Sec. 32001. Correlation study
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The Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (referred to in this subtitle as the Administrator ) shall commission the National Research Council of the National Academies to conduct a study of— the Safety Measurement System (referred to in this subtitle as SMS ); and the Compliance, Safety, Accountability program (referred to in this subtitle as the CSA program ). In carrying out the study commissioned pursuant to subsection (a), the National Research Council— shall analyze— the accuracy with which the Behavior Analysis and Safety Improvement Categories (referred to in this subtitle as BASIC ) safety measures used by SMS— identify high risk drivers and carriers; and predict or be correlated with future crash risk, crash severity, or other safety indicators for individual drivers, motor carriers, and the highest risk carriers; the methodology used to calculate BASIC percentiles and identify carriers for enforcement, including the weights assigned to particular violations, and the tie between crash risk and specific regulatory violations, in order to accurately identify and predict future crash risk for motor carriers; the relative value of inspection information and roadside enforcement data; any data collection gaps or data sufficiency problems that may exist and the impact of those data gaps and insufficiencies on the efficacy of the CSA program; and the accuracy of data processing; and should consider— whether the current SMS provides comparable precision and confidence for SMS alerts and percentiles for the relative crash risk of individual large and small motor carriers; whether alternative systems would identify high risk carriers or identify high risk drivers and motor carriers more accurately; and the recommendations and findings of the Comptroller General of the United States and the Inspector General, and independent review team reports issued before the date of the enactment of this Act.
Not later than 18 months after the date of enactment of this Act, the Administrator shall submit a report containing the results of the completed study to— the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate ; the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives ; the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation; and the Comptroller General of the United States. Not later than 120 days after the Administrator submits a report under subsection
(c)that identifies a deficiency or opportunity for improvement in the CSA program or in any element of SMS, the Administrator shall submit a corrective action plan to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives that— responds to the concerns highlighted by the report; identifies how the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration will address such concerns; and provides an estimate of the cost, including changes in staffing, enforcement, and data collection necessary to implement the recommendations. The corrective action plan submitted under paragraph
(1)shall include an implementation plan that— includes benchmarks; includes programmatic reforms, revisions to regulations, or proposals for legislation; and shall be considered in any rulemaking by the Department of Transportation that relates to the CSA program, including the SMS data sets or analysis. Not later than 120 days after the Administrator issues a corrective action plan under subsection (d), the Inspector General of the Department of Transportation shall— review the extent to which such plan implements— recommendations contained in the report submitted under subsection (c); and recommendations issued by the Comptroller General or the Inspector General before the date of enactment of this Act; and submit a report to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives on the responsiveness of the corrective action plan to the recommendations described in paragraph (1). The Administrator shall carry out the study required under this section using amounts appropriated to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and available for obligation and expenditure as of the date of the enactment of this Act.