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1Highway Statistics is an annual report 

containing analyzed data on motor fuel, motor 

vehicles, driver licensing, highway user taxation, 

State and local highway finance, highway mileage, 

and other selected data. This report has been 

published each year since 1945. It is available at the 

following URL: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/ohpi/hss. 

Avenue/Railroad Avenue intersection; 

and (6) improving pedestrian and 

bicycle facilities. Design variations of 

potential alternatives will also be 

studied, as appropriate. 

The EIS will be initiated with a 

scoping process. The scoping process 

will include a program of public 

outreach and agency coordination 

conducted over the next several months 

in order to elicit input on project 

purpose and need, potential 

alternatives, significant and 

insignificant issues, and collaborative 

methods of analyzing transportation 

alternatives and environmental impacts. 

In total, the public outreach program 

will include multiple public meetings 

conducted by Clackamas County as well 

as coordination with two stakeholder 

committees—one committee comprised 

of community and technical 

representatives and the other committee 

comprised of policy level 

representatives. A public hearing will be 

held in connection with the release of 

the draft EIS. Public notice will be given 

regarding the time and place of the 

public meetings and hearing. 

An Internet Web site (http:// 

www.harmonyroadea.org) and other 

communication media will be utilized 

throughout the process to provide 

public information and to receive 

comments. All comments and input 

received during the EIS process will be 

considered and documented. 

The FHWA, ODOT, and Clackamas 

County Department of Transportation 

and Development will evaluate 

significant transportation, 

environmental, social, and economic 

impacts of the project alternatives. 

Potential areas of impact include: 

Neighborhoods, Section 4(f) resources, 

environmental justice, and natural 

resources. All impacts will be evaluated 

for both the construction period and 

long-term period of operation. Measures 

to avoid, minimize and mitigate any 

significant adverse impacts will be 

developed. 

Comments and suggestions are invited 

from all interested parties, to ensure that 

the full range of issues related to this 

project are addressed and all significant 

issues are identified. Comments or 

questions regarding the proposed action 

and the EIS should be directed to the 

FHWA or Clackamas County at the 

address provided above. 

(Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315) 

Dated: April 2, 2007. 

Jeff Graham, 

Operations Engineer, FHWA Oregon Division. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Highway Administration 

[FHWA Docket No. FHWA–05–22706] 

Motor Vehicle Registration and 

Licensed Driver Information 

AGENCY: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: On January 6, 2006, the 

FHWA published a notice in the 

Federal Register at 71 FR 969 to solicit 

public comments on the quality, 

timeliness, comprehensiveness, and 

other characteristics of data collected on 

motor vehicle registration and licensed 

driver information. Based on public 

comments received, the FHWA has 

determined to make a change to the 

driver’s license data definition for 

teenage drivers, to eliminate the 

collection of information on disqualified 

commercial drivers licenses, and to 

develop enhanced software to receive 

and process motor vehicle registration 

and licensed driver data more 

efficiently. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ralph Erickson, Office of Highway 

Policy Information, (202) 366–9235, or 

Mr. Wilbert Baccus, Office of Chief 

Counsel, (202) 366–1396, Federal 

Highway Administration, 400 Seventh 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. 

Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 

p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Electronic 

Access and Filing: Internet users may 

access this document, the initial notice, 

and all comments received by the U.S. 

DOT Docket Facility by using the 

Universal Resource Locator (URL) 

http://dms.dot.gov. It is available 24 

hours each day, 365 days each year. 

Electronic submission and retrieval help 

and guidelines are available under the 

help section of the Web site. 

An electronic copy of this document 

may also be downloaded by accessing 

the Office of the Federal Register’s home 

page at http://www.archives.gov and 

from the Government Printing Office’s 

Web page at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ 

nara. 

Background: The FHWA collects and 

publishes motor vehicle registration and 

licensed driver information obtained 

from the States and the District of 

Columbia. This information is collected 

from State departments of transportation 

pursuant to 23 CFR 420.105 and is 

published in Highway Statistics.1

The information in Highway Statistics 

plays a key role in the development of 

Federal highway legislation. The 

information is used in preparing 

legislatively required reports to 

Congress, in evaluating highway safety 

programs, and, in general, as an aid to 

highway planning, programming, 

budgeting, forecasting, and fiscal 

management. This information is also 

used extensively in the evaluation of 

Federal, State, and local highway 

programs. In recent years, FHWA has 

implemented several reassessment 

efforts to assure that Highway Statistics 

data remains up-to-date and relevant for 

current purposes. 

On January 6, 2006, the FHWA 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register at 71 FR 969 to solicit public 

comments on the quality, timeliness, 

comprehensiveness, and other 

characteristics of the driver license data. 

Based on the public comments received, 

the FHWA has determined to make a 

change to the data definition of teenage 

driver to reflect more accurately the 

actual number of teens driving, to 

eliminate the collection of information 

on disqualified commercial drivers 

licenses, and to update the software 

used to collect the motor vehicle 

registration and licensed driver 

information from the States. 

Actions Taken to Date 

Teenage Drivers 

In the past, FHWA’s definition of a 

licensed driver has been ‘‘[a] person that 

can drive inclusively between the hours 

of 5 a.m. and Midnight without another 

licensed driver in the vehicle.’’

However, State drivers license laws 

have changed significantly in recent 

years, especially in the area of teenage 

drivers. Now, all 50 States and the 

District of Columbia have some form of 

graduated licensing for teenage drivers. 

Some States prohibit teens from driving 

unless accompanied by a supervisory 

driver. Other States prohibit teens from 

driving during certain hours of the day. 

And still other States may allow 

nighttime teenage driving, but only with 

adult supervision. A full definition of 

Graduated Driver’s License can be found 

in Section 1313.5(d) in the following 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration URL: http://

www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/whatsup/ 

tea21/GrantMan/HTML/

24b_Sec410T21Reg_23CFR1313.html. 

As such, the past FHWA data definition 


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is very narrow in view of recent State 

law changes on teen-age drivers. 

The Office of Highway Policy 

Information disseminated a 

memorandum to FHWA Division 

Offices on September 6, 2006, revising 

its instructions for Form–562 State 

Driver License and Fees, with 

instructions to forward the material to 

the State data providers. The revised 

instructions will also be incorporated 

into Chapter 4 of A Guide to Reporting 

Highway Statistics (Guide). Since this 

change does not create an additional 

burden for data collection under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act requirements, 

the Office of Highway Policy 

Information will revise the Guide within 

3 months of publication of this notice. 

This revised definition is intended to be 

more detailed in the types of licenses 

teen-aged drivers obtain. The new 

definition reads: Teenage Graduated 

Drivers Licenses: Graduated licenses are 

defined as driver licenses that have 

some restriction placed on the driver to 

provide basic driving experience under 

optimal conditions or under the 

supervision of more experienced 

drivers, but restrict driving in certain 

less than optimal conditions, such as 

driving at night. 

The new definition is effective for 

Highway Statistics—2006. Thus, when 

preparing Form FHWA–562 (State 

Drivers Licenses and Fees), data 

providers should use the new definition 

for the State’s 2006 data, either fiscal 

year or calendar year. The revised data 

definition is not a new data 

requirement; it is a re-definition of 

already required data. 

Disqualified Commercial Drivers 

Licenses 

In addition, FHWA has determined 

that the data collected on page four of 

the FHWA Form 562—data concerning 

the number of Commercial Driver’s 

Licenses disqualified—is no longer 

necessary. FHWA collected this data for 

the Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration, but now that 

organization collects this data in its 

business procedures. Hence, it is 

redundant for FHWA to also collect the 

data. 

Data Quality 

The FHWA received many comments 

regarding overall data quality. FHWA is 

addressing this concern through 

improved software to significantly 

reduce reporting inconsistencies. Under 

the mandates of E-Government 

initiatives, the FHWA is developing 

enhanced software to receive and 

process motor vehicle registration and 

licensed driver data more efficiently. 

The questions asked will remain the 

same, but the software used to collect 

the information will ease data submittal 

and will result in more accurate 

reporting. This enhanced software, once 

developed, will enable State data 

providers to take advantage of more 

advanced submittal and editing features 

that can significantly reduce reporting 

time and errors. 

With respect to enhanced software, 

FHWA is in the process of making 

software improvements to the features 

in the following form templates: 

• FHWA Form 561—State Motor 

Vehicle Registrations, Registration Fees 

and Miscellaneous Receipts; 

• FHWA Form 562—State Driver 

Licenses and Fees; 

• FHWA Form 566—State Motor 

Vehicle Registration and Other Receipts; 

• FHWA Form 571—Receipts from 

State Taxation of Motor Vehicles 

Operated for Hire and Other Motor 

Carriers. 

The FHWA anticipates that the 

enhanced software containing these 

revised form templates will be released 

and distributed to the States mid-2007, 

allowing sufficient time for the FHWA 

to train States in preparation for the 

2008 release of Highway Statistics—

2007. The FHWA notes that any 

revisions to the software will result in 

template and format changes only, and 

with the exception of the elimination of 

page four of the FHWA Form 562, will 

not change the type or quantity of data 

collected. Revision of the forms will 

involve some additional paperwork 

burden on the data providers in 

transition to the new forms and learning 

how the new forms function, but will 

also reduce the paperwork burden over 

time as the automated forms will take 

less time to complete. A discussion of 

the requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act follows. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

Under the Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.), 

Federal agencies must obtain approval 

from the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for each collection of 

information they conduct, sponsor, or 

require through regulations. The FHWA 

has determined that this proposal 

contains collection of information 

requirements for the purposes of the 

PRA. 

In March 2006, The Office of 

Management and Budget approved 

FHWA’s Paperwork Reduction Act 

Submission (OMB Control Number 

2125–0032), extending FHWA’s 

authority to collect this data for an 

additional 3 years (until March 2009). 

The overall annual burden of collecting 

driver’s license and motor vehicle 

registration data from the States is 

estimated to be 4,182 hours. See below 

for the breakout of the estimated burden 

hours by Form: 

FHWA form Collection period Total 

hours Assumptions 

FHWA–561 ......................................... Annual ............................................... 1,632 32 Hours/50StatesDC/Year. 

FHWA–562 ......................................... Annual ............................................... 714 14.0 Hours/50StatesDC/Year. 

FHWA–566 ......................................... Annual ............................................... 1,224 24 Hours/50StatesDC/Year. 

FHWA–571 ......................................... Annual ............................................... 612 12 Hours/50StatesDC/Year. 

Total ............................................ ............................................................ 4,182 

The FHWA is required to periodically 

submit this proposed collection of 

information to OMB for review and 

approval and, accordingly, seeks public 

comments. Interested parties are invited 

to send comments regarding any aspect 

of these information collection 

requirements, including, but not limited 

to: (1) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the 

performance of the functions of the 

FHWA, including whether the 

information has practical utility; (2) the 

accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the collection of information; 

and (4) ways to minimize the collection 

burden without reducing the quality of 

the information collected. 

Issued on: March 30, 2007. 

J. Richard Capka, 

Federal Highway Administrator. 

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