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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 16 (Monday, January 27, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 8179]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-01832]

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

49 CFR Part 571

[Docket No. NHTSA-2023-0021]
RIN 2127-AM37

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Automatic Emergency 
Braking Systems for Light Vehicles

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 
Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: This document delays the effective date of the November 26, 
2024 final rule partially granting petitions for reconsideration of a 
May 9, 2024 final rule that adopted Federal Motor Vehicle Safety 
Standard (FMVSS) No. 127, ``Automatic Emergency Braking for Light 
Vehicles,'' which requires automatic emergency braking (AEB), 
pedestrian automatic emergency braking (PAEB), and forward collision 
warning (FCW) systems on all new light vehicles.

DATES: The effective date of the rule amending 49 CFR 571.127 published 
on November 26, 2024 is delayed until March 20, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Correspondence related to this rule should refer to the 
docket number set forth above (NHTSA-2023-0021) and be submitted to the 
Administrator, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New 
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
    For technical issues: Mr. Markus Price, Office of Crash Avoidance 
Standards, Telephone: (202) 366-1810, Facsimile: (202) 366-7002.
    For legal issues: Mr. Eli Wachtel, Office of the Chief Counsel, 
Telephone: (202) 366-2992, Facsimile: (202) 366-3820. The mailing 
address for these officials is: National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the memorandum of January 
20, 2025, from the President to executive departments and agencies, 
entitled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' \1\ this action 
temporarily delays the effective date of the rule entitled ``Federal 
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Automatic Emergency Braking Systems for 
Light Vehicles,'' published in the Federal Register on November 26, 
2024, at 89 FR 93199.\2\ That rule made clarifying changes to the 
regulatory text of FMVSS No. 127 in response to petitions for 
reconsideration of the rule published May 9, 2024 titled ``Federal 
Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Automatic Emergency Braking Systems for 
Light Vehicles'' filed by the Alliance for Automotive Innovation (the 
Alliance), Toyota Motor North America, Volkswagen Group of America, and 
Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus, LLC, as well as a petition, treated by 
NHTSA as a petition for rulemaking, from Autotalks. It also denied 
several changes requested by petitioners.
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    \1\ Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/ (last accessed 
Jan. 22, 2025)
    \2\ On Dec. 11, 2024, a correction notice was published which 
corrected a typographical error in the amendatory instruction. This 
notice did not change the effective date of the rule. 89 FR 99732.
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    This action is exempt from notice and comment under 5 U.S.C. 553 
and is effective immediately upon publication today in the Federal 
Register, based on the good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 
553(d)(3), respectively. Seeking public comment is impracticable, 
unnecessary, and contrary to the public interest. The temporary delay 
in effective date is necessary to give Department officials the 
opportunity for further review and consideration of new regulations, 
consistent with the President's memorandum of January 20, 2025. Given 
the imminence of the effective date, seeking prior public comment on 
this temporary delay would have been impractical, as well as contrary 
to the public interest in the orderly promulgation and implementation 
of regulations. The imminence of the effective date is also good cause 
for making this action effective immediately upon publication.

    Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 
1.95 and 501.5.
Peter Simshauser,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2025-01832 Filed 1-23-25; 4:15 pm]
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