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OMB Control No: 2127-0723	ICR Reference No: 202105-2127-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201801-2127-002
Agency/Subagency: DOT/NHTSA	Agency Tracking No:
Title: Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 02/25/2022
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 05/28/2021
Terms of Clearance:

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	02/28/2025	36 Months From Approved	02/28/2022
Responses	20	0	60
Time Burden (Hours)	12,000	0	86,100
Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	0	8,610,000

Abstract: This ICR is for a voluntary disclosure of information to the public by entities involved in the testing and deployment of Automated Driving Systems (ADSs). The entities engaged in ADS development and testing may demonstrate how they address – via industry best practices, their own best practices, or other appropriate methods – the safety elements contained in the Voluntary Guidance section of Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety by publishing a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment (VSSA). The VSSA is intended to demonstrate to the public (particularly States and consumers) that entities are: (1) considering safety aspects of ADSs; (2) communicating and collaborating with DOT; (3) encouraging the self-establishment of industry safety norms for ADSs; and (4) building public trust, acceptance, and confidence through transparent testing and deployment of ADSs. It also allows companies an opportunity to showcase their approach to safety, without needing to reveal proprietary intellectual property. Disclosure of information in the VSSA would be publicly accessible and foreseeably accessed by members of the public, State stakeholders, and consumer-based stakeholders. NHTSA anticipates the respondents for the information collection would provide the VSSA once every three years. This extension includes a revision to the burden calculations. Based on NHTSA’s observations of the current collection, NHTSA estimates that while there will be 60 respondents to this collection, they will not create and disclose a new VSSA each year. Instead, NHTSA now estimates that the 60 respondents will produce a new VSSA every three years. Therefore, NHTSA has lowered the estimated number of respondents to 20 per year. NHTSA has also eliminated the burden associated with addressing the safety elements in the Voluntary Guidance but maintained the burden associated with development and publication of the VSSA. This results in a substantial reduction in burden hours and burden hour cost. NHTSA now estimates the total burden associated with disclosure recommendations via a VSSA would be 600 hours per respondent with 20 respondents disclosing VSSAs per year (60 total respondents disclosing once per three years) for a total burden of 12,000 hours per year. This is a decrease of 74,100 hours per year. Additionally, there is a decrease in costs of $8,610,000 because NHTSA incorrectly included $8,610,000 of labor costs in response to question 13 in the last ICR. NHTSA estimates that respondents will not incur any costs beyond hourly labor costs.

Authorizing Statute(s): US Code: 49 USC 30101 Name of Law: Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966

Citations for New Statutory Requirements: None

Associated Rulemaking Information
RIN:	Stage of Rulemaking:	Federal Register Citation:	Date:
	Not associated with rulemaking

Federal Register Notices & Comments
60-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	86 FR 13602	03/09/2021
30-day Notice:	Federal Register Citation:	Citation Date:
	86 FR 28436	05/26/2021
Did the Agency receive public comments on this ICR? Yes

Number of Information Collection (IC) in this ICR: 1

IC Title	Form No.	Form Name
Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Agency Discretion
Annual Number of Responses	20	60	-40
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	12,000	86,100	-74,100
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	0	8,610,000	-8,610,000

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: Yes

Burden Reduction Due to: Miscellaneous Actions

Short Statement: NHTSA estimates the total burden associated with disclosure recommendations via a VSSA would be 600 hours per respondent with 20 respondents disclosing VSSAs per year (60 total respondents disclosing once per three years) for a total burden of 12,000 hours per year. This is a decrease of 74,100 hours per year. Additionally, there is a decrease in costs of $8,610,000 because NHTSA incorrectly included $8,610,00 burden labor costs in response to question 13 in the last ICR. It is important to note that the Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety was published on September 15, 2017, and is intended to be updated as appropriate. That policy has not been updated to date and thus there are no changes in the Voluntary Guidance or discussion of the VSSA. However, NHTSA is adjusting the estimate of burden hours in this information collection extension request. In the previous information collection request, NHTSA separated the information collection into two parts: the documentation suggested in the Voluntary Guidance of ADS 2.0 and the public disclosure of information via the Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment. Upon publication of ADS 2.0, the Agency anticipated an l increase in burden associated with the documentation suggested by the Voluntary Guidance to be incurred by entities. However, much of this documentation was already called for by both industry consensus standards (such as ISO 26262) or represented good systems-engineering practices. During the collection period since 2017, NHTSA has determined there to be no increased documentation citing how an entity addressed the safety elements in the Voluntary Guidance. NHTSA does not believe that any entity is documenting its safety efforts solely for the purpose of the VSSA and public disclosure. As the effort is voluntary, entities opting to consider safety elements are doing so as part of regular business operations and those not considering safety elements are not incurring burden nor penalized for such. Therefore, the 835 burden hours per respondent associated with additional documentation for consideration of safety elements has been removed from the estimate for the extension of this information collection. The second change to the information collection is the frequency of collection. During the three years of the current information collection, NHTSA is not aware of any respondent that has updated its VSSA. Thus, frequency of disclosing a VSSA is as needed, with a maximum of once per three years as evidenced by the data. This is a change from the previous information collection request, which estimated frequency at once a year.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $1,126

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. No

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? No

Agency Contact: Debbie Sweet 202 366-7179

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