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National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration
73. Flammability
of Interior Materials in School Buses
75. FMVSS:
Head Restraints (Height and Distance Requirements)
77. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems; Controls and
Displays
78. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems
79. Operation
of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
80. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tires
81. Light
Truck Average Fuel Economy Standard, Model Year 2005-7
83. Consumer
Information Regulations; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Rollover
Resistance
84. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems
National Highway Traffic Safety
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72. |
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Title:
Crashworthiness Ratings |
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RIN
2127-AA03 |
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Stage: Withdrawal |
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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). |
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action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
01/22/1981 |
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Dates
for Withdrawal :
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Citation for Withdrawal : None |
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Title: Bus
Flammability |
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RIN 2127-AA44 |
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Stage: Withdrawal |
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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. |
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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. |
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action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
10/12/1988 |
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Dates
for Withdrawal :
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Federal
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Citation for Withdrawal : None |
74. |
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Title: Fuel
Economy Standards |
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RIN
2127-AG97 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 01/22/2001; End of Comment Period 3/22/01. |
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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. |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
04/27/1998 |
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Dates
for Final Rule:
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
75. |
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Title: Head
Restraints (Height and Distance Req) |
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RIN
2127-AH09 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 01/04/2001; End of Comment Period 03/05/2001. |
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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. It 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 some aspects of
the counterpart regulation of the Economic Commission for Europe. |
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action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
03/01/2001 |
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Dates
for Final Rule:
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title: Frontal
Offset |
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RIN
2127-AH73 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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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. |
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action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/22/1999 |
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Dates
for NPRM:
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Federal
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Citation for NPRM:
None |
77. |
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Title: Tire
Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) |
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RIN
2127-AI33 |
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Stage: Final Rule/2 |
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Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication date 7/26/01; End of Comment Period 9/6/01. Final Rule/1:
Publication Date 05/29/2002. |
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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. |
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/01/2000 |
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Dates
for Final Rule/2:
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule/2: None |
78. |
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Title: Child
Restraint Systems |
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RIN
2127-AI34 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Publication Date 07/02/2002; End of Comment Period 9/2/2002. |
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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. |
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/01/2000 |
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Dates
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
79. |
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Title:
Intoxicated Persons |
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RIN
2127-AI44 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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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. |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
12/09/2001 |
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Dates
for NPRM:
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Federal
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Citation for NPRM:
None |
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Popular
Title: FMVSS;
Tires |
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RIN
2127-AI54 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Publication Date 03/05/2002; End of Comment Period 06/05/2002. |
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Summary: The Transportation Recall
Enhancement, Accountability, and Documentation Act of 2000 mandates a
rulemaking proceeding to revise and update NHTSA's safety performance
requirements for tires. This rulemaking would establish a new Federal Motor
Vehicle Safety Standard that would require all new tires for use on vehicles
with a gross vehicle weight rating of 10,000 pounds or less to meet new and
more stringent performance requirements. The issues considered in the
rulemaking include the standard's applicability and test procedures;
modifications to related existing standards; lead time provided for
manufacturers to achieve compliance; possible future specification of
shearography analysis, a technique which evaluates the condition of a tire
using laser technology; and NHTSAís research plans. |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title: Light
Truck Avg Fuel Economy Std 2005-7 |
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RIN
2127-AI70 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Previous
Stage: Request
for Comments: Publication Date 02/07/2002; End of Comment Period 4/8/2002.
NPRM: Publication Date 12/14/2002; End of Comment Period 02/14/2003. |
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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. |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
12/06/2001 |
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title: Event Data
Recorders |
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RIN
2127-AI72 |
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Stage: Request for Comments |
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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. |
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Prompting
action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
07/12/2002 |
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Dates
for Request for Comments:
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Federal
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Citation for Request for Comments: 67 FR 63493 |
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Title: Rollover
Resistance |
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RIN
2127-AI81 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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Previous
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for Comments: Publication Date 07/03/2001; End of Comment Period 08/17/2001. |
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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 |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/01/2002 |
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Dates
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Federal
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Citation for NPRM:
67 FR 62528 |
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Title: Child
Restraint Systems Side Impact |
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RIN
2127-AI83 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Previous
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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. |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/01/2000 |
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |