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National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration
63. FMVSS: Head Restraints (Height and Distance Requirements)
65. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Tire Pressure Monitoring
Systems; Controls and Displays
66. Automotive Fuel Economy Manufacturing Incentives for Alternative
Fuel Vehicles
67. Operation of Motor Vehicles by Intoxicated Persons
69. Consumer Information Regulations; Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards; Rollover Resistance
70. Tire Pressure Monitoring Systems (TPMS) Response to Petitions for
Reconsideration
71. Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, Occupant Crash Protection
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62. |
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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 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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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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Citation for Final Rule: None |
63. |
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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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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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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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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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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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Citation for NPRM: None |
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Popular 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, also, see RIN 2127-AI90. |
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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/2:
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Citation for Final Rule/2: 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 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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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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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular Title:
Intoxicated Persons |
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RIN 2127-AI44 |
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Stage:
Final Rule |
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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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Citation for Final Rule: 68 FR 50703 |
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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 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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Effects:
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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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Citation for NPRM: None |
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Popular 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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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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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular 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 for Final Rule:
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Citation for Final Rule: None |
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Popular Title:
Occupant Crash Protection |
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RIN 2127-AI91 |
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Stage:
NPRM |
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Previous Stage:None
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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 for NPRM:
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Citation for NPRM: 68 FR 46546 |