Extension of Interim Revised Durability Procedures for Light-Duty Vehicles and Light-Duty Trucks

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

40 CFR Part 86

[FRL-5702-3]

Extension of Interim Revised Durability Procedures for Light-Duty

Vehicles and Light-Duty Trucks

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Removal of direct final rule amendments.

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SUMMARY: On November 15, 1996, EPA published a direct final rule

extending the applicability of durability regulations for light duty

vehicles and light duty trucks [61 FR 58618]. This action was published

without prior approval because EPA anticipated no adverse comments. Due

to the receipt of an adverse comment, EPA is removing the amendments

made by the direct final rule and restoring the regulatory text that

existed prior to the direct final rule.

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 11, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Linda Hormes, Environmental Protection

Agency, Office of Air and Radiation, (313) 668-4502, 2565 Plymouth

Road, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On November 15, 1996, EPA published in the

Federal Register a direct final rule extending indefinitely the

applicability of durability regulations for light duty vehicles and

light duty trucks [61 FR 58618]. The direct final rule was published

without prior proposal in the Federal Register with a provision for a

thirty day comment period and a statement that if adverse or critical

comments were received by this time, the rule would be withdrawn and

resubmitted as a proposed rule. Due to the receipt of an adverse

comment within the comment period, EPA is removing the amendments made

by the direct final rule and is resubmitting those amendments in a

separate action published elsewhere in this issue of the Federal

Register as a proposal. Because the effective date of the direct final

rule was January 14, 1997, the regulatory language which was amended

has been changed to read as it did prior to the direct final rule.

List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 86

Environmental protection, Administrative practice and procedure,

Confidential business information, Motor vehicle pollution, Reporting

and recordkeeping requirements.

Dated: March 4, 1997.

Carol M. Browner,

Administrator.

For the reasons set forth in the preamble, part 86 of chapter I,

title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations is amended as follows:

PART 86--CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM NEW AND IN-USE MOTOR

VEHICLES AND NEW AND IN-USE MOTOR VEHICLE ENGINES: CERTIFICATION

AND TEST PROCEDURES

1. The authority citation for part 86 continues to read as follows:

Authority: Sections 202, 203, 205, 206, 207, 208, 215, 216, 217,

and 301(a), of the Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. 7521, 7522,

7524, 7525, 7541, 7542, 7549, 7550, 7552, and 7601(a)).

Sec. 86.094-13 [Amended]

2. In Sec. 86.094-13, paragraphs (a)(1), (c)(1), (d)(1), (e)(1),

and (f)(1) are amended by revising the words ``1994 and beyond'' to

read ``1994 through 1998''.

Sec. 86.094-26 [Amended]

3. In Sec. 86.094-26, paragraphs (a)(2), (b)(2)(i), and (b)(2)(ii)

are amended by revising the words ``1994 and beyond'' to read ``1994

through 1998''.

[FR Doc. 97-5878 Filed 3-10-97; 8:45 am]

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