Rule2025-02585
Anthropomorphic Test Devices, HIII 5th Percentile Female Test Dummy; Incorporation by Reference
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Published
February 14, 2025
Effective
March 20, 2025
Issuing agencies
Transportation DepartmentNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Abstract
This document delays until March 20, 2025, the effective date of the January 3, 2025, final rule that revised the chest jacket and spine box specifications for the Hybrid III 5th Percentile Female Test Dummy (HIII-5F) to address issues with fit and availability of the jacket and a noise artifact from the spine box.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 30 (Friday, February 14, 2025)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 9611-9612]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-02585]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
49 CFR Part 572
[Docket No. NHTSA-2024-0093]
RIN 2127-AM13
Anthropomorphic Test Devices, HIII 5th Percentile Female Test
Dummy; Incorporation by Reference
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Final rule; delay of effective date.
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SUMMARY: This document delays until March 20, 2025, the effective date
of the January 3, 2025, final rule that revised the chest jacket and
spine box specifications for the Hybrid III 5th Percentile Female Test
Dummy (HIII-5F) to address issues with fit and availability of the
jacket and a noise artifact from the spine box.
DATES: The effective date of the rule, amending 49 CFR part 572,
subpart O, published on January 3, 2025, at 90 FR 250, is delayed until
March 20, 2025. The incorporation by reference of certain material
listed in the rule is approved by the Director of the Federal Register
as of March 20, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Correspondence related to this rule should refer to the
docket number set forth above (NHTSA-2024-0093) and be submitted to
<a href="http://regulations.gov">regulations.gov</a> or to the Administrator, National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For technical issues: Mr. Garry Brock,
Office of Crashworthiness Standards, Telephone: (202) 366-6198;
Facsimile: (202) 366-7002. For legal issues: Ms. K. Helena Sung, Office
of the Chief Counsel, Telephone: (202) 366-2992, Facsimile: (202) 366-
3820. The mailing address for these officials is: National
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Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the memorandum of January
20, 2025, from the President to executive departments and agencies,
entitled ``Regulatory Freeze Pending Review,'' \1\ this action
temporarily delays until March 20, 2025, the effective date of the rule
entitled ``Anthropomorphic Test Devices, HIII 5th Percentile Female
Test Dummy; Incorporation by Reference,'' published in the Federal
Register on January 3, 2025, at 90 FR 250. The final rule revised chest
jacket and spine box specifications to the Hybrid III 5th percentile
adult female (HIII-5F) anthropomorphic test device (ATD or crash test
dummy or dummy), described in 49 CFR part 572, subpart O, and used in
frontal compliance crash tests and air bag static deployment tests. The
rulemaking responded to the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturer's 2014
petition for rulemaking.\2\
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\1\ Available at <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/">https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/regulatory-freeze-pending-review/</a> (last accessed
Jan. 22, 2025).
\2\ Letter from Scott Schmidt, Alliance, to NHTSA (February 21,
2014). The Alliance consisted of: BMW Group; Chrysler Group LLC;
Ford Motor Company; General Motors Company; Jaguar Land Rover;
Mazda; Mercedes-Benz USA; Mitsubishi Motors; Porsche; Toyota;
Volkswagen Group of America; and Volvo Cars.
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This action is exempt from notice and comment under 5 U.S.C. 553
and is effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register,
based on the good cause exceptions in 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553(d)(3),
respectively. Seeking public comment is impracticable, unnecessary, and
contrary to the public interest. The temporary delay in effective date
is necessary to give Department officials the opportunity for further
review and consideration of new regulations, consistent with the
President's memorandum of January 20, 2025. Given the imminence of the
effective date, seeking prior public comment on this temporary delay
would have been impractical, as well as contrary to the public interest
in the orderly promulgation and implementation of regulations. The
imminence of the effective date is also good cause for making this
action effective immediately upon publication in the Federal Register.
Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR
1.95 and 501.5.
Peter Simshauser,
Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 2025-02585 Filed 2-13-25; 8:45 am]
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