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List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 52 

Environmental protection, Air 

pollution control, Carbon monoxide, 

Intergovernmental relations, Nitrogen 

dioxide, Ozone, Reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements, Volatile 

organic compounds.

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.

Dated: October 15, 2003. 

Bharat Mathur, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 5. 

Dated: December 16, 2003. 

A. Stanley Meiburg, 

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 4.

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BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

SOCIAL SECURITY ADMINISTRATION

20 CFR Parts 404 and 416 

[Regulations No. 4 and 16] 

RIN 0960–AF21 

Reinstatement of Entitlement to 

Disability Benefits

AGENCY: Social Security Administration.

ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking; 

extension of comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Social Security 

Administration (SSA) is extending the 

comment period for the proposed rules 

regarding the Reinstatement of 

Entitlement (Expedited Reinstatement) 

provision in section 112 of the Ticket to 

Work and Work Incentives 

Improvement Act of 1999. This 

provision allows former Social Security 

disability and Supplemental Security 

Income (SSI) disability or blindness 

beneficiaries, whose entitlement or 

eligibility had been terminated due to 

their work activity, to have their 

entitlement or eligibility reinstated in a 

timely fashion if they become unable to 

do substantial gainful work due to their 

medical condition. These rules provide 

beneficiaries an additional incentive to 

return to work.

DATES: To be sure your comments are 

considered we must receive them no 

later than January 16, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You may give us your 

comments by using: our Internet site 

facility (i.e., Social Security Online) at 

http://policy.ssa.gov/pnpublic.nsf/

LawsRegs; or the Federal eRulemaking 

Portal: http://www.regulations.gov; or email to regulations@ssa.gov; telefax to 

(410) 966–2830; or letter to the 

Commissioner of Social Security, P.O. 

Box 17703, Baltimore, MD 21235–7703. 

You may also deliver them to the Office 

of Regulations, Social Security 

Administration, 100 Altmeyer Building, 

between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. on regular 

business days. Comments are posted for 

your review on our Internet site http:/

/policy.ssa.gov/pnpublic.nsf/LawsRegs,

or you may inspect them physically on 

regular business days by making 

arrangements with the contact person 

shown in this preamble. 

Electronic Version 

The electronic file of this document is 

available on the date of publication in 

the Federal Register at http://

www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html. It is 

also available on the Internet site for 

SSA (i.e., Social Security Online) at 

http://policy.ssa.gov/pnpublic.nsf/

LawsRegs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John 

Nelson, Team Leader, Employment 

Policy Team, Office of Employment 

Support Programs, Social Security 

Administration, 6401 Security 

Boulevard, Room 107 Altmeyer 

Building, Baltimore, MD 21235–6401, 

(410) 966–5114 or TTY (410) 966–5609. 

For information on eligibility or filing 

for benefits call our national toll-free 

numbers 1–800–772–1213 or TTY 1–

800–325–0778, or visit our Internet site, 

Social Security Online at http://

www.socialsecurity.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Social 

Security Administration published a 

notice of proposed rulemaking in the 

Federal Register on October 27, 2003 

(68 FR 61162), proposing rules 

regarding the expedited reinstatement 

provision in section 112 of the Ticket to 

Work and Work Incentives 

Improvement Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–

170). 

This document extends, to January 16, 

2004, the comment period for that 

notice of proposed rulemaking. If you 

have already provided comments on the 

proposed rules, your comments will be 

considered and you do not need to resubmit them.

Dated: December 29, 2003. 

Martin J. Sussman, 

SSA Regulations Officer.

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BILLING CODE 4191–02–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

49 CFR Part 571 

[Docket No. NHTSA–03–16797] 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety 

Standards (FMVSS); Small Business 

Impacts of Motor Vehicle Safety

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of regulatory review; 

Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (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: Comments must be received on 

or before March 5, 2004.

ADDRESSES: You should mention the 

docket number of this document in your 

comments and submit your comments 

in writing to: Docket Management 

System, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Room PL–401, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590. You may call Docket 

Management at: (202) 366–9324. You 

may visit the Docket from 10 a.m. to 5 

p.m. Monday through Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nita 

Kavalauskas, Office of Regulatory 

Analysis, Office of Planning, Evaluation 

and Budget, National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

(202) 366–2584. Facsimile (fax): (202) 

366–2559.

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 

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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. 

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 also contains 

DOT’s 10-year review plan for all of 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. Thus, Year 1 (1998) began in 

the fall of 1998 and ended in the fall of 

1999; Year 2 (1999) began in the fall of 

1999 and ended in the fall of 2000; 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:

NHTSA SECTION 610 REVIEW PLAN

Year Regulations to be reviewed Analysis 

year Review year 

1 ................................. 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 571.213 ......................................................................... 1998 1999 

2 ................................. 49 CFR 571.131, 571.217, 571.220, 571.221, and 571.222 ................................................. 1999 2000 

3 ................................. 49 CFR 571.101 through 571.110 and 571.135 .................................................................... 2000 2001 

4 ................................. 49 CFR parts 529 through 579, except part 571 ................................................................... 2001 2002 

5 ................................. 49 CFR 571.111 through 571.129 and parts 580 through 590 .............................................. 2002 2003 

6 ................................. 49 CFR 571.201 through 571.212 .......................................................................................... 2003 2004 

7 ................................. 49 CFR 571.214 through 571.219, except 571.217 ............................................................... 2004 2005 

8 ................................. 49 CFR parts 591 through 594 ............................................................................................... 2005 2006 

9 ................................. 49 CFR 571.223 through 571.304, part 500 and new parts and subparts under 49 CFR .... 2006 2007

10 ............................... 23 CFR parts 1200 and 1300 and new parts and subparts under 23 CFR .......................... 2007 2008 

C. Regulations Under Analysis 

During Year 6 (2003), the Analysis 

Year, we will conduct a preliminary 

assessment of the following sections of 

49 CFR part 571:

Section Title 

571.201 ..................................................................................................... Occupant protection in interior impact. 

571.202 ..................................................................................................... Head restraints. 

571.203 ..................................................................................................... Impact protection for the driver from the steering control system. 

571.204 ..................................................................................................... Steering control rearward displacement. 

571.205 ..................................................................................................... Glazing materials. 

571.206 ..................................................................................................... Door locks and door retention components. 

571.207 ..................................................................................................... Seating systems. 

571.208 ..................................................................................................... Occupant crash protection. 

571.209 ..................................................................................................... Seat belt assemblies. 

571.210 ..................................................................................................... Seat belt assembly anchorages. 

571.211 ..................................................................................................... [Reserved]. 

571.212 ..................................................................................................... Windshield mounting. 

We are seeking comments on whether 

any requirements in part 571 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 

of employees or annual receipts 

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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 part 571 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 part 571 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. 

Comments may also be submitted to 

the docket electronically by logging onto 

the Docket Management System Web 

site at http://dms.dot.gov. Click on 

‘‘Help & Information’’ or ‘‘Help/Info’’ to 

obtain instructions for filing your 

comments electronically. 

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, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., 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 Docket Management 

System (DMS) Web page of the 

Department of Transportation (http://

dms.dot.gov/). 

(2) On that page, click on ‘‘search.’’

(3) On the next page (http://

dms.dot.gov/search/), type in the fourdigit docket number shown at the 

beginning of this document. Example: If 

the docket number were ‘‘NHTSA–

1998–1234,’’ you would type ‘‘1234.’’

After typing the docket number, click on 

‘‘search.’’

(4) On the next page, which contains 

docket summary information for the 

docket you selected, click on the desired 

comments. You may download the 

comments. 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.

Noble N. Bowie, 

Associate Administrator for Planning, 

Evaluation and Budget.

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BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

50 CFR Part 622

[I.D. 121903A]

Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of 

Mexico, and South Atlantic; South 

Atlantic Fishery Management Council; 

Informational Public Hearings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and