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RIN: 2127-AG58

Publication ID: Fall 1998

Title: Low-Speed Vehicles
Abstract: The agency established a new category of motor vehicle called "low-speed vehicle." A low-speed vehicle (LSV) is any 4-wheeled motor vehicle, other than a truck, whose top speed is more than 20 but does not exceed 25 mph. Under this new standard, Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 500, LSVs will be equipped with certain basic items of motor vehicle safety equipment, such as seat belts, in lieu of complying with the Federal motor vehicle safety and bumper standards that would apply if LSVs were categorized according to existing vehicle types.
Agency: Department of Transportation(DOT)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Completed Actions
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 49 CFR 571.500
Legal Authority: 49 USC 322 49 USC 30111 49 USC 30115 49 USC 30117 49 USC 30166

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	01/08/1997	62 FR 1077
NPRM Comment Period End	02/24/1997
Final Action	06/17/1998	63 FR 33193
Final Action Effective	06/17/1998

Additional Information: This action is in partial response to oral and written comments received from two public meetings held on July 18, 1996, in Palm Desert, CA and on July 25, 1996, in NHTSA Headquarters. ^PANALYSIS: Regulatory Evaluation, 06/17/98, 63 FR 33193
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Agency Contact: Michael Goode Attorney Advisor, Office of the Chief Counsel Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590 Phone:202 366-5263 Fax:202 366-3820 Email: michael.goode@nhtsa.dot.gov