[Federal Register: June 17, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 116)]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

49 CFR Parts 350 and 385

[Docket No. FMCSA-2001-11060]
RIN 2126-AA64

 
Certification of Safety Auditors, Safety Investigators, and 
Safety Inspectors; Delay of Effective Date

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Interim final rule; delay of effective date.

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SUMMARY: The FMCSA delays for 30 days the effective date of the interim 
final rule titled ``Certification of Safety Auditors, Safety 
Investigators, and Safety Inspectors,'' published in the Federal 
Register on March 19, 2002 at 67 FR 12776. That rule establishes 
procedures to certify and maintain certification for auditors and 
investigators. It also requires certification for State or local 
government Motor Carrier Safety Assistance Program (MCSAP) employees 
performing driver/vehicle roadside inspections. The FMCSA needs more 
time to review all of the comments received on this rulemaking.

DATES: The effective date of the interim final rule amending 49 CFR 
parts 350 and 385 published at 67 FR 12776, March 19, 2002, is delayed 
for 30 days from June 17, 2002 until July 17, 2002.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Larry Minor, 202-366-4009, Acting 
Chief, Driver and Carrier Operations Division, Federal Motor Carrier 
Safety Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW., MC-PSD, Washington, DC 
20590-0001. Office hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. EST, Monday 
through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FMCSA believes that an additional 30 
days are necessary to fully consider all of the comments received on 
the rule, including those related to potential environmental impacts of 
this action. The FMCSA's implementation of this action without 
opportunity for public comment, effective immediately upon publication 
today in the Federal Register, is based on the good cause exceptions in 
5 U.S.C. 553(b)(B) and 553 (d)(3). Seeking public comment is 
impracticable, unnecessary, and contrary to the public interest. The 
brief 30-day delay in effective date is necessary to give agency 
officials the opportunity to do further analysis in response to the 
comments. Given the imminence of the effective date, seeking prior 
public comment on this brief delay would have been impracticable, as 
well as contrary to the public interest in the orderly promulgation and 
implementation of regulations. The imminence of the effective date is 
also good cause for making this action effective immediately upon 
publication.

    Dated: June 12, 2002.
Joseph M. Clapp,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 02-15272 Filed 6-13-02; 11:55 am]
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