82_FR_48771 82 FR 48571 - Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

82 FR 48571 - Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 200 (October 18, 2017)

Page Range48571-48572
FR Document2017-22581

FMCSA announces the charter renewal of the MCSAC, a Federal Advisory Committee that provides the Agency with advice and recommendations on motor carrier safety programs and motor carrier safety regulations through a consensus process. This charter renewal took effect on September 29, 2017, and will expire after 2 years.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 200 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 200 (Wednesday, October 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48571-48572]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-22581]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

[Docket No. FMCSA-2006-26367]


Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee; Charter Renewal

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), Department 
of Transportation (DOT).

[[Page 48572]]


ACTION: Announcement of Charter Renewal of the Motor Carrier Safety 
Advisory Committee (MCSAC).

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SUMMARY: FMCSA announces the charter renewal of the MCSAC, a Federal 
Advisory Committee that provides the Agency with advice and 
recommendations on motor carrier safety programs and motor carrier 
safety regulations through a consensus process. This charter renewal 
took effect on September 29, 2017, and will expire after 2 years.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Shannon L. Watson, Senior Advisor 
to the Associate Administrator for Policy, Federal Motor Carrier Safety 
Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, (202) 385-2395, [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-463), FMCSA is giving notice of the 
charter renewal for the MCSAC. The MCSAC was established to provide 
FMCSA with advice and recommendations on motor carrier safety programs 
and motor carrier safety regulations.
    The MCSAC is composed of up to 20 voting representatives from 
safety advocacy, safety enforcement, labor, and industry stakeholders 
of motor carrier safety. The diversity of the Committee ensures the 
requisite range of views and expertise necessary to discharge its 
responsibilities. See the MCSAC Web site for details on pending tasks 
at http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/mcsac.

    Issued on: October 12, 2017.
Larry W. Minor,
Associate Administrator for Policy.
[FR Doc. 2017-22581 Filed 10-17-17; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 200 / Wednesday, October 18, 2017 / Notices 48571 Hong Kong Special Administrative Georgia Oceania Region ** Germany Australia (including components and Indonesia Greece dependent areas overseas) Iran Hungary Iceland Fiji Iraq Israel * Ireland Kiribati Japan Italy Marshall Islands Jordan * Kazakhstan Micronesia, Federated States of Kuwait Kosovo Nauru Laos Kyrgyzstan New Zealand (including components Lebanon Latvia and dependent areas overseas) Malaysia Liechtenstein Palau Maldives Lithuania Papua New Guinea Mongolia Luxembourg Samoa Nepal Macau Special Administrative Region ** Solomon Islands North Korea Macedonia Tonga Oman Malta Tuvalu Qatar Moldova Vanuatu Saudi Arabia Monaco Montenegro South America, Central America, and Singapore Netherlands (including components and the Caribbean Sri Lanka Syria * dependent areas overseas) Antigua and Barbuda Taiwan ** Northern Ireland ** Argentina Thailand Norway (including components and Barbados Timor-Leste dependent areas overseas) Belize United Arab Emirates Poland Bolivia Yemen Portugal (including components and Chile * Persons born in the areas dependent areas overseas) Costa Rica administered prior to June 1967 by Romania Cuba Israel, Jordan, Syria, and Egypt are Russia Dominica chargeable, respectively, to Israel, San Marino Ecuador Jordan, Syria, and Egypt. Persons born Serbia Grenada Slovakia Guatemala in the Gaza Strip are chargeable to Slovenia Guyana Egypt; persons born in the West Bank Spain are chargeable to Jordan; persons born Honduras Sweden Nicaragua in the Golan Heights are chargeable to Switzerland Syria. Panama Tajikistan Paraguay ** For the purposes of the diversity Turkey program only, persons born in Macau Saint Kitts and Nevis Turkmenistan Saint Lucia S.A.R. derive eligibility from Portugal. Ukraine Natives of the following Asia Region Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Uzbekistan countries are not eligible for this year’s Vatican City Suriname diversity program: Bangladesh, China Trinidad and Tobago ** Macau S.A.R. does qualify and is Uruguay (mainland-born), India, Pakistan, South listed above. For the purposes of the Korea, Philippines, and Vietnam. Venezuela diversity program only, persons born in Hong Kong S.A.R. (Asia region), Macau S.A.R. derive eligibility from Countries in this region whose natives Macau S.A.R. (Europe region, Portugal. are not eligible for this year’s diversity chargeable to Portugal), and Taiwan Natives of the following European program: Brazil, Colombia, Dominican (Asia region) do qualify and are listed countries are not eligible for this year’s Republic, El Salvador, Haiti, Jamaica, here. DV program: Great Britain (United Mexico, and Peru. Europe Kingdom). Great Britain (United Carl C. Risch, Kingdom) includes the following Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Consular Albania dependent areas: Anguilla, Bermuda, Affairs, Department of State. Andorra British Virgin Islands, British Indian Armenia [FR Doc. 2017–22638 Filed 10–17–17; 8:45 am] Ocean Territory, Cayman Islands, Austria BILLING CODE 4710–06–P Azerbaijan Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Belarus Pitcairn, South Georgia and the South Belgium Sandwich Islands, St. Helena, and Turks DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION Bosnia and Herzegovina and Caicos Islands. Note that for Bulgaria purposes of the diversity program only, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Croatia Northern Ireland is treated separately; Administration Cyprus Northern Ireland does qualify and is ethrower on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES listed among the qualifying areas. [Docket No. FMCSA–2006–26367] Czech Republic Denmark (including components and North America Motor Carrier Safety Advisory dependent areas overseas) Committee; Charter Renewal Estonia The Bahamas Finland In North America, natives of Canada AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety France (including components and areas and Mexico are not eligible for this Administration (FMCSA), Department overseas) year’s diversity program. of Transportation (DOT). VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:50 Oct 17, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\18OCN1.SGM 18OCN1

48572 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 200 / Wednesday, October 18, 2017 / Notices ACTION:Announcement of Charter not fully comply with Federal Motor incorrectly identify the rim size as 24.5″ Renewal of the Motor Carrier Safety Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. x 8.25″ instead of 22.5″ x 8.25″, and Advisory Committee (MCSAC). 120, Tire selection and rims and motor therefore do not meet the requirements home/recreation vehicle trailer load of paragraph S5.2(b) of FMVSS No. 120. SUMMARY: FMCSA announces the carrying capacity information for motor Specifically, the marking error charter renewal of the MCSAC, a vehicles with a GVWR of more than overstates the wheel diameter by 2″. Federal Advisory Committee that 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds). VTNA IV. Rule Text: paragraph S5.2 of provides the Agency with advice and filed a noncompliance information FMVSS No. 120 states: recommendations on motor carrier report dated February 9, 2017. VTNA safety programs and motor carrier safety S5.2 Rim marking. Each rim or, at the also petitioned NHTSA on February 28, option of the manufacturer in the case of a regulations through a consensus 2017, and revised its petition on April single-piece wheel, wheel disc shall be process. This charter renewal took effect 29, 2017, for a decision that the subject marked with the information listed in on September 29, 2017, and will expire noncompliance is inconsequential as it paragraphs (a) through (e) of this paragraph, after 2 years. relates to motor vehicle safety. in lettering not less than 3 millimeters high, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. ADDRESSES: For further information on impressed to a depth or, at the option of the Shannon L. Watson, Senior Advisor to manufacturer, embossed to a height of not this decision contact Kerrin Bressant, the Associate Administrator for Policy, less than 0.125 millimeters . . . Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance, the (b) The rim size designation, and in case Federal Motor Carrier Safety National Highway Traffic Safety of multipiece rims, the rim type designation. Administration, U.S. Department of Administration (NHTSA), telephone For example: 20 x 5.50, or 20 x 5.5. Transportation, 1200 New Jersey (202) 366–1110, facsimile (202) 366– Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, 5930. V. Summary of VTNA’s Petition: (202) 385–2395, mcsac@dot.gov. VTNA described the subject SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: noncompliance and stated its belief that SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant I. Overview: Volvo Trucks North to Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal the noncompliance is inconsequential America (VTNA), has determined that as it relates to motor vehicle safety. Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– certain model year (MY) 2017 Volvo 463), FMCSA is giving notice of the In support of its petition, VTNA VNL and 2017 Volvo VNM heavy duty charter renewal for the MCSAC. The referenced a letter to NHTSA, dated trucks do not fully comply with MCSAC was established to provide December 5, 2016, from Arconic Wheel paragraph S5.2(b) of Federal Motor FMCSA with advice and and Transportation Products (Arconic), Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. recommendations on motor carrier which is the rim manufacturer, and 120, Tire selection and rims and motor safety programs and motor carrier safety provided the following reasoning: home/recreation vehicle trailer load regulations. 1. A 24.5″ inch tire will not seat on carrying capacity information for motor The MCSAC is composed of up to 20 the rim; therefore, if someone tries to vehicles with a GVWR of more than voting representatives from safety mount a 24.5″ tire to the rim, it will not 4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds). VTNA advocacy, safety enforcement, labor, and hold air and therefore cannot be filed a noncompliance report dated industry stakeholders of motor carrier inflated. February 9, 2017, pursuant to 49 CFR safety. The diversity of the Committee part 573, Defect and Noncompliance 2. When tires are replaced, the ensures the requisite range of views and Responsibility and Reports. VTNA also technician will select the tire based on expertise necessary to discharge its petitioned NHTSA on February 28, the size and rating of the tire being responsibilities. See the MCSAC Web 2017, pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 30118(d) replaced. When Volvo manufactured the site for details on pending tasks at and 30120(h) and 49 CFR part 556, and vehicle, the tire used was a 22.5″ (i.e. http://www.fmcsa.dot.gov/mcsac. revised its petition on April 29, 2017, to the correct size for the rim). Therefore, Issued on: October 12, 2017. obtain an exemption from the the tires installed by Volvo have the notification and remedy requirements of correct size on the sidewall of the tire. Larry W. Minor, 49 U.S.C. Chapter 301 on the basis that 3. Volvo is required to list the tires Associate Administrator for Policy. this noncompliance is inconsequential size and inflation pressures on the [FR Doc. 2017–22581 Filed 10–17–17; 8:45 am] as it relates to motor vehicle safety. certification label as required by 49 CFR BILLING CODE P 567. The information printed on the Notice of receipt of the petition was published with a 30-day public label is the correct size, a 22.5″ inch tire comment period, on July 20, 2017, in and reflects the tires that were installed DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION when manufactured. The certification the Federal Register (82 FR 33549). No National Highway Traffic Safety comments were received. To view the label is located inside the driver’s door Administration petition and all supporting documents and can be easily accessed by the tire log onto the Federal Docket installer. [Docket No. NHTSA–2017–0015; Notice 2] Volvo concluded by expressing the Management System (FDMS) Web site at: https://www.regulations.gov/. Then belief that the subject noncompliance is Volvo Trucks North America, Grant of follow the online search instructions to inconsequential as it relates to motor Petition for Decision of locate docket number ‘‘NHTSA–2017– vehicle safety, and that its petition to be Inconsequential Noncompliance 0015.’’ exempted from providing notification of AGENCY: National Highway Traffic II. Vehicles Involved: Approximately the noncompliance, as required by 49 Safety Administration (NHTSA), 862 MY 2017 Volvo VNL and 2017 U.S.C. 30118, and a remedy for the ethrower on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Department of Transportation (DOT). Volvo VNM heavy duty trucks, noncompliance, as required by 49 ACTION: Grant of petition. manufactured between August 15, 2016, U.S.C. 30120, should be granted. and November 10, 2016, are potentially To view VTNA’s petition analyses in SUMMARY: Volvo Trucks North America involved. its entirety you can visit https:// (VTNA), has determined that certain III. Noncompliance: VTNA explains www.regulations.gov by following the model year (MY) 2017 Volvo VNL and that the noncompliance is that the online instructions for accessing the 2017 Volvo VNM heavy duty trucks do wheels on the subject vehicles dockets and by using the docket ID VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:50 Oct 17, 2017 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00097 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\18OCN1.SGM 18OCN1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionAnnouncement of Charter Renewal of the Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC).
ContactMs. Shannon L. Watson, Senior Advisor to the Associate Administrator for Policy, Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590, (202) 385-2395, [email protected]
FR Citation82 FR 48571 
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