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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration |
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Popular 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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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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Popular 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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Previous 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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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: Request for Comments |
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Previous Stage:None |
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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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Prompting action: None |
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Rulemaking Project Initiated: 11/22/1999 |
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Dates for Request for Comments:
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Federal Register Citation for Request for Comments: 69 FR 5108 |
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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 10/11/2002; End of Comment Period 01/09/2003. |
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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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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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Popular Title: Occupant Crash Protection |
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RIN 2127-AI91 |
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Stage: Final Rule |
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Previous 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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Prompting action: Statute |
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Rulemaking Project Initiated: 12/07/2002 |
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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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Stage: 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: 06/28/2002 |
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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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Rulemaking Project Initiated: 04/01/2003 |
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Dates for ANPRM:
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Federal Register Citation for ANPRM: 68 FR 74908 |
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Popular Title: TPMS |
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RIN 2127-AJ23 |
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Stage: NPRM |
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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 June 5, 2002; however, that version of the standard was vacated by a decision issued by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in August 2003. The agency will now take rulemaking action to re-establish FMVSS No. 138, in a manner consistent with the court's decision, and provide a new phase-in period. This rulemaking replaces 2127-AI90 and 2127-AI33, which was terminated due to the August Second Circuit decision. |
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Prompting action: Statute |
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Rulemaking Project Initiated: 08/06/2003 |
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Dates for NPRM:
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Federal Register Citation for NPRM: None |