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petition is shown in the heading of this
notice.
DOT’s complete Privacy Act
Statement is available for review in a
Federal Register notice published on
April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477–78).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Overview: Goodyear has determined
that certain Kelly Armorsteel KDM 1
commercial truck tires do not fully
comply with paragraph S6.5 of FMVSS
No. 119, New Pneumatic Tires for Motor
Vehicles with a GVWR of More than
4,536 kilograms (10,000 pounds) and
Motorcycles (49 CFR 571.119). Goodyear
filed a noncompliance report dated
November 26, 2019, pursuant to 49 CFR
part 573, Defect and Noncompliance
Responsibility and Reports, and
petitioned NHTSA on November 25,
2019, for an exemption from the
notification and remedy requirements of
49 U.S.C. chapter 301 on the basis that
this noncompliance is inconsequential
as it relates to motor vehicle safety,
pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and
30120(h) and 49 CFR part 556,
Exemption for Inconsequential Defect or
Noncompliance.
This notice of receipt of Goodyear’s
petition is published under 49 U.S.C.
30118 and 30120 and does not represent
any agency decision or other exercise of
judgment concerning the merits of the
petition.
II. Tires Involved: Approximately 76
Kelly Armorsteel KDM 1 commercial
truck tires, size 11/R22.5 LRH,
manufactured between August 25, 2019,
and August 31, 2019, are potentially
involved.
III. Noncompliance: Goodyear
explained that the noncompliance is
that the Tire Identification Number
(TIN) on the subject tires contains a date
code that was engraved less than the
required height of 0.51 mm (0.020
inches) and, therefore, do not meet the
requirements of paragraph S6.5 of
FMVSS No. 119.
IV. Rule Requirements: Paragraph
S6.5. of FMVSS No. 119 includes the
requirements relevant to this petition.
Each tire shall be marked on each
sidewall with the information specified
in paragraphs (a) through (j) of this
section. The markings shall be placed
between the maximum section width
(exclusive of sidewall decorations or
curb ribs) and the bead on at least one
sidewall, unless the maximum section
width of the tire is located in an area
which is not more than one-fourth of the
distance from the bead to the shoulder
of the tire. If the maximum section
width falls within that area, the
markings shall appear between the bead
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the bead to the shoulder of the tire, on
at least one sidewall. The markings shall
be in letters and numerals not less than
2 mm (0.078 inch) high and raised
above or sunk below the tire surface not
less than 0.4 mm (0.015 inch), except
that the marking depth shall be not less
than 0.25mm (0.010 inch) in the case of
motorcycle tires.
V. Summary of Goodyear’s Petition:
The following views and arguments
presented in this section are the views
and arguments provided by Goodyear.
They have not been evaluated by the
Agency and do not reflect the views of
the Agency.
Accordingly, Goodyear described the
subject noncompliance and stated that
the noncompliance is inconsequential
as it relates to motor vehicle safety.
1. Goodyear believes this
noncompliance is inconsequential to
motor vehicle safety because these tires
were manufactured as designed and
meet or exceed all applicable FMVSS.
All of the sidewall markings related to
tire service (load capacity,
corresponding inflation pressure, etc.)
are correct. The mislabeling and
irregular date code is not a safety
concern and has no impact on the
retreading, repairing, and recycling
industries. The affected date code
stencil has been corrected, and all future
production will not contain the
irregularity in the date code.
2. Goodyear states that the date code
portion of the TIN becomes important in
the event of a safety campaign, so that
the consumer may properly identify the
recalled tire(s). In the unlikely event
that a safety campaign would ever
become necessary for this Kelly
Armorsteel KDM 1 11/R22.5 LRH
commercial truck tire made in the 34th
week of 2019, Goodyear would include
in the listing of recalled TINs the TIN
for these tires with the date code portion
as shown, MJ3TK2BW3419, as well as
the TIN for these tires with the date
code portion shown with the date code
portion of the TIN below the regulation
specified height so that the consumer
would know that tires with this TIN,
MJ3TK2BW, are included in the recall
even if they have difficulty reading the
date code portion because it is not
raised to the 0.51 mm level.
Goodyear concluded by expressing
the belief that the subject
noncompliance is inconsequential as it
relates to motor vehicle safety, and that
its petition to be exempted from
providing notification of the
noncompliance, as required by 49
U.S.C. 30118, and a remedy for the
noncompliance, as required by 49
U.S.C. 30120, should be granted.

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NHTSA notes that the statutory
provisions (49 U.S.C. 30118(d) and
30120(h)) that permit manufacturers to
file petitions for a determination of
inconsequentiality allow NHTSA to
exempt manufacturers only from the
duties found in sections 30118 and
30120, respectively, to notify owners,
purchasers, and dealers of a defect or
noncompliance and to remedy the
defect or noncompliance. Therefore, any
decision on this petition only applies to
the subject tires that Goodyear no longer
controlled at the time it determined that
the noncompliance existed. However,
any decision on this petition does not
relieve equipment distributors and
dealers of the prohibitions on the sale,
offer for sale, or introduction or delivery
for introduction into interstate
commerce of the noncompliant tires
under their control after Goodyear
notified them that the subject
noncompliance existed.
Authority: (49 U.S.C. 30118, 30120:
delegations of authority at 49 CFR 1.95 and
501.8)
Otto G. Matheke III,
Director, Office of Vehicle Safety Compliance.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA–2020–0055 (Notice No.
2020–04)]

Hazardous Materials: Information
Collection Activities
Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration
(PHMSA), Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:

As part of a Federal
Government-wide effort to streamline
the process to seek feedback from the
public on service delivery, PHMSA
seeks comment on the development of
a Generic Information Collection
Request for the collection of qualitative
feedback on agency service delivery for
approval under the Paperwork
Reduction Act. This notice announces
PHMSA’s intent to submit this
collection to the Office of Management
and Budget for approval and allows for
an additional 30 days of public
comment.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before July 13,
2020.
SUMMARY:

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You may submit comments
on this notice to the Office of
Management and Budget, Attn: Desk
Officer for PHMSA, via fax at 202–395–
6974 or email at OIRA_Submission@
omb.eop.gov. (Include reference to
‘‘PHMSA Fast Track Generic Clearance
comment’’ in the subject line of the
message.)

ADDRESSES:

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Steven Andrews or Shelby Geller,
Standards and Rulemaking Division,
(202) 366–8553, Pipeline and Hazardous
Materials Safety Administration, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 1200
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC
20590–0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Fast Track Generic Clearance for
the Collection of Qualitative Feedback
on Agency Service Delivery.
OMB Number: To be determined.
Needs and Uses: The proposed
information collection provides a means
to garner qualitative customer and
stakeholder feedback in an efficient and
timely manner, in accordance with the
agency’s commitment to improving
service delivery. Qualitative feedback
means information that provides useful
insights on perceptions and opinions,
but is not a statistical survey that yields
quantitative results that can be
generalized to the population of study.
This feedback will provide insights into
customer or stakeholder perceptions,
experiences, and expectations, provide
an early warning of issues with service,
or focus attention on areas where
communication, training, or changes in
operations might improve delivery of
products or services. These collections
will allow for ongoing, collaborative,
and actionable communications
between the agency and its customers
and stakeholders. It will also allow
feedback to contribute directly to the
improvement of program management.
PHMSA expects to use various
methods (e.g., customer satisfaction
surveys, comment cards), to solicit
feedback. Responses will be assessed to
plan and inform efforts to improve or
maintain the quality of service offered to
the public and other agency
stakeholders. If this information is not
collected, vital feedback from customers
and stakeholders on the agency’s
services will be unavailable.
The agency will only submit a
collection for approval under this
generic clearance if it meets the
following conditions:
• The collections are voluntary;
• The collections are low-burden for
respondents (based on considerations of
total burden hours, total number of
respondents, or burden-hours per

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respondent) and are low-cost for both
the respondents and the Federal
Government;
• The collections are noncontroversial;
• The collections are focused on the
awareness, understanding, attitudes,
preferences, or experiences of the public
or other stakeholders in order to
improve existing or future services,
products, or communication materials;
• Personally identifiable information
(PII) is collected only to the extent
necessary;
• Information gathered will be used
only internally for general service
improvement and program management
purposes and is not intended for release
to the public;
• Information gathered will not be
used for the purpose of substantially
informing influential policy decisions;
and
• Information gathered will yield
qualitative information; the collections
will not be designed or expected to
yield statistically reliable results or used
as though the results are generalizable to
the population of study.
Feedback collected under this generic
clearance provides useful information,
but it does not yield data that can be
generalized to the overall population.
This type of generic clearance for
qualitative information will not be used
for quantitative information collections
that are designed to yield reliably
actionable results, such as monitoring
trends over time or documenting
program performance. Such data uses
require more rigorous designs that
address: The target population to which
generalizations will be made, the
sampling frame, the sample design
(including stratification and clustering),
the precision requirements or power
calculations that justify the proposed
sample size, the expected response rate,
methods for assessing potential nonresponse bias, the protocols for data
collection, and any testing procedures
that were or will be undertaken prior to
fielding the study. Depending on the
degree of influence the results are likely
to have, such collections may still be
eligible for submission for other generic
mechanisms that are designed to yield
quantitative results.
As a general matter, information
collections submitted under this generic
clearance will not result in any new
system of records containing privacy
information and will not ask questions
of a sensitive nature, such as sexual
behavior and attitudes, religious beliefs,
and other matters that are commonly
considered private.
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comments on this information
collection was published on December
10, 2010 [75 FR 80542].
Current Action: New information
collection request (generic).
Type of Review: New.
Affected Public: Individuals; Business
or Other For-Profit Institutions; Not-ForProfit Institutions; State or Local
Government.
Average Expected Annual Number of
Activities: 75.
Average Number of Respondents per
Activity: 50.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 3,750.
Responses per Respondent: 1.
Annual Responses: 3,750.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
312.5.
Projected Average Burden Hour
Estimates for the next three years: 937.5.
Issued in Washington, DC, on June 9, 2020.
William A. Quade,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Programs
and Policy, Hazardous Materials Safety,
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS
AFFAIRS
[OMB Control No. 2900–0002]

Agency Information Collection
Activity: Income, Net Worth and
Employment Statement (In Support of
Claim for Total Disability Benefits) and
Application for Veterans Pension
Veterans Benefits
Administration, Department of Veterans
Affairs.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

Veteran’s Benefits
Administration (VBA), Department of
Veterans Affairs (VA), is announcing an
opportunity for public comment on the
proposed collection of certain
information by the agency. Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, Federal agencies are required to
publish notice in the Federal Register
concerning each proposed collection of
information, including each proposed
extension of a currently approved
collection, and allow 60 days for public
comment in response to the notice.
DATES: Written comments and
recommendations on the proposed
collection of information should be
received on or before August 11, 2020.
ADDRESSES: Submit written comments
on the collection of information through
Federal Docket Management System
SUMMARY:

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