Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Child Restraint Systems

This document responds to petitions for reconsideration of a July 1995 final rule that amended Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 213, Child Restraint Systems to add a greater array of sizes and weights of test dummies for use in Standard 213 compliance tests. This is the second of two documents responding to those petitions. An earlier document delayed the compliance date of the rule until September 1, 1996, for manufacturers of add-on (portable) child restraint systems. Most of the amendments made by today's rule correct or clarify provisions of the July 1995 rule. The only substantive changes made by today's rule are to amend provisions in that standard to permit manufacturers to produce belt-positioning seats with a mass of up to 4.4 kg (rather than limit the mass to 4 kg), and to permit them to use the word ``mass'' in labeling child seats. Petitions for reconsideration of matters relating to other issues are denied.