[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 112 (Monday, June 10, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 29446-29447]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-14572]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Research and Development Programs Meeting Agenda

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides the agenda for a public meeting at which 
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will 
describe and discuss specific research and development projects.

DATES AND TIMES: As previously announced, NHTSA will hold a public 
meeting devoted primarily to presentations of specific research and 
development projects on June 12, 1996, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and 
ending at approximately 5 p.m.

ADDRESS: The meeting will be held at the Royce Hotel-Detroit Metro 
Airport, 31500 Wick Road, Romulus, MI 48174.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice provides the agenda for the 
thirteenth in a series of public meetings to provide detailed 
information about NHTSA's research and development programs. This 
meeting will be held on June 12, 1996. The meeting was announced on May 
15, 1996 (61 FR 24528). For additional information about the meeting 
consult that announcement. Starting at 1:30 p.m. and concluding by 5:00 
p.m., NHTSA's Office of Research and Development will discuss the 
following topics:

The process and priorities for coordinated global research,
Objectives and deliverables of vehicle aggressivity and fleet 
compatibility research with results and conclusions to date,
Research to upgrade fuel system integrity, including recent testing and 
possible alternative test configurations,
Integrated seat research,
Biomechanics research program
--Head and neck injury research
--Lower extremity research and new dummy hardware,
Children and child restraint/air bag interaction dummy testing.

    NHTSA has based its decisions about the agenda, in part, on the 
suggestions

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it received by May 24, 1996, in response to the announcement published 
May 15, 1996.
    As announced on May 15, 1996, in the time remaining at the 
conclusion of the presentations, NHTSA will provide answers to 
questions on its research and development programs, where those 
questions have been submitted in writing by 4:15 p.m. on June 3, 1996, 
to William A. Boehly, Associate Administrator for Research and 
Development, NRD-01, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 
Washington, DC 20590. Fax number: 202-366-5930.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita I. Gibbons, Staff Assistant, 
Office of Research and Development, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, 
DC 20590. Telephone: 202-366-4862. Fax number: 202-366-5930.

    Issued: June 5, 1996.
William A. Boehly,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 96-14572 Filed 6-7-96; 8:45 am]
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