41222 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 148 / Monday, August 3, 1998 / Proposed Rules

ACTION: Proposed rule; re-opening of

public comment deadline.

SUMMARY: By this action, EPA is reopening the public comment period

from July 20, 1998, to August 19, 1998,

the deadline for receiving written

comments on two Agency proposed

actions: the redesignation of the PowerBannock Counties PM–10

nonattainment area, and a finding that

the proposed Fort Hall nonattainment

area failed to attain the National

Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)

for particulate matter of less than ten

micrometers in aerodynamic diameter

(PM–10).

DATES: Comments must be received or

postmarked on or before August 19,

1998.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the request and

other information supporting this

proposed action are available for

inspection during normal business

hours at the following location: United

States Environmental Protection

Agency, Office of Air Quality, 1200

Sixth Avenue, (OAQ–107), Seattle,

Washington 98101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steven K. Body, Office of Air Quality

(OAQ–107), US Environmental

Protection Agency, Region 10, Seattle,

Washington 98101, (206) 553–0782.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June

19, 1998 (63 FR 33597), EPA solicited

public comment on its proposal to

redesignate the Power-Bannock

Counties PM–10 nonattainment area by

creating two distinct nonattainment

areas that together cover the identical

geographic area as the original

nonattainment area. Likewise, on June

19, 1998 (63 FR 33605), EPA solicited

public comment on a concurrent

proposal to find that a portion of the

Fort Hall Indian Reservation had failed

to attain the PM–10 NAAQS by the

applicable attainment date of December

31, 1996. EPA received a request to

extend the public comment period to

allow more time to prepare a

comprehensive comment document.

As a result of a request to extend the

public comment period, EPA is granting

a 30-day extension. A copy of this

request has been placed into the docket

and may be reviewed during normal

business hours at the following location:

Office of Air Quality (OAQ–107),

Environmental Protection Agency, 1200

Sixth Avenue Seattle, Washington

98101. Interested parties are invited to

comment on all aspects of EPA’s two

proposals of June 19, 1998. Comments

should be submitted, preferably in

triplicate, to the address listed in the

front of this document.

Dated: July 24, 1998.

Phil Millam,

Acting Regional Administrator, Region 10.

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49 CFR Part 571

[Docket No. NHTSA 98–3967; Notice 2]

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety

Standards; Lamps, Reflective Devices,

and Associated Equipment

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA),

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Extension of comment period

for a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking

(NPRM).

SUMMARY: This document extends the

comment period on an NPRM

concerning a petition from Reitter &

Schefenacker GmbH & Co. KG. to amend

the agency’s lighting standard. The

petition asks that the standard be

amended to relieve design restrictions

that may inadvertently prevent the

implementation of certain newtechnology light sources in motor

vehicle signal lamps. In the NPRM, the

agency sought comments on adding

requirements reflecting Society of

Automotive Engineers (SAE)

specifications for measurement of

photometrics in taillamps and in certain

stop and turn signal lamps with more

than one lighted section. In response to

a petition from the American

Automobile Manufacturers Association

(AAMA), the agency is extending the

comment period from August 10, 1998

to October 9, 1998. The reason for the

extension is to give commenters

sufficient time to review new

information that has come to light since

the NPRM was published.

DATES: Comments on Docket No.

NHTSA 98–3967; Notice 1 must be

received by October 9, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Comments should refer to

the docket number and notice number,

and be submitted to: Docket

Management, Room PL–401, 400

Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C.

20590 (Docket hours are from 10:00 a.m.

to 5:00 p.m.).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Chris Flanigan, Office of Safety

Performance Standards (202–366–4918).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June

24, 1998, NHTSA published in the

Federal Register (63 FR 34350) an

NPRM concerning a petition from

Reitter & Schefenacker GmbH & Co. KG.

The petitioner requested the agency

amend Federal Motor Vehicle Safety

Standard (FMVSS) No. 108, ‘‘Lamps,

Reflective Devices, and Associated

Equipment,’’ to relieve design

restrictions that may inadvertently

prevent the implementation of certain

new-technology light sources in motor

vehicle lamps. The petition was

submitted to relieve design restrictions

that may inadvertently prevent the

implementation of certain newtechnology light sources. These new

lamp technologies include lightemitting diodes (LEDs), miniature

halogen bulbs, and other light sources

with a limited luminous flux. Because

the requirements contained in FMVSS

No. 108 for signal lamps are based on

SAE Standards and Recommended

Practices that were developed many

years before LEDs, when incandescent

bulbs were the only light sources in use

at that time, the standard does not take

into account the characteristics of these

new-technology light sources.

On July 23, 1998, AAMA petitioned

for an extension of the comment period.

AAMA noted that new information has

recently been published which should

be thoroughly considered before offering

comment on the NPRM. Namely, the

University of Michigan Transportation

Research Institute published a report in

June 1998 entitled ‘‘Photometric

Requirements for Signal Lamps Using

Innovative Light Sources: Updating

Requirements Based on Lighted

Sections’’ (UMTRI–98–19). The

opportunity to examine the views

expressed in this report should be given

to those who will comment on the

NPRM.

After considering the arguments

raised by AAMA, NHTSA has decided

that it is in the public interest to grant

the petitioner’s request.

(Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322, 30111, 30115,

30117, and 30166; delegation of authority at

49 CFR 1.50)

Issued on: July 29, 1998.

L. Robert Shelton,

Associate Administrator for Safety

Performance Standards.

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