8324 Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 14, 2012 / Notices 

Dated: February 8, 2012. 

Faye Lipsky, 

Reports Clearance Officer, Office of 

Regulations and Reports Clearance, Social 

Security Administration. 

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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY 

[Meeting No. 12–01] 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice, February 

16, 2012 

The TVA Board of Directors will hold 

a public meeting on February 16, 2012, 

in the Missionary Ridge Auditorium at 

TVA’s Chattanooga Office Complex, 

1101 Market Street, Chattanooga, 

Tennessee. The public may comment on 

any agenda item or subject at a public 

listening session which begins at 9 a.m. 

(ET). Following the end of the public 

listening session, the meeting will be 

called to order to consider the agenda 

items listed below. On-site registration 

will be available until 15 minutes before 

the public listening session begins at 9 

a.m. (ET). Pre-registered speakers will 

address the Board first. TVA 

management will answer questions from 

the news media following the Board 

meeting. 

STATUS: Open. 

Agenda 

Chairman’s Welcome 

Old Business 

Approval of minutes of November 17, 

2011, Board Meeting 

New Business 

1. Report from President and CEO. 

2. Report of the Finance, Rates, and 

Portfolio Committee. 

A. Financial Report. 

B. Portfolio Report. 

C. Small Manufacturing Credit 

Modification. 

3. Report of the Customer and 

External Relations Committee. 

A. Charter Amendment. 

4. Report of the Nuclear Oversight 

Committee. 

5. Report of the Audit, Risk, and 

Regulation Committee. 

6. Report of the People and 

Performance Committee. 

For more information: Please call 

TVA Media Relations at (865) 632–6000, 

Knoxville, Tennessee. People who plan 

to attend the meeting and have special 

needs should call (865) 632–6000. 

Anyone who wishes to comment on any 

of the agenda in writing may send their 

comments to: TVA Board of Directors, 

Board Agenda Comments, 400 West 

Summit Hill Drive, Knoxville, 

Tennessee 37902. 

Dated: February 9, 2012. 

Ralph E. Rodgers 

General Counsel and Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Applications for the Environment: 

Real-Time Information Synthesis 

(AERIS) User Needs Workshop; Notice 

of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: Research and Innovative 

Technology Administration, U.S. 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent 

Transportation System Joint Program 

Office (ITS JPO) will host a free public 

workshop to discuss the Applications 

for the Environment: Real-Time 

Information Synthesis (AERIS) Program 

and solicit user needs for its 

Transformative Concepts on March 14, 

2012, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and March 15, 

2012, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at the Hall of 

States, 444 North Capitol Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20001, 202–624–5490. 

On March 14th, the first three hours of 

the workshop will also be webcast at no 

charge for those participants who are 

not able to participate in person. An 

electronic feedback form will be made 

available to allow participants to 

provide additional input. 

Persons planning to attend any part of 

the workshop or participate in the threehour Webinar should register online at 

http://www.itsa.org/AERIS_User_

Needs_Workshop by February 29, 2012. 

Please specify if you plan to attend in 

person or participate via Webinar. For 

additional questions, please contact 

Adam Hopps at Ahopps@ITSA.org or 

202–680–0091. 

About the AERIS Program 

At the core of Federal ITS research is 

connected vehicle research—a 

multimodal initiative that aims to 

enable safe, interoperable networked 

wireless communications among 

vehicles, the infrastructure, and 

passengers’ personal communications 

devices. This research leverages the 

potentially transformative capabilities of 

wireless technology to make surface 

transportation safer, smarter, and 

greener. The objective of the AERIS 

research program is to generate and 

acquire environmentally-relevant realtime transportation data, and use these 

data to create actionable information 

that supports and facilitates ‘‘green’’ 

transportation choices by transportation 

system users and operators. Employing 

a multi-modal approach, the AERIS 

Program will work in partnership with 

the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and 

vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) 

communications research efforts to 

better define how connected vehicle 

data and applications might contribute 

to mitigating some of the negative 

environmental impacts of surface 

transportation. 

About the AERIS User Needs Workshop 

The purpose of this workshop is to 

obtain stakeholder input on the 

Concepts of Operations (ConOps) that 

will be developed for the set of AERIS 

Transformative Concepts. 

Transformative Concepts are integrated 

operational concepts that use V2V, V2I, 

and other data and communications in 

innovative ways to operate surface 

transportation networks to reduce 

transportation-related emissions and 

fuel consumption. Transformative 

Concepts are intended to change the 

way surface transportation systems 

operate, with an emphasis on combining 

connected vehicle applications to 

provide significant environmental 

benefits. The AERIS Transformative 

Concepts include: (1) Eco-signal 

operations, (2) eco-lanes, (3) lowemissions zone, (4) eco-traveler 

information, (5) support for alternative 

fuel vehicle operations, and (6) ecointegrated corridor management. During 

this workshop, the AERIS team will 

facilitate interactive breakout sessions to 

obtain stakeholder input on desired 

capabilities, data needs, and modeling 

needs. This valuable feedback will be 

utilized by the USDOT to further define 

the Transformative Concepts and 

provide input into the ConOps. Input 

from this workshop will enable the 

USDOT in conducting future research 

and modeling to determine potential 

environmental benefits in a connected 

vehicle environment. For more 

information on the AERIS Program and 

the Transformative Concepts, visit: 

http://www.its.dot.gov/aeris/index.htm. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on the 8th day 

of February 2012. 

Shelley Row, 

Director, ITS Joint Program Office. 

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