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RIN: 2127-AH81

Publication ID: Spring 2002

Title: Headlamp Glare
Abstract: The current standard sets minimum and maximum intensities for headlamps to ensure that the two most important aspects of head lighting performance are balanced. These often conflicting aspects are (1) to assure the driver of the vehicles sees as much of the roadway possible, while (2) minimizing glare for other drivers using the road. The balance the agency has chosen of these two areas has changed very little since 1970. The agency has been receiving a significant number of public complaints about glare from other vehicles' headlamps. In light of significant technological changes, including improved halogen lamps and high intensity discharge lamps, fleet mix changes (nearly half of all new vehicles sold in 1998 were light trucks, with higher-mounted headlamps), and an increase in the age of the population, the agency wants to reexamine the balance it has chosen between seeing distance and glare to see if it is still appropriate. The agency asked the public for comments and information to begin exploring this area more fully.
Agency: Department of Transportation(DOT)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 49 CFR 571.108
Legal Authority: 49 USC 322 49 USC 30111 49 USC 30115 49 USC 30117 49 USC 30166

Legal Deadline: None

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
Request for Comments	09/28/2001	66 FR 49594
Reopen Comment Period	11/30/2001	66 FR 59769
Comment Period End	12/22/2001
Comment Period End	01/28/2002
NPRM	06/00/2002

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No	Government Levels Affected: None
Small Entities Affected: Businesses	Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
Agency Contact: Richard Van Iderstine Chief, Visibility and Injury Prevention Division NVS-121 Department of Transportation National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Office of Crash Avoidance Stds., 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590 Phone:202 366-2720 Fax:202 366-4329