Federal Register / Vol. 90, No. 16 / Monday, January 27, 2025 / Rules and Regulations 8179 

1Available at https://www.whitehouse.gov/ 

presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freezepending-review/ (last accessed Jan. 22, 2025) 

2On 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. 

USPS Packaging Instruction 9E 

[Insert new second bullet in the 

Required Packaging section to read as 

follows:] 

Required Packaging 

Lithium Metal and Lithium-Ion 

Batteries 

D Lithium batteries installed in the 

device they operate, that are permitted 

to be mailed under section 622.5, may 

utilize padded and poly bags as outer 

packaging provided the device is within 

a secondary container (i.e., original 

manufacturer’s box) that can withstand 

a 1.2-meter drop test. Button cell 

batteries, meeting the classification 

criteria in 349.11d, installed in the 

device they operate are not required to 

be within a secondary container that can 

withstand a 1.2-meter drop test prior to 

utilizing a padded or poly bag as outer 

packaging. 

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Appendix D 

Hazardous Materials Definitions 

* * * * * 

[Revise definition of Rigid to read as 

follows:] 

Rigid means unable to bend or be 

forced out of shape; not flexible. Rigid 

outer packaging is generally interpreted 

to mean a fiberboard (cardboard) box or 

outer packaging of equivalent strength, 

durability, and rigidity. See 131. 

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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. 

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. 

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. 

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