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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT–OST–2022–0016]
Non-Traditional and Emerging
Transportation Technology (NETT)
Council; Request for Comment
Office of the Secretary (OST),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
AGENCY:
The Office of the Secretary of
Transportation (OST) invites public
comment on projects, issues, or topics
that DOT should consider through the
Non-Traditional and Emerging
Transportation Technology (NETT)
Council. Public comments will inform
the Department’s future efforts with the
NETT Council.
DATES: Comments are requested by
April 8, 2022. See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section on ‘‘Public
Participation,’’ below, for more
information about written comments.
ADDRESSES:
Written Comments: Comments should
refer to the docket number above and be
submitted by one of the following
methods:
• Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://
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 https://
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 association, business, labor
union, etc.). You should not include
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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 https://
www.regulations.gov or to the street
address listed above. Follow the online
instructions for accessing the dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Please contact us at NETTCouncil@
dot.gov or David Carter (david.carter@
dot.gov, 202–366–4813) for questions.
Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
EST, Monday through Friday, except
Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section
25008 of the Infrastructure Investment
and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117–58) authorizes
the NETT Council to address
coordination on emerging technology
issues across all modes of
transportation. The NETT Council shall
(1) identify and resolve jurisdictional
and regulatory gaps or inconsistencies
associated with nontraditional and
emerging transportation technologies,
modes, or projects pending or brought
before the Department of Transportation
to reduce, to the maximum extent
practicable, impediments to the prompt
and safe deployment of new and
innovative transportation technology,
including with respect to safety
oversight, environmental review, and
funding and financing issues; (2)
coordinate the response of the
Department of Transportation to
nontraditional and emerging
transportation technology projects; (3)
engage with stakeholders in
nontraditional and emerging
transportation technology projects; and
(4) develop and establish Department of
Transportation-wide processes,
solutions, and best practices for
identifying and managing nontraditional
and emerging transportation technology
projects.
DOT is focused on improving safety,
economic strength and creating goodpaying jobs with the choice of a union,
equity, climate, and resilience. DOT is
also modernizing a transportation
system of the future through research
and innovation—all while maintaining
the highest standards in organizational
excellence. DOT is seeking public
comments to help inform the future
work and direction of the NETT
Council. The questions below are meant
to guide commenters; however,
commenters are invited to provide their
views or general comments related to
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how the Council evaluates
transportation innovation, and relevant
innovations for it to focus on. If
relevant, please provide technical
information, regulatory citations, data,
or other evidence to support your
comments.
The NETT Council’s Work
1. How can the NETT Council most
effectively serve as an entry point for
nontraditional and emerging innovation
and technologies ready for integration
into the transportation system?
2. What has worked well, and not
well, about the current structure and
activities of the NETT Council?
Considering a Range of Perspectives in
the NETT Council’s Analyses
3. How can the NETT Council best
incorporate the perspective of and
engage with other Federal agencies and
a broad range of stakeholders (e.g.,
academia, labor unions, state, local, and
tribal governments, private sector) to
fully understand potential issues and
opportunities related to transportation
innovation?
4. How can the NETT Council more
effectively reflect inputs from a broad
range of transportation stakeholders to
assess the positive and negative
consequences of transportation
innovation?
5. Are there additional stakeholders
the NETT Council’s analysis should
reflect?
6. Are there stakeholder groups that
have been marginalized in
transportation technology innovation
that should be better represented in the
NETT Council’s analysis and work?
Priority Technologies and Innovations
for the NETT Council To Review
7. Using DOT’s authorities, what
nontraditional and emerging innovation
and technologies should NETT Council
prioritize for analysis as most impactful,
positive or negative, for the
transportation system? What emerging
innovations have the most significant
potential impact on DOT’s strategic
goals of safety, economic strength &
global competitiveness, including
creating good-paying jobs, equity,
climate and sustainability,
transformation, and organizational
excellence?
8. What emerging innovations face
gaps in focus, support, and/or regulation
under DOT’s existing regulatory
frameworks, and should be reviewed by
the NETT Council?
9. What emerging transportation
technologies should the NETT Council
evaluate for their potential to contribute
to ensuring American workers and
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domestic sourcing and supply chains
are strengthened rather than weakened
through transportation innovation,
including advancing activities under the
President’s Made in America Executive
Order 14005, dated January 25, 2021,
and the President’s Executive Order
14017 on America’s Supply Chains,
dated February 24, 2021?
10. What other pressing issues,
challenges, and opportunities for
transportation innovation should be
addressed through the NETT 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.
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.
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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
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FOIA and will not include it in the
public docket. OST also requests that
submitters of Confidential Information
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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 https://www.regulations.gov.
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2022, under authority delegated at 49 CFR
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Vincent Gerard White Jr.,
Senior Advisor for Innovation.
Michael Paris Shapiro,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Office of the Secretary
[Docket No. DOT-OST-2022-0016]
Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology (NETT)
Council; Request for Comment
AGENCY: Office of the Secretary (OST), Department of Transportation
(DOT).
ACTION: Notice; request for comment.
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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary of Transportation (OST) invites
public comment on projects, issues, or topics that DOT should consider
through the Non-Traditional and Emerging Transportation Technology
(NETT) Council. Public comments will inform the Department's future
efforts with the NETT Council.
DATES: Comments are requested by April 8, 2022. See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section on ``Public Participation,'' below, for more
information about written comments.
ADDRESSES:
Written Comments: Comments should refer to the docket number above
and be submitted by one of the following methods:
Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://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 https://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 association,
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 https://www.regulations.gov or to the street
address listed above. Follow the online instructions for accessing the
dockets.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please contact us at
[email protected] or David Carter ([email protected], 202-366-
4813) for questions. Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., EST,
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 25008 of the Infrastructure
Investment and Jobs Act (Pub. L. 117-58) authorizes the NETT Council to
address coordination on emerging technology issues across all modes of
transportation. The NETT Council shall (1) identify and resolve
jurisdictional and regulatory gaps or inconsistencies associated with
nontraditional and emerging transportation technologies, modes, or
projects pending or brought before the Department of Transportation to
reduce, to the maximum extent practicable, impediments to the prompt
and safe deployment of new and innovative transportation technology,
including with respect to safety oversight, environmental review, and
funding and financing issues; (2) coordinate the response of the
Department of Transportation to nontraditional and emerging
transportation technology projects; (3) engage with stakeholders in
nontraditional and emerging transportation technology projects; and (4)
develop and establish Department of Transportation-wide processes,
solutions, and best practices for identifying and managing
nontraditional and emerging transportation technology projects.
DOT is focused on improving safety, economic strength and creating
good-paying jobs with the choice of a union, equity, climate, and
resilience. DOT is also modernizing a transportation system of the
future through research and innovation--all while maintaining the
highest standards in organizational excellence. DOT is seeking public
comments to help inform the future work and direction of the NETT
Council. The questions below are meant to guide commenters; however,
commenters are invited to provide their views or general comments
related to how the Council evaluates transportation innovation, and
relevant innovations for it to focus on. If relevant, please provide
technical information, regulatory citations, data, or other evidence to
support your comments.
The NETT Council's Work
1. How can the NETT Council most effectively serve as an entry
point for nontraditional and emerging innovation and technologies ready
for integration into the transportation system?
2. What has worked well, and not well, about the current structure
and activities of the NETT Council?
Considering a Range of Perspectives in the NETT Council's Analyses
3. How can the NETT Council best incorporate the perspective of and
engage with other Federal agencies and a broad range of stakeholders
(e.g., academia, labor unions, state, local, and tribal governments,
private sector) to fully understand potential issues and opportunities
related to transportation innovation?
4. How can the NETT Council more effectively reflect inputs from a
broad range of transportation stakeholders to assess the positive and
negative consequences of transportation innovation?
5. Are there additional stakeholders the NETT Council's analysis
should reflect?
6. Are there stakeholder groups that have been marginalized in
transportation technology innovation that should be better represented
in the NETT Council's analysis and work?
Priority Technologies and Innovations for the NETT Council To Review
7. Using DOT's authorities, what nontraditional and emerging
innovation and technologies should NETT Council prioritize for analysis
as most impactful, positive or negative, for the transportation system?
What emerging innovations have the most significant potential impact on
DOT's strategic goals of safety, economic strength & global
competitiveness, including creating good-paying jobs, equity, climate
and sustainability, transformation, and organizational excellence?
8. What emerging innovations face gaps in focus, support, and/or
regulation under DOT's existing regulatory frameworks, and should be
reviewed by the NETT Council?
9. What emerging transportation technologies should the NETT
Council evaluate for their potential to contribute to ensuring American
workers and
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domestic sourcing and supply chains are strengthened rather than
weakened through transportation innovation, including advancing
activities under the President's Made in America Executive Order 14005,
dated January 25, 2021, and the President's Executive Order 14017 on
America's Supply Chains, dated February 24, 2021?
10. What other pressing issues, challenges, and opportunities for
transportation innovation should be addressed through the NETT 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.
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
https://www.regulations.gov.
Issued in Washington, DC, on March 2, 2022, under authority
delegated at 49 CFR 1.25a.
Vincent Gerard White Jr.,
Senior Advisor for Innovation.
Michael Paris Shapiro,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy.
[FR Doc. 2022-04728 Filed 3-8-22; 8:45 am]
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