21500 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 78 / Friday, April 21, 2000 / Notices

1The Board will grant a stay if an informed

decision on environmental issues (whether raised

by a party or by the Board’s Section of

Environmental Analysis in its independent

investigation) cannot be made before the

exemption’s effective date. See Exemption of Outof-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d 377 (1989). Any

request for a stay should be filed as soon as possible

so that the Board may take appropriate action before

the exemption’s effective date.

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket NHTSA–99–5087]

Safety Performance Standards

Program Meeting.

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice of NHTSA rulemaking

status meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

public meeting at which NHTSA will

answer questions from the public and

the automobile industry regarding the

agency’s vehicle regulatory program.

DATES: The Agency’s regular, quarterly

public meeting relating to its vehicle

regulatory program will be held on

Thursday, June 15, 2000, beginning at

9:45 a.m. and ending at approximately

12:00 p.m. at the Vehicle Research and

Test Center (VRTC) in East Liberty,

Ohio. Questions relating to the vehicle

regulatory program must be submitted

in writing with a diskette (Wordperfect)

by Wednesday, May 24, 2000, to the

address shown below or by e-mail. If

sufficient time is available, questions

received after May 24, may be answered

at the meeting. The individual, group or

company submitting a questions(s) does

not have to be present for the

questions(s) to be answered. A

consolidated list of the questions

submitted by May 24, 2000, and the

issues to be discussed, will be posted on

NHTSA’s web site (www.nhtsa.dot.gov)

by Monday, June 12, 2000, and also will

be available at the meeting. The agency

will hold a second public meeting on

June 15, devoted exclusively to a

presentation of research and

development programs. This meeting

will begin at 1:30 p.m. and end at

approximately 5:00 p.m.

This meeting is described more fully

in a separate announcement. VRTC is

gathering a list of names who will be

attending the June 15, NHTSA Public

Meeting, to expedite clearance into the

test facility. Those of you who are

attending the NHTSA Public Meeting

should contact Susie Weiser at 937–

666–4511 by C.O.B. June 13, 2000. The

next NHTSA Public Meeting will take

place on Thursday, September 14, 2000,

at the Tysons Westpark Hotel, 8401

Westpark Drive, in McLean, VA.

ADDRESSES: Questions for the June 15,

NHTSA Rulemaking Status Meeting,

relating to the agency’s vehicle

regulatory program, should be

submitted to Delia Lopez, NPS–01,

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration, Room 5401, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590, Fax Number 202–366–4329, email dlopez@nhtsa.dot.gov. The meeting

will be held at the NHTSA’s Research

and Development, Vehicle Research and

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

Ohio 43319. Directions to the VRTC, as

well as this Federal Register notice will

be also available on NHTSA’s web site

(www.nhtsa.dot.gov).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Delia Lopez, (202) 366–1810.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA

holds a regular, quarterly meeting to

answer questions from the public and

the regulated industries regarding the

agency’s vehicle regulatory program.

Questions on aspects of the agency’s

research and development activities that

relate directly to ongoing regulatory

actions should be submitted, as in the

past, to the agency’s Safety Performance

Standards Office. The purpose of this

meeting is to focus on those phases of

NHTSA activities which are technical,

interpretative or procedural in nature.

Transcripts of these meetings will be

available for public inspection in the

DOT Docket in Washington, DC, within

four weeks after the meeting. Copies of

the transcript will then be available at

ten cents a page, (length has varied from

80 to 150 pages) upon request to DOT

Docket, Room PL–401, 400 Seventh

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. The

DOT Docket is open to the public from

10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. The transcript

may also be accessed electronically at

http://dms.dot.gov.at docket NHTSA–

99–5087. Questions to be answered at

the quarterly meeting should be

organized by categories to help us

process the questions into an agenda

form more efficiently. Sample format:

I. RULEMAKING

A. Crash avoidance

B. Crashworthiness

C. Other Rulemakings

II. CONSUMER INFORMATION

III. MISCELLANEOUS

NHTSA will provide auxiliary aids to

participants as necessary. Any person

desiring assistance of ‘‘auxiliary aids’’

(e.g., sign-language interpreter,

telecommunications devices for deaf

persons (TDDs), readers, taped texts,

brailled materials, or large print

materials and/or a magnifying device),

please contact Delia Lopez on (202)

366–1810, by COB June 12, 2000.

Issued: April 18, 2000.

Stephen R. Kratzke,

Acting Associate Administrator for Safety

Performance Standards.

[FR Doc. 00–9983 Filed 4–20–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Surface Transportation Board

[STB Docket No. AB–33 (Sub–No. 152X)]

Union Pacific Railroad Company—

Abandonment Exemption—in Orange

County, TX

Union Pacific Railroad Company (UP)

has filed a notice of exemption under 49

CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt

Abandonments and Discontinuances of

Service and Trackage Rights to abandon

a 0.75-mile portion of the Orange

Industrial Lead from milepost 486.75 to

milepost 487.5 near Kilowatt, in Orange

County, TX. The line traverses United

States Postal Service Zip Code 77630.

UP has certified that: (1) No local

traffic has moved over the line for at

least 2 years; (2) there is no overhead

traffic moving over the line; (3) no

formal complaint filed by a user of rail

service on the line (or by a state or local

government entity acting on behalf of

such user) regarding cessation of service

over the line either is pending with the

Surface Transportation Board (Board) or

with any U.S. District Court or has been

decided in favor of complainant within

the 2-year period; and (4) the

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7

(environmental reports), 49 CFR 1105.8

(historic reports), 49 CFR 1105.11

(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental

agencies) have been met.

As a condition to this exemption, any

employee adversely affected by the

abandonment and discontinuance shall

be protected under Oregon Short Line R.

Co.— Abandonment—Goshen, 360

I.C.C. 91 (1979). To address whether this

condition adequately protects affected

employees, a petition for partial

revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d)

must be filed. Provided no formal

expression of intent to file an offer of

financial assistance (OFA) has been

received, this exemption will be

effective on May 23, 2000, unless stayed

pending reconsideration. Petitions to

stay that do not involve environmental

issues,1 formal expressions of intent to

file an OFA under 49 CFR