On June 2, 2020 the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) published in the Federal Register (F.R. Vol. 85 No. 106, [Docket No. NHTSA-2019-0023]) that the comment period for the Part 572 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) issued in December 2019 with original comment period closing on February 24, 2020, is reopened until August 3, 2020.
This action is the result of public comments from Humanetics asking for additional time to collect data regarding the proposed additional chest jacket specifications while also ensuring a sufficient sample size. NHTSA is also docketing a document describing procedures it has developed to measure SAE chest jackets already in use in the field in order to assess the uniformity of the jackets and to determine jacket dimensions and tolerances to be specified in the Final Rule.
This NPRM is available on InterRegs.NET for our US Federal subscribers and is also available at www.selectregs.com.