Reports, Forms and Record Keeping Requirements Agency Information Collection Activity Under OMB Review

Michael A. Cole
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
27 August 2018

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 166 (Monday, August 27, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43732-43733]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-18423]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA-2017-0080; Notice 2]


Reports, Forms and Record Keeping Requirements Agency Information 
Collection Activity Under OMB Review

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT

ACTION: Request for public comment on proposed collection of 
information.

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SUMMARY: In compliance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 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.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on or before September 26, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Coleman Sachs, Office of Vehicle 
Safety Compliance (NEF-230), National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, West Building, 4th Floor, Room W45-205, 1200 New Jersey 
Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration.
    Title: Importation of Vehicles and Equipment Subject to the Federal 
Motor Vehicle Safety, Bumper, and Theft Prevention Standards.
    OMB Number: 2127-0002.
    Type of Request: Reinstatement of an Expired Collection.
    Publication of 60-Day Notice: The Federal Register Notice with a 
60-day comment period was published on March 2, 2018 (83 FR 9074).
    Abstract: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 
(NHTSA) has requested that OMB reinstate the agency's approval of the 
information collection that is incident to NHTSA's administration of 
the regulations at 49 CFR parts 591, 592, and 593 that govern the 
importation of motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment. The 
information collection includes declarations that are filed (on the HS-
7 Declaration form) with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) upon 
the importation of motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment that is 
subject to Federal motor vehicle safety, bumper, and theft prevention 
standards administered by NHTSA. The information collection also 
includes the Department of Transportation (DOT) conformance bond that 
is furnished to CBP (on form HS-474) for each motor vehicle offered for 
importation that does not conform to all applicable Federal motor 
vehicle safety standards (FMVSS). The bond ensures that such vehicles 
are brought into conformity with those standards within 120 days from 
the date of entry or are exported from, or abandoned to, the United 
States. The information collection also includes paperwork that must be 
submitted to NHTSA and in some instances retained by registered 
importers (RIs) of motor vehicles that were not originally manufactured 
to comply with all applicable FMVSS. These items include information 
that a person or business entity must submit to NHTSA to be registered 
as an RI and to retain that status. The paperwork also includes the 
statement of conformity that an RI must submit to NHTSA following the 
completion of conformance modifications on an imported nonconforming 
vehicle to obtain release of the DOT conformance bond furnished for the 
vehicle at the

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time of entry. Also included is the petition that an RI or manufacturer 
may submit to NHTSA for the agency to decide that a vehicle that was 
not originally manufactured to comply with all applicable FMVSS is 
capable of being modified to conform to those standards and is 
therefore eligible for importation under 49 U.S.C. 30141. The 
information collection also includes applications that are filed with 
NHTSA for permission to import nonconforming vehicles for purposes of 
research, investigations, demonstrations, training, competitive racing 
events, and show or display, as well as applications requesting that 
the agency recognize vehicles manufactured for racing purposes as being 
qualified to be imported as vehicles that were not primarily 
manufactured for use on public roads, precluding the need for those 
vehicles to comply with the FMVSS. This information collection is 
necessary to ensure that motor vehicles and motor vehicle equipment 
subject to the Federal motor vehicle safety, bumper, and theft 
prevention standards are lawfully imported into the United States and 
that RIs and applicants for RI status are capable of meeting their 
obligations under the statutes and regulations governing the 
importation of nonconforming vehicles.
    Affected Public: Individuals and commercial entities that import 
motor vehicles or motor vehicle equipment subject to the FMVSS and 
vehicles that are not primarily manufactured for use on public roads, 
as well as applicants for RI status and existing RIs.
    Estimated Total Annual Burden: 252,622 hours; $9,880,590.

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

Michael A. Cole,
Acting Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance.
[FR Doc. 2018-18423 Filed 8-24-18; 8:45 am]
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