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control room safety and minimize risk 

associated with fatigue and interaction 

with computer equipment. These areas 

include annual validation of controller 

qualifications by senior level executives 

of pipeline companies, clearly defined 

responsibilities for controllers in 

responding to abnormal operating 

conditions, the use of formalized 

procedures for information exchange 

during shift turnover, and clearly 

established shift lengths combined with 

education on strategies to reduce the 

contribution of non-work activities to 

fatigue. 

This workshop will build on work 

done in the June 2006 workshop on 

controller issues. PHMSA will include 

panels drawn from the entire enterprise 

to discuss noteworthy practices in the 

various areas. We anticipate panels on 

fatigue and other control room 

management issues. These issues 

include both those directly relating to 

the individuals, such as qualifications 

and fatigue, as well as the systems and 

processes controllers use that can affect 

pipeline safety and integrity. 

In particular, PHMSA seeks 

information about best practices and 

standards that would accomplish the 

following: 

1. Clearly define the roles and 

responsibilities of controllers to ensure 

their prompt and appropriate response 

to abnormal operating conditions. 

2. Formalize procedures for recording 

critical information and for exchanging 

information during shift turn-over. 

3. Establish shift lengths and schedule 

rotations to protect against the onset of 

fatigue, and educate controllers and 

their supervisors in fatigue mitigation 

strategies and how non-work activities 

contribute to fatigue. 

4. Periodically review the supervisory 

control and data acquisition systems 

(SCADA) displays to insure controllers 

are getting clear and reliable 

information from field stations and 

devices. 

5. Periodically audit alarm 

configurations and handling procedures 

to provide confidence in alarm signals 

and to ensure controller effectiveness. 

6. Involve controllers when planning 

and implementing changes in 

operations, and maintain strong 

communications between controllers 

and field personnel. 

7. Determine how to establish, 

maintain, and review controller 

qualifications, abilities and performance 

metrics, with particular attention to 

response to abnormal operating 

conditions. 

8. Analyze operating experience 

including accidents and incidents for 

possible involvement of the SCADA 

system, controller performance, and 

fatigue. 

9. Validate the adequacy of controllerrelated procedures, training and the 

qualifications of controllers, possibly 

annually through involvement by senior 

level executives of pipeline companies. 

PHMSA also expressly seeks 

comments on the potential for including 

PTP within IM. 

III. Preliminary Workshop Agenda 

The preliminary agenda for this 

workshop includes briefings on the 

following topics: 

• Prevention through People’

Overview. 

• Purpose and Goals of Workshop. 

• Fatigue and SCADA–NTSB. 

• Fatigue-Panel Discussion. 

• Computer Interface and Change 

Management—Panel Discussion. 

• Control Room Practices—Panel 

Discussion. 

• Risk Approach to Control Room 

Management—PHMSA. 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60102, 60117. 

Issued in Washington, DC on April 17, 

2007. 

Joy Kadnar, 

Director, Office of Engineering and Emergency 

Support. 

[FR Doc. 07–1987 Filed 4–18–07; 10:40 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–04–19856] 

Pipeline Safety: Senior Executive 

Signature and Certification of Integrity 

Management Program Performance 

Reports 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; Issuance of advisory 

bulletin. 

SUMMARY: On December 29, 2006, the 

Pipeline Inspection, Protection, 

Enforcement and Safety Act was signed 

into law. The law, known as the PIPES 

Act, includes a provision requiring the 

senior executive officers of pipeline 

operating companies to certify annual 

and semiannual pipeline integrity 

management program performance 

reports. This advisory provides 

information to assist pipeline operators 

with certifying future submissions of 

annual and semiannual pipeline 

integrity management program 

performance reports. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Zach Barrett at (405) 954–5559 or by email at 

zach.barrett@dot.gov; or Wayne Lemoi 

at (404) 832–1160, or by e-mail at 

wayne.lemoi@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 16 of the PIPES Act requires 

PHMSA to establish procedures for a 

pipeline operator’s senior executive 

officer to certify annual and semiannual 

pipeline integrity management program 

performance reports with their 

signature. Specifically, the law requires 

each report to include a signed 

statement certifying that the senior 

executive officer has reviewed the 

report and to the best of the senior 

executive officer’s knowledge and 

belief, this report is true and complete. 

PHMSA is modifying its electronic 

filing to assist pipeline operators with 

complying with section 16 of the PIPES 

Act electronically. In addition, this 

advisory informs operators not filing 

electronically how to comply with 

section 16. 

II. Advisory Bulletin ADB–07–01 

To: Operators of Natural Gas and 

Hazardous Liquid Pipelines. 

Subject: Senior Executive Officer 

Signature and Certification of Integrity 

Management Program Performance 

Reports. 

Purpose: To inform operators of 

natural gas and hazardous liquid 

pipelines on how to meet the 

requirement for a senior executive 

officer’s signature and certification on 

pipeline integrity management program 

(IMP) performance reports. 

Advisory: Section 16 of the PIPES Act 

requires pipeline operators to have a 

senior executive officer of the company 

sign and certify annual and semiannual 

IMP performance reports. By signing, 

the senior executive officer is certifying 

that the senior executive officer has 

reviewed the report and to the best of 

the senior executive officer’s knowledge 

and belief, this report is true and 

complete. To assist pipeline operators 

with complying with the section 16 

requirement, we are providing the 

following procedures for those operators 

of natural gas pipelines and hazardous 

liquid pipelines required to file IMP 

reports. Pipeline operators should 

follow these procedures for future 

submissions of annual and semiannual 

IMP performance reports. 

Gas Integrity Management Program 

Performance Measures Reports 

Operators of gas transmission 

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192.945 to submit IMP performance 

measures semiannually to PHMSA. 

Operators are encouraged to submit the 

IMP reports using the electronic form 

available on PHMSA’s Web site at 

http://phmsa.dot.gov. 

To minimize future transcription and 

handling and to lessen the chance for 

errors, PHMSA is modifying the gas IMP 

electronic form to reflect the new legal 

requirement for a senior executive 

officer’s certification and signature. 

Operators should enter the name and 

title of the senior executive officer 

certifying the report in the appropriate 

blanks on the form and in the signature 

block on the form. Operators should 

keep in mind that entering the senior 

executive officer’s name onto the 

electronic form is equivalent to a paper 

submission and has the same legal 

authenticity and requirements as a 

paper document. 

In lieu of electronic filing, operators 

can mail or fax the reports to PHMSA. 

If submitting by mail or fax, the name 

and title of the senior executive officer 

certifying the report should be entered 

in the appropriate blanks on the form. 

The senior executive officer should 

certify the report by signing this form in 

the signature block. 

Hazardous Liquid Integrity Management 

Program Annual Reports 

PHMSA requires hazardous liquid 

pipeline operators to submit annual 

reports providing information about 

their pipeline infrastructure and their 

integrity management program. 

Operators are required to submit these 

reports annually and by June 15 for the 

previous calendar year in accordance 

with 49 CFR 195.49. 

Operators of hazardous liquid 

pipelines are encouraged to use the 

Online Data Entry System (ODES) 

available at the PHMSA Web site 

located at http://phmsa.dot.gov to 

submit annual reports. To minimize 

future transcription and handling and to 

lessen the chance for errors, we are 

modifying the ODES electronic form to 

reflect the new legal requirement for a 

senior executive officer certification and 

signature. Operators should enter the 

name and title of the senior executive 

officer certifying the report in the 

appropriate blanks on the form and in 

the signature block on the form. 

Operators should keep in mind that 

entering the senior executive officer’s 

name onto the electronic form is 

equivalent to a paper submission and 

has the same legal authenticity and 

requirements as a paper document. 

Operators may also submit the annual 

report to PHMSA by mail or fax in 

accordance with 49 CFR 195.58. If 

submitting by mail or fax, the name and 

title of the senior executive officer 

certifying the report should be entered 

in the appropriate blanks on the form. 

The senior executive officer should 

certify the report by signing the form in 

the signature block. 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. chapter 601 and 49 

CFR 1.53. 

Issued in Washington, DC on April 13, 

2007. 

Jeffrey D. Wiese, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline 

Safety. 

[FR Doc. E7–7602 Filed 4–20–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Departmental Offices; Renewal of the 

Treasury Borrowing Advisory 

Committee of the Bond Market 

Association and Name Change to the 

Treasury Borrowing Advisory 

Committee of the Securities Industry 

and Financial Markets Association 

ACTION: Notice of renewal and name 

change. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (Pub. L. 92–463; 5 U.S.C. App. 

2), with the concurrence of the General 

Services Administration, the Secretary 

of the Treasury has determined that 

renewal of the Treasury Borrowing 

Advisory Committee of The Bond 

Market Association (the ‘‘Committee’’) 

is necessary and in the public interest 

in connection with the performance of 

duties imposed on the Department of 

the Treasury by law. 

Effective November 1, 2006, the name 

of the Bond Market Association was 

changed to the Securities Industry and 

Financial Markets Association following 

the merger of the Securities Industry 

Association and the Bond Market 

Association. Hence, the name of the 

Committee has been changed to reflect 

this merger. The new name is the 

Treasury Borrowing Advisory 

Committee of the Securities Industry 

and Financial Markets Association. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karthik Ramanathan, Director, Office of 

Debt Management (202) 622–2042. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the Committee is to provide 

informed advice as representatives of 

the financial community to the 

Secretary of the Treasury and Treasury 

staff, upon the Secretary of the 

Treasury’s request, in carrying out 

Treasury responsibilities for federal 

financing and public debt management. 

The Committee meets to consider 

special items on which its advice is 

sought pertaining to immediate 

Treasury funding requirements and 

pertaining to longer term approaches to 

manage the national debt in a costeffective manner. The Committee 

usually meets immediately before the 

Treasury announces each mid-calendar 

quarter funding operation, although 

special meetings also may be held. 

Membership consists of 10–15 

individuals who are experts in the 

government securities market and who 

are involved in senior positions in debt 

markets as institutional investors, 

investment advisors, or as dealers in 

government securities. 

The Designated Federal Official for 

the Advisory Committee is the Director 

of the Office of Debt Management. The 

Treasury Department is filing copies of 

the Committee’s renewal charter with 

appropriate committees in Congress. 

Dated: April 17, 2007. 

Anthony W. Ryan, 

Assistant Secretary, Financial Markets. 

[FR Doc. 07–1981 Filed 4–20–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4811–42–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade 

Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and 

Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: As part of our continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, and as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

we invite comments on the proposed or 

continuing information collections 

listed below in this notice. 

DATES: We must receive your written 

comments on or before June 22, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments to 

Mary A. Wood, Alcohol and Tobacco 

Tax and Trade Bureau, at any of these 

addresses: 

• P.O. Box 14412, Washington, DC 

20044–4412; 

• 202–927–8525 (facsimile); or 

• formcomments@ttb.gov (e-mail). 

Please send separate comments for 

each specific information collection 

listed below. You must reference the 

information collection’s title, form or 

recordkeeping requirement number, and 

OMB number (if any) in your comment. 

If you submit your comment via 

facsimile, send no more than five 8.5 x 


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