[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 25 (Tuesday, February 6, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4512-4513]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2496]
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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 vehicle regulatory, safety assurance and other programs.
In addition, NHTSA will hold two separate public meetings to describe
and discuss specific research and development projects and to seek
information on the safety of mirror systems.
DATES: The Agency's regular, quarterly public meeting relating to its
vehicle regulatory, safety assurance and other programs will be held on
March 13, 1996, beginning at 9:45 a.m. and ending at approximately
12:30 p.m. Questions relating to the above programs must be submitted
in writing by March 1, 1996, to the address shown below. If sufficient
time is available, questions received after March 1, 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 March 1, 1996, and the
issues to be discussed will be transmitted to interested persons by
March 6, 1996, and will be available at the meeting. Also, the agency
will hold a second public meeting on March 12,
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devoted exclusively to a presentation of research and development
programs. This meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. and end at approximately
5:00 p.m. That meeting is described more fully in a separate
announcement. In addition to the March 12th meeting, a third public
meeting will be held on the afternoon of March 13th, following the
NHTSA Technical Industry Public Meeting. This latter meeting will be
held in the same location, from 1:30p.m. to 5:00p.m., and will seek
suggestions for actions to enhance safety with respect to NHTSA's
regulatory and non-regulatory mirror-related actions. That meeting is
also described in further detail in a separate Federal Register notice.
After the March meetings, the next vehicle regulatory, safety assurance
and other programs will be held on June 13, 1996.
ADDRESSES: Questions for the March 13, NHTSA Technical Industry
Meeting, relating to the agency's vehicle regulatory 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, Fax number (202) 366-4329. The meeting will
be held at the Royce Hotel--Detroit Metro Airport, 31500 Wick Road,
Romulus, Michigan 48174.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA will hold this regular, quarterly
meeting to answer questions from the public and the regulated
industries regarding the agency's vehicle regulatory, 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, interpretive 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 form 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
4:00 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 March 1, 1996.
Barry Felrice,
Associate Administrator for Safety Performance Standards.
[FR Doc. 96-2496 Filed 2-5-96; 8:45 am]
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