[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 179 (Tuesday, September 16, 1997)] [Notices] [Page 48708] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 97-24648] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Research and Development Programs Meeting Agenda AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 September 17, 1997, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and ending at approximately 5:00 p.m. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Tysons Westpark Hotel, 8401 Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice provides the agenda for the eighteenth in a series of public meetings to provide detailed information about NHTSA's research and development programs. This meeting will be held on September 17, 1997. The meeting was announced on August 8, 1997 (62 FR 42852). 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: Summary of Research Activity on 5th-Percentile, 3-Year-Old, and 6-Year- Old Dummies, Status of Research on Restraint Systems for Rollover Protection, Improved Frontal Crash Protection--Update on National Automotive Sampling System (NASS) Analysis, Vehicle Aggressivity and Fleet Compatibility, and Special Crash Investigations Studies of Air Bag Cases. NHTSA has based its decisions about the agenda, in part, on the suggestions it received by August 21, 1997, in response to the announcement published August 8, 1997. As announced on August 8, 1997, 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 September 3, 1997, to Raymond P. Owings, Ph.D., 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, S.W., Washington, DC 20590. Telephone: 202-366-4862. Fax number: 202-366- 5930. Issued: September 11, 1997. Raymond P. Owings, Associate Administrator for Research and Development. [FR Doc. 97-24648 Filed 9-15-97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4910-59-P