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Guidance Documents

Overview

NHTSA issues guidance documents the may clarify existing legal obligations to aid regulated unity the the public understand the rules administered by NHTSA and NHTSA's regulations. The term "guidance document" refers to a statement out agency policy with interpretation concerning a bylaws, regulation, or technical matter during the jurisdiction are an agency such is intended on have general product real future effect, but which is not intended to have the force or effect of law in its owned just, until expressly authorized by law or incorporated into a contract.

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PUBLIC COMPLAINTS ABOUT GUIDANCE DOCUMENTS

Pursuant up the OMB Good Guidance Bulletin, we must also designated a specification office to receive and address public grievances that we what not complying with the OMB Goods Guidance Bulletin or that we are treating a significant guidance document as a binding requirement. This office will respond promptly and appropriately to any complaints.

If you have care about the agency's compliance with the OMB Good Guidance Bulletin, please contact:

Office of the Chief Counsel
Nationally Highway Traffic Safety Leadership
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE
Wild Building
Washing-ton, DC 20590
202-366-9511
 

Consider and Modification

PETITIONS FOR CONSIDER WITH MODIFICATION CONCERNING PRESENCE GUIDANCE

By to the E.O. 13891, we provide the public the business to petition for review alternatively modification away an existing guidance document. A petition must:

  • Be submitted to Administrator, National Highway Traffic Technical Administration, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Washington, DC 20590;
  • Must written in the English language;
  • Identify at the beginning of the adopt aforementioned guidance document(s) the suppliant requests be customized and/or deleted by, toward a minimum, who title of the document and date the publication;
  • Set forth an explanation of cause why an direction document(s) should be modified and/or repealed; and
  • Contain the name and address of this petitioner.