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without Aeroservice holding the

certificate required by 14 CFR part 142.

Docket No.: 28853.

Petitioner: Sully Produits Spe ́ciaux.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

145.75(d).

Description of Relief Sought: To

permit Sully to authorize its inspectors

who cannot read, write, and understand

English to approve parts for return to

service with Federal Aviation

Administration Form 8130–3,

‘‘Airworthiness Approval Tag.’’

Docket No.: 28888.

Petitioner: Pemco Aeroplex, Inc.

Sections of the FAR Affected: CAR

4b.362(c)(1), 4b.362(e)(7), and 4b.382(d).

Description of Relief Sought: To

permit the accommodations of two

supernumeraries forward of a rigid

cargo bulkhead and smoke-tight door,

on 727–200 aircraft with Class E

compartments.

Dispositions of Petitions

Docket No.: 27446.

Petitioner: State of New Jersey,

Department of Transportation.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

156.5(b).

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit the petitioner to

use up to $75,000 annually of State

Block Grant Program funds for the

period currently authorized for the

Airport Improvement Program, which is

fiscal years 1997 and 1998, for program

administrative costs. GRANT, April 3,

1998, Exemption No. 5835A.

Docket No.: 28630.

Petitioner: Kevin Seddon.

Sections of the FAR Affected: 14 CFR

121.311(b).

Description of Relief Sought/

Disposition: To permit Ms. Seddon to

travel on the lap(s) of one or both of her

parents, without her occupying an

approved seat or berth with a separate

belt properly secured about her during

movement on the surface, takeoff, and

landing. GRANT, March 30, 1998,

Exemption No. 6486A.

[FR Doc. 98–12294 Filed 5–7–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Highway Administration

Indian Reservation Roads Program

Transportation Planning Procedures

and Guidelines; Public Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Federal Highway

Administration in cooperation with the

Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) will

jointly hold a meeting to present the

final draft of the document, ‘‘Indian

Reservation Roads (IRR) Program

Transportation Planning Procedures and

Guidelines’’ and to verify that all

comments received were addressed.

DATES: The meeting will be held on June

8–11, 1998, beginning at 2:00 p.m. on

June 8, running from 9:00 a.m. until

5:00 p.m on June 9–10, and from 9:00

a.m. until 12:00 p.m. on June 11.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Wool Warehouse, located at 516

First Street, NW, Albuquerque, New

Mexico.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

the FHWA: Ms. Julianne Stevenson,

HFL–11, Room 4206, (202) 366–9490,

Federal Lands Highway Office; or Mr.

Wilbert Baccus, HCC–10, Room 4230,

(202) 366–0780, Office of the Chief

Counsel, Federal Highway

Administration, 400 Seventh Street,

SW., Washington, DC 20590. Office

hours are from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m.,

e.t., Monday through Friday, except

Federal holidays. For the BIA: Mr.

LeRoy Gishi, Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Division of Transportation, (202) 208–

4359, U.S. Department of the Interior,

1849 C. Street, NW. (Code 260 MS 4058

MIB), Washington, DC 20240.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Access

An electronic copy of this public

meeting notice may be downloaded

using a modem and suitable

communications software from the

Federal Register Electronic Bulletin

Board Service at (202) 512–1661.

Internet users may reach the Federal

Register’s home page at: http://

www.nara.gov/nara/fedreg and the

Government Printing Office’s database

at: http://www.access.gpo.gov/suldocs.

The final draft IRR Program

Transportation Planning Procedures and

Guidelines will be available May 15,

1998, on the Federal Lands Highway

Office home page at: http://

www.fhwa.dot.gov/lands.html.

Public Meeting

The purpose of this public meeting is

to present the final draft of the

document, ‘‘Indian Reservation Roads

Program Transportation Planning

Procedures and Guidelines and to verify

that all comments received were

addressed.

On March 24, 1997, the first draft of

this document was mailed to all Indian

Tribal Governments, the Bureau of

Indian Affairs, and the Federal Highway

Administration for review and

comment. June 9–12, 1997, the

comments were reviewed and the

second draft of the document was

prepared. On September 4, 1997, the

second draft of this document was

mailed to all Indian Tribal

Governments, the Bureau of Indian

Affairs, the Federal Highway

Administration and other interested

parties for review and comment. The

comment period closed on November

21, 1997. In addition, a national meeting

was held on September 24–25, 1997, in

Denver, Colorado to review and discuss

the subject document in detail.

Comments were solicited and received

at this meeting. On December 8–12,

1997, February 3–6, 1998, March 10–13,

1998, and April 6–10, 1998, the

comments received were addressed by

the Transportation Planning Policy and

Procedures Team (the Team). This team

is comprised of the following

individuals:

Francine Shaw-Whitson—Federal

Highway Administration, Federal

Lands Highway Office, Washington,

DC

Julianne Stevenson—Federal Highway

Administration, Federal Lands

Highway Office, Washington, DC

Dee Spann—Federal Highway

Administration, Office of

Environment and Planning,

Washington, DC

Joseph Martin—Bureau of Indian

Affairs, Division of Transportation,

Albuquerque, New Mexico

Galen Balster—Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Aberdeen Area Office, Aberdeen,

South Dakota

Robert D. Maxwell, Jr.—Bureau of

Indian Affairs, Phoenix Area Office,

Phoenix, Arizona

Harold Riley—Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Navajo Area Office, Gallop, New

Mexico

R. Evan Fulton—Tribal Technical

Assistance Program, Houghton, MI

Everett Waller—Intertribal

Transportation Association (Osage

Nation, of Oklahoma, Oklahoma)

Don Ellis—Oklahoma Department of

Transportation (Comanche Indian

Tribe, Oklahoma)

Robert Endicott—Cherokee Nation of

Oklahoma, Oklahoma

Roy Begay—Navajo Nation of Arizona,

New Mexico, and Utah; Arizona

James Mark Wright—Jicarilla Apache

Tribe of the Jicarilla Apache Indian

Reservation, New Mexico

Becky Rey—Confederated Tribes of the

Colville Reservation, Washington

Larry L. Keeler—Salt River PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the

Salt River Reservation, Arizona

Alvin Moyle—Paiute Shoshone Tribe of

the Fallon Reservation and Colony,

Nevada
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Herbert Tate—White Mountain Apache

Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation,

Arizona

Dennis Smith—Shoshone-Paiute Tribes

of the Duck Valley Reservation,

Nevada

Rebecca Torres—Alabama/Quassarte

Tribal Town of the Creek Nation of

Oklahoma, Oklahoma

James Garrigan—Red Lake Band of

Chippewa Indians of the Red Lake

Reservation, Minnesota

Kevin R. Alford—Eastern Band of

Cherokee Indians of North Carolina,

North Carolina

Tracy VanRite—Menominee Indian

Tribe of Wisconsin, Wisconsin

Henry Hoggatt—Chickasaw Nation,

Oklahoma

Sandra Shade—Gila River PimaMaricopa Indian Community of the

Gila River Indian Reservation of

Arizona, Arizona

Tim Longie, Sr.—Spirit Lake Tribe,

North Dakota

Lewis B. George—Catawba Indian

Nation, South Carolina

David McKinney—Muscogee (Creek)

Nation, Oklahoma

Louis Hood—Fort McDowell MohaveApache Indian Community of the Fort

McDowell Indian Reservation,

Arizona

Emil Tojola—Pueblo of Isleta, New

Mexico

Glenn Wasson—Lovelock Paiute Tribe

of the Lovelock Indian Colony,

Nevada

Frederick Murillo—Mesa Grande Band

of Diegueno Mission Indians of the

Mesa Grande Reservation, California

Mark Tibbetts—Eight Northern Indian

Pueblos Council, New Mexico

R.T. Eby—Cocopah Tribe or Arizona

Levi Valdez—Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Albuquerque Area Office, Northern

Pueblo Agency, New Mexico

Also, these meetings were attended by

members of various other tribes who

provided input into the revision of this

document.

Copies of the document will be

available May 15, 1998, and can be

obtained from the Federal Highway

Administration, Federal Lands Highway

Office, HFL–11, 400 Seventh Street,

SW., Washington, DC 20590.

Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48.

Allen W. Burden,

Acting Federal Lands Highway Program

Administrator.

[FR Doc. 98–12269 Filed 5–7–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket No. NHTSA–98–3774; Notice 1]

Program Plan for Evaluating the

Effectiveness of Existing Regulations,

1998–2002

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA),

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Request for comments.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

publication by NHTSA of its Evaluation

Program Plan for 1998–2002. The report

describes the agency’s ongoing and

planned evaluations of its existing

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards

(49 CFR Part 571) and its other safety

and consumer programs. It also

summarizes the results of completed

evaluations. The agency’s evaluation

program responds to Executive Order

12866, which provides for Governmentwide review of existing significant

Federal regulations. This notice solicits

public review and comment on the

evaluation plan. Comments received

will be used to improve the plan.

DATES: Comments must be received no

later than September 8, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Report: Interested people

may obtain copies of the reports free of

charge by sending a self-addressed

mailing label to Publications Ordering

and Distribution Services (NAD–51),

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, 400 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20590.

Comments: All comments should

refer to the docket and notice number of

this notice and be submitted to: Docket

Section, Room 5109, Nassif Building,

400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington DC

20590. [Docket hours, 9:30 a.m.–4:00

p.m., Monday through Friday.]

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles J. Kahane, Chief, Evaluation

Division, Plans and Policy, National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Room 5208, 400 Seventh Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20590 (202–366–2560).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA

has rigorously evaluated its major

programs as a matter of policy since

1970. The evaluation of the

effectiveness of the Federal Motor

Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS)

began in 1975. The Government

Performance and Results Act of 1993

and Executive Order 12866, ‘‘Regulatory

Planning and Review,’’ issued in

October 1993 (58 FR 51735), now oblige

all Federal agencies to evaluate their

existing programs and regulations.

Previously, Executive Order 12291,

issued in February 1981 (46 FR 13193),

also required reviews of existing

regulations. Even before 1981, however,

NHTSA was a leader among Federal

agencies in evaluating the effectiveness

of existing regulations and technologies.

There are large data bases of motor

vehicle crashes which can be analyzed

to find out what vehicle and traffic

safety programs work best.

This five-year plan presents and

discusses the programs, regulations,

technologies and related areas NHTSA

proposes to evaluate, and it summarizes

the findings of past evaluations.

Depending on scope, evaluations

typically take a year or substantially

more, counting initial planning,

contracting for support, OMB clearance

for surveys, internal reviews, approvals,

publication, review of public comments,

and the last phase of preparing

recommendations for subsequent agency

action.

Most of NHTSA’s crashworthiness

and several crash avoidance standards

have been evaluated at least once since

1975. A number of consumer-oriented

regulations, e.g., bumpers, theft

protection, fuel economy and NCAP

have also been evaluated. So have

promising safety technologies, such as

antilock brake systems, that were not

mandatory under Federal regulations.

The plan for the next five years includes

evaluations of new and existing vehicle

safety regulations, technologies and

consumer protection programs, plus the

completion of an assessment of the

highway safety program.

NHTSA welcomes public review of

the plan and invites the reviewers to

comment about the selection, priority,

and schedule of the regulations to be

evaluated. The agency is interested in

learning of any additional data that may

be useful in the evaluations. The plan

will be periodically updated in response

to public and agency needs, with a

complete revision scheduled every four

years. The most recent plan before this

one was published on June 10, 1994 (59

FR 30090).

If a commenter wishes to submit

certain information under a claim of

confidentiality, three copies of the

complete submission, including

purportedly confidential business

information, should be submitted to the

Chief Counsel, NHTSA, at the street

address given above, and 7 copies from

which the purportedly confidential

information has been deleted should be

submitted to the Docket Section. A

request for confidentiality should be

accompanied by a cover letter setting

forth the information specified in the

agency’s confidential business