[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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