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1 49 U.S.C. 105 and 322; delegation of authority 

at 49 CFR 1.95. 

2See 49 U.S.C. 30101 and 30111. 

3 71 FR 50997, August 28, 2006. 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2021–0058] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Event Data Recorders 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments on an existing collection in 

use without an OMB Control Number. 

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 

ICR is for approval of an existing 

collection in use without an OMB 

Control Number on event data recorders 

(EDRs). A Federal Register Notice with 

a 60-day comment period soliciting 

comments on the following information 

collection was published on August 26, 

2021. Four comments were received in 

response to the notice. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before April 18, 2022. 

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 Carla 

Rush, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, NHTSA, 202–366–4583, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West 

Building, Room W43–417, NRM–100, 

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 can collect certain 

information from the public, it 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. 

Title: Event Data Recorders. 

OMB Control Number: New. 

Type of Request: Approval of an 

existing collection in use without an 

OMB Control Number. 

Type of Review Requested: Regular. 

Length of Approval Requested: Three 

years. 

Summary of the Collection of 

Information: 49 CFR part 563, Event 

data recorders, specifies uniform, 

national requirements for vehicles 

voluntarily equipped with EDRs 

concerning the collection, storage, and 

retrievability of onboard motor vehicle 

crash event data. More specifically it 

requires voluntarily installed EDRs in 

vehicles with a gross vehicle weight 

rating (GVWR) of 3,855 kilograms (8,500 

pounds) or less to: 

• Record 15 essential data elements; 

• Record up to 30 additional data 

elements if the vehicle is equipped to 

record these elements; 

• Record these data elements in a 

standardized format, with specifications 

for range, accuracy, resolution, sampling 

rate, recording duration, and filter class; 

• Function after full-scale vehicle 

crash tests specified in FMVSS Nos. 208 

and 214; and 

• Have the capacity to record two 

events in a multi-event crash. 

In addition, part 563 requires vehicle 

manufacturers to make a retrieval tool 

for the EDR information commercially 

available, and include a standardized 

statement in the owner’s manual 

indicating that the vehicle is equipped 

with an EDR and describing its purpose. 

Part 563 helps ensure that EDRs record, 

in a readily usable manner, data 

valuable for effective crash 

investigations and for analysis of safety 

equipment performance (e.g., advanced 

restraint systems). 

Description of the Need for the 

Information and Proposed Use of the 

Information: Under 49 U.S.C. 322(a), the 

Secretary of Transportation (the 

‘‘Secretary’’) is authorized to prescribe 

regulations to carry out the duties and 

powers of the Secretary. One of the 

duties of the Secretary is to administer 

the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle 

Safety Act, as amended. The Secretary 

has delegated the responsibility for 

carrying out the National Traffic and 

Motor Vehicle Safety Act to NHTSA.1

Two statutory provisions, 49 U.S.C. 

30182 and 23 U.S.C. 403, authorize 

NHTSA to collect motor vehicle crash 

data to support its safety mission. 

NHTSA collects motor vehicle crash 

information under these authorities to 

support its statutory mandate to 

establish motor vehicle safety standards 

and reduce the occurrence and cost of 

traffic crashes.2 NHTSA also utilizes 

crash data in the enforcement of motor 

vehicle safety recalls and other motor 

vehicle highway safety programs that 

reduce fatalities, injuries, and property 

damage caused by motor vehicle 

crashes. In 2006, NHTSA exercised its 

general authority to issue such rules and 

regulations as deemed necessary to 

carry out Chapter 301 of Title 49, United 

States Code to promulgate 49 CFR part 

563.3

NHTSA issued part 563 to improve 

crash data collection by standardizing 

data recorded on EDRs to help provide 

a better understanding of the 

circumstances in which crashes and 

injuries occur, which will in turn lead 

to the development of safer vehicle 

designs. EDR data are used to improve 

the quality of crash data collection to 

assist safety researchers, vehicle 

manufacturers, and the agency in crash 

investigations to understand vehicle 

crashes better and more precisely. 

Similarly, vehicle manufacturers are 

able to utilize EDRs in improving 

vehicle designs and developing more 

effective vehicle safety 

countermeasures, and EDR data may be 

used by Advanced Automatic Crash 

Notification (AACN) systems to aid 

emergency response teams in assessing 

the severity of a crash and estimating 

the probability of serious injury. 

Additionally, the agency’s experience 

in handling unintended acceleration 

and pedal entrapment allegations has 

demonstrated that, if a vehicle is 

equipped with an EDR, the data from 

that EDR can improve the ability of both 

the agency and the vehicle’s 

manufacturer to identify and address 

safety concerns associated with possible 

defects in the design or performance of 

the vehicle. 

60-Day Notice: A Federal Register 

notice with a 60-day comment period 

soliciting public comments on the 

following information collection was 

published on August 26, 2021 (86 FR 

47719). Four comments were submitted 

in response to the notice. The 

commenters were the Insurance 

Institute for Highway Safety and 

Highway Loss Data Institute, the 

National Association of Mutual 

Insurance Companies, Advocates for 

Highway and Auto Safety, and the 

Center for Auto Safety. All commenters 

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4https://www.computerworld.com/article/ 

3182207/cw50-data-storage-goes-from-1m-to-2- 

cents-per-gigabyte.html. 

5https://hblok.net/blog/posts/2017/12/17/ 

historical-cost-of-computer-memory-and-storage-4/. 

6 DOT HS 812 929, https://www.nhtsa.gov/ 

document/light-vehicle-event-data-recordertechnologies. 

however, the comments did not address 

the estimated cost and hour burden of 

this information collection. The 

comments instead made 

recommendations unrelated to this 

information collection for NHTSA to 

mandate event data recorders and 

expand the number of data elements 

required in part 563 and to make the 

data available to the public for certain 

vehicles. These comments, however, 

cannot be addressed by this process of 

seeking approval for the information 

collection for the current part 563. 

NHTSA also notes that the Driver 

Privacy Act of 2015 assigns ownership 

of EDR data to the vehicle owner, 

provides limitations on data retrieval 

from EDR data, and generally prohibits 

access to EDR data with specific 

exceptions to this general rule. 

Affected Public: The respondents are 

manufacturers that voluntarily equip 

passenger cars, multipurpose passenger 

vehicles, trucks, and buses having a 

GVWR of 3,855 kg (8,500 pounds) or 

less and an unloaded vehicle weight of 

2,495 kg (5,500 pounds) with EDRs. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

The agency estimates that there are 

approximately 18 manufacturers of 

vehicles subject to part 563. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: NHTSA estimates that there are 

no annual reporting or recordkeeping 

burdens associated with part 563, 

except for the owner’s manual statement 

requirement which will be incorporated 

into the consolidated owner’s manual 

requirements information collection 

(OMB Control Number 2127–0541). 

Vehicle manufacturers are not required 

to retain or report information gathered 

by EDRs because the devices themselves 

continuously monitor vehicle systems 

and determine when to record, retain, 

and/or overwrite information. The 

information is collected automatically 

by electronic means. Data are only 

required to be locked and cannot be 

overwritten when a recordable event 

occurs (e.g., an air bag deploys in a 

crash event). When recordable events do 

occur, EDRs only capture data for a few 

seconds. NHTSA estimates that there is 

no annual hourly burden associated 

with the information standardization 

requirements of part 563. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: 

In the August 2006 final rule, the agency 

estimated that the costs associated with 

the final rule were negligible. Several 

factors contributed to this 

determination. First, NHTSA estimated 

that about 64 percent of new light 

vehicles in 2005 already added the EDR 

capability to the vehicles’ existing air 

bag control systems. Thus, the EDRs 

were simply capturing information that 

was already being processed by the 

vehicle. Additionally, in the final rule 

the agency sought to limit the number 

of EDR data elements and associated 

requirements to the minimum necessary 

to achieve our stated purposes. At that 

time, NHTSA determined that the 

industry’s current state-of-the-art EDRs 

largely met the purposes of part 563. 

Thus, it was unnecessary to specify 

requirements for additional sensors or 

other hardware that would increase EDR 

costs appreciably. NHTSA stated in the 

final rule that the most significant 

technology cost could result from the 

need to upgrade data storage. 

The cost of data storage, long-term or 

short-term, has drastically reduced over 

the years.4 Regardless of the storage 

type, costs are now a fraction of what 

they were even 10 years ago.5 A recent 

study from NHTSA looking at EDR 

technologies reported that information 

provided by industry indicated that a 

typical recorded event requires about 2 

kilobytes (Kb) of memory depending on 

the manufacturer.6 Information from 

manufacturers also indicated that the 

typical microprocessor used in vehicle 

applications, in approximately the 2013 

timeframe, had 32 Kb or 64 Kb of flash 

data as part of the air bag control 

module (ACM) and that only a fraction 

of the memory is dedicated to the EDR 

data. This study also estimated the total 

memory usage for all Table I and Table 

II data elements, listed at 49 CFR 563.7, 

recorded for the minimum required 

duration and frequency requirements in 

part 563. It reported that to record Table 

I and II data elements would require 

0.072 Kb and 0.858 Kb of memory 

storage, respectively. 

In addition, NHTSA now estimates 

that 99.5 percent of model year 2021 

light vehicles have a compliant EDR, 

meaning manufacturers have largely 

already incurred the cost of meeting the 

part 563 requirements. Given that EDRs 

are installed on nearly all new light 

vehicles, the large amount of storage 

that is part of the air bag control module 

(32 kb or 64 kb), the small fraction 

required for EDR data (<1 kb), and the 

negligible costs for data storage, NHTSA 

continues to believe that there would be 

no additional costs or negligible costs 

associated with the part 563 

requirements. Therefore, the cost 

burden for this collection of information 

is discussed qualitatively. 

Part 563 only applies to vehicles 

voluntarily-equipped with EDRs. 

Therefore, any burden is based on the 

differences in cost between a compliant 

and non-compliant EDR. In considering 

additional burden for compliant EDRs, 

NHTSA considered: (1) The additional 

burden of meeting the 10-day data crash 

survivability requirement; and (2) the 

additional burden of meeting the data 

format requirements. Part 563 requires 

that an EDR must function during and 

after the compliance tests specified in 

FMVSS Nos. 208 and 214. The EDR’s 

stored data is required to be 

downloadable 10 days after the crash 

tests. This requirement provides a basic 

functioning and survivability level for 

EDRs, but does not ensure that EDRs 

survive extremely severe crashes, fire, or 

fluid immersion. The burden for data 

survivability can include costs for an 

additional power supply and 

enhancements for computer area 

network (CAN) such as wiring, data bus, 

and harness. However, before part 563 

was established the agency had not 

documented an EDR survivability 

problem except in rare and extremely 

severe events such as fire and 

submergence. Thus, the agency does not 

believe vehicle manufacturers incur 

additional costs to comply with the 

ability to retrieve the essential data 

elements 10 days after the crash test. 

With regard to the memory capacity 

required to meet the part 563 data 

requirements, due to proprietary 

concerns, the adequacy of existing 

memory capacity of part 563 noncompliant vehicles is not known. 

However, we believe that the part 563 

requirements are comparable to the 

current industry EDR practices. In terms 

of the burden associated with software 

algorithm changes to meet the data 

format requirements, the agency 

believes that, in the event a vehicle 

manufacturer needs to redesign their 

software algorithm, the redesign would 

be minor (e.g., changing the 

specifications in their codes). The 

agency estimates that the cost of 

algorithm redesign would be negligible 

on a per vehicle basis and it would be 

an upfront cost (i.e., not a recurring 

burden). 

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 

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 

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(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 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as amended; 49 

CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29.) 

Raymond R. Posten, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2022–05570 Filed 3–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Information Collection 

Renewal; Submission for OMB Review; 

Covered Savings Associations 

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, Treasury (OCC). 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The Office of the Comptroller 

of the Currency (OCC) as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on an information collection 

renewal as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. An agency may 

not conduct or sponsor, and a 

respondent is not required to respond 

to, an information collection unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. The OCC is soliciting comment 

concerning the renewal of its 

information collection titled ‘‘Covered 

Savings Associations.’’ The OCC also is 

giving notice that it has sent the 

collection to OMB for review. 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

April 18, 2022. 

ADDRESSES: Commenters are encouraged 

to submit comments by email, if 

possible. You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Email: prainfo@occ.treas.gov. 

• Mail: Chief Counsel’s Office, 

Attention: Comment Processing, 1557– 

0341, Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, 400 7th Street SW, Suite 3E– 

218, Washington, DC 20219. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: 400 7th 

Street SW, Suite 3E–218, Washington, 

DC 20219. 

• Fax: (571) 465–4326. 

Instructions: You must include 

‘‘OCC’’ as the agency name and ‘‘1557– 

0341’’ in your comment. In general, the 

OCC will publish comments on 

www.reginfo.gov without change, 

including any business or personal 

information provided, such as name and 

address information, email addresses, or 

phone numbers. Comments received, 

including attachments and other 

supporting materials, are part of the 

public record and subject to public 

disclosure. Do not include any 

information in your comment or 

supporting materials that you consider 

confidential or inappropriate for public 

disclosure. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should also be 

sent within 30 days of publication of 

this notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/ 

do/PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

On January 5, 2022, the OCC 

published a 60-day notice for this 

information collection, 87 FR 538. You 

may review comments and other related 

materials that pertain to this 

information collection following the 

close of the 30-day comment period for 

this notice by the method set forth in 

the next bullet. 

• Viewing Comments Electronically: 

Go to www.reginfo.gov. Hover over the 

‘‘Information Collection Review’’ tab 

and click on ‘‘Information Collection 

Review’’ drop-down menu. From the 

‘‘Currently under Review’’ drop-down 

menu, select ‘‘Department of Treasury’’ 

and then click ‘‘submit.’’ This 

information collection can be located by 

searching by OMB control number 

‘‘1557–0341’’ or ‘‘Covered Savings 

Associations.’’ Upon finding the 

appropriate information collection, click 

on the related ‘‘ICR Reference Number.’’ 

On the next screen, select ‘‘View 

Supporting Statement and Other 

Documents’’ and then click on the link 

to any comment listed at the bottom of 

the screen. 

• For assistance in navigating 

www.reginfo.gov, please contact the 

Regulatory Information Service Center 

at (202) 482–7340. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shaquita Merritt, OCC Clearance 

Officer, (202) 649–5490, Chief Counsel’s 

Office, Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency, 400 7th Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20219. If you are deaf, 

hard of hearing, or have a speech 

disability, please dial 7–1–1 to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520), Federal 

agencies must obtain approval from the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for each collection of 

information that they conduct or 

sponsor. ‘‘Collection of information’’ is 

defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502(3) and 5 CFR 

1320.3(c) to include agency requests or 

requirements that members of the public 

submit reports, keep records, or provide 

information to a third party. The OCC 

asks that OMB extend its approval of the 

information collection requirements in 

this notice. 

Abstract: The Home Owners’ Loan 

Act (HOLA), as amended by the 

Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, 

and Consumer Protection Act 

(EGRRCPA), allows a Federal savings 

association (FSA) with total 

consolidated assets of $20 billion or 

less, as of December 31, 2017, to elect 

to operate as a covered savings 

association (CSA). This section of HOLA 

requires the OCC to issue rules that, 

among other things, establish 

streamlined standards and procedures 

for FSA elections to operate as CSAs 

and clarify the requirements for the 

treatment of CSAs. A CSA has the same 

rights and privileges as a national bank 

and is subject to the same duties and 

restrictions as a national bank. 

Twelve CFR part 101 allows FSAs to 

elect national bank powers and operate 

as CSAs. An FSA seeking to operate as 

a CSA is required, under 12 CFR 

101.3(a), to submit a notice making an 

election to the OCC that: (1) Is signed by 

a duly authorized officer of the FSA; 

and (2) identifies and describes any 

nonconforming subsidiaries, assets, or 

activities that the FSA operates, holds, 

or conducts at the time it submits its 

notice. 

Under 12 CFR 101.5(a), the OCC may 

require a CSA to submit a plan to divest, 

conform, or discontinue a 

nonconforming subsidiary, asset, or 

activity. 

A CSA may submit a notice to 

terminate its election to operate as a 

CSA under 12 CFR 101.6 using 

procedures similar to those for an 

election. In addition, an FSA that has 

terminated its election to operate as a 

CSA may, after a period of five years, 

submit a notice under 12 CFR 101.7 to 

reelect using the same procedures used 

for its original election. 

Title of Collection: Covered Savings 

Associations. 

OMB Control No.: 1557–0341. 

Election, Termination, Reelection: 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

267. 

Estimated Burden per Respondent: 1 

hour. 


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