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may require periodic reports on a

quarterly or annual basis. The

information collected provides FTA

with a basis for monitoring compliance.

In addition, public entities, including

recipients of FTA funds, are required to

provide information during triennial

reviews, compliant investigations,

resolutions of complaints, and

compliance reviews.

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

40,000 hours.

Title: Pre-Award and Post Delivery

Review Requirements (OMB Number

2132–0544).

Abstract: Under the Federal Transit

Laws, at 49 U.S.C. 5323(l), grantees

must certify that pre-award and postdelivery reviews will be conducted

when using FTA funds to purchase

revenue service vehicles. FTA

regulation 49 CFR Part 663 implements

this law by specifying the actual

certificates that must be submitted by

each bidder to assure compliance with

the Buy America, contract specification,

and vehicle safety requirements for

rolling stock. The information collected

on the certification forms is necessary

for FTA grantees to meet the

requirements of 49 U.S.C. 5323(l).

Estimated Total Annual Burden:

3,024 hours.

ADDRESSES: All written comments must

refer to the docket number that appears

at the top of this document and be

submitted to the Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs, Office of

Management and Budget, 725 17th

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503,

Attention: FTA Desk Officer.

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.

Issued: February 28, 2001.

Dorrie Y. Aldrich,

Associate Administrator for Administration.

[FR Doc. 01–5292 Filed 3–5–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–57–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA 00–6985]

Insurance Cost Information Regulation

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: This notice announces

publication by NHTSA of the 2001 text

and data that all car dealers must

include in an insurance cost

information booklet that they must

make available to prospective

purchasers, pursuant to 49 CFR 582.4.

This information may assist prospective

purchasers in comparing differences in

passenger vehicle collision loss

experience that could affect auto

insurance costs.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may

obtain a copy of this booklet by

contacting the U.S. Department of

Transportation, Docket Management,

Room PL–401, 400 Seventh Street, SW.,

Washington, DC 20590. (Docket hours

are from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Rosalind Proctor, Chief, Consumer

Programs Division, NHTSA, 400

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC

20590 (202–366–0846).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to section 201(e) of the Motor Vehicle

Information and Cost Savings Act, 15

U.S.C. 1941(e), on March 5, 1993, 58 FR

12545, the National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA)

amended 49 CFR Part 582, Insurance

Cost Information Regulation, to require

all dealers of automobiles to distribute

to prospective customers information

that compares differences in insurance

costs of different makes and models of

passenger cars based on differences in

damage susceptibility. On March 17,

1994, NHTSA denied a petition

submitted by the National Automobile

Dealers Association (NADA) for NHTSA

to reconsider Part 582 insofar as it

requires all automobile dealers to

prepare the requisite number of copies

for distribution of the insurance cost

information to prospective purchasers.

59 FR 13630.

On March 24, 1995, NHTSA

published a Final Rule to amend Part

582 in a number of respects. 60 FR

15509. These changes included wording

clarifications and a change in the

availability date of the booklet.

Pursuant to 49 CFR § 582.4, all

automobile dealers are required to make

available to prospective purchasers

booklets that include this comparative

information as well as certain

mandatory explanatory text that is set

out in section 582.5. Early each year,

NHTSA publishes the annual Federal

Register document updating the

Highway Loss Data Institute’s (HLDI)

December Insurance Collision Report.

Booklets reflecting the updated data

must be available for distribution to

prospective purchasers without charge

within 30 days from the date of the

Federal Register.

NHTSA is mailing a copy of the 2001

booklet to each dealer on the mailing

list that the Department of Energy uses

to distribute the ‘‘Gas Mileage Guide.’’

Dealers will have the responsibility of

reproducing a sufficient number of

copies of the booklet to assure that they

are available for retention by

prospective purchasers by April 6, 2001.

Dealers who do not receive a copy of the

booklet within 15 days of the date of

this notice should contact Ms. Rosalind

Proctor of NHTSA’s Office of Planning

and Consumer Programs (202) 366–0846

to receive a copy of the booklet and to

be added to the mailing list. Dealers

may also obtain a copy of the booklet

through the NHTSA web page at:

http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/

problems/studies/InsCost.

Authority: (49 U.S.C. 32302; delegation of

authority at 49 CFR 1.50(f).)

Issued on: February 28, 2001.

Stephen R. Kratzke,

Associate Administrator for Safety,

Performance Standards.

[FR Doc. 01–5294 Filed 3–5–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket NHTSA–99–5087]

Safety Performance Standards

Program Meeting

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of NHTSA rulemaking

status meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

public meeting at which NHTSA will

answer questions from the public and

the automobile industry regarding the

agency’s vehicle regulatory program.

DATES: The Agency’s regular, quarterly

public meeting relating to its vehicle

regulatory program will be held on

Thursday, April 19, 2001, beginning at

9:45 a.m. and ending at approximately

12:00 p.m. at the Best Western Gateway

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International Hotel in Romulus,

Michigan. Questions relating to the

vehicle regulatory program must be

submitted in writing with a diskette

(Wordperfect) by Friday, March 23,

2001, to the address shown below or by

e-mail. If sufficient time is available,

questions received after March 23, may

be answered at the meeting. The

individual, group or company

submitting a questions(s) does not have

to be present for the questions(s) to be

answered. A consolidated list of the

questions submitted by March 23, 2001,

and the issues to be discussed, will be

posted on NHTSA’s web site (http://

www.nhtsa.dot.gov) by Monday, April

16, 2001, and also will be available at

the meeting. The agency will not hold

a second research and development

public meeting on April 19.

ADDRESSES: Questions for the April 19,

NHTSA Rulemaking Status Meeting,

relating to the agency’s vehicle

regulatory program, should be

submitted to Delia Lopez, NPS–01,

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, Room 5401, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590, Fax Number 202–366–4329, email dlopez@nhtsa.dot.gov. The meeting

will be held at the Best Western

Gateway International Hotel, 9191

Wickham Road, Romulus, Michigan.

The telephone number for the Best

Western Gateway International Hotel is

734–728–2800.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Delia Lopez, (202) 366–1810.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA

holds a regular, quarterly meeting to

answer questions from the public and

the regulated industries regarding the

agency’s vehicle regulatory program.

Questions on aspects of the agency’s

research and development activities that

relate directly to ongoing regulatory

actions should be submitted, as in the

past, to the agency’s Safety Performance

Standards Office. The purpose of this

meeting is to focus on those phases of

NHTSA activities which are technical,

interpretative or procedural in nature.

Transcripts of these meetings will be

available for public inspection in the

DOT Docket in Washington, DC, within

four weeks after the meeting. Copies of

the transcript will then be available at

ten cents a page, (length has varied from

80 to 150 pages) upon request to DOT

Docket, Room PL–401, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. The

DOT Docket is open to the public from

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The transcript

may also be accessed electronically at

http://dms.dot.gov, at docket NHTSA–

99–5087. Questions to be answered at

the quarterly meeting should be

organized by categories to help us

process the questions into an agenda

form more efficiently. Sample format:

I. Rulemaking

A. Crash avoidance

B. Crashworthiness

C. Other Rulemakings

II. Consumer Information

III. Miscellaneous

NHTSA will provide auxiliary aids to

participants as necessary. Any person

desiring assistance of ‘‘auxiliary aids’’

(e.g., sign-language interpreter,

telecommunications devices for deaf

persons (TDDs), readers, taped texts,

brailled materials, or large print

materials and/or a magnifying device),

please contact Delia Lopez on (202)

366–1810, by COB Monday, April 16,

2001.

Issued: February 28, 2001.

Stephen R. Kratzke,

Associate Administrator for Safety

Performance Standards.

[FR Doc. 01–5293 Filed 3–5–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA–2001–9023]

RIN 2127–AG18

Automobile Parts Content Labeling;

Review: American Automobile

Labeling Act; Evaluation Report

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA),

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Request for comments on

technical report.

SUMMARY: This notice announces

NHTSA’s publication of a Technical

Report reviewing and evaluating its

existing regulation Part 583, Automobile

Parts Content Labeling. The report’s title

is Evaluation of the American

Automobile Labeling Act.

DATES: Comments must be received no

later than July 5, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Report: You may obtain a

copy of the report free of charge by

sending a self-addressed mailing label to

Publications Ordering and Distribution

Services (NAD–51), National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590. A summary of the report is

available on the Internet for viewing on

line at www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/

regrev/evaluate/809208.html. The full

report is available on the Internet in

PDF format at www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/

rules/regrev/evaluate/pdf/809208.pdf.

Comments: All comments should

refer to the Docket number of this notice

(NHTSA–2001–9023). You may submit

your comments in writing to: U. S.

Department of Transportation Docket

Management, Room PL–401, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590. You may also submit your

comments electronically by logging onto

the Dockets Management System

website at http://dms.dot.gov. Click on

‘‘Help & Information’’ or ‘‘Help/Info’’ to

obtain instructions for filing the

document electronically.

You may call Docket Management at

202–366–9324 and visit the Docket from

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through

Friday.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles J. Kahane, Chief, Evaluation

Division, NPP–22, Plans and Policy,

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, Room 5208, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590. Telephone: 202–366–2560. FAX:

202–366–2559. E-mail:

ckahane@nhtsa.dot.gov.

For information about NHTSA’s

evaluations of the effectiveness of

existing regulations and programs: Visit

the NHTSA web site at http://

www.nhtsa.dot.gov and click

‘‘Regulations & Standards’’ underneath

‘‘Car Safety’’ on the home page; then

click ‘‘Regulatory Evaluation’’ on the

‘‘Regulations & Standards’’ page.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA

regulation Part 583 (49 CFR 583),

Automobile Parts Content Labeling

requires passenger vehicles

manufactured after October 1, 1994 to

have labels specifying their percentage

value of U.S./Canadian parts content,

the country of assembly, and countries

of origin of the engine and transmission

(59 FR 37294). This regulation

implements the American Automobile

Labeling Act (AALA) of 1992, and its

purpose is to help consumers in the

selection of new vehicles by providing

information about the country of origin

of vehicles and their parts.

As required by the Government

Performance and Results Act of 1993

and Executive Order 12866 (58 FR

51735), NHTSA reviews existing

regulations to determine if they are

achieving policy goals. This evaluation

is based on a 1998 consumer survey to

see if new-vehicle purchasers know

about the labels, understand them, and/

or use them to help select a vehicle;

manufacturer and dealer surveys to

learn about their response to the labels;

and statistical analyses of the actual

trends in U.S./Canadian parts content in

new motor vehicles after 1994.