

[Federal Register: January 17, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 12)]
[Notices]               
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2007-0074]

 
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information 
Collection: Share the Road Safely Outreach Program Assessment

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, FMCSA 
announces its plan to submit the Information Collection Request (ICR) 
described below to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review 
and approval. The proposed ICR will be used to collect information on 
commercial motor vehicle (CMV) and passenger car drivers' awareness of 
the Share the Road Safely Outreach Program safety messages and 
activities. On September 11, 2007, FMCSA published a Federal Register 
notice allowing for a 60-day comment period on the ICR. The Agency 
received one comment on the ICR.

DATES: Please submit your comments by February 19, 2008. OMB must 
receive your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference DOT Docket Number FMCSA-2007-
0074. You may submit comments to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 Seventeenth 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: DOT/FMCSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Brian Ronk, Program Manager, 
FMCSA, Office of Outreach and Development, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. 
Telephone: (202) 366-1072; or e-mail brian.ronk@dot.gov. Office hours 
are from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Share the Road Safely Outreach Program Assessment.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-XXXX.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Respondents: Public/licensed passenger car drivers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 1500.
    Estimated Time per Response: The estimated average burden per 
response is 10 minutes.
    Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new information collection request.
    Frequency of Response: This information collection will occur twice 
within the three year effective period of the OMB clearance; once in 
the initial year of approval and again two years following the initial 
data collection.
    Estimated Average Total Annual Burden: 167 hours [1,500 respondents 
x 10 minutes/60 minutes per response x 2 telephone interviews/3 year 
ICR approval timeframe = 167].

Background

    The purpose of this study is to assess the awareness of licensed 
drivers (both CMV and passenger car) regarding Share the Road Safely 
(STRS) messages and activities. The study will assist FMCSA in 
developing future STRS campaign messages and identifying target 
audiences and distribution strategies. The data will be collected 
through a telephone survey. Results of the study will not be published 
in the Federal Register, but used for internal research purposes by 
FMCSA to assess its outreach activities and identify additional 
opportunities to help raise the public's awareness of driving safely 
in, or around, large trucks and vehicles. A follow-up survey will be 
conducted two years after the initial data collection and compared 
against the results from the baseline assessment, then the IC will 
continue every two years thereafter.
    FMCSA published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day 
comment period on the ICR on September 11, 2007. The Agency received 
one comment regarding the need for it to develop and enforce more 
rigorous standards on the trucking industry. The commenter asserts that 
a program like ``Share the Road Safely'' is mind-boggling when the 
agency continues to let unsafe trucks travel on our nation's highways, 
license one-eyed drivers and those who submit spurious statements to 
support registration. FMCSA responded to the comment citing to section 
4127 of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation 
Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU) (Pub. L. 109-59, 119 Stat. 
1144; Aug. 10, 2005) which authorizes the Secretary of Transportation 
(Secretary) to conduct an outreach and education program to be 
administered by the Agency and the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration (NHTSA). The Agency affirmed the writer's concern about 
truck safety on our Nation's roadways and explained that the intent of 
the STRS program is to educate the public on how to prevent crashes, 
injuries and fatalities when sharing the road safely with large trucks, 
buses, and other types

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of vehicles. The FMCSA response also stressed that the STRS program 
assessment study is part of an effort to establish baseline data to 
determine the program's effectiveness.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for FMCSA to perform its functions; (2) the 
accuracy of the estimated information collection burden; (3) ways for 
the FMCSA to enhance the quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 
collected information; and (4) ways that the burden could be minimized 
without reducing the quality of the information collected.

    Issued on: January 10, 2008.
Terry Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Research and Information Technology.
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