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the Air Commence Park is currently 

undeveloped property. It is located on 

the southwest corner within the Air 

Commerce Park, which is directly north 

of the main DuBois Regional Airport 

parking lot and south of State Route 

830. Orion Drilling Company of Corpus 

Christi, TX is proposing to develop the 

property and erect two buildings, an 

office and a warehouse, to store and 

maintain drilling units for the Marcellus 

shale gas industry. The subject land 

does not serve an aeronautical purpose 

and is not needed for airport 

development, as shown on the Airport 

Layout Plan for the Dubois Regional 

Airport. Fair Market Value (FMV) will 

be obtained from the land sale. All 

proceeds from the sale of the property 

will be used to reduce operating costs at 

the airport. 

Any person may inspect the request 

by appointment at the FAA office 

address listed above. Interested persons 

are invited to comment on the proposed 

release from obligations. All comments 

will be considered by the FAA to the 

extent practicable. 

Issued in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania, 

February 13, 2012. 

Lori K. Pagnanelli, 

Manager, Harrisburg Airports District Office. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5162 Filed 3–1–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2010–0053] 

Visual-Manual NHTSA Driver 

Distraction Guidelines for In-Vehicle 

Electronic Devices 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Announcement of public 

hearings. 

SUMMARY: On February 24, 2012, 

NHTSA published proposed NHTSA 

Driver Distraction Guidelines (77 FR 

11200). NHTSA is announcing a set of 

public hearings relating to these 

proposed Guidelines. The hearings will 

provide opportunities for the public to 

present oral testimony regarding the 

proposal. 

DATES:

Hearings. NHTSA will hold three 

public hearings on the following dates: 

March 12, 2012, in Washington, DC; 

March 15, 2012, in Chicago, Illinois; and 

March 16, 2012, in Los Angeles, 

California. Each hearing will start at 

9 a.m. and continue until 12 p.m., local 

time. If you would like to present oral 

testimony at one of the public hearings, 

please contact the person identified 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT at least ten days before the 

hearing. 

Written comments. As announced in 

the proposal, to be assured of 

consideration, written comments on the 

proposed NHTSA Guidelines must be 

received by April 24, 2012 (77 FR 

11200). 

ADDRESSES: 

Hearings. The March 12, 2012 hearing 

will be held at the U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Media Center—Room W11–130, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. The March 15, 

2012 hearing will be held at the James 

R. Thompson Center, Room 16–503, 100 

West Randolph Street, Chicago, IL 

60601. The March 16, 2012 hearing will 

be held at West Los Angeles Field Office 

Federal Building, Ron Williams 

Memorial Conference Room—C–206, 

11000 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, 

CA 90024. The hearings will be held at 

sites accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. 

Written comments. As announced in 

the proposal, you may submit comments 

to the docket number identified in the 

heading of this document by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you would like to present oral testimony 

at one of the public hearings, please 

contact Kristin J. Kingsley, Engineering 

Policy Advisor and Special Assistant to 

the Deputy Administrator, Telephone 

(202) 366–5729; Facsimile: (202) 366– 

0015; National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Please contact Ms. Kingsley at least five 

days before the hearing date specified 

under DATES. 

Please provide the following 

information: Name, affiliation, address, 

email address, telephone and fax 

numbers, and whether you require 

accommodations such as a sign 

language interpreter or translator. 

For technical issues concerning the 

proposed NHTSA Guidelines, you may 

contact Dr. W. Riley Garrott, Vehicle 

Research and Test Center, telephone: 

(937) 666–3312, facsimile: (937) 666– 

3590. You may send mail to this person 

at: The National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration, Vehicle Research and 

Test Center, P.O. Box B–37, East Liberty, 

OH 43319. You may learn more about 

the proposed NHTSA Guidelines by 

visiting the Department of 

Transportation’s Web site on distracted 

driving, Distraction.gov, NHTSA’s Web 

site, www.nhtsa.gov, or by searching the 

public docket (NHTSA–2010–0053) at 

www.regulations.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

proposed NHTSA Guidelines are meant 

to promote safety by discouraging the 

introduction of excessively distracting 

devices in vehicles. These NHTSA 

Guidelines, which are voluntary, apply 

to communications, entertainment, 

information gathering, and navigation 

devices or functions that are not 

required to operate the vehicle safely 

and that are operated by the driver 

through visual-manual means (meaning 

the driver looking at a device, 

manipulating a device-related control 

with the driver’s hand, and watching for 

visual feedback). 

The proposed NHTSA Guidelines list 

certain secondary, non-driving related 

tasks that, based on NHTSA’s research, 

are believed by the agency to interfere 

inherently with a driver’s ability to 

safely control the vehicle. The 

Guidelines recommend that those invehicle devices be designed so that they 

cannot be used by the driver to perform 

such tasks while the driver is driving. 

For all other secondary, non-drivingrelated visual-manual tasks, the NHTSA 

Guidelines specify a test method for 

measuring the impact of task 

performance while driving on driving 

safety and time-based acceptance 

criteria for assessing whether a task 

interferes too much with driver 

attention to be suitable to perform while 

driving. If a task does not meet the 

acceptance criteria, the NHTSA 

Guidelines recommend that in-vehicle 

devices be designed so that the task 

cannot be performed by the driver while 

driving. 

In addition to identifying inherently 

distracting tasks and providing a means 

for measuring and evaluating the level 

of distraction associated with other nondriving-related tasks, the NHTSA 

Guidelines set forth several design 

recommendations for in-vehicle devices 


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in order to minimize their potential for 

distraction. 

The proposed NHTSA Guidelines 

were published in the Federal Register 

on February 24, 2012 (77 FR 11200) and 

are available on the Web pages listed 

above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT and also in the rulemaking 

docket. The notice is also available at 

http://www.nhtsa.gov/staticfiles/

rulemaking/pdf/Distraction_NPFG02162012.pdf. 

Background information concerning 

proposal in particular and the problem 

of distracted driving in general is 

available at http://www.nhtsa.gov/

About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2012/ 

U.S.+Department+of+Transportation+

Proposes+‘Distraction’+Guidelines+for+

Automakers and at http://

www.distraction.gov/. 

Public Hearing Procedures. For 

planning purposes, each speaker should 

anticipate speaking for approximately 

ten minutes, although we may need to 

shorten that time if there is a large 

number of people wishing to make 

presentations. Once we learn how many 

people have registered to speak at each 

public hearing, we will allocate an 

appropriate amount of time to each 

participant, allowing time for necessary 

breaks. In addition, we will reserve a 

block of time for anyone else in the 

audience who wishes to give an oral 

presentation. 

We request that you bring three copies 

of your statement or other material to 

the hearing for the NHTSA panel. To 

accommodate as many speakers as 

possible, we prefer that speakers not use 

technological aids (e.g., audio-visuals, 

computer slideshows). However, if you 

wish to do so, you must notify the 

contact person in the FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section above. 

You must also make arrangements to 

provide your presentation or any other 

aids to NHTSA in advance of the 

hearing in order to facilitate set-up. 

NHTSA will conduct the hearings 

informally. Thus, technical rules of 

evidence will not apply. We will 

arrange for a written transcript of each 

hearing. Presenters wishing to provide 

supplementary information should 

submit it to the address given above for 

written comments by the April 24th 

deadline for those comments. Panel 

members may ask clarifying questions 

during the oral presentations, but will 

not respond to the presentations at that 

time. You may make arrangements for 

copies of the transcripts directly with 

the court reporter. Written statements 

and supporting information submitted 

during the comment period will be 

considered with the same weight as oral 

comments and supporting information 

presented at the public hearings. 

Issued on February 27, 2012. 

David L. Strickland, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 2012–5098 Filed 2–28–12; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[NHTSA Docket No. NHTSA–2012–0027] 

Appointment/Reappointment to the 

National Emergency Medical Services 

Advisory Council (NEMSAC) 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of Request for Applicants 

for Appointment/Reappointment to the 

National Emergency Medical Services 

Advisory Council (NEMSAC). 

SUMMARY: NHTSA is soliciting 

applications for appointment or 

reappointment to DOT’s NEMSAC. The 

purpose of NEMSAC is to serve as a 

nationally recognized council of 

emergency medical services (EMS) 

representatives and consumers to 

provide advice and recommendations 

regarding EMS to DOT and its modal 

administration, NHTSA, and through 

NHTSA to the Federal Interagency 

Committee on EMS (FICEMS). 

DATES: Applications for membership 

(including resume or curriculum vitae 

(CV), letters of recommendation, and a 

statement identifying the EMS sector or 

discipline that the applicant seeks to 

represent) should reach NHTSA at the 

address below on or before 5 p.m. EST, 

on Friday, March 30, 2012. 

ADDRESSES: If you wish to apply for 

membership, your application should be 

submitted by: 

• Email: NEMSAC@dot.gov. 

• Fax: (202) 366–7149. 

• Mail: Use only overnight mail such 

as UPS or FedEx to: U.S. Department of 

Transportation, National Highway 

Traffic Safety Administration, Office of 

Emergency Medical Services, Attn: 

NEMSAC, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

NTI–140, Washington, DC 20590. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Designated Federal Officer, Drew 

Dawson, Director, Office of Emergency 

Medical Services, telephone (202) 366– 

9966; email drew.dawson@dot.gov, or 

Noah Smith at (202) 366–5030 or via 

email at noah.smith@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NEMSAC 

is an advisory council established by 

DOT in accordance with the provisions 

of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), Public Law 92–463, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. App.) and DOT 

Order 1120.3B. NEMSAC provides 

information, advice, and 

recommendations to the Secretary via 

the Administrator of NHTSA, and 

through NHTSA to FICEMS on matters 

relating to all aspects of development 

and implementation of EMS. 

In accordance with the NEMSAC 

Charter, a copy of which is available at 

www.EMS.gov/nemsac, members should 

represent a cross-section of the diverse 

agencies, organizations, and individuals 

involved in EMS activities and 

programs in the U.S. NEMSAC consists 

of not more than 26 members, each of 

whom shall be appointed by the 

Secretary. Members serve in a 

‘‘representatives’’ capacity on NEMSAC 

and not as Special Government 

Employees. Pursuant to the charter, 24 

of these members must represent the 

perspectives of particular sectors of the 

EMS community. Members will be 

selected for their individual expertise 

and to reflect a balanced representation 

of interests from across the EMS 

community, but no member will 

represent a specific organization. 

To the extent practical, the final 

council membership shall assure 

representation from the following 

sectors of the EMS community: 

• Volunteer EMS 

• Fire-based (career) EMS 

• Private (career non-fire) EMS 

• Hospital-based EMS 

• Tribal EMS 

• Air Medical EMS 

• Local EMS service directors/ 

administrators 

• EMS Medical Directors 

• Emergency Physicians 

• Trauma Surgeons 

• Pediatric Emergency Physicians 

• State EMS Directors 

• State Highway Safety Directors 

• EMS Educators 

• Public Safety Call-taker/Dispatcher 

(911) 

• EMS Data Managers 

• EMS Researchers 

• Emergency Nurses 

• Hospital Administration 

• Public Health 

• Emergency Management 

• State Homeland Security Director 

• Consumers (not directly affiliated 

with an EMS or healthcare 

organization) 

• State or local legislative bodies (e.g. 

city/county councils; state 

legislatures) 

Qualified individuals interested in 

serving on the NEMSAC are invited to 


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