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- Motor vehicle safety 321
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards Lamps, Reflective Devices, and Associated Equipment
This notice amends Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 108 to specify that plastic materials used in reflex reflectors show not more than 7 percent haze after a 3-year outdoor exposure test, a level at which haze becomes discernable to the naked eye. This amendment will not change the stringency of the standard as it has been applied, but...
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Temporary Exemption From Motor Vehicle Safety Standards
This notice corrects a grammatical error in the language of the certification label required for a vehicle temporarily exempted from compliance with the Federal motor vehicle safety standards.
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Fuel System Integrity of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles
On April 25, 1994, NHTSA published a new Federal motor vehicle safety standard, Standard No. 303, Fuel System Integrity of Compressed Natural Gas Vehicles. The standard limits the amount of allowable CNG leakage after a crash test by limiting the post-crash pressure drop of the fuel system. Ford Motor Company, Chrysler Corporation, and the...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Air Brake Systems; Long- Stroke Brake Chambers
Consistent with a recommendation by the National Transportation Safety Board and in response to a petition for rulemaking from the American Trucking Associations (ATA), this final rule amends the reservoir requirements in Standard No. 121, Air Brake Systems, for trucks, buses, and trailers equipped with air brakes. The agency believes that the...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages
This notice amends Standard No. 210, Seat Belt Assembly Anchorages, to eliminate the sole exception to the requirement in paragraph S4.1.2 for the installation of anchorages for either a Type 1 or a Type 2 seat belt assembly at any designated seating position for which Standard No. 208, Occupant Crash Protection, requires the installation of a...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; School Bus Pedestrian Safety Devices
This notice adopts as final the amendments made by an interim final rule to the flash rate requirement for stop signal arm lamps in Standard No. 131, School Bus Pedestrian Safety Devices. The interim final rule, which responded to a petition for rulemaking submitted by Blue Bird Bus Company, removed design restrictive language that had the...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Hydraulic Brake Systems; Passenger Car Brake Systems
This rule establishes a new Federal motor vehicle safety standard, FMVSS No. 135, Passenger Car Brake Systems, and replaces Standard FMVSS No. 105, Hydraulic Brake Systems, as it applies to passenger cars. NHTSA's decision to establish the new standard results from the agency's efforts to harmonize its standards with international standards. The...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems
In response to petitions for reconsideration of a February 1994 final rule, this rule amends labeling requirements in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 213, Child Restraint Systems. The final rule requires each rear-facing infant restraint system to bear a label warning against using the restraint in any vehicle seating position...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Lamps, Reflective Devices and Associated Equipment
This notice responds to petitions for reconsideration of the final rule published on January 12, 1993, that added minimum photometric values for headlamps at test points above the horizontal. The notice corrects minor errors that appeared in the final rule, and others which have been brought to NHTSA's attention. The notice also deletes...
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Organization and Delegation of Powers and Duties
This notice amends the delegations of authority within the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration by transferring, from the Associate Administrator for Enforcement to the Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance, the responsibility for granting and denying petitions for import eligibility decisions that are submitted to the agency...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards, New Pneumatic Tires; Consumer Information Regulations Uniform Tire Quality Grading Standards
This document corrects test inflation pressures associated with the 350 kilopascal (kPa) (51 pounds per square inch (psi)) maximum inflation pressure for certain passenger car tires specified in the Uniform Tire Quality Grading Standards and the safety standard on new pneumatic tires. NHTSA makes this correction in response to a submission from...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Stability and Control of Medium and Heavy Vehicles During Braking
In response to the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act (ISTEA) of 1991, this final rule amends Standard No. 105, Hydraulic Brake Systems, and Standard No. 121, Air Brake Systems, to require medium and heavy vehicles to be equipped with an antilock brake system (ABS) to improve the directional stability and control of these vehicles...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Stopping Distance Requirements for Vehicles Equipped With Air Brake Systems
This notice reinstates stopping distance performance requirements in Standard No. 121, Air Brake Systems, for medium and heavy vehicles that are equipped with air brake systems. The requirements specify distances in which different types of medium and heavy vehicle configurations must come to a complete stop from 60 mph on a high coefficient of...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Metric Conversion
This final rule amends selected Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) by converting English measurements specified in those standards to metric measurements. This rulemaking is the first of several that NHTSA will undertake to implement the statutory Federal policy that the metric system is the preferred system of weights and measures...
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Replaceable Light Source Information
This notice responds to petitions for reconsideration of the final rule, published on January 12, 1993, that requires the manufacturers of replaceable light sources for headlamps to file dimensional and other information with NHTSA in a public docket pursuant to 49 CFR part 564, Replaceable Light Source Information. Part 564, which currently...
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Incentive Grant Criteria for Drunk Driving Prevention Programs
On August 9, 1994, (59 FR 40471) NHTSA published an interim final rule, amending the criterion in part 1313 for a supplemental grant for States that deem persons under age 21 who operate a motor vehicle with a BAC of 0.02 or greater to be driving while intoxicated. The interim final rule requested comments on the amendment. Today's notice...
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Organization and Delegation of Powers and Duties
This final rule revises the regulations on the organization of and delegations of powers and duties within [[Page 15504]] NHTSA to reflect changes in the titles of two agency officials. The official formerly known as the Associate Administrator for Rulemaking is now the Associate Administrator for Safety Performance Standards. The NHTSA official...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard; Convex Cross View Mirrors on School Buses
In this final rule, NHTSA amends the safety standard on rearview mirrors to reduce the duplication of the views provided by System B mirrors, which provide a view of test cylinders in the area around the front of a school bus and near the rear wheels, and System A mirrors, which provide a view of the area beneath the System A mirrors, along both...
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Petitions for Rulemaking, Defect and Noncompliance Orders; Standards Enforcement and Defect Investigations; Defect and Noncompliance Reports; Record Retention; and Defect and Noncompliance Notification
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is amending several provisions of its regulations that pertain to its enforcement of the provisions of Chapter 301 of Title 49 of the United States Code (49 U.S.C. 30101-169, formerly the National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act), with respect to manufacturers' obligations to...
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Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Lamps, Reflective Devices and Associated Equipment
This notice amends the Federal motor vehicle safety standard on lighting to allow the photometric conformance of rear center highmounted stop lamps to be determined by a grouping of test points. This action is consistent with the agency's requirements for other lamps and will lessen the testing burden for manufacturers.