Safety Eligibility Letter WZ - 140a

U.S. Department of Transportation
Federal Highway Administration

1200 New Jersey Ave. S.E.
Washington, D.C. 20590

October 1, 2010

In Reply Refer To: HSSD/WZ-140A

Mr. Greg Hannah
Impact Recovery Systems, Inc.
4955 Stout Drive
San Antonio, Texas 78219

Dear Mr. Hannah:

This is in response to your September 27, 2010, e-mail correspondence requesting the Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) acceptance of your company’s internally illuminated OminiPed Solar Pedestrian Vertical Panel as a crashworthy traffic control device for use in work zones and elsewhere on the National Highway System (NHS). Accompanying your letter was the FHWA Office of Safety Design form and an engineering comparison with your company’s vertical panel that was crash tested with an external light, covered in FHWA acceptance letter WZ-140. You requested that we find this device acceptable for use on the NHS under the provisions of National Cooperative Highway Research Program Report 350 “Recommended Procedures for the Safety Performance Evaluation of Highway Features.”

This letter is the acknowledgement of the FHWA’s acceptance of your request. The original completed form has been modified by the addition of the FHWA acceptance letter number and the date of our review. The form, of which a copy is enclosed for reference, will be posted on our web site in the near future.

Enclosure