[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 175 (Monday, September 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47544-47545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-22943]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Research and Development Programs Meeting Agenda

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, DOT.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice provides the agenda for a public meeting at which 
the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) will 
describe and discuss specific research and development projects.

DATES AND TIMES: As previously announced, NHTSA will hold a public 
meeting devoted primarily to presentations of specific research and 
development projects on September 11, 1996, beginning at 1:30 p.m. and 
ending at approximately 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESS: The meeting will be held at the Tysons Westpark Hotel, 8401 
Westpark Drive, McLean, Virginia 22102.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This notice provides the agenda for the 
fourteenth in a series of public meetings to provide detailed 
information about NHTSA's research and development programs. This 
meeting will be held on September 11, 1996. The meeting was announced 
on August 13, 1996 (61 FR 42083). For additional information about the 
meeting consult that announcement.
    Starting at 1:30 p.m. and concluding by 5:00 p.m., NHTSA's Office 
of Research and Development will discuss the following topics:

Air bag assessment research,
Status of ejection mitigation research,
Improved frontal crash protection--update on oblique moving barrier 
testing,
Preliminary estimates of safety benefits for ITS collision avoidance 
systems,
National Center for Statistics and Analysis information services,
National Accident Sampling System (NASS) status report,
Pedestrian special NASS study,
On-line tracking system for NHTSA's research projects.

    NHTSA has based its decisions about the agenda, in part, on the 
suggestions it received by August 22, 1996, in response to the 
announcement published August 13, 1996.
    As announced on August 13, 1996, in the time remaining at the 
conclusion of

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the presentations, NHTSA will provide answers to questions on its 
research and development programs, where those questions have been 
submitted in writing by 4:15 p.m. on August 29, 1996, to William A. 
Boehly, Associate Administrator for Research and Development, NRD-01, 
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, DC 20590. 
Fax number: 202-366-5930.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rita I. 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: September 4, 1996.
William A. Boehly,
Associate Administrator for Research and Development.
[FR Doc. 96-22943 Filed 9-6-96; 8:45 am]
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