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Federal Register/Vol. 86, No. 15/Tuesday, January 26, 2021 7170 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 15 / Tuesday, January 26, 2021 / Notices application, and address the waiver names is completely optional. Whether ADDRESSES: For further information criteria given in section 388.4 of or not commenters identify themselves, about this decision, contact Stephen MARAD’s regulations at 46 CFR part all timely comments will be fully Hench, Office of Chief Counsel, 388. considered. If you wish to provide National Highway Traffic Safety comments containing proprietary or Administration, 1200 New Jersey Public Participation confidential information, please contact Avenue SE, W41–229, Washington, DC How do I submit comments? the agency for alternate submission 20590 (Tel. 202.366.2262). Please submit your comments, instructions. For general information about NHTSA’s investigation into Takata air including the attachments, following the (Authority: 49 CFR 1.93(a), 46 U.S.C. 55103, instructions provided under the above 46 U.S.C. 12121) bag inflator ruptures and the related recalls, visit https://www.nhtsa.gov/ heading entitled ADDRESSES. Be advised * * * * * that it may take a few hours or even takata. Dated: January 21, 2021. days for your comment to be reflected SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: on the docket. In addition, your By Order of the Associate Administrator for Strategic Sealift in lieu of the I. Background comments must be written in English. Administrator. We encourage you to provide concise The Takata air bag inflator recalls comments and you may attach T. Mitchell Hudson, Jr., (‘‘Takata recalls’’) are the largest and additional documents as necessary. Secretary, Maritime Administration. most complex vehicle recalls in U.S. There is no limit on the length of the [FR Doc. 2021–01653 Filed 1–25–21; 8:45 am] history. These recalls currently involve attachments. BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 19 vehicle manufacturers and approximately 67 million Takata air bag Where do I go to read public comments, inflators in tens of millions of vehicles and find supporting information? DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION in the United States alone. The recalls Go to the docket online at http:// are due to a design defect, whereby the www.regulations.gov, keyword search National Highway Traffic Safety propellant used in Takata’s air bag MARAD–2021–0003 or visit the Docket Administration inflators degrades after long-term Management Facility (see ADDRESSES for [Docket No. NHTSA–2017–0092] exposure to high humidity and hours of operation). We recommend that temperature cycling. During air bag you periodically check the Docket for Mazda North American Operations; deployment, this propellant degradation new submissions and supporting Denial of Petition for can cause the inflator to over-pressurize, material. Inconsequentiality causing sharp metal fragments (like shrapnel) to penetrate the air bag and Will my comments be made available to AGENCY: National Highway Traffic enter the vehicle compartment. To date, the public? Safety Administration (NHTSA), these rupturing Takata inflators have Yes. Be aware that your entire Department of Transportation. resulted in the deaths of 18 people comment, including your personal ACTION: Denial of petition. across the United States 1 and over 400 identifying information, will be made alleged injuries, including lacerations SUMMARY: On July 10, 2017, Takata publicly available. and other serious consequences to Corporation (‘‘Takata’’) filed a defect May I submit comments confidentially? occupants’ face, neck, and chest areas. information report (‘‘DIR’’) in which it In May 2015, NHTSA issued, and If you wish to submit comments determined that a safety-related defect Takata agreed to, a Consent Order,2 and under a claim of confidentiality, you exists in phase-stabilized ammonium Takata filed four defect information should submit three copies of your nitrate (‘‘PSAN’’) driver-side air bag reports (‘‘DIRs’’) 3 for inflators installed complete submission, including the inflators that it manufactured with a in vehicles manufactured by twelve 4 information you claim to be confidential calcium sulfate desiccant and supplied vehicle manufacturers. Recognizing that business information, to the Department to Ford Motor Company (‘‘Ford’’), these unprecedented recalls would of Transportation, Maritime Mazda North American Operations involve many challenges for vehicle Administration, Office of Legislation (‘‘Mazda’’), and Nissan North America manufacturers and consumers, NHTSA and Regulations, MAR–225, W24–220, Inc. (‘‘Nissan’’) for use in certain began an administrative proceeding in 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, vehicles. Mazda’s vehicles identified by June 2015 providing public notice and Washington, DC 20590. Include a cover Takata’s DIR were designed by Ford and seeking comment (Docket Number letter setting forth with specificity the were built on the same platform and NHTSA–2015–0055). This effort basis for any such claim and, if possible, using the same air bag inflators as one culminated in NHTSA’s establishment a summary of your submission that can of the affected Ford vehicles. Mazda be made available to the public. petitioned the Agency for a decision 1 Globally, including the United States, the deaths that the equipment defect determined to of at least 30 people are attributable to these Privacy Act exist by Takata is inconsequential as it rupturing Takata inflators. In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), relates to motor vehicle safety in the 2 The May 2015 Consent Order is available at: https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/nhtsa.dot.gov/files/ DOT solicits comments from the public Mazda vehicles affected by Takata’s documents/consent-order-takata-05182015_0.pdf. to better inform its rulemaking process. DIR, and that Mazda should therefore be 3 Recall Nos. 15E–040, 15E–041, 15E–042, and DOT posts these comments, without relieved of its notification and remedy 15E–043. edit, to www.regulations.gov, as obligations under the National Traffic 4 The twelve vehicle manufacturers affected by described in the system of records and Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1966 the May 2015 recalls were: BMW of North America, LLC; FCA US, LLC (formerly Chrysler); Daimler notice, DOT/ALL–14 FDMS, accessible and its applicable regulations. After Trucks North America, LLC; Daimler Vans USA, through www.dot.gov/privacy. To reviewing the petition, NHTSA has LLC; Ford Motor Company; General Motors, LLC; facilitate comment tracking and concluded that Mazda has not met its American Honda Motor Company; Mazda North American Operations; Mitsubishi Motors North response, we encourage commenters to burden of establishing that the defect is America, Inc.; Nissan North America, Inc.; Subaru provide their name, or the name of their inconsequential to motor vehicle safety, of America, Inc.; and Toyota Motor Engineering and organization; however, submission of and denies the petition. Manufacturing. VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:59 Jan 25, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00111 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26JAN1.SGM 26JAN1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 15 / Tuesday, January 26, 2021 / Notices 7171 of a Coordinated Remedy Program and Zone C includes the cooler- very limited number of samples from (‘‘Coordinated Remedy’’) in November temperature States largely located in the Ford had been recovered and tested.14 2015.5 The Coordinated Remedy northern part of the country.9 In March 2017, Takata and Ford met to prioritizes and phases the various While the Takata recalls to date have review the field data collected from the Takata recalls not only to accelerate the been limited almost entirely to Takata inflators returned by Ford and Nissan.15 repairs, but also—given the large PSAN inflators that do not contain a Between March and June 2017, number of affected vehicles—to ensure desiccant (a drying agent)—i.e., ‘‘non- additional Ford inflators were subjected that repair parts are available to fix the desiccated’’ inflators—under a to live dissection, which included highest-risk vehicles first.6 November 3, 2015 Consent Order issued chemical and dimensional propellant Under the Coordinated Remedy, by NHTSA and agreed to by Takata, analyses, as well as ballistic testing.16 vehicles are prioritized for repair parts Takata is required to test its PSAN Also in June, Takata reviewed with Ford based on various factors relevant to the inflators that do contain a desiccant— and NHTSA field-return data from Ford safety risk—primarily on vehicle model i.e., ‘‘desiccated’’ inflators—in inflators.17 Ford then met with NHTSA year (MY), as a proxy for inflator age, cooperation with vehicle manufacturers on July 6, 2017 to discuss the data and geographic region. In the early ‘‘to determine the service life and safety collected to date, as well as an stages of the Takata inflator recalls, of such inflators and to determine expansion plan for evaluating Takata affected vehicles were categorized as whether, and to what extent, these belonging to one of two regions: The inflator types suffer from a defect calcium-sulfate desiccated PSDI–5 High Absolute Humidity (‘‘HAH’’) condition, regardless of whether it is the driver-side air bag inflators. region (largely inclusive of Gulf Coast same or similar to the conditions at Takata analyzed 423 such inflators states and tropical island states and issue’’ in the DIRs Takata had filed for from the Ford program—as well as 895 territories), or the non-HAH region its non-desiccated PSAN inflators.10 such inflators from the Nissan (inclusive of the remaining states and In February 2016, NHTSA requested program.18 After a review of field-return
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