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and performance requirements which 

apply to all manufacturers of brake 

hoses and brake hose end fittings, and 

to those who assemble brake hoses (49 

CFR 571.106). 

Prior to assembling or selling brake 

hoses, these entities must register their 

identification marks with NHTSA to 

comply with the labeling requirements 

of this standard. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, the agency 

must obtain OMB approval to continue 

collecting labeling information. 

Currently, there are 2,418 manufacturers 

of brake hoses and end fittings, and 

brake hose assemblers, registered with 

NHTSA. However, about 60 respondents 

annually (annual average from 2014– 

2016) request to have their 

identification marks added to or 

removed from the NHTSA database. To 

comply with this standard, each brake 

hose manufacturer or assembler must 

contact NHTSA and state that they want 

to be added to or removed from the 

NHTSA database of registered brake 

hose manufacturers. This action is 

usually initiated by the manufacturer 

with a brief written request via U.S. 

mail, facsimile, an email message, or a 

telephone call. Since September 1, 2015, 

the request can be submitted via the 

Manufacturer Portal: Online Web-based 

Submittal Center (https://

vpic.nhtsa.dot.gov). Currently, about 90 

percent of requests are received 

electronically and 10 percent via mail. 

The estimated time for complying with 

the labeling requirements of this 

regulation is 1.5 hours per 

manufacturer. The corresponding total 

annual burden is estimated to be 90 

hours (time burden of 1.5 hours per 

manufacturer × 60 manufacturers). The 

estimated manufacturer’s cost for 

complying with this regulation is $100 

per hour. Therefore, the total annual 

cost is estimated to be $9,000 (time 

burden of 90 hours × $100 cost per 

hour). 

Respondents: Business or other for 

profit. 

Number of Respondents: 60. 

Number of Responses: 60. 

Total Annual Burden: 90 hours. 

Public Comments Invited: You are 

asked to comment on any aspect of this 

information collection, including (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the 

Department’s performance; (b) the 

accuracy of the estimated burden; (c) 

ways for the Department to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collection; and (d) ways 

that the burden could be minimized 

without reducing the quality of the 

collected information. The agency will 

summarize and/or include your 

comments in the request for OMB’s 

clearance of this information collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended; 

and 49 CFR 1:48. 

Issued in Washington, DC. 

Raymond R. Posten, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2017–19017 Filed 9–7–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket Number NHTSA–2016–0133] 

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping 

Requirements 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Request for public comment on 

extension of a currently approved 

collection of information. 

SUMMARY: Before a Federal agency can 

collect certain information from the 

public, it must receive approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB). Under procedures established 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995, before seeking OMB approval, 

Federal agencies must solicit public 

comment on proposed collections of 

information, including extensions and 

reinstatement of previously approved 

collections. This document describes an 

existing collection of information for an 

existing regulation for the aftermarket 

modification of vehicles to 

accommodate people with disabilities, 

for which NHTSA intends to seek 

renewed OMB approval. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 7, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Comments must refer to the 

docket number cited at the beginning of 

this notice, and may be submitted by 

any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility, 

M–30, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building, Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Telephone: 1–800–647–2251. 

• Instructions: All submissions must 

include the docket number for this 

document. Please identify the collection 

of information for which a comment is 

provided by referencing the OMB 

Control Number, 2127–0635. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

see the Privacy Act heading below. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by title 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78) or you may visit http://

DocketsInfo.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Christopher J. Wiacek, NHTSA, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., Room W43– 

474, NVS–122, Washington, DC 20590. 

Mr. Wiacek’s telephone number is (202) 

366–4801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before an agency submits a proposed 

collection of information to OMB for 

approval, it must first publish a 

document in the Federal Register 

providing a 60-day comment period and 

otherwise consult with members of the 

public and affected agencies concerning 

each proposed collection of information. 

The OMB has promulgated regulations 

describing what must be included in 

such a document. Under OMB’s 

regulation (at 5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an 

agency must ask for public comment on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(3) How to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; 

(4) How to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

In compliance with these 

requirements, NHTSA asks for public 


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1The address of NHTSA has changed since 2001 

and is now 1200 New Jersey Ave. SE., Washington, 

DC 20590. 

2The agency does not require modifiers to submit 

information to us for every vehicle that is modified. 

Therefore, we have no exact count of the number 

of modifications made each year. 

comments on the following collection of 

information: 

Title: Exemption for the Make 

Inoperative Prohibition. 

OMB Control Number: 2127–0635. 

Form Number: This collection of 

information uses no standard form. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

Abstract: On February 27, 2001, 

NHTSA published a final rule (66 FR 

12638) to facilitate the modification of 

motor vehicles so that persons with 

disabilities can drive or ride in them as 

passengers. In that final rule, the agency 

issued a limited exemption from a 

statutory provision that prohibits 

specified types of commercial entities 

from either removing safety equipment 

or features installed on motor vehicles 

pursuant to the Federal motor vehicle 

safety standards or altering the 

equipment or features so as to adversely 

affect their performance. The exemption 

is limited in that it allows repair 

businesses to modify only certain types 

of Federally-required safety equipment 

and features, under specified 

circumstances. The regulation is found 

at 49 CFR part 595 subpart C, ‘‘Vehicle 

Modifications to Accommodate People 

with Disabilities.’’ 

This final rule included two new 

‘‘collections of information,’’ as that 

term is defined in 5 CFR part 1320 

‘‘Controlling Paperwork Burdens on the 

Public’’: Modifier identification and a 

document to be provided to the owner 

of the modified vehicle stating the 

exemptions used for that vehicle and 

any reduction in load carrying capacity 

of the vehicle of more than 100 kg (220 

lbs). 

Modifiers who take advantage of the 

exemption created by this rule are 

required to furnish NHTSA with a 

written document providing the 

modifier’s name, address, and telephone 

number, and a statement that the 

modifier is availing itself of the 

exemption. The rule requires: 

‘‘S595.6 Modifier Identification. 

(a) Any motor vehicle repair business 

that modifies a motor vehicle to enable 

a person with a disability to operate, or 

ride as a passenger in, the motor vehicle 

and intends to avail itself of the 

exemption provided in 49 CFR 595.7 

shall furnish the information specified 

in paragraphs (a)(1) through (3) of this 

section to: Administrator, National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 

400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, 

DC 20590.1

(1) Full individual, partnership, or 

corporate name of the motor vehicle 

repair business. 

(2) Residence address of the motor 

vehicle repair business and State of 

incorporation if applicable. 

(3) A statement that the motor vehicle 

repair business modifies a motor vehicle 

to enable a person with a disability to 

operate, or ride as a passenger in, the 

motor vehicle and intends to avail itself 

of the exemption provided in 49 CFR 

595.7. 

(b) Each motor vehicle repair business 

required to submit information under 

paragraph (a) of this section shall 

submit the information not later than 

August 27, 2001. After that date, each 

motor vehicle repair business that 

modifies a motor vehicle to enable a 

person with a disability to operate, or 

ride as a passenger in, the motor vehicle 

and intends to avail itself of the 

exemption provided in 49 CFR 595.7 

shall submit the information required 

under paragraph (a) not later than 30 

days after it first modifies a motor 

vehicle to enable a person with a 

disability to operate, or ride as a 

passenger in, the motor vehicle. Each 

motor vehicle repair business who has 

submitted required information shall 

keep its entry current, accurate and 

complete by submitting revised 

information not later than 30 days after 

the relevant changes in the business 

occur.’’ 

This requirement is a one-time 

submission unless changes are made to 

the business as described in paragraph 

(b). NHTSA estimates that there are 

currently 900 businesses making 

modifications to motor vehicles to 

accommodate persons with disabilities. 

Of those 900, we estimate 85 percent 

will need to use the exemptions 

provided by 49 CFR 595.7 (595 

businesses). The initial registration of 

modifiers wishing to use the exemptions 

occurred in 2001. Based on letters 

received since then, we estimate that 90 

businesses currently modifying vehicles 

will need to change their information or 

new registrants will elect to use the 

exemptions annually. We estimate the 

burden of new or changed registrations 

from 90 businesses each year of: 

90 businesses × 10 minutes/business = 

15 hours. 

We estimate the material cost 

associated with each submission to be 

56 cents per responding business, or 

$50.04 nationwide annually. 

Burden means the total time, effort, or 

financial resources expended by a 

person to generate, maintain, retain, 

disclose or provide information to or for 

a Federal agency. This includes the time 

needed to review instruction; develop, 

acquire, install, and utilize technology 

and systems for the purposes of 

collecting, validating, and verifying 

information, processing and 

maintaining information and disclosing 

and providing information; adjust the 

existing ways to comply with any 

previously applicable instructions and 

requirements; train personnel to be able 

to respond to a collection of 

information; and transmit or otherwise 

disclose the information. 

We seek comment on: 

1. Is our estimate of 900 businesses 

engaged in vehicle modification to 

accommodate people with disabilities 

correct? 

2. Are we correct in assuming that a 

maximum of 85 percent of those 900 

businesses, or 765 businesses, will need 

to use the exemptions provided by 49 

CFR 595.7? 

3. Are our estimates of the burden 

hours and material cost of compliance 

with 49 CFR 595.6 reasonable? 

Modifiers who avail themselves of the 

exemptions in 49 CFR 595.7 are 

required to keep a record, for each 

applicable vehicle, listing which 

standards, or portions thereof, no longer 

comply with the Federal motor vehicle 

safety standards and to provide a copy 

to the owner of the vehicle modified 

(see 49 CFR 595.7(b) and (e) as 

published in the final rule). 

We estimate that: 

1. There are approximately 5,000 

vehicles modified for persons with 

disabilities per year by 900 businesses; 2

2. If 85 percent of the 900 businesses 

use the exemptions provided by 49 CFR 

595.7, those 765 businesses will modify 

4,383 vehicles annually; and 

3. The burden for producing the 

record required by 49 CFR 595.7 in 

accordance with paragraph (e) for those 

vehicles will be 1,460 hours per year 

nationwide. 

In the final rule we anticipated that 

the least costly way for a repair business 

to comply with this portion of the new 

rule would be to annotate the vehicle 

modification invoice as to the 

exemption, if any, involved with each 

item on the invoice. The cost of 

preparing the invoice is not a portion of 

our burden calculation, as that 

preparation would be done in the 

normal course of business. The time 

needed to annotate the invoice, we 

estimate, is 20 minutes. Therefore, the 

burden hours for a full year are 

calculated as: 


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4,383 vehicles × 20 minutes/vehicle = 

1,460 hours. 

This burden includes the calculation 

required by 49 CFR 595.7(e), but not the 

gathering of the information required for 

the calculation. That information would 

be gathered in the normal course of the 

vehicle modification. The only extra 

burden required by the rule is the 

calculation of the reduction in loading 

carrying capacity and conveying this 

information to the vehicle owner. Again, 

we are assuming that annotation on the 

invoice is the least burdensome way to 

accomplish this customer notification. 

There will be no additional material 

cost associated with compliance with 

this requirement since no additional 

materials need be used above those used 

to prepare the invoice in the normal 

course of business. We are assuming it 

is normal and customary in the course 

of vehicle modification business to 

prepare an invoice, to provide a copy of 

the invoice to the vehicle owner, and to 

keep a copy of the invoice for five years 

after the vehicle is delivered to the 

owner in finished form. 

We seek comment on whether our 

assumptions about the following are 

accurate: 

1. The document required by 49 CFR 

595.7(b) and specified in paragraph (e) 

will need to be prepared for 

approximately 4,383 vehicles modified 

nationwide per year, 

2. Annotation of each vehicle 

modification invoice as to which 

exemptions were used will take an 

average of 20 minutes, and 

3. It is normal in the course of vehicle 

modification business to prepare an 

invoice, to provide a copy of the invoice 

to the vehicle owner, and to keep a copy 

of the invoice for five years after the 

vehicle is delivered to the owner in 

finished form. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit. 

Estimated Annual Burden: 1,475 

hours, and $50.04. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

765. 

Comments are invited on: Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the Department, 

including whether the information will 

have practical utility; the accuracy of 

the Department’s estimate of the burden 

of the proposed information collection; 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Raymond R. Posten, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2017–19016 Filed 9–7–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2017–0047] 

Reports, Forms, and Recordkeeping 

Requirements 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Request for extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

SUMMARY: This notice solicits public 

comments on continuation of the 

requirements for the collection of 

information on safety standards. Before 

a Federal agency can collect certain 

information from the public, it must 

receive approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB). Under 

procedures established by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before seeking OMB approval, Federal 

agencies must solicit public comment 

on proposed collections of information, 

including extensions and reinstatement 

of previously approved collections. 

This document describes a collection 

of labeling information on four Federal 

motor vehicle safety standards, for 

which NHTSA intends to seek OMB 

approval. The labeling requirements 

include brake fluid warning, glazing 

labeling, and safety belt labeling. 

DATES: Comments must be received on 

or before November 7, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

(identified by the DOT Docket ID 

Number above) by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

M–30, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Rm. W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590 between 9 a.m. 

and 5 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

Regardless of how you submit your 

comments, you should mention the 

docket number of this document. You 

may call the Docket at (202) 366–9324. 

Please identify the proposed collection 

of information for which a comment is 

provided, by referencing its OMB 

clearance Number. It is requested, but 

not required, that two copies of the 

comment be provided. 

Note that all comments received will 

be posted without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 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.). 

You may review DOT’s complete 

Privacy Act Statement in the Federal 

Register published on April 11, 2000 

(65 FR 19477–78). 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http://

www.regulations.gov or the street 

address listed above. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Complete copies of each request for 

collection of information may be 

obtained at no charge from Ms. Lori 

Summers, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, NHTSA, Room W43– 

320, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. Mrs. Summers’ 

telephone number is (202) 366–4917 

and fax number is (202) 366–7002. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

before a proposed collection of 

information is submitted to OMB for 

approval, Federal agencies must first 

publish a document in the Federal 

Register providing a 60-day comment 

period and otherwise consult with 

members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning each proposed 

collection of information. The OMB has 

promulgated regulations describing 

what must be included in such a 

document. Under OMB’s regulation (at 

5 CFR 1320.8(d)), an agency must ask 

for public comment on the following: 

(i) Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(ii) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 


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