Advanced Retrieval (Tire, Equipment, Motor Vehicle) Information System (ARTEMIS)

Pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301, the National Highway Safety Administration’s (NHTSA) Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) is responsible for identifying, investigating, and ensuring the remedy of safety-related defects and non-compliance issues in motor vehicles and items of motor vehicle equipment through safety recalls conducted by manufacturers. To accomplish this, ODI obtains, collects, and evaluates information from several different sources. ODI obtains primary information from consumers and motor vehicle and equipment manufacturers. The remaining information is submitted by State and local law enforcement, insurance companies, automobile dealers, advocacy groups, and other entities. ODI uses the Advanced Retrieval (Tire, Equipment, Motor Vehicles) Information System (ARTEMIS) to provide centralized storage, document management and data analysis tools for all information described above. ODI employees and contractors use ARTEMIS in the performance of their day-to-day activities. As the repository for ODI data, ARTEMIS maintains data from several agency information collections that support ODI’s mission. These collections support ODI’s activities to determine the existence of a safety-related defect in motor vehicles and equipment, or to audit a manufacturer’s recall of vehicles or equipment. With one exception, the information collections that feed data into ARTEMIS focus on motor vehicle or equipment information, while potentially including ancillary information about individuals within those collections. This update includes a detailed description of the Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data collected from medical records, Police Accident Reports (PARs) and Death & Injury Reports (D&I) used in investigations, and an updated list of the Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB) Information Collection Requests (ICRs) and other regulations.