[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 14, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15182-15183]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-6059]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2012-0012]


Agency Information Collection Activities; New Information 
Collection Request: Commercial Driver Individual Differences Study

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 FMCSA requests approval of a new ICR that is 
associated with a study that will be conducted by a research contractor 
to investigate the differences among the characteristics of individual 
commercial drivers. This information collection will aid FMCSA in 
developing future safety initiatives by examining a wide array of 
driver and situational factors to determine if they are associated with 
increased or decreased crash and incident involvement. On October 3, 
2011, FMCSA published a Federal Register notice allowing for a 60-day 
comment period on the ICR. Five comments were received.

DATES: Please send your comments by April 13, 2012. OMB must receive 
your comments by this date in order to act quickly on the ICR.

ADDRESSES: All comments should reference Federal Docket Management 
System (FDMS) Docket Number FMCSA-2012-0012. Interested persons are 
invited to submit written comments on the proposed information 
collection to the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office 
of Management and Budget. Comments should be addressed to the attention 
of the Desk Officer, Department of Transportation/Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, and sent via electronic mail to [email protected], or faxed to (202) 395-6974, or mailed to the 
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and 
Budget, Docket Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street NW., Washington, DC 
20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Theresa Hallquist, Federal Motor 
Carrier Safety Administration, Office of Analysis, Research and 
Technology, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, 6th Floor, 
West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590-0001. 
Telephone: 202-366-1064; Email Address: [email protected]. 
Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Title: Commercial Driver Individual Differences Study.
    OMB Control Number: 2126-XXXX.
    Type of Request: New information collection.
    Respondents: Commercial motor vehicle (CMV) drivers and fleet 
managers.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 21,020.
    Estimated Time per Response: The estimated average time per 
responses are as follows: 1 hour, 5 minutes for paper and 1 hour for 
electronic Form MCSA-5863, ``Commercial Motor Vehicle Driver Survey,'' 
submissions; 35 minutes for paper and 30 minutes for electronic Form 
MCSA-5864, ``Follow-Up Survey of Recent Life Experiences,'' 
submissions; 75 minutes for paper and 70 minutes for electronic Driver 
Survey and Job Descriptive Index from the Follow-Up Survey submission; 
and 10 minutes for the Form MCSA-5865, ``Fleet Managers Survey,'' 
submissions.
    Expiration Date: N/A. This is a new information collection request.
    Frequency of Response: This information collection will be a 
single, nonrecurring event for 16,000 CMV driver participants and 20 
fleet managers. For at least 5,000 CMV driver participants, the 
information collection will occur twice.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 9,536 hours. 8,822 hours for CMV 
driver participants: [16,800 CMV drivers completing paper Driver Survey 
x 65 minutes + 4,200 CMV drivers completing electronic Driver Survey x 
1 hour + 4,000 drivers completing paper Follow-Up Survey x 35 minutes 
per driver/60 minutes + 1,000 drivers completing electronic Follow-Up 
Survey x 30 minutes per driver/60 minutes + 800 CMV drivers completing 
paper Driver Survey and Job Descriptive Index x 75 minutes per driver/
60 minutes + 200 CMV drivers completing paper Driver Survey and Job 
Descriptive Index x 70 minutes per driver/60 minutes = 26,466 hours/3 
years = 8,822 hours] + 714 hours for Carrier Operations: [20 
participating carriers x 2 hours to learn about and agree to 
participation + 40 carrier managers completing IRB training x 2 hours + 
20 Managers recruiting and handling data collection of 20,000 
respondents x 83 hours + 20 Managers completing Fleet Manager Survey x 
10 minutes + Carrier managers delivering monthly crash reports to VTTI 
(20 carriers x 36 months) x 30 minutes/60 minutes = 2,143/3 years = 714 
hours]. 8,822 hours for CMV driver participants + 714 hours for 
Carriers Operations = 9,536 hours.
    Background: The purpose of this study is to identify, verify, 
quantify, and prioritize commercial driver risk factors. Primarily, 
these are personal factors such as demographic characteristics, medical 
conditions, personality traits, and performance capabilities. Risk 
factors may also include work environmental conditions, such as carrier 
operations type. The study will identify risk factors by linking the 
characteristics of individual drivers with their driving records, 
especially the presence or absence of DOT reportable crashes.
    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 to perform its functions; (2) the 
accuracy of the estimated burden; (3) ways for 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.


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    Issued on: March 5, 2012.
Kelly Leone,
Associate Administrator for Office of Research and Information 
Technology.
[FR Doc. 2012-6059 Filed 3-13-12; 8:45 am]
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