NTSB -- NTSB VOTES TO REVAMP IT'S MOST WANTED LIST PROCESS

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NTSB PRESS RELEASE

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National Transportation Safety Board

Washington, DC 20594

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 18, 2011

SB-11-09

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NTSB VOTES TO REVAMP IT'S MOST WANTED LIST PROCESS

Plans to modernize the decades old safety recommendations

program are underway

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Washington, DC - The National Transportation Safety Board

(NTSB) voted unanimously this week to change its Most Wanted

List Safety Recommendations Program Board Order. The Board

Order is an internal document that provides policy guidance

and establishes procedures for the identification,

development, selection and implementation of safety

recommendations on the NTSB's Most Wanted List.

"With this week's vote, the NTSB will begin a significant

transformation of one of our flagship programs, the Most

Wanted List," said NTSB Chairman Deborah A.P. Hersman. "For

the past 20 years, the Most Wanted List has spotlighted

certain critical transportation safety issues and the NTSB's

safety recommendations that would address them. It has been

one of the NTSB's most effective tools, but after 20 years,

it is in need of a face lift and procedural streamlining.

The Board has now paved the way for those important updates

to take place."

Currently, the list contains 56 individual recommendations,

many of which have been on the list for years. The new

Board Order stipulates that future lists would be limited to

a maximum of 10 issue areas, each supported by

recommendations, and that the formerly separate state and

federal Most Wanted Lists be combined into a single,

comprehensive list. Board Members each year will select the

issues for the Most Wanted List by a written voting process,

and the updated Most Wanted List will be unveiled in an

annual press conference.

"The beauty of this new process is the fact that the Most

Wanted List can be changed completely each and every year,

if the Board so chooses," Hersman said. "This will go a

long way to keeping the Moat Wanted List fresh, dynamic and

current for the next 20 years of its life."

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