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consequence, to assure that headlamps
can be correctly aimed, instructions for
proper use must be part of the vehicle
as a label, or optionally, in the vehicle
owner’s manual.
FMVSS No. 110, ‘‘Tire selection and
rims.’’ This standard specifies
requirements for tire selection to
prevent tire overloading. The vehicle’s
normal load and maximum load on the
tire shall not be greater than applicable
specified limits. The standard requires a
permanently affixed vehicle placard
specifying vehicle capacity weight,
designated seating capacity,
manufacturer recommended cold tire
inflation pressure, and manufacturer’s
recommended tire size. The standard
further specifies rim construction
requirements, load limits of
nonpneumatic spare tires, and labeling
requirements for non-pneumatic spare
tires, including a required placard.
Owner’s manual information is required
for ‘‘Use of Spare Tire.’’ FMVSS No. 110
will require additional owner’s manual
information on the revised vehicle
placard and tire information label, on
revised tire labeling, and on tire safety
and load limits and terminology.
FMVSS No. 202, ‘‘Head restraints.’’
This standard specifies requirements for
head restraints. The standard, which
seeks to reduce whiplash injuries in rear
collisions, currently requires head
restraints for front outboard designated
seating positions in passenger cars and
in light multipurpose passenger
vehicles, trucks and buses. In a final
rule published on December 14, 2004
(69 FR 74880), the standard requires
that vehicle manufacturers include
information in owner’s manuals for
vehicles manufactured on or after
September 1, 2008. The owner’s manual
must clearly identify which seats are
equipped with head restraints. If the
head restraints are removable, the
owner’s manual must provide
instructions on how to remove the head
restraint by a deliberate action distinct
from any act necessary for adjustment,
and how to reinstall head restraints. The
owner’s manual must warn that all head
restraints must be reinstalled to
properly protect vehicle occupants.
Finally, the owner’s manual must
describe, in an easily understandable
format, the adjustment of the head
restraints and/or seat back to achieve
appropriate head restraint position
relative to the occupant’s head.
FMVSS No. 205, ‘‘Glazing materials.’’
This standard specifies requirement for
all glazing material used in windshields,
windows, and interior partitions of
motor vehicles. Its purpose is to reduce
the likelihood of lacerations and to
minimize the possibility of occupants
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penetrating the windshield in a crash.
More detailed information regarding the
care and maintenance of such glazing
items, as the glass-plastic windshield, is
required to be placed in the vehicle
owner’s manual.
FMVSS No. 208, ‘‘Occupant crash
protection.’’ This standard specifies
requirements for both active and passive
occupant crash protection systems for
passenger cars, multipurpose passenger
vehicles, trucks and small buses. Certain
safety features, such as air bags, or the
care and maintenance of air bag
systems, are required to be explained to
the owner by means of the owner’s
manual. For example, the owner’s
manual must describe the vehicle’s air
bag system and provide precautionary
information about the proper
positioning of the occupants, including
children. The owner’s manual must also
warn that no objects, such as shotguns
carried in police cars, should be placed
over or near the air bag covers.
FMVSS No. 210, ‘‘Seat belt assembly
anchorages.’’ This standard specifies
requirements for seat belt assembly
anchorages to ensure effective occupant
restraint and to reduce the likelihood of
failure in a crash. The standard requires
that manufacturers place the following
information in the vehicle owner’s
manual:
a. An explanation that child restraints
are designed to be secured by means of
the vehicle’s seat belts, and,
b. A statement alerting vehicle owners
that children are always safer in the rear
seat.
FMVSS No. 213, ‘‘Child restraint
systems.’’ This standard specifies
requirements for child restraint systems
and requires that manufacturers provide
consumers with detailed information
relating to child safety in air bagequipped vehicles. The vehicle owner’s
manual must include information about
the operation and do’s and don’ts of
built-in child seats.
Part 575 Section 103, ‘‘Camper
loading.’’ This standard requires that
manufacturers of slide-in campers
designed to fit into the cargo bed of
pickup trucks affix a label to each
camper that contains information
relating to certification, identification
and proper loading, and to provide more
detailed loading information in the
owner’s manual of the truck.
Part 575 Section 105, ‘‘Utility
vehicles.’’ This regulation requires
manufacturers of utility vehicles to alert
drivers that the particular handling and
maneuvering characteristics of utility
vehicles require special driving
practices when these vehicles are
operated on paved roads. For example,
the vehicle owner’s manual is required
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to contain a discussion of vehicle design
features that cause this type of vehicle
to be more likely to roll over, and to
include a discussion of driving practices
that can reduce the risk of roll over. A
statement is provided in the regulation
that manufacturers shall include, in its
entirety or equivalent form, in the
vehicle owner’s manual.
Description of the Likely Respondents
(Including Estimated Number and
Proposed Frequency of Response to the
Collection of Information): NHTSA
anticipates that no more than 21 vehicle
manufacturers will be affected by the
reporting requirements.
Estimate of the Total Annual
Reporting and Record Keeping Burden
Resulting from the Collection of
Information: NHTSA estimates that all
manufacturers will need a total of 2,615
hours to comply with these
requirements, at a total annual cost of
$6,279,172.
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3506(c); delegation of
authority at 49 CFR 1.50.
Issued on: May 4, 2005.
Stephen R. Kratzke,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping
Requirements; Agency Information
Collection Activity Under OMB Review
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below has been forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and comment. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collections
and their expected burden. The Federal
Register Notice with a 60-day comment
period was published on August 19,
2004 (69 FR 51544–51545).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before June 8, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30
days, to the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, 725–17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503,
Attention NHTSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alan Block at the National Highway
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Traffic Safety Administration, Office of
Research and Technology (NTI–131),
202–366–6401, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,
Room 5119, Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
Title: Increasing Safety Belt Use
Among Children Ages 8–15.
OMB Number: 2127–New.
Type of Request: New information
collection requirement.
Abstract: Little is currently known
about the context of safety belt use and
non-use by 8–15 year olds. This study
will gather information on attitudes,
knowledge, and behavior related to
safety belts among children in that age
range in order to determine strategies for
increasing child safety belt use. There
will be 27 in-home immersion
interviews with families having one or
more children age 8–15 (an average of
3.5 interviews per family). In-home
immersions are interviews in which
researchers visit respondents’ homes
and have an opportunity to speak with
multiple members of the household and
to observe how their interactions and
environment may either motivate or
serve as barriers to eliciting desired
behaviors. Each of the 27 immersion
sessions will last approximately two
hours. Information derived from the
immersion interviews will be used to
develop intervention or program
concepts/ideas that will be tested with
children in 96 triad interviews. Each
triad will be composed of three children
of the same sex, race/ethnicity, and
approximate age. Each of the 96 triads
will last approximately 75 minutes.
Affected Public: Children age 8–15
and their parents or guardians, from
among the general public, who
volunteer to participate in the study.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 549
hours.
Comments are invited on: Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the Department,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; the accuracy of
the Department’s estimate of the burden
of the proposed information collection;
ways to enhance the quality, utility and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
A Comment to OMB is most effective if
OMB receives it within 30 days of
publication.
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Issued on: May 4, 2005.
Marilena Amoni,
Associate Administrator, Program
Development and Delivery.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA 2005–20545; Notice 2]
IC Corporation, Grant of Petition for
Decision of Inconsequential
Noncompliance
IC Corporation (IC) has determined
that certain school buses that it
manufactured in 2001 through 2004 do
not comply with S5.2.3.2(a)(4) of 49
CFR 571.217, Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 217, ‘‘Bus
emergency exits and window retention
and release.’’ Pursuant to 49 U.S.C.
30118(d) and 30120(h), IC has
petitioned for a determination that this
noncompliance is inconsequential to
motor vehicle safety and has filed an
appropriate report pursuant to 49 CFR
Part 573, ‘‘Defect and Noncompliance
Reports.’’ Notice of receipt of a petition
was published, with a 30-day comment
period, on March 23, 2005, in the
Federal Register (70 FR 14748). NHTSA
received no comments.
Affected are a total of approximately
40 school buses manufactured from
August 15, 2001 to September 29, 2004.
S5.2.3.2(a)(4) of FMVSS No. 217 states
‘‘No two side emergency exit doors shall
be located, in whole or in part, within
the same post and roof bow panel
space.’’ The noncompliant vehicles have
two side emergency exit doors located
opposite each other within the same
post and roof bow panel space.
IC believes that the noncompliance is
inconsequential to motor vehicle safety
and that no corrective action is
warranted. IC states that NHTSA’s main
purpose in updating FMVSS No. 217
was,
to ensure that emergency exit capability
would be proportional to the maximum
occupant capacity; to improve access to side
emergency doors; to improve visibility of
exits; and to facilitate the exiting of
occupants from a bus after an accident * * *.
None of these primary objectives were
compromised on the 40 units covered by this
petition.
IC states that it reviewed comments in
response to the NPRM to update FMVSS
No. 217 and determined that they
* * * were related to the fatigue strength of
a bus body of this configuration. IC
Corporation was unable to find comments
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relating to the safe exit of occupants in the
event of an accident as a result of this door
arrangement. Based on this background, IC
Corporation presents arguments for
consideration regarding both the structural
and safety aspects of the rule. Finally, we
present bus customer feedback based on
interviews conducted with some of the bus
customers affected by this non-compliance.
IC further states that it is ‘‘not aware
of any research that indicates that
emergency exits should not be located
across from each other for safety of
egress reasons alone.’’ IC say it believes
the requirement for two exit doors
located across from each other in the
same post and roof bow appears ‘‘to all
be related to the issue of the structural
integrity of a bus body of this
configuration.’’
IC indicates that it ‘‘has no reports of
any failures of panels or the structure in
the area of the left or right emergency
doors’’ of the noncompliant vehicles.
Nor has IC received failure reports of
panels or the structure for two other
types of buses it manufactures. It
describes these two other types of buses.
One is ‘‘commercial buses with a
passenger door centered on the right
side of the bus and large double bow
windows on the left side within the
same post and roof bow panel space.’’
Another is buses with ‘‘the combination
of a left side emergency door on the left
side and a wheelchair door on the right
side within the same post and roof bow
panel space.’’ IC further asserts that
‘‘NHTSA does not restrict other
combinations of doors and windows
within the same roof bow space.’’
IC states that it will extend to the
owners of the noncompliant vehicles a
15-year warranty for any structural or
panel failures related to the location of
the doors, so that ‘‘corrections could be
made long before any possible fatigue
problems * * * progress into major
structural issues.’’
The Agency agrees with IC that in this
case the noncompliance does not
compromise safety in terms of
emergency exit capability in proportion
to maximum occupant capacity, access
to side emergency doors, visibility of the
exits, or the ability of bus occupants to
exit after an accident. IC has corrected
the problem.
In consideration of the foregoing,
NHTSA has decided that the petitioner
has met its burden of persuasion that
the noncompliance described is
inconsequential to motor vehicle safety.
Accordingly, IC’s petition is granted and
the petitioner is exempted from the
obligation of providing notification of,
and a remedy for, the noncompliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Reports, Forms, and Record Keeping Requirements; Agency
Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR
describes the nature of the information collections and their expected
burden. The Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period was
published on August 19, 2004 (69 FR 51544-51545).
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before June 8, 2005.
ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30 days, to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725-17th
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention NHTSA Desk Officer.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Alan Block at the National Highway
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Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Research and Technology (NTI-
131), 202-366-6401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Room 5119, Washington, DC
20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Title: Increasing Safety Belt Use Among Children Ages 8-15.
OMB Number: 2127-New.
Type of Request: New information collection requirement.
Abstract: Little is currently known about the context of safety
belt use and non-use by 8-15 year olds. This study will gather
information on attitudes, knowledge, and behavior related to safety
belts among children in that age range in order to determine strategies
for increasing child safety belt use. There will be 27 in-home
immersion interviews with families having one or more children age 8-15
(an average of 3.5 interviews per family). In-home immersions are
interviews in which researchers visit respondents' homes and have an
opportunity to speak with multiple members of the household and to
observe how their interactions and environment may either motivate or
serve as barriers to eliciting desired behaviors. Each of the 27
immersion sessions will last approximately two hours. Information
derived from the immersion interviews will be used to develop
intervention or program concepts/ideas that will be tested with
children in 96 triad interviews. Each triad will be composed of three
children of the same sex, race/ethnicity, and approximate age. Each of
the 96 triads will last approximately 75 minutes.
Affected Public: Children age 8-15 and their parents or guardians,
from among the general public, who volunteer to participate in the
study.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: 549 hours.
Comments are invited on: Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the Department, including whether the information will have practical
utility; the accuracy of the Department's estimate of the burden of the
proposed information collection; ways to enhance the quality, utility
and clarity of the information to be collected; and ways to minimize
the burden of the collection of information on respondents, including
the use of automated collection techniques or other forms of
information technology. A Comment to OMB is most effective if OMB
receives it within 30 days of publication.
Issued on: May 4, 2005.
Marilena Amoni,
Associate Administrator, Program Development and Delivery.
[FR Doc. 05-9205 Filed 5-6-05; 8:45 am]
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