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1Available at https://www.nhtsa.gov/sites/ 

nhtsa.dot.gov/files/documents/13069a-ads2.0_

090617_v9a_tag.pdf. 

Description of Relief Sought: To fully 

comply with the regulations for 

unusable fuel supply and flightcrew 

altering, a design improvement is 

needed to prevent an erroneous ‘‘Center 

Fuel Low’’ advisory message. A software 

update is required to correct the 

erroneous display of the message of the 

center fuel quantities above the level 

where center fuel pumps should be 

selected off. A time-limited exemption 

is sought to correct the issue without 

delay to the Boeing Model 767–2C 

certification. The exemption would be 

limited to a period ending on December 

31, 2019. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22407 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

Sunshine Act Meetings; Unified Carrier 

Registration Plan Board of Directors 

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Unified Carrier 

Registration Plan Board of Directors 

Meeting. 

TIME AND DATE: The meeting will be held 

on October 26, 2017, from 12:00 Noon 

to 3:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. 

PLACE: This meeting will be open to the 

public via conference call. Any 

interested person may call 1–877–422– 

1931, passcode 2855443940, to listen 

and participate in this meeting. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The Unified 

Carrier Registration Plan Board of 

Directors (the Board) will continue its 

work in developing and implementing 

the Unified Carrier Registration Plan 

and Agreement and, to that end, may 

consider matters properly before the 

Board. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Avelino Gutierrez, Chair, Unified 

Carrier Registration Board of Directors at 

(505) 827–4565. 

Issued on: October 12, 2017. 

Larry W. Minor, 

Associate Administrator, Office of Policy, 

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22580 Filed 10–13–17; 11:15 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2017–0086] 

Automated Driving Systems: Voluntary 

Safety Self-Assessments; Public 

Workshop 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Notice of public workshop. 

SUMMARY: On September 12, 2017, 

NHTSA published Automated Driving 

Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety. This 

voluntary guidance encourages entities 

involved in the testing and deployment 

of Automated Driving Systems on 

public roads to document for 

themselves how they are addressing 

safety. Further, the Guidance 

recommends that these same entities 

summarize their assessments and make 

it available to the public via Voluntary 

Safety Self-Assessments. NHTSA is 

announcing a public workshop to 

support entities that wish to make their 

self-assessment publicly available. The 

Agency emphasizes that the workshop 

is not intended to be a tutorial for a 

prescriptive document. NHTSA hopes 

to hear from entities if there are any 

challenges that would make it difficult 

for an entity to publicly disclose any 

portion of a Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment in a summary document, 

and discuss how those challenges might 

be overcome or mitigated. To provide 

the most benefit, this workshop will 

encourage active, focused participation. 

DATES: NHTSA will hold the public 

workshop on October 20, 2017, from 10 

a.m. to 3 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. 

Check-in will begin at 9 a.m. Attendees 

should arrive early enough to enable 

them to go through security by 9:50 a.m. 

The formal docket comment period will 

close on December 18, 2017, but the 

Agency will continue to accept 

comments to the docket. 

ADDRESSES: The public workshop will 

be held at DOT Headquarters, located at 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590 (Green Line 

Metro station at Navy Yard) in the 

[Oklahoma City Conference Room]. This 

facility is accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions about the public 

workshop, please contact NHTSA staff 

at av_info_nhtsa@dot.gov or Debbie 

Sweet at 202–366–7179. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Registration is necessary for all 

attendees. Attendees should register 

online at https://docs.google.com/forms/ 

d/e/1FAIpQLSeLcUn2Dw2fNWEa8f9z

Wh7NkleQgNv5GreVaP_I_Rv_sb6X8w/ 

viewform?usp=sf_link by October 17, 

2017. Please provide your name, email 

address, and affiliation. Also indicate 

whether you plan to participate actively 

in the workshop (speaking would be 

limited to 5 minutes per agenda topic), 

and whether you require 

accommodations such as a sign 

language interpreter. Space is limited, 

so advanced registration is highly 

encouraged. 

Docket: Docket NHTSA–2017–0086 is 

available for members of the public to 

submit written comments regarding the 

Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment as 

laid out in Automated Driving Systems 

2.0: A Vision for Safety. The formal 

docket comment period will close on 

December 18, 2017, but the Agency will 

continue to accept comments to the 

docket. For access to the docket, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov at any time 

or to 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, Washington, DC 20590, between 9 

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

Friday, except Federal Holidays. 

Telephone: 202–366–9826. 

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 the DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78), by 

visiting http://www.dot.gov/ 

privacy.html. 

Background 

On September 20, 2016, NHTSA 

released and published for comment the 

Federal Automated Vehicles Policy. The 

comment period officially closed on 

November 22, 2016, but comments were 

considered through February 16, 2017. 

NHTSA analyzed the docket comments, 

public meeting proceedings and other 

stakeholder discussions, Congressional 

hearings, and State activities and 

published on September 12, 2017, 

Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A 

Vision for Safety.1 This notice focuses 

on Section I of that document. 

Section 1: Voluntary Guidance for 

Automated Driving Systems (Voluntary 

Guidance) provides recommendations 

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consideration and discussion. This 

Voluntary Guidance includes no 

compliance requirement or enforcement 

mechanism. The purpose of this 

Voluntary Guidance is to support the 

industry as it develops best practices in 

the design, development, testing, and 

deployment of automated vehicle 

technologies. It is a non-regulatory 

approach to the safety of Automated 

Driving Systems (ADS) (SAE 

International automation Levels 3 

through 5—Conditional, High, and Full 

Automation Systems). 

NHTSA offers the Voluntary 

Guidance to help designers of ADSs 

analyze, identify, and resolve safety 

considerations prior to deployment 

using their own industry and other best 

practices. The Voluntary Guidance 

outlines 12 safety elements which the 

Agency believes represent the 

consensus across the industry, that are 

generally considered to be the most 

salient design aspects to consider and 

address when developing, testing, and 

deploying ADSs on public roadways. 

Among these elements are vehicle 

cybersecurity, human machine 

interface, crashworthiness, consumer 

education and training, and post-crash 

ADS behavior. Within each safety 

design element, entities are encouraged 

to consider and document their use of 

industry standards, best practices, 

company policies, or other methods 

they have employed to provide for 

increased system safety in real-world 

conditions. 

In addition, the Voluntary Guidance 

encourages entities engaged in testing 

and deployment to prepare and publicly 

disclose Voluntary Safety SelfAssessments of their systems 

demonstrating their varied approaches 

to achieving safety. The Voluntary 

Safety Self-Assessment is intended to 

communicate to the public (particularly 

States and consumers) that entities are: 

(1) Considering the safety aspects of 

ADSs; 

(2) communicating and collaborating 

with DOT; 

(3) encouraging the self-establishment 

of industry safety norms for ADSs; and 

(4) building public trust, acceptance, 

and confidence through transparent 

testing and deployment of ADSs. 

It also allows companies an 

opportunity to showcase their approach 

to safety, without needing to reveal 

proprietary intellectual property. 

NHTSA expects much of the work 

associated with the consideration of the 

12 safety elements in the Voluntary 

Guidance to be an extension of good and 

safe engineering practices already in 

place within an entity, therefore entities 

will have access to all the information 

needed to craft a Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment if they so choose. NHTSA 

envisions the Voluntary Safety SelfAssessments would contain concise 

summary information on these 

practices. 

Public Workshop Details 

With new information in the safety 

elements and a new means for 

disclosing an assessment summary to 

the public provided in Automated 

Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety, 

NHTSA is holding a public workshop to 

engage stakeholders and assist entities 

as they develop a Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment as well as clarify and 

address concerns for those entities 

looking to disclose such information to 

the public. 

The public workshop will include 

representatives from entities developing 

a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment, 

States looking to review Voluntary 

Safety Self-Assessments, members of the 

public interested in reading the 

Voluntary Safety Self-Assessments to 

understand the steps taken to address 

the safety of ADSs, and other Voluntary 

Safety Self-Assessment users. The open 

discussion among these interested 

parties will serve to assist in the 

development of the most broadly 

beneficial Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment. Discussion at the workshop 

will include: 

(1) How entities might summarize 

efforts they already undertake in 

addressing the safety elements provided 

in the Voluntary Guidance; 

(2) challenges entities face in 

developing their summary statements 

for the Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment and the means to overcome 

them; 

(3) information helpful to 

stakeholders looking to use the 

Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment; and 

(4) methods by which an entity may 

publicly disclose the Voluntary Safety 

Self-Assessment. 

A template of the types of summary 

information an entity might provide in 

a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment is 

provided below. The example is being 

provided as an effort to offer assistance 

in the development of a Voluntary 

Safety Self-Assessment and to guide 

discussion during the public workshop. 

This template illustrates the type of 

summary information that may be 

provided for the safety element of 

Crashworthiness, just one of the 12 

safety elements presented in the 

Voluntary Guidance. The details in the 

template are based on a fictitious 

vehicle and provided for illustration, 

guidance, and discussion purposes only. 

This fictitious vehicle is one that has 

received necessary exemptions from 

NHTSA. It is a Level 4 ride-share 

vehicle with four seats and two large 

doors. We are providing one safety 

element example for the template, 

however all safety elements are open for 

discussion at the public workshop. 

Stakeholders are encouraged to review 

this information and determine how this 

aligns with their ideas regarding the 

development of a Voluntary Safety SelfAssessment. 

Crashworthiness 

Structural Integrity 

• Summary of crash simulation 

scenarios, component testing, and 

physical tests. 

• Summary of bench marks for 

testing. 

Protection of Occupants in the Vehicle 

• Summary information about how 

the vehicle design leverages industry 

best practices and internal standards for 

crashworthiness. 

• If the vehicle contains a nontraditional seating configuration, 

include summary information related to 

the following: 

Æ Protection for the occupants 

expected to use the vehicle. 

Æ Testing and countermeasures 

related to crash impact protection and 

the impact directions considered. 

Æ If appropriate, discussion of 

methods related to rollover protection. 

• If the vehicle will transport 

children (those under age 12), a 

summary of child passenger safety 

measures to address: 

Æ Child occupant detection and 

accommodations; 

Æ Car seat use: Anchors, tethers, 

designated seat locations; and 

Æ Booster seat use and designated 

seat locations. 

Protection of Other Road Users 

• Summary information of how the 

vehicle considers crash forces from 

other road vehicles or the infrastructure. 

• Summary information of how the 

vehicle seeks to mitigate injuries to 

pedestrians and other vulnerable road 

users. 

The public workshop is formatted for 

active participation and open 

discussion. The intention is to seek 

input from stakeholders to provide the 

greatest assistance to entities to develop 

a Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment. 

NHTSA will begin the workshop with a 

presentation of the safety elements 

included in the Automated Driving 

Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety, the 

Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment and 

its content, and the template provided 


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in this notice. Participants should be 

prepared to discuss their reaction to the 

template. Further discussion at the 

public workshop may include other 

safety elements as well as public 

disclosure of the Voluntary Assessment. 

NHTSA will conduct the public 

workshop informally; thus, technical 

rules of evidence will not apply. We 

will arrange for a written transcript of 

the workshop. You may make 

arrangements for copies of the 

transcripts directly with the court 

reporter. The transcript will also be 

posted in the docket when it becomes 

available. 

Should it be necessary to cancel the 

workshop due to inclement weather or 

other emergency, NHTSA will take all 

available measures to notify registered 

participants. 

Draft Workshop Agenda 

9–10 a.m. Arrival/Check-In through 

Security 

10–10:10 a.m. Welcome/Important 

Notices 

10:10–10:30 a.m. NHTSA Presentation 

10:30–12 a.m. Presentation by 

Stakeholder Representatives 

12 a.m.–1 p.m. Lunch (not provided) 

1–1:45 p.m. Open Discussion Regarding 

Challenges to Disclosure 

1:45–2:30 p.m. Open Discussion 

Regarding Approaches to Public 

Disclosure 

2:30–2:50 p.m. Open Discussion 

2:50–3 p.m. Closing Remarks/Adjourn 

Issued in Washington, DC, under authority 

delegated by 49 CFR 1.95. 

Nathaniel Beuse, 

Associate Administrator for Vehicle Safety 

Research. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22058 Filed 10–16–17; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on continuing 

information collections, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before December 18, 2017 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to L. Brimmer, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224, or 

at Elaine.H.Christophe@irs.gov. 

Please send separate comments for 

each specific information collection 

listed below. You must reference the 

information collection’s title, form 

number, reporting or record-keeping 

requirement number, and OMB number 

(if any) in your comment. Requests for 

additional information, or copies of the 

information collection and instructions, 

or copies of any comments received, 

contact Elaine Christophe, at Internal 

Revenue Service, Room 6526, 1111 

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, 

DC 20224, or through the internet, at 

Elaine.H.Christophe@irs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Request for Comments 

The Internal Revenue Service, as part 

of their continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invite the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on these 

continuing information collections 

listed below in this notice, as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in our 

request for Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval of the relevant 

information collection. All comments 

will become a matter of public record. 

Please do not include any confidential 

or inappropriate material in your 

comments. We invite comments on: (a) 

Whether the collection of information is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the agency’s functions, including 

whether the information has practical 

utility; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide the requested information. 

The IRS is seeking comments 

concerning the following forms, and 

reporting and record-keeping 

requirements: 

1. Title: Request for Change in Plan/ 

Trust Year. 

OMB Number: 1545–0201. 

Form Number: 5308. 

Abstract: Form 5308 is used to request 

permission to change the plan or trust 

year for a pension benefit plan. The 

information submitted is used in 

determining whether IRS should grant 

permission for the change. 

Current Actions: There are no changes 

being made to the form at this time. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

480. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 42 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 339. 

2. Title: Disclosure of Tax Return 

Information for Purposes of Quality or 

Peer Reviews, Disclosure of Tax Return 

Information Due to Incapacity or Death 

of Tax Return Preparer. 

OMB Number: 1545–1209. 

Regulation Project Number: TD 8383 

(Final). 

Abstract: These regulations govern the 

circumstances under which tax return 

information may be disclosed for 

purposes of conducting quality or peer 

reviews, and disclosures that are 

necessary because of the tax return 

preparer’s death or incapacity. 

Current Actions: There is no change to 

this existing regulation. 

Type of Review: Extension of 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

250,000. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 1 

hour. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 250,000. 

3. Title: Limitations on Credit or 

Refund. 

OMB Number: 1545–1649. 

Revenue Procedure Number: Revenue 

Procedure 99–21. 

Abstract: Generally, under section 

6511(a), a taxpayer must file a claim for 

credit or refund of tax within three years 

after the date of filing a tax return or 

within two years after the date of 

payment of the tax, whichever period 

expires later. Under section 6511(h), the 

statute of limitations on claims for 

credit or refund is suspended for any 

period of an individual taxpayer’s life 

during which the taxpayer is unable to 

manage his or her financial affairs 

because of a medically determinable 

mental or physical impairment, if the 

impairment can be expected to result in 

death, or has lasted (or can be expected 

to last) for a continuous period of not 

less than 12 months. 


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