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1Further discussion of these statistics and data 

sources is available in the text of the GTR. 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Fifth Meeting—RTCA Special 

Committee 217/EUROCAE WG 44— 

Airport Mapping Databases 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of RTCA Special 

Committee 217 meeting: Airport 

Mapping Databases. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of a meeting of 

RTCA Special Committee 217 meeting: 

Airport Mapping Databases. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

October 21–23, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 5 

p.m. 

ADDRESS: The meeting will be held at 

Novotel-Airport Hotel, Zurich, 

Switzerland. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

RTCA Secretariat, 1828 L Street, NW., 

Suite 805, Washington, DC 20036–5133; 

telephone (202) 833–9339; fax (202) 

833–9434; Web site http://www.rtca.org. 

Or Andreas Paul of Lufthansa Systems 

FlightNav, Tel: 32–2–729 3194, Fax: 32– 

2–729 9008. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., Appendix 2), notice is 

hereby given for a Special Committee 

217 meeting. The agenda will include: 

21 October 

• Opening Plenary 

• Chairmen’s remarks and 

introductions 

• Review and approve meeting 

agenda 

• Discussion 

• Schedule for this week 

• Schedule for next meetings 

• Presentations 

• Presentations 

• Report of September Telecon— 

Jens Schiefele 

• Additional AMDB Requirements 

Related to D-Taxi Datalink and Runway 

Safety—Sam van der Stricht and 

Christian Bousmanne 

• Meet to revise documents 

22 October 

• Plenary Session 

23 October—Thursday 

• Closing Plenary Session 

• Other Business 

• Determine and agree on action plan 

• Meeting Plans and Dates 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairmen, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the ‘‘FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT’’ section. Members of the 

public may present a written statement 

to the committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

17, 2008. 

Francisco Estrada C., 

RTCA Advisory Committee. 

[FR Doc. E8–22479 Filed 9–23–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2008–0145, Notice 1] 

NHTSA’s Activities Under the United 

Nations Economic Commission for 

Europe 1998 Global Agreement: 

Pedestrian Safety 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of activities under the 

1998 Global Agreement and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: NHTSA is publishing this 

notice to inform the public that there is 

a vote scheduled to establish the Global 

Technical Regulation on Pedestrian 

Safety at the November 2008 session of 

the World Forum for Harmonization of 

Vehicle Regulations (WP.29). In 

anticipation of the vote NHTSA is 

requesting comments to inform its 

decision for the vote. Publication of this 

information is in accordance with 

NHTSA’s Statement of Policy regarding 

Agency Policy Goals and Public 

Participation in the Implementation of 

the 1998 Global Agreement on Global 

Technical Regulations. 

DATES: Written comments may be 

submitted to this agency within 30 days 

of publication of this notice. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

[identified by DOT Docket No. NHTSA– 

2008–0145, Notice 1] by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Telephone: 1–800–647–5527. 

• Fax: 202–493–2251. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this proposed collection of 

information. Note that all comments 

received will be posted without change 

to http://www.regulations.gov, including 

any personal information provided. 

Please see the Privacy Act heading 

below. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78) or you may visit http:// 

DocketInfo.dot.gov. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov or the street 

address listed above. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Ezana Wondimneh, Division Chief, 

International Policy and Harmonization 

(NVS–133), National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590; 

Phone (202) 366–0846, Fax (202) 493– 

2280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pedestrian 

safety is a key focus worldwide. Data 

indicate that, annually: in the European 

Union about 8,000 pedestrians and 

cyclists are killed and about 300,000 

injured; in North America 

approximately 5,000 pedestrians are 

killed and 85,000 injured; in Japan 

approximately 3,300 pedestrians and 

cyclists are killed and 27,000 seriously 

injured; and in South Korea around 

3,600 pedestrians are killed and 90,000 

injured.1

The U.S. participated in the 

International Harmonized Research 

Activities (IHRA) Pedestrian Safety 

Working Group (IHRA–PS–WG) as it 

began to investigate and analyze the 

latest pedestrian accident data from 

IHRA member countries in 2001 and 

continued on to prepare harmonized 

pedestrian-passenger vehicle test 

procedures. Following this, separate 

adult and child head form tests were 

presented to the World Forum for 


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2ECE/TRANS/WP.29/2007/105 

Harmonization of Vehicle Regulations 

(WP.29) at the end of 2002. Initial leg 

form tests were proposed in 2004. Since 

then, the U.S. has been working with 

representatives from WP.29 and IHRA to 

refine these testing procedures for 

inclusion in the GTR. 

NHTSA has also participated in the 

pedestrian safety technical working 

group established under the GRSP since 

2002. In March 2004, a formal proposal 

to develop a pedestrian safety GTR was 

adopted by the Executive Committee for 

the 1998 Agreement (AC.3) under the 

sponsorship of the European 

Commission. The working group is 

chaired by Japan. 

This GTR is expected to improve 

pedestrian safety by requiring vehicle 

hoods and bumpers to absorb energy 

more efficiently when impacted in a 40 

kilometer per hour (km/h) vehicle-topedestrian impact. These incidents 

account for more than 75 percent of the 

pedestrian-injured accidents (AIS 1+) 

reported by IHRA/PS. Pedestrian 

fatalities in countries that implement 

the GTR could be reduced by between 

1 and 5 percent depending on the 

contracting party’s transportation 

environment. The GTR consists of two 

sets of performance criteria applying to: 

(a) The hood top and fenders; and (b) 

the front bumper. Test procedures have 

been developed using sub-system 

impacts for adult and child head 

protection and adult leg protection. 

The head impact requirements will 

ensure that hood tops and fenders 

provide head protection when struck by 

a pedestrian. In testing, the hood top 

and fenders would be impacted with a 

child headform and an adult headform 

at 35 km/h. The Head Injury Criterion 

(HIC) must not exceed 1,000 over one 

half of a child headform test area and 

must not exceed 1,000 over two thirds 

of the combined child and adult 

headform test areas. The HIC for the 

remaining areas must not exceed 1,700 

for both headforms. 

The leg protection requirements for 

the front bumper would require 

bumpers to subject pedestrians to lower 

impact forces than result from most 

current designs. The testing required by 

this GTR specifies that the vehicle 

bumper is struck at 40 km/h with a 

legform that simulates the impact 

response of an adult’s leg. Vehicles with 

a lower bumper height of less than 425 

millimeters (mm) are tested with a 

lower legform test device, while 

vehicles with a lower bumper height of 

more than 500mm are tested with an 

upper legform test device. Vehicles with 

a lower bumper height between 425mm 

and 500mm are tested with either 

legform as chosen by the manufacturer. 

In the lower legform-to-bumper test, 

vehicles must meet limits on lateral 

knee bending angle, knee shearing 

displacement, and lateral tibia 

acceleration. In the upper legform to 

bumper test, limits are placed on the 

instantaneous sum of the impact forces 

with respect to time and the bending 

moment on the test. More detailed 

information on these test procedures 

was provided in previous notices and 

through the UN Web site as they were 

considered by WP.29. 

This GTR is expected to be considered 

for establishment by vote at the 

upcoming November 2008 session of 

WP.29/AC.3. Once a GTR is established 

through consensus voting at WP.29, 

Contracting Parties, while not obligated 

to automatically adopt the regulation, 

are obligated to initiate the process of 

rulemaking in their respective 

jurisdictions. If a GTR is established, it 

is the agency’s policy to initiate 

domestic rulemaking to adopt its 

requirements, including a cost and 

benefit analysis specific to the U.S. This 

process provides further opportunity for 

the public to comment on our proposed 

regulation for consideration through the 

usual U.S. rulemaking process. 

In anticipation of the vote to establish 

a GTR for pedestrian safety, NHTSA is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties. The draft regulation and 

associated documents can be found in 

the docket for this notice and on the 

UNECE Web site.2

Issued on: September 17, 2008. 

Stephen R. Kratzke, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. E8–22330 Filed 9–23–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Ex Parte No. 290 (Sub-No. 5) (2008– 

4)] 

Quarterly Rail Cost Adjustment Factor 

AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Approval of rail cost adjustment 

factor. 

SUMMARY: The Board has approved the 

fourth quarter 2008 rail cost adjustment 

factor (RCAF) and cost index filed by 

the Association of American Railroads. 

The fourth quarter 2008 RCAF 

(Unadjusted) is 1.199. The fourth 

quarter 2008 RCAF (Adjusted) is 0.550. 

The fourth quarter 2008 RCAF–5 is 

0.520. 

DATES: Effective Date: October 1, 2008. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Pedro Ramirez, (202) 245–0333. [Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) for the 

hearing impaired: 1–800–877–8339.] 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Additional information is contained in 

the Board’s decision, which is available 

on our Web site http://www.stb.dot.gov. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through FIRS: 1–800–877– 

8339.] 

This action will not significantly 

affect either the quality of the human 

environment or energy conservation. 

Pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 605(b), we 

conclude that our action will not have 

a significant economic impact on a 

substantial number of small entities 

within the meaning of the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act. 

Decided: September 18, 2008. 

By the Board, Chairman Nottingham, Vice 

Chairman Mulvey, and Commissioner 

Buttrey. 

Anne K. Quinlan, 

Acting Secretary. 

[FR Doc. E8–22495 Filed 9–23–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4915–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

September 18, 2008. 

The Department of the Treasury will 

submit the following public information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 on or after the date 

of publication of this notice. Copies of 

the submission(s) may be obtained by 

calling the Treasury Bureau Clearance 

Officer listed. Comments regarding this 

information collection should be 

addressed to the OMB reviewer listed 

and to the Treasury Department 

Clearance Officer, Department of the 

Treasury, Room 11000, 1750 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20220. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before October 24, 2008 

to be assured of consideration. 

Financial Crimes Enforcement 

Network (FinCEN) 

OMB Number: 1506–0015. 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title: Suspicious Activity Report by 

Money Services Business. 

Form: FinCEN 109. 

Description: Regulations under 31 

CFR 103.20 require Money Services 

Business’s to report suspicious 


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