Document ID: NHTSA-2016-0065-0003
Agency: nhtsa
Document Type: Notice
Title: Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals
Posted Date: 2016-10-11T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 196 (Tuesday, October 11, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70269-70273]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24505]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[U.S. DOT Docket Number NHTSA-2016-0065]

Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping Requirements

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 
Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 
notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
abstracted below has been forwarded to the Office of Management and 
Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR describes the nature of 
the information collections and their expected burden. The Federal 
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was published on June 27, 
2016 (81 FR 41644).

DATES: Comments must be submitted to OMB on or before November 10, 
2016.

ADDRESSES: Send comments to the Office of Information and Regulatory 
Affairs, OMB, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: 
Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alex Ansley, Recall Management 
Division (NVS-215), Room W48-301, NHTSA, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 
Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: (202) 493-0481.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 
before an agency submits a proposed collection of information to OMB 
for approval, it must first publish a document in the Federal Register 
providing a 60-day comment period and otherwise consult with members of 
the public and affected agencies concerning each proposed collection of 
information. The OMB has promulgated regulations describing what must 
be included in such a document. Under OMB's regulation, see 5 CFR 
1320.8(d), an agency must ask for public comment 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 agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (iii) how to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (iv) how to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or 
other forms of information technology, e.g. permitting electronic 
submission of responses.
    In compliance with these requirements, NHTSA asks for public 
comments on the following collection of information:
    Title: Defect and Noncompliance Reporting and Notification.
    Type of Request: Extension of a currently approved information 
collection.
    OMB Control Number: 2127-0004.
    Affected Public: Businesses or individuals.
    Abstract: The 60-day notice for this information collection 
received one (1) comment submitted by Nissan North America, Inc. 
(Nissan). Nissan agreed with many of the estimates presented in the 60-
day notice but did offer substantive comments on six different 
estimates related to safety recall reporting and owner notification 
obligations. A summary of Nissan's comments are found below in the 
corresponding burden estimate along with the Agency's response.
    This collection covers the information collection requirements 
found within various statutory sections in the Motor Vehicle Safety Act 
of 1966 (Act), 49 U.S.C. 30101, et seq., that address and require 
manufacturer notifications to NHTSA of safety-related defects and 
failures to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) 
in motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment, as well as the provision 
of particular information related to the ensuing owner and dealers 
notifications and free remedy campaigns that follow those 
notifications.
    Pursuant to the Act, motor vehicle and motor vehicle equipment 
manufacturers are obligated to notify, and then provide various 
information and documents, to NHTSA in the event a safety defect or 
noncompliance with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) is 
identified in products they manufactured. See 49 U.S.C. 30118(b) and 49 
CFR 573.6 (requiring manufacturers to notify NHTSA, and provide certain 
information, when they learn of a safety defect or noncompliance). 
Manufacturers are further required to notify owners, purchasers, 
dealers and distributors about the safety defect or noncompliance. See 
49 U.S.C. 30118(b), 30120(a), and 49 CFR 577.7, 577.13. They are 
required to provide to NHTSA copies of communications pertaining to

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recall campaigns that they issue to owners, purchasers, dealers, and 
distributors. See 49 U.S.C. 30166(f) and 49 CFR 573.6(c)(10).
    Manufacturers are also required to file with NHTSA a plan 
explaining how they intend to reimburse owners and purchasers who paid 
to have their products remedied before being notified of the safety 
defect or noncompliance, and explain that plan in the notifications 
they issue to owners and purchasers about the safety defect or 
noncompliance. See 49 U.S.C. 30120(d) and 49 CFR 573.13. They are 
further required to keep lists of the respective owners, purchasers, 
dealers, distributors, lessors, and lessees of the products determined 
to be defective or noncompliant and involved in a recall campaign, and 
are required to provide NHTSA with a minimum of six quarterly reports 
reporting on the progress of their recall campaigns. See 49 CFR 573.8 
and 573.7, respectively.
    The Act and Part 573 also contain numerous information collection 
requirements specific to tire recall and remedy campaigns. These 
requirements relate to the proper disposal of recalled tires, including 
a requirement that the manufacturer conducting the tire recall submit a 
plan and provide specific instructions to certain persons (such as 
dealers and distributors) addressing that disposal, and a requirement 
that those persons report back to the manufacturer certain deviations 
from the plan. See 49 U.S.C. 30120(d) and 49 CFR 573.6(c)(9). They also 
require the reporting to NHTSA of intentional and knowing sales or 
leases of defective or noncompliant tires.
    49 U.S.C. 30166(n), and its implementing regulation found at 49 CFR 
573.10, mandates that anyone who knowingly and willfully sells or 
leases for use on a motor vehicle a defective tire or a tire that is 
not compliant with FMVSS, and with actual knowledge that the tire 
manufacturer has notified its dealers of the defect or noncompliance as 
required under the Act, is required to report that sale or lease to 
NHTSA no more than five working days after the person to whom the tire 
was sold or leased takes possession of it.
    Estimated Burden: The approved information collection associated 
with 49 CFR part 573 and portions of 49 CFR part 577 presently holds an 
estimated annual burden of 46,138 hours associated with an estimated 
280 respondents per year. For information concerning how we calculated 
these estimates please see the Federal Register Notices 78 FR 51381 
(August 20, 2013).
    Our prior estimates of the number of manufacturers each year that 
would be required to provide information under 49 CFR part 573, the 
number of recalls for which 49 CFR part 573 information collection 
requirements would need to be met, and the number of burden hours 
associated with the requirements currently covered by this information 
collection require adjustment as explained below.
    Based on current information, we now estimate 275 distinct 
manufacturers filing an average of 854 Part 573 Safety Recall Reports 
each year. This is a change from our previous estimate of 680 Part 573 
Safety Recall Reports filed by 280 manufacturers each year.
    We originally estimated that it takes a manufacturer an average of 
4 hours to complete each notification report to NHTSA and that 
maintenance of the required owner, purchaser, dealer, and distributors 
lists requires 8 hours a year per manufacturer. Nissan commented that, 
in its experience, it spends ``. . . two (2) to (3) days (16-24 hours) 
to complete each Defect Information Report (DIR), based on an eight (8) 
hour day. This varies based on the size and complexity of the recall.'' 
We thank Nissan for its comment and do not disagree with its estimated 
burden for filing a Part 573 Recall Report (or ``DIR'' as referenced in 
Nissan's comment). However, most manufacturers who conduct safety 
recalls are not major, passenger vehicle manufacturers. And, generally, 
most other manufacturers include very few products in the average 
safety recall. We presume that, like Nissan, other major, passenger 
vehicle manufacturers require similar time and burden to prepare and 
file their reports due to the size and complexity of passenger vehicle 
recalls. As such, we estimate that major, passenger vehicle 
manufacturers will require 20 burden hours, the average of Nissan's 
estimate, to prepare and file their Part 573 Recall Reports.
    By utilizing the metric associated with NHTSA's VIN Look-up Tool 
regulation (See 49 CFR 573.15), we will associate a higher burden hour 
estimate for the major, passenger vehicle manufacturers who produce 
more than 25,000 vehicles annually. The seventeen (17) manufacturers 
that fit this annual production criterion recall many more products, on 
average, than other manufacturers. Between 2013 and 2015, the recalls 
for these major, passenger vehicle manufacturers (including Nissan) 
affected an average of 153,000 vehicles per recall. However, the 
recalls for all other manufacturers (including manufacturers for other 
vehicles and motor vehicle equipment such as tires, child seats, etc.), 
affected an average of 32,000 products per recall. Between 2013 and 
2015 the major, passenger vehicle manufacturers conducted an average of 
45 recalls annually.
    We estimate the annual burden hours related to the reporting to 
NHTSA of a safety defect or noncompliance for the seventeen major, 
passenger vehicle manufacturers to be 900 hours annually (45 notices x 
20 hours/report). We estimate all other manufacturers to require a 
total of 3,236 hours annually to file their notices (809 notices x 4 
hours/report). Accordingly, the estimated annual burden hours related 
to the reporting to NHTSA of a safety defect or noncompliance is 6,336 
hours (900 hours + 3,236 hours) + (275 MFRs x 8 hours to maintain 
purchaser lists).
    We also estimated an additional 2 hours would be needed to add to a 
manufacturer's Part 573 Safety Recall Report details relating to the 
intended schedule for notifying its dealers and distributors, and 
tailoring its notifications to dealers and distributors in accordance 
with the requirements of 49 CFR 577.13. Nissan commented that, in its 
experience and depending on the complexity of the recall, it 
``typically works up to five (5) business days/forty (40) hours to 
craft the Dealer announcement with the appropriate repair protocol and 
other essential information to provide to dealers. The announcement 
creation includes coordinating with multiple departments in order to 
notify and instruct the dealers/retailers on how to execute the 
remedy.'' Similar to the burden hour estimate for readying the Part 573 
Recall Report, we believe Nissan's estimate is realistic and should 
apply to the burden hour calculation for the major, passenger vehicle 
manufacturers. We believe, however, that most other manufacturers would 
require up to two hours readying this notification. This burden is now 
estimated at 3,418 hours annually (809 notices x 2 hours/notification + 
45 notices x 40 hours/notification).
    49 U.S.C. 30166(f) requires vehicle manufacturers to provide to the 
Agency copies of all communications regarding defects and 
noncompliances sent to owners, purchasers, and dealerships. 
Manufactures must index these communications by the year, make, and 
model of the vehicle as well as provide a concise summary of the 
subject of the communication. We estimate this burden requires 30 
minutes for each vehicle recall. This would total to an estimated 380 
hours annually (760 vehicle recalls x .5 hours). Nissan commented that 
they agreed with the Agency's estimate for this burden.

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    In the event a manufacturer supplied the defect or noncompliant 
product to independent dealers through independent distributors, that 
manufacturer is required to include in its notifications to those 
distributors an instruction that the distributors are to then provide 
copies of the manufacturer's notification of the defect or 
noncompliance to all known distributors or retail outlets further down 
the distribution chain within five working days. See 49 CFR 
577.7(c)(2)(iv). As a practical matter, this requirement would only 
apply to equipment manufacturers since vehicle manufacturers generally 
sell and lease vehicles through a dealer network, and not through 
independent distributors. We believe our previous estimate of roughly 
80 equipment recalls per year needs to be adjusted to 95 equipment 
recalls per year to better reflect recent recall figures. Although the 
distributors are not technically under any regulatory requirement to 
follow that instruction, we expect that they will, and have estimated 
the burden associated with these notifications (identifying retail 
outlets, making copies of the manufacturer's notice, and mailing) to be 
5 hours per recall campaign. Assuming an average of 3 distributors per 
equipment item, (which is a liberal estimate given that many equipment 
manufacturers do not use independent distributors) the total number of 
burden hours associated with this third party notification burden is 
approximately 1,425 hours per year (95 recalls x 3 distributors x 5 
hours). We received no comments on this particular burden estimate.
    As for the burden linked with a manufacturer's preparation of and 
notification concerning its reimbursement for pre-notification 
remedies, we estimated that the preparation of a reimbursement plan 
takes approximately 8 hours annually, and that an additional 2 hours 
per year is spent tailoring the plan to particular defect and 
noncompliance notifications to NHTSA and adding tailored language about 
the plan to a particular safety recall's owner notification letters.
    Nissan commented that this requirement actually requires additional 
burden hours from various departments within the company. Nissan 
estimates that its Consumer Affairs department must maintain and update 
a reimbursement Web site which requires $24,000 annually. Further, 
updates to this Web site take approximately four (4) hours to complete, 
presumably per recall (but this is not clarified). Another twelve (12) 
annual hours are required to ``. . . . disseminate internal documents 
to Consumer Affairs staff . . .'' Nissan's Field Quality Assurance and 
Technical Compliance departments also spend a combined four and a half 
(4.5) hours, per recall, creating the reimbursement plan and adding 
specific language to the owner notification letter.
    We thank Nissan for its detailed burden estimate for this 
requirement. Regarding the Web site that Nissan operates for managing 
reimbursement submissions, this is not a current burden imposed by the 
regulation in 49 CFR 577.11. Manufacturers must disseminate 
reimbursement information to owners through the owner notification 
letter and provide owners a physical mailing address to submit any 
claims in writing. Manufacturers are not required to create or maintain 
a Web site for facilitating this pre-notification remedy requirement. 
As such, we will not include the $24,000 annual maintenance costs 
related to Nissan's Web site or the four (4) hours spent on updating 
the Web site.
    However, we do agree with Nissan regarding the four and a half 
(4.5) hours required to create the reimbursement plan and tailor the 
plan to each specific recall. We previously estimated a combined total 
of 10 hours for these items but we will use Nissan's estimate going 
forward. Also, we will add an additional 12 hours annually, as Nissan 
estimates, for each manufacturer to disseminate pre-notification 
reimbursement to their company staff.
    In sum, these required activities total 4,827 annual burden hours 
((275 MFRs x 4 hours to prepare plan) + (854 recalls x .5 hours 
tailoring plan for each recall) + (275 MFRs x 12 hours to disseminate 
plan information)).
    The Safety Act and 49 CFR part 573 also contain numerous 
information collection requirements specific to tire recall and remedy 
campaigns, as well as a statutory and regulatory reporting requirement 
that anyone who knowingly and intentionally sells or leases a defective 
or noncompliant tire notify NHTSA of that activity.
    Manufacturers are required to include specific information related 
to tire disposal in the notifications they provide NHTSA concerning 
identification of a safety defect or noncompliance with FMVSS in their 
tires, as well as in the notifications they issue to their dealers or 
other tire outlets participating in the recall campaign. See 49 CFR 
573.6(c)(9). We now estimate that the Agency administers 12 tire 
recalls each year, on average, revised down from our previous estimate 
of 15 tire recall each year. We estimate that the inclusion of this 
additional information will require an additional two hours of effort 
beyond the subtotal above associated with non-tire recall campaigns. 
This additional effort consists of one hour for the NHTSA notification 
and one hour for the dealer notification for a total of 24 burden hours 
(12 tire recalls a year x 2 hours per recall).
    Manufacturer owned or controlled dealers are required to notify the 
manufacturer and provide certain information should they deviate from 
the manufacturer's disposal plan. Consistent with our previous 
analysis, we continue to ascribe zero burden hours to this requirement 
since to date no such reports have been provided and our original 
expectation that dealers would comply with manufacturers' plans has 
proven true.
    Accordingly, we estimate 24 burden hours a year will be spent 
complying with the tire recall campaign requirements found in 49 CFR 
573.6(c)(9).
    Additionally, because the agency has yet to receive a single report 
of a defective or noncompliant tire being intentionally sold or leased, 
our previous estimate of zero burden hours remains unchanged with this 
notice. We received no comments regarding the burden estimates for tire 
disposal requirements or tire recall campaign requirements.
    The previous clearance for this information collection allowed for 
start-up costs for the Agency's VIN Look-up system and a new regulation 
that required manufacturers to create a VIN Look-up service on their 
respective Web sites. As these systems were launched successfully in 
August 2014, the start-up estimates for costs and burden will now be 
removed. The estimated costs to industry for one-time infrastructure 
expenses to create a VIN-based recalls lookup service consisting of 108 
hours, and costing a total of $45,000, will now be removed from this 
information collection.
    Each manufacturer was also required to establish requirements, 
analysis, and designs for their new recalls look-up tools. These 
additional burdens stemmed from: The creation of the VIN search 
interface; database setup to host the recall information; data refresh 
procedures to populate recall information; server side VIN code lookup 
and recall status retrieval; integration with existing manufacturer Web 
site; and application testing. We estimated these burdens to total 
1,332 hours and $130,005 and these costs will now be removed from this 
information collection.
    We continue to believe nine vehicle manufacturers, who did not 
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VIN-based recalls lookup systems prior to August 2013, incur certain 
recurring burdens on an annual basis. We estimate that 100 burden hours 
will be spent on system and database administrator support. These 100 
burden hours include: Backup data management and monitoring; database 
management, updates, and log management; and data transfer, archiving, 
quality assurance, and cleanup procedures. We estimate another 100 
burden hours will be incurred on web/application developer support. 
These burdens include: Operating system and security patch management; 
application/web server management; and application server system and 
log files management. We estimate these burdens will total 1,800 hours 
each year (9 MFRs x 200 hours). We estimate the recurring costs of 
these burden hours will be $30,000 per manufacturer.\1\ We continue to 
estimate that the total cost to the industry from these recurring 
expenses will total $270,000, on an annual basis (9 MFRs x $30,000). 
Nissan commented that they agreed with this estimate.
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$12,000 (for system and database administrator support) + $10,000 
(for web/application developer support) = $30,000.
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    The Agency previously estimated one-time startup costs that 
manufacturers would assume in order to meet certain technical access 
requirements to provide recall information to NHTSA's Web site. We 
estimated that the total one-time costs to the industry from these 
technical access requirements would require 1,914 burden hours (27 MFRs 
x 72 hours) and total $189,270 (27 MFRs x $7,010) and we now remove 
these costs from this information collection.
    The Agency previously estimated one-time startup costs 
manufacturers incurred to create a VIN list for 15 years of recall 
information. We estimated that the total one-time costs to the industry 
from this VIN list creation would require 1,620 hours (27 MFRs x 60 
hours). We remove these costs from this information collection.
    Changes to 49 CFR part 573 in 2013 required 27 manufacturers to 
update each recalled vehicle's repair status no less than every 7 days, 
for 15 years from the date the VIN is known to be included in the 
recall. This ongoing requirement to update the status of a VIN for 15 
years continues to add a recurring burden on top of the one-time burden 
to implement and operate these online search tools. We calculate that 8 
affected motorcycle manufacturers will make recalled VINs available for 
an average of 2 recalls each year and 19 affected passenger vehicle 
manufacturers will make recalled VINs available for an average of 8 
recalls each year. We believe it will take no more than 1 hour, and 
potentially much less with automated systems, to update the VIN status 
of vehicles that have been remedied under the manufacturer's remedy 
program. We continue to estimate this will require 8,736 burden hours 
per year (1 hour x 2 recalls x 52 weeks x 8 MFRs + 1 hour x 8 recalls x 
52 weeks x 19 MFRs) to support the requirement to update the recalls 
completion status of each VIN in a recall at least weekly for 15 years. 
We received no comments on this estimate.
    As the number of Part 573 Recall Reports has increased in recent 
years, so has the number of quarterly reports which track the 
completion of safety recalls. Our previous estimate of 3,000 quarterly 
reports received annually is now revised up to an average of 3,800 
reports annually. Nissan commented that they spend an average of ten 
(10) minutes per quarterly report where we previously estimated 4 hours 
per report. We believe Nissan's estimate of 10 minutes is much more 
realistic as this process is likely automated through electronic 
reporting. As such, we will adopt Nissan's estimate of 10 minutes 
burden to gather the pertinent information for each quarterly report.
    Nissan further estimated that it requires one (1) additional hour 
each quarter to electronically submit all quarterly reports (for up to 
30 recalls in a given quarter) totaling another four (4) burden hours 
annually. As noted before, the major, passenger vehicle manufacturers 
often conduct more recalls affecting more vehicles and this can 
increase the quarterly reporting burden for those manufacturers. We 
will include an additional four (4) burden hours for the seventeen 
major, passenger vehicle manufacturers. The quarterly reporting burden 
now totals 701 hours ((3,800 quarterly reports x 10 minutes/report) + 
(17 MFRs x 4 hours for electronic submission)).
    NHTSA's last update to this information collection established a 
new online recalls portal for the submission of recall documents. We 
continue to estimate a small burden of 2 hours annually in order to set 
up a manufacturer's online recalls portal account with the pertinent 
contact information and maintaining/updating their account information 
as needed. We estimate this will require a total of 550 hours annually 
(2 hours x 275 MFRs). Nissan commented that they agree with this 
estimate.
    Also updated in the last revision to this information collection, 
NHTSA established a requirement that manufactures change or update 
recall components in their Part 573 Safety Recall Report. We continue 
to estimate that 20 percent of Part 573 reports will involve a change 
or addition. We originally estimated that this burden would require an 
additional 30 minutes per amended report. Nissan commented that this 
task requires up to one (1) hour per amended report. We believe 
Nissan's estimate of one hour is reasonable and we will adopt this 
estimated burden calculation. At one hour per amended report, this 
totals 171 burden hours per year (854 recalls x .20 = 171 recalls; 171 
x 1 = 171 hours).
    As to the requirement that manufacturers notify NHTSA in the event 
of a bankruptcy, we expect this notification to take an estimated 2 
hours to draft and submit to NHTSA. We continue to estimate that only 
10 manufacturers might submit such a notice to NHTSA each year, so we 
calculate the total burden at 20 hours (10 MFRs x 2 hours). We received 
no comments on this particular estimate.
    We continue to estimate that it takes manufacturers an average of 8 
hours to draft their notification letters, submit them to NHTSA for 
review, and then finalize them for mailing to their affected owners and 
purchasers. We estimate that the 49 CFR part 577 requirements result in 
6,832 burden hours annually (8 hours per recall x 854 recalls per 
year). Nissan commented that they agree with the Agency's estimate for 
this burden calculation.
    The estimate associated with the regulation which requires owner 
notifications within 60 days of filing a Part 573 Safety Recall Report 
remains must similarly be revised with an increase in recalls. We 
previously calculated that about 25 percent of past recalls did not 
include an owner notification mailing within 60 days of the filing of 
the Part 573 Safety Recall Report. However, recent trends show that 
only about 10 percent of recalls require an interim owner notification 
mailing. Under the regulation, manufacturers must send two letters in 
these cases: An interim notification of the defect or noncompliance 
within 60 days and a supplemental letter notifying owners and 
purchasers of the available remedy.
    We originally estimated these interim letters would require 8 
burden hours per recall (similar to the standard owner notification 
letters). However, Nissan commented that preparation of the interim 
letter can require up to ten (10) hours if the letter is complex in 
nature.

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We believe Nissan's estimate of 10 hours is reasonable and we will 
adopt this estimate burden calculation. Accordingly, we estimate that 
850 burden hours are associated with this 60-day interim notification 
requirement (854 recalls x .10 = 85 recalls; 85 recalls times 10 hours 
per recall = 850 hours).
    As for costs associated with notifying owners and purchasers of 
recalls, we continue to estimate this costs $1.50 per first class mail 
notification, on average. This cost estimate includes the costs of 
printing, mailing, as well as the costs vehicle manufacturers may pay 
to third-party vendors to acquire the names and addresses of the 
current registered owners from state and territory departments of motor 
vehicles. In reviewing recent recall figures, we determined that an 
estimated 58.4 million letters are mailed yearly totaling $87,600,000 
($1.50 per letter x 58,400,000 letters). The requirement in 49 CFR part 
577 for a manufacturer to notify their affected customers within 60 
days would add an additional $8,760,000 (58,400,000 letters x .10 
requiring interim owner notifications = 5,840,000 letters; 5,840,000 x 
$1.50 = $8,760,000). In total we estimate that the current 49 CFR part 
577 requirements cost manufacturers a total of $96,360,000 annually 
($87,600,000 owner notification letters + $8,760,000 interim 
notification letters = $96,360,000). Nissan commented that they agree 
with the Agency's estimate for this cost estimate.
    Due to the past burdens associated with the requirement that 
certain vehicle manufacturers setup VIN Look-up systems for their 
recalled vehicles, many estimates have been removed from this 
information collection as these burdens and costs have already 
occurred. The 49 CFR part 573 and 49 CFR part 577 requirements found in 
today's notice will require 36,070 hours each year for OMB Control 
Number 2127-0004, a decrease of 10,068 burden hours from the previously 
approved collection of 46,138 hours. Additionally, manufacturers 
impacted by 49 CFR part 573 and 49 CFR part 577 requirements will incur 
a recurring annual cost estimated at $96,630,000 total.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: NHTSA receives reports of defect 
or noncompliance from roughly 275 manufacturers per year. Accordingly, 
we estimate that there will be approximately 275 manufacturers per year 
filing defect or noncompliance reports and completing the other 
information collection responsibilities associated with those filings.
    In summary, we estimate that there will be a total of 275 
respondents per year associated with OMB No. 2127-0004.

    Issued on: October 4, 2016.
Michael L. Brown,
Acting Director, Office of Defects Investigation.
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