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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 137 / Wednesday, July 21, 2021 / Notices
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attached to or accompany the motor vehicle or item of motor vehicle equipment. Under this authority, the agency issued FMVSS No. 108, specifying labeling requirements to aid the agency in achieving many of its safety goals.
FMVSS No. 108, Lamp, reflective devices and associated equipment, requires that the inscription DOTC2, DOTC3, or DOTC4, as appropriate, constituting a certification that the retroreflective sheeting conforms to the requirements of the standard, appear at least once on the exposed surface of each white or red segment of retroreflective sheeting, and at least once every 300 mm on retroreflective sheeting that is white only. The characters must be not less than 3 mm high, and must be permanently stamped, etched, molded, or printed in indelible ink.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the Information: Crashes can be reduced if retroreflective material having certain essential properties is used to mark trailers. The permanent labeling is used to identify retroreflective material having the minimum properties required for effective conspicuity of trailers at night.
Affected Public: Manufacturers of conspicuity grade retroreflective materials.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
The respondents are likely to be manufacturers of the conspicuity material. The agency estimates that currently there are three manufacturers producing conspicuity material.
Frequency: On Occasion.
Number of Responses: 190,000,000.
It is estimated that there are 2.34
million trailers and 0.54 million truck tractors that require new conspicuity tape annually. On average, a trailer
requires approximately 60 ft. of reflective tape and a truck tractor requires about 4 ft. The labels are to be placed at intervals varying between 150
mm and 300 mm on rolls of retroreflective conspicuity tape.
Considering the length of tape required per trailer and truck tractor, and that the labeling is applied on average every 9
in. 225 mm, a total number of 80 labels per trailer and 6 labels per truck tractor are required. Therefore, it is estimated that 190 million labels will be required annually 2.34 million trailers 80
labels + 0.54 million truck tractors 6
labels.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3 hours.
The compliance symbol labeling program imposes only a minor hour burden per respondent, or three total hours, for the collection or reporting based on a maximum time required to ensure that the correct inscription is being applied to the sheeting by the printing presses. The application of symbols is performed by automated equipment incorporated in the production process of the retroreflective sheeting.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
$4,000.
The cost to respondents is estimated based on information that was supplied by the respondents regarding the cost of supplying or modifying printing rollers to apply the label. The cost to manufacturers of applying the label requirement is the maintenance and amortization of printing rollers and the additional dye or ink consumed. The labels are printed during the normal course of steady flow manufacturing operations and do not add additional time to the production process.
Two methods of printing the label are in use. One method uses the same roller that applies the dye to the red segments
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of the material pattern. The roller is resurfaced annually using a computerized etching technique. The label was incorporated in the software to drive the roller resurfacing in 1993, and there is no additional cost to continue the printing of the label. In fact, costs would be incurred to discontinue the label.
The second method uses a separate roller and dye to apply the label. The manufacturer using this technique reported that the rollers have been in service for five years without detectable wear and predicted a service life of at least fifteen years. Four rollers costing about $2,500 each are used for a total of $10,000. If all three manufacturers chose to use this method, a total of 12 rollers would be used for a total cost of $30,000. A straight-line depreciation of the rollers over 15 years $30,000
divided by 15 years equals $2,000 per year. The total cost of the dye required is derived from the number of labels required to be printed yearly and the dye required for each label. The total number of labels printed annually is about 190 million. Therefore, at a cost of approximately $40 per gallon of dye and using about 0.001 milliliters of dye per label, the total cost of dye to print all the labels is estimated to be $2,000
190 million labels $40/gal 0.001 ml 0.000264172 ml/gal. With the yearly cost to replace the rollers of $2,000 and an annual allowance of $2,000 for dye, the annual total industry cost of maintaining the label is about $4,000.
Estimated annual cost burden:
Additional cost of maintaining printing rollers with added label$0
Annual cost of separate printing rollers for label where used$2,000
Annual cost of additional dye or ink $2,000
Total annual respondent cost$4,000

Number of rollers
Cost of each roller
Total cost rollers
Depreciation over 15 years
Total annual labels million
Annual additional dye allowance
Est. total annual cost to maintain label
12

$2,500

$30,000

$2,000

190

$2,000

$4,000

Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspects of this information collection, including a whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the Department, including whether the information will have practical utility;
b the accuracy of the agencys estimate of the burden of the proposed information collection, including the validity of the methodology and
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assumptions used; c ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and d ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
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amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29.
Raymond R. Posten, Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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