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will be valid for two years unless 

rescinded earlier by FMCSA. The 

exemption will be rescinded if: (1) The 

person fails to comply with the terms 

and conditions of the exemption; (2) the 

exemption has resulted in a lower level 

of safety than was maintained before it 

was granted; or (3) continuation of the 

exemption would not be consistent with 

the goals and objectives of 49 U.S.C. 

31136(e) and 31315. 

III. Basis for Renewing Exemptions 

Under 49 U.S.C. 31315(b)(1), an 

exemption may be granted for no longer 

than two years from its approval date 

and may be renewed upon application 

for additional two year periods. In 

accordance with 49 U.S.C. 31136(e) and 

31315, each of the 2 applicants has 

satisfied the entry conditions for 

obtaining an exemption from the vision 

requirements (63 FR 30285; 63 FR 

54519; 65 FR 66293; 67 FR 68719; 68 FR 

1654; 68 FR 2629; 69 FR 71100; 72 FR 

1054; 74 FR 980; 76 FR 4414; 78 FR 

798). Each of these 2 applicants has 

requested renewal of the exemption and 

has submitted evidence showing that 

the vision in the better eye continues to 

meet the requirement specified at 49 

CFR 391.41(b)(10) and that the vision 

impairment is stable. In addition, a 

review of each record of safety while 

driving with the respective vision 

deficiencies over the past two years 

indicates each applicant continues to 

meet the vision exemption 

requirements. These factors provide an 

adequate basis for predicting each 

driver’s ability to continue to drive 

safely in interstate commerce. 

Therefore, FMCSA concludes that 

extending the exemption for each 

renewal applicant for a period of two 

years is likely to achieve a level of safety 

equal to that existing without the 

exemption. 

IV. Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

FMCSA encourages you to participate 

by submitting comments and related 

materials. 

Submitting Comments 

If you submit a comment, please 

include the docket number for this 

notice (FMCSA–1998–3637; FMCSA– 

2000–8203; FMCSA–2002–12844), 

indicate the specific section of this 

document to which each comment 

applies, and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may submit your comments and 

material online or by fax, mail, or hand 

delivery, but please use only one of 

these means. FMCSA recommends that 

you include your name and a mailing 

address, an email address, or a phone 

number in the body of your document 

so the Agency can contact you if it has 

questions regarding your submission. 

To submit your comment online, got 

to http://www.regulations.gov and put 

the docket number, ‘‘FMCSA–1998– 

3637; FMCSA–2000–8203; FMCSA– 

2002–12844’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box, 

and click ‘‘Search.’’ When the new 

screen appears, click on ‘‘Comment 

Now!’’ button and type your comment 

into the text box in the following screen. 

Choose whether you are submitting your 

comment as an individual or on behalf 

of a third party and then submit. If you 

submit your comments by mail or hand 

delivery, submit them in an unbound 

format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, 

suitable for copying and electronic 

filing. If you submit comments by mail 

and would like to know that they 

reached the facility, please enclose a 

stamped, self-addressed postcard or 

envelope. FMCSA will consider all 

comments and material received during 

the comment period and may change 

this notice based on your comments. 

Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, as well as any 

documents mentioned in this preamble 

as being available in the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and in the 

search box insert the docket number, 

‘‘FMCSA–1998–3637; FMCSA–2000– 

8203; FMCSA–2002–12844’’ in the 

‘‘Keyword’’ box and click ‘‘Search.’’ 

Next, click ‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ 

button choose the document listed to 

review. If you do not have access to the 

Internet, you may view the docket 

online by visiting the Docket 

Management Facility in Room W12–140 

on the ground floor of the DOT West 

Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Issued on: January 23, 2015. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator for Policy. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01928 Filed 1–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–EX–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2014–0106; Notice 2] 

Oreion Motors, LLC, Grant of Petition 

for Decision of Inconsequential 

Noncompliance 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Grant of petition. 

SUMMARY: Oreion Motors, LLC (Oreion) 

has determined that certain 2011–2013 

Oreion Reeper low speed vehicles, do 

not fully comply with paragraph 

S5.(b)(10) of Federal Motor Vehicle 

Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 500 

which requires installation of seat belts 

that conform to FMVSS No. 209, Seat 

Belt Assemblies. Oreion has filed an 

appropriate report dated August 13, 

2014, pursuant to 49 CFR part 573, 

Defect and Noncompliance 

Responsibility and Reports. 

ADDRESSES: For further information on 

this decision contact Stuart Seigel, 

Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance, the 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration (NHTSA), Telephone 

(202) 366–5287, facsimile (202) 366– 

5930. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Oreion’s Petition: Pursuant to 49 

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

implementing rule at 49 CFR part 556), 

Oreion submitted a petition for an 

exemption from the notification and 

remedy requirements of 49 U.S.C. 

Chapter 301 on the basis that this 

noncompliance is inconsequential to 

motor vehicle safety. 

Notice of receipt of the petition was 

published, with a 30-day public 

comment period, on November 21, 2014 

in the Federal Register (79 FR 69556). 

No comments were received. To view 

the petition and all supporting 

documents log onto the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) Web site 

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

follow the online search instructions to 

locate docket number ‘‘NHTSA–2014– 

0106.’’ 

II. Low Speed Vehicles Involved: 

Affected are approximately 526 2011– 

2013 Oreion Reeper low speed vehicles 

originally manufactured with seatbelts 

manufactured by Changzhou Dongchen. 

III. Noncompliance: Oreion explains 

that the noncompliance is that the 

seatbelts installed in the subject 

vehicles do not fully comply with the 

requirements of paragraph S5.(b)(10) of 

FMVSS No. 500 because the year that 

the seatbelts were manufactured is not 

included on the seatbelts as specified in 

paragraph S4.1(j) of FMVSS No. 209. 

V. Rule Text: Paragraph S5.(b) of 

FMVSS No. 500 requires in pertinent 

part: 

(b) Each low-speed vehicle shall be 

equipped with: 

(10) A Type 1 or Type 2 seat belt assembly 

conforming to Sec. 571.209 of this part, 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 

209, Seat belt assemblies, installed at each 

designated seating position. 

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Paragraph S4.1(j) of FMVSS No. 209 

requires in pertinent part: 

S4.1(j) Marking. Each seat belt assembly 

shall be permanently and legibly marked or 

labeled with year of manufacture, model, and 

name or trademark of manufacturer or 

distributor, or of importer if manufactured 

outside the United States. . . . 

V. Summary of Oreion’s Analyses: 

Oreion stated its belief that the subject 

noncompliance is inconsequential to 

motor vehicle safety because the lack of 

the year of manufacture on the seat belt 

labels has no effect on the operational 

safety of the seat belts installed in the 

subject noncompliant vehicles. 

Oreion also stated its belief that the 

seat belts in the subject vehicles have 

functioned as designed during normal 

use. They contend that this is supported 

by their observation that no vehicle 

owner has brought their vehicle back to 

a dealership for seat belt related repairs. 

Oreion stated its awareness that the 

year date stamp may be used with the 

seat belt model number to identify seat 

belt assemblies recalled by the seat belt 

manufacturer. In the event of a safety 

related recall by the seat belt 

manufacturer, Oreion indicated that it 

will cooperate with the seat belt 

manufacturer to identify the vehicle 

owners of the vehicles containing 

affected seat belts without the need for 

the year stamp on the label. Oreion 

believes that that the model number and 

the build date of the vehicle will be 

sufficient to accomplish this task. 

In summation, Oreion believes that 

the described noncompliance of the 

subject low speed vehicle’s seat belt 

assemblies is inconsequential to motor 

vehicle safety, and that its petition, to 

exempt Oreion from providing recall 

notification of noncompliance as 

required by 49 U.S.C. 30118 and 

remedying the recall noncompliance as 

required by 49 U.S.C. 30120, should be 

granted. 

NHTSA Decision 

NHTSA Analysis: NHTSA has 

reviewed Oreion’s analysis that the 

subject noncompliance is 

inconsequential to motor vehicle safety. 

Paragraph S4.1(j) of FMVSS No. 209 

requires that each seat belt assembly be 

permanently and legibly marked or 

labeled with the year of manufacture, 

model, and name or trademark of the 

manufacturer, distributor, or the 

importer (if the assemblies are 

manufactured outside the United 

States). The noncompliant vehicles are 

equipped with seat belt assemblies 

marked with the model number ‘‘DC– 

3000’’, name of manufacturer 

‘‘Changzhou Dongchen,’’ what appears 

to be a lot number ‘‘04 36275,’’ and 

other markings including ‘‘E4’’, ‘‘XIA 

YE’’, ‘‘DOT’’ and ‘‘Ar4m.’’ NHTSA 

believes that should the seat belts be the 

subject of a recall, the current labeling 

is sufficient to identify the affected seat 

belts as installed in the subject vehicles, 

even without the manufacturing date 

specified. 

In addition, not labeling the year of 

manufacture has no bearing on 

compliance of the seat belts to the 

material or performance standards 

specified in FMVSS No. 209 and poses 

no risk to motor vehicle safety. 

NHTSA Decision: In consideration of 

the foregoing, NHTSA has decided that 

Oreion has met its burden of persuasion 

that the FMVSS No. 500 noncompliance 

is inconsequential to motor vehicle 

safety. Accordingly, Oreion’s petition is 

hereby granted and Oreion is exempted 

from the obligation of providing 

notification of, and a remedy for, that 

noncompliance under 49 U.S.C. 03118 

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 allows 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 

noncompliant low speed vehicles that 

Oreion 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 

introduction into interstate commerce of 

the noncompliant low speed vehicles 

under their control after Oreion 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. 

Jeffrey M. Giuseppe, 

Acting Director, Office of Vehicle Safety 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2015–01908 Filed 1–30–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA 2015–0003] 

Pipeline Safety: 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, 

PHMSA invites comments on an 

information collection that will be 

expiring in the summer of 2015. 

PHMSA will request an extension with 

no change for the information collection 

titled ‘‘Pipeline Safety: Periodic 

Underwater Inspection and Notification 

of Abandoned Underwater Pipelines’’ 

identified by Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) control number 2137– 

0618. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 3, 

2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

E-Gov Web site: http://

www.regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to enter comments on any 

Federal Register notice issued by any 

agency. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation 

(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

West Building, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the 

ground level of DOT, West Building, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 

5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: When you submit a 

comment on this notice to the docket, 

identify the docket number, PHMSA– 

2015–0003, at the beginning of your 

comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket or to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http://

www.regulations.gov at any time or to 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

If you wish to receive confirmation of 

receipt of your written comments, 

please include a self-addressed, 

stamped postcard with the following 

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