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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 148 / Thursday, August 5, 2021 / Proposed Rules both criteria, the agency must evaluate the environmental health or safety effects of the planned rule on children, and explain why the planned regulation is preferable to other potentially effective and reasonably feasible alternatives considered by the agency.
This proposal is not economically significant under E.O. 12866. Further, it is part of a rulemaking that is not expected to have a disproportionate health or safety impact on children.
Consequently, no further analysis is required under Executive Order 13045.

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F. Paperwork Reduction Act Under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 PRA, a person is not required to respond to a collection of information by a Federal agency unless the collection displays a valid Office of Management and Budget OMB control number. There is not any information collection requirement associated with this proposal.
G. Incorporation by Reference Under regulations issued by the Office of the Federal Register 1 CFR 51.5a, an agency, as part of a proposed rule that includes material incorporated by reference, must summarize material that is proposed to be incorporated by reference and must discuss the ways the material proposed to be incorporated by reference is reasonably available to interested parties or how the agency worked to make materials available to interested parties.
This proposed rule would incorporate by reference ASTM F2493, Standard Specification for P225/60R16 97S Radial Standard Reference Test Tire, to replace the existing incorporation by reference of ASTM E1136, which is a 14-inch standard reference test tire. As discussed earlier in this document, the ASTM F2493 is a standard reference test tire that is not used for general use, but, as its name suggests, is used for testing.
The ASTM F2493 standard reference test tire is primarily used for evaluating surface friction traction. The standard reference test tire specifications include, among other things, size, design, construction, and materials requirements.
This proposed rule would also update an existing incorporation by reference of ASTM E1337, Standard Test Method for Determining Longitudinal Peak Braking Coefficient PBC of Paved Surfaces Using Standard Reference Test Tire. ASTM E1337 is a standard test method for evaluating peak braking coefficient of a test surface using a standard reference test tire using a trailer towed by a vehicle. NHTSA uses this method to evaluate test surfaces for
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conducting compliance test procedures for its braking and electronic stability control standards. The 2019 version of ASTM E1337 specifies that the test may be conducted using the 16-inch SRTT
and includes correlation data for converting testing using the 14-inch SRTT to the 16-inch SRTT and vice versa.
Finally, this proposed rule would update an existing incorporation by reference of ASTM F1805, Standard Test Method for Single Wheel Driving Traction in a Straight Line on Snowand Ice-Covered Surfaces. ASTM
F1805 is a test method for measuring the traction of tires on snowor ice-covered surfaces using an instrumented fourwheel drive vehicle with a single test wheel capable of measure tire performance. NHTSA uses ASTM F1805
as part of its criteria for determining whether a tire may be considered a snow tire under its light vehicle tire standards. The 2020 version of F1805
specifies that the test may be conducted using the 16-inch SRTT and includes correlation data for converting testing using the 14-inch SRTT to the 16-inch SRTT and vice versa.
The ASTM standards proposed for incorporation by reference in this NPRM
are available for review at NHTSAs headquarters in Washington, DC, and for purchase from ASTM International.
The ASTM standards that are currently incorporated by reference and which would be replaced under this proposal are available for review at NHTSA or at ASTM Internationals online reading room.20 If this proposal is adopted as a final rule, NHTSA anticipates that ASTM International would update its reading room to include these standards.
H. National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act Section 12d of the National Technology Transfer and Advancement Act NTTAA requires NHTSA to evaluate and use existing voluntary consensus standards in its regulatory activities unless doing so would be inconsistent with applicable law e.g., the statutory provisions regarding NHTSAs vehicle safety authority or otherwise impractical. Voluntary consensus standards are technical standards developed or adopted by voluntary consensus standards bodies.
Technical standards are defined by the NTTAA as performance-based or design-specific technical specification and related management systems practices. They pertain to products and processes, such as size, strength, or 20 https www.astm.org/READINGLIBRARY/.

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technical performance of a product, process or material.
Examples of organizations generally regarded as voluntary consensus standards bodies include ASTM
International, the Society of Automotive Engineers SAE, and the American National Standards Institute ANSI. If NHTSA does not use available and potentially applicable voluntary consensus standards, we are required by the Act to provide Congress, through OMB, an explanation of the reasons for not using such standards.
As discussed above, both standard reference test tires are based on specifications published by ASTM
International. Thus, this rulemaking accords with the requirements of the NTTAA.
I. Unfunded Mandates Reform Act Section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act of 1995 UMRA
requires Federal agencies to prepare a written assessment of the costs, benefits, and other effects of proposed or final rules that include a Federal mandate likely to result in the expenditure by State, local, or tribal governments, in the aggregate, or by the private sector, of more than $100 million annually adjusted for inflation with base year of 1995. Before promulgating a NHTSA
rule for which a written statement is needed, section 205 of the UMRA
generally requires the agency to identify and consider a reasonable number of regulatory alternatives and adopt the least costly, most cost-effective, or least burdensome alternative that achieves the objectives of the rule. The provisions of section 205 do not apply when they are inconsistent with applicable law. Moreover, section 205
allows the agency to adopt an alternative other than the least costly, most cost-effective, or least burdensome alternative if the agency publishes with the final rule an explanation of why that alternative was not adopted.
This proposal would not result in any expenditure by State, local, or tribal governments or the private sector of more than $100 million, adjusted for inflation.
J. National Environmental Policy Act NHTSA has analyzed this rulemaking action for the purposes of the National Environmental Policy Act. The agency has determined that implementation of this action would not have any significant impact on the quality of the human environment.
K. Regulation Identifier Number RIN
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