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equipped with speedometers. Specifically, 

the standard only requires that if motorcycles 

are in fact equipped with a speedometer, that 

the speedometer be marked in 10 mph 

intervals. This has led Harley-Davidson to 

believe that NHTSA has implicitly 

acknowledged that a speedometer is not, 

itself, necessary for the safe operation of 

motorcycles, which is consistent with 

NHTSA’s decision in 1982 to rescind FMVSS 

No. 127 which had required installation of 

speedometers on all vehicles. 

(B) Harley-Davidson also stated that while 

the labeling error constitutes a technical 

noncompliance with table 3, footnote 4, of 

FMVSS No. 123, the noncompliance does not 

affect any aspect of vehicle performance— 

braking, steering, acceleration, visibility, etc. 

The speedometer remains fully visible to the 

operator and Harley-Davidson believes that 

the 20 mph numeral intervals adequately 

provide indication of speed to the rider. 

(C) Harley-Davidson believes that the lack 

of 10 mph numerical labels will not present 

confusion for riders, as evidenced by the lack 

of complaints, claims or incidents. 

Furthermore, they believe that motorcycle 

owners typically also own and operate other 

vehicles, such as passenger cars and light 

trucks, which are not subject to any 

speedometer graduation requirements and 

which, in many cases, are equipped with 

speedometers with 20 mph numeral 

intervals. 

Harley-Davidson has additionally 

informed NHTSA that beginning on 

August 12, 2014 it corrected the 

noncompliance so that the subject 

motorcycles produced on or after that 

date fully comply with FMVSS No. 123. 

In summation, Harley-Davidson 

believes that the described 

noncompliance of the subject 

motorcycles is inconsequential to motor 

vehicle safety, and that its petition, to 

exempt Harley-Davidson 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: The purpose of 

FMVSS No. 123 is to minimize 

accidents caused by operator error in 

responding to the motoring environment 

by standardizing certain motorcycle 

controls and displays. In the case of the 

subject vehicles, the agency believes 

that the incomplete labeling of the 

analog speedometers at 20 mph 

intervals instead of the 10 mph intervals 

as required by FMVSS No. 123 does not 

conflict with motorcycle speedometer 

standardization. Although numerals do 

not appear at 10 mph intervals, the 

fundamental components for motorcycle 

speedometer standardization are still 

present—MPH increase in a clockwise 

direction, major graduations appear at 

10 mph interval, minor graduations 

appear at 5 mph intervals, and 

numerical labeling is provided at 20, 40, 

60, 80 and 100 mph. In addition, a top 

speed of 110 mph is delineated on the 

gauge at the required 10 mph major 

graduation which reinforces to the 

operator, that the major graduations are 

in fact at 10 mph intervals further 

reducing the likelihood of any 

speedometer confusion. 

Harley-Davidson correctly notes that 

UN ECE Regulation 39, a commonlyused international speedometer 

standard, states that for vehicles 

manufactured for sale in any country 

where imperial units are used, the speed 

shall be indicated on the dial at 

intervals not exceeding 20 mph, and 

commencing at 10 to 20 mph. This is 

consistent with the speedometer 

markings on the subject noncompliant 

motorcycles. 

As noted by Harley-Davidson, most 

motorcyclists typically own and operate 

other vehicles such as passenger 

vehicles and light trucks which must 

comply with FMVSS NO. 101, Controls 

and Displays. However, that standard 

does not specify requirements for 

speedometer graduations, numerical 

intervals or markings. Many of these 

vehicles have speedometer markings at 

20 mph intervals. The agency believes 

that motorcyclists, accustomed to seeing 

speedometers with 20 mph intervals, 

will not be confused due to the 

omission of numerals at every 10 mph 

delineation on the subject motorcycle 

speedometers. 

The XG 500 and 750 models are 

Harley-Davidson’s low-displacement 

entry-level motorcycles which tend to 

be operated, in part, by less experienced 

riders with limited familiarity with 

motorcycle controls and displays. With 

marking at 20 mph intervals versus 10, 

the speedometer face is less cluttered 

allowing these beginning riders to more 

easily determine vehicle speed and 

recognize other information displayed 

on the speedometer face such as turn 

signal activation, neutral gear position, 

and fuel and oil level indicators. 

The 20 mph increments on the 

speedometers mounted on the subject 

motorcycles, adequately provide vehicle 

speed indication to the vehicle 

operators. Although numerals marking 

some of the major 10 mph graduations 

are not present, there is no ambiguity as 

to the meaning of the graduations, and 

speedometer standardization between 

motorcycles is effectively maintained. 

Lastly, the Agency agrees with HarleyDavidson that the noncompliance does 

not affect any aspect of vehicle 

performance related to braking, steering, 

acceleration or visibility. 

NHTSA Decision: In consideration of 

the foregoing, NHTSA has decided that 

Harley-Davidson has met its burden of 

persuasion that the FMVSS No. 123 

noncompliance is inconsequential to 

motor vehicle safety. Accordingly, 

Harley-Davidson’s petition is hereby 

granted and Harley-Davidson is 

exempted from the obligation of 

providing notification of, and a 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 

motorcycles that Harley-Davidson 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 motorcycles under 

their control after Harley-Davidson 

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. 2015–02176 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2015–0004] 

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 identified under 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Control No. 2137–0047, titled 

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‘‘Transportation of Hazardous Liquids 

by Pipeline: Recordkeeping and 

Accident Reporting.’’ PHMSA is 

preparing to request a three year 

renewal extension for this information 

collection that includes a minor revision 

to the instructions for the form, PHMSA 

F 7000–1 ACCIDENT REPORT— 

HAZARDOUS LIQUID PIPELINE 

SYSTEMS. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 6, 

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 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. 

Instructions: When you submit a 

comment on this notice to the docket, 

identify the docket number, PHMSA– 

2015–0004 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 

statement: ‘‘Comments on PHMSA– 

2015–0004.’’ The Docket Clerk will date 

stamp the postcard prior to returning it 

to you via the U.S. mail. Please note that 

due to delays in the delivery of U.S. 

mail to Federal offices in Washington, 

DC, we recommend that persons 

consider an alternative method 

(internet, fax, or professional delivery 

service) of submitting comments to the 

docket and ensuring their timely receipt 

at DOT. 

Privacy Act Statement: In accordance 

with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, PHMSA solicits comments from 

the public to better inform its 

information collection process. PHMSA 

posts these comments, without edit, 

including 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 

www.dot.gov/privacy. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cameron Satterthwaite by telephone at 

202–366–1319, by email at 

cameron.satterthwaite@dot.gov, by fax 

at 202–366–4566, or by mail at DOT, 

PHMSA, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

PHP–30, Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

A. Background 

Section 1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of 

Federal Regulations, requires PHMSA to 

provide interested members of the 

public and affected agencies an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping requests. 

This notice identifies an information 

collection request that PHMSA will be 

submitting to OMB for minor revision 

and extension approval. The 

information collection expires July 31, 

2015, and is identified under OMB 

Control No. 2137–0047, titled: 

‘‘Transportation of Hazardous Liquids 

by Pipeline: Recordkeeping and 

Accident Reporting.’’ This information 

collection address general 

recordkeeping and and accident 

reporting requirements for hazardous 

liquid pipeline operators under 49 CFR 

part 195. 

B. Hazardous Liquid Accident Report 

Instructions 

PHMSA intends to revise only the 

instructions for the form PHMSA F 

7000–1 ACCIDENT REPORT— 

HAZARDOUS LIQUID PIPELINE 

SYSTEMS (Hazardous Liquid Accident 

Report, report) to clarify two areas 

addressed under the ‘‘Part A General 

Report Information’’ area of the 

instructions. Background for these 

topics is as follows: 

Part A, Question 9,’’volume of 

commodity released unintentionally’’ 

clarification: 

The instructions for Part A, Question 

9 detail how to report the amount of 

material unintentionally released from 

the pipeline as a result of the accident. 

PHMSA is proposing to simplify the 

instructions relating to the removal of 

material from the pipeline and clarify 

the reporting of product consumed by 

fire. 

One of the proposed revisions 

simplifies the instructions by removing 

discussion of product removed from the 

pipeline system at locations remote 

from the failure site. During accident 

response, pipeline operators often 

remove product at locations remote 

from the failure site. These controlled 

product movements are from within the 

pipeline system and irrelevant to the 

category. The ‘‘volume of commodity 

released unintentionally’’ only applies 

to the product released from the 

pipeline system at the failure site. 

PHMSA also proposes to revise the 

instructions for including product 

consumed by fire in the spill volume. 

PHMSA proposes to revise this 

provision to specify that the product 

consumed by fire inside a tank should 

not be included in the category of 

‘‘volume released unintentionally.’’ If 

product is consumed under any other 

circumstances, the volume consumed by 

fire is included in volume released. 

PHMSA is proposing these revisions 

to ensure that volumes appropriate for 

analysis of safety performance trends 

are reported by pipeline operators. 

These proposed revisions to the 

instructions will not increase the hourly 

burden estimate for this information 

collection. 

Part A, Question 11, ‘‘volume of 

commodity recovered’’ clarification: 

The instructions for Part A, Question 

11 detail how to report the amount of 

product recovered after the accident. 

PHMSA is proposing to simplify the 

instructions relating to the recovery of 

product by removing the discussion of 

product removed from the pipeline 

system at locations remote from the 

failure site. These controlled product 

movements are from within the pipeline 

system and irrelevant to the ‘‘volume of 

commodity recovered’’ category for the 

same reasons given in the above 

discussion on Question 9. This 

proposed revision to the instructions 

will not increase the hourly burden 

estimate for this information collection. 

C. General Information 

In addition to the Hazardous Liquid 

Accident Reporting form, this 

information collection renewal applies 

to many existing general recordkeeping 

requirements in 49 CFR part 195 that 

remain unchanged. Part 195 applies to 

the safe operation of hazardous liquid 

pipelines. Some of the general 

recordkeeping requirements covered are 

specified in § 195.404 and include maps 

and locations of the operators pipeline 

facilities, certain crossings (i.e., public 

roads, railroads, rivers, etc.), maximum 

allowable operating pressure of the 

pipeline, repairs and inspections. This 

information collection also includes the 

estimated burden for operators that 

install new computational pipeline 

monitoring leak detection systems as 

required to comply with the American 

Petroleum Institute’s recommended 

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practice API 1130 ‘‘Computational 

Pipeline Monitoring for Liquid 

Pipelines’’ (API 1130). PHMSA is not 

proposing any revisions to these areas of 

the information collection. 

D. Summary of Impacted Collection 

The following information is provided 

for this information collection: (1) Title 

of the information collection; (2) OMB 

control number; (3) Type of request; (4) 

Abstract of the information collection 

activity; (5) Description of affected 

public; (6) Estimate of total annual 

reporting and recordkeeping burden; 

and (7) Frequency of collection. PHMSA 

will request a three-year term of 

approval for this information collection 

activity. PHMSA requests comments on 

the following information collection: 

Title: Transportation of Hazardous 

Liquids by Pipeline: Recordkeeping and 

Accident Reporting. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0047. 

Current Expiration Date: 7/31/2015. 

Type of Request: Revision. 

Abstract: This information collection 

covers recordkeeping and accident 

reporting by hazardous liquid pipeline 

operators who are subject to 49 CFR part 

195. Section 195.50 specifies the 

definition of an ‘‘accident’’ and the 

reporting criteria for submitting a 

Hazardous Liquid Accident Report 

(form PHMSA F7000–1) is detailed in 

§ 195.54. PHMSA is proposing to revise 

the form PHMSA F7000–1 instructions 

for editorial and clarification purposes. 

Affected Public: Hazardous liquid 

pipeline operators. 

Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Burden: 

Annual Responses: 897. 

Annual Burden Hours: 52,429. 

Frequency of collection: On Occasion. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) The need for the proposed 

collection of information for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques. 

Issued in Washington, DC on January 30, 

2015. 

Alan K. Mayberry, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Policy 

and Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2015–02148 Filed 2–3–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

Pipeline Safety: Renewal requests for 

Special Permit 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA); DOT. 

ACTION: This Notice pertains to the 

renewal requests for Special Permits 

with the following Docket Numbers: 

PHMSA–2008–0213 Empire Pipeline Inc. 

PHMSA–2005–20323 Northern Natural Gas 

Company 

PHMSA–2006–26614 Northern Natural Gas 

Company 

PHMSA–2008–0141 Northern Natural Gas 

Company 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

pipeline safety laws, PHMSA is 

publishing this notice of multiple 

special permit renewal requests that we 

have received from two natural gas 

transmission pipeline operators, seeking 

relief from compliance with certain 

requirements in the Federal pipeline 

safety regulations. This notice seeks 

public comments on these requests, 

including comments on any safety or 

environmental impacts the renewal of 

these special permits would have. For 

each listed Special Permit renewal 

request, an Environmental Assessment 

is available for review and comment in 

the respective dockets. At the 

conclusion of the 30-day comment 

period, PHMSA will evaluate the 

comments received and the technical 

analysis of the renewal requests to 

determine whether to grant or deny the 

renewal requests. 

DATES: Submit any comments regarding 

these special permit requests by March 

6, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should reference 

the specific docket number for which 

the comment applies. Comments may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

• At the 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. 

• By Mail: Docket Management 

System: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Docket Operations, M– 

30, West Building Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• By Hand Delivery: DOT Docket 

Management System: U.S. Department 

of Transportation, Docket Operations, 

M–30, West Building Ground Floor, 

Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590 

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

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Instructions: At the beginning of your 

comments, please identify the docket 

number for the special permit renewal 

request you are commenting on. If you 

submit your comments by mail, please 

submit two copies. To receive 

confirmation that PHMSA has received 

your comments, please include a selfaddressed stamped postcard. Internet 

users may submit comments at http:// 

www.Regulations.gov. 

Note: Please read the privacy statement 

published on http://www.Regulations.gov. 

Comments, including any personal 

information provided, are posted without 

changes or edits to http:// 

www.Regulations.gov. 

Contacts for general or technical 

information: 

General: Kay McIver by telephone at 

(202) 366–0113; or by email at 

kay.mciver@dot.gov. 

Technical: Steve Nanney by telephone 

at (713) 272–2855; or by email at 

steve.nanney@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA 

has received the following special 

permit renewal requests from two 

pipeline operators who seek relief from 

compliance with certain federal 

pipeline safety regulations. Each request 

includes a technical analysis provided 

by the respective operators, and filed 

under the original issued special permit 

number in the Federal Docket 

Management System (FDMS) at http:// 

www.Regulations.gov. PHMSA invites 

interested persons to participate by 

reviewing these special permit renewal 

requests and submitting written 

comments, data or other views in the 

FDMS. Please include comments on any 

potential environmental impacts that 

may result if these special permit 

renewals are granted. 

Details of Special Permit renewals 

received: 

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