[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 101 (Friday, May 24, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 24197-24198]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-10901]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary of Transportation

[DOT-OST-2018-0210]


Traffic Safety and the 5.9 GHz Spectrum Conference

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), U.S. Department of 
Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to inform the public that the 
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) is planning to hold a 
conference entitled Traffic Safety and the 5.9 GHz Spectrum on June 3, 
2019 to seek input regarding Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) 
Communications. This event is a critical element for the Department in 
identifying areas of common ground that can assist deployers and 
investors in V2X technologies in advancing the use of the 5.9 GHz 
spectrum for traffic safety and congestion mitigation. The Department 
seeks to gain a greater understanding of industry leaders' current and 
future investment strategies, as well as potential considerations for 
efficient use of spectrum that will foster greater opportunities for 
some level of interoperability and compatibility moving forward.

DATES: Meeting: The meeting will be held at U.S. DOT Headquarters, 1200 
New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590, on Monday, June 3, 2019 
from 1:00 p.m.-5:00 p.m. (Eastern Daylight Time). Further information 
concerning registration and the availability of the agenda can be found 
below in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section. Comments: The 
Department has reopened the docket for comments associated with this 
meeting, which will close on Monday July 8, 2019. See the SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION section below for more information about written comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: [email protected]; Karen Van 
Dyke, 202-366-3180; Suzanne Sloan, 617-494-3282.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The Department has reviewed the comments that were recently 
submitted under the Request for Comments (RFC) on V2X Communications, 
DOT-OST-2018-0210, and understands the desire for greater stability on 
addressing the complex issues surrounding spectrum and use of the band. 
With over 75 connected vehicle projects in the U.S. alone, 54 currently 
operational, there is a need to identify a common path forward that 
ensures current deployments can continue without the risk of loss of 
investment and/or jeopardizing the intended safety and mobility 
benefits due to deployment delays.

Meeting Details

    This conference is open to the general public by registration only. 
For those who would like to attend the conference, we request that you 
register no later than May 28, 2019. Please use the following link to 
register: [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/59-ghz-spectrum-conference-tickets-61242857034].
    You must include:

 Name
 Organization
 Telephone number
 Mailing and email addresses
 Country of citizenship

    The U.S. Department of Transportation is committed to providing 
equal access to this conference for all participants. If you need 
alternative formats or services because of a disability, please contact 
Karen Van Dyke or Suzanne Sloan (contact information above) with your 
request by close of business May 28, 2019.
    Several days leading up to the conference, an email containing the 
agenda will be provided, as well as posted on https://www.transportation.gov/v2x. The Department will also be providing a 
livestream of the event, the link to which will be posted on https://www.transportation.gov/v2x shortly before the meeting. Further, the 
Department will include a transcript from the conference in the docket 
as soon as practicable following the conference.

Written Comments

How do I prepare and submit comments?

    Your comments must be written and in English. To ensure that your 
comments are filed correctly in the docket, please include the docket 
number of this document in your comments.
    Please submit one copy (two copies if submitting by mail or hand 
delivery) of your comments, including the attachments, to the docket 
following the instructions given above. Please note, if you are 
submitting comments electronically as a PDF (Adobe) file, we ask that 
the documents submitted be scanned using an Optical Character 
Recognition (OCR) process, thus allowing the agency to search and copy 
certain portions of your submissions.
    Comments should be submitted by one of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor, 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building 
Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
    Privacy Act: Except as provided below, all comments received into 
the docket will be made public in their entirety. The comments will be 
searchable by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or 
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an associations, 
business, labor union, etc.). You should not include

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information in your comment that you do not want to be made public You 
may review DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register 
published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or at https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.

How do I submit confidential business information?

    Any submissions containing Confidential Information must be 
delivered to OST in the following manner:
     Submitted in a sealed envelope marked ``confidential 
treatment requested'';
     Accompanied by an index listing the document(s) or 
information that the submitter would like the Departments to withhold. 
The index should include information such as numbers used to identify 
the relevant document(s) or information, document title and 
description, and relevant page numbers and/or section numbers within a 
document; and
     Submitted with a statement explaining the submitter's 
grounds for objecting to disclosure of the information to the public.
    OST also requests that submitters of Confidential Information 
include a non-confidential version (either redacted or summarized) of 
those confidential submissions in the public docket. In the event that 
the submitter cannot provide a non-confidential version of its 
submission, OST requests that the submitter post a notice in the docket 
stating that it has provided OST with Confidential Information. Should 
a submitter fail to docket either a non-confidential version of its 
submission or to post a notice that Confidential Information has been 
provided, we will note the receipt of the submission on the docket, 
with the submitter's organization or name (to the degree permitted by 
law) and the date of submission.

Will the agency consider late comments?

    U.S. DOT will consider all comments received before the close of 
business on the comment closing date indicated above under DATES. To 
the extent possible, the agency will also consider comments received 
after that date.

How can I read the comments submitted by other people?

    You may read the comments received at the address given above. The 
hours of the docket are indicated above in the same location. You may 
also see the comments on the internet, identified by the docket number 
at the heading of this notice, at http://www.regulations.gov.
    Issued this day of May 20, 2019, in Washington, DC under authority 
delegated at 49 CFR 1.99.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology, U.S. Department 
of Transportation.
[FR Doc. 2019-10901 Filed 5-23-19; 8:45 am]
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