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in section 543.6(a)(3): 6 promoting
activation; preventing defeat or
circumvention of the device by
unauthorized persons; preventing
operation of the vehicle by
unauthorized entrants; and ensuring the
reliability and durability of the device.
The agency notes that 49 CFR part
541, Appendix A–1, identifies those
lines that are exempted from the theft
prevention standard for a given model
year. 49 CFR 543.8(f) contains
publication requirements incident to the
disposition of all part 543 petitions.
Advanced listing, including the release
of future product nameplates, the
beginning model year for which the
petition is granted and a general
description of the antitheft device is
necessary in order to notify law
enforcement agencies of new vehicle
lines exempted from the parts-marking
requirements of the theft prevention
standard.
If Nissan decides not to use the
exemption for its requested vehicle line,
the manufacturer must formally notify
the agency. If such a decision is made,
the line must be fully marked as
required by 49 CFR 541.5 and 541.6
(marking of major component parts and
replacement parts).
NHTSA notes that if Nissan wishes in
the future to modify the device on
which the exemption is based, the
company may have to submit a petition
to modify the exemption. Section
543.8(d) states that a part 543 exemption
applies only to vehicles that belong to
a line exempted under this part and
equipped with the antitheft device on
which the line’s exemption is based.
Further, section 543.10(c)(2) provides
for the submission of petitions ‘‘to
modify an exemption to permit the use
of an antitheft device similar to but
differing from the one specified in the
exemption.’’
The agency wishes to minimize the
administrative burden that section
543.10(c)(2) could place on exempted
vehicle manufacturers and itself. The
agency did not intend in drafting part
543 to require the submission of a
modification petition for every change
to the components or design of an
antitheft device. The significance of
many such changes could be de
minimis. Therefore, NHTSA suggests
that if Nissan contemplates making any
changes, the effects of which might be
6 See, e.g., 70 FR 74107 (Dec. 14, 2005). NHTSA
has previously concluded that the lack of a visual
or audio alarm has not prevented some antitheft
devices from being effective protection against theft,
where the theft data indicate a decline in theft rates
for vehicle lines that have been equipped with
devices similar to that what the petitioner is
proposing to use.

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characterized as de minimis, it should
consult the agency before preparing and
submitting a petition to modify.
For the foregoing reasons, the agency
hereby grants in full Nissan’s petition
for exemption for the ARIYA vehicle
line from the parts-marking
requirements of 49 CFR part 541,
beginning with its MY 2023 vehicles.
Issued under authority delegated in
49 CFR 1.95 and 501.8.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration
[[Docket No. NHTSA–2019–0146; OMB No.
2127–0621]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Platform Lift Systems
for Motor Vehicles, and Platform Lift
Installations in Motor Vehicles
National Highway Traffic
Safety Administration (NHTSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments on a reinstatement of a
previously approved information
collection.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice (‘‘30-day notice’’)
announces that the Information
Collection Request (ICR) summarized
below is being forwarded to the Office
of Management and Budget (OMB) for
review and approval. The ICR describes
the nature of the information collection
and its expected burden and is a request
for a reinstatement of a previously
approved information collection
regarding Platform lift systems for motor
vehicles, and Platform lift installations
in motor vehicles. A Federal Register
Notice with a 60-day comment period
soliciting comments on this information
collection was published on February 6,
2020 (85 FR 7008). No comments were
received.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or November 1, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
should be submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget at
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
SUMMARY:

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To find this information collection,
select ‘‘Currently under Review—Open
for Public Comment’’ or use the search
function.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information or access to
background documents, contact Michael
Pyne, 202–366–4171, Office of
Rulemaking (NRM230), National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration,
U.S. Dept. of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Room W43–457,
Washington, DC 20590. Please identify
the relevant collection of information by
referring to its OMB Control Number.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the
PRA (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), a Federal
agency must receive approval from the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) before it collects certain
information from the public and a
person is not required to respond to a
collection of information by a Federal
agency unless the collection displays a
valid OMB control number. In
compliance with these requirements,
this notice announces that the following
information collection request will be
submitted to the OMB.
A Federal Register Notice with a 60day comment period soliciting
comments on the following information
collection was published on February 6,
2020 (85 FR 7008). No comments were
received in response to the 60-day
notice.
Title: 49 CFR 571.403, Platform lift
systems for motor vehicles, and 49 CFR
571.404, Platform lift installations in
motor vehicles.
OMB Control Number: 2127–0621.
Type of Request: Reinstatement with
changes of a previously approved
information collection.
Type of Review Requested: Regular.
Requested Expiration Date of
Approval: Three years from date of
approval.
Summary of the Collection of
Information: Federal Motor Vehicle
Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 403,
Platform lift systems for motor vehicles,
establishes minimum performance
standards for platform lifts intended for
installation in motor vehicles to assist
wheelchair users and other persons of
limited mobility in entering and exiting
a vehicle. The standard’s purpose is to
prevent injuries and fatalities to
passengers and bystanders during the
operation of platform lifts. The related
standard, FMVSS No. 404, Platform lift
installations in motor vehicles,
establishes specific requirements for
vehicle manufacturers or alterers that
install platform lifts in new vehicles.
Lift manufacturers must certify that
their lifts meet the requirements of

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FMVSS No. 403 and must declare in the
owner’s manual, in the installation
instructions, and on the operating
instruction label, that the lift is certified.
Certification of compliance with FMVSS
No. 404 is included on the vehicle
certification label required on all motor
vehicles under 49 CFR part 567. Certain
requirements in FMVSS No. 403 and
FMVSS No. 404 contain information
collections. FMVSS No. 403 requires lift
manufacturers to produce an insert that
is placed in the vehicle owner’s manual
and lift installation instructions.
Additionally, lift manufacturers must
affix either one or two labels to be
placed near the controls for the lift. The
latter illustrate and describe procedures
for operating the lift. NHTSA’s estimates
of burden and cost to lift manufacturers
to meet these requirements are
described below. FMVSS No. 404
requires manufacturers or alterers that
install platform lifts to insert the
instructions provided by the lift
manufacturer into the vehicle owners’
manuals and ensure that labels with lift
operating procedures are affixed to a
location adjacent to the controls.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Use of the
Information: The information is used
by:
• Platform lift installers so that they
can ensure the correct type of lift—
either public-use or private-use—is
installed and has the necessary weight
capacity, and that lifts are correctly
installed and equipped with the
minimum required lighting;
• Operators of public-use lifts so they
have access to explanatory labels on lift
controls and are aware of the lift
operating capacity and maintenance
requirements;
• Private-use lift owners so that they
have access to explanatory labels on lift
controls and are aware of the lift
operating capacity and maintenance
requirements.
Affected Public: Platform lift
manufacturers and vehicle
manufacturers or alterers that install

platform lifts in motor vehicles prior to
first vehicle sale. There is no burden on
the general public.
Estimated Number of Respondents:
10.
NHTSA estimates that there are 10
platform-lift manufacturers doing
business at a given time. Platform-lift
manufacturers typically have a design
cycle of approximately 5 years.
Therefore, there are aspects of the
information collection that only require
the manufacturers to incur burden once
every 5 years, such as changing the
owner’s manual inserts and labels.
However, other aspects of the
information collection, such as printing
the inserts and labeling the lifts, require
manufacturers to incur burden every
year.
Estimated Number of Responses:
27,398 lifts manufactured in each of the
next three years.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 1,562 hours.
NHTSA estimates that a total of 10 lift
manufacturers will incur 1,562 hours of
burden annually. This estimate is
comprised of time to make changes to
required language and the time to
distribute that information by affixing
labels or placards, placing inserts into
owners’ manuals, and providing
installation instructions.
NHTSA estimates that every year
approximately two lift manufacturers
will need to change the language of the
insert for the vehicle owners’ manual
stating the lift’s platform operating
volume, maintenance schedule, and
operating procedures. NHTSA estimates
that it will take manufacturers
approximately 24 hours to make those
changes. Therefore, NHTSA estimates
that changes to the owners’ manual
inserts will take 48 hours annually (2
manufacturers × 24 hours = 48 hours per
year).
NHTSA estimates that every year
approximately two manufacturers will
need to change the installation
instructions identifying the types of
vehicles on which each lift is designed
to be installed. NHTSA estimates that it

will take manufacturers approximately
24 hours to make those changes.
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that
changes to the installation instructions
will take 48 hours annually
(2 manufacturers × 24 hours = 48 hours
per year).
NHTSA estimates that every year
approximately two manufacturers will
need to make changes to labels or
placards which identify the operating
functions of the lift. NHTSA estimates
that it will take manufacturers
approximately 24 hours to make those
changes. Therefore, NHTSA estimates
that changes to the labels or placards for
lift functions will take 48 hours
annually (2 manufacturers × 24 hours =
48 hours per year).
NHTSA estimates that every year
approximately two lift manufacturers
will need to make changes to labels and
placards detailing back-up operating
procedures. NHTSA estimates that it
will take manufacturers approximately
24 hours to make those changes.
Therefore, NHTSA estimates that
changes to the language of labels or
placards for back-up operating
procedures will take 48 hours annually
(2 manufacturers × 24 hours = 48 hours
per year).
In addition to making periodic
changes to the wording of the owners’
manual inserts, installation instructions,
and labels or placards for lift operating
procedures and back-up operation; lift
manufacturers also incur burden
associated with distributing that
information by affixing labels or
placards, placing inserts into owners’
manuals, and providing installation
instructions.
NHTSA estimates that there will be
27,398 lifts manufactured in each of the
next three years. NHTSA estimates that
distributing the required information
will take approximately 3 minutes per
lift or approximately 1,370 hours for all
lifts annually (27,398 lifts × 3 minutes
per lift = 82,194 minutes; 82,194
minutes ÷ 60 = 1,370 hours).

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Lift
manufacturers
Per
Per
Per
Per

Year
Year
Year
Year

Insert Language: ......................................................................................................
Install Instruct.: .........................................................................................................
Label Change/Operating: .........................................................................................
Label Change/Back-up: ............................................................................................

Hours to
make change

2
2
2
2
Lifts-each
year next
3 years

Distribution ...............................................................................................................................

24
24
24
24
Mins.
to distribute

27,398
Estimated Total Burden Hours:

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Annual hours
48
48
48
48
Total
hours

3

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The labor cost associated with the
burden hours is derived by applying
appropriate hourly labor rates published
by the Bureau of Labor Statistics 1 (BLS)
to the hourly burden discussed
previously in this notice. There are two
categories of labor involved. First, for
‘‘Assemblers and Fabricators’’
(Occupation code 51–2000) with an
average wage of $22.94/hour, the labor

rate is $32.72/hour (based on BLS
statistics showing wages for private
industry workers are 70.1 percent of
total compensation 2). Multiplying that
hourly labor rate, by the estimated 1,370
labor hours needed annually to affix and
distribute the required informational
materials, yields an annual labor cost of
$44,832.81. Second, for ‘‘Technical
Writers’’ (Occupation code 27–3042)
Percent
of total
compensation

Average
wage
Assemblers and Fabricators: ...............................................
Technical Writers: ................................................................

$22.94
33.98

70.1
70.1

with an average wage of $33.98/hour,
the labor rate is $47.47/hour.
Multiplying that hourly labor rate, by
the estimated 192 labor hours needed
for revisions to labels and printed
materials, yields an annual labor cost of
$9,306.93.
The total annual labor cost is thus
estimated to be $54,139.74.
Labor
rate

Annual
hours

$32.72
48.47

1,370
192

Estimated Annual Labor Cost for This Information Collection:

Estimated Total Annual Burden Cost:
The cost of this collection of
information will include printing costs.
NHTSA’s estimate of printing costs is
broken down as follows:
D Owner’s manual inserts—27,398 lifts ×
$0.04 per page × 1 page = $1,095.92

D Installation instructions—27,398 lifts ×
$0.04 per page × 1 page = $1,095.92
D Label/placard for lift operating
procedures—27,398 lifts × $0.13 per
label = $3,561.74

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$44,832.81
9,306.93
54,139.74

D Label/placard for lift backup
operation—27,398 lifts × $0.13 per
label = $3,561.74
Based on this breakdown, NHTSA
estimates the total printing cost
associated with this information
collection is $9,315.32 annually.
Lifts-each
year in next
3 years

Owner’s Manual Insert: ................................................................................................................
Install Instructions: .......................................................................................................................
Label Change/Operating Procedure: ...........................................................................................
Label Change/Back-up Operation: ..............................................................................................

Annual
labor cost

Per unit
$0.04
0.04
0.13
0.13

$1,095.92
1,095.92
3,561.74
3,561.74

Estimated Annual Printing Cost for This Information Collection: .................................................................................................

9,315.32

Public Comments Invited: You are
asked to comment on any aspects of this
information collection, including (a)
whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate
of the burden of the proposed collection
of information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;
(c) ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g. permitting
electronic submission of responses.

1 Available online at https://www.bls.gov/oes/
current/naics4_336100.htm.

2 See Table 1 at https://www.bls.gov/news.release/
pdf/ecec.pdf.

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27,398
27,398
27,398
27,398

Total cost

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction
Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35; as
amended; 49 CFR 1.49; and DOT Order
1351.29.
Raymond R. Posten,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
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