[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 154 (Wednesday, August 11, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43811-43812]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-20710]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Research and Development Programs Meeting
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: This notice announces a public meeting at which NHTSA will
describe and discuss specific research and development projects.
Further, the notice requests suggestions for topics to be presented by
the agency.
Dates and Times
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will hold a
public meeting devoted primarily to presentations of specific research
and development projects on September 16, 1999, beginning at 1:30 p.m.
and ending at approximately 5:00 p.m. The deadline for interested
parties to suggest agenda topics is 5:00 p.m. on August 31, 1999.
Questions may be submitted in advance regarding the agency's research
and development projects. They must be submitted in writing by
September 3, 1999, to the address given below. If sufficient time is
available, questions received after the September 3 date will be
answered at the meeting during the discussion period. The individual,
group, or company asking a question does not have to be present for the
question to be answered. A consolidated list of answers to questions
submitted by September 3 will be available at the meeting and will be
mailed to requesters after the meeting.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Tysons Westpark Hotel, 8401
Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia. Suggestions for specific research and
development topics as described below and questions for the September
16, 1999, meeting relating to the agency's research and development
programs should be submitted to the Office of the Associate
Administrator for Research and Development, NRD-01, National Highway
Traffic Safety Administration, Room 6206, 400 Seventh St., SW,
Washington, DC 20590. The fax number is (202) 366-5930.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In recent years, since April 1993, NHTSA has
provided detailed information about its research and development
programs in presentations at a series of public meetings. The purpose
is to make available more complete and timely information regarding the
agency's research and development programs. This is the twenty-fourth
meeting in that series, and it will be held on September 16, 1999, at
the Tysons Westpark Hotel, 8401 Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia.
Based on the suggestions received in previous meetings, NHTSA
intends to limit its presentation at the September 16, 1999, meeting to
a single research topic. NHTSA requests suggestions from interested
parties on the specific agenda topic to be presented at this meeting.
NHTSA will base its decisions about the agenda, in part, on the
suggestions it receives by 5:00 p.m. on August 31, 1999. Before the
meeting, NHTSA will publish a notice with an agenda listing the
research and development topic to be discussed. The agenda can also be
obtained by calling or faxing the request to the telephone numbers
listed in this notice, through the E-mail address listed in this
notice, or from NHTSA's Web site under Announcements/Public Meetings at
URL http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/announce/meetings/.
NHTSA asks that the suggestions be limited to three, in priority
order, so that the presentation at the September 16, 1999, meeting can
be most useful to the audience. Specific research and development
topics are listed below. Many of these topics have been discussed at
previous meetings. Suggestions for agenda topics are not restricted to
this listing, and interested parties are invited to suggest other
research and development topics of specific interest to their
organizations. Additionally, if any interested parties would like to
make a presentation regarding technical issues concerning any of
NHTSA's research programs, information concerning the proposed topic
and speaker should be submitted in writing by 5:00 p.m. on August 31,
1999.
Specific R&D topics are: Fiscal Year 1999 R&D Research Efforts,
International Harmonized Research Activities (IHRA), On-line tracking
system for NHTSA's research projects, and Crash Injury Research and
Engineering Network (CIREN).
Specific Crashworthiness R&D topics are:
Status of advanced air bag research and up-to-date results,
Demonstration of CD ROM for child restraint/vehicle compatibility,
Preparation of new dummies for assessment of advanced air bag
technology,
Improved frontal crash protection (program status, problem
identification, offset testing),
Upgrade side crash protection,
Child restraint/air bag interaction (CRABI) dummy testing,
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Head and neck injury research,
Lower extremity injury research, and
Thorax injury research.
Specific Crash Avoidance R&D topics are:
National Advanced Driving Simulator (NADS),
Intelligent vehicle initiative (the rear-end collision avoidance system
operational test),
Drowsy driver monitoring,
Driver workload assessment, and Lane change/merge collision avoidance
system guidelines.
Specific National Center for Statistics and Analysis (NCSA) topics
are:
NCSA Overview,
Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), and
Special crash investigation studies of air bag cases.
Separately, questions regarding research projects that have been
submitted in writing not later than 5:00 p.m. on September 3, 1999,
will be answered. The summary minutes of the meeting, copies of
materials handed out at the meeting, and answers to the questions
submitted for response at the meeting will be available for public
inspection in the DOT Docket in Washington, DC, within 3 weeks after
the meeting. Copies of this material will then be available at ten
cents a page upon request to DOT Docket, Room PL-401, 400 Seventh
Street, SW, Washington, DC 20590. The DOT Docket is open to the public
from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The summary minutes, handouts, and answers
to the questions will also be available on NHTSA's Web site at
Announcements/Public Meetings at URL http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nhtsa/
announce/meetings/.
NHTSA will provide technical aids to participants as necessary,
during the Research and Development Programs Meeting. Thus, any person
desiring the assistance of ``auxiliary aids'' (e.g., sign-language
interpreter, telecommunication devices for deaf persons (TTDs),
readers, taped texts, braille materials, or large print materials and/
or a magnifying device), please contact Rita Gibbons by telephone on
(202) 366-4862, by telefax on (202) 366-5930, or by E-mail at
rgibbons@nhtsa.dot.gov by 5:00 p.m. September 7, 1999.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita Gibbons, Staff Assistant, Office
of Research and Development, 400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC
20590. Telephone: (202) 366-4862. Fax number: (202) 366-5930. E-mail:
rgibbons@nhtsa.dot.gov.
Issued: August 6, 1999.
Raymond P. Owings,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 99-20710 Filed 8-10-99; 8:45 am]
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