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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is proposing rules to reward whistleblowers who tip them off to vehicle safety infractions.
It’s doing so through the Motor Vehicle Safety Whistleblower Act (Whistleblower Act). It was enacted by Congress in 2015 under the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation (FAST) Act, which required the Department of Transportation to finalize the whistleblower rules by July 6, 2016.
It’s not clear why NHTSA took seven years to bring the proposed rules forward, however, a spokesperson told Repairer Driven News that the FAST Act itself had already established “important protections and incentives for motor vehicle safety whistleblowers” and authorized the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to pay a reward to eligible tipsters.
“NHTSA’s rulemaking proposes to further implement these statutory provisions that are already in effect, including by defining certain statutory terms and establishing procedures. The Safety Act’s whistleblower protections and incentives have been in effect since adoption of the FAST Act in 2015,” the administration said. “As explained in NHTSA’s proposed rule, NHTSA has received and considered more than 150 whistleblower submissions.
“The information NHTSA has learned from whistleblowers has helped the Agency identify and investigate safety issues and violations of law. In one instance, a whistleblower’s critical assistance to the Agency resulted in two consent orders with civil...
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