National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration
81. Flammability
of Interior Materials in School Buses
82. Platform
Lift Requirements
84. FMVSS:
Head Restraints (Height and Distance Requirements)
86. TREAD;
Tire Safety Information
87. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems; Controls and
Displays
88. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint
Systems
89. Operation
of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
90. Light
Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2005-7
92. Consumer
Information Regulations; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Rollover
Resistance
93. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint
Systems
94. FMVSS
No. 208 Advanced Air Bag Petitions for Reconsideration (Part 1)
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Safety Administration | |||||||||||||||||
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80. |
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Popular Title: Crashworthiness
Ratings | |||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AA03 | |||||||||||||||||
Stage: Withdrawal | |||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 1/22/81; End of Comment Period 4/22/81; Request for
Comments: Publication Date 5/20/97; End of Comment Period 8/18/97.
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Summary: This action would require
manufacturers to disseminate crashworthiness performance information
concerning their cars to the public. This information would provide
consumers with comparative information on the crashworthiness performance
of new car models. NHTSA is planning on withdrawing the proposal because
it is being addressed through the New Car Assessment Program
(NCAP). | |||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
01/22/1981 | |||||||||||||||||
Dates for Withdrawal
:
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Federal
Register Citation for Withdrawal
:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||
81. |
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Popular Title: Bus Flammability | |||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AA44 | |||||||||||||
Stage: Withdrawal | |||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: ANPRM:
Publication Date 11/04/1988; End of Comment Period 1/3/89. Request for
Comments: Publication Date 02/26/91; End of Comment Period
4/29/91. | |||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking considered
upgrading Standard No. 302's flammability resistance requirements for
school bus interiors. After reviewing the available information, NHTSA is
considering withdrawing this rulemaking and evaluating whether (1) the
risks presented by school bus fires pose a minimal safety problem, (2) the
agency's upgrading of Standard No. 217's emergency exit requirements will
allow faster evacuation from school buses and will reduce the already
minimal safety problem due to fire, (3) significant costs would have
resulted from upgrading Standard No. 302, and (4) further research would
have been necessary before a test protocol and criteria regarding the
conditions vital for survivability in a fire could have been proposed,
utilizing scarce agency resources which could be put to more effective
uses elsewhere. | |||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
10/12/1988 | |||||||||||||
Dates for Withdrawal
:
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Federal
Register Citation for Withdrawal
:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
82. |
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Popular Title: Wheel Chair
Lifts | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AD50 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 02/26/1993; End of Comment Period 04/27/1993. SNPRM:
Publication Date 7/27/00; End of Comment Period 10/25/00. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking would
establish two new safety standards: an equipment standard specifying
requirements for platform lifts; and a vehicle standard for all vehicles
equipped with such lifts. The purpose of the two standards is to prevent
injuries and fatalities during lift operation and to promote uniformity of
Federal standards and guidelines for platform lifts. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
10/29/1990 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
83. |
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Popular Title: Fuel Economy
Standards | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AG97 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 01/22/2001; End of Comment Period 3/22/01. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking would define
the rights and responsibilities of manufacturers under the agency's
corporate average fuel economy program in the context of changes in
corporate relationships. It addresses the rights and responsibilities of
predecessors and successors, as well as the rights and responsibilities of
manufacturers in other situations where there have been changes in
corporate relationships, e.g., changes in control. Among other things, it
would address how fuel economy credits are allocated in these types of
situations. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
04/27/1998 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
84. |
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Popular Title: Head Restraints (Height and
Distance Req) | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AH09 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 01/04/2001; End of Comment Period 03/05/2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking would upgrade
the standard for head restraints for passenger cars and for light
multipurpose vehicles, trucks and buses. The rule would establish higher
minimum height requirements for head restraints and add a requirment
limiting backset, i.e., the distance between a person's head and his or
her head restraint. The proposal would also extend the requirement for
head restraints to rear outboard designated seating positions; establish
new strength requirements for head restraints; and place limits on the
size of gaps and openings in head restraints. In addition, it would modify
the dynamic compliance test and amend test procedures. The rulemaking
would harmonize the standard with the counterpart regulation of the
Economic Commission for Europe to an extent. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
03/01/2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
85. |
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Popular Title: Frontal Offset | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AH73 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: NPRM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage:None
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Summary: This rulemaking would
establish a Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard for high speed frontal
offset crash testing. The frontal offset test is a crash test for
automobiles and light trucks in which the subject vehicles are run into a
deformable honeycomb barrier. The barrier contacts only 40 percent of the
front of the vehicle stimulating an off-center frontal collision. The
agency is considering adding the offset test to the frontal occupant
protection standard to measure vehicle structural integrity and reduce the
number and severity of lower-body injuries. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
11/22/1999 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for
NPRM:
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Federal
Register Citation for
NPRM:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
86. |
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Popular Title: Tire Safety
Information | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI32 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: ANPRM:
Publication Date 12/01/00; End of Comment Period 1/30/01. NPRM:
Publication Date 12/19/01; End of Comment Period 2/19/02. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking would improve
the labeling of tires to assist consumers in identifying tires that may be
the subject of a safety recall. It also would increase public awareness of
the importance and methods of observing motor vehicle tire load limits and
maintaining proper tire inflation levels for the safe operation of a motor
vehicle. It would apply to all new and retreaded tires for use on vehicles
with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less and to all
vehicles with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10, 000 pounds or less,
except for motorcycles and low speed vehicles. This rulemaking is being
issued in response to the Transportation Recall Enhancement,
Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act of 2000. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
11/01/2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
87. |
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Popular Title: Tire Pressure Monitoring
Systems (TPMS) | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI33 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule/2 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication date 7/26/01; End of comment period 9/6/01. Final Rule/1:
Publication Date 05/29/2002. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: In response to TREAD, NHTSA
has added a new requirement that tire pressure monitoring systems be
installed in passenger cars, and in light trucks, multipurpose passenger
vehicles, and buses. The rule is in two parts. During the period between
November 1, 2003, and October 31, 2006, manufacturers may choose between
two methods of compliance. The second part of this final rule will be
issued by March 1, 2005, and will establish performance requirements for
the period beginning on November 1, 2006. In the meantime, NHTSA will
leave the rulemaking docket open for the submission of new data and
analyses concerning the performance of TPMSs. NHTSA also will conduct a
study comparing the tire pressures of vehicles without any TPMS to the
pressures of vehicles with TPMSs. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
11/01/2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule/2:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule/2:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
88. |
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Popular Title: Child Restraint
Systems | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI34 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 07/02/2002; End of Comment Period 9/2/2002. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking would make a
number of revisions to the Federal safety standard for child restraint
systems, including new dynamic side impact protection requirements,
updated test dummy specifications and test procedures used to test child
restraints, and extension of the standard so that it would apply to child
restraints recommended for use by children up to 65 pounds. This action is
intended to make child restraints even more effective in protecting
children from the risk of death or serious injury in motor vehicle
crashes. This rulemaking responds to the Transportation Recall
Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act of 2000, which directed
NHTSA to initiate a rulemaking proceeding by November 1, 2001, for the
purpose of improving the safety of child restraints. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
11/01/2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
89. |
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Popular Title: Intoxicated
Persons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI44 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: NPRM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage:None
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Summary: The Transportation Equity Act
for the 21st Century (TEA-21) established a grant program under which
states could qualify for incentive funds if they enacted and enforced a
law that provides that any person with a blood alcohol concentration of
.08 percent or greater while operating a motor vehicle in the state is
deemed to have committed a per se offense of driving while intoxicated or
an equivalent per se offense. NHTSA published a final rule implementing
that incentive grant program. Section 351 of the Department of
Transportation (DOT) Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2001 (PL
106-346) contains a new provision requiring the withholding of certain
Federal aid highway funds from a state, beginning in fiscal year 2004, if
the state has not enacted and is not enforcing such a law. The rulemaking
would amend the regulation implementing the incentive grant program
established in TEA-21 to reflect the new sanctions provisions established
in the DOT appropriations act for FY 2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
12/09/2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for
NPRM:
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Federal
Register Citation for
NPRM:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
90. |
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Popular Title: Light Truck Avg Fuel Economy
Std 2005-7 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI70 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: NPRM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage:
Request for Comments: Publication Date 02/07/2002; End of Comment Period
4/8/2002. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: This rulemaking sets the fuel
economy standards for Light Trucks for Model Years 2005-2007. NHTSA had
requested comment on standards for Model Years 2008-2010, but will handle
that in a subsequent rulemaking. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
12/06/2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for
NPRM:
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Federal
Register Citation for
NPRM:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
91. |
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Popular Title: Event Data
Recorders | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI72 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Request for
Comments | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage:None
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Summary: Over the past several years,
NHTSA has been actively involved with Event Data Recorders (EDRs) in motor
vehicles. EDRs collect vehicle and occcupant-based crash information. The
agency's involvement has included sponsoring two working groups, using
data from EDRs in crash investigations, and conducting research and
development. Particularly since one working group has completed its work
and the other is nearing completion of its work, NHTSA is requesting
comments on what future role the agency should take related to the
continued development and installation of EDRs in motor
vehicles. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
07/12/2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Request for
Comments:
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Federal
Register Citation for Request for
Comments: 67
FR 63493 |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
92. |
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Popular Title: Rollover
Resistance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI81 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: NPRM | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage:
Request for Comments: Publication Date 07/03/2001; End of Comment Period
08/17/2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: The Transportation Recall
Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation Act of 2000 requires NHTSA
to develop a dynamic test on rollovers by motor vehicles for the purposes
of a consumer information program, to carry out a program of conducting
such tests, and, as these tests are being developed, to conduct a
rulemaking to determine how best to disseminate test results to the
public. In response, this rulemaking is using the results of NHTSA's
evaluation of numerous driving maneuver tests for the dynamic rollover
consumer information program that Congress mandated for the American
public beginning in the 2003 model year. NHTSA also is considering several
alternative methods for using the dynamic rollover test results in its
consumer information for vehicle rollover resistance | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
11/01/2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for
NPRM:
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Federal
Register Citation for
NPRM: 67 FR
62528 |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
93. |
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Popular Title: Child Restraint Systems Side
Impact | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI83 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: ANPRM:
Publication Date 05/01/2002; End of Comment Period 07/01/2002.
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Summary: The Transportation Recall
Enhancement, Accountability and Documentation Act of 2000 directed NHTSA
to initiate a rulemaking for the purpose of improving the safety of child
restraints and specified various elements that must be considered in the
rulemaking. NHTSA has two rulemaking proceedings that together address all
but side and rear impact protection requirements for children in child
restraint systems. NHTSA is addressing side impact protection in this
rulemaking, starting with an ANPRM because there are uncertainities in too
many areas to issue an NPRM. These areas include: (a) the determination of
child injury mechanisms in side impacts, and crash characteristics
associated with serious and fatal injuries to children in child
restraints; (b) development of test procedures, a suitable test dummy and
appropriate injury criteria; and (c) identification of cost-beneficial
countermeasures. Uncertainties in these areas, together with the statutory
schedule for this rulemaking, make it difficult for the agency to assess
and make judgments concerning the benefits and costs of a rulemaking on
side impact protection. Though the ANPRM, the agency expects to obtain
additional information that will help it decide whether it is possible and
appropriate to issue an NPRM in the near future and/or identify additional
work that needs to be done. Also in response to the Act, the ANPRM
requests comments on the appropriateness of proposing to incorporate a
rear impact test procedure into Standard No. 213, for rear-facing child
restraints systems. Note: This rulemaking used to be part of RIN
2127-AI34. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
Statute | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
11/01/2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration | |||||||||||||||||||||
94. |
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Popular Title: Advanced Air Bag
Petitions | |||||||||||||||||||||
RIN 2127-AI85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stage: Final Rule | |||||||||||||||||||||
Previous
Stage: Final
Rule with Response to Petitions for Reconsideration: Publication Date
12/18/2001. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Summary: In May 2000, NHTSA issued a
final rule amending the occupant crash protection standard to require
future airbags to be designed so that they would create less of a safety
risk and to provide advanced airbag technology. In December 2001, NHTSA
responded to the first round of petitions for reconsideration. NHTSA
received additional petitions for reconsideration, which will be addressed
in a second response. | |||||||||||||||||||||
Effects:
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Prompting
action:
None | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Rulemaking Project
Initiated:
12/18/2001 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Dates for Final
Rule:
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Federal
Register Citation for Final
Rule:
None |