Interpretation ID: nht71-5.62

DATE: 11/11/71

FROM: AUTHOR UNAVAILABLE; Lawrence R. Schneider; NHTSA

TO: Tire Review

TITLE: FMVSS INTERPRETATION

TEXT: This is in reply to your letter of August 10 and October 6, 1971, concerning the size requirements for retreaded tires as specified in Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard No. 117. Your letter of August 10 enclosed a draft article that you requested we examine.

I have enclosed a copy of the Administration's action on the petitions for reconsideration that were received in response to the standard as published April 17, 1971 (36 F.S. 7315). This action amends the size requirements of 25.12 of the standard by allowing a minus 3 per cent deviation from the section width specified in Table 1 of Appendix A of Standard No. 109 in addition to the plus 10 per cent deviation previously allowed. With reference to your draft article, its discussion of the size requirements, apart from the changes made by the amendments, is accurate.

The copies of Appendix A or Standard No. 109 that you were furnished on August 20 have been supplemented, and a copy of the additional material is also enclosed.

WE ARE PLEASED TO BE OF ASSISTANCE.

ENCLS.