[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 242 (Wednesday, December 17, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 66176]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-32958]


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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 December 17, 1997, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and 
ending at approximately 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Clarion Inn, Detroit Metro 
Airport, 9191 Wickham Road, Romulus, Michigan.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice provides the agenda for the 
nineteenth in a series of public meetings to provide detailed 
information about NHTSA's research and development programs. This 
meeting will be held on December 17, 1997. The meeting was announced on 
December 3, 1997 (62 FR 64041). 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:

Research and Development Update;
Crash Injury Research and Engineering Network;
General Motors Settlement Briefing, Fire Safety Research;
Update on Crashworthiness Research Activities Including Upgraded Side 
Crash Protection, Improved Frontal Crash Protection, and Restraint 
Systems for Rollover Protection;
Benefits Analysis of the Inflatable Tubular Structure; and
Update of Research on Family of Dummies.

    NHTSA has based its decisions about the agenda, in part, on the 
suggestions it received in response to the announcement published 
December 3, 1997.
    As announced on December 3, 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 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: December 11, 1997.
Raymond P. Owings,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 97-32958 Filed 12-16-97; 8:45 am]
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