[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 162 (Tuesday, August 22, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43646-43647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20785]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Safety Performance Standards, Research and Safety Assurance 
Programs Meetings

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of NHTSA Industry Meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a public meeting at which NHTSA will 
answer questions from the public and the automobile industry regarding 
the agency's safety performance standards, safety assurance and other 
programs. In addition, NHTSA will hold a separate public meeting to 
describe and discuss specific research and development projects.

DATES: The Agency's regular, quarterly public meeting relating to its 
safety performance standards, safety assurance and other programs will 
be held on September 22, 1995, beginning at 9:30 a.m. and ending at 
approximately 12:30 p.m. Questions relating to the above programs must 
be submitted in writing by September 13, 1995, to the address shown 
below. If sufficient time is available, questions received after the 
September 13, date may be answered at the meeting. The individual, 
group or company submitting a question(s) does not have to be present 
for the question(s) to be answered. A consolidated list of the 
questions submitted by September 13, 1995, and the issues to be 
discussed will be mailed to interested persons by September 15, 1995, 
and will be available at the meeting.
    Also, the agency will hold a second public meeting on September 21, 
devoted exclusively to a presentation of research and development 
programs. This meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. an end at approximately 
5:00 p.m. That meeting is described more fully in a separate 
announcement.

ADDRESSES: Questions for the September 22, NHTSA Technical Industry 
Meeting, relating to the agency's safety performance standards and 
safety assurance programs, should be submitted to Barry Felrice, 
Associate Administrator for Safety Performance Standards, NPS-01, 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Room 5401, 400 Seventh 
Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. The meeting will be held at the 
Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C Street, SW, (Columbia North Room), 
Washington, DC 20024.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA will hold this regular, quarterly 
meeting to answer questions from the public and the regulated 
industries regarding the agency's safety performance standards, safety 
assurance and other programs. Questions on aspects of the agency's 
research and development activities that relate to ongoing regulatory 
actions should be submitted, as in the past, to the agency's Safety 
Performance Standards Office. The purpose of this meeting is to focus 
on those phases of NHTSA activities which are technical, 

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interpretative or procedural in nature. Transcripts of these meetings 
will be available for public inspection in the NHTSA Technical 
Reference Section in Washington, DC, within four weeks after the 
meeting. Copies of the transcript will then be available at ten cents a 
page, (length has varied from 100 to 150 pages) upon request to NHTSA 
Technical Reference Section, Room 5108, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. The Technical Reference Section is open to the 
public from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.
    We would appreciate the questions you send us to be organized by 
categories to help us to process the questions into agenda form more 
efficiently.
    Sample format as follows:

I. Rulemaking
A. Crashavoidance
B. Crashworthiness
C. Other Rulemakings
II. Consumer Information
III. Miscellaneous

    NHTSA will provide auxiliary aids to participants as necessary. Any 
person desiring assistance of ``auxiliary aids'' (e.g., sign-language 
interpreter, telecommunications devices for deaf persons (TDDs), 
readers, taped texts, Brailled materials, or large print materials and/
or a magnifying device), please contact Barbara Carnes on (202) 366-
1810, by COB September 11, 1995.
Barry Felrice,
Associate Administrator for Safety Performance Standards.
[FR Doc. 95-20785 Filed 8-21-95; 8:45 am]
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