Safe Management of Recalled Airbags (Renewal)

This is a proposed extension of the emergency ICR established to support the Safe Management of Recalled Airbags Interim Final Rule through April 30, 2019. The EPA issued the interim final rule in response to the urgent public health issue posed by recalled Takata airbag inflators still installed in vehicles. The rule facilitates a more expedited removal of defective Takata airbag inflators from vehicles by dealerships, salvage yards and other locations for safe and environmentally sound disposal by exempting the collection of airbag waste from hazardous waste requirements so long as certain conditions are met. The collection of information is necessary in order to ensure that the hazardous waste airbag modules and airbag inflators exempted under this rule are safely disposed of and that defective airbag modules and airbag inflators are not reinserted into vehicles where they would pose an unreasonable risk of death or serious injury. Information collection activities include maintaining at the airbag handler for no less than three years records of (1) all off-site shipments and (2) confirmations of receipt of airbag waste.

The latest form for Safe Management of Recalled Airbags (Renewal) expires 2022-11-30 and can be found here.