[Federal Register Volume 88, Number 22 (Thursday, February 2, 2023)]
[Notices]
[Pages 7128-7129]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2023-02140]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket No. DOT-NHTSA-2023-0002]


Request for Comment; Draft Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria 
(MMUCC) Guideline, Sixth Edition

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

ACTION: Request for public comment: 60-Day notice.

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SUMMARY: The Model Minimum Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) provides 
States a guideline for describing crashes involving motor vehicles in-
transport to generate the information necessary to improve traffic 
safety. The primary benefit of using MMUCC is increased crash data 
uniformity so traffic safety insights can be developed more quickly. 
Since its inception in 1998, MMUCC has been a voluntary guideline for 
States; however, standardization of crash data is essential to NHTSA 
and its safety stakeholders. The crash data that NHTSA obtains from the 
States supports several of NHTSA's efforts such as the Fatality 
Analysis Reporting System (FARS) and the Crash Report Sampling System 
(CRSS), which are essential to NHTSA's traffic safety activities as 
well other Federal, State, and local agencies. Therefore, it is 
critical that the recommended MMUCC data elements be designed with 
clarity, purpose, and feasibility. NHTSA is revising the Model Minimum 
Uniform Crash Criteria (MMUCC) 5th Edition and requests comments on the 
draft MMUCC Guideline, Sixth Edition available at Regulations.gov, to 
inform appropriate improvements and identify stakeholder concerns. For 
example, crash data collectors may wish to comment on the feasibility 
of collecting data elements and attributes from the scene of a crash. 
Crash database administrators, managers, and technicians may wish to 
comment on the challenges and concerns with implementation and data

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governance. Crash data users may wish to comment on the utility of the 
draft MMUCC Guideline, Sixth Edition data elements as well as other 
guidance and suggest additional changes. Feedback will be reviewed by 
NHTSA and the Chartered MMUCC Committee to inform updates to the 
forthcoming Sixth Edition of the MMUCC guideline, anticipated in 2024.

DATES: Comments must be received within April 3, 2023.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments bearing the Federal Docket 
Management System Docket ID, Docket DOT-NHTSA-2023-0002 using any of 
the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting 
comments.
     Mail: Send comments to: Docket Management Facility, U.S. 
Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590.
     Fax: Written comments may be faxed to (202) 493-2251.
     Hand Delivery: If you plan to submit written comments by 
hand or courier, please do so at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West 
Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 
a.m. and 5 p.m./Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.
    Please submit all comments to the Docket by April 3, 2023.
    When you submit your comments, please remember to mention the 
agency and the docket number of this document within your 
correspondence. Please note that all comments received will be posted 
without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including any personal 
information provided. Please see the ``Privacy Act'' heading below.
    Privacy Act: Anyone can search the electronic form of all comments 
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual 
submitting the comments (or signing the comments, if submitted on 
behalf of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review 
DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published 
on January 17, 2008 (73 FR 3336) or at https://www.transportation.gov/individuals/privacy/privacy-act-system-records-notices (select 
``Department Wide System of Record Notices,'' then select DOTALL 14 
Federal Docket Management System).
    Confidential Information: If you wish to submit any information 
under a claim of confidentiality, you should submit three copies of 
your complete submission, including the information you claim to be 
confidential business information, to the Chief Counsel, NHTSA, 1200 
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. In addition, you should 
submit two copies, from which you have deleted the claimed confidential 
business information, to Docket Management at the address given above 
under ADDRESSES. When you send a comment containing information claimed 
to be confidential business information, you should include a cover 
letter setting forth the information specified in our confidential 
business information regulation (49 CFR part 512).
    Docket: For access to the docket to read the proposed changes to 
MMUCC, background documents, or comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time and follow the online instructions for 
accessing the dockets. Or go to West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-
140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 
and 5 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday, except Federal 
holidays.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information, please contact Beau 
Burdett, National Center for Statistics and Analysis, NHTSA (telephone: 
202-366-7338 or email: [email protected]).
    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. chapter 
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29A.

Chou Lin Chen,
Associate Administrator, National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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