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(1) The school board shall operate

from a written agenda at all meetings.

Matters not placed on the agenda before

the start of the meeting, but approved by

a majority of the school board present,

may be considered at the ongoing

meeting and added to the agenda at that

time.

(2) A majority of the total number of

school board members authorized shall

constitute a quorum.

(3) School board meetings shall be

conducted a minimum of 9 times a year.

The school board President or designee

will provide school board members

timely notice of all meetings. All

regularly scheduled school board

meetings will be open to the public.

Executive session meetings may be

closed under 10 U.S.C. 2164(d)(6).

(4) The school board shall not be

bound in any way be any action or

statement of an individual member or

group of members of the board, except

when such action or statement is

approved by a majority of the school

board members during a school board

meeting.

(5) School board members are eligible

for reimbursement for official travel in

accordance with the DoD Joint Travel

Regulations and guidance issued by the

Director, DoD DDESS.

(6) School board members may be

removed by the ASD(FMP), or designee

(who may not be below the level of a

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense)

for dereliction of duty, malfeasance, or

other grounds for cause shown. The

school board concerned may

recommend such removal with a twothirds majority vote. Before a member

may be removed, the member shall be

afforded due process, to include written

notification of the basis for the action,

review of the evidence or

documentation considered by the school

board, and an opportunity to respond to

the allegations.

§ 69.6 Procedures.

(a) Composition of school board. (1)

The school board shall recommend to

the Director, DoD DDESS, the number of

elected school board voting members,

which shall be no fewer than 3 and no

more than 9, depending upon local

needs. The members of the school board

shall select by majority vote of the total

number of school board members

authorized at the beginning of each

official school board term, one member

to act as President and another to act as

Vice President. The President and Vice

President shall each serve for one year.

The President shall preside over school

board meetings and provide leadership

for related activities and functions. The

Vice President shall serve in the absence

of the President. If the position of

President is vacated for any reason, the

Vice President shall be the President

until the next regularly scheduled

school board election. The resulting

vacancy in the position of the Vice

President shall be filled by the majority

vote of all members of the incumbent

board.

(2) The DoD DDESS Arrangement

Superintendent, or designee, shall serve

as a non-voting observer to all school

board meetings. The Installation

Commander, or designee, shall serve as

a non-voting observer to the school

board. The Installation Commander, or

designee, shall convey command

concerns to the school board and the

Superintendent and keep the school

board and the Superintendent informed

of changes and other matters within the

host installation that affect school

expenditures or operations.

(3) The Antilles Consolidated School

System (ACSS) School Board shall be

made up of representatives of the Ramey

School, the schools on the Roosevelt

Roads Naval Station, and the schools on

Fort Buchanan.

(4) School board members may not

receive compensation for their service

on the school board.

(5) Members of the school board may

not have any financial interest in any

company or organization doing business

with the school system. Waivers to this

restriction may be granted on a case-bycase basis by the Director, DoD DDESS,

in coordination with the Office of

General Counsel of the Department of

Defense.

(b) Electorate of the school board. The

electorate for each school board seat

shall be composed of parents of the

students attending the school. Each

member of the electorate shall have one

vote.

(c) Election of school board members.

(1) To be elected as a member of the

school board, an individual must be a

resident of the military installation in

which the DoD DDESS arrangement is

located, and in the case of candidates

for the ACSS School Board, satisfy the

requirements in paragraph (a)(3), of this

section. Personnel employed by a DoD

DDESS arrangement may not serve as

school board members.

(2) The term of office for elected

members shall be 3 years, with a

maximum of 2 consecutive terms. The

beginning of the term shall coincide

with local elections.

(3) When there is a sufficient number

of school board vacancies that result in

not having a quorum, which is defined

as a majority of seats authorized, a

special election shall be called by the

DoD DDESS Arrangement

Superintendent or designee. A special

election is an election that is held

between the regularly scheduled annual

school board election. The nomination

and election procedures for a special

election shall be the same as those of

regularly scheduled school board

elections. Individuals elected by special

election shall serve until the next

regularly scheduled school board

election. Vacancies may occur due to

the resignation, death, removal for

cause, transfer, or disenrollment of a

school board member’s child(ren) from

the DoD DDESS arrangement.

(4) Regularly scheduled school board

elections shall be conducted to coincide

with local elections. Parents shall have

adequate notice of the time and place of

the election. The election shall be by

secret ballot. All votes must be cast in

person at the time and place of the

election. The candidate(s) receiving the

greatest number of votes shall be elected

as school board member(s).

(5) Each candidate for school board

membership must be nominated in

writing by at least one member of the

electorate to be represented by the

candidate. Votes may be cast at the time

of election for write-in candidates who

have not filed a nomination petition if

the write-in candidates otherwise are

qualified to serve in the positions

sought.

(6) The election process shall provide

staggered terms for board members, e.g.,

on the last day of the last month of each

year, the term for some board members

will expire.

(7) The DoD DDESS Superintendent,

in consultation with the school board,

shall be responsible for developing the

plans for nominating school board

members and conducting the school

board election and the special election

process. The DoD DDESS

Superintendent shall announce election

results within 7 working days of the

election.

Dated: December 27, 1995.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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BILLING CODE 5000–04–M

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

48 CFR Parts 1215, 1252, and 1253

RIN 2105–AC–32

Revision of Department of

Transportation Acquisition Regulation

AGENCY: Transportation.

ACTION: Final rule.
274 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 3 / Thursday, January 4, 1996 / Rules and Regulations

SUMMARY: This final rule completes the

rulemaking necessary to issue revisions

to the Transportation Acquisition

Regulation (TAR) which were published

in the November 3, 1995 Federal

Register (60 FR 55801) as an interim

final rule with a request for comments.

EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Elaine Wheeler, Office of Acquisition

and Grant Management, M–61, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590: (202) 366–4272.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Background

On November 3, 1995, revisions to the

TAR were published in the Federal

Register (60 FR 55801) as an interim

final rule. Comments were solicited

from interested parties, including the

public and other Federal agencies and

none were received. The interim final

rule established a public comment

period which closed on December 4,

1995. This notice finalizes that

rulemaking.

B. Regulatory Analyses and Notices

The Department has determined that

this action will not have a significant

economic impact on a substantial

number of small entities because the

basic policies remain unchanged and

only editorial corrections or

administrative changes are being made.

C. Paperwork Reduction Act

The Paperwork Reduction Act does

not apply because the changes to the

TAR do not impose additional record

keeping information collection

requirements, or additional collections

of information from offerors,

contractors, or members of the public

which require the approval of the Office

of Management and Budget under 44

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.

List of Subjects in 48 CFR Parts 1215,

1252, and 1253

Government procurement.

The interim final rule amending 12

CFR parts 1215, 1252, and 1253 which

was published at 60 FR 55801 on

November 3, 1995, is adopted as a final

rule without change.

This final rule is issued under

delegated authority under 49 CFR part

1.59(q). This authority has been

redelegated to the Senior Procurement

Executive.

Issued this 22nd day of December 1995, at

Washington, DC.

David J. Litman,

Senior Procurement Executive.

[FR Doc. 96–105 Filed 1–3–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4910–62–P

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

49 CFR Parts 573, 576, and 577

[Docket No. 93–68; Notice 8]

RIN 2127–AG15

Defect and Noncompliance Reports;

Record Retention; and Defect and

Noncompliance Notification

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Grant in part and denial in part

of petitions for reconsideration.

SUMMARY: In this document, the

National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration (NHTSA) is granting in

part petitions for reconsideration of an

April 5, 1995 final rule that, among

other things, amended 49 CFR Parts 573,

576, and 577 (60 FR 17254). On

reconsideration, the agency is amending

provisions of that final rule concerning

submission by manufacturers of

schedules for recall campaigns,

recordkeeping regarding recalls of

leased vehicles, record retention period,

and notification to lessees of recall

campaigns. NHTSA has concluded that

these changes will reduce manufacturer

burdens without adversely affecting the

agency’s recall program.

DATES: Effective date: The amendments

made by this final rule are effective on

January 4, 1996.

Any petitions for reconsideration

must be received by NHTSA no later

than February 5, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Any petitions for

reconsideration should refer to the

docket and notice number of this notice

and be submitted to: Docket Section,

Room 5109, National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, 400 Seventh

Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.

(Docket Room hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4

p.m., Monday through Friday.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jonathan D. White, Office of Defects

Investigation, National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, 400 Seventh

Street SW., Room 5319, Washington, DC

20590; (202) 366–5227.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

This final rule amends several

sections of 49 CFR Parts 573, 576, and

577, as those parts were recently

amended on April 5, 1995. These

changes are being adopted by NHTSA in

response to four petitions for

reconsideration of the April 5 final rule

that were submitted by the Association

of International Automobile

Manufacturers (AIAM), Chrysler

Corporation (Chrysler), Ford Motor

Company (Ford), and General Motors

Corporation (GM).

In addition to seeking substantive

changes, the petitions asked for an

extension of the original May 5, 1995

effective date of the April 5

amendments on the ground that it

would be difficult to achieve

compliance by that date. On May 16,

1995, the agency published a notice in

the Federal Register setting a new

effective date of July 7, 1995 for the

April 5 amendments. 60 FR 26002.

Subsequently, on July 7, 1995, NHTSA

suspended until further notice the

effective date of four of the provisions

for which the petitioners had sought

reconsideration. 60 FR 35458. That

notice also confirmed that all other

provisions of the April 5 final rule

would go into effect on July 7, 1995.

In September 1995, the Office of the

Federal Register informed NHTSA that

it could not leave the effective date of

a regulation indefinite, as it had done in

the July 7 Federal Register notice.

Accordingly, NHTSA published another

notice setting January 2, 1996, as the

effective date of those four provisions,

pending the decision on

reconsideration. 60 FR 50476 (Sept. 29,

1995).

Based on its review of the petitions

for reconsideration, NHTSA also

decided that it would be advisable to

obtain further information from the

public on four of the issues raised in the

petitions. Accordingly, the agency

announced that it would hold a public

meeting in Detroit, Michigan to receive

oral presentations on those issues and to

ask questions of those present, and that

it would also receive written comments

on those issues. 60 FR 35459 (July 7,

1995).

The following five entities made

presentations at the Detroit meeting,

which took place on July 24, 1995:

AIAM, Chrysler, Ford, GM, and the R.

L. Polk Company (Polk). The following

ten entities submitted written comments

to the public docket: Advocates for

Highway and Auto Safety (Advocates),

American Automotive Leasing

Association (AALA), American Honda

Motor Company, Inc. (Honda),

Association of Consumer Vehicle

Lessors (ACVL), Ford, GM, Institute of

International Container Lessors (IICL),

National Automobile Dealers

Association (NADA), National Vehicle

Leasing Association (NVLA), and Truck

Renting and Leasing Association

(TRALA). In addition, NHTSA placed a

written transcript of the Detroit meeting

in the public docket for this rulemaking.