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focus further review of marine safety

measures for the Pugent Sound area.

Dated: February 11, 1997.

Joseph J. Angelo,

Director of Standards, Marine Safety and

Environmental Protection.

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National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Research and Development Programs

Meeting

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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 March 11,

1997, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and ending

at approximately 5 p.m. The deadline

for interested parties to suggest agenda

topics is 4:15 p.m. on February 21, 1997.

Questions may be submitted in advance

regarding the agency’s research and

development projects. They must be

submitted in writing by February 27,

1997, to the address given below. If

sufficient time is available, questions

received after the February 27 date will

be answered at the meeting in 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 the questions submitted by

February 27 will be available at the

meeting and will be mailed to requesters

after the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Hilton Suites, Detroit Metro Airport,

8600 Wickham Road, Romulus,

Michigan 48174. Suggestions for

specific R&D topics as described below

and questions for the March 11, 1997,

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: NHTSA

intends to provide detailed

presentations about its research and

development programs in a series of

public meetings. The series started in

April 1993. The purpose is to make

available more complete and timely

information regarding the agency’s

research and development programs.

This sixteenth meeting in the series will

be held on March 11, 1997.

NHTSA requests suggestions from

interested parties on the specific agenda

topics to be presented. NHTSA will base

its decisions about the agenda, in part,

on the suggestions it receives by close

of business at 4:15 p.m. on February 21,

1997. Before the meeting, it will publish

a notice with an agenda listing the

research and development topics to be

discussed. The agenda can also be

obtained by calling or faxing the

information numbers listed elsewhere in

this notice. NHTSA asks that the

suggestions be limited to six, in priority

order, so that the presentations at the

March 11 R&D meeting can be most

useful to the audience. Specific R&D

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 R&D topics of specific interest to

their organizations.

Specific R&D topics are:

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 air bag aggressiveness and

advanced air bag research,

Demonstration of CD ROM for child

restraint/vehicle compatibility,

Preparation of new dummies for

assessment of advanced air bag

technology, Status of research on

restraint systems for rollover protection,

Improved frontal crash protection

(program status, problem identification,

offset testing),

Advanced glazing research, Vehicle

aggressivity and fleet compatibility,

Upgrade side crash protection, Upgrade

seat and occupant restraint systems,

Child safety research (ISOFIX), Child

restraint/air bag interaction (CRABI)

dummy testing, Truck crashworthiness/

occupant protection, National

Transportation Biomechanics Research

Center (NTBRC), Head and neck injury

research, Lower extremity injury

research, Thorax injury research,

Human injury simulation and analysis,

Refinements to the Hybrid III dummy,

and Advanced frontal test dummy.

Specific Crash Avoidance R&D topics

are:

Strategic plan for NHTSA’s Intelligent

Transportation Systems (ITS) crash

avoidance research, Status and plans for

anti-lock brake system (ABS) research,

Truck tire traction, Portable data

acquisition system for crash avoidance

research (DASCAR), Systems to enhance

EMS response (automatic collision

notification), Crash causal analysis,

Human factors guidelines for crash

avoidance warning devices, Longer

combination vehicle safety, Drowsy

driver monitoring, Driver workload

assessment, Pedestrian detection

devices for school bus safety,

Preliminary rearend collision avoidance

system guidelines, Preliminary road

departure collision avoidance system

guidelines, Preliminary intersection

collision avoidance system guidelines,

and Preliminary lane change/merge

collision avoidance system guidelines.

National Center for Statistics and

Analysis (NCSA) topic is:

Special crash investigation studies of

air bag cases.

Separately, questions regarding

research projects that have been

submitted in writing not later than close

of business on February 27, 1997, will

be answered. A transcript of the

meeting, copies of materials handed out

at the meeting, and copies of the

suggestions offered by commenters will

be available for public inspection in the

NHTSA’s Technical Reference Division,

Room 5108, 400 Seventh St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20590. Copies of the

transcript will then be available at 10

cents a page, upon request to NHTSA’s

Technical Reference Division. The

Technical Reference Division is open to

the public from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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., signlanguage 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 on

202–366–4862 by close of business

March 5, 1997.

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.

Issued: February 11, 1997.

Ralph J. Hitchcock,

Acting Associate Administrator for Research

and Development.

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