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as effective in reducing and deterring
motor vehicle theft as compliance with
the parts-marking requirements of the
theft prevention standard. This
conclusion is based on the information
BMW provided about its antitheft
device. NHTSA believes, based on
BMW’s supporting evidence, that the
antitheft device described for its vehicle
line is likely to be as effective in
reducing and deterring motor vehicle
theft as compliance with the partsmarking requirements of the theft
prevention standard.
The agency concludes that BMW’s
antitheft device will provide the four of
the five types of performance features
listed in section 543.6(a)(3): Promoting
activation; preventing defeat or
circumvention of the device by
unauthorized persons; preventing
operation of the vehicle by
unauthorized entrants; and ensuring the
reliability and durability of the device.
The agency notes that 49 CFR part
541, Appendix A–1, identifies those
lines that are exempted from the theft
prevention standard for a given model
year. 49 CFR 543.8(f) contains
publication requirements incident to the
disposition of all part 543 petitions.
Advanced listing, including the release
of future product nameplates, the
beginning model year for which the
petition is granted and a general
description of the antitheft device is
necessary in order to notify law
enforcement agencies of new vehicle
lines exempted from the parts-marking
requirements of the theft prevention
standard.
If BMW decides not to use the
exemption for its requested vehicle line,
the manufacturer must formally notify
the agency. If such a decision is made,
the line must be fully marked as
required by 49 CFR 541.5 and 541.6
(marking of major component parts and
replacement parts).
NHTSA notes that if BMW wishes in
the future to modify the device on
which this exemption is based, the
company may have to submit a petition
to modify the exemption. Section
543.8(d) states that a part 543 exemption
applies only to vehicles that belong to
a line exempted under this part and
equipped with the antitheft device on
which the line’s exemption is based.
Further, section 543.10(c)(2) provides
for the submission of petitions ‘‘to
modify an exemption to permit the use
of an antitheft device similar to but
differing from the one specified in the
exemption.’’
The agency wishes to minimize the
administrative burden that section
543.10(c)(2) could place on exempted
vehicle manufacturers and itself. The
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agency did not intend in drafting part
543 to require the submission of a
modification petition for every change
to the components or design of an
antitheft device. The significance of
many such changes could be de
minimis. Therefore, NHTSA suggests
that if BMW contemplates making any
changes, the effects of which might be
characterized as de minimis, it should
consult the agency before preparing and
submitting a petition to modify.
For the foregoing reasons, the agency
hereby grants in full BMW’s petition for
exemption for the Toyota Supra vehicle
line from the parts-marking
requirements of 49 CFR part 541,
beginning with its MY 2022 vehicles.
Issued under authority delegated in 49 CFR
1.95 and 501.8.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[Docket Number NHTSA–2011–0084]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Compliance Labeling of
Retroreflective Materials for Heavy
Trailer Conspicuity
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comment
on the reinstatement of a previously
approved collection of information.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted
below, regarding the reinstatement of a
previously approved collection of
information on Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, will
be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The ICR describes
the labeling requirement for
retroreflective sheeting material and its
expected burden. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following
information collection was published on
July 7, 2020. No comments were
received regarding this information
collection.
SUMMARY:
Comments must be submitted on
or before August 20, 2021.
DATES:
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Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
should be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
To find this particular information
collection, select ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comment’’ or
use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Andrei
Denes, U.S. Department of
Transportation, NHTSA, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590. Mr. Denes’s telephone number is
(202) 366–1810, and fax number is (202)
366–7002. Please identify the relevant
collection of information by referring to
its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request will be
submitted OMB.
A Federal Register notice with a 60day comment period soliciting public
comments on the following information
collection was published on July 7, 2020
(85 FR 40735).
Title: 49 CFR 571.108, Standard No.
108; Lamps, reflective devices, and
associated equipment; Compliance
Labeling of Retroreflective Materials for
Heavy Trailer Conspicuity
OMB Control Number: 2127–0569.
Type of Request: Reinstatement of a
previously approved collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three
years.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: The National Traffic and
Motor Vehicle Act, authorizes the
Secretary of Transportation (NHTSA by
delegation), at 49 U.S.C. 30111, to issue
Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
(FMVSS) that set performance standards
for motor vehicles and items of motor
vehicle equipment. Further, the
Secretary (NHTSA by delegation) is
authorized, at 49 U.S.C. 30117, to
require manufacturers to provide
information to first purchasers of motor
vehicles or items of motor vehicle
equipment related to performance and
safety in printed materials that are
ADDRESSES:
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attached to or accompany the motor
vehicle or item of motor vehicle
equipment. Under this authority, the
agency issued FMVSS No. 108,
specifying labeling requirements to aid
the agency in achieving many of its
safety goals.
FMVSS No. 108, ‘‘Lamp, reflective
devices and associated equipment,’’
requires that the inscription ‘‘DOT–C2’’,
‘‘DOT–C3’’, or ‘‘DOT–C4’’, as
appropriate, constituting a certification
that the retroreflective sheeting
conforms to the requirements of the
standard, appear at least once on the
exposed surface of each white or red
segment of retroreflective sheeting, and
at least once every 300 mm on
retroreflective sheeting that is white
only. The characters must be not less
than 3 mm high, and must be
permanently stamped, etched, molded,
or printed in indelible ink.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: Crashes can be reduced if
retroreflective material having certain
essential properties is used to mark
trailers. The permanent labeling is used
to identify retroreflective material
having the minimum properties
required for effective conspicuity of
trailers at night.
Affected Public: Manufacturers of
conspicuity grade retroreflective
materials.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
The respondents are likely to be
manufacturers of the conspicuity
material. The agency estimates that
currently there are three manufacturers
producing conspicuity material.
Frequency: On Occasion.
Number of Responses: 190,000,000.
It is estimated that there are 2.34
million trailers and 0.54 million truck
tractors that require new conspicuity
tape annually. On average, a trailer
requires approximately 60 ft. of
reflective tape and a truck tractor
requires about 4 ft. The labels are to be
placed at intervals varying between 150
mm and 300 mm on rolls of
retroreflective conspicuity tape.
Considering the length of tape required
per trailer and truck tractor, and that the
labeling is applied on average every 9
in. (225 mm), a total number of 80 labels
per trailer and 6 labels per truck tractor
are required. Therefore, it is estimated
that 190 million labels will be required
annually (2.34 million trailers × 80
labels + 0.54 million truck tractors × 6
labels).
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 3 hours.
The compliance symbol labeling
program imposes only a minor hour
burden per respondent, or three total
hours, for the collection or reporting
based on a maximum time required to
ensure that the correct inscription is
being applied to the sheeting by the
printing presses. The application of
symbols is performed by automated
equipment incorporated in the
production process of the retroreflective
sheeting.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
$4,000.
The cost to respondents is estimated
based on information that was supplied
by the respondents regarding the cost of
supplying or modifying printing rollers
to apply the label. The cost to
manufacturers of applying the label
requirement is the maintenance and
amortization of printing rollers and the
additional dye or ink consumed. The
labels are printed during the normal
course of steady flow manufacturing
operations and do not add additional
time to the production process.
Two methods of printing the label are
in use. One method uses the same roller
that applies the dye to the red segments
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of the material pattern. The roller is
resurfaced annually using a
computerized etching technique. The
label was incorporated in the software
to drive the roller resurfacing in 1993,
and there is no additional cost to
continue the printing of the label. In
fact, costs would be incurred to
discontinue the label.
The second method uses a separate
roller and dye to apply the label. The
manufacturer using this technique
reported that the rollers have been in
service for five years without detectable
wear and predicted a service life of at
least fifteen years. Four rollers costing
about $2,500 each are used for a total of
$10,000. If all three manufacturers chose
to use this method, a total of 12 rollers
would be used for a total cost of
$30,000. A straight-line depreciation of
the rollers over 15 years ($30,000
divided by 15 years) equals $2,000 per
year. The total cost of the dye required
is derived from the number of labels
required to be printed yearly and the
dye required for each label. The total
number of labels printed annually is
about 190 million. Therefore, at a cost
of approximately $40 per gallon of dye
and using about 0.001 milliliters of dye
per label, the total cost of dye to print
all the labels is estimated to be $2,000
(190 million labels × $40/gal × 0.001 ml
× 0.000264172 ml/gal). With the yearly
cost to replace the rollers of $2,000 and
an annual allowance of $2,000 for dye,
the annual total industry cost of
maintaining the label is about $4,000.
Estimated annual cost burden:
Additional cost of maintaining printing
rollers with added label—$0
Annual cost of separate printing rollers
for label (where used)—$2,000
Annual cost of additional dye or ink—
$2,000
Total annual respondent cost—$4,000
Number of rollers
Cost of each
roller
Total cost
rollers
Depreciation
over 15 years
Total annual
labels
(million)
Annual
additional dye
allowance
Est. total
annual cost to
maintain
label
12 .............................................................
$2,500
$30,000
$2,000
190
$2,000
$4,000
Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects of this
information collection, including (a)
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;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed
information collection, including the
validity of the methodology and
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assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (d)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. chapter 35, as
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amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket Number NHTSA-2011-0084]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Compliance
Labeling of Retroreflective Materials for Heavy Trailer Conspicuity
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comment on the reinstatement of a
previously approved collection of information.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this
notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below, regarding the reinstatement of a previously approved
collection of information on Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard
(FMVSS) No. 108, will be submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR describes the labeling
requirement for retroreflective sheeting material and its expected
burden. A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following information collection was
published on July 7, 2020. No comments were received regarding this
information collection.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before August 20, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including suggestions for reducing the burden,
should be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. To find this particular information
collection, select ``Currently under Review--Open for Public Comment''
or use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or access
to background documents, contact Andrei Denes, U.S. Department of
Transportation, NHTSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Mr. Denes's telephone number is (202) 366-1810, and fax number is (202)
366-7002. Please identify the relevant collection of information by
referring to its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a
Federal agency must receive approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) before it collects certain information from the public and
a person is not required to respond to a collection of information by a
Federal agency unless the collection displays a valid OMB control
number. In compliance with these requirements, this notice announces
that the following information collection request will be submitted
OMB.
A Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting
public comments on the following information collection was published
on July 7, 2020 (85 FR 40735).
Title: 49 CFR 571.108, Standard No. 108; Lamps, reflective devices,
and associated equipment; Compliance Labeling of Retroreflective
Materials for Heavy Trailer Conspicuity
OMB Control Number: 2127-0569.
Type of Request: Reinstatement of a previously approved collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Length of Approval Requested: Three years.
Summary of the Collection of Information: The National Traffic and
Motor Vehicle Act, authorizes the Secretary of Transportation (NHTSA by
delegation), at 49 U.S.C. 30111, to issue Federal Motor Vehicle Safety
Standards (FMVSS) that set performance standards for motor vehicles and
items of motor vehicle equipment. Further, the Secretary (NHTSA by
delegation) is authorized, at 49 U.S.C. 30117, to require manufacturers
to provide information to first purchasers of motor vehicles or items
of motor vehicle equipment related to performance and safety in printed
materials that are
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attached to or accompany the motor vehicle or item of motor vehicle
equipment. Under this authority, the agency issued FMVSS No. 108,
specifying labeling requirements to aid the agency in achieving many of
its safety goals.
FMVSS No. 108, ``Lamp, reflective devices and associated
equipment,'' requires that the inscription ``DOT-C2'', ``DOT-C3'', or
``DOT-C4'', as appropriate, constituting a certification that the
retroreflective sheeting conforms to the requirements of the standard,
appear at least once on the exposed surface of each white or red
segment of retroreflective sheeting, and at least once every 300 mm on
retroreflective sheeting that is white only. The characters must be not
less than 3 mm high, and must be permanently stamped, etched, molded,
or printed in indelible ink.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: Crashes can be reduced if retroreflective material having
certain essential properties is used to mark trailers. The permanent
labeling is used to identify retroreflective material having the
minimum properties required for effective conspicuity of trailers at
night.
Affected Public: Manufacturers of conspicuity grade retroreflective
materials.
Estimated Number of Respondents: 3.
The respondents are likely to be manufacturers of the conspicuity
material. The agency estimates that currently there are three
manufacturers producing conspicuity material.
Frequency: On Occasion.
Number of Responses: 190,000,000.
It is estimated that there are 2.34 million trailers and 0.54
million truck tractors that require new conspicuity tape annually. On
average, a trailer requires approximately 60 ft. of reflective tape and
a truck tractor requires about 4 ft. The labels are to be placed at
intervals varying between 150 mm and 300 mm on rolls of retroreflective
conspicuity tape. Considering the length of tape required per trailer
and truck tractor, and that the labeling is applied on average every 9
in. (225 mm), a total number of 80 labels per trailer and 6 labels per
truck tractor are required. Therefore, it is estimated that 190 million
labels will be required annually (2.34 million trailers x 80 labels +
0.54 million truck tractors x 6 labels).
Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 3 hours.
The compliance symbol labeling program imposes only a minor hour
burden per respondent, or three total hours, for the collection or
reporting based on a maximum time required to ensure that the correct
inscription is being applied to the sheeting by the printing presses.
The application of symbols is performed by automated equipment
incorporated in the production process of the retroreflective sheeting.
Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: $4,000.
The cost to respondents is estimated based on information that was
supplied by the respondents regarding the cost of supplying or
modifying printing rollers to apply the label. The cost to
manufacturers of applying the label requirement is the maintenance and
amortization of printing rollers and the additional dye or ink
consumed. The labels are printed during the normal course of steady
flow manufacturing operations and do not add additional time to the
production process.
Two methods of printing the label are in use. One method uses the
same roller that applies the dye to the red segments of the material
pattern. The roller is resurfaced annually using a computerized etching
technique. The label was incorporated in the software to drive the
roller resurfacing in 1993, and there is no additional cost to continue
the printing of the label. In fact, costs would be incurred to
discontinue the label.
The second method uses a separate roller and dye to apply the
label. The manufacturer using this technique reported that the rollers
have been in service for five years without detectable wear and
predicted a service life of at least fifteen years. Four rollers
costing about $2,500 each are used for a total of $10,000. If all three
manufacturers chose to use this method, a total of 12 rollers would be
used for a total cost of $30,000. A straight-line depreciation of the
rollers over 15 years ($30,000 divided by 15 years) equals $2,000 per
year. The total cost of the dye required is derived from the number of
labels required to be printed yearly and the dye required for each
label. The total number of labels printed annually is about 190
million. Therefore, at a cost of approximately $40 per gallon of dye
and using about 0.001 milliliters of dye per label, the total cost of
dye to print all the labels is estimated to be $2,000 (190 million
labels x $40/gal x 0.001 ml x 0.000264172 ml/gal). With the yearly cost
to replace the rollers of $2,000 and an annual allowance of $2,000 for
dye, the annual total industry cost of maintaining the label is about
$4,000.
Estimated annual cost burden:
Additional cost of maintaining printing rollers with added label--$0
Annual cost of separate printing rollers for label (where used)--$2,000
Annual cost of additional dye or ink--$2,000
Total annual respondent cost--$4,000
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Total annual Annual Est. total
Number of rollers Cost of each Total cost Depreciation labels additional dye annual cost to
roller rollers over 15 years (million) allowance maintain label
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12................................................ $2,500 $30,000 $2,000 190 $2,000 $4,000
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Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspects of
this information collection, including (a) 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; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of
the burden of the proposed information collection, including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility and clarity of the information to be collected;
and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on
respondents, including the use of appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or other forms
of information technology.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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