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Federal Communications Commission.
Lisa M. Fowlkes,
Deputy Chief, Public Safety and Homeland
Security Bureau.
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS
COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 73
[MB Docket No. 12–130, RM–11662; DA 12–
815]
Television Broadcasting Services;
Greenville, NC
Federal Communications
Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
AGENCY:
The Commission has before it
a petition for rulemaking filed by ION
Media Greenville License, Inc. (‘‘ION’’),
the licensee of station WEPX–TV,
channel 51, Greenville, North Carolina,
requesting the substitution of channel
26 for channel 51 at Greenville. After
the Commission instituted a freeze on
the acceptance of rulemaking petitions
by full power television stations
requesting channel substitutions in May
2011, it later announced that it would
lift the freeze to accept petitions for
rulemaking filed by full power
television stations seeking to relocate
from channel 51 pursuant to a voluntary
relocation agreement with Lower 700
MHz A Block licensees. ION has entered
into a voluntary relocation agreement
and further states that the proposed
channel 26 facility will increase the net
total population served by the station by
over 100,000 persons, which will serve
the public interest.
DATES: Comments must be filed on or
before July 9, 2012, and reply comments
on or before July 23, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Federal Communications
Commission, Office of the Secretary,
445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC
20554. In addition to filing comments
with the FCC, interested parties should
serve counsel for petitioner as follows:
John R. Feore, Jr., Esq., Dow Lohnes
PLLC, 1200 New Hampshire Avenue
NW., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036–
6802.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Joyce L. Bernstein, joyce.bernstein@fcc.
gov, Media Bureau, (202) 418–1647.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a
synopsis of the Commission’s Notice of
Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No.
12–130, adopted May 23, 2012, and
released May 25, 2012. The full text of
this document is available for public
inspection and copying during normal
business hours in the FCC’s Reference
Information Center at Portals II, CY–
A257, 445 12th Street SW., Washington,
DC, 20554. This document will also be
available via ECFS (https://www.fcc.gov/
cgb/ecfs/). (Documents will be available
electronically in ASCII, Word 97, and/
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www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this
document in accessible formats
(computer diskettes, large print, audio
recording, and Braille), send an email to
fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Commission’s
Consumer and Governmental Affairs
Bureau at (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202)
418–0432 (TTY). This document does
not contain proposed information
collection requirements subject to the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13. In addition,
therefore, it does not contain any
proposed information collection burden
‘‘for small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees,’’ pursuant to the
Small Business Paperwork Relief Act of
2002, Public Law 107–198, see 44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(4).
Provisions of the Regulatory
Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply to
this proceeding. Members of the public
should note that from the time a Notice
of Proposed Rule Making is issued until
the matter is no longer subject to
Commission consideration or court
review, all ex parte contacts (other than
ex parte presentations exempt under 47
CFR 1.1204(a)) are prohibited in
Commission proceedings, such as this
one, which involve channel allotments.
See 47 CFR 1.1208 for rules governing
restricted proceedings.
For information regarding proper
filing procedures for comments, see
§§ 1.415 and 1.420.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73
Television.
Federal Communications Commission.
David J. Brown,
Associate Chief, Video Division, Media
Bureau.
Proposed Rules
For the reasons discussed in the
preamble, the Federal Communications
Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR
part 73 as follows:
PART 73—RADIO BROADCAST
SERVICES
1. The authority citation for part 73
continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336,
and 339.
§ 73.622
[Amended]
2. Section 73.622(i), the PostTransition Table of DTV Allotments
under North Carolina is amended by
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removing channel 51 and adding
channel 26 at Greenville.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
49 CFR Part 595
[Docket No. NHTSA–2012–0078]
RIN 2127–AL19
Make Inoperative Exemptions; Retrofit
On-Off Switches for Air Bags
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking
(NPRM).
AGENCY:
There is a NHTSA regulation
that permits motor vehicle dealers and
repair businesses to install retrofit on-off
switches for air bags in vehicles owned
by or used by persons whose request for
a switch has been approved by the
agency. This regulation is only available
for motor vehicles manufactured before
September 1, 2012. In this document,
the agency proposes to extend the
availability of this regulation for three
additional years, so that it would apply
to motor vehicles manufactured before
September 1, 2015.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before July 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
to the docket number identified in the
heading of this document 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,
M–30, U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground
Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590.
• Hand Delivery or Courier: West
Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between
9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday
through Friday, except Federal holidays.
• Fax: 202–493–2251.
Regardless of how you submit your
comments, you should mention the
docket number of this document.
You may call the Docket at 202–366–
9324.
Instructions: For detailed instructions
on submitting comments and additional
information on the rulemaking process,
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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://
www.regulations.gov, including any
personal information provided. Please
see the Privacy Act discussion 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).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
For non-legal issues: Ms. Carla Rush,
Office of Crashworthiness Standards,
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration, 1200 New Jersey
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590
(telephone 202–366–4583, fax 202–493–
2739).
For legal issues: Mr. Edward Glancy,
Office of the Chief Counsel, National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE.,
Washington, DC 20590 (telephone 202–
366–2992, fax 202–366–3820).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Table of Contents
I. Background
II. Agency Analysis and Proposal
III. Shortened Comment Period
IV. Rulemaking Analyses and Notices
V. Public Participation
I. Background
To prevent or mitigate the risk of
injuries or fatalities in frontal crashes,
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
(FMVSS) No. 208, ‘‘Occupant crash
protection’’ (49 CFR 571.208), requires
that vehicles be equipped with seat belts
and frontal air bags.
In the 1990s, while air bags proved to
be highly effective in reducing fatalities
from frontal crashes, they were found to
cause a small number of fatalities,
especially to unrestrained, out-ofposition children, in relatively low
speed crashes. It was shown that the
majority of these fatalities occurred
because the occupants were very close
to or made contact with the air bag
when it started to deploy.1 The other
cause of the air bag fatalities at the time
was the aggressive design of some air
bags.
To address this problem, NHTSA
developed a plan that included an array
1 See preamble to agency final rule on advanced
air bags, 65 FR 30680, 30682–83, May 12, 2000.
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of immediate, interim and long-term
measures. The immediate and interim
measures focused on behavioral changes
and relatively modest technological
changes (e.g., consumer education on air
bags and the importance of seat belts
and putting children in the rear;
amending FMVSS No. 208 to allow for
a limited time a sled test option for
expediting the depowering of air bags,
etc.). The long-term measures focused
on more significant technological
changes, i.e., advanced air bag
technologies.
As one of the interim measures, on
November 21, 1997, NHTSA published
in the Federal Register (62 FR 62406) a
final rule permitting motor vehicle
dealers and repair businesses to install
retrofit on-off switches for frontal air
bags in vehicles owned by or used by
persons whose request for a switch had
been approved by the agency (subpart B
of 49 CFR part 595). This rule provided
a limited exemption from a statutory
provision that generally prohibits motor
vehicle dealers and repair businesses
from making inoperative any part of a
device or element of design installed on
or in a motor vehicle or motor vehicle
equipment in compliance with an
applicable FMVSS.2
Under the procedures set forth in the
1997 rule, vehicle owners can request a
retrofit air bag on-off switch by
completing an agency request form
(Appendix B of Part 595) and submitting
the form to the agency. Owners must
certify that they have read the
information brochure, in Appendix A of
Part 595, discussing air bag safety and
risks. The brochure describes the steps
that the vast majority of people can take
to minimize the risk of serious injuries
from air bags while preserving the
benefits of air bags, without going to the
expense of buying an on-off switch. The
agency developed the brochure to
enable owners to determine whether
they are, or a user of their vehicle is, in
one of the groups of people at risk of a
serious air bag injury and to make a
careful, informed decision about
requesting an on-off switch.3 Owners
2 The ‘‘make inoperative’’ provision is at 49
U.S.C. 30122.
3 At NHTSA’s request, an expert panel of
physicians convened to formulate
recommendations on specific medical indications
for air bag deactivation. The panel concluded that
air bags are effective lifesavers and that a medical
condition does not warrant turning off an air bag
unless the condition makes it impossible for a
person to maintain an adequate distance from the
air bag. Specifically, the panel recommended
disconnecting an air bag if a safe sitting distance or
position cannot be maintained by a: driver or front
passenger because of scoliosis, osteoporosis/
arthritis; driver because of achondroplasia; or
passenger because of Down syndrome and
atlantoaxial instability. The panel also warranted
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FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
47 CFR Part 73
[MB Docket No. 12-130, RM-11662; DA 12-815]
Television Broadcasting Services; Greenville, NC
AGENCY: Federal Communications Commission.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Commission has before it a petition for rulemaking filed
by ION Media Greenville License, Inc. (``ION''), the licensee of
station WEPX-TV, channel 51, Greenville, North Carolina, requesting the
substitution of channel 26 for channel 51 at Greenville. After the
Commission instituted a freeze on the acceptance of rulemaking
petitions by full power television stations requesting channel
substitutions in May 2011, it later announced that it would lift the
freeze to accept petitions for rulemaking filed by full power
television stations seeking to relocate from channel 51 pursuant to a
voluntary relocation agreement with Lower 700 MHz A Block licensees.
ION has entered into a voluntary relocation agreement and further
states that the proposed channel 26 facility will increase the net
total population served by the station by over 100,000 persons, which
will serve the public interest.
DATES: Comments must be filed on or before July 9, 2012, and reply
comments on or before July 23, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Federal Communications Commission, Office of the Secretary,
445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC 20554. In addition to filing
comments with the FCC, interested parties should serve counsel for
petitioner as follows: John R. Feore, Jr., Esq., Dow Lohnes PLLC, 1200
New Hampshire Avenue NW., Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036-6802.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joyce L. Bernstein,
joyce.bernstein@fcc.gov, Media Bureau, (202) 418-1647.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a synopsis of the Commission's
Notice of Proposed Rule Making, MB Docket No. 12-130, adopted May 23,
2012, and released May 25, 2012. The full text of this document is
available for public inspection and copying during normal business
hours in the FCC's Reference Information Center at Portals II, CY-A257,
445 12th Street SW., Washington, DC, 20554. This document will also be
available via ECFS (https://www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs/). (Documents will be
available electronically in ASCII, Word 97, and/or Adobe Acrobat.) This
document may be purchased from the Commission's duplicating contractor,
Best Copy and Printing, Inc., 445 12th Street SW., Room CY-B402,
Washington, DC 20554, telephone 1-800-478-3160 or via email
www.BCPIWEB.com. To request this document in accessible formats
(computer diskettes, large print, audio recording, and Braille), send
an email to fcc504@fcc.gov or call the Commission's Consumer and
Governmental Affairs Bureau at (202) 418-0530 (voice), (202) 418-0432
(TTY). This document does not contain proposed information collection
requirements subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law
104-13. In addition, therefore, it does not contain any proposed
information collection burden ``for small business concerns with fewer
than 25 employees,'' pursuant to the Small Business Paperwork Relief
Act of 2002, Public Law 107-198, see 44 U.S.C. 3506(c)(4).
Provisions of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply
to this proceeding. Members of the public should note that from the
time a Notice of Proposed Rule Making is issued until the matter is no
longer subject to Commission consideration or court review, all ex
parte contacts (other than ex parte presentations exempt under 47 CFR
1.1204(a)) are prohibited in Commission proceedings, such as this one,
which involve channel allotments. See 47 CFR 1.1208 for rules governing
restricted proceedings.
For information regarding proper filing procedures for comments,
see Sec. Sec. 1.415 and 1.420.
List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73
Television.
Federal Communications Commission.
David J. Brown,
Associate Chief, Video Division, Media Bureau.
Proposed Rules
For the reasons discussed in the preamble, the Federal
Communications Commission proposes to amend 47 CFR part 73 as follows:
PART 73--RADIO BROADCAST SERVICES
1. The authority citation for part 73 continues to read as follows:
Authority: 47 U.S.C. 154, 303, 334, 336, and 339.
Sec. 73.622 [Amended]
2. Section 73.622(i), the Post-Transition Table of DTV Allotments
under North Carolina is amended by
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