Sec. 5204. Petitions
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The Administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration shall— publish on a publicly accessible Internet Web site of the Department a summary of all petitions for regulatory action submitted to the Administration; prioritize the petitions submitted based on the likelihood of safety improvements resulting from the regulatory action requested; not later than 180 days after the date a summary of a petition is published under paragraph (1), formally respond to such petition by indicating whether the Administrator will accept, deny, or further review the petition; prioritize responses to petitions consistent with a response’s potential to reduce crashes, improve enforcement, and reduce unnecessary burdens; and not later than 60 days after the date of receipt of a petition, publish on a publicly accessible Internet Web site of the Department an updated inventory of the petitions described in paragraph (1), including any applicable disposition information for those petitions.
In this section, the term petition means a request for a new regulation, a regulatory interpretation or clarification, or a review of a regulation to eliminate or modify an obsolete, ineffective, or overly burdensome regulation.