Document ID: NHTSA-2011-0183-0001
Agency: nhtsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2011-12-16T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 242 (Friday, December 16, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 78333-78334]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-32289]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Request for Comment

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces that the Information 
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted 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 January 13, 
2011 (Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 9/pp. 2442-2444).

DATES: Submit comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on 
or before January 17, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Block at the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Behavioral Safety Research 
(NTI-131), W46-499, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr. Block's phone number is (202) 
366-6401 and his email address is alan.block@dot.gov

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 2127-New.
    Title: Demonstration Tests of Different High Visibility Enforcement 
Models.
    Form No.: NHTSA Forms 1121 and 1122.
    Type of Review: Regular.
    Respondents: Telephone interviews will be administered to residents 
in each of five selected communities who are drivers, age 18 and older, 
have access to a residential landline and/or a personal cell phone, and 
have consumed alcohol in the past year. In-person interviews will be 
conducted in each of the five selected communities with bar patrons age 
21 and older.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 18,750 telephone interviews and 
6,000 bar patron interviews.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes per interview.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,125 hours.
    Frequency of Collection: There will be three survey waves at each 
of the five community sites. For the telephone survey, most respondents 
will be interviewed once. A small subset will be re-interviewed during 
the second and third survey waves. For the bar patron survey, which 
also will involve three survey waves at each of the five community 
sites, each respondent will be interviewed once. That interview will be 
split such that questions will be asked of each respondent both during 
entry and exit from the bar.
    Abstract: Highly visible enforcement (HVE) has had the strongest 
support in the research literature for effectiveness in reducing 
alcohol-impaired driving. The unknown at this time is the relationship 
of the amount of HVE to perceived risk within a community of an 
alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law enforcement. In 
particular, does the perceived risk increase as the amount of HVE 
increases? And is the optimum effect on awareness and perceived risk 
achieved through an integrated program where HVE is integrated into 
regular law enforcement operations? NHTSA proposes to answer those 
questions by selecting community sites that will engage in different 
levels of HVE activity during a one-year intervention period, and 
monitoring community awareness of those enforcement programs and the 
perceived risk of an alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law 
enforcement. Five sites will be selected encompassing integrated, 
intermediate, and more limited HVE programs.
    Data collection to assess program awareness and perceived risk will 
be of two forms. A telephone survey will be conducted in each of the 
five communities prior to the onset of the intervention, at an interim 
point in the program, and at its conclusion, for a total of three 
survey waves per community. Most respondents will be interviewed once; 
however, a subset will be re-interviewed during the second and third 
survey waves to examine individual changes in perceptions and awareness 
over time. The initial survey wave in each community will be composed 
of 1,200 completed interviews. One hundred respondents in each 
community from the first survey wave will be re-interviewed during the 
second survey wave. The second wave will also include interviews with 
1,200 new respondents per community for a total of 1,300 interviews. 
Fifty respondents re-interviewed during the second survey wave will be 
interviewed a final time during the third survey wave. They will be 
added to 1,200 new survey respondents per community for a total of 
1,250 interviews.
    The second form of data collection will be in-person interviews 
with bar patrons. The intent here is to collect information on program 
awareness and perceived risk from a population with a heavier 
concentration of individuals at-risk of driving at illegal blood 
alcohol concentrations (BACs) than one would find in a general 
population survey. Similar to the telephone surveys, there will be a 
baseline, interim and final data collection wave at each of the five 
community sites. Four hundred bar patrons will be interviewed per 
community per survey wave.

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Respondents will be asked a few questions both upon entry and exit from 
the bar. Breath samples will also be taken in order to correlate BAC 
with awareness and perceived risk. The breath test results will not be 
available on-site but will be downloaded later.
    In conducting the telephone interviews, the interviewers would use 
computer-assisted telephone interviewing to reduce interview length and 
minimize recording errors. The data collection at bars would be 
anonymous; no personal information that would allow anyone to identify 
respondents will be collected. The telephone interviews during the 
initial survey wave will include collection of personally identifying 
information from a subset of respondents in order to conduct a small 
number of re-interviews with them during the two subsequent survey 
waves. However, that information will be held exclusively by the survey 
contractor, protected from disclosure to any other parties, and 
destroyed once no longer needed for re-contacting prospective 
respondents. Moreover, the personally identifiable information will be 
separated from the survey responses.

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, 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.
    Comments Are Invited On: 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; the accuracy of the Department'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. A comment to OMB is most 
effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication of this 
notice.

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

Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2011-32289 Filed 12-15-11; 8:45 am]
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