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(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: 

Evaluation Surveys for Distracted and 

Unsafe Driving Interventions 

Type of Request: New information 

collection requirement. 

OMB Clearance Number: None. 

Form Number: This collection of 

information uses no standard forms. 

Requested Expiration Date of 

Approval: December 31, 2012. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: The National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 

proposes to conduct a series of 

telephone surveys that will examine the 

effectiveness of high visibility 

enforcement demonstration programs to 

increase public awareness of the 

dangers of distracted and unsafe driving 

behaviors associated with mobile 

electronic devices like cell phones. 

Participation by respondents would be 

voluntary. Survey topics would include 

awareness of program activities, 

awareness of enforcement activities, 

attitudes towards distracted driving, 

understanding of relevant traffic laws, 

and the frequency of various unsafe 

driving behaviors. 

In conducting the proposed survey, 

the interviewers would use computerassisted telephone interviewing to 

reduce interview length and minimize 

recording errors. A Spanish-language 

translation and bilingual interviewers 

would be used to minimize language 

barriers to participation. The proposed 

survey would be anonymous; the survey 

would not collect any personal 

information that would allow anyone to 

identify respondents. Participant names 

would not be collected during the 

interview and the telephone number 

used to reach the respondent would be 

separated from the data record prior to 

its entry into the analytical database. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information—The National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) 

was established by the Highway Safety 

Act of l970 (23 U.S.C. 101) to carry out 

a Congressional mandate to reduce the 

mounting number of deaths, injuries, 

and economic losses resulting from 

motor vehicle crashes on the Nation’s 

highways. In support of this mission, 

NHTSA proposes to conduct 

information collections to assess the 

effectiveness of interventions designed 

to assess the public’s awareness of the 

dangers of distracted driving and of 

using mobile electronic devices 

including cell phones. An essential part 

of this evaluation effort is to compare 

baseline and post-intervention measures 

of attitudes, intervention awareness, and 

(relevant) self-reported behavior to 

determine if the interventions were 

associated with changes on those 

indices. The proposed study, to be 

administered in the first quarter of 2010, 

and in each of the next three quarters 

thereafter, will collect data on topics 

included in NHTSA’s annual studies on 

the effectiveness of Click It or Ticket 

safety belt campaigns (and some 

additional topics), including: whether 

the driving public saw or heard paid 

media advertising about the high 

visibility enforcement campaign, 

whether they saw or heard increased 

law enforcement about the high 

visibility enforcement campaign, 

frequency of engaging in electronic 

mobile communication devices while 

driving, understanding of cell phone 

laws, attitudes about driving risk, and 

whether they had personally 

experienced increased law enforcement. 

The findings from this proposed 

collection of information will assist 

NHTSA in addressing the problem of 

distracted driving and in formulating 

programs and recommendations to 

Congress. NHTSA will use the findings 

to help focus current programs and 

activities to achieve the greatest benefit, 

to develop new programs to decrease 

the likelihood of distracted driving, and 

to provide informational support to 

States, localities, and law enforcement 

agencies that will aid them in their 

efforts to reduce distracted driving 

crashes. 

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 pre-intervention and postintervention surveys four times over the 

course of a year in demonstration sites 

and comparison sites. A total of 18 

telephone pretest interviews averaging 

10 minutes in length would be 

administered to test the computer 

programming of the questionnaire, and 

to determine if any last adjustments to 

the questionnaire are needed. Following 

any revisions carried out as a result of 

the pretest, the Contractor would 

conduct telephone interviews averaging 

approximately 10 minutes in length 

with 9,600 randomly selected member 

of the general public residing in the 

State(s) in which the demonstration 

program is taking place, age 16 and 

older, in telephone households and in 

cell phone only households. Interviews 

would be conducted with persons at 

residential phone numbers selected 

through random digit dialing. Federal 

law prohibits the use of auto dialing to 

call cell phones. Businesses are 

ineligible for the sample and would not 

be interviewed. No more than one 

respondent would be selected per 

household. Each member of the sample 

would complete one interview. 

Estimate of the Total Annual 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden 

Resulting From the Collection of 

Information—NHTSA estimates that the 

pretest interviews would require an 

average of 10 minutes apiece, or a total 

of 3 hours for the 18 respondents. Each 

respondent in the final survey sample 

would require an average of 10 minutes 

to complete the telephone interview or 

a total of 1,600 hours for the 9,600 

respondents. Thus, the number of 

estimated reporting burden hours a year 

on the general public would be 1,603 for 

the proposed survey. The respondents 

would not incur any reporting cost from 

the information collection. The 

respondents also would not incur any 

record keeping burden or recordkeeping 

cost from the information collection. 

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

Jeff Michael, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

Reports, Forms and Recordkeeping 

Requirements; Agency Information 

Collection Activity Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice 

announces that the Information 

Collection abstracted below has been 

forwarded to the Office of Management 

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approval. The nature of the information 

collection is described as well as its 

expected burden. The Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting comments on the following 

collection of information was published 

on April 6, 2009. A comment dated June 

5, 2009 was received, suggesting that the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD) 

amend its forms MA–29, MA–29A and 

MA–29B (Vessel Transfer Forms) to 

reference the applicability of the Toxic 

Substance Control Act (TSCA), and 40 

CFR 761.97, thereby reflecting the 

statutory and regulatory constraints 

regarding the export of United States 

documented vessels for scrapping or 

refit outside the United States. 

MARAD was given the mandate to (a) 

approve the transfer (the term transfer 

includes the sale, lease, charter, or 

agreement to sell, lease or charter to a 

person not a citizen of the United 

States) (46 U.S.C. 5610) of a United 

States documented vessel to a person 

who is not a citizen of the United States, 

and (b) approve the placement of a 

United States documented vessel under 

foreign registry and/or the operation of 

a United States documented vessel 

under the authority of a foreign country 

by a person who is not a citizen of the 

United States. Federal agencies 

generally may perform only those duties 

authorized by statute. 

MARAD’s forms collect the 

information we require to make a 

decision regarding the mandated 

transfer approvals. To collect additional 

information on the Vessel Transfer 

Forms would exceed our mandated 

authority. 

In order to deal with the issue of 

vessels being transferred for scrapping 

outside the United States, we have 

instituted a procedure of providing 

written notification to the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

of all foreign vessel transfer approvals at 

the time they are issued by the MARAD 

(Letter dated April 2, 2008, from 

Maritime Administrator to the 

Administrator of the EPA.). This will 

provide information to the EPA on 

where and when any demolition will 

take place. In addition, when an 

application for transfer includes a vessel 

leaving the U.S. registry for subsequent 

foreign disposal, the owner and/or 

buyer of the vessel are advised that the 

vessel may be subject to the TSCA and 

EPA implementing regulations. 

DATES: Comments for this notice must 

be submitted on or before September 9, 

2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jerome Davis, Maritime Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

202–366–0688; or E–Mail: 

jerome.davis@dot.gov. Copies of this 

collection also can be obtained from that 

office. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Maritime 

Administration (MARAD). 

Title: Request for Transfer of 

Ownership, Registry, and Flag, or 

Charter, Lease, or Mortgage of U.S.- 

Citizen Owned Documented Vessels. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0006. 

Type of Request: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Vessel owners who 

have applied for foreign transfer of U.S.- 

flag vessels. 

Forms: MA–29, MA–29A, MA–29B 

(Note: MA–29A is used only in cases of 

a National emergency). 

Abstract: This collection provides 

information necessary for MARAD to 

approve the sale, transfer, charter, lease, 

or mortgage of U.S. documented vessels 

to non-citizens, or the transfer of such 

vessels to foreign registry and flag, or 

the transfer of foreign flag vessels by 

their owners as required by various 

contractual requirements. The 

information will enable MARAD to 

determine whether the vessel proposed 

for transfer will initially require 

retention under the U.S.-flag statutory 

regulations. 

Annual Estimated Burden Hours: 120 

hours. 

Addresses: Send comments to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention 

MARAD Desk Officer. 

Comments Are Invited on: (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 

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. 

A comment to OMB is best assured of 

having its full effect if OMB receives it 

within 30 days of publication. 

Authority: 49 CFR 1.66. 

By order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Dated: July 30, 2009. 

Murray Bloom, 

Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket No. FRA–2009–0001–19] 

Proposed Agency Information 

Collection Activities; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Federal Railroad 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 

its implementing regulations, the 

Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) 

hereby announces that it is seeking 

renewal of the following currently 

approved information collection 

activities. Before submitting these 

information collection requirements for 

clearance by the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB), FRA is soliciting 

public comment on specific aspects of 

the activities identified below. 

DATES: Comments must be received no 

later than October 9, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments 

on any or all of the following proposed 

activities by mail to either: Mr. Robert 

Brogan, Office of Safety, Planning and 

Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 25, 

Washington, DC 20590, or Ms. Nakia 

Jackson, Office of Information 

Technology, RAD–20, Federal Railroad 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 

SE., Mail Stop 35, Washington, DC 

20590. Commenters requesting FRA to 

acknowledge receipt of their respective 

comments must include a self-addressed 

stamped postcard stating, ‘‘Comments 

on OMB control number 2130–0560.’’ 

Alternatively, comments may be 

transmitted via facsimile to (202) 493– 

6216 or (202) 493–6497, or via e-mail to 

Mr. Brogan at robert.brogan@dot.gov, or 

to Ms. Jackson at 

nakia.jackson@dot.gov. Please refer to 

the assigned OMB control number in 

any correspondence submitted. FRA 

will summarize comments received in 

response to this notice in a subsequent 

notice and include them in its 

information collection submission to 

OMB for approval. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Robert Brogan, Office of Planning and 

Evaluation Division, RRS–21, Federal 

Railroad Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 17, 

Washington, DC 20590 (telephone: (202) 

493–6292) or Ms. Nakia Jackson, Office 

of Information Technology, RAD–20, 

Federal Railroad Administration, 1200 

New Jersey Ave., SE., Mail Stop 35, 


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