Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 216 / Thursday, November 9, 2017 / Notices 52101 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping 

Requirements Agency Information 

Collection Activity Under OMB Review 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 this 

notice announces the Information 

Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 

below will be submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and comment. 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 July 17, 2017 (Federal 

Register/Vol. 82, No. 135/pp. 32758– 

32759). 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before December 11, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit 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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Kathy Sifrit, Office of Behavioral Safety 

Research (NPD–320), National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue SE., W46–472, 

Washington, DC 20590. Dr. Sifrit’s 

phone number is (202) 366–0868 and 

her email address is kathy.sifrit@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Visual Scanning Training for 

Older Drivers. 

Type of Request: New information 

collection requirement. 

Abstract: Older adults comprise an 

increasing proportion of the driving 

population and exposure-based analyses 

have consistently shown increased rates 

of crash involvement for drivers as they 

age into their 70’s, 80’s and beyond. 

Studies have identified particular 

situations where older drivers are most 

at risk, including navigating 

intersections and merging. These tasks 

share attributes of elevated demand on 

visual search and visual attention skills. 

The visual scanning training protocol 

that is the focus of this study was 

designed to be delivered in one-on-one 

sessions by a generalist occupational 

therapist (OT) in a clinical setting, 

targeting visual field expansion, 

simultaneous processing of multiple 

visual stimuli, and ocular skill (visual 

search routine) exercises. 

A preliminary analysis of the 

training’s effectiveness was provided 

through performance of the NHTSA 

study, ‘‘Validation of Rehabilitation 

Training Programs for Older Drivers’’ 

(See DOT HS 811 749, April 2013). 

While these results were encouraging, 

the sample size was small and the 

research team, program developer and 

NHTSA all agreed that additional 

evidence was needed before widespread 

promotion of this intervention might be 

warranted. That is the focus of the 

proposed research. 

Study staff will invite drivers 70 and 

older from a continuing care retirement 

community to a public meeting to 

describe the opportunity including 

inclusion and exclusion criteria. The 

project plans to recruit a total of 90 

participants for the study. Participants 

will be randomly assigned to either a 

visual scanning training program (a 

series of four one-hour one-on-one 

training sessions) or to a control 

(placebo) activity for the same number 

of hours as the visual training protocol. 

All participants will undergo three, onehour on-road evaluations by a Certified 

Driver Rehabilitation Specialist (CDRS) 

over the course of the study: One before 

training, one immediately after training, 

and a final evaluation three months after 

training. The CDRS will provide 

instructions about what route to follow 

and will score how safely the 

participant drives using standard 

procedures and criteria that are broadly 

accepted in the profession. The CDRS 

scores will be used to determine the 

effectiveness of the training protocol 

relative to the control (placebo) group. 

Following training, the 45 study 

participants enrolled in the visual 

scanning training group will complete a 

brief questionnaire to determine 

whether they believe the training will 

help them to be a safer driver, whether 

they would recommend the training to 

friends or relatives, and what they 

would pay for such training. The 

training feedback, as well as the CDRS 

road test scores, will be used to evaluate 

the effectiveness of the training. 

Following the second and third 

evaluations, each study participant will 

receive a $100 gift card as compensation 

for his/her participation. 

Findings will provide information 

about whether this training program 

improves the driving performance of 

drivers 70 and older, and whether they 

find the training acceptable. NHTSA 

will use the information to inform 

recommendations to the public, and 

particularly to the OT community, 

regarding this training program. 

Affected Public: Participants will 

include 90 licensed drivers 70 and 

older. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: The 

total burden for data collection would 

be 690 hours. 

Comments are invited on the 

following: 

(i) 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; 

(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 November 3, 

2017. 

Jeff Michael, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

[FR Doc. 2017–24394 Filed 11–8–17; 8:45 am] 

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