Interpretation ID: aiam2779
P.E.
Product Safety Engineering
Grumman Flxible Corporation
970 Pittsburgh Drive
Delaware
OH 43015;
Dear Mr. Ratz: This responds to your recent letter asking whether Safety Standard No 209, *Seat Belt Assemblies*, and Safety Standard No. 210, *Seat Belt Anchorages*, would be applicable to a Type I seat belt assembly used as a securement device for wheelchairs in an urban transit bus.; Safety Standard No. 209 is an equipment standard that is applicable t any seat belt manufactured for use on passenger cars, multipurpose passenger vehicles, trucks or buses. Therefore, the seat belt in question would have to comply with the performance requirements of that standard.; Safety Standard No. 210, however, only specifies requirements for sea belt anchorages at the driver's position on buses. Since the assembly you are concerned with would be at a passenger seating position in the bus, it would not have to comply with the anchorage requirements of Standard No. 210.; Sincerely, Joseph J. Levin, Jr., Chief Counsel