[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 56 (Friday, March 23, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13855-13856]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-5314]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-25652]


Agency Information Collection Activities; Request for Comments on 
a New Information Collection: Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Risk 
Factor Study

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

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The FMCSA invites comments on its plan to request the Office 
of Management and Budget's (OMB) approval of a new information 
collection (IC) associated with the agency's study to investigate 
commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver risk factors. The study will be 
conducted by a research contractor. This IC will aid FMCSA in 
developing future safety initiatives by examining a wide

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array of driver and situational factors to determine if they are 
associated with increased or decreased crash involvement. This notice 
is required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before May 22, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by any of the following 
methods. Please identify your comments by the FMCSA Docket Number 
FMCSA-2007-25652.
     Web site: http://dms.dot.gov. Follow instructions for 
submitting comments to the Docket.
     Fax: 202-493-2251.
     Mail: U.S. Department of Transportation, Docket Management 
Facility, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Plaza level, Washington, DC 20590-
0001.
     Hand Delivery: Plaza level of the Nassif, Building, 400 
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t., 
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Docket: For access to the Docket Management System (DMS) to read 
background documents or comments received, go to http://dms.dot.gov at 
any time or to the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays. The DMS is available 
electronically 24 hours each day, 365 days each year. If you want 
notification of receipt of your comments, please include a self-
addressed, stamped envelope, or postcard or print the acknowledgement 
page that appears after submitting comments on-line.
    Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all 
comments received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf 
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register on April 11, 
2000 (65 FR 19477), or you may visit http://dms.dot.gov.
    All comments should reference Docket No. FMCSA-2006-25652. You may 
mail or hand deliver comments to the U.S. Department of Transportation, 
Dockets Management Facility, Room PL-401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590; telefax comments to 202/493-2251; or submit 
electronically at http://dms.dot.gov. You may examine and copy all 
comments received at the above address between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., e.t., 
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. If you desire your 
comment to be acknowledged, you must include a self-addressed stamped 
envelope or postcard or, if you submit your comments electronically, 
you may print the acknowledgment.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Albert Alvarez, Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration, Office of Research and Analysis (MC-
RRR), Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 400 Virginia Avenue, 
SW., Washington, DC 20024. Telephone (202) 385-2387 or send an e-mail 
to [email protected]. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 
p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Title: Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Risk Factor Study.
    OMB Control No: 2126-xxxx.
    Type of Request: New Collection.
    Respondents: Commercial motor vehicle drivers and motor carriers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 700.
    Estimated Time per Response: The estimated average burden per 
response is 20 minutes for telephone interviews; 30 minutes for paper/
online questionnaires; 4 hours for in-person interviews, including 
psychological and perceptual testing, and medical examinations; and 30 
minutes for motor carriers to locate and deliver respondents' driving 
records to researchers.
    Frequency: This information will be a single, nonrecurring event.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 1,124 hours [100 participating 
carriers x 2 hours to provide information to researchers + 100 non-
response carriers x 30 minutes/60 minutes + 600 non-response CMV 
drivers x 5 minutes/60 minutes + 600 CMV driver telephone interviews x 
20 minutes/60 minutes + 600 CMV driver paper/online questionnaires x 30 
minutes/60 minutes + 72 in-person interviews, psychological and 
perceptual testing, and medical examinations x 4 hours + 20 carriers 
locating and delivering 72 drivers' driving records x 30 minutes per 
driver/60 minutes = 1,124 hours].
    Background: The purpose of this study is to identify, verify, 
quantify, and prioritize commercial motor vehicle (CMV) driver risk 
factors. Primarily, these factors are personal, such as demographic 
characteristics, medical conditions, personality traits, and 
performance capabilities. Risk factors may also include work 
environmental conditions, such as carrier operations type, and 
compensation methods. The study will identify risk factors by linking 
the characteristics of individual drivers with their driving histories, 
especially the presence or absence of crashes or inspection violations.
    Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspect of 
this information collection, including: (1) Whether the proposed 
collection is necessary for the FMCSA's performance; (2) the accuracy 
of the estimated 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 
collected information. The agency will summarize and/or include your 
comments in the request for OMB's clearance of this information 
collection.

    Issued on: March 13, 2007.
Rose A. McMurray,
Chief Safety Officer, Assistant Administrator.
[FR Doc. E7-5314 Filed 3-22-07; 8:45 am]
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