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PROPOSED REGULATIONS (See new proposed regulations below in red, as of August 26, 2009.)

ORIGINAL PROPOSED REGULATIONS: On October 31, 2008, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for fire apparatus was published in the California Regulatory Notice Register (Notice Register).  The proposed amendment would apply to the California Code of Regulations, Title 21, Division 2, Chapter 7, Section 1411.7. The proposed action would (1) increase the existing axle weight exemptions on fire trucks, (2) extend the length of a single-unit fire truck to 52 feet, and (3) expand both these exemptions to include all fire apparatus, which includes other emergency vehicles.

ORIGINAL NOTICE PUBLISHED: The original proposed regulations can be viewed in the Notice Register dated October 31, 2008 on this website: http://www.oal.ca.gov/notices/October2008_notice_pdf.htm. This published version has a minor typo on Page 1941. In the sentence at the 6th bullet, "complete" should read "compete." Since the correction was non-substantive, OAL granted permission to post the corrected version on the Caltrans website, which can be accessed at: Fire Apparatus Notice of Proposed Rulemaking.

ORIGINAL REGULATIONS PACKAGE: See also the INITIAL STATEMENT OF REASONS and the PROPOSED TEXT OF REGULATION MARK-UP.

INITIAL COMMENTS: The initial comment period lasted 45 days, from October 31, 2008, to December 15, 2008. Comments were submitted to Casey Robb at the mailing address listed in the "Notice," or by e-mail at: casey_robb@dot.ca.gov. (The apparent blank space in the e-mail address is an underscore.)

NEW PROPOSED REGULATIONS as of August 25, 2009

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