Federal Register: December 22, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 244)
DOCID: fr22de09-15 FR Doc E9-30378
CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION
Consumer Product Safety Commission
CFR Citation: 16 CFR Part 1422
RIN ID: RIN 3041-AC78
NOTICE: PROPOSED RULES
DOCID: fr22de09-15
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of extension of comment period.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Standard for Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles
DATES: Written comments in response to this document must be received by the Commission no later than March 15, 2010.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The Commission is extending its comment period to receive information regarding the advance notice of proposed rulemaking concerning Recreational OffHighway Vehicles (ROVs). The Commission received two letters requesting an extension of the comment period, one from three manufacturers and distributors of MultiPurpose OffHighway Utility Vehicles, and the other from a trade association. The letters each requested that the comment period be extended 60 days from the date certain information was received by the companies or became publicly available. The Commission has decided to extend the comment period 75 days after the original comment period of December 28, 2009.
SUMMARY:
Standard for Recreational Off-Highway Vehicles
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
On October 28, 2009, the Commission
published an ANPR in the Federal Register concerning ROVs. 74 FR 55495.
The ANPR was issued under the authority of the Consumer Product Safety
Act (CPSA). The ANPR provided for a 60day comment period to end
December 28, 2009. Three companies that manufacture and/or distribute
MultiPurpose OffHighway Utility Vehicles (American Honda Motor Co.,
Inc., Deere & Company and Kawasaki Motors Corp., U.S.A.) and a trade
association (Recreational OffHighway Vehicle Association) have
requested that the Commission extend the comment period 60 days after
the companies receive certain information or that information becomes
publicly available. A portion of this information was publicly released
on November 20, 2009. The remainder, which was posted for a period of
five days on the Commission's Web site in draft form, was finalized on
December 15, 2009, and is now publicly available.\1\ Because this
information was only recently released, the Commission has decided to
extend the comment period to 75 days from the date of the original comment period deadline, or March 15, 2010.
\1\ All of this information will become part of the public record.
Dated: December 17, 2009.
Todd A. Stevenson,
Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
For information about submitting comments, call or write to Rockelle Hammond, Office of the Secretary, Consumer Product Safety Commission, Bethesda, MD 20814; telephone (301) 5046833.