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Notification Detail :: G/TBT/N/USA/1123/Add.1

Notification No.

Notification Type

Notifying Member

Date of Notification

Final Date for Comments

Days to Final Date

Title

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Anti-Ejection Glazing for 
Bus Portals; Bus Emergency Exits and Window Retention and Release

Objective

Protection of human health or safety (TBT)

Product Covered

Anti-ejection glazing for bus portals

Document Notification

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HSCODE

ICSCODE

43.040 - Road vehicle systems; 43.040 - Road vehicle systems; 43.080 - Commercial vehicles; 43.080 - Commercial vehicles

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Description

This final rule establishes Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 217a, “Anti-ejection glazing for bus portals; Mandatory applicability beginning 30 October 2027,” to drive the installation of advanced glazing in over-the-road buses (motorcoaches) and other large buses to reduce passenger and driver ejections. This final rule, issued pursuant to the Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), specifies impactor tests of the glazing material of side and roof windows. The impactor and impact speed simulate the loading from an average size unrestrained adult male impacting a window on the opposite side of a large bus in a rollover.Effective date: 30 December 2024.    Compliance date: The compliance date for FMVSS No. 217a and the amendments to FMVSS No. 217 is 30 October 2027. Optional early compliance with the standards is permitted.    Reconsideration date: If you wish to petition for reconsideration of this rule, your petition must be received by 16 December 2024. 89 Federal Register (FR) 86255, 30 October 2024; Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 571_x000D_
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-30/html/2024-24462.htm_x000D_
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2024-10-30/pdf/2024-24462.pdfThis final rule is identified by Docket Number NHTSA-2024-0061. The Docket Folder is available on Regulations.gov at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/NHTSA-2024-0061/document. The Docket provides access to the primary document, which is also accessible from Regulations.gov by searching the Docket Number. WTO Members and their stakeholders are asked to submit petitions for reconsideration of this rule to the USA TBT Enquiry Point by or before 4pmEastern Time on 16 December 2024. Petitions for reconsideration received by the USA TBT Enquiry Point from WTO Members and their stakeholders will be shared with NHTSA and will also be submitted to the Docket on Regulations.gov if received within the comment period.The notice of proposed rulemaking notified as G/TBT/N/USA/1123 is identified by Docket Number NHTSA-2016-0052. Comments received on the proposed rule are accessible at https://www.regulations.gov/docket/NHTSA-2016-0052/comments_x000D_

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