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in 2020, MARAD established a Federal 

docket at https://www.regulations.gov/ 

docket/MARAD-2020-0133 to provide 

public notice about the NSS 

Undertaking. The federal docket was 

also used in 2021 to solicit public 

comments on the future uses of the NSS. 

MARAD is continuing to use this same 

docket to take in public comment, share 

information, and post agency actions. 

The PA for the Decommissioning and 

Disposition of the NSS is available on 

the MARAD docket located at 

www.regulations.gov under docket id 

‘‘MARAD–2020–0133.’’ The PA 

stipulates a deliberative process by 

which MARAD will consider the 

disposition of the NSS. This process 

requires MARAD to make an 

affirmative, good-faith effort to preserve 

the NSS. 

II. Agenda 

The agenda will include (1) welcome 

and introductions; (2) tour of the ship: 

and (3) questions. The agenda will also 

be posted on MARAD’s website at 

https://www.maritime.dot.gov/outreach/ 

history/maritime-administrationhistory-program and on the MARAD 

docket located at www.regulations.gov 

under docket id ‘‘MARAD–2020–0133.’’ 

III. Public Participation 

The site visit will be open to the 

public. Members of the public who wish 

to attend in person or online must RSVP 

to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section with your 

name and affiliation. 

Special services. The NSS is not 

compliant with the Americans with 

Disabilities Act (ADA). The ship has 

some capability to accommodate 

persons with impaired mobility. If you 

require accommodations to attend the 

site visit, please contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. The U.S. Department 

of Transportation is committed to 

providing all participants equal access 

to this meeting. If you need alternative 

formats or services such as sign 

language, interpretation, or other 

ancillary aids, please contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. 

(Authority: 49 CFR 1.81 and 1.93; 36 CFR 

part 800; 5 U.S.C. 552b.) 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2019–0078; Notice 2] 

Jayco, Inc., Grant of Petition for 

Decision of Inconsequential 

Noncompliance 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Grant of petition. 

SUMMARY: Jayco, Inc., (Jayco) has 

determined that certain model year 

(MY) 2020 travel trailers, manufactured 

by Jayco, do not fully comply with 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard 

(FMVSS) No. 110, Tire Selection and 

Rims and Motor Home/Recreation 

Vehicle Trailer Load Carrying Capacity 

Information for Motor Vehicles with a 

GVWR of 4,536 Kilograms (10,000 

Pounds) or Less. Jayco filed a 

noncompliance report dated July 16, 

2019. In coordination with Jayco, 

Starcraft RV (Starcraft) and Highland 

Ridge RV (Highland), subsidiaries of 

Jayco, also filed noncompliance reports 

dated July 17, 2019. Jayco subsequently 

petitioned NHTSA on July 31, 2019, and 

later amended that petition on 

September 26, 2019, and November 6, 

2019, for a decision that the subject 

noncompliances are inconsequential as 

it relates to motor vehicle safety. This 

document announces the grant of 

Jayco’s petition. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ahmad Barnes, Office of Vehicle Safety 

Compliance, the National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

telephone (202) 366–7236. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Overview 

Jayco has determined that certain MY 

2020 travel trailers, manufactured by 

Jayco, do not fully comply with 

paragraph S4.3.5 of FMVSS No. 110, 

Tire Selection and Rims and Motor 

Home/Recreation Vehicle Trailer Load 

Carrying Capacity Information for Motor 

Vehicles with a GVWR of 4,536 

Kilograms (10,000 Pounds) or Less (49 

CFR 571.110). Jayco filed a 

noncompliance report dated July 16, 

2019, and in addition, Starcraft and 

Highland, subsidiaries of Jayco, also 

filed noncompliance reports dated July 

17, 2019, pursuant to 49 CFR part 573, 

Defect and Noncompliance 

Responsibility and Reports. Jayco 

subsequently petitioned NHTSA on July 

31, 2019, and later amended that 

petition on September 26, 2019, and 

November 6, 2019, for an exemption 

from the notification and remedy 

requirements of 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301 

on the basis that these noncompliances 

are inconsequential as they relate to 

motor vehicle safety, pursuant to 49 

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

CFR part 556, Exemption for 

Inconsequential Defect or 

Noncompliance. As far as the 

subsequent petitions are concerned, the 

September 26, 2019, amended petition 

removed affected Canadian units. The 

November 6, 2019, amended petition 

modified an attachment provided with 

the petition. 

Notice of receipt of Jayco’s petition 

was published with a 30-day public 

comment period, on January 6, 2020, in 

the Federal Register (85 FR 554). No 

comments were received. To view the 

petition and all supporting documents 

log onto the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) website at 

https://www.regulations.gov/. Then 

follow the online search instructions to 

locate docket number ‘‘NHTSA–2019– 

0078.’’ 

II. Trailers Involved 

Approximately 6,354 MY 2020 Jayco, 

approximately 1,006 Starcraft, and 

approximately 814 Highland travel 

trailers, manufactured between May 1, 

2019, and June 27, 2019, were reported 

by the manufacturer. 

In its petition, Jayco states that the 

total number of vehicles affected is 

8,983. However, that number also 

includes travel trailers sold in Canada. 

NHTSA can only grant exemption for 

vehicles sold in the United States, 

totaling approximately 8,174 vehicles. 

III. Noncompliance 

Jayco explains that the 

noncompliances are that the subject 

travel trailers are equipped with vehicle 

placards that state the incorrect vehicle 

capacity weight and contain an extra 

character in the recommended tire 

inflation pressure, therefore, do not 

meet the requirements set forth in 

paragraph S4.3.5 of FMVSS No. 110. 

Specifically, the vehicle placards state 

that the vehicle weight capacity as 80 kg 

when it should be 807 kg. Also, the 

recommended tire inflation pressure for 

the rear tire states ‘‘552 IKPA,’’ and the 

spare tire states ‘‘552 7KPA’’ when they 

should read 552 KPA. 

IV. Rule Requirements 

Paragraph S4.3.5 of FMVSS No. 110 

includes the requirements relevant to 

this petition. Each trailer, except for an 

incomplete vehicle, must show the 

information specified in paragraphs 

S4.3(c) through (g) and may show the 

information specified in paragraphs 


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1See General Motors, LLC, Grant of Petition for 

Decision of Inconsequential Noncompliance, 84 FR 

25117 (May 30, 2019). 

S4.3(h) and (i), on a placard 

permanently affixed proximate to the 

certification label. Each trailer, on the 

vehicle placard, contains a cargo 

capacity statement expressed as ‘‘The 

weight of cargo should never exceed 

XXX kilograms or XXX pounds.’’ A 

vehicle manufacturer’s recommended 

cold tire inflation pressure for front, 

rear, and spare tires is subject to the 

limitations of paragraph S4.3.4. 

V. Summary of Jayco’s Petition 

The following views and arguments 

presented in this section, ‘‘V. Summary 

of Jayco’s Petition,’’ are the views and 

arguments provided by Jayco. 

Jayco describes the subject 

noncompliances and contends that the 

noncompliances are inconsequential as 

they relate to motor vehicle safety. Jayco 

argues that although the vehicle weight 

capacity stated on the vehicle placard is 

incorrect, the correct value is displayed 

on the cargo carrying capacity (CCC) 

label. 

Jayco believes that the extra character 

shown in the cold tire inflation pressure 

is inconsequential because the correct 

information is also provided on the 

sidewall of the tire. 

Jayco argues that the top section of the 

certification label provides the same 

information as the tire and loading 

information label and states the correct 

tire size dimensions and the cold 

pressure inflation values. Additionally, 

Jayco says that the bottom section of the 

certification label displays the CCC of 

the trailer, which includes the weight 

values with the fresh water and the 

waste water tanks filled. 

Furthermore, Jayco says that the 

owner’s manual for the subject vehicles 

includes instructions on how to load the 

vehicle and where to find the required 

ratings that are shown on the 

certification label. Jayco adds that the 

owner’s manuals are also available on 

the company website at www.jayco.com. 

Jayco adds that the Manufacturer’s 

Certificate of Origin (MCO) includes the 

Gross Vehicle Weight Rating (GVWR) 

and the unloaded vehicle weight 

(UVW). The difference between these 

two values would also provide the CCC 

of the trailer. 

Jayco says that all of the trailers 

affected by the subject noncompliance 

have been purchased and Jayco has not 

received any complaints or inquiries 

regarding CCC from any owners or 

dealers of the subject trailers. 

Jayco contends that NHTSA has 

granted similar inconsequential 

petitions in the past, citing a petition 

from General Motors that was granted in 

2019 as an example.1

Jayco concludes that the subject 

noncompliances are inconsequential as 

they relate to motor vehicle safety, and 

that its petition to be exempted from 

providing notification of the 

noncompliance, as required by 49 

U.S.C. 30118, and a remedy for the 

noncompliance, as required by 49 

U.S.C. 30120, should be granted. 

VI. NHTSA’s Analysis 

Jayco explains that the 

noncompliances are that the ‘‘THE 

COMBINED WEIGHT OF CARGO 

SHOULD NEVER EXCEED: XXX kg or 

XXX lbs.’’ figures represented on the 

required FMVSS No. 110 vehicle 

placard label manufactured for their RV 

travel trailers are incorrect and the 

‘‘cold tire pressure’’ on the same vehicle 

placards were printed with an extra 

character for the rear and spare tire line 

items. 

In this particular case, the error 

pertaining to weight capacity is not 

deleterious to the safety and well-being 

of the vehicle operator and its 

occupants. First, the information on the 

label required by S4.3.5 of FMVSS No. 

110 is more restrictive (80 kg vice the 

correct figure of 807 kg), allows less 

weight (cargo) to be present on the 

vehicle and is obviously wrong. Further, 

a small search effort by the vehicle user 

provides an accurate determination of 

the correct maximum cargo carrying 

capacity. 

FMVSS No. 110 paragraph S9 

mandates that each motor home and RV 

trailer must affix either a motor home 

occupant and cargo carrying capacity 

label or an RV trailer CCC label to its 

vehicles. Among the items of 

information which the labels must 

display is the statement that ‘‘THE 

COMBINED WEIGHT OF CARGO 

SHOULD NEVER EXCEED: XXX kg or 

XXX lbs.’’ In the case of the Jayco 

manufactured trailers, the trailers’ CCC 

labels display the correct information— 

807 kg. 

In reference to tire pressure the error 

present here is the display of an ‘‘extra’’ 

character. To the extent this extra 

character may confuse an owner or user, 

an accurate display of the vehicle’s cold 

tire pressure may be found on the 

vehicle’s certification label typically 

found adjacent to the required FMVSS 

No. 110 vehicle placard. 

An additional source of a trailer’s 

weight and loading characteristics may 

be found physically in the form of a 

book in the vehicle’s owner’s manual, or 

more often are typically found online. 

Jayco notes that NHTSA has 

previously granted similar 

inconsequential petitions with respect 

to this error. The noted example was 

that of a General Motors, LLC grant of 

petition for inconsequential 

noncompliance due to vehicle tire 

placards that incorrectly stated the spare 

tire size and cold tire pressure. In that 

case, the agency agreed with the 

petitioner that there were several 

alternative locations to retrieve the 

desired information. 

In this case, the agency agrees that the 

noncompliance is inconsequential to 

motor vehicle safety as the information 

which was the subject of the petition 

itself—the CCC and the cold tire 

pressure values—are available and 

obtainable by other reasonable means. 

The maximum cargo carrying capacity 

may be obtained from the CCC label and 

may be calculated by subtracting the 

unloaded vehicle weight from the gross 

vehicle weight rating. Besides the 

vehicle’s tire and information placard, 

the vehicle operator could seek out the 

certification label, one of the mounted 

tires on the vehicle, or the vehicle’s 

owner’s manual for specific information 

related to the cold tire pressure that the 

vehicle may safely be operated with. 

VII. NHTSA’S Decision 

In consideration of the foregoing, 

NHTSA finds that Jayco has met its 

burden of persuasion that the subject 

FMVSS No. 110 noncompliance at issue 

is inconsequential to motor vehicle 

safety. 

Accordingly, Jayco’s petition is 

hereby granted and Jayco is 

consequently exempt from the 

obligation of providing notification of, 

and a free remedy for, that 

noncompliance under 49 U.S.C. 30118 

and 30120. 

NHTSA notes that the statutory 

provisions (49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and 

30120(h)) that permit manufacturers to 

file petitions for a determination of 

inconsequentiality allow NHTSA to 

exempt manufacturers only from the 

duties found in sections 30118 and 

30120, respectively, to notify owners, 

purchasers, and dealers of a defect or 

noncompliance and to remedy the 

defect or noncompliance. Therefore, this 

decision only applies to the subject 

trailers that Jayco no longer controlled 

at the time it determined that the 

noncompliance existed. However, the 

granting of this petition does not relieve 

vehicle distributors and dealers of the 

prohibitions on the sale, offer for sale, 

or introduction or delivery for 

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the noncompliant trailers under their 

control after Jayco notified them that the 

subject noncompliance existed. 

(Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30118, 30120: 

delegations of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and 

501.8) 

Otto G. Matheke III, 

Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[DOT–NHTSA–2023–0036] 

National Emergency Medical Services 

Advisory Council Notice of Public 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

meeting of the National Emergency 

Medical Services Advisory Council 

(NEMSAC). 

DATES: This meeting will be held inperson and simultaneously transmitted 

via virtual interface. It will be held on 

November 6–7, 2024, from 12:00 p.m. to 

5:00 p.m. ET. Pre-registration is required 

to attend this meeting. Once registered, 

a link permitting access to the meeting 

will be distributed to registrants by 

email. If you wish to speak during the 

meeting, you must submit a written 

copy of your remarks to DOT by October 

31, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: General information about 

the Council is available on the NEMSAC 

internet website at www.ems.gov. The 

registration portal and meeting agenda 

will be available on the NEMSAC 

internet website at www.ems.gov at least 

one week in advance of the meeting. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Clary Mole, EMS Specialist, National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 

U.S. Department of Transportation is 

available by phone at (202) 868–3275 or 

by email at Clary.Mole@dot.gov. Any 

committee-related requests should be 

sent to the person listed in this section. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

NEMSAC is authorized under Section 

31108 of the Moving Ahead for Progress 

in the 21st Century (MAP–21) Act of 

2012, codified at 42 U.S.C. 300d–4 as a 

Federal Advisory Committee. The 

purpose of NEMSAC is to serve as a 

nationally recognized council of 

emergency medical services (EMS) 

representatives to provide advice and 

consult with: 

a. The Federal Interagency Committee 

on Emergency Medical Services 

(FICEMS) on matters relating to EMS 

issues; and 

b. The Secretary of Transportation on 

matters relating to EMS issues affecting 

DOT. 

The NEMSAC provides an important 

national forum for the non-Federal 

deliberation of national EMS issues and 

serves as a platform for advice on DOT’s 

national EMS activities. NEMSAC also 

provides advice and recommendations 

to the FICEMS. 

II. Agenda 

At the meeting, the agenda will cover 

the following topics: 

• Informational sessions 

• Updates on NHTSA Initiatives 

• Subcommittee Reports on Advisory 

Statuses 

• Strategic Planning 

III. Public Participation 

This meeting will be open to the 

public. We are committed to providing 

equal access to this meeting for all 

participants. Persons with disabilities in 

need of an accommodation should send 

a request to the individual in the FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of 

this notice no later than October 31, 

2024. 

A period of time will be allotted for 

comments from members of the public 

joining the meeting. Members of the 

public may present questions and 

comments to the Council using the live 

chat feature available during the 

meeting. Members of the public may 

also submit materials, questions, and 

comments in advance to the individual 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this notice. 

Members of the public wishing to 

reserve time to speak directly to the 

Council during the meeting must submit 

a request. The request must include the 

name, contact information (address, 

phone number, and email address), and 

organizational affiliation of the 

individual wishing to address NEMSAC; 

it must also include a written copy of 

prepared remarks and must be 

forwarded to the individual listed in the 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

section of this notice no later than 

October 31, 2024. 

All advance submissions will be 

reviewed by the Council Chairperson 

and Designated Federal Officer. If 

approved, advance submissions shall be 

circulated to NEMSAC representatives 

for review prior to the meeting. All 

advance submissions will become part 

of the official record of the meeting. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 300d–4(b); 49 

CFR part 1.95(i)(4). 

Issued in Washington, DC 

Nanda Narayanan Srinivasan, 

Associate Administrator, Research and 

Program Development. 

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BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2024–0056 (Notice No. 

2024–12)] 

Hazardous Materials: Information 

Collection Activities 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces that the Information 

Collection Requests (ICRs) discussed 

below will be forwarded to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

renewal and extension. These ICRs 

describe the nature of the information 

collections and their expected burdens. 

A Federal Register notice and request 

for comments with a 60-day comment 

period on these ICRs was published in 

the Federal Register on May 10, 2024 

under Docket No. PHMSA–2024–0056 

(Notice No. 2024–08). PHMSA received 

no comments in response to this notice. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 20, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. 

We invite comments on: (1) 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; (2) the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimate of the burden 

of the proposed information collection; 

(3) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (4) ways to minimize the 


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