Transport i bezpieczeństwo · 28/06/2004

Vehicles Built in Two or More Stages

Today's document proposes to amend five different parts of title 49 to establish a comprehensive regulatory scheme for addressing the certification issues related to vehicles built in two or more stages and, to a lesser degree, to altered vehicles. The proposal, if adopted would create a new temporary exemption process limited to final stage manufacturers and alterers, would better allocate legal responsibility among incomplete and final stage manufacturers, and would provide an automatic one year lead time to new safety requirements for final stage manufacturers and alterers unless the agency determines that a longer or shorter time period is appropriate.