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1Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) owns the track 

involved in this proposal. 

2The simulated service demonstration referenced 

by BLF will be conducted pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 

20170. 

valid for 2 years unless revoked earlier 

by FMCSA. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2023–18995 Filed 9–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Railroad Administration 

[Docket Number FRA–2022–0098] 

Petition for Waiver of Compliance 

Under part 211 of title 49 Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR), this 

document provides the public notice 

that on August 27, 2023, Brightline 

Trains Florida LLC (BLF) 1 petitioned 

the Federal Railroad Administration 

(FRA) for a waiver of compliance from 

49 CFR 213.353(e), Turnouts, 

crossovers, and lift rail assemblies or 

other transition devices on moveable 

bridges. For administrative 

convenience, FRA has placed BLF’s 

petition in Docket Number FRA–2022– 

0098. 

BLF explains that its request for relief 

is proposed to enable BLF to proceed 

with the critical testing processes of 

Positive Train Control (PTC) Field 

Qualification Testing (FQT), PTC 

Simulated Revenue Service 

Demonstration (SRSD), and Simulated 

Service Demonstration (SSD) 2 on the 

segment of its Phase 2 project 

connecting West Palm Beach, Florida, 

with Cocoa, Florida (Phase 2 N/S 

Corridor). As such, BLF requests that 

the waiver apply to train movements 

necessary in support of PTC Testing and 

crew qualification and would expire 

upon completion of SSD. 

Paragraph (e) of 49 CFR 213.353 

requires all hand operated switches to 

be equipped with a redundant operating 

mechanism for maintaining the security 

of switch point position. BLF notes that 

there are 55 hand operated switches in 

its Phase 2 N/S Corridor, although the 

proposed waiver would only apply to 31 

switches that are located in Class 6 

track. BLF explains existing mitigations 

will be in place for the purpose of 

completing testing and service 

demonstration (i.e., the PTC system will 

provide protection for improperly lined 

switches through enforcement of the 

protecting signals and after passing a 

signal, if a switch in the block becomes 

improperly lined, the automatic train 

control (ATC) system will enforce the 

most restrictive cab signal state). 

BLF asks for expedited review given 

scheduled start of the referenced testing. 

A copy of the petition, as well as any 

written communications concerning the 

petition, is available for review online at 

www.regulations.gov. 

Interested parties are invited to 

participate in these proceedings by 

submitting written views, data, or 

comments. FRA does not anticipate 

scheduling a public hearing in 

connection with these proceedings since 

the facts do not appear to warrant a 

hearing. If any interested party desires 

an opportunity for oral comment and a 

public hearing, they should notify FRA, 

in writing, before the end of the 

comment period and specify the basis 

for their request. 

All communications concerning these 

proceedings should identify the 

appropriate docket number and must be 

submitted to www.regulations.gov, with 

a copy to Carolyn Hayward-Williams, 

Director, Office of Railroad Systems and 

Technology, telephone: 202–493–6036, 

email: c.hayward-williams@dot.gov. 

Communications received by 

September 12, 2023 will be considered 

by FRA before final action is taken. FRA 

reserves the right to make an initial 

decision in this docket in advance of the 

close of the comment period and 

contingent upon subsequent 

consideration of any comments 

submitted to the docket within the 

comment period. 

Anyone can search the electronic 

form of any written communications 

and comments received into any of our 

dockets by the name of the individual 

submitting the comment (or signing the 

document, if submitted on behalf of an 

association, business, labor union, etc.). 

Under 5 U.S.C. 553(c), the U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT) 

solicits comments from the public to 

better inform its processes. DOT posts 

these comments, without edit, including 

any personal information the 

commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

https://www.transportation.gov/privacy. 

See also https://www.regulations.gov/ 

privacy-notice for the privacy notice of 

regulations.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

John Karl Alexy, 

Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, 

Chief Safety Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19034 Filed 9–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2023–0019] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; State Data Transfer for 

Vehicle Crash Information 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments on an extension with 

modification of a currently approved 

information collection. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), this notice announces that the 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

abstracted 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 

document describes a currently 

approved collection of information for 

which NHTSA intends to seek approval 

from OMB for extension with 

modification on NHTSA’s State Data 

Transfer for Vehicle Crash Information. 

A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day 

comment period soliciting comments on 

the following information collection 

was published on May 3, 2023. One 

supporting comment was received. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before October 5, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing 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 Liza 

Lemaster-Sandbank, Office of State Data 

Reporting System Division, (NSA– 

0130), (202) 366–4257, National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 

W53–306, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

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 


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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. 

A Federal Register notice with a 60- 

day comment period soliciting public 

comments on the following information 

collection was published on May 3, 

2023. 

Title: State Data Transfer (SDT) for 

Vehicle Crash Information. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0753. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Request: Modification a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Type of Review Requested: Regular. 

Length of Approval Requested: Three 

years from date of approval. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: The State Data Transfer 

(SDT) program is a voluntary collection 

of motor vehicle crash data. State 

agencies collect this information about 

motor vehicle crashes on Police 

Accident Reports (PARs) 1 for their own 

needs. In general, a PAR includes 

information about the vehicles and 

individuals involved in a crash, injuries 

or fatalities resulting from a crash, 

roadway information, environmental 

information, information to reconstruct 

the crash scenes, etc. The SDT is a 

process through which participating 

States transfer their PAR data to 

NHTSA. SDT has two components that 

NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics 

and Analysis (NCSA) calls protocols: 

1. The State Data System (SDS) 

protocol obtains PAR crash data from 

States that submit data on an annual 

basis to NCSA. The data is submitted 

via electronic media, such as encrypted 

CD–ROM/DVD, or through secured mail 

or a secure file transfer protocol (SFTP). 

Files submitted through the SDS 

protocol are referred to as ‘‘annual crash 

files.’’ 

2. The Electronic Data Transfer (EDT) 

protocol obtains PAR crash data, crash 

reports, and crash images from 

participating State crash systems 

through an electronic data transfer. 

Generally, this transfer occurs on a 

nightly basis following State data 

quality control checks and acceptance 

from each State’s centralized database. 

The information is transmitted using 

Extensible Markup Language (XML) or 

JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) files 

through a web service using Hypertext 

Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) 

protocol between a State’s crash data 

system and NHTSA. NHTSA started 

using this EDT protocol in 2015. The 

data NHTSA receives is in the States’ 

format, which is not standardized. 

NHTSA does not currently provide 

regular funding to the States to 

participate in EDT. 

On November 15, 2021, President 

Biden signed the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA or the 

Bipartisan Infrastructure Law), Public 

Law 117–58. Section 24108 (d) 

authorizes the Secretary of 

Transportation to establish the State 

Electronic Data Collection (SEDC) 

program to provide grants to States to 

establish, upgrade, and standardize their 

centralized statewide crash data 

repositories to enable electronic data 

collection, intrastate data sharing, and 

electronic data transfer to NHTSA. The 

objective is to increase the accuracy, 

timeliness, and accessibility of the data, 

including data related to fatalities 

involving vulnerable road users. 

Through SEDC, NHTSA will award 

grants to States to modernize or 

establish a centralized statewide crash 

data repository to enable full electronic 

data transfer to NHTSA, increase their 

alignment to the Model Minimum 

Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Sixth 

Edition data, and transmit the data in a 

standardized format to NHTSA. This 

information collection request is to 

modify NHTSA’s existing information 

collection for SDT to account for 

changes resulting from the new grant 

program. The new grant program will 

not only increase the number of States 

using the EDT protocol, but it will also 

request data standardization and 

increased alignment with the MMUCC. 

States awarded the SEDC grant will be 

referred to as SEDC States; States that 

continue to electronically transmit their 

crash data to NHTSA through the EDT 

protocol without SEDC grant funds will 

be referred to as non-SEDC States. 

The SDT process allows States to 

submit all their PAR data to NHTSA. 

NCSA uses this data to develop a census 

of the participating State’s crashes. The 

dataset helps NCSA identify existing 

and emerging highway safety trends and 

assess the effectiveness of motor vehicle 

safety standards and new and emerging 

technologies on vehicle and highway 

safety programs. NHTSA also uses the 

dataset to support NHTSA’s Corporate 

Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program. 

Specifically, NHTSA uses the data to 

analyze the effects vehicle mass has on 

fatalities in cost benefit analyses for 

CAFE rulemakings. 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information 

NHTSA utilizes the SDT data to 

identify existing and emerging highway 

safety trends, assess the effectiveness of 

motor vehicle safety standards, and 

study the impact of new and emerging 

technologies on vehicles and highway 

safety programs. For example, NHTSA 

combines data from the SDT with 

information about the type of advanced 

driver assistance systems (ADAS) on 

crash-involved vehicles to estimate the 

effectiveness of ADAS technologies 

such as lane keeping support, automatic 

emergency braking, and blind spot 

detection. 

NHTSA also uses the SDT data to 

automatically pre-populate the motor 

vehicle crash data it collects for several 

other NHTSA data collection programs. 

The following are brief descriptions of 

these data collection programs: 

• FARS (OMB Control No. 2127– 

0006) is a nationwide census of fatalities 

caused by motor vehicle traffic crashes. 

In addition to PAR data, FARS includes 

detailed information regarding the 

location of the crash, the vehicles, and 

the people involved. FARS cases can 

also include toxicology report data, 

medical records, medical examiner 

reports, etc.2

• CRSS (OMB Control No. 2127– 

0714) is a nationally representative 

sample of police-reported crashes 

involving all types of motor vehicles, 

pedestrians, and cyclists, ranging from 

property-damage-only crashes to those 

that result in fatalities. CRSS data 

elements are a subset of the data 

elements on each State’s PAR.3

• Investigation-based Crash Data 

Studies (OMB Control Number 2127– 

0706) includes CISS, SCI and Special 

Studies. CISS is a nationally 

representative sample of minor, serious, 

and fatal crashes involving at least one 

passenger vehicle—cars, light trucks, 

sport utility vehicles, and vans—towed 

from the scene. CISS collects data at 

both the crash level through scene 

analysis and the vehicle level through 

vehicle damage assessment together 

with injury coding. Data collected 

through CISS expands upon the 

information that is collected in a PAR.4

• The SCI Program provides NHTSA 

with the most in-depth crash data 

collected by the agency. The data 

collected ranges from basic information 

contained in routine police and 

insurance crash reports, to 

comprehensive data from special reports 

produced by professional crash 

investigation teams. Hundreds of data 

elements relevant to the vehicle, 


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occupants, injury mechanisms, 

roadway, and safety systems are 

collected for each of the over 100 

crashes designated for study annually. 

• The Non-Traffic Surveillance (NTS) 

is a data collection effort for collecting 

information about non-traffic crashes 

and non-crash incidents. The NTS data 

provide counts and details regarding 

fatalities and injuries that occur in nontraffic crashes and in non-crash 

incidents. The NTS non-traffic crash 

data are obtained through NHTSA’s data 

collection efforts for the Crash Report 

Sampling System (CRSS), the Crash 

Investigation Sampling System (CISS), 

and the Fatality Analysis Reporting 

System (FARS). NTS also includes data 

outside of NHTSA’s own data 

collections. NTS’ non-crash injury data 

is based upon emergency department 

records from a special study conducted 

by the Consumer Product Safety 

Commission’s National Electronic Injury 

Surveillance System (NEISS) All Injury 

Program. NTS non-crash fatality data is 

derived from death certificate 

information from the Centers for Disease 

Control’s National Vital Statistics 

System. 

• CIREN combines crash data 

collection with professional 

multidisciplinary analysis of medical 

and engineering evidence to determine 

injury causation in every crash 

investigation conducted. The mission of 

the CIREN is to improve the prevention, 

treatment, and rehabilitation of motor 

vehicle crash injuries to reduce deaths, 

disabilities, and human and economic 

costs. 

Before EDT, the transfer of motor 

vehicle crash data from a State’s crash 

data system to NHTSA’s FARS, CRSS 

and CISS required individuals to 

manually enter all State vehicle crash 

data into each of the crash data systems 

operated by NHTSA. The SDT 

program’s EDT protocol enabled 

NHTSA to automate the transfer of State 

motor vehicle crash data into NHTSA’s 

data collection systems and automate 

some of the data coding processes in 

FARS, CRSS and CISS. Through the 

SEDC program, participating States will 

build and modernize their centralized 

statewide crash data repositories and 

increase their alignment to the MMUCC 

Sixth Edition; NHTSA will receive more 

standardized and timely data and 

increase the usability of the data. 

NHTSA’s SDT program will reduce 

the burden of manual data entry and 

result in more accurate and timely data 

to help save lives, prevent injuries, and 

reduce economic costs due to motor 

vehicle crashes. 

In addition, the SDT data are made 

available to other DOT agencies, such as 

the Federal Highway Administration 

and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, to support their mission 

to save lives on our national roadways. 

The SDT data received through SEDC 

grant will be made available to public as 

required in BIL. 

60-Day Notice: NHTSA published a 

60-day notice in the Federal Register on 

May 3, 2023 (88 FR 27949). NHTSA 

received one comment in support of the 

data collection from the National 

Association of Mutual Insurance 

Companies (NAMIC). NAMIC 

emphasized the information collection 

is not only necessary but ‘‘critical for 

the proper performance of the functions 

of NHTSA and there is every reason to 

believe that the results of the study will 

have great practical utility.’’ 

Furthermore, NAMIC is interested in 

working with NHTSA on areas of 

studies and analysis. NAMIC is 

supportive of the Notice and strongly 

urges NHTSA to propose more wide and 

extensive auto safety data recording and 

reporting. 

Burden to Respondents: NHTSA has 

provided a description of the affected 

public, estimated number of 

respondents, description of frequency, 

and estimates of the total burden hours 

and costs for SDT. In aggregate, NHTSA 

estimates that the total annual burden is 

312,663 hours and $25,000,000. 

Program: SDT. 

Affected Public: This voluntary 

information collection involves State 

agencies that collect crash data. 

Specifically, the collection involves 

State governments, the District of 

Columbia government, U.S. Territory 

governments and the Secretary of the 

Interior, acting on behalf of an Indian 

Tribe. For purposes of this collection, 

we refer to the respondents generically 

as ‘‘States.’’ 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

43. 

There are currently 39 States 

participating in the SDT: 31 States 

participating using the SDS protocol, 

and 20 States participating using the 

EDT protocol. There are 15 States 

providing data using both protocols. 

NHTSA expects that in the next three 

(3) years, these thirty-nine (39) States 

will continue to submit their data using 

either SDS or EDT protocol. NHTSA 

also expects that, in the next three years, 

ten (10) out of the twenty (20) existing 

EDT States will apply and be awarded 

SEDC grants and start sending more 

MMUCC-aligned data to NHTSA; three 

(3) SDS States, that are not EDT States, 

will apply and be awarded SEDC grants 

and begin sending MMUCC-aligned data 

to NHTSA; and two (2) new States, 

neither SDS nor EDT participating 

States, will apply and be awarded SEDC 

grants and begin collecting and 

transmitting standardized data to 

NHTSA. Therefore, NHTSA estimates 

the total number of States participating 

in the SDT will increase by four (4), to 

a total of forty-three (43), which is the 

existing thirty-nine (39) SDT States plus 

the four (4) new SEDC States in the next 

three (3) years. 

Frequency: The frequency of this 

information collection varies State-byState, potentially from daily to annually, 

as agreed upon by NHTSA and the 

individual States. State participating in 

the SDS protocol typically send a file to 

NHTSA once a year with all the crashes 

occurring during a calendar year. States 

send these files when it has completed 

its quality control process. For the EDT 

States, the data is usually transferred 

every night with the crash cases that 

have completed the quality control 

process since the last nightly transfer. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 312,663 hours. 

As mentioned above, this information 

collection request is being updated to 

incorporate the burden hour and cost 

estimates for the new SEDC program 

under the EDT protocol. Due to the 

different requirements for SDS States, 

EDT non-SEDC States and EDT SEDC 

States, the annual burden for these three 

types of data transmissions is described 

separately below. 

SDS Protocol 

SDS information is obtained annually 

from States and is submitted in a more 

traditional method via electronic media 

through secured mail or a Secure File 

Transfer Protocol (SFTP). NHTSA 

assumes a participating State already 

has a centralized statewide crash data 

repository. Currently, thirty-one (31) 

States are voluntarily submitting their 

annual crash database to NHTSA, with 

five (5) States sending electronic media 

and twenty-six (26) states uploading the 

database to an SFTP site. Since NHTSA 

accepts the States’ centralized statewide 

crash data repository without changes, 

NHTSA estimates that it will require 

eight (8) hours for a State Database 

Administrator to save a copy of the 

State’s annual crash database onto a 

SFTP site or electronic media. We 

estimate an additional four (4) hours 

will be required for an administrative 

assistant to package and send the 

electronic media to NHTSA. Therefore, 

the burden hours for thirty-one (31) SDS 

States to save a copy of the State’s 

annual crash database onto a SFTP site 

or electronic media is 248 hours (8 

hours × 31 States). An additional burden 

for the five (5) SDS States to package 


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and send the electronic media to 

NHTSA is 20 hours (4 hours × 5 States). 

To estimate the labor cost associated 

with submitting the SDS information, 

NHTSA looked at wage estimates for the 

type of personnel involved with 

copying, packaging and sending the 

data. NHTSA estimates the total labor 

costs associated with copying the 

database by looking at the average wage 

for Database and Network 

Administrators and Architects. The 

Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) 

estimates that the average hourly wage 

for Database and Network 

Administrators and Architects 

(Standard Occupational Classification 

#15–1240, May 2021) is $49.25 5 The 

Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 

State and local government workers’ 

wages represent 61.9% of total labor 

compensation costs.6 Therefore, NHTSA 

estimates the hourly labor costs for 

copying the database to be $79.56 

($49.25 ÷ 61.9%) for Database and 

Network Administrator and Architects. 

The cost associated with the eight (8) 

hours of Database and Network 

Administrator labor is estimated to be 

$636.48 ($79.56 × 8 hours) per 

respondent. 

For the 5 States sending electronic 

media, NHTSA estimates the total labor 

costs for packing and sending the 

database by looking at the average wage 

for Secretaries and Administrative 

Assistants. The BLS estimates that the 

average hourly wage for Secretaries and 

Administrative Assistants (Standard 

Occupational Classification #43–6014, 

May 2021) is $21.76.7 By using the same 

estimate that wages represent 61.9% of 

the total compensation cost of labor, 

NHTSA estimates the total labor hour 

for packing and sending the database on 

electronic media to be $35.15 ($21.76 ÷ 

61.9%). Therefore, the cost associated 

with the four (4) hours to send the 

electronic media is estimated to be 

$140.60 ($35.15 × 4 hours) per 

respondent. 

Combining these copying, packing, 

and sending burden estimates for SDS, 

NHTSA estimates that the total burden 

hours associated with this collection 

will be 268 (248 + 20) hours and total 

labor cost associated with the collection 

will be $19,731 ($638.48 × 31 States) for 

copying, and $703 ($140.60 × 5 States) 

for packing and sending, for a total of 

$20,434 ($19,731 + $703) for the SDS 

protocol. 

States Using the EDT Protocol 

Due to the different requirements 

including data standardization and 

alignment to MMUCC for SEDC and 

non-SEDC State, the cost estimates for 

these two groups under EDT protocol 

will be different as described below. 

Non-SEDC States Using EDT Protocol 

The non-SEDC States using the EDT 

protocol burden hour estimate is based 

on the level of effort reported by the 

States that have fully implemented EDT. 

NHTSA estimates that in the next three 

years, there will not be any new States 

joining the twenty (20) States already 

participating in the SDT program using 

the EDT protocol. Any new State will 

participate in EDT by applying for the 

SEDC grant and meeting SEDC 

requirements. In addition, NHTSA 

estimates that over the next three years, 

starting in year two (10) existing EDT 

States will begin participating in the 

new SEDC grant program and will start 

sending data aligned to MMUCC. 

NHTSA estimates that in year one, year 

two and year three, the number of nonSEDC EDT states will be 20, 15 and 10, 

respectively. Therefore, NHTSA 

estimates that there will be, on average, 

fifteen (15) non-SEDC EDT protocol 

States in each of the next three years. 

Since these fifteen (15) non-SEDC States 

are already using the EDT protocol, the 

cost and burden estimates for these 

States only account for annual 

maintenance effort. The estimates 

assume a participating State already has 

a centralized statewide crash data 

repository. The hourly burden for 

maintenance on States associated with 

non-SEDC EDT is estimated at five (5) 

hours per year, based upon currently 

participating States’ experiences. This 

time is generally used to troubleshoot 

any connection issues or refine mapping 

protocols for any data elements that 

have changed. 

NHTSA estimates the cost for IT 

personnel burden hours using the 

Bureau of Labor Statistics’ mean wage 

estimate for Software and Web 

Developers, Programmers, and Testers 

(Standard Occupational Classification 

#15–1250, May 2021) of $54.68.8 The 

Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that 

for State and local government workers, 

wages represent 61.9% of total 

compensation.9 Therefore, the total 

hourly cost associated with the IT 

burden hours is estimated to be $88.34 

($54.68 ÷ 61.9%) per hour. 

Per the loaded labor rates for State IT 

staff outlined above, five (5) hours of 

work translates to an estimated total 

annual maintenance burden of $441.70 

($88.34 × 5 hours) per State respondent 

maintaining participation in the EDT 

program. NHTSA estimates that there 

will be, on average, 15 States 

participating in non-SEDC EDT program 

in each of the next three years. The total 

annual responses are 5,475 (15 EDT 

States × 365 nightly responses). 

Therefore, the annual maintenance cost 

for the States is a total of $6,626 

($441.70 × 15 States) per year. The 

number of total burden hours for the 15 

States is 75 hours (5 × 15 States). 

SEDC States Using EDT Protocol 

NHTSA published a Request for 

Information (RFI)10 from May 2, 2022, to 

July 15, 2022, to assist the agency with 

the development and implementation of 

a new discretionary grant program to 

increase the number of States, U.S. 

territories, and Indian tribes 

electronically transferring their motor 

vehicle crash data to the NHTSA. 

Sixteen (16) States and Territories 

responded to the RFI with cost 

information for updating their 

centralized statewide crash data 

repositories and aligning to previous 

versions of MMUCC. NHTSA used that 

information to inform NHTSA’s burden 

estimates and estimates the burden as 

follows. 

The cost and burden estimates for the 

EDT protocol are divided into two 

efforts: a one-time implementation 

effort, and an annual maintenance 

effort. To increase their alignment with 

the new MMUCC, the States will need 

to either develop a new electronic 

Police Accident Report (PAR) and build 

a centralized statewide crash data 

repository if they don’t already have one 

or update the existing PAR and 

centralized statewide crash data 

repository to increase their alignment to 

the new MMUCC. In addition, States 

will need to electronically transfer their 

data in a standardized format to 

NHTSA. NHTSA predicts the States will 

need to take the following specific 

actions: 

• Manually entering PAR data if there 

are legacy paper PARs to be input into 

the new and/or updated centralized 

statewide crash data repository. 

• Developing a new PAR to increase 

alignment with the updated MMUCC. 

• Adopting the new State PAR by law 

enforcement agencies. 

• Setting up information technology 

infrastructure for the electronic 

centralized statewide crash data 

repository. 

• Identifying and implementing the 

system changes to align with the 

updated MMUCC. 

• Developing a user guide, data 

dictionary and training materials for the 

new and/or updated data collection 

system. 

• Developing and implementing 

database and data warehouse for the 

data collection. 

• Developing and implementing data 

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from law enforcement agencies to 

centralized statewide crash data 

repository. 

• Developing and implementing edit 

and validation rules for quality 

assurance for the data collection. 

• Developing and implementing data 

transfer protocols for sharing data 

among States and sending data to 

NHTSA. 

• Integrating the reporting from other 

vendors if some law enforcement 

agencies within a state use other 

vendor’s software. 

• Creating data analytics and 

dashboard for data monitoring and 

reporting. 

NHTSA estimates the labor categories 

in the rows of Table 1 are required for 

the implementation of tasks above. 

Based on the information received from 

the RFI, NHTSA estimates the labor 

hours for implementation and 

maintenance for each labor category as 

in the column ‘‘Implementation Total 

Hours’’ and ‘‘Maintenance Total Hours’’ 

in Table 1. Labor category ‘‘Data Entry 

and Information Processing Workers’’ is 

needed when the States transition from 

a manual/paper system to an electronic 

system. Once the transition is complete, 

this labor category is no longer 

necessary and therefore is not included 

in the maintenance burden estimates. 

NHTSA uses the Bureau of Labor 

Statistics’ mean hourly wage estimate 

for each Labor Category in the column 

labeled ‘‘’Labor Rate w/o Fringe and 

Benefit’’ 11 in Table 1. The Bureau of 

Labor Statistics estimates that for State 

and local government workers, wages 

represent 61.9% of total 

compensation.12 Therefore, the total 

hourly rate with fringe and benefit 

associated with the burden hours is 

calculated as below as shown in column 

‘‘Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit’’ in 

Table 1. 

Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit = Labor 

Rate w/o Fringe Benefit ÷ Fringe 

Benefit Rate 

The total cost for implementation and 

maintenance in Table 1 are calculated as 

follows: 

Implementation Total Cost = 

Implementation Total Hours × 

Labor Rate with Fringe Benefit 

Maintenance Total Cost = Maintenance 

Total Hours × Labor Rate with 

Fringe Benefit 

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

Labor category Labor 

series 

Implementation 

total hours 

(hrs.) 

Maintenance 

total hours 

(hrs.) 

Implementation 

labor rate w/o 

fringe and benefit 

($/hr.) 

Overhead 

rate 

(%) 

Maintenance 

labor rate with 

Fringe and 

Benefit 

($/hr.) 

Implementation 

total labor cost 

(per state) 

($) 

Maintenance 

total labor cost 

(per state) 

($) 

Program manager ........... 11–3021 1,888 832 $78.33 61.90 $126.54 $238,908 $105,281 

Computer System Analyst 15–1211 5,080 160 49.14 61.90 79.39 403,301 12,702 

Web and Digital Interface 

Designer ...................... 15–1255 1,760 416 49.50 61.90 79.97 140,747 33,268 

Software Developer ......... 15–1252 10,240 1,280 58.17 61.90 93.97 962,253 120,282 

Web Developers .............. 15–1254 5,920 1,280 39.09 61.90 63.15 373,848 80,832 

Software Quality Assurance Analysts and 

Testers ......................... 15–1252 7,040 1,280 46.97 61.90 75.88 534,195 97,126 

Database Architects ........ 15–1243 3,520 960 58.58 61.90 94.64 333,133 90,854 

Information Security Analysts .............................. 15–1212 1,384 80 54.46 61.90 87.98 121,764 7,038 

Data Entry and Information Processing Workers ................................ 43–9020 4,192 ........................ 18.70 61.90 30.21 126,640 ........................

Total ......................... ................ 41,024 6,288 .............................. ................ ........................ 3,234,789 547,384 

Thus, total labor cost for SEDC EDT 

implementation cost per State are 

estimated to be $3,234,789 with burden 

hours to be 41,024. The total annual 

maintenance burden cost per year per 

State is estimated to be $547,384 with 

burden hour as 6,288. 

NHTSA anticipates that during the 

first year of the grant, States will be in 

the development and implementation 

phase, where data transmission is not 

expected. Beginning with year two (2), 

and into year three (3), it is estimated 

that approximately ten (10) States per 

year will start transmitting data to 

NHTSA using the EDT protocol. 

Therefore, the average of number of 

State to transmit data to NHTSA for the 

three (3) years is 7 ((10 +10) ÷ 3 = 6.77, 

rounded to the nearest integer). In this 

case during year three (3), there will be 

ten (10) states in maintenance phase. 

These are the ten (10) States which start 

transmission data to NHTSA during 

year two (2). The average number of 

states in maintenance phase is 4 (10 ÷ 

3 = 3.33, then round 3.33 up to the 

nearest integer which is 4). 

As NHTSA estimated that there will 

be average 7 new SEDC EDT States each 

year, the total implementation cost per 

year will be $22,643,526 (7 × 

$3,234,789) with burden hours as 

287,168 hours (7 × 41,024 hours); the 

average annual maintenance cost will be 

$2,189,536 (4 × $547,384) with burden 

hours as 25,152 hours (4 × 6,288 hours). 

The total SEDC EDT labor costs are 

$24,833,062 ($22,643,526 for 

implementation and $2,189,536 for 

annual maintenance). This estimate 

includes total labor costs to the State 

respondents, but States may choose to 

have contractors incur some or all of 

these labor cost. The total annual 

responses for SEDC EDT States are 4,015 

(11 EDT States × 365 nightly responses). 

Summary for SDT Burden Estimates 

The total estimated burden for SDT is 

312,663 hours (268 hours for SDS + 75 

hours for non-SEDC EDT + (287,168 

hours + 25,152 hours) for SEDC EDT) 

and total estimated labor cost is 

$24,860,121 ($20,434 for SDS + $6,626 

for non-SEDC EDT + ($22,643,526 + 

$2,1289,536) for SEDC EDT). 

A summary of the burden estimates 

for SDT is provided in Table 2. 


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TABLE 2—SUMMARY FOR ESTIMATED SDT BURDEN

Number of 

states Burden hours Labor cost ($) 

SDS Copying ............................................................................................................... 31 248 19,731 

SDS Packing and Sending .......................................................................................... 5 20 703 

Non-SEDC EDT Maintenance ..................................................................................... 15 75 4,270 

SEDC EDT Implementation ......................................................................................... 7 287,168 22,643,526 

SEDC EDT Maintenance ............................................................................................. 4 25,152 2,189,536 

Total ...................................................................................................................... ........................ 312,663 24,860,121 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: 

$25,000,000. 

The SEDC grant, in compliance with 

BIL, requires a twenty (20) percent 

match from participating State 

respondents. NHTSA estimates about 

half of the program cost for the SEDC 

grants will be labor costs. NHTSA 

estimates the total annual burden cost 

for the SEDC program (beyond the labor 

costs discussed in question 12) will be 

about $25,000,000 to respondents. Since 

the Grant respondents only have to 

provide at least 20 percent of the total 

cost, the respondents will have to fund 

about $5,000,000 annually. 

NHTSA does not expect respondents 

to incur any additional costs for the SDS 

or non-SEDC States using EDT Protocol 

(beyond labor costs as discussed in 

question 12) as a result of this 

information collection. 

Public Comments Invited 

You are asked to comment on any 

aspects of this information collection, 

including (a) whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Department, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

Department’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed information collection; (c) 

whether the States will use contractor(s) 

to help implement the SEDC grant or 

manage the implementation in-house 

with the State’s own IT department; (d) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (e) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

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

amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 

1351.29. 

Chou Lin Chen, 

Associate Administrator, National Center for 

Statistics and Analysis. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19030 Filed 9–1–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[DOT–OST–2023–0133] 

Department of Transportation Advisory 

Committee on Human Trafficking: 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary of 

Transportation, U.S. Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

hybrid meeting of the Department of 

Transportation Advisory Committee on 

Human Trafficking. Committee 

members are highly encouraged to 

attend in-person. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 3, 2023, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m. EDT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the U.S. Department of Transportation, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. Any person 

requiring accessibility accommodations 

should contact the Official listed in the 

next section. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maha Alkhateeb, Office of International 

Transportation and Trade, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, at 

trafficking@dot.gov or (202) 366–4398. 

Also visit the ACHT website at https:// 

www.transportation.gov/ 

stophumantrafficking/acht. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

ACHT was re-chartered on July 29, 

2022, using the Department’s authorities 

under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law 

(BIL) (Pub. L. 117–58). The ACHT was 

initially established as mandated by 

Sec. 5(a) of the 2018 Combating Human 

Trafficking in Commercial Vehicles Act 

(Pub. L. 115–99). Sec. 23020 of the BIL 

requires the Secretary of Transportation, 

acting through the ACHT and in 

coordination with the Attorney General, 

to submit a triennial counter-trafficking 

report with recommendations for 

countering human trafficking, an 

assessment of best practices by 

transportation stakeholders, and human 

trafficking violations involving 

commercial motor vehicles. 

II. Agenda 

At the October 3, 2023 meeting, the 

agenda will cover the following topics: 

• Welcome and Introductions 

• ACHT Overview and Requirements 

• DOT’s Counter-Trafficking Efforts 

• Public Participation 

• Subcommittees, Next Steps, and 

Timeline 

A final agenda that includes a virtual 

participation link will be posted on the 

ACHT internet website at https://

www.transportation.gov/ 

stophumantrafficking/acht at least one 

week in advance of the meeting. 

III. Public Participation 

The hybrid meeting will be open to 

the public in-person and virtually. 

Members of the public who wish to 

attend are asked to register, including 

name, affiliation, and whether they plan 

to attend in-person or virtually, to 

trafficking@dot.gov by September 25, 

2023. Individuals requesting 

accessibility accommodations, such as 

sign language, interpretation, or other 

ancillary aids, may do so via email at: 

trafficking@dot.gov by September 25, 

2023. 

There will be 30 minutes allotted for 

oral comments from members of the 

public joining the meeting. To 

accommodate as many speakers as 

possible, the time for public comments 

may be limited. Individuals wishing to 

reserve speaking time during the 

meeting must submit a request at the 

time of registration, as well as the name, 

address, and organizational affiliation of 

the proposed speaker. If the number of 

registrants requesting to make 

statements is greater than can be 

reasonably accommodated during the 

meeting, the Office of the Secretary may 

conduct a lottery to determine the 

speakers. Speakers are requested to 

submit a written copy of their prepared 

remarks by 5:00 p.m. EDT on September 

25, 2023, for inclusion in the meeting 

records and for circulation to ACHT 

members. Written comments timely 


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