54600 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 186 / Wednesday, September 26, 2007 / Rules and Regulations 

Dated: September 17, 2007. 

Michael K. Buckley, 

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Mitigation, 

Department of Homeland Security, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. E7–18952 Filed 9–25–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–12–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Office of the Secretary 

49 CFR Part 40 

Procedures for Transportation 

Workplace Drug and Alcohol Testing 

Programs 

CFR Correction 

In Title 49 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, Parts 1 to 99, revised as of 

October 1, 2006, the heading for 

§ 40.209, on page 680 is corrected to 

read as follows: 

§ 40.209 What procedural problems do not 

result in the cancellation of a test and do 

not require correction? 

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[FR Doc. 07–55511 Filed 9–25–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 1505–01–D 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

49 CFR Part 541 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2007–28497] 

RIN 2127–AJ97 

Federal Motor Vehicle Theft Prevention 

Standard; Final Listing of 2008 Light 

Duty Truck Lines Subject to the 

Requirements of This Standard and 

Exempted Vehicle Lines for Model Year 

2008 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Final rule. 

SUMMARY: This final rule announces 

NHTSA’s determination that no new 

model year (MY) 2008 light duty truck 

lines are subject to the parts-marking 

requirements of the Federal motor 

vehicle theft prevention standard 

because they have been determined by 

the agency to be high-theft or that they 

have a majority of interchangeable parts 

with those of a passenger motor vehicle 

line. This final rule also identifies those 

vehicle lines that are exempted from the 

parts-marking requirements because the 

vehicles are equipped with antitheft 

devices determined to meet certain 

statutory criteria pursuant to the statute 

relating to motor vehicle theft 

prevention. 

DATES: Effective Date: The amendment 

made by this final rule is effective 

September 26, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Rosalind Proctor, Consumer Programs 

Division, Office of International Policy, 

Fuel Economy and Consumer Programs, 

NHTSA, West Building, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., (NVS–131, Room 

W43–302) Washington, DC 20590. Ms. 

Proctor’s telephone number is (202) 

366–0846. Her fax number is (202) 493–

0073. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

6, 2004, the agency published in the 

Federal Register (69 FR 17960) a final 

rule extending the parts marking 

requirements to certain vehicle lines 

that were not previously subject to these 

requirements: (1) All low-theft 

passenger car lines; (2) all low-theft 

multipurpose passenger vehicle (MPV) 

lines with a gross vehicle weight rating 

(GVWR) of 6,000 pounds or less; and (3) 

low-theft light-duty truck (LDT) lines 

with a GVWR of 6,000 pounds or less 

that have major parts that are 

interchangeable with a majority of the 

covered major parts of passenger cars or 

MPVs. The high-theft vehicle lines that 

were previously exempted under 49 

CFR Part 543 on the grounds that they 

were equipped with an antitheft device 

as standard equipment were unaffected 

by the April 2004 final rule. The agency 

also stated that it would continue to 

grant exemptions for one vehicle line 

per model year. The final rule is 

effective September 1, 2006. 

The purpose of the theft prevention 

standard (49 CFR Part 541) is to reduce 

the incidence of motor vehicle theft by 

facilitating the tracing and recovery of 

parts from stolen vehicles. The standard 

seeks to facilitate such tracing by 

requiring that vehicle identification 

numbers (VINs), VIN derivative 

numbers, or other symbols be placed on 

major component vehicle parts. The 

theft prevention standard requires motor 

vehicle manufacturers to inscribe or 

affix VINs onto covered original 

equipment major component parts, and 

to inscribe or affix a symbol identifying 

the manufacturer and a common symbol 

identifying the replacement component 

parts for those original equipment parts, 

on all vehicle lines subject to the 

requirements of the standard. 

Section 33104(d) provides that once a 

line has become subject to the theft 

prevention standard, the line remains 

subject to the requirements of the 

standard unless it is exempted under 

§ 33106. Section 33106 provides that a 

manufacturer may petition to have a 

line exempted from the requirements of 

§ 33104, if the line is equipped with an 

antitheft device as standard equipment. 

The exemption is granted if NHTSA 

determines that the antitheft device is 

likely to be as effective as compliance 

with the theft prevention standard in 

reducing and deterring motor vehicle 

thefts. 

The agency annually publishes the 

names of those vehicle lines that are 

exempted from the theft prevention 

standard for a given model year under 

section 33104. Appendix A to Part 541 

identifies those new light-duty truck 

lines listed for the first time that will be 

subject to the theft prevention standard 

beginning in a given model year. 

Appendix A–I to Part 541 identifies 

those vehicle lines that are or have been 

exempted from the theft prevention 

standard. 

Beginning September 1, 2006, all 

passenger cars, all MPVs (with a gross 

vehicle weight rating of 6,000 pounds or 

less), all light duty trucks (with a gross 

vehicle weight rating of 6,000 pounds or 

less) determined to be high-theft in 

accordance with 49 CFR 542.1, and all 

low-theft light duty trucks (with a gross 

vehicle weight rating of 6,000 pounds or 

less) having a majority of their 

interchangeable parts with those of a 

passenger motor vehicle line in 

accordance with 49 CFR 542.2 became 

subject to the parts marking 

requirements. At least 50 percent of the 

production volume not subject to the 

current parts marking requirements 

(excluding light duty trucks) must have 

been marked by September 1, 2006. The 

remaining production volume not 

subject to the current parts marking 

requirements must be marked by 

September 1, 2007 (see 70 FR 28843, 

May 19, 2005). On April 19, 2006, the 

final listing of MY 2007 high-theft 

vehicle lines was published in the 

Federal Register (71 FR 20022). 

The final listing identified that there 

were no new vehicle lines that became 

subject to the theft prevention standard 

beginning with the 2007 model year. For 

MY 2008, there were no new light-duty 

truck lines identified that became 

subject to the theft prevention standard 

in accordance with the procedures 

published in 49 CFR Part 542. 

Subsequent to publishing the 2007 

final rule, two manufacturers petitioned 

the agency for an exemption from the 

parts marking requirements of the 

Federal motor vehicle theft prevention 

standard. The agency granted petitions 

for exemptions to the Ford Motor 

Company for the Five Hundred vehicle 


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