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Federal Register :: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Small Business Impacts of Motor Vehicle Safety
A Proposed Rule by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on 12/09/2010
You should submit comments early enough to ensure that Docket Management receives them not later than February 7, 2011.
75 FR 76692
76692-76694 (3 pages)
49 CFR 501
49 CFR 509
49 CFR 510
49 CFR 511
49 CFR 520
49 CFR 525
49 CFR 526
Docket No. NHTSA-2010-0159
2010-30698
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2010-30698 https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2010-30698
You may submit comments [identified by DOT Docket ID Number NHTSA-2010-0054] by any of the following methods:
Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments and additional information see the Comments heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this document. 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.
Juanita Kavalauskas, Office of Regulatory Analysis, Office of Regulatory Analysis and Evaluation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590 (telephone 202-366-2584, fax 202-366-3189).
Section 610 of the Regulatory Flexibility Act of 1980 (Pub. L. 96-354), as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (Pub. L. 104-121), requires agencies to conduct periodic reviews of final rules that have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small business entities. The purpose of the reviews is to determine whether such rules should be continued without change, or should be amended Start Printed Page 76693or rescinded, consistent with the objectives of applicable statutes, to minimize any significant economic impact of the rules on a substantial number of such small entities.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) published its Semiannual Regulatory Agenda on November 22, 1999, listing in Appendix D (64 FR 64684) those regulations that each operating administration will review under section 610 during the next 12 months. Appendix D contained DOT's 10-year review plan for all of its existing regulations. On November 24, 2008, NHTSA published in the Federal Register (73 FR 71401) a revised 10-year review plan for its existing regulations.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA, “we”) has divided its rules into 10 groups by subject area. Each group will be reviewed once every 10 years, undergoing a two-stage process—an Analysis Year and a Review Year. For purposes of these reviews, a year will coincide with the fall-to-fall publication schedule of the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. The newly revised 10-year plan will assess years 9 and 10 of the old plan in years 1 and 2 of the new plan. Year 1 (2008) began in the fall of 2008 and will end in the fall of 2009; Year 2 (2009) will begin in the fall of 2009 and will end in the fall of 2010; and so on.
The section 610 review will determine whether a specific rule should be revised or revoked to lessen its impact on small entities. We will consider: (1) The continued need for the rule; (2) the nature of complaints or comments received from the public; (3) the complexity of the rule; (4) the extent to which the rule overlaps, duplicates, or conflicts with other Federal rules or with state or local government rules; and (5) the length of time since the rule has been evaluated or the degree to which technology, economic conditions, or other factors have changed in the area affected by the rule. At the end of the Review Year, we will publish the results of our review. The following table shows the 10-year analysis and review schedule:
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Section 610 Reviews
1 49 CFR 571.223 through 571.500, and parts 575 and 579 2008 2009
2 23 CFR parts 1200 and 1300 2009 2010
3 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 571.213 2010 2011
4 49 CFR 571.131, 571.217, 571.220, 571.221, and 571.222 2011 2012
5 49 CFR 571.101 through 571.110, and 571.135, 571.138 and 571.139 2012 2013
6 49 CFR parts 529 through 578, except parts 571 and 575 2013 2014
7 49 CFR 571.111 through 571.129 and parts 580 through 588 2014 2015
8 49 CFR 571.201 through 571.212 2015 2016
9 49 CFR 571.214 through 571.219, except 571.217 2016 2017
10 49 CFR parts 591 through 595 and new parts and subparts 2017 2018
During Year 3, we will continue to conduct a preliminary assessment of the following sections of 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 571.213:
501 Organization and delegation of powers and duties.
509 OMB control numbers for information collection requirements.
510 Information gathering powers.
511 Adjudicative procedures.
512 Confidential business information.
520 Procedures for considering environmental impacts.
523 Vehicle classification.
525 Exemptions from average fuel economy standards.
526 Petitions and plans for relief under the Automobile Fuel Efficiency Act of 1980.
571.213 Child restraint systems.
We are seeking comments on whether any requirements in 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 571.213 have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. “Small entities” include small businesses, not-for-profit organizations that are independently owned and operated and are not dominant in their fields, and governmental jurisdictions with populations under 50,000. Business entities are generally defined as small businesses by Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) code, for the purposes of receiving Small Business Administration (SBA) assistance. Size standards established by SBA in 13 CFR 121.201 are expressed either in number of employees or annual receipts in millions of dollars, unless otherwise specified. The number of employees or annual receipts indicates the maximum allowed for a concern and its affiliates to be considered small. If your business or organization is a small entity and if any of the requirements in 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 571.213 have a significant economic impact on your business or organization, please submit a comment to explain how and to what degree these rules affect you, the extent of the economic impact on your business or organization, and why you believe the economic impact is significant.
Executive Order 12866 and the President's memorandum of June 1, 1998, require each agency to write all rules in plain language. Application of the principles of plain language Start Printed Page 76694includes consideration of the following questions:
In conjunction with our section 610 reviews, we will be performing plain language reviews over a ten-year period on a schedule consistent with the section 610 review schedule. We will review 49 CFR parts 501 through 526 and 571.213 to determine if these regulations can be reorganized and/or rewritten to make them easier to read, understand, and use. We encourage interested persons to submit draft regulatory language that clearly and simply communicates regulatory requirements, and other recommendations, such as for putting information in tables that may make the regulations easier to use.
If you wish to submit any information under a claim of confidentiality, you should submit three copies of your complete submission, including the information you claim to be confidential business information, to the Chief Counsel, NHTSA, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. In addition, you should submit two copies, from which you have deleted the claimed confidential business information, to Docket Management at the address given above under ADDRESSES. When you send a comment containing information claimed to be confidential business information, you should include a cover letter setting forth the information specified in our confidential business information regulation. (49 CFR part 512.)
(1) Go to the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS) at http://regulations.gov.
(2) FDMS provides two basic methods of searching to retrieve dockets and docket materials that are available in the system: (a) “Quick Search” to search using a full-text search engine, or (b) “Advanced Search,” which displays various indexed fields such as the docket name, docket identification number, phase of the action, initiating office, date of issuance, document title, document identification number, type of document, Federal Register reference, CFR citation, etc. Each data field in the advanced search may be searched independently or in combination with other fields, as desired. Each search yields a simultaneous display of all available information found in FDMS that is relevant to the requested subject or topic.
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