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Table of Contents
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration
62. FMVSS:
Head Restraints (Height and Distance Requirements)
64. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems; Controls and
Displays
65. Automotive
Fuel Economy Manufacturing Incentives for Alternative Fuel Vehicles
67. Consumer
Information Regulations; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Rollover
Resistance
68. Tire
Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) Response to Petitions for Reconsideration
69. Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Occupant Crash Protection
70. Side
Impact Protection Upgrade - FMVSS No. 214
National Highway Traffic Safety
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61. |
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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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Previous
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. |
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Effects:
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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 requirement 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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Effects:
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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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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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Effects:
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Prompting
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 |
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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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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, also, see
RIN 2127-AI90. |
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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/2: 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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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-fuel 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 availability of the incentive by two years, i.e., though the
2006 model year. |
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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
10/03/2001 |
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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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RIN
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 occupant-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.
NHTSA is considering what, if any, 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:
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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
Stage: Request
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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Prompting
action: Statute |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
11/01/2002 |
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Title: TPMS
Response to Petitions |
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RIN
2127-AI90 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Abstract: This rulemaking would have
responded to petitions for reconsideration requesting changes in the June 5,
2002 final rule adopting a new Federal motor vehicle safety standard
requiring installation in new light vehicles of a tire pressure monitoring
system (TPMS). The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit concluded
that a portion of the standard was both contrary to law and arbitrary and
capricious and vacated the entire standard. NHTSA is considering what action
to take in response to the court decision. |
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Effects:
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Prompting
action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
07/22/2002 |
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Dates
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Federal
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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: Final Rule |
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Stage: NPRM:
Publication Date 08/06/2003; End of Comment Period 10/06/2003. |
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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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Effects:
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Prompting
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 Final Rule: None |
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Title: Side
Impact Protection Upgrade |
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RIN
2127-AJ10 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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Abstract: NHTSA is considering amending
FMVSS No. 214 to add a vehicle-to-pole impact test in order to reduce the
number of fatal and serious head injuries in side crashes. |
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Prompting
action: None |
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Rulemaking
Project Initiated:
06/28/2002 |
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Dates
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Federal
Register
Citation for NPRM:
None |