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National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration
National Highway Traffic Safety
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National Highway Traffic Safety
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Popular Title: Fuel Economy Standards |
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RIN 2127-AG97 |
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Final Rule |
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Previous Stage: NPRM: Publication Date |
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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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Prompting action: Statute |
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Federal Register Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular Title: Head Restraints (Height and Distance Req) |
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RIN 2127-AH09 |
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Final Rule |
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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
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Prompting action: None |
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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:
Request for Comments |
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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: |
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Dates for Request for Comments:
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Dates for NPRM:
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Federal Register Citation for Request for Comments: None |
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Popular 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 |
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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
four years, i.e., though the 2008 model year. Prior to publishing this NPRM,
we will be publishing a Request for Comments pertaining to this rulemaking.
The Request for Comments is intended to inform the public and solicit comments
on the recent testing conducted by the agency. |
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Prompting action: Statute |
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Federal Register Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular 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 Date |
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Abstract:
This rulemaking would address event data recorders (EDRs),
i.e., devices that record information about motor vehicles involved in
crashes. Manufacturers have been voluntarily installing EDRs
as standard equipment in increasingly larger numbers of light vehicles in
recent years. They are now being installed in the vast majority of new
vehicles. The information collected by EDRs aids
investigations of the causes of crashes and injuries, and makes it possible
to better define and address safety problems. The information can be used to
improve motor vehicle safety systems and standards. The rulemaking would not
require the installation of EDRs in any motor
vehicles. It would consider requirements for voluntarily installed EDRs, including ones for a minimum set of specified data
elements and for data format. |
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Effects:
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Prompting action: None |
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Rulemaking Project Initiated: |
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Dates for NPRM:
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Federal Register Citation for NPRM: None |
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Popular Title: Occupant Crash Protection |
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RIN 2127-AI91 |
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Stage:
Final Rule |
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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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Federal Register Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular Title: Side Impact Protection Upgrade |
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RIN 2127-AJ10 |
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NPRM |
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Previous Stage:None |
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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: |
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Dates for NPRM:
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Federal Register Citation for NPRM: None |
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Popular Title: Reforming CAFE |
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RIN 2127-AJ17 |
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Stage:
ANPRM |
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Previous Stage:None |
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Abstract:
This rulemaking addresses various issues relating to the corporate average
fuel economy (CAFE) program. In particular, it addresses possible
enhancements to the program that will assist in furthering fuel conservation
while protecting motor vehicle safety and American jobs. The agency is
particularly interested in improvements to the structure of the CAFE program
authorized under current statutory authority. |
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Prompting action: None |
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Federal Register Citation for ANPRM: None |
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Popular Title: TPMS |
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RIN 2127-AJ23 |
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Stage:
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Previous Stage:None |
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Abstract:
The Transportation Recall Enhancement Accountability and Documentation
(TREAD) Act required the Secretary of Transportation to initiate rulemaking
to require a warning system in new motor vehicles to indicate to the operator
when a tire is significantly under-inflated. The agency issued a final rule
for tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMS) (establishing FMVSS No. 138) on |
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Effects:
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Prompting action: Statute |
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Rulemaking Project Initiated: |
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Dates for Undetermined:
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Federal Register Citation for Undetermined: None |