[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 92 (Friday, May 11, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27854-27855]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-11392]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Information Collection Activities: Submission for the Office of 
Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Request for Comment

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of the OMB review of information collection and 
solicitation of public comment.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. chapter 35), this notice announces that the Information 
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below will be submitted to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review. The ICR describes the 
nature of the information collection and its expected burden. A Federal 
Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting public comments 
on the following information collection was published on January 13, 
2011 (Federal Register/Vol. 76, No. 9/pp. 2442-2444).

DATES: Submit comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on 
or before June 11, 2012.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Block at the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Behavioral Safety Research 
(NTI-131), W46-499, Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. Mr. Block's phone number is 202-366-
6401 and his email address is [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    OMB Control Number: 2127-New.
    Title: Demonstration Tests of Different High Visibility Enforcement 
Models.
    Form No.: NHTSA Forms 1121 and 1122.
    Type of Review: Regular.
    Respondents: Telephone interviews will be administered to residents 
in each of five selected communities who are drivers, age 18 and older, 
have access to a residential landline and/or a personal cell phone, and 
have consumed alcohol in the past year. In-person interviews will be 
conducted in each of the five selected communities with bar patrons age 
21 and older.
    Estimated Number of Respondents: 18,000 telephone interviews and 
6,000 bar patron interviews.
    Estimated Time per Response: 10 minutes per interview.
    Total Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 4,000 hours.
    Frequency of Collection: There will be three survey waves at each 
of the five community sites. A telephone survey and bar survey will be 
conducted during each survey wave, with each respondent interviewed 
once. The bar interview will be split such that questions will be asked 
of each respondent both during entry and exit from the bar.
    Abstract: Highly visible enforcement (HVE) has had the strongest 
support in the research literature for effectiveness in reducing 
alcohol-impaired driving. The unknown at this time is the relationship 
of the amount of HVE to perceived risk within a community of an 
alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law enforcement. In 
particular, does the perceived risk increase as the amount of HVE 
increases? And is the optimum effect on awareness and perceived risk 
achieved through an integrated program where

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HVE is integrated into regular law enforcement operations? NHTSA 
proposes to answer those questions by selecting community sites 
engaging in different levels of HVE activity during a one-year period, 
and monitoring community awareness of those enforcement programs and 
the perceived risk of an alcohol-impaired driver being stopped by law 
enforcement. Five sites will be selected encompassing integrated, 
intermediate, and more limited HVE programs.
    Data collection to assess program awareness and perceived risk will 
be of two forms. Telephone surveys will be conducted in each community 
at three different points in time during the one-year program period. 
The telephone survey wave in each community will be composed of 1,200 
completed interviews with drivers age 18 and older who have consumed 
alcohol in the past year.
    The second form of data collection will be in-person interviews 
with bar patrons. The intent here is to collect information on program 
awareness and perceived risk from a population with a heavier 
concentration of individuals at-risk of driving at illegal blood 
alcohol concentrations (BACs) than one would find in a community-wide 
survey. The bar surveys will be conducted during the same times of the 
year as the telephone surveys. Four hundred bar patrons will be 
interviewed per community per survey wave. Respondents will be asked a 
few questions both upon entry and exit from the bar. Breath samples 
will also be taken in order to correlate BAC with awareness and 
perceived risk. The breath test results will not be available on-site 
but will be downloaded later.
    In conducting the telephone interviews, the interviewers would use 
computer-assisted telephone interviewing to reduce interview length and 
minimize recording errors. No personal information will be collected 
that would allow any respondent to be identified. The data collection 
at bars would be anonymous; no personal information that would allow 
anyone to identify respondents will be collected.

ADDRESSES: Send comments regarding the burden estimate, including 
suggestions for reducing the burden, to the Office of Information and 
Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725 17th Street 
NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention: Desk Officer for Department of 
Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, or by 
email at [email protected], or fax: 202-395-5806.
    Comments Are Invited On: Whether the proposed collection of 
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of 
the Department of Transportation, 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 of this 
notice.

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

    Dated: Issued in Washington, DC, on May 8, 2012.
Jeff Michael,
Associate Administrator, Research and Program Development.
[FR Doc. 2012-11392 Filed 5-10-12; 8:45 am]
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