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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 25 / Tuesday, February 9, 2021 / Notices
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also must submit an annual report evaluating their progress in achieving performance targets. In addition, as part of the statutory criteria for Section 405
grants covering the areas of occupant protection, traffic safety information system improvement and impaired driving countermeasures, States may be required to receive assessments of their State programs in order to receive a grant.2 States must provide information and respond to questions as part of the assessment process.
Consistent with the statute, NHTSA
has implemented a final rule that creates uniform procedures for States to apply for grant funds 83 FR 3466, January 25, 2018. These procedures specify the information that is required to be submitted to receive a grant and the type of information required to verify performance under the grants.
As indicated above, States may be required to receive an assessment of certain covered programs in order to be eligible for some grants under Section 405. Separate from these requirements, States also may request assessments in these areas at their discretion. NHTSA
uses two different assessment approaches based on the traffic safety area covered. For occupant protection and impaired driving, assessments are based on NHTSAs Uniform Guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs, which are required by Congress and periodically updated through a process that seeks public comment.3 State programs are assessed against these uniform guidelines by a team of subject matter experts. The assessment team produces a final report with recommendations on how the State can improve the effectiveness of its program.
As part of the process, States provide written materials in response to requests from the assessment team and participate in a comprehensive interview process. For traffic safety 2 Under occupant protection grants, one criterion that a State with a lower belt use rate may use to receive a grant is to complete an assessment of its occupant protection program once every three years 23 U.S.C. 405b3BiiVIaa; and another criterion is a comprehensive occupant protection program that includes a program assessment conducted every five years as one of its elements 23 U.S.C. 405b3BiiVaa; 23 CFR
1300.21e5i. Under traffic safety system information system improvement grants, a State must have an assessment of its highway safety data and traffic records system once every 5 years in order to receive a grant 23 U.S.C. 405c3E.
Under impaired driving countermeasure grants, a State with high average impaired driving fatality rates must have an assessment of its impaired driving program once every 3 years in order to receive a grant. 23 U.S.C. 405d3CiI.
3 The Uniform Guidelines for State Highway Safety Programs are available online at https
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information systems, States respond to questions based on NHTSAs Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory DOT HS 812 601, which describes an ideal traffic records system. The questions cover nine topical areas and examine how well a State plans, collects, manages, and integrates information from several State traffic records systems.4 Responses are evaluated by subject matter experts, and a final report is provided to the State with recommendations for improvement.

assistant. For traffic records assessments, NHTSA uses a contractor to recruit and train the assessors for the online traffic records assessment conducted using NHTSAs Traffic Records Improvement Program Reporting System TRIPRS. All subject matter experts are current or former members of State Traffic Records Coordinating Committees. There are between 10 to 14 assessors for each traffic records assessment.

Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the Information As noted above, the statute provides that the HSP is the application for grants each fiscal year. The information is necessary to determine whether a State satisfies the Federal criteria for grant awards. The annual report tracks progress in achieving the aims of the grant program. The information is necessary to verify performance under the grants and to provide a basis for improvement. As specified in statute, States may be required to receive an assessment of certain covered programs.
The information provided by a State allows subject matter experts to provide recommendations for the purpose of improving the covered areas.

There are 57 potential State respondents the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs on behalf of the Indian Country.
NHTSA estimates there will be approximately 260 assessor respondents per year. This estimate includes assessors and administrative assistants.
Each occupant protection or impaired driving assessment involves five 5
subject matter experts and one 1
administrative assistant. NHTSA
estimates that 13 occupant protection and impaired driving assessments will be completed each year, for a total of 78
respondents. Each traffic records assessment involves approximately thirteen 13 subject matter experts.
NHTSA estimates that 14 traffic records assessments are completed each year, for a total of 182 traffic records assessors.

Affected Public This collection impacts the fifty-seven entities that are eligible to apply for grants under the NHTSA Highway Grant Program the fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S.
Virgin Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs on behalf of the Indian Country.
These respondents will hereafter be referred to as State respondents.
This collection also impacts the subject matter experts and administrative assistants who are involved in assessments for the grant program. These subject matter experts are recruited by NHTSA by asking NHTSA Regional Offices and the State Highway Safety Offices to make recommendations. All new occupant protection and impaired driving assessors complete an e-learning course, Conducting Highway Safety Program Assessments.The course is self-paced and entirely on-line. Each impaired driving and occupant protection assessment team consists of five 5
assessors and an administrative 4 The Traffic Records Program Assessment Advisory is available online at https
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Estimated Number of Respondents
Frequency Applications for grant funding and annul reporting are submitted once a year and assessments are conducted once every three or five years.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours:
40,666
The estimated burden hours for the grant application and annual report part of the collection of information are based on all eligible respondents each year for each of the grants:
Section 402 grants: 57 fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
Section 405 Grants except Impaired Driving Countermeasures, Motorcyclist Safety and Nonmotorized Grants and Section 1906 Grant: 56 fifty States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; and
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