Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 44 / Wednesday, March 7, 2007 / Notices 10293 

1All temporary spares were required to be 

certified to FMVSS No. 109 until June 26, 2003 

when FMVSS No. 139 took effect. However, the 

agency moved temporary spares back to FMVSS No. 

109 after January 6, 2006 by granting a petition for 

reconsideration. 

Federal Highway Administration—

Tennessee Division Office, 640 

Grassmere Park Road, Suite 112, 

Nashville, TN 37211. 615–781–5772. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

FHWA in cooperation with the 

Tennessee Department of 

Transportation will prepare an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

on a proposal to upgrade the existing 

roadway from State Route-64 at Bolivar 

to State Route-100, a distance of 

approximately 10 miles. 

Alternatives to be considered include: 

(1) No-build; (2) a Transportation 

System Management (TSM) alternative; 

(3) one or more build alternatives that 

could include constructing a roadway 

on a new location, upgrading existing 

State Route-18, or a combination of 

both, and (4) other alternatives that may 

arise from public input. Public scoping 

meetings will be held for the project 

corridor. As part of the scoping process, 

federal, state, and local agencies and 

officials; private organizations; citizens; 

and interest groups will have an 

opportunity to identify issues of 

concern and provide input on the 

purpose and need for the project, range 

of alternatives, methodology, and the 

development of the Environmental 

Impact Statement. A Coordination Plan 

will be developed to include the public 

in the project development process. 

This plan will utilize the following 

outreach efforts to provide information 

and solicit input: newsletters, an 

Internet Web site, e-mail and direct 

mail, informational meetings and 

briefings, public hearings, and other 

efforts as necessary and appropriate. A 

public hearing will be held upon 

completion of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement and public notice will 

be given of the time and place of the 

hearing. The Draft EIS will be available 

for public and agency review and 

comment prior to the public hearings. 

To ensure that the full range of issues 

related to this proposed action are 

identified and taken into account, 

comments and suggestions are invited 

from all interested parties. Comments 

and questions concerning the proposed 

action should be directed to the FHWA 

contact person identified above at the 

address provided above. 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

Program Number 20.205, Highway Planning 

and Construction. The regulations 

implementing Executive Order 12372 

regarding intergovernmental consultation on 

Federal programs and activities apply to this 

proposed program) 

Issued on: March 1, 2007. 

Karen M. Brunelle, 

Planning and Program Management Team 

Leader, Nashville, TN. 

[FR Doc. E7–4027 Filed 3–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

Sunshine Act Meetings; Unified Carrier 

Registration Plan Board of Directors 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

TIME AND DATE: March 15, 2007, 1 p.m. 

to 4:20 p.m., Eastern Daylight Time. 

PLACE: This meeting will take place 

telephonically. Any interested person 

may call Mr. Avelino Gutierrez at (505) 

827–4565 to receive the toll free number 

and pass code needed to participate in 

this meeting by telephone. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The Unified 

Carrier Registration Plan Board of 

Directors (the Board) will continue its 

work in developing and implementing 

the Unified Carrier Registration Plan 

and Agreement. The Board may 

consider and adopt recommendations 

made to the Board by its Revenue and 

Fees Subcommittee to revise the fee 

scale that the Board originally 

recommended to the Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Administration and other 

matters that may properly come before 

the Board. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Avelino Gutierrez, Chair, Unified 

Carrier Registration Board of Directors at 

(505) 827–4565. 

Dated: March 5, 2007. 

John H. Hill, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 07–1086 Filed 3–5–07; 2:02 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA 2006–26421; Notice 2] 

Hankook Tire Co., Ltd.; Grant of 

Petition for Decision of 

Inconsequential Noncompliance 

Hankook Tire Co., Ltd. (Hankook) has 

determined that certain tires that it 

produced in 2005 and 2006 do not 

comply with S5.5.5 of 49 CFR 571.139, 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 

(FMVSS) No. 139, ‘‘New pneumatic 

radial tires for light vehicles.’’ Pursuant 

to 49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and 30120(h), 

Hankook has petitioned for a 

determination that this noncompliance 

is inconsequential to motor vehicle 

safety and has filed an appropriate 

report pursuant to 49 CFR Part 573, 

‘‘Defect and Noncompliance Reports.’’

Notice of receipt of a petition was 

published, with a 30-day comment 

period, on December 13, 2006, in the 

Federal Register (71 FR 74995). NHTSA 

received no comments. 

Affected are a total of approximately 

283,815 passenger car temporary spare 

tires produced between January 2005 

and September 2006. Although Hankook 

asserted that they had certified the 

subject tires to the requirements of 

FMVSS No. 139, only tires 

manufactured between June 26, 2003 

and January 6, 2006 were permitted, at 

the manufacturer’s option, to be 

certified to the requirements of FMVSS 

No. 139.1 See ‘‘Federal Motor Vehicle 

Safety Standards; Tires,’’ 68 FR 38116 

(June 26, 2003) and 71 FR 877 (January 

6, 2006). For tires manufactured after 

January 6, 2006, FMVSS No. 109, ‘‘New 

Pneumatic Tires’’ is the only safety 

standard to which temporary spares 

could be certified. Therefore, Hankook’s 

petition is being processed as applying 

to FMVSS No. 109 in addition to 

FMVSS No. 139. In either standard, the 

noncompliance issue is the same; 

however, different paragraphs are 

referenced for the two standards. S4.3.5 

of FMVSS No. 109 and S5.5.5 of FMVSS 

No. 139 require that the tires have a 

sidewall marking ‘‘inflate to 420 kPa (60 

psi)’’ of no less than 12.7 mm high. In 

the marking on the noncompliant tires, 

the letters ‘‘a’’ and ‘‘s’’ are 12.3 mm and 

11.9 mm high respectively. Hankook has 

corrected the problems that caused 

these errors so that they will not be 

repeated in future productions. 

Hankook believes that the 

noncompliance is inconsequential to 

motor vehicle safety and that no 

corrective action is warranted. Hankook 

states that the noncompliance ‘‘affects 

consumer information only and does 

not affect safety of the tires.’’ Hankook 

further states that the tires comply with 

all other FMVSS requirements. 

NHTSA agrees with Hankook that the 

noncompliance is inconsequential to 

motor vehicle safety. As Hankook states, 

even with the reduced size of the ‘‘a’’

and ‘‘s’’ on the sidewall marking the 

user or purchaser of the tire can still 


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