22844 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 74 / Tuesday, April 17, 2012 / Notices 

below will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review. The ICR describes the nature of 

the information collection and its 

expected burden. A Federal Register 

Notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting public comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on September 20, 2011 

(Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 182/pp. 

58341–58342). 

DATES: Submit comments to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) on or 

before May 17, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the 

Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, 725—17th Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk 

Officer for Department of 

Transportation, National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration, or by 

email at oira_submission@omb.eop.gov, 

or fax: 202–395–5806. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

Traube at the National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, Office of HumanVehicle Performance Research (NVS– 

331), Department of Transportation, 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, 

DC 20590. Mr. Traube’s phone number 

is 202–366–5673. His email address is 

eric.traube@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: National Survey of Driver 

Attitudes and Opinions of Advanced Invehicle Alcohol Detection Systems. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0669. 

Type of Request: Revision. 

Abstract: In a continuing effort to 

reduce the adverse consequences of 

alcohol-impaired driving, NHTSA in 

conjunction with the Automotive 

Coalition for Traffic Safety (ACTS) is 

undertaking research and development 

to explore the feasibility of, and public 

policy challenges associated with, use of 

in-vehicle alcohol detection technology. 

The agency believes that use of vehiclebased, alcohol detection technologies 

could help to significantly reduce the 

number of alcohol-impaired driving 

crashes, deaths and injuries by 

preventing drivers from driving while 

their blood alcohol concentration (BAC) 

is at or above the legal limit. In 2008, 

ACTS and NHTSA entered into a 5-Year 

Cooperative Agreement to ‘‘explore the 

feasibility, the potential benefits of, and 

the public policy challenges associated 

with a more widespread use of 

unobtrusive technology to prevent 

drunk driving.’’ The goal of the Driver 

Alcohol Detection System for Safety 

(DADSS) project is, through a step-bystep, data-driven process, to develop 

and test prototypes that may be 

considered for vehicle integration 

thereafter. 

As technology development 

progresses and decisions are being made 

about best practices for integrating such 

technology into vehicles, NHTSA is 

soliciting public opinions about the 

proposed in-vehicle alcohol detection 

devices. Optimization of the 

effectiveness of the technology and 

public acceptance of it as a safety 

enhancement once deployed will 

depend on the extent to which public 

attitudes are taken into account during 

the development process. OMB 

previously approved focus groups with 

licensed drivers to provide an initial 

understanding of public preferences 

concerning advanced alcohol detection 

technology. In order to provide a more 

complete understanding of driver 

preferences, NHTSA is proposing to 

conduct a nationally representative 

telephone survey of drivers. Interviews 

would be completed with 1,000 licensed 

drivers randomly selected from the 50 

States and the District of Columbia. The 

survey would be composed of both a 

landline sample and a smaller cell 

phone sample selected from separate 

sampling frames. The drivers would 

have the developing in-vehicle alcohol 

sensing technology systems described to 

them, and asked a series of questions to 

obtain their reactions to the systems and 

their possible installation in new 

vehicles. In conducting the telephone 

interviews, the interviewers would use 

computer-assisted telephone 

interviewing to reduce interview length 

and minimize recording errors. Each 

driver in the sample would be 

interviewed a single time. No 

information would be collected that 

could be used to identify any 

respondent. 

NHTSA and ACTS will use the 

information from the proposed 

telephone survey in decision making 

regarding integration of the technology 

under investigation into a vehicle. 

Affected Public: Randomly selected 

members of the general public ages 21 

and older from across the United States 

will be surveyed by telephone. 

Participation by all respondents would 

be voluntary and anonymous. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 256 

hours 15 minutes (1,000 interviews plus 

25 pilot interviews each averaging 15 

minutes) would be added to the 288 

hours previously approved for the focus 

groups, which would total 544 hours 

and 15 minutes. 

Comments Are Invited on the Following 

(i) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Department of Transportation, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(ii) The accuracy of the Department’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

information collection; 

(iii) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(iv) 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 most effective if 

OMB receives it within 30 days of 

publication of this notice. 

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

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 17, 

2012. 

John Maddox, 

Associate Administrator, Vehicle Safety 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9158 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[NHTSA–2010–0002] 

Agency Information Collection Activity 

Under OMB Review: Uniform Criteria 

for State Observational Surveys of 

Seat Belt Use 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, US DOT. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

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

announces that the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 

below has been forwarded to the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and comment. The ICR describes 

the nature of the information collections 

and their expected burden. The notice 

of proposed rulemaking, which 

included a statement of the collection of 

information and a 60-day comment 

period, was published on January 28, 

2009. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before May 17, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jack 

Oates at the National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, Office of 

Regional Operations and Program 

Delivery (NTI–200), 202–366–2730, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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Title: Uniform Criteria for State 

Observational Surveys of Seat Belt Use. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0597. 

Requested Expiration Date of 

Approval: Three years from the 

approval date. 

Type of Request: Reinstatement with 

change of a previously approved 

collection. 

Affected Public: State Governments 

(the 50 States, the District of Columbia, 

Puerto Rico and 4 territories). 

Form Number: N/A. 

Abstract: The Safe, Accountable, 

Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity 

Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA–LU) 

(Pub. L. 109–59) provides that the 

Secretary of Transportation may not 

approve for Section 402 funding a State 

highway safety program which does not 

provide satisfactory assurances that the 

State will implement an annual 

statewide seat belt use survey in 

accordance with criteria established by 

the Secretary to ensure that the 

measurements of seat belt use are 

accurate and representative. In addition, 

in 2008, the National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA) and the 

Governors Highway Safety Association 

(GHSA) partnered to develop a 

voluntary minimum set of performance 

measures to be used by States and 

federal agencies in the development and 

implementation of behavioral highway 

safety plans and programs. Included in 

the set as the core behavior measure is 

B–1, observed seat belt use for passenger 

vehicles, front seat outboard occupants. 

Since the original adoption of seat belt 

observational survey Uniform Criteria in 

1998, NHTSA and the States have 

accumulated substantial experience in 

the design and implementation of these 

surveys. This experience has provided 

insight into factors that could affect 

survey accuracy and reliability. In 

addition, technological improvements 

in road inventories have made it 

possible to select observation sites in a 

more cost effective manner. For these 

reasons, NHTSA proposed to revise the 

Uniform Criteria so that future surveys 

will give States more accurate data to 

guide their occupant protection 

programs. 

The States themselves use the 

information collected in their seat belt 

use surveys to evaluate the effectiveness 

of their occupant protection 

countermeasures programs and to 

identify relatively low seat belt use 

areas and sub-populations requiring 

increased program emphasis. NHTSA 

uses the collected information, pooled 

across the States, to determine the 

relative impact of various 

countermeasures and program strategies 

and to provide guidance to assist the 

States in achieving the highest possible 

seat belt use. NHTSA also uses the 

collected information from individual 

States to identify those whose occupant 

protection programs would most benefit 

from special management reviews, 

countermeasure demonstration projects 

and other forms of technical assistance. 

The information collected for the 

States’ seat belt observational surveys is 

to include a specification of the survey 

design, to be reassessed and, if 

appropriate, updated every five (5) 

years, or earlier if the State so desires. 

The survey design specification will 

include a description of the 

methodology used to select the survey 

observation sites, the selection 

probability of each site, the survey 

observation procedures and protocols, 

observer training and quality control 

procedures. In addition, each State 

annually is to submit the survey results, 

including, for each observation site, the 

number of front seat outboard occupants 

that were observed, the number 

observed to be wearing the seat belt, and 

the site weighting factor used to 

combine the individual site data into 

the measure of statewide seat belt use. 

The notice of proposed rulemaking, 

which included a statement of the 

collection of information and a 60-day 

comment period, was published on 

January 28, 2009. See 75 FR 4509. In the 

preamble to the final rule published on 

April 1, 2011, the agency explained how 

the collection of information contained 

in the final rule responded to any 

comments received from the public. See 

76 FR 18042. The agency also included 

an identification and explanation of any 

modifications made in the rule and why 

it certain comments were not adopted. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

19,040 hours. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 56 

(50 States, District of Columbia, Puerto 

Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the 

Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. 

Virgin Islands). 

ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30 

days, to the Office of Information and 

Regulatory Affairs, Office of 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street NW., Washington, DC 20503. 

Attention NHTSA Desk Officer. 

Comments are invited on: 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; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

proposed information collection; ways 

to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 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. 

Mary D. Gunnels, 

Associate Administrator, Regional Operations 

and Program Delivery. 

[FR Doc. 2012–9197 Filed 4–16–12; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

April 10, 2012. 

The Department of the Treasury will 

submit the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and clearance in accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, Public Law 104–13, on or after the 

date of publication of this notice. 

DATES: Comments should be received on 

or before May 17, 2012 to be assured of 

consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding 

the burden estimate, or any other aspect 

of the information collection, including 

suggestion for reducing the burden, to 

(1) Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs, Office of Management and 

Budget, Attention: Desk Officer for 

Treasury, New Executive Office 

Building, Room 10235, Washington, DC 

20503, or email at 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV and 

(2) Treasury PRA Clearance Officer, 

1750 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Suite 

8140, Washington, DC 20220, or on-line 

at www.PRAComment.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 927–5331, 

email at PRA@treasury.gov, or the entire 

information collection request maybe 

found at www.reginfo.gov. 

Internal Revenue Service (IRS) 

OMB Number: 1545–2222. 

Type of Review: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Title: VITA/TCE Volunteer Program. 

Forms: 8653, 8654, 14024, 14310. 

Abstract: The Internal Revenue 

Service offers free assistance with tax 

return preparation and tax counseling 

using specially trained volunteers. The 

Volunteer Income Tax Assistance 

(VITA) and Tax Counseling for the 

Elderly (TCE) programs assist seniors 

and individuals with low to moderate 

incomes, those with disabilities, and 

those for whom English is a second 

language. 


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