[Federal Register Volume 69, Number 237 (Friday, December 10, 2004)]
[Notices]
[Pages 71872-71873]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 04-27104]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA 2001-10856]


Motor Vehicle Safety; Disposition of Recalled Tires; Agency 
Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), this notice announces that the Information 
Collection Request (ICR) abstracted below has been forwarded to the 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and comment. The ICR 
describes the nature of the information collections and their expected 
burden. Federal Register notices with a 60-day comment period were 
published on May 27, 2003, at Vol. 68, No. 101 p. 28876-77 and on April 
22, 2004, at Vol. 69, No. 78 p 21881-3.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before January 10, 2005.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, within 30 days, to the Office of Information 
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget, 725-17th 
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20503, Attention NHTSA Desk Officer.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: George Person at the National Highway 
Traffic Safety Administration, Recall Management Division, NVS-215, 400 
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590, phone 202-366-5210.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Agency: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
    Title: Motor Vehicle Safety; Disposition of Recalled Tires.
    OMB Number: 2127--0004.
    Type of Request: Revision of currently approved collection.
    Abstract: Section 7 of the Transportation Recall Enhancement, 
Accountability, and Documentation (TREAD) Act requires a manufacturer's 
remedy program for tires to include a plan for preventing, to the 
extent reasonably within the manufacturer's control, the resale of 
replaced tires for use on motor vehicles, as well as a plan for the 
disposition of replaced tires other than in landfills, particularly 
through methods such as shredding, crumbling, recycling, recovery, or 
other ``beneficial non-vehicular uses.'' Manufacturers that conduct 
recalls are already required by 49 CFR part 573 to submit a Defect or 
Noncompliance Information Report, containing certain information, to 
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). One item of 
required information is a description of the manufacturer's program for 
remedying the defect or noncompliance (remedy plan). This information 
collection adds the requirement for manufacturers to include their plan 
for disposal of recalled tires in their remedy plan. Further, Section 7 
requires manufacturers to include information about the implementation 
of remedy plans in quarterly reports that they are required to make to 
NHTSA. Manufacturers are already required to file quarterly reports 
containing certain information about the progress of recalls. This rule 
adds a requirement to report to NHTSA in these quarterly reports 
information about tires which were not disposed of in accordance with 
the disposal plan.
    Affected Public: All manufacturers of recalled tires and all 
dealers of recalled tires.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 20 hours increase over the current 
allotment of 18,204 hours for a total of 18,224 hours. There is no 
increase in reporting and recordkeeping cost burden.
    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 Departments 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

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other forms of information technology. A comment to OMB is most 
effective if OMB receives it within 30 days of publication.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on December 3, 2004.
Kenneth N. Weinstein,
Associate Administrator for Enforcement.
[FR Doc. 04-27104 Filed 12-9-04; 8:45 am]
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