Safety Performance Standards and Research and Development Programs Meetings

L. Robert Shelton
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
February 2, 1998

[Federal Register: February 2, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 21)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

 
Safety Performance Standards and Research and Development 
Programs Meetings

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of NHTSA Industry Meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice announces a public meeting at which NHTSA will 
answer questions from the public and the automobile industry regarding 
the agency's vehicle regulatory program. In addition, NHTSA will hold a 
separate public meeting to describe and discuss specific research and 
development projects.

DATES: The Agency's regular, quarterly public meeting relating to its 
vehicle regulatory program will be held on March 17, 1998, beginning at 
9:45 a.m. and ending at approximately 12:30 p.m. Questions relating to 
the vehicle regulatory program must be submitted in writing by February 
23, 1998, to the address shown below. If sufficient time is available, 
questions received after February 23 may be answered at the meeting. 
The individual, group or company submitting a questions(s) does not 
have to be present for the questions(s) to be answered. A consolidated 
list of the questions submitted by February 23, 1998, and the issues to 
be discussed, will be posted on NHTSA's web site (www.nhtsa.dot.gov) by 
March 13, 1998, and will be available at the meeting. Also, the agency 
will hold a second public meeting the same day March 17, at 1:30 p.m. 
devoted exclusively to a presentation of research and development 
programs. That meeting is described more fully in a separate 
announcement. The next NHTSA vehicle regulatory program meeting will 
take place on Tuesday, June 16, 1998 at the Clarion Inn Hotel, Wickham 
Road, in Romulus, MI.
ADDRESSES: Questions for the March 17, NHTSA Technical Industry 
Meeting, relating to the agency's vehicle regulatory program, should be 
submitted to Delia Lopez, NPS-01, National Highway Traffic Safety 
Administration, Room 5401, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20590, Fax Number 202-366-4329. The meeting will be held at the Clarion 
Inn Hotel, 9191 Wickham Road, in Romulus, MI.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Delia Lopez, (202) 366-1810.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA holds a regular, quarterly meeting to 
answer questions from the public and the regulated industries regarding 
the agency's vehicle regulatory program. Questions on aspects of the 
agency's research and development activities that relate directly to 
ongoing regulatory actions should be submitted, as in the past, to the 
agency's Safety Performance Standard Office. The purpose of this 
meeting is to focus on those phases of NHTSA activities which are 
technical, interpretative or procedural in nature. Transcripts of these 
meetings will be available for public inspection in the NHTSA Technical 
Reference Section in Washington, DC, within four weeks after the 
meeting. Copies of the transcript will then be available at ten cents a 
page, (length has varied from 100 to 150 pages) upon request to NHTSA 
Technical Reference Section, Room 5108, 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. The Technical Reference Section is open to the 
public from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. We would appreciate the questions 
you send us to be organized by categories to help us to process the 
questions in agenda form more efficiently. Same format as follows:

I. Rulemaking
    A. Crash avoidance
    B. Crashworthiness
    C. Other Rulemakings
II. Consumer Information
III. Miscellaneous

    NHTSA will provide auxiliary aids to participants as necessary. Any 
person

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desiring assistance of ``auxiliary aids'' (e.g., sign-language 
interpreter, telecommunications devices for deaf persons (TDDs), 
readers, taped texts, brailled materials, or large print materials and/
or a magnifying device), please contact Delia Lopez on (202) 366-1810, 
by COB February 13, 1998.

    Issued: January 27, 1998.
L. Robert Shelton,
Associate Administrator for Safety Performance Standards.
[FR Doc. 98-2454 Filed 1-30-98; 8:45 am]
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