[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 102 (Thursday, May 25, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33881-33882]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-13183]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration


International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods; 
Public Meetings

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), Department 
of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise interested persons that RSPA will 
conduct public meetings in preparation for and to report the results of 
the eighteenth session of the United Nation's Sub-Committee of Experts 
on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE) to be held July 3-13, 2000 
in Geneva, Switzerland.

DATES: June 21, 2000 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Room 6244-6248; July 19, 2000, 10 
a.m.-1 p.m., Room 6244-6248.

ADDRESSES: Both meetings will be held at DOT Headquarters, Nassif 
Building, Room 6244-6248, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frits Wybenga, International Standards 
Coordinator, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, or Bob Richard, 
Assistant International Standards Coordinator, Office of Hazardous 
Materials Safety, Department of Transportation, Washington, DC 20590; 
(202) 366-0656.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of the first meeting 
will be to prepare for the eighteenth session of the UNSCOE and to 
discuss U.S. positions on UNSCOE proposals. The primary purpose of the 
second meeting will be to provide a briefing on the outcome of the 
UNSCOE session and to prepare for the twenty-first Session of the 
United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods 
(UNSCOE) which is scheduled for December 4-13, 2000 in Geneva, 
Switzerland. Topics to be covered during the public meetings include: 
(1) Global harmonization of classification criteria, (2) Reformatting 
the UN Recommendations into a model rule, (3) Criteria for 
Environmentally Hazardous Substances, (4) Intermodal portable tank 
requirements including requirements for the transport of solids in 
portable tanks, (5) Requirements applicable to small quantities of 
hazardous materials in transport (limited quantities) including package 
marking requirements, package quantity limits and requirements 
applicable to consumer commodities, (6) Harmonized requirements for 
compress gas cylinders, (7) Classification of individual substances, 
(8) Requirements for bulk and non-bulk packagings used to transport 
hazardous materials and (9) Hazard communication requirements including 
harmonized shipping paper requirements.
    The public is invited to attend without prior notification.

Documents

    Copies of documents for the UNSCOE meeting may be obtained by 
downloading them from the United Nations Transport Division's web site 
at http://www.unece.org/trans/main/dgdb/dgsubc/dgscomm.html. 
Information concerning UN dangerous goods meetings including agendas 
can be downloaded at http://www.unece.org/trans/danger/meetings.htm#ST/SG. These sites may also be accessed through RSPA's Hazardous Materials 
Safety Homepage at http://hazmat.dot.gov/intstandards.htm. RSPA's site 
also provides information regarding the UNSCOE and related matters such 
as a summary of decisions taken at the 17th session of the UNSCOE, 
meeting dates and a summary of the primary topics which the UNSCOE 
plans to address in the 1999-2000 biennium.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 22, 2000.
Robert A. McGuire,
Acting Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 00-13183 Filed 5-24-00; 8:45 am]
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