[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 130 (Friday, July 7, 1995)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 35458]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16813]




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Part III





Department of Transportation





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National Highway Traffic Safety Administration



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49 CFR Parts 573, 576, and 577



Motor Vehicle Safety Standards: Final Rule and Proposed Rule

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

49 CFR Parts 573, 576 and 577

[Docket No. 93-68, Notice 6]


Defect and Noncompliance Reports; Record Retention; Defect and 
Noncompliance Notification; Suspension of Effective Date

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 
Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Suspension of effective date of provisions of final rule.

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SUMMARY: This document suspends until further notice the effective 
dates of amendments to 49 CFR Part 576 (record retention) and 49 CFR 
sections 573.5(c)(8) (recall schedule); 573.7 (leased vehicle 
recordkeeping); and 577.5(h) (recall notification of lessees) 
promulgated by a final rule published in the Federal Register on April 
5, 1995 (60 FR 17254). The suspension will permit the agency to gather 
further information on issues raised by petitions for reconsideration 
of those sections and to consider those issues further. All other 
amendments made by the April 5 final rule not specified above are 
effective on July 7, 1995.

DATES: The effective date of the April 5, 1995 amendments to 49 CFR 
Part 576 and 49 CFR 573.5(c)(8) and 573.7 and the addition of 
Sec. 577.5(h) is suspended pending resolution of petitions for 
reconsideration. The effective date (as established on May 16, 1995 (60 
FR 26002)) of all other amendments made by the April 5 final rule 
remains July 7, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan D. White, Office of Defects 
Investigation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 400 
Seventh Street, SW, Room 5319, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 366-5227.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By this notice, the National Highway Traffic 
Safety Administration (NHTSA) is suspending the effective date of 
certain provisions of a final rule published on April 5, 1995. 60 FR 
17254. The original effective date of these amendments was May 5, 1995. 
The agency established a new effective date of July 7, 1995 (60 FR 
26002; May 16, 1995), after having received several petitions for 
reconsideration of the final rule shortly before the original effective 
date.
    The agency has decided to solicit from the public additional 
information on certain provisions of the final rule that are the 
subjects of the petitions for reconsideration by holding a public 
meeting and providing an opportunity for written submissions. Notice of 
that meeting is published today in a separate Federal Register notice.
    To give NHTSA an adequate opportunity to gather and consider 
additional information on those specified issues, before ruling on the 
petitions for reconsideration, the agency has decided to suspend the 
effective date of certain provisions of the April 5, 1995 final rule. 
This extension applies only to the amendments to 49 CFR Part 576, 
Record Retention, and 49 CFR 573.5(c)(8) (recall schedule), 573.7 
(leased vehicle recordkeeping), and the addition of Sec. 577.5(h) 
(recall notification of lessees). All other amendments made by the 
April 5, 1995 final rule will be effective on July 7, 1995.
Ricardo Martinez,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 95-16813 Filed 7-5-95; 2:51 pm]
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