
[Federal Register: August 8, 2008 (Volume 73, Number 154)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

 
Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping Requirements; Agency 
Information Collection Activity: Under OMB Review

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information 
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below will be forwarded to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR 
describes the nature of the information collection and the expected 
burden. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was 
published on February 4, 2008 (73 FR 6556-6558). No comments on this 
notice were received.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before 30 days from the date of 
publication.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30 days, to the Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention NHTSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Keith D. Williams at the National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Enforcement and Justice Services 
Division (NTI-122), 202-366-0543, 1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., W44-231, 
Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

    Title: Demonstration of Speed Management Programs; Including 
Automated and Traditional Enforcement.
    OMB Number: 2127--NEW.
    Type of Request: Collection of information.
    Abstract: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 
(NHTSA) proposes to conduct a series of telephone surveys that will 
examine the effectiveness of a speed management research and 
demonstration program in the city of Tucson, Arizona. As part of the 
program, surveys will be administered pre and post implementation of 
the countermeasure treatment program to measure awareness of the 
program in both Tucson and an as yet to be selected comparison 
community/ies in the State of Arizona. The pretreatment telephone 
surveys would be administered during the fall-winter 2008/2009 time 
period and the post-treatment survey 24 months afterward. The National 
Highway Traffic Safety Administration was established to reduce the 
mounting number of deaths, injuries, and economic losses resulting from 
motor vehicle crashes on the Nation's highways. As part of this 
statutory mandate, NHTSA is authorized to conduct research as a 
foundation for the development of motor vehicle standards and traffic 
safety programs. The speed demonstration project requires NHTSA to 
measure whether these initiatives were effective. The telephone surveys 
are instrumental in that measurement. The telephone surveys will be 
administered to a randomly selected sample of 400 persons pre and post 
treatment in the demonstration and comparison areas to persons age 18 
and older. An essential part of this evaluation effort is to compare 
baseline and post-intervention measures of attitudes and intervention 
awareness to determine if the interventions were associated with 
changes on those indices.
    Affected Public: Randomly selected members of the general public in 
telephone households.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 266.67 hours (1,600 interviews 
averaging 10 minutes each).
    Comments Are Invited On: Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary or the proper performance of the functions of 
the Department, 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.

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

    Dated: August 4, 2008.
Jeffrey Michael,
Acting Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. E8-18300 Filed 8-7-08; 8:45 am]

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