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Table of Contents
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration
66. Flammability
of Interior Materials in School Buses
68. FMVSS:
Head Restraints (Height and Distance Requirements)
70. Confidential
Business Information
71. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems; Controls and
Displays
72. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems
73. Automotive
Fuel Economy Manufacturing Incentives for Alternative Fuel Vehicles
74. Operation
of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
75. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tires
77. Consumer
Information Regulations; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Rollover
Resistance
78. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems
79. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Occupant Crash Protection
80. Reporting
of Information and Documents About Potential Defects
81. Reporting
of Information and Documents About Potential Defects
National Highway Traffic Safety
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National Highway Traffic Safety
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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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Abstract: 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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Federal
Register
Citation for Withdrawal: None |
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Title: Bus
Flammability |
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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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Abstract: 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: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
10/12/1988 |
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Dates
for Withdrawal:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Withdrawal: None |
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Title: Fuel
Economy Standards |
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2127-AG97 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 01/22/2001; End of Comment Period 3/22/2001. |
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Abstract: 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. NOTE: This
rulemaking will be merged with the upcoming CAFE ANPRM. |
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Prompting
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
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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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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Abstract: 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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Prompting
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
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular
Title: Frontal
Offset |
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RIN
2127-AH73 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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Abstract: 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
Register
Citation for NPRM:
None |
70. |
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Title: Confidential
Business Information |
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RIN
2127-AI13 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Stage: NPRM:
Publication 4/30/2002; End of Comment Period 7/01/2002. |
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Abstract: This rulemaking would revise the confidential
business information regulations to simplify them and improve their clarity,
and to update specific sections to reflect current case law and legislative
action. This will help to ensure the efiicient processing of requests for
confidential treatment and the proper protection of sensitive business
information. |
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Effects:
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
04/30/2002 |
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Dates
for Final Rule:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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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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Abstract: 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
Register
Citation for Final Rule/2: None |
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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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Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 07/02/2002; End of Comment Period 9/2/2002. |
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Abstract: 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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Effects:
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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:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title:
Alternative Fuel Vehicles |
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RIN
2127-AI41 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 03/11/2002; End of Comment Period 04/10/2002. |
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Abstract: To provide an incentive for the
production of vehicles that can operate on certain alternative fuels as well
as on regular petroleum fuels, Congress established a special procedure for
calculating the fuel economy of those vehicles for the purpose of determining
compliance with the Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards. This rulemaking
would increase the fuel economy attributed to such dual-fueld vehicles. By
statute, the incentive is available through the 2004 model year and may be
extended by up to four additional years through rulemaking. This rulemaking
would extend the availablity of the incentive by two years, i.e., though the
2006 model year. |
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Effects:
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
10/03/2001 |
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Dates
for Final Rule:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
74. |
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Title:
Intoxicated Persons |
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RIN
2127-AI44 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 02/06/2003; End of Comment Period 04/07/2003. |
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Abstract: 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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Effects:
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
12/09/2001 |
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Dates for
Final Rule:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: 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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Abstract: 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
NHTSA’s research plans. |
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Effects:
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
None |
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Dates
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title: Event Data
Recorders |
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2127-AI72 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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Previous
Stage: Request for
Comments: Publication Approved 10/04/2002; Publication Date 10/11/2002; End
of Comment Period 01/09/2003. |
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Abstract: 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 NPRM:
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Federal
Register Citation
for NPRM: None |
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Title: Rollover
Resistance |
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RIN 2127-AI81 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Previous
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for Comments: Publication Date 07/03/2001; End of Comment Period 08/17/2001.
NPRM: Publication Date 10/07/2002; End of Comment Period 11/21/2002. |
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Abstract: 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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Effects:
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/01/2002 |
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Dates
for Final Rule:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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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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Abstract: 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. This rulemaking has been merged into the 2127-AI34 "Child
Restraint Systems" rulemaking. This rulemaking, therefore, is no longer
active. |
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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
Register
Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title: Occupant
Crash Protection |
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RIN 2127-AI91 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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Previous
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Abstract: This rulemaking would require
that all designated seating positions in rear seats be equipped with integral
lap/shoulder safety belts. |
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action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
12/07/2002 |
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Dates
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Federal
Register
Citation for NPRM:
None |
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Title: Early
Warning Reconsideration |
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RIN
2127-AI92 |
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Stage: Final Rule/2 |
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Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 7/10/2002; End of Comment Period 9/10/2002. |
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Abstract: These are two final rules responding
to the petitions for reconsideration of a final rule on reporting of
information and documents about potential defects in tires. |
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Effects:
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Prompting
action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
07/10/2002 |
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Dates
for Final Rule/2:
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Dates
for Final Rule/3:
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Federal
Register
Citation for Final Rule/2: 68 FR 18136 |
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Title: Early
Warning Reconsideration |
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RIN
2127-AI92 |
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Stage: Final Rule/3 |
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Previous
Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 7/10/2002; End of Comment Period 9/10/2002. Final Rule/2:
Publication Date 4/15/2003. |
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Abstract: This is a final rule responding to
some of the petitions for reconsideration of a final rule on reporting of
information and documents about potential defects in tires. |
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Effects:
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Prompting
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Rulemaking
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Dates
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Federal
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Citation for Final Rule/3: None |