Sec. 103. Improved National Highway Traffic Safety Administration vehicle safety databases
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Not later than 2 years after the date of enactment of this Act, and after public consultation, the Secretary shall improve public accessibility to information on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s publicly accessible vehicle safety databases— by improving organization and functionality, including design features such as drop-down menus, and allowing for data from all of the publicly accessible vehicle safety databases to be searched, sorted, aggregated, and downloaded in a manner— consistent with the public interest; and that facilitates easy use by consumers; by providing greater consistency in presentation of vehicle safety issues; by improving searchability about specific vehicles and issues through standardization of commonly used search terms and the integration of databases to enable all to be simultaneously searched using the same keyword search function; and by ensuring that all studies, investigation reports, inspection reports, incident reports, and other categories of materials, as specified through the rulemaking under section 101(a), be made publicly available in a manner that is searchable in databases by— manufacturer name, vehicle or equipment make and model name, and model year; reported system or component; number of injuries or fatalities; and any other element that the Secretary determines to be in the public interest.
The Secretary shall— provide public notice of information requests to manufacturers issued under section 30166 of title 49, United States Code; and make such information requests, the manufacturer's written responses to the information requests, and notice of any enforcement or other action taken as a result of the information requests— available to consumers on the Internet not later than 5 days after such notice is issued; and searchable by manufacturer name, vehicle or equipment make and model name, model year, system or component, and the type of inspection or investigation being conducted.
Any requirement for the Secretary to publicly disclose information under this section shall be construed consistently with the requirements of section 552 of title 5, United States Code.