[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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