Sacramento Head Start Alumni Association

Child Restraint Systems Request for Comments

Oct 28, 2002

TITLE: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems

CATEGORY: Request for Comments

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

ACTION: Interim final rule; request for comments

CITATION: Federal Register: Volume 67, Number 204, October 22,
64818-64825
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SUMMARY: [EXCERPT]: This document amends our child restraint standard
to

facilitate the safe transportation of preschool and special needs
children through the manufacture and use of vests that hold the
children in place during a crash. Vests and other types of child
restraints are currently prohibited by the standard from having any
means designed for attaching the system to a vehicle seat back.
Effective immediately, all vests that are manufactured for use on
school bus seats are excluded from the prohibition. Effective February
1, 2003, the exclusion is limited to the vests that bear a warning
label informing users that the vest must be used only on school bus
seats, and that the entire seat directly behind the child wearing the
seat-mounted vest must be either unoccupied or occupied by restrained
passengers. The agency also requests comments on this amendment.

You may submit your comments in writing to: Docket Management, Room
PL-401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Alternatively,
you may submit your comments electronically by logging onto the Docket
Management System Web site at http://dms.dot.gov. Click on ``Help &
Information'' or ``Help/Info'' to view instructions for filing your
comments electronically. Regardless of how you submit your comments,
you
should mention the docket number of this document. You may call Docket
Management at 202-366-9324. You may visit the Docket from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday.

DATE: This rule is effective October 22, 2002 and expires on December
1,
2003. Comments must be received by December 23, 2002.

CONTACT: For nonlegal issues: Mr. Tewabe Asebe, Office of Rulemaking,
NVS-113, telephone (202) 366-2365. For legal issues: Ms. Deirdre
Fujita,
Office of Chief Counsel, NCC-112, telephone (202) 366-2992. Both can be
reached at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 400
Seventh St., SW., Washington, DC 20590.

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