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Issued on: March 2, 2005.
Stephen R. Kratzke,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 05–4434 Filed 3–7–05; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4910–59–C
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
49 CFR Part 572
[Docket No. NHTSA–2004–18865]
RIN 2127–AJ16
Anthropomorphic Test Devices; SIDIIsFRG Side Impact Crash Test Dummy
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Extension of comment period.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: On December 8, 2004,
NHTSA published a notice of proposed
rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal
Register that proposed to amend 49 CFR
part 572 to add specifications and
qualification requirements for a 5th
percentile adult female test dummy for
use in vehicle side impact tests. In that
NPRM, NHTSA established a March 8,
2005, deadline for submission of written
comments. NHTSA has received a
request from the Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers to extend the comment
period ‘‘to facilitate a comprehensive
technical evaluation of that test device
and allow manufacturers the
opportunity to perform necessary fleet
testing with the proposed test device.’’
In response to that request, NHTSA is
extending the comment period to April
12, 2005.
DATES: Comments must be received by
April 12, 2005. Comments received after
that date will be considered to the
extent possible.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
(identified by the DOT DMS Docket
Number) by any of the following
methods:
Web Site: https://dms.dot.gov. Follow
the instructions for submitting
comments on the DOT electronic docket
site.
Fax: 1–202–493–2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility;
U.S. Department of Transportation, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building,
Room PL–401, Washington, DC 20590–
0001.
Hand Delivery: Room PL–401 on the
plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC,
between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
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Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
online instructions for submitting
comments.
Instructions: All submissions must
include the agency name and docket
number or Regulatory Identification
Number (RIN) for the rulemaking to
which you are commenting. For detailed
instructions on submitting comments
and additional information on the
rulemaking process, see the Public
Participation heading of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this document. Note that all comments
received will be posted without change
to https://dms.dot.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act discussion under the
Public Participation heading.
Docket: For access to the docket to
read background documents or
comments received, go to https://
dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL–
401 on the plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except
Federal Holidays.
Stan
Backaitis, NHTSA Office of
Crashworthiness Standards (202) 366–
4912, or Deirdre Fujita, NHTSA Office
of Chief Counsel (telephone (202) 366–
2992). Both of these officials may be
reached at 400 Seventh St., SW.,
Washington, DC 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
On
December 8, 2004 (69 FR 70947; Docket
No. 18865), the agency published an
NPRM proposing to add specifications
and qualification requirements for a 5th
percentile adult female side impact
crash test dummy to NHTSA’s
regulation on anthropomorphic test
devices (49 CFR part 572). The test
dummy, called the SID–IIsFRG, was part
of an NPRM that NHTSA published in
May 2004 that proposed to upgrade
FMVSS No. 214, ‘‘Side Impact
Protection.’’ The NPRM on FMVSS No.
214 proposed to require that all
passenger vehicles with a gross vehicle
weight rating of up to 4,536 kilograms
(10,000 pounds) protect front seat
occupants against head, thoracic,
abdominal and pelvic injuries in a
vehicle-to-pole test simulating a vehicle
crashing sideways into narrow fixed
objects like telephone poles and trees
(69 FR 27990, May 17, 2004; Docket
2004–17694). The NPRM proposed that
compliance with the pole test would be
determined in tests using the SID–
IIsFRG, and in tests using a new test
dummy representing mid-size adult
males (the ‘‘ES–2re’’ crash test dummy).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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The comment period for the NPRM on
the SID–IIsFRG closes March 8, 2005.
The Alliance of Automobile
Manufacturers has petitioned to extend
the comment period ‘‘until mid 2005 to
facilitate a comprehensive technical
evaluation of that test device and allow
manufacturers the opportunity to
perform necessary fleet testing with the
proposed test device. Further, the
requested extension aligns the comment
closing date with that requested by the
Alliance in its October 14, 2004
petition.’’ That October 14, 2004,
petition of the Alliance was to extend,
for eight months, the comment periods
for the FMVSS No. 214 NPRM and for
an NPRM on specifications for the ES–
2re (which was published September
15, 2004; 69 FR 55550; Docket No.
18864). On January 12, 2005, in
response to the petition, NHTSA
reopened the comment period for those
NPRMs for 90 days (70 FR 2105; Docket
No. 17694, 18864). The 90-day period
closes April 12, 2005.
We are extending the comment period
for the SID–IIsFRG NPRM from March 8,
2005, to April 12, 2005, to align the
comment closing date with those of the
related NPRMs on FMVSS No. 214 and
the ES–2re test dummy. The extended
comment period gives interested parties
additional time to submit comments
without unnecessarily delaying key
decisions by NHTSA about the FMVSS
No. 214 rulemaking and without overly
delaying the potential societal benefits
associated with a final rule.
Public Participation
How Do I Prepare and Submit
Comments?
Your comments must be written and
in English. To ensure that your
comments are correctly filed in the
Docket, please include the appropriate
docket number in your comments.
Your comments must not be more
than 15 pages long. (49 CFR 553.21).
NHTSA established this limit to
encourage you to write your primary
comments in a concise fashion.
However, you may attach necessary
additional documents to your
comments. There is no limit on the
length of the attachments.
Please submit two copies of your
comments, including the attachments,
to Docket Management at the address
given above under ADDRESSES.
You may also submit your comments
to the docket electronically by logging
onto the Dockets Management System
Web site at https://dms.dot.gov. Click on
‘‘Help & Information’’ or ‘‘Help/Info’’ to
obtain instructions for filing the
document electronically.
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How Can I Be Sure That My Comments
Were Received?
If you wish Docket Management to
notify you upon its receipt of your
comments, enclose a self-addressed,
stamped postcard in the envelope
containing your comments. Upon
receiving your comments, Docket
Management will return the postcard by
mail.
How Do I Submit Confidential Business
Information?
If you wish to submit any information
under a claim of confidentiality, you
should submit three copies of your
complete submission, including the
information you claim to be confidential
business information, to the Chief
Counsel, NHTSA, at the address given
above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT. In addition, you should
submit two copies, from which you
have deleted the claimed confidential
business information, to Docket
Management at the address given above
under ADDRESSES. When you send a
comment containing information
claimed to be confidential business
information, you should include a cover
letter setting forth the information
specified in our confidential business
information regulation (49 CFR part
512).
Will the Agency Consider Late
Comments?
NHTSA will consider all comments
that Docket Management receives before
the close of business on the comment
closing date indicated above under
DATES. To the extent possible, the
agency will also consider comments that
Docket Management receives after that
date. If Docket Management receives a
comment too late for the agency to
consider it in developing a final rule
(assuming that one is issued), the
agency will consider that comment as
an informal suggestion for future
rulemaking action.
How Can I Read the Comments
Submitted by Other People?
You may read the comments received
by Docket Management at the address
given above under ADDRESSES. The
hours of the Docket are indicated above
in the same location.
You may also see the comments on
the Internet. To read the comments on
the Internet, take the following steps:
1. Go to the Docket Management
System (DMS) Web page of the
Department of Transportation (https://
dms.dot.gov/).
2. On that page, click on ‘‘search.’’
3. On the next page (https://
dms.dot.gov/search/), type in the five-
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digit docket number shown at the
beginning of this document. Example: If
the docket number were ‘‘NHTSA–
2004–12345,’’ you would type ‘‘12345.’’
After typing the docket number, click on
‘‘search.’’
4. On the next page, which contains
docket summary information for the
docket you selected, click on the desired
comments. You may download the
comments. Although the comments are
imaged documents, instead of word
processing documents, the ‘‘pdf’’
versions of the documents are word
searchable.
Please note that even after the
comment closing date, NHTSA will
continue to file relevant information in
the Docket as it becomes available.
Further, some people may submit late
comments. Accordingly, the agency
recommends that you periodically
check the Docket for new material.
Anyone is able to search the
electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the
name of the individual submitting the
comment (or signing the comment, if
submitted on behalf of an association,
business, labor union, etc.). You may
review DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement in the Federal Register
published on April 11, 2000 (Volume
65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78), or you
may visit https://dms.dot.gov.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322, 30111, 30115,
30117 and 30166; delegation of authority at
49 CFR 1.50.
Issued on March 2, 2005.
Stephen R. Kratzke,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 05–4432 Filed 3–7–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
50 CFR Part 635
[Docket No. 050228049–5049–01; I.D.
021105C]
RIN 0648–AT05
Atlantic Highly Migratory Species;
Lifting Trade Restrictive Measures
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Proposed rule, request for
comments, notice of public hearing.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to adjust the
regulations governing the trade of tuna
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and tuna-like species in the North and
South Atlantic Ocean to implement
recommendations adopted at the 2004
meeting of the International
Commission for the Conservation of
Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT). The proposed
rule would lift the trade restrictions on
importing bigeye tuna (BET) from
Cambodia; the ban on importing BET
and bluefin tuna (BFT) from Equatorial
Guinea; and the ban on importing BET,
BFT, and swordfish (SWO) from Sierra
Leone. Additionally, the proposed rule
would also correct section reference
conflicts between two rules that were
published in the Federal Register on
November 17, 2004, and December 6,
2004.
Written comments on the
proposed rule must be received by 5
p.m. on April 7, 2005.
The public hearing will be held on
March 21, 2005, from 2:45 p.m. to 5
p.m.
DATES:
The public hearing will be
held at the Holiday Inn, 8777 Georgia
Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Written comments on the proposed
rule may be submitted to Christopher
Rogers, Chief, Highly Migratory Species
Management Division:
• Email: SF1.021105C@noaa.gov
• Mail: 1315 East-West Highway,
Silver Spring, MD 20910. Please mark
the outside of the envelope ‘‘Comments
on Proposed Rule for Lifting Trade
Restrictive Measures.’’
• Fax: 301–713–1917.
• Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: https://
www.regulations.gov. Include in the
subject line the following identifier: I.D.
021105C.
Copies of the Fishery Management
Plan for Atlantic Tunas, Swordfish and
Sharks and other relevant documents
are also available from the Highly
Migratory Species Management Division
website at www.nmfs.noaa.gov/sfa/hms.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Megan Gamble, by phone: 301–713–
2347 or by fax: 301–713–1917.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.
Atlantic swordfish and tuna fisheries
are managed under the Fishery
Management Plan for Atlantic Tunas,
Swordfish, and Sharks (HMS FMP) and
regulations at 50 CFR part 635 under the
authority of the Magnuson-Stevens
Fishery Conservation and Management
Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act), 16 U.S.C.
1801 et seq., and the Atlantic Tunas
Convention Act (ATCA), 16 U.S.C. 971
et seq. The ATCA authorizes the
promulgation of regulations as may be
necessary and appropriate to carry out
ICCAT recommendations. Trade-related
ICCAT recommendations from 2004
ADDRESSES:
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
49 CFR Part 572
[Docket No. NHTSA-2004-18865]
RIN 2127-AJ16
Anthropomorphic Test Devices; SID-IIsFRG Side Impact Crash Test
Dummy
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On December 8, 2004, NHTSA published a notice of proposed
rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register that proposed to amend 49 CFR
part 572 to add specifications and qualification requirements for a 5th
percentile adult female test dummy for use in vehicle side impact
tests. In that NPRM, NHTSA established a March 8, 2005, deadline for
submission of written comments. NHTSA has received a request from the
Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers to extend the comment period ``to
facilitate a comprehensive technical evaluation of that test device and
allow manufacturers the opportunity to perform necessary fleet testing
with the proposed test device.'' In response to that request, NHTSA is
extending the comment period to April 12, 2005.
DATES: Comments must be received by April 12, 2005. Comments received
after that date will be considered to the extent possible.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments (identified by the DOT DMS Docket
Number) by any of the following methods:
Web Site: https://dms.dot.gov. Follow the instructions for
submitting comments on the DOT electronic docket site.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Nassif Building, Room PL-401,
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery: Room PL-401 on the plaza level of the Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5
p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
docket number or Regulatory Identification Number (RIN) for the
rulemaking to which you are commenting. For detailed instructions on
submitting comments and additional information on the rulemaking
process, see the Public Participation heading of the Supplementary
Information section of this document. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to https://dms.dot.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act discussion
under the Public Participation heading.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://dms.dot.gov at any time or to Room PL-
401 on the plaza level of the Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal Holidays.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stan Backaitis, NHTSA Office of
Crashworthiness Standards (202) 366-4912, or Deirdre Fujita, NHTSA
Office of Chief Counsel (telephone (202) 366-2992). Both of these
officials may be reached at 400 Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 8, 2004 (69 FR 70947; Docket No.
18865), the agency published an NPRM proposing to add specifications
and qualification requirements for a 5th percentile adult female side
impact crash test dummy to NHTSA's regulation on anthropomorphic test
devices (49 CFR part 572). The test dummy, called the SID-IIsFRG, was
part of an NPRM that NHTSA published in May 2004 that proposed to
upgrade FMVSS No. 214, ``Side Impact Protection.'' The NPRM on FMVSS
No. 214 proposed to require that all passenger vehicles with a gross
vehicle weight rating of up to 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) protect
front seat occupants against head, thoracic, abdominal and pelvic
injuries in a vehicle-to-pole test simulating a vehicle crashing
sideways into narrow fixed objects like telephone poles and trees (69
FR 27990, May 17, 2004; Docket 2004-17694). The NPRM proposed that
compliance with the pole test would be determined in tests using the
SID-IIsFRG, and in tests using a new test dummy representing mid-size
adult males (the ``ES-2re'' crash test dummy).
The comment period for the NPRM on the SID-IIsFRG closes March 8,
2005. The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers has petitioned to extend
the comment period ``until mid 2005 to facilitate a comprehensive
technical evaluation of that test device and allow manufacturers the
opportunity to perform necessary fleet testing with the proposed test
device. Further, the requested extension aligns the comment closing
date with that requested by the Alliance in its October 14, 2004
petition.'' That October 14, 2004, petition of the Alliance was to
extend, for eight months, the comment periods for the FMVSS No. 214
NPRM and for an NPRM on specifications for the ES-2re (which was
published September 15, 2004; 69 FR 55550; Docket No. 18864). On
January 12, 2005, in response to the petition, NHTSA reopened the
comment period for those NPRMs for 90 days (70 FR 2105; Docket No.
17694, 18864). The 90-day period closes April 12, 2005.
We are extending the comment period for the SID-IIsFRG NPRM from
March 8, 2005, to April 12, 2005, to align the comment closing date
with those of the related NPRMs on FMVSS No. 214 and the ES-2re test
dummy. The extended comment period gives interested parties additional
time to submit comments without unnecessarily delaying key decisions by
NHTSA about the FMVSS No. 214 rulemaking and without overly delaying
the potential societal benefits associated with a final rule.
Public Participation
How Do I Prepare and Submit Comments?
Your comments must be written and in English. To ensure that your
comments are correctly filed in the Docket, please include the
appropriate docket number in your comments.
Your comments must not be more than 15 pages long. (49 CFR 553.21).
NHTSA established this limit to encourage you to write your primary
comments in a concise fashion. However, you may attach necessary
additional documents to your comments. There is no limit on the length
of the attachments.
Please submit two copies of your comments, including the
attachments, to Docket Management at the address given above under
ADDRESSES.
You may also submit your comments to the docket electronically by
logging onto the Dockets Management System Web site at https://
dms.dot.gov. Click on ``Help & Information'' or ``Help/Info'' to obtain
instructions for filing the document electronically.
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How Can I Be Sure That My Comments Were Received?
If you wish Docket Management to notify you upon its receipt of
your comments, enclose a self-addressed, stamped postcard in the
envelope containing your comments. Upon receiving your comments, Docket
Management will return the postcard by mail.
How Do I Submit Confidential Business Information?
If you wish to submit any information under a claim of
confidentiality, you should submit three copies of your complete
submission, including the information you claim to be confidential
business information, to the Chief Counsel, NHTSA, at the address given
above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. In addition, you should
submit two copies, from which you have deleted the claimed confidential
business information, to Docket Management at the address given above
under ADDRESSES. When you send a comment containing information claimed
to be confidential business information, you should include a cover
letter setting forth the information specified in our confidential
business information regulation (49 CFR part 512).
Will the Agency Consider Late Comments?
NHTSA will consider all comments that Docket Management receives
before the close of business on the comment closing date indicated
above under DATES. To the extent possible, the agency will also
consider comments that Docket Management receives after that date. If
Docket Management receives a comment too late for the agency to
consider it in developing a final rule (assuming that one is issued),
the agency will consider that comment as an informal suggestion for
future rulemaking action.
How Can I Read the Comments Submitted by Other People?
You may read the comments received by Docket Management at the
address given above under ADDRESSES. The hours of the Docket are
indicated above in the same location.
You may also see the comments on the Internet. To read the comments
on the Internet, take the following steps:
1. Go to the Docket Management System (DMS) Web page of the
Department of Transportation (https://dms.dot.gov/).
2. On that page, click on ``search.''
3. On the next page (https://dms.dot.gov/search/), type in the five-
digit docket number shown at the beginning of this document. Example:
If the docket number were ``NHTSA-2004-12345,'' you would type
``12345.'' After typing the docket number, click on ``search.''
4. On the next page, which contains docket summary information for
the docket you selected, click on the desired comments. You may
download the comments. Although the comments are imaged documents,
instead of word processing documents, the ``pdf'' versions of the
documents are word searchable.
Please note that even after the comment closing date, NHTSA will
continue to file relevant information in the Docket as it becomes
available. Further, some people may submit late comments. Accordingly,
the agency recommends that you periodically check the Docket for new
material.
Anyone is able to search the electronic form of all comments
received into any of our dockets by the name of the individual
submitting the comment (or signing the comment, if submitted on behalf
of an association, business, labor union, etc.). You may review DOT's
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on
April 11, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 70; Pages 19477-78), or you may visit
https://dms.dot.gov.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322, 30111, 30115, 30117 and 30166;
delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.50.
Issued on March 2, 2005.
Stephen R. Kratzke,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 05-4432 Filed 3-7-05; 8:45 am]
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