80 FR 19399 - Retooling Recalls Workshop

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 69 (April 10, 2015)

Page Range		19399-19399
FR Document		2015-08257

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is announcing a workshop that will be held in Washington, DC on April 28, 2015 to discuss options to improve vehicle safety recall completion rates. The workshop will include brief NHTSA presentations outlining recent agency activities aimed at improving recall completion rates as well as recent examples of steps vehicle manufacturers have taken. Information on the date, time, location, and framework for this public event is included in this notice. Attendance requires prior registration; there will be no registration at the door. There are no fees to register or to attend this event.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration


Retooling Recalls Workshop

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), 
Department of Transportation (DOT).

ACTION: Announcement of public workshop.

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SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is 
announcing a workshop that will be held in Washington, DC on April 28, 
2015 to discuss options to improve vehicle safety recall completion 
rates. The workshop will include brief NHTSA presentations outlining 
recent agency activities aimed at improving recall completion rates as 
well as recent examples of steps vehicle manufacturers have taken. 
Information on the date, time, location, and framework for this public 
event is included in this notice. Attendance requires prior 
registration; there will be no registration at the door. There are no 
fees to register or to attend this event.

DATES: The workshop will be held on April 28, 2015, at the location 
indicated in the ADDRESSES section below. The workshop will start at 
9:00 a.m. and is scheduled to continue until 5:00 p.m., local time. If 
you would like to register to attend the workshop, please contact the 
person identified under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT no later than 
April 21, 2015. Registrations may be accepted after that date, space 
permitting.

ADDRESSES: The April 28, 2015 workshop will be held in the Media Center 
of the U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 
Washington, DC 20590.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you would like to attend the 
workshop, please contact Heather Laca by the date specified under DATES 
section above, at: Telephone (202) 366-2775; email address: 
heather.laca@dot.gov. Please provide her with the following 
information: Name, title, affiliation, address, email address, and 
telephone number, and indicate whether you require accommodations such 
as a sign language interpreter or translator. If you are not a U.S. 
citizen, also provide your country of citizenship, date of birth, title 
or position, and passport or diplomatic ID number, along with 
expiration date.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA is hosting a public workshop to 
discuss options to improve vehicle safety recall completion rates.
    NHTSA marked a record year in 2014, with the highest number of 
vehicle recalls in more than three decades. Last year alone, there were 
803 vehicle recalls involving 63.9 million vehicles, including two of 
the largest vehicle recalls in history.
    The sessions will focus on public education of the recall process; 
customer and dealership outreach; parts production challenges and 
recall repair rates. The input gathered by the working groups will be 
used to identify best practices and new approaches for improving the 
recall process.
    Workshop Procedures. NHTSA will conduct the workshop informally. 
Thus, technical rules of evidence will not apply. The workshop will 
include brief presentations and panel discussions with representatives 
from NHTSA, automobile manufacturers, suppliers, and dealers. There 
will be opportunities for attendees to ask questions of NHTSA and of 
the panelists.
    To attend this workshop, please register with NHTSA by the date 
specified under the DATES section above by sending the required 
information to the person listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section. Registration is necessary for security and space limitation 
reasons. After registration, NHTSA will send attendees follow-up 
information regarding workshop day logistics (i.e., directions to the 
building, parking accommodations, etc.).
    For security purposes, photo identification is required to enter 
the Department of Transportation building. To allow sufficient time to 
clear security and enter the building, NHTSA recommends that workshop 
participants arrive 30 to 60 minutes prior to the start of the event.

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30118-30120; 49 U.S.C. 30181-30182; 49 CFR 
573 and 577.

    Dated: April 3, 2015.
Mark R. Rosekind,
Administrator.
[FR Doc. 2015-08257 Filed 4-9-15; 8:45 am]
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subject to change. Current information require accommodations such as a sign DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
is available on the FTA public Web site. language interpreter or translator. If you
The FTA did not receive any are not a U.S. citizen, also provide your Surface Transportation Board
substantive comments on these country of citizenship, date of birth, title [Docket No. FD 35908]
appendices. or position, and passport or diplomatic
Therese W. McMillan, ID number, along with expiration date. Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad
Company—Trackage Rights
Acting Administrator. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NHTSA is Exemption—Norfolk Southern Railway
[FR Doc. 2015–08246 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am] hosting a public workshop to discuss Company
BILLING CODE P options to improve vehicle safety recall
completion rates. Norfolk Southern Railway Company
(NSR), pursuant to a written trackage
DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION NHTSA marked a record year in 2014, rights agreement (Agreement) 1 dated
with the highest number of vehicle February 1, 2015, has agreed to grant
National Highway Traffic Safety recalls in more than three decades. Last non-exclusive, overhead trackage rights
Administration year alone, there were 803 vehicle to Nittany and Bald Eagle Railroad
recalls involving 63.9 million vehicles, Company (N&BE) over NSR’s line of
Retooling Recalls Workshop including two of the largest vehicle railroad between milepost BR 194.2 at
AGENCY: National Highway Traffic recalls in history. Lock Haven, Pa., and milepost BR 139.2
Safety Administration (NHTSA), The sessions will focus on public at Driftwood, Pa., a distance of 55
Department of Transportation (DOT). education of the recall process; miles.2
customer and dealership outreach; parts The transaction may be consummated
ACTION: Announcement of public
production challenges and recall repair on or after April 26, 2015, the effective
workshop. date of the exemption (30 days after the
rates. The input gathered by the working
SUMMARY: The National Highway Traffic verified notice of exemption was filed).
groups will be used to identify best The purpose of the trackage rights is to
Safety Administration (NHTSA) is practices and new approaches for
announcing a workshop that will be allow N&BE to operate bridge train
improving the recall process. service for certain seasonal traffic.
held in Washington, DC on April 28,
2015 to discuss options to improve Workshop Procedures. NHTSA will As a condition to this exemption, any
vehicle safety recall completion rates. conduct the workshop informally. Thus, employees affected by the acquisition of
The workshop will include brief technical rules of evidence will not the trackage rights will be protected by
NHTSA presentations outlining recent apply. The workshop will include brief the conditions imposed in Norfolk &
agency activities aimed at improving presentations and panel discussions Western Railway—Trackage Rights—
recall completion rates as well as recent with representatives from NHTSA, Burlington Northern, Inc., 354 I.C.C. 605
examples of steps vehicle manufacturers automobile manufacturers, suppliers, (1978), as modified in Mendocino Coast
and dealers. There will be opportunities Railway, Inc.—Lease & Operate—
have taken. Information on the date,
for attendees to ask questions of NHTSA California Western Railroad, 360 I.C.C.
time, location, and framework for this
and of the panelists. 653 (1980), and any employees affected
public event is included in this notice.
by the discontinuance of those trackage
Attendance requires prior registration; To attend this workshop, please rights will be protected by the
there will be no registration at the door. register with NHTSA by the date conditions set out in Oregon Short Line
There are no fees to register or to attend specified under the DATES section above Railroad—Abandonment Portion
this event. by sending the required information to Goshen Branch Between Firth &
DATES: The workshop will be held on the person listed in the FOR FURTHER Ammon, in Bingham & Bonneville
April 28, 2015, at the location indicated INFORMATION CONTACT section. Counties, Idaho, 360 I.C.C. 91 (1979).
in the ADDRESSES section below. The Registration is necessary for security This notice is filed under 49 CFR
workshop will start at 9:00 a.m. and is and space limitation reasons. After 1180.2(d)(7). If the notice contains false
scheduled to continue until 5:00 p.m., registration, NHTSA will send attendees or misleading information, the
local time. If you would like to register follow-up information regarding exemption is void ab initio. Petitions to
to attend the workshop, please contact workshop day logistics (i.e., directions revoke the exemption under 49 U.S.C.
the person identified under FOR FURTHER to the building, parking 10502(d) may be filed at any time. The
INFORMATION CONTACT no later than April filing of a petition to revoke will not
accommodations, etc.).
21, 2015. Registrations may be accepted automatically stay the effectiveness of
after that date, space permitting. For security purposes, photo the exemption. Petitions for stay must
ADDRESSES: The April 28, 2015
identification is required to enter the be filed no later than April 17, 2015 (at
workshop will be held in the Media Department of Transportation building. least 7 days before the exemption
Center of the U.S. Department of To allow sufficient time to clear security becomes effective).
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey and enter the building, NHTSA
Avenue SE., Washington, DC 20590. recommends that workshop participants 1 A redacted version of the Agreement between

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
arrive 30 to 60 minutes prior to the start NSR and N&BE was filed with the notice of
exemption. N&BE simultaneously filed a motion for
you would like to attend the workshop, of the event. protective order to protect the confidential and
commercially sensitive information contained in
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please contact Heather Laca by the date Authority: 49 U.S.C. 30118–30120; 49
the unredacted version of the Agreement, which
specified under DATES section above, at: U.S.C. 30181–30182; 49 CFR 573 and 577. N&BE submitted under seal in this proceeding. That
Telephone (202) 366–2775; email Dated: April 3, 2015. motion will be addressed in a separate decision.
address: heather.laca@dot.gov. Please 2 N&BE was previously authorized non-exclusive,
Mark R. Rosekind, temporary, overhead trackage rights over the 55
provide her with the following
Administrator. miles of rail line that expired on December 30,
information: Name, title, affiliation, 2014. See Nittany & Bald Eagle R.R.—Temp.
address, email address, and telephone [FR Doc. 2015–08257 Filed 4–9–15; 8:45 am]
Trackage Rights Exemption—Norfolk S. Ry., FD
number, and indicate whether you BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 35793, (STB served Feb. 7, 2014).

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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Announcement of public workshop.
Dates		The workshop will be held on April 28, 2015, at the location
Contact		If you would like to attend the workshop, please contact Heather Laca by the date specified under DATES
FR Citation		80 FR 19399

80 FR 19399 - Retooling Recalls Workshop

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATIONNational Highway Traffic Safety Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 69 (April 10, 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
National Highway Traffic Safety Administration