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Administration (AIR–510), 800

Independence Avenue SW.,

Washington, DC 20591, telephone (202)

267–7061.

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 8,

1995.

Clyde A. Miller,

Manager, Research Division, AAR–200.

[FR Doc. 95–30450 Filed 12–13–95; 8:45 am]

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Federal Highway Administration

Intelligent Transportation Society of

America; Public Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Intelligent Transportation

Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will

hold a meeting of its Coordinating

Council on January 9, 1996. The session

is expected to focus on: (1) Federal

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

reports; (2) ITS AMERICA President’s

report; (3) Dedicated Short Range

Communications Standard; (4) Report

on Intermodal Transportation

Workshop; (5) Update on Outreach

Activities to State and Local

Governments; (6) Update on ITS

AMERICA Committee Action Plans; (7)

Update on World Congress activities; (8)

Discussion of the ITS AMERICA Sixth

Annual Meeting. ITS AMERICA

provides a forum for national discussion

and recommendations on ITS activities

including programs, research needs,

strategic planning, standards,

international liaison, and priorities. The

charter for the utilization of ITS

AMERICA establishes this organization

as an advisory committee under the

Federal Advisory Committee Act

(FACA), 5 U.S.C. app. 2, when it

provides advice or recommendations to

DOT officials on ITS policies and

programs. (56 FR 9400, March 6, 1991).

DATES: The Coordinating Council of ITS

AMERICA will meet on January 9 from

9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon (Eastern

Standard time).

ADDRESSES: Sheraton Washington Hotel,

2660 Woodley Road, NW., Washington,

D.C. 20008, (202) 328–2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Materials associated with this meeting

may be examined at the offices of ITS

AMERICA, 400 Virginia Avenue, SW.,

Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20024.

Persons desiring further information or

to request to speak at this meeting

should contact Mr. Chris Body at ITS

AMERICA by telephone at (202) 484–

4131, or by FAX at (202) 484–3483. The

DOT contact is Mr. Whitey Metheny,

FHWA, HVH–1, Washington, D.C.

20590, (202) 366–2835. Office hours are

from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., e.t., Monday

through Friday, except for legal

holidays.

(23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48)

Issued on: December 6, 1995

Christine M. Johnson,

Director, ITS Joint Program Office.

[FR Doc. 95–30454 Filed 12–13–95; 8:45 am]

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Intelligent Transportation Society of

America; Public Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Intelligent Transportation

Society of America (ITS AMERICA) will

hold a meeting of its Board of Directors

on January 11, 1996. The session is

expected to focus on: (1) Federal ITS

program reports; (2) Report of the ITS

AMERICA Nominating Committee; (3)

Report of the ITS AMERICA

Coordinating Council; (4) Report on the

ITS Deployment Goal Statement; (5)

Update on the ITS AMERICA Sixth

Annual Meeting; (6) Report on ITS

World Congresses: Yokohama Review

(1995), Orlando Plans (1996). ITS

AMERICA provides a forum for national

discussion and recommendations on

ITS activities including programs,

research needs, strategic planning,

standards, international liaison, and

priorities. The charter for the utilization

of ITS AMERICA establishes this

organization as an advisory committee

under the Federal Advisory Committee

Act (FACA), 5 USC app. 2, when it

provides advice or recommendations to

DOT officials on ITS policies and

programs. (56 FR 9400, March 6, 1991).

DATES: The Board of Directors of ITS

AMERICA will meet on January 11 from

1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Sheraton Washington Hotel,

2660 Woodley Road, N.W., Washington,

D.C. 20008, (202) 328–2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Materials associated with this meeting

may be examined at the offices of ITS

AMERICA, 400 Virginia Avenue, SW.,

Suite 800, Washington, D.C. 20024.

Persons desiring further information or

to request to speak at this meeting

should contact Mr. Chris Body at ITS

AMERICA by telephone at (202) 484–

4131 or by FAX at (202) 484–3483. The

DOT contact is Mr. Whitey Metheny,

FHWA, HVH–1, Washington, D.C.

20590, (202) 366–2835. Office hours are

from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., e.t., Monday

through Friday, except for legal

holidays.

(23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48)

Issued on December 6, 1995.

Christine M. Johnson,

Director, ITS Joint Program Office.

[FR Doc. 95–30455 Filed 12–13–95; 8:45 am]

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National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

[Docket 95–41 GR]

Public Meeting: Glazing Research

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting;

request for comments.

SUMMARY: This notice: (1) Announces a

public meeting to discuss NHTSA’s

research findings to date on advanced

glazing materials that may prevent

ejection of vehicle occupants through

motor vehicle windows during crashes;

(2) invites oral presentations at the

meeting from industry experts,

equipment manufacturers, and vehicle

manufacturers; and (3) invites written

comments and data from the public on

the same subject. To focus the responses

in preparation for this technology

transfer and information exchange, the

agency also provides a list of questions

for commenters.

DATES: Public meeting: The Advanced

Glazing Research Meeting will be held

on Thursday, February 1, 1996, from

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., Eastern Standard

Time. The agenda is discussed below.

Written comments: Written comments

are due before March 1, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Public meeting: The public

meeting will be held at the following

location: Holiday Inn Capitol, 550 C

Street SW., Washington, DC 20024,

Telephone: (202) 479–4000, Fax: (202)

488–4627.

Written comments: All written

comments should be mailed to the

Docket Section, National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration, Room

5109, 400 7th Street SW., Washington,

DC 20590. Please refer to the docket

number when submitting written

comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Margaret Gill, Office of Vehicle Safety

Standards, NPS–12, NHTSA, 400 7th

Street SW., Washington, DC 20590

(telephone 202–366–2264, fax 202–366–

4329). By electronic mail:

MGill@nhtsa.dot.gov
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

The Intermodal Surface

Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991

required NHTSA to initiate rulemaking

to address the problems of rollover

crashes. To fulfill this requirement, the

agency published an Advance Notice of

Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on

January 2, 1992, (57 FR 242) to solicit

information concerning rollover crashes.

A Rulemaking Plan entitled ‘‘Planning

Document for Rollover Prevention and

Injury Mitigation’’ (Docket 91–68 No. 1)

was published for public review on

September 29, 1992 (57 FR 198). The

planning document outlined crash

avoidance and crashworthiness

rulemaking approaches to reduce

rollover-related injuries and fatalities.

As part of the analysis of rollover

accidents, the agency determined that a

significant number of injuries and

deaths was associated with ejection of

vehicle occupants out of windows.

Accordingly, the agency broadened the

goal of an ongoing side-impact research

program to include research on

preventing ejection through glazing

during rollover accidents. The agency

also created a cross-agency research

team to expedite the research and

analysis of the problem of occupants

being ejected through glazing. This

Advanced Glazing Research Team has

developed analytical and research tools

to evaluate the problem of ejection, and

to assess potential mitigating glazing

designs, and has so far:

1. Developed and built an impactor

that can project 18 kilograms (40

pounds) at 24 kilometers per hour (15

mph). This represents a maximum force

that NHTSA believes is likely to be

exerted by the head/shoulder on the

side windows in a typical rollover or

side impact crash. This impactor is

being used in NHTSA’s research for

testing advanced glazing materials.

2. Developed full-vehicle computer

models and finite element material

models (FEA) to assess the potential for

occupant injury against the glazing

encountered in rollover crashes.

3. Monitored technological

developments in advanced glazing.

4. Manufactured and tested prototype

encapsulated windows, mounted in

modified doors.

5. Conducted a cost, weight, and leadtime analysis of the use of alternative

glazing materials.

6. Conducted a benefits analysis to

determine the number of lives

potentially saved by the use of

alternative glazing materials.

These activities are detailed in two

reports: (1) ‘‘Alternative Glazing Cost

Study, September 1995 Final Report’’

and (2) ‘‘Ejection Mitigation Using

Advanced Glazing, A Status Report,

November 1995.’’ Copies of these

reports have been placed in docket 95–

41–GR. NHTSA encourages commenters

to review these reports prior to the

public meeting, because they form the

basis for many of the questions upon

which the agency is requesting

comment.

The agency believes that the

alternative glazing concepts that it has

examined for the front, side windows of

light vehicles are capable of preventing

approximately 1,300 fatalities per year.

Vehicle modifications for these front

and side window systems may cost

between $48 and $79 per vehicle.

Prototype systems have been produced

and appear feasible and practical.

II. Questions for the Public

To aid the agency in acquiring the

information it needs from its partners

who will be submitting written

comments, and to focus the discussion

at the public meeting, NHTSA is

including a list of questions and

requests for data within this notice. For

easy reference, the questions are

numbered consecutively. NHTSA

encourages commenters to provide

specific responses for each question for

which they may have information or

views. In addition, to facilitate

tabulation of the written comments in

sequence, please identify the number of

each question to which you are

responding.

NHTSA requests that commenters

provide as specific a rationale as

possible, including analysis of safety

consequences, for any positions that are

taken. NHTSA encourages commenters

to provide scientific analysis and data

relating to materials, designs, testing,

manufacturing and field experience.

The following list of questions does

not purport to be an all-inclusive

collection of items relevant to this

research. NHTSA encourages

commenters to provide any other data

they believe are relevant.

1. Are the glazing materials selected

for computer modeling sufficient to

characterize the responses that may be

observed from ejection resistant glazing

materials? Can you suggest additional

materials for use in NHTSA’s computer

models? If so, can you supply any

impact-speed-sensitive material data?

2. Are NHTSA’s current retention test

equipment and procedures sufficient to

characterize a glazing’s ability to keep

an occupant in a vehicle? Can you

suggest additional test techniques that

should be investigated? Do you know of

any additional research on occupantglazing impacts?

3. Are the cost data presented in the

report accurate? If not, can you supply

NHTSA with some better cost data?

4. Please provide any comments and

supporting material of your comments

on the cost, weight, and lead time

analysis conducted by NHTSA.

5. Are the injury criteria discussed in

this report sufficient? Can you

recommend others? Do you have any

injury test data?

6. Do you have any information that

addresses the repeatability of glazing

impact tests?

7. Does the encapsulation design look

practical for production vehicles? Do

you know of any movable side window

encapsulation systems currently in

production? Can you recommend any

improvements to the encapsulation

system NHTSA used?

8. To what extent of vehicle damage

would encapsulated advanced glazing

be effective in preventing occupant

ejection?

9. Do the current hard coat techniques

provide adequate scratch resistance for

rigid plastic and glass-plastic glazing to

be practicable for side windows and

acceptable to consumers? Do you know

of any new technologies that should be

investigated?

10. Is durability or environmental

exposure a problem with any advanced

glazing materials?

11. The recently implemented British

Standard AU 209 Part 4: 1995, permits

laminated security glazing, which will

deter unauthorized entry into a motor

vehicle. Would an investigation of these

security glazings benefit NHTSA’s

ejection mitigation research program?

12. Are there any quantifiable security

or design benefits to these security

glazings?

13. Are there any performance

benefits, other than preventing

ejections, known to be associated with

ejection-mitigating glazings?

14. Are there any known

disadvantages to ejection-mitigating

glazings?

15. Are there any vehicles currently in

use that employ advanced glazing

materials?

16. Are there any other data, research

or analyses available on glazing

impacts? Is there any work being done

on laceration measurement?

17. Are there any data to support or

refute the data or conclusions of the

agency’s status report?

III. Public Meeting Procedural Matters

As part of the President’s initiative to

reform the regulatory process, the

agency has taken steps to increase
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technology transfer and exchange with

the public and the automotive industry,

in various aspects of highway and motor

vehicle safety. As part of this goal to

promote national and international

cooperation, the agency will conduct a

public meeting on the ongoing research

program concerning mitigation of motor

vehicle occupant ejections out of

windows. At this public meeting, the

agency will present test and analytical

data that the agency has gathered to

date. The agency’s presentation will

include:

—Background and Basis for the

Research

—Research, including impactor

development, prototype ejectionmitigating design development, and

component test results.

—Computer modeling of glazing

impacts

—Alternative glazing systems cost,

weight, lead time

—Benefits analysis

The agency also solicits relevant

presentations, research findings, and

views from its partners at this meeting.

NHTSA especially solicits participation

in the form of presentations by technical

experts, both in the form of critiques of

the agency’s research and of

independent research. Within the

available time, NHTSA will try to

accommodate all persons wishing to

make oral presentations.

Those wishing to make oral

presentations at the meeting should

contact the Public Meeting Coordinator,

Margaret Gill, at the mailing address,

telephone number, fax number, or

electronic mail address listed above, by

January 17, 1996. If the presentation

will include slides, motion pictures, or

other visual aids, please so indicate and

NHTSA will make the proper

equipment available. Presenters should

bring at least one copy of their

presentation to the meeting so that

NHTSA can readily include the material

in the public record. NHTSA will

provide ‘‘auxiliary aids’’ (e.g., signlanguage interpreter,

telecommunications devices for deaf

persons (TDDs), readers, taped texts,

brailled materials or large print

materials and/or a magnifying device) to

speakers or other participants as

necessary. Any person desiring

assistance of auxiliary aids should

contact Margaret Gill, (202) 366–2264,

by close-of-business, January 17, 1996.

The agency estimates that NHTSA’s

presentations will take approximately

three and one-half hours, consuming the

morning session of the meeting. The

afternoon session will be used for other

presenters, and for questions that

weren’t answered during the morning

session. There will be a question period

after each presentation. Those speaking

at the public meeting should limit the

length of their presentations to 20

minutes.

A tentative agenda will be available

January 22, 1996. You can obtain the

tentative agenda upon request from the

agency, or over the Internet on NHTSA’s

Internet home page at http://

www.nhtsa.dot.gov/nps/glazmeet.html.

A final schedule of participants making

oral presentations will be available at

the designated meeting room on the day

of the meeting.

The agency intends to conduct the

after-presentation portions of the public

meeting in an informal manner, in order

to promote maximum participation by

all who attend. Interested persons may

ask questions or provide comments

immediately after each party has

completed its presentation. If time

permits, persons who have not

requested time to speak but would like

to make a statement or presentation will

be afforded an opportunity to do so.

There will be further opportunities for

questions and information exchange at

the end of the meeting.

After the meeting, NHTSA will place

a copy of any written statements in the

docket for this notice. A verbatim

transcript of the meeting will be

prepared and also placed in the NHTSA

docket as soon as possible after the

meeting.

IV. Submission of Written Comments

Participation in the meeting is not a

prerequisite for the submission of

written comments. NHTSA invites

written comments from all interested

parties. It is requested but not required

that 10 copies be submitted. Written

comments must not exceed 15 pages in

length. (See 49 CFR 553.21). Necessary

attachments may be appended to these

submissions without regard to the 15-

page limit. This limitation is intended to

encourage commenters to detail their

primary arguments in a concise fashion.

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 seven 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

information regulation, 49 CFR 512.

All relevant comments received will

be reviewed by the agency and will be

available for examination in the docket

at the above address. The NHTSA will

continue to file relevant information as

it becomes available in the docket after

the closing date, and it is recommended

that interested persons continue to

examine the docket for new material.

Issued on December 8, 1995.

Barry Felrice,

Associate Administrator for Safety

Performance Standards.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of the Comptroller of the

Currency

Privacy Act of 1974; As Amended;

System of Records

AGENCY: Office of the Comptroller of the

Currency, Treasury.

ACTION: Amendment to an existing

system of records.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Privacy Act of 1974 (Privacy Act), the

Department of the Treasury (Treasury),

the Office of the Comptroller of the

Currency (OCC) is publishing an

amendment to an existing system of

records. This amendment reflects an

ongoing review of an existing system of

records pursuant to Appendix I to OMB

Circular No. A–130—Revised, which

has resulted in changes in nearly all

elements of the system of records. In

addition, the changes reflect a new

proposed interagency suspicious

activity reporting process, combining

the criminal referral and suspicious

financial transactions reporting

requirements of the Federal financial

regulatory agencies and Treasury, and

involving the use of a new

computerized database maintained by

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network

(FinCEN) on behalf of the Federal

financial regulatory agencies and

Treasury.

DATES: Comments must be received by

January 16, 1996. If no comments are

received which precipitate changes to

the system, the system will become

effective on January 23, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent

to: Communications Division, Docket

No. 95–25, Office of the Comptroller of

the Currency, 250 E Street, SW,

Washington, DC 20219, or FAX number

202–874–5274. Electronic comments

should be sent to

REG.COMMENTS.@OCC.TREAS.GOV.