Document ID: NHTSA-2022-0047-0001
Agency: nhtsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Creation of the Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria Committee
Posted Date: 2022-07-05T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 127 (Tuesday, July 5, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39898-39899]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-14240]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA-2022-0047]

Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) Committee

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 
Department of the Transportation (DOT).

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ACTION: Notice of the creation of the MMUCC Committee.

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SUMMARY: NHTSA has led the development of the Model Minimum Uniform 
Crash Criteria (MMUCC) since the first edition was published in 1998. 
NHTSA announces that it will form a MMUCC Committee to inform the 
development and revision of the MMUCC Guideline, sixth edition. The 
MMUCC Committee's objectives are: (1) to exchange views, information, 
and advice to further refine the collection of motor vehicle crash data 
and (2) to exchange views, information, and advice on institutional 
barriers preventing MMUCC implementation.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket 
Management System Docket ID NHTSA-2022-0047 using any of the following 
methods:
     Federal rulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
     Mail: Send comments to: Docket Management Facility, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
     Fax: Written comments may be faxed to (202) 493-2251.
     Hand Delivery: If you plan to submit written comments by 
hand or courier, please do so at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 
5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Please submit all comments to the Docket by September 6, 2022.
    Whichever way you submit your comments, please remember to mention 
the agency and the docket number of this document within your 
correspondence. Please note that all comments received will be posted 
without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 
information provided. Please see the ``Privacy Act'' heading below.
    Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments 
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comments (or signing the comments, if submitted on 
behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review 
DOT's complete Privacy Act statement in the Federal Register published 
on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit https://DocketInfo.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information, please contact John 
Siegler, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, NHTSA (telephone: 
202-366-1268 or email: [email protected]).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The MMUCC Guideline identifies a voluntary, 
minimum set of motor vehicle crash data elements and their set of 
attributes that States can consider collecting and including on their 
law enforcement traffic crash report forms and in their electronic 
crash data systems. MMUCC promotes data uniformity within the highway 
safety community by creating a common foundation for State crash data 
systems to provide the information necessary to improve highway safety. 
Crash data is used to identify problems, determine highway safety 
messages and strategic communication campaigns, optimize the location 
of selective law enforcement, inform decision-makers of needed highway 
safety legislation, and evaluate the impact of highway safety 
countermeasures. NHTSA first published MMUCC with the Governors Highway 
Safety Association, Federal Highway Administration, Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration, State and industry partners in 1998. The 
Guideline has been regularly updated to address emerging highway safety 
issues, with the most recent 5th Edition published in 2017.
    While MMUCC is a voluntary Guideline for States, the crash data 
that NHTSA obtains from the States feeds both the Fatality Analysis 
Reporting System (FARS) and the Crash Report Sampling System (CRSS), 
which are essential to traffic safety research by NHTSA as well as by 
other agencies. Therefore, it is critical that the recommended MMUCC 
data elements be designed with clarity, purpose, and efficiency.
    The MMUCC Committee will be comprised of employees of State, Local, 
or Tribal governments acting in their official capacity that 
collectively will represent government agencies that are stakeholders 
in the collection, management, and analysis of crash data. These 
employees will include law enforcement officers, data analysts, IT 
database administrators or managers, traffic records coordinating 
committee members, governors' representatives for highway safety, and 
Federal liaisons. The MMUCC Committee will exist until NHTSA determines 
that it has fulfilled its mission, and Committee members will serve 
until they resign or are replaced by NHTSA.
    The intent of the MMUCC Committee will be for NHTSA to obtain 
information or viewpoints specific to the expertise of the Committee 
members on changes to the MMUCC Guideline. While MMUCC is a voluntary 
guideline for States, it is fundamental for NHTSA's crash data programs 
and, therefore, important that MMUCC data elements and attributes agree 
with CRSS and FARS. NHTSA, in consultation with this Committee, intends 
to produce the next edition of the MMUCC Guideline.
    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 5, 2022 under authority delegated 
in 49 CFR part 1.95.

Chou-Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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