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1 80 FR 40540 (Jul. 13, 2015). 

2 81 FR 73958 (Oct. 25, 2016). 3 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. 

4Submitting a properly completed template and 

accompanying transaction letter will satisfy the 

trading requirements in 49 CFR part 536. 

5See also 49 U.S.C. 32910(c). 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

Public Workshop on Corporate 

Average Fuel Economy Reporting 

Templates 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notification to postpone public 

workshop. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration (NHTSA) will be 

postponing the workshop originally 

scheduled for January 27, 2022. The 

workshop was intended to present three 

new compliance reporting templates for 

the Corporate Average Fuel Economy 

(CAFE) Program. The workshop will be 

rescheduled for later this year. 

DATES: NHTSA will reschedule the 

workshop for later this year. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions concerning the 

public workshop postponement, please 

contact NHTSA staff at 

NHTSA.Communication@dot.gov or 

Chris Lamance at (202) 366–9525. For 

any legal questions, contact Michael 

Kuppersmith at michael.kuppersmith@

dot.gov or (202) 366–9957. For questions 

concerning the workshop discussions 

contact Maurice Hicks at 

Maurice.Hicks@dot.gov or (202) 366– 

5289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 49 CFR 

part 537, ‘‘Automotive Fuel Economy 

Report,’’ requires manufacturers to 

provide early model year projections on 

automobiles demonstrating how they 

intend to comply with CAFE standards. 

The regulation requires manufacturers 

to submit a pre-model year report by 

December 31st before the model year 

and a mid-model year report by July 

31st of the model year. When NHTSA 

received and reviewed manufacturers’ 

projection reports for MYs 2013 through 

2015, the agency observed that most did 

not conform to the requirements 

specified in Part 537. In a 2015 notice 

of proposed rulemaking, NHTSA 

proposed to amend Part 537 to require 

a new data format for manufacturers’ 

CAFE projection reporting template.1

However, NHTSA did not adopt the 

proposed data format from the 2015 

proposed rule after receiving adverse 

comments from manufacturers.2

After identifying the sources of 

manufacturers’ concerns, in the April 

2020 CAFE final rule, NHTSA 

established a new standardized template 

for reporting PMY and MMY 

information, as specified in 49 CFR 

537.7(b) and (c), as well as for the 

supplementary information required by 

49 CFR 537.8. The new template allows 

manufacturers to build out the required 

confidential versions of CAFE reports 

specified in 49 CFR part 537 and to 

produce automatically the required nonconfidential versions by clicking a 

button within the template. The 

standardized template assists 

manufacturers in providing the agency 

with all necessary data, thereby helping 

manufacturers to ensure they are 

complying with CAFE regulations. The 

template organizes the required data in 

a manner consistent with NHTSA and 

EPA regulations and simplifies the 

reporting process by incorporating 

standardized responses consistent with 

those provided to EPA. The template 

collects the relevant data, calculates 

intermediate and final values in 

accordance with EPA and NHTSA 

methodologies, and aggregates all the 

final values required by NHTSA 

regulations in a single summary 

worksheet. Thus, NHTSA believes that 

the standardized template will benefit 

both the agency and manufacturers by 

helping to avoid reporting errors, such 

as data omissions and miscalculations, 

and will ultimately simplify and 

streamline reporting. NHTSA requires 

that manufacturers use the standardized 

Projection Reporting Template for all 

PMY, MMY, and supplementary CAFE 

reports beginning in MY 2023. NHTSA 

also modified its existing compliance 

database to accept and import the 

standardized template and 

automatically aggregate manufacturers’ 

data. This allows NHTSA to execute its 

regulatory obligations to the public 

more efficiently and effectively. Overall, 

the template helps to ensure compliance 

with data requirements under EPCA/ 

EISA and drastically reduce the 

industry and government’s burden for 

reporting in accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act.3 The 

reporting template is available for 

download through the PIC located at: 

https://one.nhtsa.gov/cafe_pic/home— 

see ‘‘Light Duty Templates: NHTSA 

CAFE Projections Reporting Template’’. 

To reduce the burden on all parties, 

encourage compliance, and facilitate 

quicker NHTSA credit transaction 

approval, in April 2020 final rule, 

NHTSA added a new template to 

standardize the information parties 

submit to the agency to request a credit 

transaction. Often manufacturers 

inconsistently submit the information 

required by 49 CFR 536.8, making it 

difficult for NHTSA to process 

transactions. The credit transaction 

template is a simple spreadsheet that 

credit holders and trading parties fill 

out. When completed, parties are able to 

click a button on the spreadsheet to 

generate a credit transaction summary, 

and if applicable, credit trade 

confirmation, the latter of which needs 

to be signed by both trading entities. 

The credit trade confirmation serves as 

an acknowledgement that the parties 

have agreed to trade credits. The 

completed credit trade summary, and a 

PDF copy of the signed trade 

confirmation must be submitted to 

NHTSA. Using the Credit Transaction 

Template simplifies the credit trading 

process for OVSC and manufacturers, 

and helps to ensure that trading parties 

follow the requirements for a credit 

transaction found in 49 CFR 536.8(a).4

Additionally, the credit trade 

confirmation includes an 

acknowledgement of the ‘‘error or 

fraud’’ provisions in 49 CFR 536.8(f)– 

(g), and the finality provision of 49 CFR 

536.8(g). The credit transaction template 

is available for download through the 

PIC located at: https://one.nhtsa.gov/ 

cafe_pic/home—see ‘‘Light Duty 

Templates: NHTSA CAFE Credit 

Transaction Template’’. 

Finally, NHTSA adopted 

requirements in the 2020 final rule 

requiring manufacturers to submit the 

costs of all credit trade contracts to the 

agency starting September 1, 2022. 

NHTSA intends to use this information 

to determine the true cost of compliance 

for all manufacturers. This information 

would allow NHTSA to better assess the 

impact of its regulations on the industry 

and provide more insightful information 

in developing future rulemakings. 

NHTSA also adopted requirements 

allowing manufacturers to submit the 

information confidentially, in 

accordance with 49 CFR part 512.5 This 

confidential information would be held 

by secure electronic means in NHTSA’s 

database systems. As for public 

information, NHTSA intends to use the 

information to provide more credit 

reports on the PIC such as aggregated 

credit transactions or data comparable 

to the credit information which EPA 

makes available to the public. 

In response to NHTSA new templates, 

manufacturers have identified errors 

and offered suggestions for 

improvements. As a result, in the 


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6https://www.regulations.gov/document/NHTSA2021-0053-0012/comment. 

7UCS, Detailed Comments, NHTSA–2018–0067– 

12039; Jason Schwartz, Detailed Comments, 

NHTSA–2018–0067–12162. 

8Honda, Detailed Comments, NHTSA–2018– 

0067–11819. 

August 2021 CAFE NPRM, 6 NHTSA 

proposed changes to its new reporting 

and credit templates as well as 

established a new standardized template 

to collect information on the monetary 

and non-monetary costs of credit trades. 

NHTSA has identified a series of 

monetary and non-monetary factors 

which it believes to be important to the 

costs associated with credit trading in 

the CAFE program which predicated the 

development of its new credit value 

template.7 The agency believes this 

information will allow for a better 

assessment of the true costs of 

compliance. NHTSA further notes that 

greater government oversight is needed 

over the CAFE credit market and it 

needs to understand the full range of 

complexity in transactions, monetary 

and non-monetary, in addition to the 

range of partnerships and cooperative 

agreements between credit account 

holders—which may impact the price of 

credit trades.8 NHTSA proposed that 

manufacturers should start using both 

credit templates starting September 1, 

2022. Note, the credit value template is 

available for download through the PIC 

located at: https://one.nhtsa.gov/cafe_

pic/home—see ‘‘Light Duty Templates: 

NHTSA CAFE Credit Value Reporting 

Template’’. 

In the August 2021 rulemaking, 

NHTSA also committed to demonstrate 

its templates through a workshop 

designed to give manufacturers an open 

forum for communicating directly with 

the agency. 

Otto G. Matheke, III, 

Director of the Office of Vehicle Safety 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2022–02088 Filed 2–1–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2022–0005] 

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, 

Public Law 104–13, PHMSA invites 

public comments about the Agency’s 

intention to request Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval to renew four information 

collections that are scheduled to expire 

in 2022. PHMSA has reviewed each 

information collection and considers 

them vital to maintaining pipeline 

safety. As such, PHMSA will request 

renewal from OMB, without change, for 

each information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before April 4, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

E-Gov Website: https://

www.regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to submit 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: Identify the docket 

number, PHMSA–2022–0005, at the 

beginning of your comments. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to https://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. You 

should know that 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.). 

Therefore, you may want to review 

DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or visit 

https://www.regulations.gov before 

submitting any such comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket or to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to https://

www.regulations.gov at any time or to 

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. 

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– 

2022–0005.’’ 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: DOT may 

solicit comments from the public 

regarding certain general notices. DOT 

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. 

Confidential Business Information: 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

is commercial or financial information 

that is both customarily and actually 

treated as private by its owner. Under 

the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

(5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from 

public disclosure. If your comments 

responsive to this notice contain 

commercial or financial information 

that is customarily treated as private, 

that you actually treat as private, and 

that is relevant or responsive to this 

notice, it is important that you clearly 

designate the submitted comments as 

CBI. Pursuant to 49 CFR 190.343, you 

may ask PHMSA to give confidential 

treatment to information you give to the 

Agency by taking the following steps: 

(1) Mark each page of the original 

document submission containing CBI as 

‘‘Confidential’’; (2) send PHMSA, along 

with the original document, a second 

copy of the original document with the 

CBI deleted; and (3) explain why the 

information you are submitting is CBI. 

Unless you are notified otherwise, 

PHMSA will treat such marked 

submissions as confidential under the 

FOIA, and they will not be placed in the 

public docket of this notice. 

Submissions containing CBI should be 

sent to Angela Hill, DOT, PHMSA, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE, PHP–30, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. Any 

commentary PHMSA receives that is not 

specifically designated as CBI will be 

placed in the public docket for this 

matter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angela Hill by telephone at 202–366– 

1246 or by email at Angela.Hill@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 5, 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

section 1320.8(d), requires PHMSA to 


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