[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 145 (Tuesday, July 28, 2020)]
[Notices]
[Pages 45468-45469]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-16317]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. DOT-OST-2020-0112]


Request for Comment; Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation 
Technology Council; Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation 
Technology (NETT) Council

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation 
(DOT).

ACTION: Request for comment.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) invites 
public comment on the document, Pathways to the Future of 
Transportation. The pathways document is intended to help readers 
understand the purposes of the Non-Traditional and Emerging 
Transportation Technology (NETT) Council and its methods of operation; 
the principles informing the Department policies in transformative 
technologies; the high-level overview of the framework for non-
traditional and emerging technologies; how the NETT Council will engage 
with innovators and entrepreneurs to enhance the Nation's 
transportation system; and the next steps of the NETT Council. The 
pathways document is available at www.transportation.gov/nettcouncil.

DATES: Comments are requested by September 28, 2020. See the 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section on ``Public Participation,'' below, 
for more information about written comments.
    Written Comments: Comments should refer to the docket number above 
and be submitted by one of the following methods:
     Federal Rulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments.
     Mail: Docket Management Facility, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building Ground Floor, 
Room W12-140, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
     Hand Delivery: 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building 
Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Washington, DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. 
ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal Holidays.
    Instructions: For detailed instructions on submitting comments and 
additional information on the rulemaking process, see the Public 
Participation heading of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of this 
document. Note that all comments received will be posted without change 
to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information 
provided.
    Privacy Act: Except as provided below, all comments received into 
the docket will be made public in their entirety. The comments will be 
searchable by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or 
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an associations, 
business, labor union, etc.). You should not include information in 
your comment that you do not want to be made public. You may review 
DOT's complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published 
on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477-78) or at https://www.transportation.gov/privacy.
    Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or 
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov or to the street 
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the 
dockets.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For policy issues, please email 
NETTCouncil@dot.gov or contact Philip Sung at 202-366-0442. For legal 
issues, please contact Sean Ford at 202-366-1841. Office hours are from 
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., EST, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 
    Pathways for the Future of Transportation clarifies the purposes of 
the NETT Council and its methods of operation; lays the principles 
informing the Department policies in transformative technologies; 
provides a high-level overview of the regulatory framework for non-
traditional and emerging technologies; proposes how innovators and 
entrepreneurs can engage the NETT Council to enhance the Nation's 
transportation system; and provides the next steps of the NETT Council. 
The pathways document is available at www.transportation.gov/nettcouncil.
    The USDOT views the pathways document as laying the groundwork for 
emerging transportation technologies. To ensure that future work and 
next iterations are helpful and directly address the concerns of 
stakeholders, the USDOT is seeking public comments on the document and 
the next steps for the NETT Council. The Department plans to use any 
significant comments to inform the future work and direction of the 
Council.

Public Participation

How do I prepare and submit comments?

    Your comments must be written in English. To ensure that your 
comments are filed correctly in the docket, please include the docket 
number of this document in your comments.

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    Please submit one copy (two copies if submitting by mail or hand 
delivery) of your comments, including the attachments, to the docket 
following the instructions given above under ADDRESSES. Please note, if 
you are submitting comments electronically as a PDF (Adobe) file, we 
ask that the documents submitted be scanned using an Optical Character 
Recognition (OCR) process, thus allowing the agency to search and copy 
certain portions of your submissions.

How do I submit confidential business information?

    Any submissions containing Confidential Information must be 
delivered to OST in the following manner:
     Submitted in a sealed envelope marked ``confidential 
treatment requested'';
     Document(s) or information that the submitter would like 
withheld should be marked ``PROPIN''; Accompanied by an index listing 
the document(s) or information that the submitter would like the 
Departments to withhold. The index should include information such as 
numbers used to identify the relevant document(s) or information, 
document title and description, and relevant page numbers and/or 
section numbers within a document; and
     Submitted with a statement explaining the submitter's 
grounds for objecting to disclosure of the information to the public.
    OST will treat such marked submissions as confidential under the 
FOIA, and will not include it in the public docket. OST also requests 
that submitters of Confidential Information include a non-confidential 
version (either redacted or summarized) of those confidential 
submissions in the public docket. In the event that the submitter 
cannot provide a non-confidential version of its submission, OST 
requests that the submitter post a notice in the docket stating that it 
has provided OST with Confidential Information. Should a submitter fail 
to docket either a non-confidential version of its submission or to 
post a notice that Confidential Information has been provided, we will 
note the receipt of the submission on the docket, with the submitter's 
organization or name (to the degree permitted by law) and the date of 
submission.

Will the agency consider late comments?

    OST will consider all comments received before the close of 
business on the comment closing date indicated above under DATES. To 
the extent possible, the Agency will also consider comments received 
after that date.

How can I read the comments submitted by other people?

    You may read the comments received at the address given above under 
Written Comments. The hours of the docket are indicated above in the 
same location. You may also see the comments on the internet, 
identified by the docket number at the heading of this notice, at 
http://www.regulations.gov.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on July 23, 2020 under authority 
delegated at 49 CFR 1.25a.
Finch Fulton,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Transportation Policy.
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