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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 78, No. 249 

Friday, December 27, 2013 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Pacific Southwest Recreation 

Resource Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Pacific Southwest 

Recreation Resource Advisory 

Committee (Recreation RAC) will meet 

in San Bernardino, California. The 

Recreation RAC is authorized under the 

Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement 

Act (REA) (Pub. L. 108–447) and 

operates in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (Pub. 

L. 92–463). Additional information 

concerning the Recreation RAC can be 

found by visiting the Recreation RAC’s 

Web site at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/ 

main/r5/recreation/racs. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on the 

following dates: 

• Wednesday, January 15, 2014–10:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 

• Thursday, January 16, 2014–9:00 a.m. 

to 3:00 p.m. (meeting could end 

earlier) 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the San Bernardino National Forest 

Supervisor’s Office, 602 S. Tippecanoe 

Avenue, San Bernardino, California. 

Written comments may be submitted as 

described under Supplementary 

Information. All comments, including 

names and addresses, when provided, 

are placed in the record and available 

for public inspection and copying. The 

public may inspect comments received 

at the Region 5 Pacific Southwest 

Regional Office. Please call ahead to 

Ramiro Villalvazo, at 707–562–8856 to 

facilitate entry into the building. 

Attendees may participate via 

conference call. For anyone who would 

like to attend via conference call, please 

contact Ramiro Villalvazo at 

rvillalvazo@fs.fed.us or visit the Web 

site listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ramiro Villalvazo, Designated Federal 

Official, Region 5 Pacific Southwest 

Regional Office, by phone at 707–562– 

8856, or by email at 

rvillalvazo@fs.fed.us. Individuals who 

use telecommunication devices for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 

8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, 

Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. The 

purpose of the meeting is to: 

1. provide proposed fee changes for 

standard amenity recreation fee areas on 

the Angeles, Cleveland, Los Padres and 

San Bernardino National Forests, 

2. review and make recommendations 

on the change in fee structure for Camp 

Discovery Group Campground, and 

3. provide a fee increase at one site in 

Sycamore Grove Campground on the 

Mendocino National Forest. 

The agenda will include time for 

people to make oral statements of three 

minutes or less. Individuals wishing to 

make an oral statement should submit a 

request in writing by January 8, 2014 to 

be scheduled on the agenda. Anyone 

who would like to bring related matters 

to the attention of the Recreation RAC 

may file written statements with the 

Recreation RAC staff by January 8, 2014. 

Written comments and time requests for 

oral comments must be sent to Ramiro 

Villalvazo, 1323 Club Drive, Vallejo, 

California 94592, or by email to 

rvillalvazo@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to 

707–562–9047. A summary of the 

meeting will be posted on the Web site 

listed above within 21 days after the 

meeting. 

Meeting Accommodations: If you are 

a person requiring reasonable 

accommodation, please make requests 

in advance for sign language 

interpreting, assistive listening devices 

or other reasonable accommodation for 

access to the facility or proceedings by 

contacting the person listed in the 

section titled For Further Information 

Contact. All reasonable accommodation 

requests are managed on a case by case 

basis. 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

David Scholes, 

Designated Federal Official. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31005 Filed 12–26–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: January 30, 2014, 6:30 

p.m.–9:00 p.m. PST. 

PLACE: Brodniak Auditorium, Anacortes 

High School; 1600 20th St. Anacortes, 

WA 98221. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: The 

Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board (CSB) will convene 

a public meeting on January 30, 2014, 

starting at 6:30 p.m. PST at the Brodniak 

Auditorium, Anacortes High School, 

1600 20th St., Anacortes, WA 98221. 

At the public meeting, the Board will 

consider and vote on the final 

investigation report into the April 2, 

2010, explosion and fire that fatally 

injured seven employees. The CSB’s 

investigation found that at the time of 

the incident a bank of heat exchangers 

was being brought online in the 

refinery’s naphtha hydrotreater unit 

when another heat exchanger in a 

parallel bank catastrophically failed, 

spewing highly flammable hydrogen 

and naphtha which ignited. Seven 

Tesoro workers who were nearby, 

assisting with the heat exchanger 

startup, were fatally burned. The 

accident at Tesoro was the most deadly 

U.S. refinery incident since the 2005 

explosion at BP Texas City that killed 15 

workers and injured 180 others. 

At the meeting, CSB staff will present 

to the Board the results of the 

investigation findings and safety 

recommendations. 

Following the staff presentation on 

proposed findings and safety 

recommendations, the Board will hear 

comments from the public. 

Following the conclusion of the 

public comment period, the Board will 

consider whether to approve the final 

report and recommendations. All staff 

presentations are preliminary and are 

intended solely to allow the Board to 

consider in a public forum the issues 

and factors involved in this case. No 

factual analyses, conclusions, or 

findings presented by staff should be 

considered final. 

Only after the Board has considered 

the staff presentations, listened to 

public comments, and adopted a final 

investigation report and 

recommendations will there be an 


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approved final record of the CSB 

investigation of this incident. 

Additional Information 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. If you require a translator or 

interpreter, please notify the individual 

listed below as the ‘‘Contact Person for 

Further Information,’’ at least five 

business days prior to the meeting. 

The CSB is an independent federal 

agency charged with investigating 

accidents and hazards that result, or 

may result, in the catastrophic release of 

extremely hazardous substances. The 

agency’s Board Members are appointed 

by the President and confirmed by the 

Senate. CSB investigations look into all 

aspects of chemical accidents and 

hazards, including physical causes such 

as equipment failure as well as 

inadequacies in regulations, industry 

standards, and safety management 

systems. 

Public Comment 

Members of the public are invited to 

make brief statements to the Board at 

the conclusion of the staff presentation. 

The time provided for public statements 

will depend upon the number of people 

who wish to speak. Speakers should 

assume that their presentations will be 

limited to five minutes or less, and may 

submit written statements for the 

record. 

Contact Person for Further Information 

Hillary J. Cohen, Communications 

Manager, hillary.cohen@csb.gov or (202) 

446–8094. General information about 

the CSB can be found on the agency 

Web site at: www.csb.gov. 

Dated: December 23, 2013. 

Rafael Moure-Eraso, 

Chairperson. 

[FR Doc. 2013–31111 Filed 12–24–13; 11:15 am] 

BILLING CODE 6350–01–P 

CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD 

INVESTIGATION BOARD 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: January 15, 2014, 6:30 

p.m.–8:30 p.m. PST. 

PLACE: City Council Chambers, Civic 

Center Campus, 440 Civic Center Plaza, 

Richmond, CA 94804. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED The 

Chemical Safety and Hazard 

Investigation Board (CSB) will convene 

a public meeting on January 15, 2014, 

starting at 6:30 p.m. at the City Council 

Chambers, Civic Center Campus, 440 

Civic Center Plaza, Richmond, CA 

94804. At the public meeting, the Board 

will consider and vote on the draft 

regulatory report of the August 6, 2012, 

fire at the Chevron refinery that 

endangered 19 workers and sent more 

than 15,000 residents to the hospital for 

medical attention. 

At the meeting, CSB staff will present 

to the Board the results of the second of 

three reports in the CSB’s investigation 

of this incident. Subject to a vote by the 

board at the January 15 public meeting, 

the draft regulatory report would 

recommend that California ‘‘Develop 

and implement a step-by-step plan to 

establish a more rigorous safety 

management regulatory framework for 

petroleum refineries in the state of 

California based on the principles of the 

‘safety case’ framework in use in 

regulatory regimes such as those in the 

UK, Australia, and Norway.’’ The 

recommendation urges specific steps to 

accomplish this, including ensuring that 

workers are formally involved in the 

development of a safety case report for 

each covered facility. The report also 

urges California to work with industry 

in gathering refinery safety indicator 

data to be shared with the public. 

As detailed in the CSB draft report, a 

safety case regime which would require 

companies to demonstrate to refinery 

industry regulators—through a written 

‘‘safety case report’’—how major 

hazards are to be controlled and risks 

reduced to ‘‘as low as reasonably 

practicable,’’ or ALARP. The CSB report 

notes that the safety case is more than 

a written document; rather, it represents 

a fundamental change by shifting the 

responsibility for continuous reductions 

in major accident risks from regulators 

to the company. 

To ensure that a facility’s safety goals 

and programs are accomplished, a safety 

case report generated by the company is 

rigorously reviewed, audited, and 

enforced by highly trained regulatory 

inspectors, whose technical training and 

experience are on par with the 

personnel employed by the companies 

they oversee, the draft report says. 

The CSB’s first interim report—which 

was voted on and approved by the board 

at a public meeting in Richmond, CA, 

on April 19, 2013—found that Chevron 

repeatedly failed over a ten-year period 

to apply inherently safer design 

principles and upgrade piping in its 

crude oil processing unit, which was 

extremely corroded and ultimately 

ruptured on August 6, 2012. The CSB’s 

investigation identified missed 

opportunities on the part of Chevron to 

apply inherently safer piping design 

through the use of more corrosionresistant metal alloys. The first interim 

report also found a failure by Chevron 

to identify and evaluate damage 

mechanism hazards, which if acted 

upon, would likely have identified the 

possibility of a catastrophic sulfidation 

corrosion-related piping failure. There 

are currently no federal or state 

regulatory requirements to apply these 

important preventative measures. The 

investigation team concluded that 

enhanced regulatory oversight with 

greater worker involvement and public 

participation are needed to improve 

petroleum refinery safety. 

Following the staff presentation on 

proposed findings and safety 

recommendations, the Board will hear 

comments from the public. 

Following the conclusion of the 

public comment period, the Board will 

consider whether to approve the final 

report and recommendations. All staff 

presentations are preliminary and are 

intended solely to allow the Board to 

consider in a public forum the issues 

and factors involved in this case. No 

factual analyses, conclusions, or 

findings presented by staff should be 

considered final. 

Only after the Board has considered 

the staff presentations, listened to 

public comments, and adopted a final 

investigation report and 

recommendations will there be an 

approved final record of the CSB 

investigation of this incident. 

Additional Information 

The meeting is free and open to the 

public. If you require a translator or 

interpreter, please notify the individual 

listed below as the ‘‘Contact Person for 

Further Information,’’ at least five 

business days prior to the meeting. 

The CSB is an independent federal 

agency charged with investigating 

accidents and hazards that result, or 

may result, in the catastrophic release of 

extremely hazardous substances. The 

agency’s Board Members are appointed 

by the President and confirmed by the 

Senate. CSB investigations look into all 

aspects of chemical accidents and 

hazards, including physical causes such 

as equipment failure as well as 

inadequacies in regulations, industry 

standards, and safety management 

systems. 

Public Comment 

Members of the public are invited to 

make brief statements to the Board at 

the conclusion of the staff presentation. 

The time provided for public statements 

will depend upon the number of people 

who wish to speak. Speakers should 

assume that their presentations will be 

limited to five minutes or less, and may 

submit written statements for the 

record. 


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