Notice2025-20139
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Request for Comment; 49 CFR Part 585, Phase-In Reporting Requirements
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Published
November 18, 2025
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Transportation DepartmentNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Abstract
In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR) summarized below will be submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR describes the nature of the information collection and its expected burden. This notice describes a collection of information for phase-in reporting requirements as part of a final rule in which NHTSA amended Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, "Occupant crash protection." A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period soliciting comments on the following information collection was published on May 28,2025. NHTSA received one public comment that was not relevant to the information collection request.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 220 (Tuesday, November 18, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 51810-51812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-20139]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
[Docket No. NHTSA-2025-0053]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Request for
Comment; 49 CFR Part 585, Phase-In Reporting Requirements
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for comments on a request for reinstatement
with modification of a previously approved information collection.
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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA),
this notice announces that the Information Collection Request (ICR)
summarized below will be submitted to the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) for review and approval. The ICR describes the nature of
the information collection and its expected burden. This notice
describes a collection of information for phase-in reporting
requirements as part of a final rule in which NHTSA amended Federal
Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, ``Occupant crash
protection.'' A Federal Register Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on the following information collection was
published on May 28,2025. NHTSA received one public comment that was
not relevant to the information collection request.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before December 18, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including suggestions for reducing burden,
should be submitted to the Office of
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Management and Budget at <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. To find
this particular information collection, select ``Currently under
Review--Open for Public Comment'' or use the search function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information or access
to background documents, contact Ms. Carla Rush (<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#296a485b4548077b5c5a41694d465d074e465f"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="d192b0a3bdb0ff83a4a2b991b5bea5ffb6bea7">[email protected]</span></a>),
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590, Please identify the relevant collection of
information by referring to its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a
Federal agency must receive approval from the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) before it collects certain information from the public and
a person is not required to respond to a collection of information by a
Federal agency unless the collection displays a valid OMB control
number. In compliance with these requirements, this notice announces
that the following information collection request will be submitted
OMB.
Title: 49 CFR part 585; Phase-In Reporting Requirements.
OMB Control Number: 2127-0535.
Form Number(s): N/A.
Type of Request: Reinstatement with modification of a previously
approved information collection.\1\
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\1\ This information collection request (ICR) is to request a
reinstatement with modification of a previously approved information
collection for mandatory phase-in reporting for vehicle
manufacturers (OMB Control No. 2127-0535) and requesting that it be
renamed as ``49 CFR part 585; Phase-In Reporting Requirements.''
This ICR will be used to consolidate all phase-in reporting
requirements that are included in 49 CFR part 585 and was chosen
because the OMB Control Number is currently listed in 49 CFR 509 as
being associated with information collections contained in part 585.
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Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Requested Expiration Date of Approval: 3 years from date of
approval.
Summary of the Collection of Information: On August 22, 2024, NHTSA
published a final rule amending FMVSS No. 208, ``Occupant crash
protection.'' \2\ Among other requirements, FMVSS No. 208 mandates that
motor vehicles be equipped with advanced air bag systems capable of
deactivating or adjusting the force with which the air bags deploy
depending on size of the occupant seated in positions with frontal air
bags. Manufacturers must certify that their advanced air bag systems
comply with the requirements when certain child restraint systems
(CRSs) are installed in their vehicles with specific dummies listed in
the standard. These specific CRSs are listed in Appendix A-1 of FMVSS
No. 208, and the August 2024 final rule updated the list of CRSs listed
in Appendix A-1 to ensure the CRSs being used for testing are
representative of the current CRS market.
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\2\ 89 FR 67869.
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As part of the update to FMVSS No. 208, there is a phase-in of the
requirements for testing with the new CRSs listed in Appendix A-1. As
with all phase-ins, the agency is adopting a reporting and
recordkeeping requirement to facilitate the agency's enforcement of the
standard by aiding NHTSA in determining whether a manufacturer has
complied with the phase-in requirements during the phase-in period. The
reporting and recordkeeping requirements require that manufacturers
submit an annual production report to NHTSA that includes the number of
vehicles manufactured in the current production year and the production
of complying vehicles and retain records of compliance with the phase-
in requirements for five years. NHTSA estimates this collection will
impact 22 manufacturers each year and will have a total annual burden
of 22 hours and $0 in total annual cost.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: The purpose of the reporting requirements is to aid NHTSA
in determining whether a manufacturer has complied with the phase-in
requirements during the phase-in period. Without the reporting
requirements, NHTSA would have no way of knowing whether a manufacturer
has complied with the phase-in requirements during the phase-in period.
60-Day Notice: A Federal Register notice with a 60-day comment
period soliciting public comments on the following information
collection was published on May 28, 2025 (90 FR 22574). NHTSA received
one public comment that was not relevant to the information collection
request.
Affected Public: The only required respondents for the reporting
requirements are applicable light vehicle manufacturers.
Estimated Number of Respondents: The agency expects 22 vehicle
manufacturers to be required to respond to the information collection
request.
Frequency: The final rule requires the following implementation
schedule: Forty percent of all of a manufacturer's light vehicles must
comply with the revised appendix by September 1, 2025, and all light
vehicles must be fully compliant no later than September 1, 2026. The
phase-in plan requires manufacturers to report achievement of the
annual production quota in the phase-in period. These requirements are
found in 49 CFR part 585, ``Phase-In Reporting Requirements.'' The
reporting and recordkeeping requirements require that manufacturers
submit an annual production report to NHTSA that includes the number of
vehicles manufactured in the current production year and the production
of complying vehicles and that they retain records of compliance with
the phase-in requirements for five years. The report is due within 60
days after the end of the production year ending August 31, 2026. After
the report is received, requirements will cease and no further report
will be required during that year.
Estimated Total Annual Burden: The annual burden involves the tasks
of collection of the information required by the annual report as well
as placing the information in a form suitable for record keeping and
data retrieval. Since almost all of the information required is already
recorded by the manufacturers as part of their production control and
tracking systems, a nominal assessment of half a burden hour per
respondent is estimated for data retrieval and report preparation and
half a burden hour per respondent for the record keeping of the data.
NHTSA estimates the labor costs associated with these labor hours
using hourly labor rates published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics
(BLS). BLS estimates that hourly wages represent approximately 70.5
percent of total compensation for private industry workers.\3\ For the
labor costs associated with this ICR, NHTSA uses the mean hourly wage
of $40.64 per hour for ``Technical Writers'' (occupational code 27-
3042) for the Motor Vehicle Manufacturing Industry \4\ and applies the
70.5 percent factor to find the total compensation rate of $57.65 per
hour ($40.64 per hour divided by 0.705). The total annual labor cost
associated with the burden hours is estimated to be $1,268.20 (time
burden of 22 hours x $57.65 cost per hour).
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\3\ See Table 1. Employer Costs for Employee Compensation by
ownership (Dec. 2024), available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf">https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/ecec.pdf</a> (accessed April 1, 2025).
\4\ See May 2023 National Industry-Specific Occupational
Employment and Wage Estimates, NAICS 336100--Motor Vehicle
Manufacturing, available at <a href="https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/naics4_336100.htm#27-0000">https://www.bls.gov/oes/2023/may/naics4_336100.htm#27-0000</a> (accessed April 1, 2025).
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost: $0. There are no additional
costs to respondents other than the labor cost associated with the
burden hours described above.
Public Comments Invited: You are asked to comment on any aspects of
this
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information collection, including (a) whether the proposed collection
of information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of the
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents,
including the use of appropriate automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection techniques or other forms of information
technology, e.g., permitting electronic submission of responses.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter
35, as amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order 1351.29A.
David Hines,
Acting Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2025-20139 Filed 11-17-25; 8:45 am]
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