Solicitation of Comments for the Content of a Strategic Plan for Research for Heavy Truck Safety

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Report 103-310 of the Senate Appropriations Committee, which accompanied H.R. 4556, Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill 1995, directs the NHTSA to develop a 5- year strategic plan outlining the future of its Heavy Truck Safety Research Program. The report is to be delivered to the House and Senate Appropriations Committee before the agency's FY 1996 Appropriations Committee hearings. The Committee directed that the report outline the scope, nature, and direction [[Page 4470]] of a revitalized Heavy Truck Safety Research Program, which is to be developed in consultation with the American Trucking Association, the FHWA Office of Motor Carriers and the Motor Vehicle Safety Research Advisory Committee. In the recent past, the NHTSA Heavy Vehicle Research Program has followed a research plan which was developed in response to the requirements of Sections 216 and 217 of the Motor Carrier Safety Act of 1984. Significant portions of that work have not been completed. This new plan will define the research work the Agency will undertake on the subject of heavy vehicle safety, in the near and longer term. Interested parties are invited to propose either broa