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from the bottom, correct the docket 

number to read ‘‘FAA–2004–17481’’. 

2. On page 69665, in column 2, under 

the heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT:, replace ‘‘Annette K. Kovite 

(425–227–1262), Transport Airplane 

Directorate (ANM–113), Federal 

Aviation Administration, 1601 Lind 

Ave., SW., Renton, WA 98055–4056;’’

with ‘‘Susan Lender (202–267–8029)’’.

Issued in Washington, DC on December 2, 

2004. 

Anthony F. Fazio, 

Director, Office of Rulemaking.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration 

[Docket No. FMCSA–2004–19456] 

Office of Research and Technology 

Forum; Meeting

AGENCY: Federal Motor Carrier Safety 

Administration (FMCSA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice of Meeting/Forum.

SUMMARY: This notice invites you to 

participate in a forum titled, ‘‘FMCSA 

R&T: Today and Tomorrow’’, sponsored 

by FMCSA’s Office of Research and 

Technology (R&T) in conjunction with 

the 84th Annual Meeting of the 

Transportation Research Board (TRB). 

The purpose of the forum is to provide 

insight on some of the research and 

technology work that FMCSA sponsors 

in support of its missions of reducing 

the number and severity of commercial 

motor vehicle (CMV) crashes and 

fatalities and enhancing efficiency of 

CMV operations. Presenters will speak 

about current FMCSA R&T projects and 

the status of studies and technologies 

under consideration as part of the draft 

R&T 5-Year Strategic Plan. Speaker 

topics will cover the Crash Causation 

Study, Electronic On-Board Recorders, 

the HazMat Operational Test, Vehicle 

Infrastructure Integration, and Fatigue 

Management Technologies. The keynote 

address will feature a trucking 

association representative who will 

discuss both safety partnerships 

between industry and FMCSA and the 

role that research and technology plays 

in helping the trucking industry move 

towards safer, more efficient and secure 

operations. There will be an opportunity 

for attendees to talk with FMCSA 

subject-matter experts in an open 

question and answer session. 

Where and When: Marriott Wardman 

Park Hotel, Salon III, 2660 Woodley 

Road, NW., Washington, DC 20008, on 

Sunday, January 9, 2005. Registration 

begins at 8 a.m. and the forum starts at 

8:30 a.m. and ends at 1 p.m. 

Registration: This forum is listed as a 

session in the TRB Annual Meeting 

Program, and all registrants are welcome 

to attend. TRB registration is not 

required to attend the forum, and it is 

open to the public at no cost. To register 

for the TRB Annual Meeting, visit http:/

/www.trb.org. To attend the forum only, 

you can send an e-mail to 

R&TPartnerships@fmcsa.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Albert Alvarez, Office of Research and 

Technology (MC–RTR), Federal Motor 

Carrier Safety Administration, 400 

Virginia Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 

20024; telephone (202) 385–2387 or email albert.alvarez@fmcsa.dot.gov.

Office hours are from 8 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., e.s.t., Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Forum 

attendees will receive an information 

packet on current programs of the Office 

of Research and Technology. While the 

forum will be open to the public, there 

is limited space. If you require 

accommodations (sign, reader, etc.) for a 

special need, please call Joanice Cole at 

(202) 334–2287, or e-mail 

jcole@nas.edu.

Issued on: November 29, 2004. 

Annette M. Sandberg, 

Administrator.

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs 

Administration 

[Docket No. RSPA–04–19469; Notice 1] 

Pipeline Safety: Petition for Waiver; 

Duke Energy Gas Transmission 

Company (OH)

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs 

Administration (RSPA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice; petition for waiver.

SUMMARY: Duke Energy Gas 

Transmission Company (DEGT) 

petitioned the Research and Special 

Programs Administration’s (RSPA) 

Office of Pipeline Safety (OPS) for a 

waiver of compliance with provisions of 

49 CFR 192.611(a), which requires 

pipeline operators to confirm or revise 

the maximum allowable operating 

pressure (MAOP) of their pipelines after 

a class location change. DEGT proposes 

an alternative set of risk control 

activities in lieu of a reduction in 

pressure or pressure testing of selected 

pipeline segments in Ohio that have 

changed from Class 1 to Class 2.

DATES: Persons interested in submitting 

written comments on the waiver 

proposed in this notice must do so by 

January 6, 2005. Late-filed comments 

will be considered so far as practicable.

ADDRESSES: You may submit written 

comments by mailing or delivering an 

original and two copies to the Dockets 

Facility, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Room PL–401, 400 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. The Dockets Facility is 

open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except on Federal 

holidays when the facility is closed. 

Alternatively, you may submit written 

comments to the docket electronically at 

the following Web address: http://

dms.dot.gov. 

All written comments should identify 

the docket and notice numbers stated in 

the heading of this notice. Anyone who 

wants confirmation of mailed comments 

must include a self-addressed stamped 

postcard. To file written comments 

electronically, after logging on to http:

//dms.dot.gov, click on ‘‘Comment/

Submissions.’’ You can also read 

comments and other material in the 

docket at http://dms.dot.gov. General 

information about our pipeline safety 

program is available at http://

ops.dot.gov. 

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets 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 may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register

published on April 11, 2000 (Volume 

65, Number 70; Pages 19477–78) or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

James Reynolds by phone at 202–366–

2786, by fax at 202–366–4566, by mail 

at U.S. DOT, Research and Special 

Programs Administration, Office of 

Pipeline Safety, 400 Seventh Street, 

SW., Washington, DC 20590, or by email at james.reynolds@rspa.dot.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background 

Duke Energy Gas Transmission 

Company (DEGT) petitioned the 

Research and Special Programs 

Administration’s Office of Pipeline 

Safety (RSPA/OPS) for a waiver from 

compliance with § 192.611(a) for 

selected gas transmission pipeline 

segments in Ohio. DEGT asks for a 

waiver from the requirement to revise 

the maximum allowable operating 

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pressure (MAOP) or upgrade pipeline 

segments after a class location change. 

DEGT proposes to conduct alternative 

risk control activities based on the 

principles and requirements of the 

integrity management program in lieu of 

this requirement and asserts that these 

alternative risk control activities will 

provide an equal or higher level of 

safety than that currently provided by 

the pipeline safety regulations. 

The Federal pipeline safety 

regulations at § 192.609 require a gas 

pipeline operator to complete a class 

location change study whenever it 

believes an increase in population 

density may have caused a change in 

class location as defined in § 192.5. If a 

new class location is confirmed, the 

operator is required to either reduce 

pressure or replace the pipe to lower 

pipe wall stress in compliance with 

§ 192.611(a). Section 192.5(a)(1) defines 

a ‘‘class location unit’’ as an onshore 

area extending 220 yards (200 meters) 

on either side of the centerline of any 

continuous one-mile length of pipeline. 

The Class Location for any class 

location unit is determined according to 

the following criteria in § 192.5(b): 

Class 1—10 or fewer buildings 

intended for human occupancy; 

Class 2—more than 10 but less than 

46 buildings intended for human 

occupancy; 

Class 3—46 or more buildings 

intended for human occupancy, or areas 

where a pipeline lies within 100 yards 

(91 meters) of either a building or a 

small, well-defined outside area (such 

as a playground, recreation area, 

outdoor theater, or other place of public 

assembly) that is occupied by 20 or 

more persons on at least 5 days a week 

for 10 weeks in any 12-month period; 

Class 4—buildings with four or more 

stories above ground are prevalent. 

The pipeline safety regulations 

impose more stringent design and 

operation requirements as the class 

location increases. When a class 

location changes to a higher class (e.g., 

from Class 1 to Class 2) and the hoop 

stress corresponding to the established 

MAOP of the segment is not 

commensurate with the present class 

location, the MAOP must be confirmed 

by pressure test or revised using one of 

the options specified in § 192.611(a). An 

operator may avoid reducing the 

pressure if a previous pressure test is 

adequate to support operation at the 

existing pressure in the new class 

location, but the corresponding hoop 

stress may not exceed 72 percent 

specified maximum yield strength 

(SMYS) of the pipe in Class 2 locations, 

60 percent SMYS in Class 3 locations, 

or 50 percent SMYS in Class 4 locations. 

Alternatively, the operator may need to 

reduce the pressure or replace the pipe 

with new pipe.

On June 29, 2004, RSPA/OPS 

published a Notice announcing the 

criteria it will use in considering class 

location change waiver applications (69 

FR 38948). The criteria document has 

been placed in this docket and is the 

guideline RSPA/OPS will use to 

consider requests for waivers from the 

requirements of 49 CFR 192.611. RSPA/

OPS will use these criteria to evaluate 

waiver applications submitted by 

natural gas pipeline operators whose 

pipeline segments have experienced a 

change in class location. 

2. DEGT’s Proposed Waiver 

DEGT’s request for a waiver of the 

requirements of § 192.611(a) is specific 

to two parallel line segments on Line 10 

and Line 15, which are part of its Texas 

Eastern Pipeline System in the State of 

Ohio. These segments are located within 

DEGT’s: 

Wheelersburg Compressor Station 

Discharge: Milepost (MP) 563.72–620.70 

Line 10: MP 568.99–569.13. 

Line 15: MP 569.41–569.55. 

The pipelines are 30-inch in diameter 

and the class locations have changed 

from Class 1 to Class 2. If this waiver is 

granted, DEGT intends to apply the 

alternative set of risk reduction 

strategies to any future sites changing 

from Class 1 to Class 2 on the same 

compressor station discharges of Lines 

10 and 15, provided these new sites 

satisfy the technical requirements of the 

waiver. 

Lines 10 and Lines 15 were 

hydrotested and all welds were X-rayed 

at installation in 1952 and 1957, 

respectively, to 100% SMYS. DEGT has 

internally inspected each of these 

pipelines. DEGT inspected Line 10 on 

January 24, 1986, and again on May 13, 

1997. DEGT inspected Line 15 on 

January 27, 1986, and again on May 1, 

2002. Both lines were internally 

inspected using a standard resolution 

in-line inspection (ILI) tool. All cathodic 

protection readings on these two 

pipelines either meet or exceed the 

minimum requirements of 49 CFR Part 

192. 

The proposed DEGT waiver segments 

have changed from Class 1 to Class 2 

due to construction of additional 

buildings intended for human 

occupancy in the class location units. 

DEGT believes its alternative to 

§ 192.611(a) will provide a level of 

safety in excess of that afforded by the 

pipeline safety regulations at 49 CFR 

Part 192. 

3. DEGT’s Proposed Alternative 

In lieu of compliance with 

§ 192.611(a), DEGT proposes to conduct 

the following activities to ensure the 

integrity of the two pipeline segments 

included in this waiver request and any 

future sites on the Wheelersburg 

Compressor Station discharge changing 

from Class 1 to Class 2: 

• All site(s) covered by waiver have 

been in-line inspected at least twice 

between 1986 and 2002; 

• All actionable anomalies within the 

site(s) have either been remediated or 

are scheduled to be investigated, and 

subsequently remediated, if necessary, 

as defined in ASME B31.8S and DEGT 

Pipeline Repair procedures. A schedule 

of remedial measures to be performed 

on future waiver sites will be submitted 

to OPS headquarters and OPS regional 

offices; 

• For future sites covered by this 

waiver, DEGT will use tools and 

techniques developed through the 

activities described in the waiver 

request for the identification, 

classification and possible remediation 

of dents; and 

• The site(s) must pass a hydrostatic 

test to a pressure of at least 125% of the 

MAOP of the pipeline. DEGT will make 

available to RSPA/OPS and the Ohio 

Public Utilities Commission (OH–PUC) 

a report of all hydrostatic test failures 

experienced at this test pressure. 

DEGT has already satisfied the above 

criteria for the current pipeline 

segments proposed in this waiver 

request. DEGT commits to provide the 

OPS’s Central Region and the OH–PUC 

with sufficient notice to enable RSPA/

OPS and OH–PUC staff to attend and 

participate in all risk assessment 

activities. 

In addition, DEGT has proposed the 

following schedule of near-term and 

long-term activities to help maintain 

pipeline integrity on the proposed 

waiver segments. 

In 2004—

• Review the 2002 ILI results for Line 

15 for any remaining actionable 

anomalies. Schedule these anomalies for 

investigation/remediation as defined in 

49 CFR Part 192, Subpart O, ASME 

B31.8S, and DEGT Pipeline Repair 

Procedures. 

• Depth of cover survey to be 

conducted in the waiver sites. 

In 2005—

• Perform an in-line inspection using 

a high-resolution magnetic flux leakage 

tool and a geometry tool on Line 10. All 

actionable anomalies found through the 

in-line inspection will be investigated/

remediated on as defined in 49 CFR Part 

192, Subpart O, ASME B31.8S, and 

DEGT Pipeline Repair Procedures. 

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• Perform external corrosion direct 

assessment (ECDA) on the waiver sites 

of both lines. A minimum of one direct 

examination of each line will be 

performed. 

• Perform stress corrosion cracking 

direct assessment on any pipe exposed 

as part of the work in support of this 

waiver. 

Beyond 2005—

• Perform system integrity reinspections in accordance with 49 CFR 

Part 192 Subpart O requirements. 

4. Additional Considerations 

In an October 7 letter, the Office of 

Pipeline Safety’s Central Region office 

requested additional information to 

assist in evaluation of DEGT’s waiver 

request: 

Information on the timing of the class 

location change;

• Information demonstrating the 

condition of the pipeline coating; 

• The results of depth of cover 

surveys; 

• Description of any failures that 

occurred during hydrostatic testing; 

• The results of in-line inspections; 

and 

• Activities to address potential 

integrity issues associated with the 

hydrogen induced damage at hard spots 

after the November 2, 2003, failure on 

Line 15 in Kentucky. 

This letter and any responses from 

DEGT will be placed in the docket for 

this Federal waiver request. 

In addition, as part of its 

consideration of DEGT’s waiver request, 

RSPA/OPS will also consider the 

cause(s) and contributing factor(s) to the 

November 2, 2003, failure of DEGT’s 

Line 15 near the Owingsville 

Compressor Station in Bath County, 

Kentucky. The pipe used in Line 15 in 

Bath County, Kentucky and Line 15 in 

Scioto County, Ohio, were both 

manufactured by A.O. Smith and are of 

the same vintage. 

5. Opportunity for Public Comments 

This notice provides an opportunity 

for public comment on the DEGT waiver 

proposal. Comments should address 

whether or not DEGT’s proposal 

complies with the criteria for 

consideration of waiver applications 

and any other issues regarding DEGT’s 

proposed waiver. 

After the comment period has ended, 

RSPA/OPS will evaluate the DEGT 

proposal and will consider all 

comments received by the deadline. 

RSPA/OPS will publish a subsequent 

Federal Register notice granting or 

denying DEGT’s proposed waiver of 

§ 192.611(a).

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60118(c) and 49 CFR 

1.53.

Issued in Washington, DC, on December 1, 

2004. 

Theodore L. Willke, 

Deputy Associate Administrator for Pipeline 

Safety.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request for Form 1065–B and 

Schedule K–1

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury.

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury, as part of its continuing effort 

to reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, invites the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on proposed 

and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). Currently, the IRS is 

soliciting comments concerning Form 

1065–B, U.S. Return of Income for 

Electing Large Partnerships, and 

Schedule K–1, Partner’s Share of 

Income (Loss) From an Electing Large 

Partnership.

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before February 7, 2005 

to be assured of consideration.

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to R. Joseph Durbula, Internal Revenue 

Service, room 6515, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20224.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the form and instructions 

should be directed to Carol Savage at 

Internal Revenue Service, room 6516, 

1111 Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20224, or at (202) 622–

3945, or through the internet at 

CAROL.A.SAVAGE@irs.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: U.S. Return of Income for 

Electing Large Partnerships (Form 1065–

B), and Partner’s Share of Income (Loss) 

From an Electing Large Partnership 

(Schedule K–1 (Form 1065–B)). 

OMB Number: 1545–1626. 

Form Number: Form 1065–B and 

Schedule K–1 (Form 1065–B). 

Abstract: Internal Revenue Code 

Section 6031 and Regulation section 

1.6031–1 requires partnerships to file a 

return. Internal Revenue Code sections 

771–777, enacted by the Taxpayer Relief 

Act of 1997, allow large partnerships to 

elect to file a simplified return which 

requires fewer items to be reported to 

partners. Form 1065–B is used for this 

purpose. 

Current Actions: There are no changes 

being made to the form at this time. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations and farms. 

Estimated Number of Respondents:

100. 

Estimated Time Per Respondent:

Varies. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 470,332. 

The following paragraph applies to all 

of the collections of information covered 

by this notice: 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

Books or records relating to a collection 

of information must be retained as long 

as their contents may become material 

in the administration of any internal 

revenue law. Generally, tax returns and 

tax return information are confidential, 

as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information.

Approved: December 2, 2004. 

R. Joseph Durbala, 

IRS Reports Clearance Officer.

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