[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 174 (Friday, September 8, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 46881]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-22329]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of International Transportation and Trade; Transportation
Science and Technology Implementation Arrangement
ACTION: Private sector participation in the U.S. Department of
Transportation and Japan's Ministry of Transport Transportation Science
and Technology Implementing Arrangement.
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BACKGROUND: The Department of Transportation Secretary Federico Pena
and his former counterpart, Japan's Minister of Transport Shigeru Ito,
signed on February 10, 1994, a Transportation Science and Technology
Implementing Arrangement to promote mutually beneficial cooperation in
transportation technology. The Implementing Arrangement is designed to
establish projects between the U.S. and Japan in all modes of
transportation, including intermodalism, safety, environment,
transportation for the handicapped and elderly, information-related
technology, and other areas as mutually agreed.
The First Annual Meeting of U.S.-Japan transportation experts
convened on October 26-27, 1994, in Tokyo, Japan, to discuss/launch
project activity on areas relating to all fields of transportation. At
the conclusion of the meeting, both parties agreed to seven priority
areas for cooperation. These areas are methods to evaluate new design
of tankers (oil spill prevention from tankers); marine exhaust
emissions; high speed rail transportation; magnetic levitation in rail
transport; advanced tunneling technology; transport measures for the
mobility handicapped; and intermodalism including an automatic
transportation equipment identification system. In addition to the
seven priority projects already agreed upon, the United States and
Japan are exploring another proposed initiative on emergency management
systems/disaster prevention.
SUMMARY: As the Department prepares for the Second Annual Meeting of
U.S.-Japan Transportation Experts, this notice sets forth an inquiry to
U.S. public and private transportation related companies, research
establishments, and academics who are interested in participating in
any of the priority areas identified above. Both the U.S. Government
and the Government of Japan are eager to have their respective private
sector transportation and related technology companies contribute to
and benefit from the cooperative exchange.
FOR GENERAL INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Phyllis Davis, Office of
International Transportation and Trade, telephone (202) 366-9514, U.S.
Department of Transportation, 400 7th Street SW., Room 10302,
Washington, DC 20590.
SEND INFORMATION TO: Ms. Phyllis Davis, Office of International
Transportation and Trade, telephone (202) 366-9514, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 7th Street SW., Room 10302, Washington, DC 20590.
DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF INFORMATION: Please provide the Department a
written summary of the project(s) you may wish to participate in by COB
September 29, 1995.
Dated: September 1, 1995.
Nancy K. MacRae,
Deputy Director, Office of International Transportation and Trade.
[FR Doc. 95-22329 Filed 9-7-95; 8:45 am]
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