Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 205, Glazing Materials; No. 205(a), Glazing Equipment Manufactured Before September 1, 2006, and Glazing Materials Used in Vehicles Manufactured Before November 1, 2006

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION <SUBAGY>NATIONAL HIGHWAY TRAFFIC SAFETY ADMINISTRATION</SUBAGY> <CFR>49 CFR Part 571</CFR> <DEPDOC>[Docket No. NHTSA-2025-0034]</DEPDOC> <RIN>RIN 2127-AM85</RIN> <SUBJECT>Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards No. 205, Glazing Materials; No. 205(a), Glazing Equipment Manufactured Before September 1, 2006, and Glazing Materials Used in Vehicles Manufactured Before November 1, 2006</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Department of Transportation (DOT). <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Notice of proposed rulemaking. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> NHTSA is proposing to remove the obsolete Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 205(a), Glazing equipment manufactured before September 1, 2006, and glazing materials used in vehicles manufactured before November 1, 2006. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> Comments must be received July 29, 2025. </EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> You may submit comments electronically to the docket identified in the heading of this document by visiting the Federal eRulemaking Portal at <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov.</E> Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Alternatively, you can file comments using the following methods: • <E T="03">Mail:</E> Docket Management Facility: U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001. • <E T="03">Hand Delivery or Courier:</E> West Building Ground Floor, Room W12-140, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 366-9826 before coming. • <E T="03">Fax:</E> (202) 493-2251. Regardless of how you submit your comments, you should mention the docket number identified in the heading of this document. <E T="03">Instructions:</E> All submissions must include the agency name and docket number or Regulatory Information Number (RIN) for this rulemaking. For detailed instructions on submitting comments and additional information on the rulemaking process, see the Public Participation heading of the <E T="02">Supplementary Information</E> section of this document. Note that all comments received will be posted without change to <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov,</E> including any personal information provided. Please see the Privacy Act heading below. <E T="03">Docket:</E> For access to the docket to read background documents or comments received, go to <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov.</E> You may also access the docket at 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays. Telephone: 202-366-9826. <E T="03">Confidential Business Information:</E> If you claim that any of the information in your comment (including any additional documents or attachments) constitutes confidential business information within the meaning of 5 U.S.C. 552(b)(4) or is protected from disclosure pursuant to 18 U.S.C. 1905, please see the detailed instructions given under the Public Participation heading of the <E T="02">Supplementary Information</E> section of this document. <E T="03">Privacy Act:</E> Please see the Privacy Act heading under the Regulatory Analyses section of this document. <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> For technical issues, you may contact James Myers, Office of Crashworthiness Standards (email: <E T="03">james.myers@dot.gov</E> ). For legal issues, you may contact John Piazza at <E T="03">John.Piazza@dot.gov.</E> You can reach these officials by phone at 202-366-1810. Address: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Washington, DC 20590. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> NHTSA is proposing to remove the obsolete requirements of FMVSS No. 205(a) and revise the applicability of FMVSS No. 205. The removed text from FMVSS No. 205 and the entirety of FMVSS No. 205(a) apply only to glazing equipment manufactured before September 1, 2006, and to motor vehicles manufactured before November 1, 2006. The following standards appear in FMVSS No. 205(a) and have already been approved for the locations in which they appear: ANSI Z26.1-1977, ANSI Z26.1a-1980, and SAE Recommended Practice J673a, “Automotive Glazing,” revised August 1967. Since these three standards are only incorporated by reference in FMVSS No. 205(a), NHTSA is proposing to remove the IBR material from 49 CFR 571.5. We seek comment on all aspects of this proposal. This action does not affect the applicability of 49 U.S.C. 30122, which prohibits certain entities from making inoperative any part of a device or element of design installed in vehicle pursuant to an FMVSS applicable on the date of manufacture. <HD SOURCE="HED">Authority:</HD> 49 U.S.C. 322, 30111, 30115, 30117, 30166; delegation of authority at 49 CFR 1.95. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Regulatory Analyses</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD2">Rule Summary</HD> As required by 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(4), a summary of this rule can be found at <E T="03">regulations.gov,</E> Docket NHTSA-2025-0034, in the <E T="02">SUMMARY</E> section of this proposed rule. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Executive Orders 12866 and 13563</HD> This rule does not meet the criteria of a “significant regulatory action” under Executive Order 12866, as amended by Executive Orders 14215 and 13563. Therefore, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has not reviewed this rule under those orders. This regulation is not an E.O. 14192 regulatory action. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Promoting International Regulatory Cooperation</HD> The policy statement in section 1 of Executive Order 13609 provides that the regulatory approaches taken by foreign governments may differ from those taken by the United States to address similar issues, and that in some cases the differences between them might not be necessary and might impair the ability of American businesses to export and compete internationally. It further recognizes that in meeting shared challenges involving health, safety, and other issues, international regulatory cooperation can identify approaches that are at least as protective as those that are or would be adopted in the absence of such cooperation and can reduce, eliminate, or prevent unnecessary differences in regulatory requirements. In addition, section 24211 of the Infrastructure, Investment, and Jobs Act, Global Harmonization, provides that DOT “shall cooperate, to the maximum extent practicable, with foreign governments, nongovernmental stakeholder groups, the motor vehicle industry, and consumer groups with respect to global harmonization of vehicle regulations as a means for improving motor vehicle safety.”  <SU>1</SU> <FTREF/> <FTNT> <SU>1</SU>  H.R. 3684 (117th Congress) (2021). </FTNT> Because the proposed changes are deleting obsolete regulatory text, they do not implicate any issues regarding international regulatory cooperation. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Initial Regulatory Flexibility Act</HD> Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 U.S.C. 601-612) (as amended by the Small Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act (SBREFA) of 1996; 5 U.S.C. 601 <E T="03">et seq.</E> ), agencies must prepare and make available for public comment a regulatory flexibility analysis that describes the effect of the rule on small entities ( <E T="03">i.e.,</E> small businesses, small organizations, and small government jurisdictions). No regulatory flexibility analysis is required, however, if the head of an agency or an appropriate designee certifies that the rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities. NHTSA has concluded and hereby certifies that this rule will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small entities; therefore, an analysis is not included. This proposed rule will only remove directives that are no longer needed. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Unfunded Mandates Reform Act</HD> This proposed rule does not contain Federal mandates (under the regulatory provisions of Title II of the UMRA) for State, local, and Tribal governments, or the private sector of $100 million or more in any one year. Thus, the rule is not subject to the requirements of sections 202 and 205 of the UMRA. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Executive Order 13175</HD> Executive Order 13175 requires Federal agencies to consult and coordinate with Tribes on a government-to-government basis on policies that have Tribal implications, including regulations, legislative comments or proposed legislation, and other policy statements or actions that have substantial direct effects on one or more Indian Tribes, on the relationship between the Federal Government and Indian Tribes, or on the distribution of power and responsibilities between the Federal Government and Indian Tribes. NHTSA has assessed the impact of this proposed rule on Indian tribes and determined that this rule would not have tribal implications that require consultation under Executive Order 13175. <HD SOURCE="HD2">Paperwork Reduction Act</HD> In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501-3520), an agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information, unless the collection displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget (OMB) control number. This proposed rule is deregulatory and so would not impose any additional information collection requirements. <HD SOURCE="HD2">E-Government Act Compliance</HD> NHTSA is committed to complying with the E-Government Act, 2002 to promote t ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 27k characters. 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