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the environmental standard with RTCA

DO–160C.

How To Obtain Copies

A copy of the proposed TSO–C92c

may be obtained by contacting ‘‘For

Further Information Contact.’’ Copies of

RTCA Document No. DO–161A,

‘‘Minimum Performance Standards for

Airborne Ground Proximity Warning

Equipment,’’ may be purchased from the

RTCA Inc., 1140 Connecticut Avenue,

NW., Suite 1020, Washington, DC

20036.

Issued in Washington, DC, on April 18,

1995.

Abbas A. Rizvi,

Acting Manager, Aircraft Engineering

Division, Aircraft Certification Service.

[FR Doc. 95–10766 Filed 5–2–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket No. 95–21, Notice No. 01]

Availability and Request for Comment

on Draft Report to Congress on the

Benefits of Safety Belts and

Motorcycle Helmets

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA),

Department of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice of availability and

request for comment on draft report to

Congress on the benefits of safety belts

and motorcycle helmets required by the

Intermodal Surface Transportation

Efficiency Act of 1991.

SUMMARY: This notice announces the

availability of the draft of the report to

Congress on the benefits of safety belts

and motorcycle helmets generated from

the Crash Outcome Data Evaluation

System (CODES) Project. The Report

was mandated by Section 1031(b) of the

Intermodal Surface Transportation

Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). As

required in the ISTEA, the agency seeks

comments on the draft report. The

comments will be evaluated and

incorporated, as appropriate, into the

final report which will be provided to

the Congress in February, 1996.

DATES: Comments on the draft report are

due no later than August 1, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may

obtain a copy of the draft report, free of

charge, from NHTSA’s Docket Section at

the address below. Written comments

should refer to the docket and notice

number of this notice and should be

submitted to: Docket Section, Room

5109, NASSIF Building, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590.

Telephone: 202–366–4949. Docket

hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,

Monday through Friday.

SUBMISSION OF COMMENTS: Interested

persons are invited to submit comments

on the draft report. It is requested, but

not required, that 10 copies be

submitted. All comments must not

exceed 10 pages in length. (49 CFR

553.21). Necessary attachments may be

appended to these submissions without

regard to the 10 page limit. This

limitation is intended to encourage

commenters to detail their arguments in

a concise fashion. All comments

received before the close of business on

the comment closing date indicated

above for the draft report will be

considered, and will be available for

examination in the docket at the above

address both before and after that date.

To the extent possible, comments filed

after the closing date also will be

considered. Those persons desiring to

be notified upon receipt of their

comments in the docket should enclose

a self-addressed, stamped postcard in

the envelope with their comments.

Upon receiving the comments, the

docket supervisor will return the

postcard by mail.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Dennis Utter, National Center for

Statistics and Analysis NRD–31,

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, 400 Seventh Street SW.,

Washington, DC 20590: Telephone 202–

366–5351.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Report to Congress on the benefits of

safety belts and motorcycle helmets was

mandated by Section 1031(b) of the

Intermodal Surface Transportation

Efficiency Act of 1991 (ISTEA). Grants

were awarded to entities in Hawaii,

Maine, Missouri, New York,

Pennsylvania, Utah, and Wisconsin to

obtain the data and perform the analyses

upon which this report is based.

NHTSA entitled the project the Crash

Outcome Data Evaluation System

(CODES) Project. These CODES grantee

states linked statewide motor vehicle

crash report data and computerized

emergency medical service, emergency

department, hospital discharge, and

rehabilitative/long-term care data, so

that those people injured in motor

vehicle crashes could be followed

through the health care system. The

medical and financial outcome

information was then used to determine

the benefits of the protective devices in

crashes. The grantees have provided

NHTSA with the results of analyses

using these data, and NHTSA has

summarized the results of the

individual state studies to produce the

draft report to Congress. After the close

of the comment period, NHTSA will

review any comments received and

make appropriate modifications to the

report. The final version is to be

delivered to Congress by February,

1996.

The draft report provides an overview

of the study, the databases used, and the

methodology used to link and analyze

the data. The effectiveness rates

presented in the report show that safety

belts are highly effective in preventing

injury and fatality in motor vehicle

traffic crashes, particularly the more

serious injuries. Motorcycle helmets

also are effective in preventing fatalities

and serious injuries, but not as effective

in preventing minor injuries. Average

inpatient charges are compared for

belted and unbelted passenger vehicle

drivers and for helmeted and

unhelmeted motorcycle riders. Because

the estimates of safety belt effectiveness

are higher than NHTSA’s current

estimates, a discussion is presented

about the potential effect of overreporting of safety belt use on the study

results. However, the results support

NHTSA’s belief that safety belts and

motorcycle helmets are effective in

reducing mortality and morbidity and

showed, for the first time, that costs

(inpatient charges) were significantly

higher for unbelted hospitalized drivers

compared to those who used their safety

belts.

The CODES project had other

benefits. The project demonstrated the

efficacy of linking crash data files with

medical outcome data files. Through the

cooperation of the highway safety and

medical communities, CODES was the

first project to link state highway safety

and injury-related databases using a

probabilistic linkage algorithm, whereby

statewide data from police crash reports,

emergency medical services, hospital

emergency departments, hospital

discharge files, claims, and other

sources were linked, without in most

states the benefit of personal identifiers.

The project also showed examples of the

value of the linked data. Several of the

CODES states have used their data to

support highway safety initiatives and

to produce research articles. Because the

linked data are permanent and state

specific, they can continue to be used

now and in the future at minimal cost

to support state and local highway

safety initiatives.

Issued On: April 27, 1995.

Ricardo Martinez,

Administrator, National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration.

[FR Doc. 95–10840 Filed 5–2–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–59–M
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service

Privacy Act of 1974; System of

Records

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service,

Treasury.

ACTION: Supplemental information about

a proposed amendment to a system of

records.

SUMMARY: On December 20, 1994, the

Internal Revenue Service published, at

59 FR 65573, notice of an amended

Privacy Act system of records:

‘‘Compliance Programs and Projects

File—Treasury, IRS 42.021.’’ Based on

the comments received, the notice may

not have adequately distinguished

among the various users and uses of the

compliance system, as well as the data

it is to contain.

The system will not be used to

support large scale data matching in

order to identify specific individuals for

contact by IRS personnel. The IRS has

developed procedural safeguards to

prevent data used in the compliance

research programs and projects that

engage in large scale data manipulation

techniques to determine levels of

compliance in particular ‘‘market

segments’’ from being used for

enforcement purposes as to specific

taxpayers.

In light of the comments received, the

IRS will clarify the notice to better

describe more precisely the types of

activities covered. Until that

clarification is issued, the

supplementary information below fully

describes the compliance programs and

projects covered.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be sent to

the Office of Disclosure, Internal

Revenue Service, 1111 Constitution

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20224.

Comments will be made available for

inspection and copying in the Freedom

of Information Reading Room, (202)

622–5164, upon request.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Wayne Thomas, National Director,

Compliance Research, (202) 874–0100.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

compliance research system presently

includes records to support information

gathering to identify noncompliance

with the Internal Revenue Code. The

system is being redesigned to identify

causes and trends of noncompliance

and to generate and test new approaches

to increasing voluntary compliance.

This redesign will be accomplished

by using an automated information

system and secure networks to support

compliance research on broadly shared

characteristics and compliance trends of

large groups. The enhancements

themselves, the personnel who will

access and use the enhanced system,

and the purposes for which it will be

used will be clearly distinguished from

other uses by enforcement personnel

who lawfully access similar records for

individual enforcement actions.

The enhancements will not include

maintenance of records with

individually identifying information

since compliance research will focus on

broadly shared characteristics and

compliance trends of large groups,

typically national in scope. The

personnel who use and access the

research system will not be enforcement

personnel. The system will not be used

to select individuals for enforcement

actions.

The enhanced system should provide

the Internal Revenue Service with a

wider range of options for improving

voluntary compliance beyond the

limited and costly current enforcement

actions applied to individuals, one at a

time. Information produced by

analyzing enhanced data will be

analogous to that used broadly in the

private sector under the name ‘‘market

segment research.’’ It will allow groupbased measurements of noncompliance.

Based solely upon an identified

significant degree of group

noncompliance, these enhancements

will further allow the construction of

group profiles or characteristics directly

related to tax compliance behavior.

Enhanced data will also permit

researchers to use statistical and other

research methods to determine the

issues and causes of noncompliance.

Against those issues and causes, new

initiatives at improving group

compliance will be vigorously tested on

a small scale. Research personnel will

oversee but not directly test or

implement such initiatives.

The enhanced system is intended to

support compliance initiatives that rely

more on group access and forums that

on contacting individuals; and more on

non-enforcement actions (e.g.,

legislative or regulatory revision,

education, assistance) rather than on

enforcement actions. Even in those

instances where an enforcement remedy

is appropriate, the enhanced system

itself cannot be used by enforcement

personnel nor can it select individuals

to whom such remedies will be applied.

This system of records has always on

a limited basis and with legal authority

contained information from various

third-party sources. The enhancements

to this system will add more

information from more sources. It will

also improve access to this information.

However, use of these enhancements for

the purposes of compliance research

will adhere to the operating principles

of such research: it will be groupfocused rather than individually

focused and not directly used to select

individuals for enforcement actions.

The minimum data about group

demographic and economic

characteristics that bear directly upon

measured group non-compliance will be

used. Unlike the common practice of

private-sector market research, these

enhancements will not include ‘‘lifestyle’’ or other highly personal

information even in aggregate.

Additionally, the Internal Revenue

Service recognizes its responsibility to

validate third-party data before they are

used to support even research activities.

Dated: April 16, 1995.

Alex Rodriguez,

Deputy Assistant Secretary (Administration).

[FR Doc. 95–10801 Filed 5–2–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4830–01–M

Office of Thrift Supervision

[AC–27; OTS No. 2952]

Gallup Federal Savings and Loan

Association, Gallup, New Mexico;

Approval of Conversion Application

Notice is hereby given that on April

26, 1995, the Assistant Director,

Corporate Activities, Office of Thrift

Supervision, or her designee, acting

pursuant to delegated authority,

approved the application of Gallup

Federal Savings and Loan Association,

Gallup, New Mexico, to convert to the

stock form of organization. Copies of the

application are available for inspection

at the Information Services Division,

Office of Thrift Supervision, 1700 G

Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20552,

and the Midwest Regional Office, Office

of Thrift Supervision, 122 W. John

Carpenter Freeway, Suite 600, Irving,

Texas 75039.

Dated: April 27, 1995.

By the Office of Thrift Supervision.

Nadine Y. Washington,

Corporate Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–10806 Filed 5–2–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6720–01–M

[AC–28; OTS No. 5161]

Schenectady Federal Savings and

Loan Association, Schenectady, New

York; Approval of Conversion

Application

Notice is hereby given that on April

25, 1995, the Assistant Director,