[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 55 (Friday, March 21, 1997)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 13583]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-7171]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

49 CFR Part 571

[Docket No. 95-93, Notice 4]


Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards; Accelerator Control 
Systems

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 
Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of change in date of technical workshop.

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SUMMARY: On March 7, 1997, NHTSA published a notice announcing a 
technical workshop on the accelerator control system safety standard. 
In this document, NHTSA changes the date of the workshop to May 20, 
1997.

DATES:

    Statement of intent to participate in technical workshop: Those 
persons wishing to provide oral comments at the workshop should contact 
Mr. Patrick Boyd (at the address given below) no later than May 19, 
1997.
    Technical workshop: The workshop will be held on May 20, 1997, 
beginning at 10:00 a.m.
    Written comments: Written comments on the subject matter of the 
workshop are due June 20, 1997.

ADDRESSES:

    Technical workshop: The workshop will be held in Room 2201 at the 
U.S. Department of Transportation building, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., 
Washington, D.C. Should building maintenance make Room 2201 
unavailable, the workshop will be held in Room 3200.
    Written comments: Written comments concerning the subject matter of 
the technical workshop should refer to the docket number and notice 
number cited at the beginning of this notice, and be submitted to: 
Docket Section, Room 5109, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 
20590. (Docket hours are from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.) It is requested, but 
not required, that 10 copies of the comment be provided.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

    For technical issues: Mr. Patrick Boyd, Office of Crash Avoidance 
Standards, NPS-21, telephone (202) 366-6346.
    For legal issues: Ms. Dorothy Nakama, Office of Chief Counsel, NCC-
20, (202) 366-2992.
    Both may be reached at the National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Room 5320, Washington, DC 
20590. Written comments should not be sent to these persons, but should 
be mailed to the Docket Section.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

    In a Federal Register document of March 7, 1997 (62 FR 10514), 
NHTSA announced a public workshop to be held on March 24, 1997, to 
discuss electronic accelerator control technology and potential methods 
of assuring its fail-safe performance. On May 13, the American 
Automobile Manufacturers Association (AAMA) asked NHTSA to postpone the 
workshop for sixty days. AAMA asked for the additional time because the 
proposed date of March 24 ``does not allow manufacturers adequate time 
to prepare for the workshop and provide meaningful input.'' NHTSA also 
received several oral requests for more time by interested parties.
    NHTSA is interested in receiving well-informed and well-reasoned 
views from the participants in its technical workshop and believes that 
more preparation time will enhance the quality of participation. 
Therefore, it grants AAMA's request for more time. The new date of the 
technical workshop is May 20, 1997. The workshop's location is 
announced in the ADDRESSES section at the beginning of this document. 
The workshop will begin at 10 a.m.
    As stated in its March 7, 1997 document, NHTSA wishes workshop 
participants to discuss:
    (1) The principles of operation of existing and potential 
electronic accelerator control systems for gasoline and diesel engines;
    (2) The principles of operation of existing and potential means of 
providing fail-safe performance in the event of loss of accelerator 
control by the primary system; and
    (3) Suggestions for regulatory requirements that will assure the 
fail-safe performance of electronic accelerator control systems.

    Issued on: March 17, 1997.
John G. Womack,
Acting Chief Counsel.
[FR Doc. 97-7171 Filed 3-18-97; 10:10 am]
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