24528 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 95 / Wednesday, May 15, 1996 / Notices

Attendance is open to the interested

public but limited to space availability.

With the approval of the chairman,

members of the public may present oral

statements at the meeting. Persons

wishing to present statements or obtain

information should contact the RTCA

Secretariat, 1140 Connecticut Avenue,

NW., Suite 1020, Washington, DC

20036; (202) 833–9339 (phone) or (202)

833–9434 (fax). Members of the public

may present a written statement to the

committee at any time.

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 9, 1996.

Janice L. Peters,

Designated Official.

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National Highway Traffic Safety

Administration

Research and Development Programs

Meeting

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic

Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

public meeting at which NHTSA will

describe and discuss specific research

and development projects. Further, the

notice requests suggestions for topics to

be presented by the agency.

DATES AND TIMES: The National Highway

Traffic Safety Administration will hold

a public meeting devoted primarily to

presentations of specific research and

development projects on June 12, 1996,

beginning at 1:30 p.m. and ending at

approximately 5:00 p.m. The deadline

for interested parties to suggest agenda

topics is 4:15 p.m. on May 24, 1996.

Questions may be submitted in advance

regarding the agency’s research and

development projects. They must be

submitted in writing by June 3, 1996, to

the address given below. If sufficient

time is available, questions received

after the June 3 date will be answered

at the meeting in the discussion period.

The individual, group, or company

asking a question does not have to be

present for the question to be answered.

A consolidated list of the questions

submitted by June 3 will be available at

the meeting and will be mailed to

requesters after the meeting.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Royce Hotel-Detroit Metro Airport,

31500 Wick Road, Romulus, Michigan

48174. Suggestions for specific R&D

topics as described below and questions

for the June 12, 1996, meeting relating

to the agency’s research and

development programs should be

submitted to the Office of the Associate

Administrator for Research and

Development, NRD–01, National

Highway Traffic Safety Administration,

Room 6206, 400 Seventh St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20590. The fax number

is 202–366–5930.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA

intends to provide detailed

presentations about its research and

development programs in a series of

public meetings. The series started in

April 1993. The purpose is to make

available more complete and timely

information regarding the agency’s

research and development programs.

This thirteenth meeting in the series

will be held on June 12, 1996.

NHTSA requests suggestions from

interested parties on the specific agenda

topics to be presented. NHTSA will base

its decisions about the agenda, in part,

on the suggestions it receives by close

of business at 4:15 p.m. on May 24,

1996. Before the meeting, it will publish

a notice with an agenda listing the

research and development topics to be

discussed. The agenda can also be

obtained by calling or faxing the

information numbers listed elsewhere in

this notice. NHTSA asks that the

suggestions be limited to six, in priority

order, so that the presentations at the

June 12 R&D meeting can be most useful

to the audience. Specific R&D topics are

listed below. Many of these topics have

been discussed at previous meetings.

Suggestions for agenda topics are not

restricted to this listing, and interested

parties are invited to suggest other R&D

topics of specific interest to their

organizations.

Specific R&D topic is:

On-line tracking system for NHTSA’s

research projects.

Specific Crashworthiness R&D topics

are:

Improved frontal crash protection (program

status, problem identification, offset

testing),

Advanced glazing research,

Vehicle aggressivity and fleet

compatibility,

Upgrade side crash protection,

Upgrade seat and occupant restraint

systems,

Child safety research (ISOFIX),

Child restraint/air bag interaction (CRABI)

dummy testing,

Electric and alternate fuel vehicle safety,

Truck crashworthiness/occupant

protection,

Highway traffic injury studies,

Head and neck injury research,

Lower extremity injury research,

Thorax injury research,

Human injury simulation and analysis,

Refinements to the Hybrid III dummy, and

Advanced frontal test dummy.

Specific Crash Avoidance R&D topics

are:

Truck tire traction,

Portable data acquisition system for crash

avoidance research (DASCAR),

Systems to enhance EMS response (automatic

collision notification),

Vehicle motion environment data collection

system,

Crash causal analysis,

Human factors guidelines for crash avoidance

warning devices,

Longer combination vehicle safety,

Drowsy driver monitoring,

Driver workload assessment,

Pedestrian detection devices for school bus

safety,

Performance guidelines for ITS systems

(approach),

Variable dynamics test vehicle,

Engineering description of precrash events,

Preliminary rearend collision avoidance

system guidelines,

Preliminary road departure collision

avoidance system guidelines,

Preliminary intersection collision avoidance

system guidelines, and

Preliminary lane change/merge collision

avoidance system guidelines.

Separately, questions regarding

research projects that have been

submitted in writing not later than close

of business on June 3, 1996, will be

answered. A transcript of the meeting,

copies of materials handed out at the

meeting, and copies of the suggestions

offered by commenters will be available

for public inspection in the NHTSA’s

Technical Reference Division, Room

5108, 400 Seventh St., SW.,

Washington, DC 20590. Copies of the

transcript will then be available at 10

cents a page, upon request to NHTSA’s

Technical Reference Division. The

Technical Reference Division is open to

the public from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

NHTSA will provide technical aids to

participants as necessary, during the

Research and Development Programs

Meeting. Thus, any person desiring the

assistance of ‘‘auxiliary aids’’ (e.g., signlanguage interpreter, telecommunication

devices for deaf persons (TTDs), readers,

taped texts, braille materials, or large

print materials and/or a magnifying

device), please contact Rita Gibbons on

202–366–4862 by close of business June

5, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita

Gibbons, Staff Assistant, Office of

Research and Development, 400

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC

20590. Telephone: 202–366–4862. Fax

number: 202–366–5930.

Issued: May 9, 1996.

William A. Boehly,

Associate Administrator for Research and

Development.

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