Document ID: NHTSA-2011-0186-0001
Agency: nhtsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2011-12-29T05:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 250 (Thursday, December 29, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 82038-82039]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-33473]

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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 June 13, 2011 
(Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 113/pp. 34290-34291).

DATES: Submit comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on 
or before January 30, 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: The National Survey of Pedestrian and Bicyclist Attitudes, 
Knowledge, and Behaviors.
    Form No.: NHTSA Form 1148.
    Type of Review: Regular.
    Respondents: Telephone interviews will be administered to a 
national sample of people 16 and older who have access to a residential 
landline and/or a personal cell phone.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 15 pre-test respondents and 9,000 
survey respondents.
    Estimated Time per Response: 20 minutes per interview.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 3,005 hours.
    Frequency of Collection: The survey will be administered a single 
time.
    Abstract: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 
(NHTSA) proposes to collect information from the public to ascertain 
the scope and magnitude of bicycle and pedestrian activity and the 
public's behavior and attitudes regarding bicycling and walking. A 
national telephone survey will be administered to 9,000 randomly 
selected respondents drawn from all 50 States and the District of 
Columbia. The national survey will be preceded by a pretest 
administered to 15 respondents. The survey will ask about the 
characteristics of bicycling and walking trips, conspicuity, community 
design for bicycling and walking, bicycle helmet use, and general 
opinions about bicycling and walking. Interview length will average 20 
minutes. NHTSA will use the findings from this proposed collection of 
information to assist States, localities, and communities in developing 
and refining bicycling and walking safety programs.
    In conducting the proposed telephone interviews, the interviewers 
would use computer-assisted telephone interviewing to reduce interview 
length and minimize recording errors. No personally identifiable 
information will be collected during the telephone interviews.
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).

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    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 23, 2011.
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2011-33473 Filed 12-28-11; 8:45 am]
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