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G. Executive Order 13045: Protection of
Children From Environmental Health
and Safety Risks
EPA interprets Executive Order 13045
as applying only to those regulatory
actions that are based on health or safety
risks, such that the analysis required
under section 5–501 of the Order has
the potential to influence the regulation.
This proposed action is not subject to
Executive Order 13045 because it makes
technical corrections and clarifications
to the area source NESHAP for EAF
steelmaking facilities which is based
solely on technology performance.
H. Executive Order 13211: Actions
Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use
The proposed action is not subject to
Executive Order 13211 (66 FR 28355,
May 22, 2001) because it is not a
significant regulatory action under
Executive Order 12866.
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I. National Technology Transfer
Advancement Act
Section 12(d) of the National
Technology Transfer Advancement Act
of 1995 (NTTAA), Public Law No. 104–
113, § 12(d) (15 U.S.C. 272 note) directs
EPA to use voluntary consensus
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activities unless to do so would be
inconsistent with applicable law or
otherwise impractical. VCS are
technical standards (e.g., materials
specifications, test methods, sampling
procedures, and business practices) that
are developed or adopted by VCS
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provide Congress, through the Office of
Management and Budget, explanations
when EPA decides not to use available
and applicable voluntary consensus
standards.
This proposed rule does not involve
technical standards. Therefore, EPA is
not considering the use of any VCS.
J. Executive Order 12898: Federal
Actions To Address Environmental
Justice in Minority Populations and
Low-Income Populations
Executive Order 12848 (58 FR 7629,
February 16, 1994) establishes Federal
executive policy on environmental
justice. Its main provision directs
Federal agencies, to the greatest extent
practicable and permitted by law, to
make environmental justice part of their
mission by identifying and addressing,
as appropriate, disproportionately high
and adverse human health or
environmental effects of their programs,
policies, and activities on minority
populations and low-income
populations in the United States.
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EPA has determined that this
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human health or environmental effects
on minority or low-income populations
because it does not affect the level of
protection provided to human health or
the environment. The technical
corrections and clarifications in this
proposed rule do not change the level of
control required by the NESHAP.
List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 63
Environmental protection, Air
pollution control, Hazardous
substances, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements.
Dated: November 24, 2008.
Stephen L. Johnson,
Administrator.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
49 CFR Parts 571, 575 and 579
[Docket No. NHTSA–2008–0173]
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards; Small Business Impacts of
Motor Vehicle Safety
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of regulatory review;
Request for comments.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: NHTSA seeks comments on
the economic impact of its regulations
on small entities. As required by Section
610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act, we
are attempting to identify rules that may
have a significant economic impact on
a substantial number of small entities.
We also request comments on ways to
make these regulations easier to read
and understand. The focus of this notice
is rules that specifically relate to
passenger cars, multipurpose passenger
vehicles, trucks, buses, trailers,
incomplete vehicles, motorcycles, and
motor vehicle equipment.
DATES: You should submit comments
early enough to ensure that Docket
Management receives them not later
than January 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
[identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA–07–29294] by any of the
following methods:
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to
https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the
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online instructions for submitting
comments.
• Mail: Docket Management Facility:
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building
Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
Washington, DC 20590–0001.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through
Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
Instructions: For detailed instructions
on submitting comments and additional
information see the Comments heading
of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION
section of this document. Note that all
comments received will be posted
without change to https://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act heading below.
Privacy Act: 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 (65 FR
19477–78) or you may visit https://
Docketsinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Juanita Kavalauskas, Office of
Regulatory Analysis, Office of
Regulatory Analysis and Evaluation,
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590
(telephone 202–366–2584, fax 202–366–
3189).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Section 610 of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act
A. Background and Purpose
Section 610 of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96–354),
as amended by the Small Business
Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of
1996 (Pub. L. 104–121), requires
agencies to conduct periodic reviews of
final rules that have a significant
economic impact on a substantial
number of small business entities. The
purpose of the reviews is to determine
whether such rules should be continued
without change, or should be amended
or rescinded, consistent with the
objectives of applicable statutes, to
minimize any significant economic
impact of the rules on a substantial
number of such small entities.
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B. Review Schedule
The Department of Transportation
(DOT) published its Semiannual
Regulatory Agenda on November 22,
1999, listing in Appendix D (64 FR
64684) those regulations that each
operating administration will review
under section 610 during the next 12
months. Appendix D contained DOT’s
10-year review plan for all of its existing
regulations. On November 24, 2008,
NHTSA is publishing in the Federal
Register a revised 10-year review plan
for its existing regulations.
The National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA, ‘‘we’’) has
divided its rules into 10 groups by
subject area. Each group will be
reviewed once every 10 years,
undergoing a two-stage process—an
Analysis Year and a Review Year. For
purposes of these reviews, a year will
coincide with the fall-to-fall publication
schedule of the Semiannual Regulatory
Agenda. The newly revised 10-year plan
will assess years 9 and 10 of the old
plan in years 1 and 2 of the new plan.
Year 1 (2008) began in the fall of 2008
and will end in the fall of 2009; Year 2
(2009) will begin in the fall of 2009 and
will end in the fall of 2010; and so on.
During the Analysis Year, we will
request public comment on and analyze
each of the rules in a given year’s group
to determine whether any rule has a
significant impact on a substantial
number of small entities and, thus,
requires review in accordance with
section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility
Act. In each fall’s Regulatory Agenda,
we will publish the results of the
analyses we completed during the
previous year. For rules that have
subparts, or other discrete sections of
rules that do have a significant impact
on a substantial number of small
entities, we will announce that we will
be conducting a formal section 610
review during the following 12 months.
The section 610 review will
determine whether a specific rule
should be revised or revoked to lessen
its impact on small entities. We will
consider: (1) The continued need for the
rule; (2) the nature of complaints or
comments received from the public; (3)
the complexity of the rule; (4) the extent
to which the rule overlaps, duplicates,
or conflicts with other federal rules or
with state or local government rules;
and (5) the length of time since the rule
has been evaluated or the degree to
which technology, economic conditions,
or other factors have changed in the area
affected by the rule. At the end of the
Review Year, we will publish the results
of our review. The following table
shows the 10-year analysis and review
schedule:
NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION SECTION 610 REVIEWS
Year
1 ...................................
2 ...................................
3 ...................................
4 ...................................
5 ...................................
6 ...................................
7 ...................................
8 ...................................
9 ...................................
10 .................................
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49
49
49
49
49
49
49
49
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
CFR
571.223 through 571.500, and parts 575 and 579 ......................................................
parts 1200 and 1300 ....................................................................................................
parts 501 through 526 and 571.213 ............................................................................
571.131, 571.217, 571.220, 571.221, and 571.222 ....................................................
571.101 through 571.110, and 571.135, 571.138 and 571.139 ..................................
parts 529 through 578, except parts 571 and 575 ......................................................
571.111 through 571.129 and parts 580 through 588 ................................................
571.201 through 571.212 .............................................................................................
571.214 through 571.219, except 571.217 ..................................................................
parts 591 through 595 and new parts and subparts ...................................................
C. Regulations Under Analysis
During Year 1, we will continue to
conduct a preliminary assessment of the
following sections of 49 CFR parts
571.223 through 571.500, and part 579,
Section
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We are seeking comments on whether
any requirements in 49 CFR parts
571.223 through 571.500, and parts 575
and 579 have a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small
entities. ‘‘Small entities’’ include small
businesses, not-for-profit organizations
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2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
Review
year
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
and will add part 575 to that
assessment.
Title
571.223 ......................................................................................
571.224 ......................................................................................
571.225 ......................................................................................
571.301 ......................................................................................
571.302 ......................................................................................
571.303 ......................................................................................
571.304 ......................................................................................
571.305 ......................................................................................
571.401 ......................................................................................
571.403 ......................................................................................
571.404 ......................................................................................
571.500 ......................................................................................
Part 575 .....................................................................................
Part 579 .....................................................................................
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year
Regulations to be reviewed
Rear impact guards.
Rear impact protection.
Child restraint anchorage systems.
Fuel system integrity.
Flammability of interior materials.
Fuel system integrity of compressed natural gas vehicles.
Compressed natural gas fuel container integrity.
Electric-powered vehicles: electrolyte spillage and electrical shock protection.
Interior trunk release.
Platform lift systems for motor vehicles.
Platform lift installations in motor vehicles.
Low-speed vehicles.
Consumer Information.
Reporting of information and communications about potential defects.
that are independently owned and
operated and are not dominant in their
fields, and governmental jurisdictions
with populations under 50,000.
Business entities are generally defined
as small businesses by Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) code, for
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the purposes of receiving Small
Business Administration (SBA)
assistance. Size standards established by
SBA in 13 CFR 121.201 are expressed
either in number of employees or
annual receipts in millions of dollars,
unless otherwise specified. The number
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of employees or annual receipts
indicates the maximum allowed for a
concern and its affiliates to be
considered small. If your business or
organization is a small entity and if any
of the requirements in 49 CFR parts
571.223 through 571.500 or parts 575 or
579 have a significant economic impact
on your business or organization, please
submit a comment to explain how and
to what degree these rules affect you,
the extent of the economic impact on
your business or organization, and why
you believe the economic impact is
significant.
If the agency determines that there is
a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities, it
will ask for comment in a subsequent
notice during the Review Year on how
these impacts could be reduced without
reducing safety.
II. Plain Language
A. Background and Purpose
Executive Order 12866 and the
President’s memorandum of June 1,
1998, require each agency to write all
rules in plain language. Application of
the principles of plain language
includes consideration of the following
questions:
• Have we organized the material to
suit the public’s needs?
• Are the requirements in the rule
clearly stated?
• Does the rule contain technical
language or jargon that is not clear?
• Would a different format (grouping
and order of sections, use of headings.
paragraphing) make the rule easier to
understand?
• Would more (but shorter) sections
be better?
• Could we improve clarity by adding
tables, lists, or diagrams?
• What else could we do to make the
rule easier to understand?
If you have any responses to these
questions, please include them in your
comments on this document.
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B. Review Schedule
In conjunction with our section 610
reviews, we will be performing plain
language reviews over a ten-year period
on a schedule consistent with the
section 610 review schedule. We will
review 49 CFR parts 571.223 through
571.500 and parts 575 and 579 to
determine if these regulations can be
reorganized and/or rewritten to make
them easier to read, understand, and
use. We encourage interested persons to
submit draft regulatory language that
clearly and simply communicates
regulatory requirements, and other
recommendations, such as for putting
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information in tables that may make the
regulations easier to use.
Comments
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 docket
number of this document in your
comments.
Your comments must not be more
than 15 pages long. (49 CFR 553.21.) We
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.
Please note that pursuant to the Data
Quality Act, in order for substantive
data to be relied upon and used by the
agency, it must meet the information
quality standards set forth in the OMB
and DOT Data Quality Act guidelines.
Accordingly, we encourage you to
consult the guidelines in preparing your
comments. OMB’s guidelines may be
accessed at https://www.whitehouse.gov/
ornb/fedreg/reproducible.html. DOT’ s
guidelines may be accessed at https://
dmses.dot.gov/
submitlDataQualityGuidelines.pdf.
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, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 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
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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?
We 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, we will
also consider comments that Docket
Management receives after that date.
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 Federal Docket
Management System (FDMS) at https://
regulations.gov.
(2) FDMS provides two basic methods
of searching to retrieve dockets and
docket materials that are available in the
system: (a) ‘‘Quick Search’’ to search
using a full-text search engine, or (b)
‘‘Advanced Search,’’ which displays
various indexed fields such as the
docket name, docket identification
number, phase of the action, initiating
office, date of issuance, document title,
document identification number, type of
document, Federal Register reference,
CFR citation, etc. Each data field in the
advanced search may be searched
independently or in combination with
other fields, as desired. Each search
yields a simultaneous display of all
available information found in FDMS
that is relevant to the requested subject
or topic.
(3) You may download the comments.
However, since 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, we will continue
to file relevant information in the
Docket as it becomes available. Further,
some people may submit late comments.
Accordingly, we recommend that you
periodically check the Docket for new
material.
Marilena Armoni,
Acting Associate Administrator for the
National Center for Statistics and Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
49 CFR Parts 571, 575 and 579
[Docket No. NHTSA-2008-0173]
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Small Business Impacts of
Motor Vehicle Safety
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of regulatory review; Request for comments.
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SUMMARY: NHTSA seeks comments on the economic impact of its regulations
on small entities. As required by Section 610 of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act, we are attempting to identify rules that may have a
significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities.
We also request comments on ways to make these regulations easier to
read and understand. The focus of this notice is rules that
specifically relate to passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles,
trucks, buses, trailers, incomplete vehicles, motorcycles, and motor
vehicle equipment.
DATES: You should submit comments early enough to ensure that Docket
Management receives them not later than January 30, 2009.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments [identified by DOT Docket ID Number
NHTSA-07-29294] by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov. Follow the online instructions for submitting
comments.
Mail: Docket Management Facility: U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building Ground
Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Hand Delivery or Courier: West Building Ground Floor, Room
W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
Fax: 202-493-2251.
Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments and
additional information see the Comments heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this document. Note that all comments received
will be posted without change to https://www.regulations.gov, including
any personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading
below.
Privacy Act: 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 (65 FR 19477-78) or you may visit https://Docketsinfo.dot.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Juanita Kavalauskas, Office of
Regulatory Analysis, Office of Regulatory Analysis and Evaluation,
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590
(telephone 202-366-2584, fax 202-366-3189).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act
A. Background and Purpose
Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-
354), as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness
Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-121), requires agencies to conduct periodic
reviews of final rules that have a significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small business entities. The purpose of the
reviews is to determine whether such rules should be continued without
change, or should be amended or rescinded, consistent with the
objectives of applicable statutes, to minimize any significant economic
impact of the rules on a substantial number of such small entities.
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B. Review Schedule
The Department of Transportation (DOT) published its Semiannual
Regulatory Agenda on November 22, 1999, listing in Appendix D (64 FR
64684) those regulations that each operating administration will review
under section 610 during the next 12 months. Appendix D contained DOT's
10-year review plan for all of its existing regulations. On November
24, 2008, NHTSA is publishing in the Federal Register a revised 10-year
review plan for its existing regulations.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, ``we'')
has divided its rules into 10 groups by subject area. Each group will
be reviewed once every 10 years, undergoing a two-stage process--an
Analysis Year and a Review Year. For purposes of these reviews, a year
will coincide with the fall-to-fall publication schedule of the
Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. The newly revised 10-year plan will
assess years 9 and 10 of the old plan in years 1 and 2 of the new plan.
Year 1 (2008) began in the fall of 2008 and will end in the fall of
2009; Year 2 (2009) will begin in the fall of 2009 and will end in the
fall of 2010; and so on.
During the Analysis Year, we will request public comment on and
analyze each of the rules in a given year's group to determine whether
any rule has a significant impact on a substantial number of small
entities and, thus, requires review in accordance with section 610 of
the Regulatory Flexibility Act. In each fall's Regulatory Agenda, we
will publish the results of the analyses we completed during the
previous year. For rules that have subparts, or other discrete sections
of rules that do have a significant impact on a substantial number of
small entities, we will announce that we will be conducting a formal
section 610 review during the following 12 months.
The section 610 review will determine whether a specific rule
should be revised or revoked to lessen its impact on small entities. We
will consider: (1) The continued need for the rule; (2) the nature of
complaints or comments received from the public; (3) the complexity of
the rule; (4) the extent to which the rule overlaps, duplicates, or
conflicts with other federal rules or with state or local government
rules; and (5) the length of time since the rule has been evaluated or
the degree to which technology, economic conditions, or other factors
have changed in the area affected by the rule. At the end of the Review
Year, we will publish the results of our review. The following table
shows the 10-year analysis and review schedule:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Section 610 Reviews
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Analysis Review
Year Regulations to be reviewed year year
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1.............................................. 49 CFR 571.223 through 571.500, and 2008 2009
parts 575 and 579.
2.............................................. 23 CFR parts 1200 and 1300............. 2009 2010
3.............................................. 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 2010 2011
571.213.
4.............................................. 49 CFR 571.131, 571.217, 571.220, 2011 2012
571.221, and 571.222.
5.............................................. 49 CFR 571.101 through 571.110, and 2012 2013
571.135, 571.138 and 571.139.
6.............................................. 49 CFR parts 529 through 578, except 2013 2014
parts 571 and 575.
7.............................................. 49 CFR 571.111 through 571.129 and 2014 2015
parts 580 through 588.
8.............................................. 49 CFR 571.201 through 571.212......... 2015 2016
9.............................................. 49 CFR 571.214 through 571.219, except 2016 2017
571.217.
10............................................. 49 CFR parts 591 through 595 and new 2017 2018
parts and subparts.
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C. Regulations Under Analysis
During Year 1, we will continue to conduct a preliminary assessment
of the following sections of 49 CFR parts 571.223 through 571.500, and
part 579, and will add part 575 to that assessment.
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Section Title
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571.223.................................. Rear impact guards.
571.224.................................. Rear impact protection.
571.225.................................. Child restraint anchorage systems.
571.301.................................. Fuel system integrity.
571.302.................................. Flammability of interior materials.
571.303.................................. Fuel system integrity of compressed natural gas vehicles.
571.304.................................. Compressed natural gas fuel container integrity.
571.305.................................. Electric-powered vehicles: electrolyte spillage and electrical shock protection.
571.401.................................. Interior trunk release.
571.403.................................. Platform lift systems for motor vehicles.
571.404.................................. Platform lift installations in motor vehicles.
571.500.................................. Low-speed vehicles.
Part 575................................. Consumer Information.
Part 579................................. Reporting of information and communications about potential defects.
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We are seeking comments on whether any requirements in 49 CFR parts
571.223 through 571.500, and parts 575 and 579 have a significant
economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. ``Small
entities'' include small businesses, not-for-profit organizations that
are independently owned and operated and are not dominant in their
fields, and governmental jurisdictions with populations under 50,000.
Business entities are generally defined as small businesses by Standard
Industrial Classification (SIC) code, for the purposes of receiving
Small Business Administration (SBA) assistance. Size standards
established by SBA in 13 CFR 121.201 are expressed either in number of
employees or annual receipts in millions of dollars, unless otherwise
specified. The number
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of employees or annual receipts indicates the maximum allowed for a
concern and its affiliates to be considered small. If your business or
organization is a small entity and if any of the requirements in 49 CFR
parts 571.223 through 571.500 or parts 575 or 579 have a significant
economic impact on your business or organization, please submit a
comment to explain how and to what degree these rules affect you, the
extent of the economic impact on your business or organization, and why
you believe the economic impact is significant.
If the agency determines that there is a significant economic
impact on a substantial number of small entities, it will ask for
comment in a subsequent notice during the Review Year on how these
impacts could be reduced without reducing safety.
II. Plain Language
A. Background and Purpose
Executive Order 12866 and the President's memorandum of June 1,
1998, require each agency to write all rules in plain language.
Application of the principles of plain language includes consideration
of the following questions:
Have we organized the material to suit the public's needs?
Are the requirements in the rule clearly stated?
Does the rule contain technical language or jargon that is
not clear?
Would a different format (grouping and order of sections,
use of headings. paragraphing) make the rule easier to understand?
Would more (but shorter) sections be better?
Could we improve clarity by adding tables, lists, or
diagrams?
What else could we do to make the rule easier to
understand?
If you have any responses to these questions, please include them
in your comments on this document.
B. Review Schedule
In conjunction with our section 610 reviews, we will be performing
plain language reviews over a ten-year period on a schedule consistent
with the section 610 review schedule. We will review 49 CFR parts
571.223 through 571.500 and parts 575 and 579 to determine if these
regulations can be reorganized and/or rewritten to make them easier to
read, understand, and use. We encourage interested persons to submit
draft regulatory language that clearly and simply communicates
regulatory requirements, and other recommendations, such as for putting
information in tables that may make the regulations easier to use.
Comments
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 docket
number of this document in your comments.
Your comments must not be more than 15 pages long. (49 CFR 553.21.)
We 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.
Please note that pursuant to the Data Quality Act, in order for
substantive data to be relied upon and used by the agency, it must meet
the information quality standards set forth in the OMB and DOT Data
Quality Act guidelines. Accordingly, we encourage you to consult the
guidelines in preparing your comments. OMB's guidelines may be accessed
at https://www.whitehouse.gov/ornb/fedreg/reproducible.html. DOT' s
guidelines may be accessed at https://dmses.dot.gov/submitlDataQualityGuidelines.pdf.
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, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 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?
We 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, we will also consider
comments that Docket Management receives after that date.
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 Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at https://regulations.gov.
(2) FDMS provides two basic methods of searching to retrieve
dockets and docket materials that are available in the system: (a)
``Quick Search'' to search using a full-text search engine, or (b)
``Advanced Search,'' which displays various indexed fields such as the
docket name, docket identification number, phase of the action,
initiating office, date of issuance, document title, document
identification number, type of document, Federal Register reference,
CFR citation, etc. Each data field in the advanced search may be
searched independently or in combination with other fields, as desired.
Each search yields a simultaneous display of all available information
found in FDMS that is relevant to the requested subject or topic.
(3) You may download the comments. However, since 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, we will
continue to file relevant information in the Docket as it becomes
available. Further, some people may submit late comments. Accordingly,
we recommend that you periodically check the Docket for new material.
Marilena Armoni,
Acting Associate Administrator for the National Center for Statistics
and Analysis.
[FR Doc. E8-28226 Filed 11-28-08; 8:45 am]
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