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utility and clarity of the information 

collection; and (d) ways that the burden 

could be minimized without reducing 

the quality of the collected information. 

The agency will summarize and/or 

include your comments in the request 

for OMB’s clearance of this information 

collection. 

Electronic Access and Filing 

A copy of the notice may be viewed 

online at www.regulations.gov using the 

docket number listed above. A copy of 

this notice will be placed in the docket. 

Electronic retrieval help and guidelines 

are available on the website. It is 

available 24 hours each day, 365 days 

each year. An electronic copy of this 

document may also be downloaded 

from the Office of the Federal Register’s 

website at www.FederalRegister.gov and 

the Government Publishing Office’s 

website at www.GovInfo.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Wahler, Director of Maritime 

Labor and Training, (202) 366–5469 or 

via email at EMBARC@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Title: Mariner Cadet TrainingAgreements, Compliance Reporting, and 

Audits. 

OMB Control Number: 2133–0553. 

Type of Request: Renewal of a 

Previously Approved Information 

Collection. 

Abstract: In accordance with its 

delegation of authority at 49 CFR 

1.93(a), and pursuant to 46 U.S.C. 

50101(a)(4), the Maritime 

Administration (MARAD) is charged 

with ensuring that the United States 

Merchant Marine is manned with 

trained and efficient citizen personnel. 

Furthermore, 46 U.S.C. 51322 requires 

MARAD to protect cadet mariners from 

sexual assault onboard vessels and in so 

doing, to set sexual assault policy and 

to conduct random and targeted 

unannounced checks of commercial 

vessels. 

MARAD needs to obtain information 

from commercial vessel operators in 

order to meet its statutory objective of 

setting sexual assault policy and 

monitoring compliance that is essential 

to meeting its mission of ensuring a 

well-trained U.S. Merchant Marine. 

The Maritime Administration 

(MARAD) requests comment on 

MARAD’s intention to seek approval 

from OMB to reinstate without 

modification a previously approved 

collection of information concerning 

vessel operator acceptance of MARAD 

safety and security tenets, compliance 

reporting and compliance assessment 

requirements. MARAD, in consultation 

with operators of commercial vessels of 

the United States, established criteria 

that vessel operators must meet in order 

to participate in the Sea Year program 

of the United States Merchant Marine 

Academy (USMMA) that address sexual 

harassment, sexual assault, and other 

inappropriate conduct; and a process for 

verifying compliance with the criteria. 

Accordingly, on December 15, 2021, 

MARAD published on its website 

agency guidance entitled Every Mariner 

Builds a Respectful Culture (EMBARC). 

Embedded within EMBARC is a process 

that MARAD will use to verify 

compliance. The EMBARC Standards 

enumerate new sexual assault and 

sexual harassment (SASH) prevention 

and response safety measures that 

MARAD requires commercial vessel 

operators to meet before they are 

approved to carry cadets from the 

USMMA for training purposes. Along 

with the EMBARC Standards, MARAD 

also published a self-assessment 

checklist, and a statement of compliance 

that vessel operators are required to 

submit prior to Sea Year participation. 

The EMBARC Standards include 

immediate, intermediate and long-term 

action items that all vessel operators 

providing training platforms for cadet 

mariners should implement. The totality 

of these efforts will help strengthen the 

maritime industry’s efforts to prevent 

and respond to incidents of sexual 

violence and sexual harassment and 

other forms of misconduct and help 

ensure a safer training environment for 

all cadets. 

The information to be collected will 

be used by MARAD to confirm the 

acceptance of MARAD sexual assault 

policies by commercial vessel operators 

and it will help establish a process to 

oversee and monitor continued 

compliance through reporting and 

auditing of commercial vessel operators 

in this initial enrollment and 

subsequent Sea Years. 

Respondents: Vessel Owners and 

Operators. 

Affected Public: Captains, Mates, 

Chief Operating Officers, Chief 

Executive Officers, Operations 

Managers, Clerical and typists. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 35 

per collection.* 

Estimated Number of Responses: 428. 

Estimated Hours per Response: 2–6. 

Annual Estimated Total Annual 

Burden Hours: 1,615. 

Frequency of Response: 2 per year. 

* Some respondents will have to 

respond more than once. 

(Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; and 

49 CFR 1.93.) 

By Order of the Acting Maritime 

Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2022–09180 Filed 4–28–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2022–0030] 

Agency Request for Information; State 

Electronic Data Collection Grant 

Program 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: This notice requests 

information from interested parties to 

assist the agency to develop and 

implement 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 National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration 

(NHTSA). The Bipartisan Infrastructure 

Law (BIL), enacted as the Infrastructure 

Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), 

establishes a new program called the 

State electronic data collection program. 

Specifically, section 24108(d)(2) 

mandates that NHTSA provide grants to 

States to upgrade and standardize their 

State crash data systems to enable 

electronic data collection, intrastate data 

sharing, and electronic data transfers to 

NHTSA to increase the accuracy, 

timeliness, and accessibility of the data 

including data relating to fatalities 

involving vulnerable road users. 

Ultimately, the grants will support an 

increased capacity of the NHTSA data 

systems, including the Fatality Analysis 

Reporting System (FARS), the Crash 

Reporting Sampling System (CRSS), and 

the Crash Investigation Sampling 

System (CISS), and make State crash 

data accessible to the public. NHTSA 

seeks comments from all interested 

parties, including State crash data 

owners, highway safety offices, law 

enforcement, and other stakeholders to 

help inform NHTSA’s development of a 

grant program. This grant program is to 

modernize State data collection systems 

and to enable full electronic data 

transfer. All comments should be 

submitted via docket number NHTSA– 

2022–0030. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before May 31, 2022. 


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1Under BIL, ‘‘State’’ is defined as each of the 50 

States, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 

Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, 

American Samoa, the Commonwealth of Northern 

Mariana Islands and the Secretary of the Interior, 

acting on behalf of an Indian Tribe. See Public Law 

117–58, 24108(d)(1)(A). 2 § 24108(d)(3)(C). 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted using any one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

M–30, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building, Ground 

Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. 

(2) Fax: Written comments may be 

faxed to (202) 493–2251. 

(3) Internet: To submit comments 

electronically, go to the Federal 

regulations website at http://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

(4) Hand Delivery: West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

To be sure someone is there to help you, 

please call (202) 366–9322 before 

coming. 

(5) Instructions: All comments 

submitted in relation to this notice must 

include the agency name and docket 

number. Please note that all comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. You 

may also call the Docket at 202–366– 

9324. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Rhea, State Data Reporting 

Systems Division Chief, NHTSA (phone: 

202–366–2714) or you may send an 

email to Ms. Rhea at Barbara.rhea@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

24108(d) of BIL directs NHTSA to 

establish a new State electronic data 

collection program that requires NHTSA 

to develop and implement a new 

discretionary grant program. The new 

grant program is to provide support to 

States to upgrade and standardize their 

State crash data systems to enable 

electronic data collection, intrastate data 

sharing, and electronic data transfers to 

NHTSA to increase the accuracy, 

timeliness, and accessibility of the data 

including data relating to fatalities 

involving vulnerable road users. See 

Public Law 117–58, 24108(d)(3). Eligible 

States 1 may use these grants for the 

costs of equipment to upgrade a 

statewide crash data repository; 

adoption of electronic crash reporting 

by law enforcement agencies and 

increasing alignment of State crash data 

with the latest Model Minimum 

Uniform Crash Criteria.2 This notice 

requests information from interested 

parties, including State crash data 

owners, highway safety offices, law 

enforcement, and other stakeholders to 

assist NHTSA in the development of a 

new State electronic data collection 

program that supports State crash data 

system improvements, enhances 

NHTSA’s National Center for Statistics 

and Analysis (NCSA) data infrastructure 

where these data will be stored, and 

shares a subset of the resulting data with 

the public. NHTSA plans to utilize the 

information provided under this 

Request for Information to enhance and 

support the development of the State 

electronic data collection discretionary 

grant program. 

Background 

The Highway Safety Act of 1966, 23 

U.S.C. 401, et seq., as amended, and the 

National Traffic and Motor Vehicle 

Safety Act, 49 U.S.C. 30101 et seq. as 

amended, both authorize NHTSA to 

collect and analyze motor vehicle crash 

data to, among other things, improve all 

aspects of traffic safety systems and 

conditions, determine the relationship 

between motor vehicle or motor vehicle 

equipment performance characteristics, 

crashes involving motor vehicles; and 

deaths or personal injuries resulting 

from those crashes. NHTSA has several 

data collections that support its traffic 

safety mission. Several of these data 

collections are housed within NHTSA’s 

NCSA. As part of NHTSA’s ongoing 

effort to obtain crash data in a more 

timely, accurate and efficient manner, 

the agency has successfully 

implemented a streamlined process for 

collecting crash data in an electronic 

format, known as Electronic Data 

Transfer (EDT). 

The existing EDT protocol obtains 

crash data using police accident reports 

(PAR), supplemental crash reports, and 

crash images from participating State 

crash systems through electronic data 

transfer processes, services, and 

functions. Generally, this transfer occurs 

on a nightly basis once the data are 

accepted by each State’s centralized 

database following quality control 

checks. NCSA uses these data to 

develop a census of the participating 

State’s crashes. This dataset supports 

real-time decision making; reduces the 

burden of data collection; and improves 

data quality. NCSA uses these data to 

identify existing and emerging highway 

safety trends, assess the effectiveness of 

motor vehicle safety standards, and 

evaluate new and emerging 

technologies. 

However, only 19 States participate in 

the existing EDT protocol and data 

obtained through these processes vary 

in completeness from State-to-State. The 

BIL State electronic data collection 

program intends to increase the number 

of participating States and enhance the 

robustness of the data through 

standardization and the modernization 

of its systems. BIL Section 24108(d) 

establishes a State electronic data 

collection program that consists of two 

components. The first component, and 

the subject of this request for 

information, is a new discretionary 

grant program that provides grants to 

States for the modernization of State 

data collection systems to enable full 

electronic data transfer. Public Law 

117–58, 24108(d)(2)(A). The second 

component is for NHTSA to update its 

data collection systems to manage and 

support State electronic data transfers. 

Public Law 117–58, 24108(d)(2)(B). The 

purpose of the grants under the State 

electronic data collection program is to 

upgrade and standardize State crash 

data systems to enable electronic data 

collection, improve intrastate data 

sharing and electronic data transfers to 

NHTSA to increase the accuracy, 

timeliness, and accessibility of the data, 

including data relating to fatalities 

involving vulnerable road users. Public 

Law 117–58, 24108(d)(3)(A). To be 

eligible for a grant, a State must submit 

a plan to implement full electronic data 

transfer to NHTSA and provide any 

other information as NHTSA may 

require Public Law 117–58, 

24108(d)(3)(B). A State may use grant 

funds to: (i) Acquire or upgrade 

equipment for the statewide crash data 

repository; (ii) adopt electronic crash 

reporting by law enforcement agencies; 

and (iii) increase alignment of State 

crash data with the latest Model 

Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria. 

Public Law 117–58, 24108(d)(3)(C). 

NHTSA’s vision of the BIL State 

electronic data collection program is to 

support States that create centralized 

crash data systems to transfer uniform 

crash data to NHTSA. The uniformity of 

the crash data will align to the Model 

Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria 

(MMUCC) Guideline. States currently 

submitting electronic data to NHTSA 

will be eligible for the State electronic 

data collection grants to modernize their 

systems and standardize their data 

consistent with this new program. 

NHTSA further envisions that States 

participating in the State electronic data 

collection program will have crash data 

collected electronically in the field by 

all law enforcement agencies and 

jurisdictions using a uniform, efficient 


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approach (e.g., question or scenariobased software) that is consistent with 

the MMUCC Guideline and the 

statewide database’s validation rules. 

The program will require that crash data 

is validated at the point records are 

added to the central State crash 

repository. 

The State electronic data collection 

program requires that NHTSA make 

electronic State crash data publicly 

available. See Public Law 117–58, 

24108(d)(4)(B). Consistent with Federal 

Privacy Law, 23 U.S.C. 403(e), 49 U.S.C. 

30183, and U.S. Department of 

Transportation policy, NHTSA will 

withhold from public disclosure any 

information in the State motor vehicle 

crash data that would lead to the 

identification of individuals involved in 

a motor vehicle crash. 

Request for Information 

The agency is interested in 

information that would help develop 

and implement a successful State 

electronic data collection program. This 

includes information about States’ 

existing capacity to collect, store, and 

transfer crash data from the State level 

to NHTSA; interest in moving to an 

electronic data collection framework; 

making State crash data accessible to the 

public; identifying potential barriers; 

describing the infrastructural needs to 

transition to an electronic data transfer 

protocol; and adoption of electronic 

crash reporting by law enforcement 

agencies. The information will support 

the development and implementation of 

the State electronic data collection 

program by taking into consideration 

the States’ experiences and operational 

capacity. NHTSA has a general 

understanding of how data collection 

and information technology protocols 

work based on NHTSA’s assessment of 

State traffic records systems, current 

State electronic data transfer, and FARS 

operations. However, NHTSA hereby 

seeks further information based on the 

below questions. This list is not 

exhaustive, and we encourage 

commenters to provide any further 

information that they believe is relevant 

to inform the agency as it seeks to 

implement a successful State electronic 

data collection grant program. 

Data Standardization and 

Modernization of Information 

Technology 

(1) What are the State’s current 

methodologies for collecting and 

standardizing statewide crash data 

electronically in a central repository? 

(2) NHTSA relies on MMUCC to 

establish a standardized data set. What 

steps are required for the State to meet 

this standardization? 

(a) Please provide an estimated 

timeline to implement MMUCC 

standardization. 

(b) What would it cost the State to 

move toward this data standardization? 

(3) If the State does not have a 

centralized statewide crash data 

repository, describe what the State will 

need to establish the infrastructure; 

processes and procedures; information 

technology requirement; and training, to 

support this data modernization effort? 

(4) Explain what the State will need 

to establish the infrastructure; processes 

and procedures; information technology 

requirement; and training to implement 

an electronic data transfer protocol. 

(5) How long would it take for the 

State to establish a centralized statewide 

crash data repository and to implement 

an electronic data transfer protocol? 

(6) What are the State’s estimated 

costs associated with establishing a 

centralized statewide crash repository to 

support an electronic data transfer 

protocol? 

(7) Explain the challenges associated 

with establishing a centralized 

statewide crash repository that supports 

an electronic data transfer protocol. 

Elaborate on the State’s needs to 

overcome those challenges. 

Law Enforcement Electronic Crash 

Reporting 

(8) What percentage or number of the 

State’s law enforcement agencies collect 

motor vehicle traffic crash information 

using an electronic crash report/records 

management system? 

(a) Are all law enforcement agencies 

in the State collecting motor vehicle 

traffic crash information via an 

electronic crash report/records 

management system using the same 

application? 

(b) For law enforcement agencies 

collecting motor vehicle traffic crash 

information using an electronic crash 

report/records management system, 

what application is used? 

(9) What percentage or number of law 

enforcement agencies solely use paper 

crash reports in the crash reporting 

process? 

(a) If so, are these paper reports coded 

into the centralized statewide crash 

repository? 

(b) Describe any law enforcement’s 

reservations for participating in 

electronic crash reporting to document 

motor vehicle traffic crash information? 

(c) Specify the needs and costs for law 

enforcement agencies to adopt 

electronic-crash reporting to document 

motor vehicle traffic crash information? 

Data Management 

(10) Does the State have a conceptual 

or notional design of how the data 

would flow into a centralized statewide 

crash data repository? If so, please 

elaborate. 

(11) If the State currently participates 

in NHTSA EDT protocol, does the State 

have written operating procedures for 

managing the data flow? If so, please 

submit the data flow or the operational 

structure. 

(12) Does the State, in its crash data, 

distinguish between crash types 

between self-reported and police 

reported crashes? 

(13) Does the State include variables 

to identify State-reportable vs. nonreportable crashes? 

Data Accessibility to the Public 

(14) Please provide recommendations 

on the format types for publicly 

available State crash data. 

(15) What State products and services 

that include State crash data does the 

State find are most helpful to the 

public? 

(16) Please advise if the State is 

interested in modernizing and 

standardizing its State crash system? 

This notice is for information 

purposes only. The agency will review 

and consider information provided in 

response to this notice as it implements 

the State electronic data collection grant 

program, but will not respond to 

comments. 

Authority: S. 24108, Public Law 117– 

58, 135 Stat 429. 

Chou-Lin Chen, 

Associate Administrator, National Center for 

Statistics and Analysis. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Form 706–CE 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service 

(IRS), 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 information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The 

IRS is soliciting comments concerning 


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