The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) announces a series of Public Listening Sessions to solicit input on ways the FMCSA can improve its process of monitoring and assessing the safety of the motor carrier industry and how that information should be presented to the public. FMCSA is calling this effort the Comprehensive Safety Analysis 2010 Initiative. Through its current compliance review process, FMCSA is able to conduct compliance reviews on only a small percentage of the 675,000 active interstate motor carriers. The FMCSA is looking for ways to improve monitoring of motor carriers, to make agency processes more efficient, and to expand its enforcement and compliance reach in the regulated community in order to improve FMCSA's ability to meet its goal of significantly reducing crashes, fatalities, and injuries involving large trucks and buses.

Dates and Locations: The Public Listening Sessions will be held from 9 a.m. until 4 p.m. on the following dates at the following locations:

Session 1: September 21, 2004
Doubletree Hotel, Mission Valley, 7450 Hazard Center Drive,
San Diego, California.

Session 2: September 28, 2004
Sheraton Atlanta, 165 Courtland Street at International Blvd,
Atlanta, Georgia.

Session 3: October 5, 2004
Hampton Inn & Suites Dallas/Mesquite, 1700 Rodeo Drive,
Mesquite, Texas.

Session 4: October 12, 2004
Wyndham Chicago, 633 North St. Clair,
Chicago, IL.

Session 5: October 19, 2004
Fairview Park Marriot, 3111 Fairview Park Drive,
Falls Church, VA.

Session 6: October 26, 2004
Sheraton Springfield, One Monarch Place,
Springfield, MA.

Registration for each session will be limited. For more information or to register to attend or speak at the Public Listening Sessions, please follow one of two methods:

1. Go online to: www.Acteva.com/go/FMCSA and fill in the necessary information. You will be asked for information such as your name, title, organization, mailing address and which session you wish to attend; or
2. Telephone Touchstone Consulting, Inc. in Washington, DC at (202) 449-7354 and a person will register you over the phone.

Please note that registration for the Public Listening Sessions will open at 9 a.m. EDT on August 30, 2004 and will end at 5 p.m. EDT on the Tuesday preceding each session. For example, registration for the October 26, 2004 Public Listening Session will close 5 p.m. EDT Tuesday October 19, 2004. Registration at each Public Listening Session will be limited to the first people to sign up. You will be asked for identification at the welcome table at the event. Lunch will be served. All attendees will be encouraged to participate during the Public Listening Session discussion periods.

For general information about this initiative, contact Mr. William Quade, (202) 366-2172, FMCSA, Office of Enforcement and Compliance, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590. Or send email to William.quade@fmcsa.dot.gov.

If you wish to submit comments on CSA 2010, or want more details, visit the DOT Docket Management System, http://dms.dot.gov/search/document.cfm?documentid=293367&docketid=18898.