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The GAO report, which was obtained by the Associated Press, came a year after an unlicensed charter bus in Texas blew a retreaded tire that had been illegally installed.
Tires are retreaded by removing the worn tread, adding new tread rubber and vulcanizing it so that the tire can be reused.
The study by the Government Accountability Office, obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press, comes a year after an unlicensed charter bus carrying a Vietnamese American Catholic group blew a retreaded tire installed on a steering axle and skidded off a Texas highway, killing 17 people in one of the nation's deadliest bus crashes.
 
 
 
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