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1 87 FR 26025. 

any personal information the 

commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL– 

14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

https://www.transportation.gov/privacy. 

See also https://www.regulations.gov/ 

privacy-notice for the privacy notice of 

regulations.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

John Karl Alexy, 

Associate Administrator for Railroad Safety, 

Chief Safety Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25081 Filed 10–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2024–0050] 

Notice of Technical Workshop and 

Demonstrations for Vehicle 

Classification Test Procedure 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of technical workshop 

and demonstration and request for 

comments (RFC). 

SUMMARY: NHTSA seeks public 

comment on draft test procedure (TP) 

number TP–523–00, which is intended 

to assess vehicles for compliance with 

certain off-road capabilities 

requirements for vehicle classification 

within the Corporate Average Fuel 

Economy (CAFE) program. This TP is 

prepared for the limited purpose of use 

by contracted independent laboratories 

conducting tests for NHTSA. The TP 

presents guidelines for a uniform testing 

and data recording format. TPs are not 

rules, regulations, or agency 

interpretations. NHTSA will host a 

demonstration of TP–523–00 to show 

how NHTSA intends to test vehicles to 

determine compliance with its 

regulations on vehicle classification. 

DATES: A technical workshop 

(presentation) and public demonstration 

for the test procedure will be held on 

January 15, 2025, and are expected to 

begin at 8 a.m. The date, location, and 

agenda are subject to change, and all 

registered attendees will be notified of 

any changes. Comments regarding the 

TP, the workshop, or the demonstration 

must be received no later than 

November 30, 2024 in order to be 

addressed during the event. The agency 

may address any comments received 

during the event regarding the TP, the 

workshop, and the demonstration, but 

comments should also be submitted to 

the docket for formal record per the 

‘‘Comment’’ instructions indicated 

below. Comments submitted to the 

docket after November 30, 2024 will 

continue to be received and considered 

through February 15, 2025 to facilitate 

the final draft release of the TP. 

ADDRESSES: 

Workshop and Demonstration 

Location: The workshop and 

demonstration will be held at the 

McNeese Convention Center in San 

Angelo, Texas. Directions to the meeting 

location and final agenda will be sent to 

registered participants as well as posted 

on the NHTSA Public Information 

Center (PIC) at https://www.nhtsa.gov/ 

corporate-average-fuel-economy/cafepublic-information-center. 

Documents for Comment: NHTSA’s 

Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance 

(OVSC) laboratory test procedure TP– 

523–00, described in this RFC, is 

available for viewing in PDF format in 

this Docket, as identified in the heading 

of this document. 

Comments: You may submit 

comments to the Docket, identified as 

the docket number in the head of this 

document, by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal rulemaking Portal: To 

submit comments electronically, go to 

the U.S. Government regulations 

website at http://www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the online instructions for 

submitting comments. 

• Fax: Written comments may be 

faxed to 202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Send comments to: Docket 

Management Facility, U.S. Department 

of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: If you submit 

written comments by hand or courier, 

please do so at 1200 New Jersey Avenue 

SE, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, Washington, DC between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

To be sure someone is there to help you, 

please call 202–366–9826 before 

coming. 

Instructions: For detailed instructions 

on submitting comments and additional 

information, see the Public Participation 

section of this document, which can be 

found below. Note that all comments 

received will be posted to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

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) or you may visit https://

www.transportation.gov/privacy. If you 

wish to provide comments containing 

proprietary or confidential information, 

please follow the instructions in the 

section of this notice titled ‘‘How do I 

submit confidential business 

information?’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

To register for event attendance: 

Please contact Ms. Tuwana Taft, Office 

of Vehicle Safety Compliance, National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 

(202) 366–1008. Email: tuwana.taft@

dot.gov. Participants must register in 

order for NHTSA to determine an 

approximate head count and in order for 

NHTSA to deliver site details and a final 

agenda to all participants. Attendance 

will not be permitted without prior 

registration. 

For technical issues: Mr. Michael 

Brace, Compliance Engineer, Office of 

Vehicle Safety Compliance, National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Ave. SE, Washington, 

DC 20590. Telephone: 313–218–2265. 

Email: michael.brace@dot.gov. 

For legal issues: Mr. Paul Connet, 

Attorney-Advisor, Office of the Chief 

Counsel, National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. 

Telephone: 202–366–5547. Email: 

paul.connet@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 2, 

2022, NHTSA published a final rule 

which stated the agency’s intention to 

use a new test procedure to validate 

non-passenger automobile (‘‘light 

truck’’) classification data provided by 

manufacturers in their pre-model 

reports submitted under 49 CFR part 

537.1 NHTSA is providing a draft 

version of TP–523–00 for comment. TP– 

523–00 is intended to improve NHTSA’s 

ability to verify light truck compliance 

with 49 CFR 523.5(b)(2)(i) through (v) 

by providing guidelines for a uniform 

testing and information recording 

format for contracting laboratories who 

perform testing for NHTSA. 

Introduction 

To investigate whether specific 

vehicles or products comply with 

Corporate Average Fuel Economy 

(CAFE) regulations, NHTSA’s Office of 


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2NHTSA’s authority is codified at 49 U.S.C. 

32901 et seq. 

3 49 U.S.C. 32901, 32902. 

4 49 U.S.C. 32901. 

5Approach angle means the smallest angle, in a 

plane side view of an automobile, formed by the 

level surface on which the automobile is standing 

and a line tangent to the front tire static loaded 

radius arc and touching the underside of the 

automobile forward of the front tire. 49 CFR 523.2. 

6Breakover angle means the supplement of the 

largest angle, in the plan side view of an automobile 

that can be formed by two lines tangent to the front 

and rear static loaded radii arcs and intersecting at 

a point on the underside of the automobile. 49 CFR 

523.2. 

7 Departure angle means the smallest angle, in a 

plane side view of an automobile, formed by the 

level surface on which the automobile is standing 

and a line tangent to the rear tire static loaded 

radius arc and touching the underside of the 

automobile rearward of the rear tire. 49 CFR 523.2. 8Running clearance means the distance from the 

surface on which an automobile is standing to the 

lowest point on the automobile, excluding 

unsprung weight. 49 CFR 523.2 

9Axle clearance means the vertical distance from 

the level surface on which an automobile is 

standing to the lowest point on the axle differential 

of the automobile. 

10 49 CFR 523.5(b)(2)(i)–(v). 

Vehicle Safety Compliance (OVSC) 

contracts with labs to conduct 

compliance testing. The OVSC 

laboratory test procedures are prepared 

for the limited purpose of use by 

contracted independent laboratories 

conducting compliance tests for the 

OVSC. OVSC laboratory test procedures 

are not rules, regulations, or NHTSA 

interpretations, and OVSC laboratory 

test procedures are not intended to limit 

the requirements of the applicable 

regulations. 

Background 

NHTSA administers the CAFE 

program under authority granted in the 

Energy Policy and Conservation Act 

(EPCA) of 1975, as amended by the 

Energy Independence and Security Act 

(EISA) of 2007.2 Per Congress, light-duty 

vehicles into two basic classes for CAFE 

compliance purposes: passenger 

automobiles (‘‘passenger cars’’) and nonpassenger automobiles (‘‘light trucks’’).3

The statutory definitions for these 

classes indicate that ‘‘passenger 

automobiles’’ do not include vehicles 

that ‘‘the Secretary decides by 

regulation . . . has a significant feature 

(except for 4-wheel drive) designed for 

off-highway operation, and . . . is a 4- 

wheel drive automobile or rated at more 

than 6,000 pounds gross vehicle 

weight.’’ 4 Because passenger 

automobiles do not include these 

vehicles, these vehicles must therefore 

belong to the non-passenger automobile 

(light truck) category. Note that 

Congress expressly directed DOT (by 

delegation, NHTSA) to determine what 

a ‘‘significant feature (except for 4- 

wheel drive) designed for off-highway 

operation’’ would include. 

To implement this Congressional 

directive to determine significant 

features designed for off-highway 

operation, NHTSA promulgated 49 CFR 

523. Part 523 defines five different 

attributes of off-highway operation: 

‘‘approach angle,’’ 5 ‘‘breakover angle,’’ 6

‘‘departure angle,’’ 7 ‘‘running 

clearance,’’ 8 and ‘‘front and rear axle 

clearance.’’ 9 Section 523.5(b) describes 

how a vehicle may qualify as a nonpassenger automobile (light truck) 

through off-highway operation 

capabilities. Specifically, NHTSA 

defined measurement criteria for each of 

the five attributes of off-highway 

operation,10 and a vehicle must meet the 

measurements for at least four out of 

those five attributes to qualify as an 

‘‘off-highway capable’’ light truck. 

NHTSA requires manufacturers to 

provide NHTSA dimension information 

for approach angle, breakover angle, 

departure angle, running clearance, and 

front and rear axle clearance for vehicles 

they wish to claim as off-highway 

capable as part of their pre- and midmodel year reports under 49 CFR 

537.7(c)(5)(ii). Accurate information 

about these dimensions is critical for 

verifying a manufacturer’s CAFE 

compliance information, because if the 

information is inaccurate, it may be 

possible that a vehicle would not 

qualify as a non-passenger automobile 

(light truck). NHTSA will use TP–523– 

00 to verify that submitted dimension 

measurements these attributes are 

accurate and to confirm that vehicles 

have been properly classified 

accordingly. TP–523–00 also provides 

guidance regarding the expected 

precision of measurements and the 

allowable rounding approach for offhighway vehicle clearances and angles, 

as well as for reporting values in 

manufacturer’s pre-model year (PMY) 

and mid-model year (MMY) reports. 

NHTSA publishes OVSC laboratory 

test procedures on NHTSA’s website so 

that interested parties may see how 

NHTSA is instructing its contracted labs 

to collect data to help OVSC investigate 

whether vehicles and vehicle equipment 

sold in the U.S. comply with certain 

regulatory requirements. A 

manufacturer should not depend solely 

on the test reports produced as a result 

of OVSC’s laboratory testing as the basis 

for certification that its vehicle or item 

of motor vehicle equipment complies 

with all applicable regulatory 

requirements, as OVSC’s laboratory tests 

establish whether a product’s attributes 

or performance passes or fails under 

some, but not necessarily all, conditions 

and procedures described in NHTSA 

regulation. The findings in those reports 

are the findings of the test laboratory, 

and the OVSC uses these results as a 

part of its determination of a noncompliance. 

OVSC Laboratory Test Procedure Draft 

and Request for Comment 

To provide further information to 

stakeholders regarding how TP–523–00 

would work in practice, NHTSA will 

hold a demonstration that stakeholders 

may attend in person. The scope of this 

demonstration is strictly limited to 

issues surrounding the implementation 

of the OVSC Laboratory Test Procedure 

TP–523. 

NHTSA also invites public comment 

on TP–523–00. Consequently, this 

notice serves as a request for comments 

(RFC). NHTSA will review and consider 

the feedback, and certain comments 

may be addressed during the workshop 

and demonstration event if submitted by 

November 30, 2024. 

The RFC is strictly limited to the 

contents of OVSC laboratory test 

procedure TP–523–00 and the 

corresponding demonstration. NHTSA 

is not seeking comments at this time 

about amending either the vehicle 

classification requirements in 49 CFR 

523 nor the standards described in 49 

CFR 531 or 49 CFR 533. TP–523–00 is 

available for viewing in PDF format in 

the Docket identified in the heading of 

this document. 

Public Participation 

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 indicated in this document in 

your comments. 

Please limit your comments to 15 

pages. 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. 

If you are submitting comments 

electronically as a PDF (Adobe) file, 

NHTSA asks that the documents be 

submitted using the Optical Character 

Recognition (OCR) process, thus 

allowing NHTSA to search and copy 

certain portions of your submissions. 

Please note that pursuant to the Data 

Quality Act, in order for substantive 

data to be relied upon and used by the 

agency, it must meet the information 

quality standards set forth in the OMB 


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and DOT Data Quality Act guidelines. 

Accordingly, we encourage you to 

consult the guidelines in preparing your 

comments. OMB’s guidelines may be 

accessed at https://

www.transportation.gov/regulations/ 

dot-information-dissemination-qualityguidelines. 

How can I be sure that my comments 

were received? 

If you submit comments by hard copy 

and 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. If you 

submit comments electronically, your 

comments should appear automatically 

in the Docket identified in the heading 

of this document on 

www.regulations.gov. If they do not 

appear within two weeks of posting, 

NHTSA suggests that you call the 

Docket Management Facility at (202) 

366–9826. 

How do I submit confidential business 

information? 

You should submit a redacted ‘‘public 

version’’ of your comment (including 

redacted versions of any additional 

documents or attachments) to the 

Docket using any of the methods 

identified under ADDRESSES. This 

‘‘public version’’ of your comment 

should contain only the portions for 

which no claim of confidential 

treatment is made and from which those 

portions for which confidential 

treatment is claimed has been redacted. 

See below for further instructions on 

how to do this. 

You also need to submit a request for 

confidential treatment directly to the 

Office of the Chief Counsel. Requests for 

confidential treatment are governed by 

49 CFR part 512. Your request must set 

forth the information specified in part 

512. This includes the materials for 

which confidentiality is being requested 

(as explained in more detail below); 

supporting information, pursuant to 

Section 512.8; and a certificate, pursuant 

to Section 512.4(b) and Part 512, 

appendix A. 

You are required to submit to the 

Office of the Chief Counsel one 

unredacted ‘‘confidential version’’ of the 

information for which you are seeking 

confidential treatment. Pursuant to 

Section 512.6, the words ‘‘ENTIRE 

PAGE CONFIDENTIAL BUSINESS 

INFORMATION’’ or ‘‘CONFIDENTIAL 

BUSINESS INFORMATION 

CONTAINED WITHIN BRACKETS’’ (as 

applicable) must appear at the top of 

each page containing information 

claimed to be confidential. In the latter 

situation, where not all information on 

the page is claimed to be confidential, 

identify each item of information for 

which confidentiality is requested 

within brackets: ‘‘[ ].’’ 

You are also required to submit to the 

Office of the Chief Counsel one redacted 

‘‘public version’’ of the information for 

which you are seeking confidential 

treatment. Pursuant to 

Section 512.5(a)(2), the redacted ‘‘public 

version’’ should include redactions of 

any information for which you are 

seeking confidential treatment (i.e., the 

only information that should be 

unredacted is information for which you 

are not seeking confidential treatment). 

NHTSA is currently treating 

electronic submission as an acceptable 

method for submitting confidential 

business information to the agency 

under Part 512. Please do not send a 

hardcopy of a request for confidential 

treatment to NHTSA’s headquarters. 

The request should be sent to Dan 

Rabinovitz in the Office of the Chief 

Counsel at daniel.rabinovitz@dot.gov. 

You may either submit your request via 

email or request a secure file transfer 

link. If you are submitting the request 

via email, please also email a courtesy 

copy of the request to Paul Connet at 

paul.connet@dot.gov. 

Will the agency consider late 

comments? 

In our response, 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 may also consider 

comments that Docket Management 

receives after that date. 

How will the agency utilize comments 

received? 

Comments received ahead of the 

workshop and demonstration may be 

addressed at the event. The agency will 

consider all comments received and will 

incorporate comments as it deems 

appropriate into the OVSC laboratory 

test procedure. 

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, at 

www.regulations.gov, identified by the 

docket number at the heading of this 

notice. 

Otto G. Matheke III, 

Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2024–25069 Filed 10–28–24; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Revision of an Approved 

Information Collection; Comment 

Request; Company-Run Annual Stress 

Test Reporting Template and 

Documentation for Covered 

Institutions With Total Consolidated 

Assets of $250 Billion or More Under 

the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and 

Consumer Protection Act 

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the 

Currency (OCC), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: The OCC, as part of its 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invites 

comment on a continuing information 

collection, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA). In 

accordance with the requirements of the 

PRA, the OCC may not conduct or 

sponsor, and the respondent is not 

required to respond to, an information 

collection unless it displays a currently 

valid Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) control number. The OCC is 

soliciting comment concerning a 

revision to its information collection 

titled ‘‘Company-Run Annual Stress 

Test Reporting Template and 

Documentation for Covered Institutions 

with Total Consolidated Assets of $250 

Billion or More under the Dodd-Frank 

Wall Street Reform and Consumer 

Protection Act’’ 

DATES: Comments must be received by 

December 30, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Commenters are encouraged 

to submit comments by email, if 

possible. You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods: 

• Email: prainfo@occ.treas.gov. 

• Mail: Chief Counsel’s Office, 

Attention: Comment Processing, Office 

of the Comptroller of the Currency, 

Attention: 1557–0319, 400 7th Street 

SW, Suite 3E–218, Washington, DC 

20219. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier: 400 7th 

Street SW, Suite 3E–218, Washington, 

DC 20219. 

• Fax: (571) 293–4835. 

Instructions: You must include 

‘‘OCC’’ as the agency name and ‘‘1557– 


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