, 2021. 

Requests for accommodations to a 

disability must be received by February 

5, 2021. 

If you wish to speak during the 

meeting, you must submit a written 

copy of your remarks to DOT by 

February 5, 2021. 

Requests to submit written materials 

to be reviewed during the meeting must 

be received no later than February 5, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held 

virtually. Copies of the meeting minutes 

will be available on the NEMSAC 

internet website at EMS.gov. The 

detailed agenda will be posted on the 

NEMSAC internet website at EMS.gov at 

least one week in advance of the 

meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Clary Mole, EMS Specialist, DOT, at 

Clary.Mole@DOT.gov or 202–366–2795. 

Any committee related requests should 

be sent to the person listed in this 

section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The NEMSAC was established 

pursuant to Section 31108 of the 

Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st 

Century (MAP–21) Act of 2012, under 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act. 

The purpose of NEMSAC is to serve as 

a nationally recognized council of 

emergency medical services (EMS) 

representatives to provide advice and 

consult with: 

a. The Federal Interagency Committee 

on Emergency Medical Services 

(FICEMS) on matters relating to EMS 

issues; and 

b. The Secretary of Transportation on 

matters relating to EMS issues affecting 

DOT. 

The NEMSAC provides an important 

national forum for the non-Federal 

deliberation of national EMS issues and 

serves as a platform for advice on DOT’s 

national EMS activities. NEMSAC also 

provides advice and recommendations 

to the FICEMS. NEMSAC is authorized 

under Section 31108 of the MAP–21 Act 

of 2012, codified at 42 U.S.C. 300d–4. 

II. Agenda 

At the meeting, the agenda will cover 

the following topics: 

• Updates from Federal Emergency 

Services Liaisons 

• Emergency Services Personnel Safety 

and Wellness 

• Information on FICEMS Initiatives 

• Update on NHTSA Initiatives 

• Committee Reports 

III. Public Participation 

The meeting will be open to the 

public. Members of the public who wish 


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