[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 234 (Wednesday, December 5, 2012)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 72296-72297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-29369]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
49 CFR Part 571
[Docket No. NHTSA-2012-0175]
Public Meeting of the U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council
(RCC) Motor Vehicles Working Group
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), DOT.
ACTION: Announcement of public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation Council (RCC) was
created on February 4, 2011. After private sector consultations and
bilateral negotiations, the RCC released the Joint Action Plan on
Regulatory Cooperation on December 7, 2011. The Joint Action Plan is a
practical first step to increased regulatory cooperation between the
United States and Canada. In order to implement the initiatives
identified in the Joint Action Plan, bilateral working groups led by
senior officials from regulatory agencies have developed work plans
with concrete objectives, deliverables and milestones for tangible
progress within the RCC's two-year mandate. On January 30 and 31, 2012,
the RCC and its bi-national working groups facilitated stakeholder
meetings in Washington, DC. This notice announces a public meeting of
the RCC Motor Vehicles Working Group.
DATES: The public meeting will be held on January 15, 2013. The meeting
will start at 9:30 a.m. and continue until 4:30 p.m., local time, or
until all registered speakers have been heard.
ADDRESSES: The January 15, 2013 public meeting will be held at the
Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building, 11th Floor, 477 Michigan Ave.,
Detroit, MI 48226. The meeting site is accessible to individuals with
disabilities.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you would like to attend the public
meeting, please contact Mr. Christopher Morris, NHTSA Office of
Rulemaking, by email at christopher.morris@dot.gov, by telephone at
(202) 493-2218, or by fax at (202) 366-5930. Please contact Mr. Morris
at least ten days before the meeting date of January 15, 2013. Please
provide the following information: Name, affiliation, address, email
address, and telephone number.
For other questions regarding the RCC Motor Vehicles Working Group,
you may contact Mr. Ezana Wondimneh, Chief of the NHTSA International
Harmonization Division in the U.S., by
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email at ezana.wondimneh@dot.gov, by telephone at (202) 366-0846, or by
fax at (202) 366-5930, or Mr. Merz Rustom, Director, Motor Vehicle
Standards, Research and Development at Transport Canada, by email at
merz.rustom@tc.gc.ca, by telephone at (613) 998-2268, or by fax at
(613) 990-2913.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.-Canada Regulatory Cooperation
Council was created on February 4, 2011. After private sector
consultations and bilateral negotiations, the RCC released the Joint
Action Plan on Regulatory Cooperation on December 7, 2011. For more
information on the Joint Action Plan on Regulatory Cooperation, see
http://www.trade.gov/rcc/rcc-summary.asp. The Joint Action Plan is a
practical first step to increased regulatory cooperation between the
United States and Canada. In order to implement the initiatives
identified in the Joint Action Plan, bilateral working groups led by
senior officials from regulatory agencies have developed work plans
with concrete objectives, deliverables and milestones for tangible
progress within the RCC's two-year mandate. On January 30 and 31, 2012,
the RCC and its bi-national working groups facilitated stakeholder
meetings in Washington, DC.
The January 15, 2013 public meeting is being held pursuant to the
RCC Motor Vehicles Working Group Work Plan. For more information on the
Work Plans, see http://www.trade.gov/rcc/documents/Existing-Motor-Vehicle-Safety-Standards.pdf, or http://www.trade.gov/rcc/ for future
Work Plans.
Public Meeting Procedures. The public meeting provides a forum for
the public to speak about topics within the mandate of the RCC Motor
Vehicles Working Group. In order to comply with the occupancy limits of
the meeting space, attendance is limited to 100 persons, and pre-
registration is required. For space reasons, it is asked that you
consider limiting your company's or association's delegation to 3-5
persons. If you would like to attend the public meeting as a speaker or
as an observer, please contact the person identified under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT at least ten days before the hearing. Depending on
the available space, registration for persons attending the public
hearing as observers may be accepted after that date.
For planning purposes, each speaker should anticipate speaking for
approximately ten minutes, although we may need to shorten that time if
a large number of people wish to make presentations. Once we learn how
many people have registered to speak at the meeting, we will allocate
an appropriate amount of time to each participant, allowing time for
necessary breaks. In addition, we will reserve a block of time for
anyone else in the audience who wishes to give an oral presentation.
We request that you bring three copies of your statement or other
material to the meeting. To accommodate as many speakers as possible,
we prefer that speakers not use any audio-visual aids or computer
slideshows; however, if you plan to use such aids, you must provide
those materials in advance of the meeting and notify the contact person
in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section above.
NHTSA and Transport Canada will conduct the meeting informally.
Presenters wishing to provide supplementary information should submit
it to the contact person in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section
above.
For security purposes, government-issued photo identification is
required to enter the Patrick V. McNamara Federal Building. Non-U.S.
citizens may be required to show passports. To allow sufficient time to
clear security and enter the building, NHTSA recommends that
participants arrive 30 to 60 minutes prior to the start of the event,
and that luggage, laptop computers, and personal effects be kept to a
minimum.
Christopher J. Bonanti,
Associate Administrator for Rulemaking.
[FR Doc. 2012-29369 Filed 12-4-12; 8:45 am]
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