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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 126 / Tuesday, July 6, 2021 / Proposed Rules hourly wage for a GS15 Step 1 grade to be $66.05.7
OMB publishes an object class analysis of the budget of the U.S.
Government.8 The object class provides the actual values that, in 2019, DOT
spent $5,931 million in full-time permanent employee compensation and $2,497 million in civilian employee benefits. Based on this, FMCSA
estimates a fringe benefit rate of 42.10
percent 2,497/5,931 for FMCSA
personnel or $27.81 $66.05 42.10
percent. The fully loaded hourly wage for a GS15 Step 1 is $93.86 $66.05 +
$27.81.
Costs Motor carriers, industry technological manufacturers, and drivers would not incur any new costs associated with this NPRM. Adopting and using windshieldmounted technologies is purely optional. Those who install and use windshield-mounted technologies
would experience no added burdens or costs.
In CMVs, drivers sit in an elevated position that greatly improves the forward visual field. When FMCSA
previously granted exemptions, it found that doing so would likely achieve a level of safety equivalent to, or greater than, the level of safety achieved without the exemption. As described in Section VI. of this NPRM, since issuing the first temporary exemption from 393.60e1 in 2009, FMCSA is unaware of any crashes that have been attributed to the location of such devices.
The expanded locationnot more than 216 mm 8.5 inches below the upper edge of the area swept by the windshield wipers, and not more than 175 mm 7 inches above the lower edge of the area swept is expected to keep pace with technological advances and further aid in meeting the statutory requirements of the FAST Act. The
expanded area is outside the drivers line of sight to the road, highway signs, and signals.
Cost Savings We anticipate that this NPRM, if finalized consistent with the terms proposed, would generate cost savings to 1 motor carrier companies that file fewer periodic exemption requests, and 2 the Federal Government by reducing the volume of exemption requests to be reviewed and processed.
Several manufacturers of windshieldmounted technologies have requested exemptions from FMCSA. We estimate that this takes about 2 hours of company time. Manufacturers, on average, apply for 3 exemptions per year. Table 3
provides the 10-year time horizon cost savings stream based on the yearly undiscounted $568 rounded to the nearest whole dollar cost savings to industry if this NPRM would be finalized in 2022.9

TABLE 3TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED COST SAVINGS TO INDUSTRY 10
Total undiscounted costs savings
Year
Total discounted 7 percent
3 percent
2022
2023
2024
2025
2026
2027
2028
2029
2030
2031
Total

$568
568
568
568
568
568
568
568
568
568
5,684

$531
496
464
434
405
379
354
331
309
289
3,992

$552
536
520
505
490
476
462
449
436
423
5,519

Annualized

568

647

Federal Government employees who possess the technical knowledge required to review windshield exemption applications are senior engineers and attorneys at the GS15
grade. A final approval letter for an
exemption is granted by the Associate Administrator at the Senior Executive Service level.11 We estimate the total time from initial exemption receipt to final approval to be 12 hours. Table 4
provides the 10-year time horizon cost
savings stream based on the yearly undiscounted $10,137 rounded to the nearest whole dollar cost savings to the Federal Government if this NPRM
would be finalized in 2022.12

TABLE 4TOTAL AND ANNUALIZED COST SAVINGS TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT 13
Total undiscounted costs savings
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Year 2022
2023
2024
2025
2026

7 https www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/payleave/salaries-wages/salary-tables/pdf/2019/DCB_
h.pdf.
8 https www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BUDGET2021-OBJCLASS/pdf/BUDGET-2021-OBJCLASS.pdf.
9 Loaded Hourly wage Number of Hours
Average number of exemptions $94.74 2 3.

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10 Total Cost Savings in this table may not equal the sum total of yearly cost savings due to rounding in underlying calculations.
11 The Agency is assuming that an Associate Administrator at the Senior Executive Service level is equivalent to a GS15 grade for the purpose of this analysis.

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$10,137
10,137
10,137
10,137
10,137

Total discounted 7 percent $9,474
8,854
8,275
7,733
7,227

3 percent $9,842
9,555
9,277
9,006
8,744

12 Loaded Hourly Wage Number of Hours
Average number of exemptions x Personnel $93.86
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