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Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

3,108. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) The need for the revision of these 

information collections for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques. 

(e) Additional information that would 

be appropriate to collect to inform the 

reduction in risk to people, property, 

and the environment due to excavation 

damages. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 7, 

2022, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 

1.97. 

Alan K. Mayberry, 

Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2021–0085] 

Pipeline Safety: Information Collection 

Activities 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

PHMSA invites public comments on its 

intent to request Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) approval to revise 

and renew an information collection 

currently under OMB Control Number 

2137–0596 titled: ‘‘National Pipeline 

Mapping System Program.’’ The 

information collection currently 

requires operators to submit geospatial 

data, attributes, metadata, public contact 

information, and a transmittal letter 

appropriate for use in the National 

Pipeline Mapping System (NPMS). 

Acceptable formats and additional 

information are specified in the NPMS 

Attribute Standards document available 

at www.npms.phmsa.dot.gov. The 

proposed revisions would modify one 

attribute approved in January 2020 that 

pipeline operators must submit to 

PHMSA, extend the expiration date of 

the information collection established 

by OMB, and require gas transmission 

operators to submit additional attributes 

to the NPMS. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 10, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted in the following ways: 

E-Gov Website: http://

www.regulations.gov. This site allows 

the public to enter comments on any 

Federal Register notice issued by any 

agency. 

Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation 

(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

West Building, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on the 

ground level of DOT, West Building, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, 

Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 

5:00 p.m., ET, Monday through Friday, 

except federal holidays. 

Instructions: Identify the docket 

number, PHMSA–2021–0085 at the 

beginning of your comments. Note that 

all comments received will be posted 

without change to http://

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. You 

should know that 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.). 

Therefore, you may want to review 

DOT’s complete Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or visit 

http://www.regulations.gov before 

submitting any such comments. 

Docket: For access to the docket or to 

read background documents or 

comments, go to http://

www.regulations.gov at any time or to 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

DOT, West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 

9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., ET, Monday 

through Friday, except federal holidays. 

If you wish to receive confirmation of 

receipt of your written comments, 

please include a self-addressed, 

stamped postcard with the following 

statement: ‘‘Comments on: PHMSA– 

2021–0085.’’ The Docket Clerk will date 

stamp the postcard prior to returning it 

to you via the U.S. mail. Please note that 

due to delays in the delivery of U.S. 

mail to federal offices in Washington, 

DC, we recommend that persons 

consider an alternative method 

(internet, fax, or professional delivery 

service) of submitting comments to the 

docket and ensuring their timely receipt 

at DOT. 

Privacy Act Statement: DOT may 

solicit comments from the public 

regarding certain general notices. DOT 

posts these comments, without edit, 

including any personal information the 

commenter provides, to 

www.regulations.gov, as described in 

the system of records notice (DOT/ALL14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at 

www.dot.gov/privacy. 

Confidential Business Information: 

Confidential Business Information (CBI) 

is commercial or financial information 

that is both customarily and actually 

treated as private by its owner. Under 

the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) 

(5 U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from 

public disclosure. If your comments 

responsive to this notice contain 

commercial or financial information 

that is customarily treated as private, 

that you actually treat as private, and 

that is relevant or responsive to this 

notice, it is important that you clearly 

designate the submitted comments as 

CBI. Pursuant to 49 CFR 190.343, you 

may ask PHMSA to give confidential 

treatment to information you give to the 

Agency by taking the following steps: 

(1) Mark each page of the original 

document submission containing CBI as 

‘‘Confidential’’; (2) send PHMSA, along 

with the original document, a second 

copy of the original document with the 

CBI deleted; and (3) explain why the 

information you are submitting is CBI. 

Any commentary PHMSA receives that 

is not specifically designated as CBI will 

be placed in the public docket for this 

matter. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Angela Hill by email at Angela.Hill@

dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Section 1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of 

Federal Regulations, requires PHMSA to 

provide interested members of the 

public and affected entities an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping requests. 

This notice identifies the proposed 

changes to the information collection 

under OMB Control Number 2137–0596 

that PHMSA will submit to OMB for 

approval. 


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The NPMS includes a geospatial 

information system (GIS) dataset that 

contains information about PHMSAregulated gas transmission and 

hazardous liquid pipelines. The NPMS 

also contains data layers for liquefied 

natural gas plants and hazardous liquid 

breakout tanks. PHMSA has a contract 

for services to perform all NPMS data 

submission processing and support for 

pipeline operators submitting NPMS 

data. This contract also includes all 

information technology (IT) systems and 

applications designed to collect, 

process, and disseminate NPMS data to 

stakeholders and the public. 

On January 22, 2020, OMB approved 

significant changes to the NPMS 

information collection and established 

January 31, 2023, as the expiration date 

of the information collection. Since 

OMB approval, PHMSA has determined 

that implementing the significant 

changes approved by OMB are not 

feasible within the terms and scope of 

the current data submission and IT 

contract. 

The acquisition planning for a recompetition of the NPMS contract has 

started. However, the complexities 

introduced by the combined 

requirements of supporting the NPMS 

system in its current state while at the 

same time implementing the significant 

changes to the system has impacted the 

contract procurement timeline. The 

changes to the NPMS system would 

require architecture, data, and 

application design modifications. 

PHMSA has initiated the process of 

establishing a new NPMS contract to 

complete this work, but will not be able 

to complete that process and set up the 

new system in order to start collecting 

the new information approved by OMB 

before the January 31, 2023, expiration 

date. 

PHMSA also proposes that two 

additional data elements be added to the 

information collection for gas 

transmission pipelines. On October 1, 

2019, (84 FR 52180) PHMSA published 

in the Federal Register a final rule 

titled: ‘‘Pipeline Safety: Safety of Gas 

Transmission Pipelines: MAOP 

Reconfirmation, Expansion of 

Assessment Requirements, and Other 

Related Amendments’’ (Docket no, 

PHMSA–2011–0023). In the final rule, 

the term ‘‘moderate consequence area’’ 

was added to 49 CFR part 192. Also, the 

final rule added § 192.710, which 

requires assessments of certain gas 

transmission pipelines outside of high 

consequence areas (HCAs). Data 

elements regarding the location of 

moderate consequence areas (MCAs) 

and assessments outside of HCAs would 

provide local, state, and federal 

government stakeholders with 

important information regarding gas 

pipeline segments with elevated risk. 

II. Implementation Timeline 

PHMSA intends to maintain a phased 

implementation plan, as outlined below, 

for the information collection changes 

approved in January 2020. The dates 

shown below are the earliest possible 

dates PHMSA could start collecting data 

for each phase. PHMSA will inform 

operators if we need to revise any of the 

dates. Details about the contents of each 

phase are included in the next sections. 

Phase 0 2024 collection of CY 2023 data 

Phase 1 2027 collection of CY 2026 data 

Phase 2 2028 collection of CY 2027 data 

Phase 3 2027 collection of CY 2026 data 

These proposed implementation dates 

would allow PHMSA and pipeline 

operators to design and build the 

necessary systems to support the data 

submittal process. Additional time is 

also necessary for developing new 

submission methods and tools, 

explanatory and procedural materials, 

and training opportunities, which will 

provide certainty for both PHMSA and 

pipeline operators through the 

implementation of the changes outlined 

in the NPMS information collection. 

A. Phase 0 Data Elements 

In the April 11, 2019, (84 FR 14717) 

Federal Register notice requesting 

revision to the previously approved 

information collection regarding the 

National Pipeline Mapping System 

Program which led to the January 2020 

OMB approval, the data elements below 

became mandatory, rather than optional, 

in Phase 1. PHMSA proposes making 

the data elements below mandatory in a 

new Phase 0 since PHMSA and many 

operators already have experience using 

these attributes. When operators submit 

calendar year 2023 data in 2024, 

PHMSA may reject submissions missing 

the following four data elements: 

(1) Pipe diameter; (2) Commodity 

detail; (3) Breakout tanks; and (4) 

Abandoned pipeline segments. 

B. Phase 1 Data Elements 

In the April 11, 2019, Federal 

Register notice that led to the January 

2020 OMB approval, the data elements 

below were included in Phase 1. 

PHMSA proposes keeping these data 

elements in Phase 1: 

• Pipe material. 

• Pipe join method. 

• Onshore/offshore. 

• In-line inspection (yes/no). 

• Class location. 

• Gas HCA segment (yes/no). 

• Coated (yes/no). 

• Liquified Natural Gas plants (type 

of plant, year constructed, and capacity, 

in addition to separate layers and 

attributes for impoundments and 

exclusion zones). 

PHMSA proposes two new data 

elements to be submitted by gas 

transmission pipeline operators in 

Phase 1. After PHMSA requested OMB 

approval of the information collection 

on April 11, 2019, PHMSA regulations 

were revised to include two new types 

of gas pipeline segments reflecting 

elevated risk. PHMSA proposes adding 

data elements to identify gas pipeline 

segments within MCAs, as defined in 

§ 192.3, and for the applicability of 

§ 192.710 to gas pipeline segments. 

Access to these two data elements 

would be restricted to government 

officials. Similar to collecting and 

sharing ‘‘gas high consequence area 

(HCA) segment (yes/no),’’ collecting and 

sharing the MCA and § 192.710 data 

would provide government stakeholders 

with location information for pipeline 

segments with elevated risk. 

• Gas MCA (yes/no)—if the gas 

transmission segment is in an MCA as 

defined in part 192.3, report ‘‘Y.’’ 

Otherwise, report ‘‘N.’’ For a segment 

where Gas HCA is ‘‘Y,’’ MCA must be 

‘‘N.’’ 

• Gas 192.710 (yes/no)—if the gas 

transmission segment is required to be 

assessed under 49 CFR 192.710, report 

‘‘Y.’’ Otherwise, report ‘‘N.’’ For a 

segment where Gas HCA is ‘‘Y,’’ 192.710 

must be ‘‘N.’’ 

C. Phase 2 Data Elements 

In the April 11, 2019, Federal 

Register notice that led to the January 

2020 OMB approval, Phase 2 consisted 

of changing the Facility Response Plan 

(FRP) sequence number from optional to 

mandatory and adding the following 

new data elements: 

• Facility Response Plan (FRP) 

sequence number becomes mandatory. 

• Seam type. 

• Pipe grade. 

• Wall thickness. 

• Decade of installation. 

• Hazardous liquid segment could 

affect an HCA—High Populated, Other 

Populated, Commercially Navigable 

Waterway, and Ecological USA. 

• Assessment method and year. 

PHMSA proposes no changes to the 

number of elements being collected in 

Phase 2 but does propose minor 

improvements for how one of the data 

elements will be collected. The OMBapproved collection includes collecting 

‘‘pipe grade’’ in Phase 2. Stakeholders 

would have used this text to infer the 

numeric value for specified minimum 

yield strength (SMYS) of steel pipe. 


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PHMSA proposes replacing the 

collection of ‘‘pipe grade’’ with the 

collection of the SMYS in pounds per 

square inch gauge (psig) when the ‘‘pipe 

material’’ is steel. Collecting ‘‘SMYS’’ 

allows stakeholders to see the actual 

numeric value instead of inferring the 

value from the ‘‘pipe grade’’ text field. 

When ‘‘SMYS’’ is unknown, PHMSA 

proposes operators report 9.999 psig 

which is well below any actual value for 

pipeline steel. 

D. Phase 3 

In the April 11, 2019, Federal 

Register notice that led to the January 

2020 OMB approval, Phase 3 consisted 

of implementing new positional 

accuracy standards of +/- 50 or 100 feet 

seven years after OMB approval. 

PHMSA will require NPMS data 

submittals to meet these standards in 

2027. 

E. NPMS Attribute Standards 

Adjustments 

Under the current approval of this 

information collection, wall thickness is 

collected as a number when known and 

text is entered when unknown. This 

paradigm creates unnecessary work for 

both PHMSA and pipeline operator GIS 

staff since sometimes the attribute 

would be text and sometimes numeric. 

PHMSA proposes that when the wall 

thickness is unknown, operators report 

the wall thickness as 9.999. 

The current approval of this 

information collection states that the 

FRP sequence number is required for 

applicable liquid segments per 49 CFR 

part 194. In the NPMS Attribute 

Standards document, PHMSA did not 

list the commodity values for which the 

FRP sequence number is required. 

PHMSA proposes modifying the NPMS 

Attribute Standards document by listing 

onshore crude oil and onshore refined 

products as the pipeline segments 

requiring the FRP sequence number. In 

some cases, the operator may be 

required to report a hazardous liquid 

pipeline to the NPMS before obtaining 

an FRP sequence number from PHMSA. 

PHMSA also proposes that operators 

enter 9.999 for onshore crude oil and 

onshore refined products segments 

without an FRP sequence number. An 

updated NPMS Attribute Standards 

document reflecting the changes 

proposed by PHMSA is included in 

Docket No. PHMSA–2021–0085. 

III. Summary of Impacted Collection 

Section 1320.8(d), Title 5, Code of 

Federal Regulations, requires PHMSA to 

provide interested members of the 

public and affected agencies an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping requests. 

This notice identifies an information 

collection request that PHMSA will 

submit to OMB for revision. 

The following information is provided 

for this information collection: (1) Title 

of the information collection; (2) OMB 

control number; (3) Current expiration 

date; (4) Type of request; (5) Abstract of 

the information collection activity; (6) 

Description of affected public; (7) 

Estimate of total annual reporting and 

recordkeeping burden; and (8) 

Frequency of collection. 

PHMSA will request a three-year term 

of approval for this information 

collection. PHMSA requests comments 

on the following information: 

1. Title: National Pipeline Mapping 

System Program. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0596. 

Expiration Date: 1/31/2023. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

previously approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: The Pipeline Safety 

Improvement Act of 2002 (Pub. L. 107– 

355), 49 U.S.C. 60132, ‘‘National 

Pipeline Mapping System,’’ requires the 

operator of a pipeline facility (except 

distribution lines and gathering lines) to 

provide information to PHMSA. Each 

operator is required to submit geospatial 

data appropriate for use in the National 

Pipeline Mapping System or data in a 

format that can be readily converted to 

geospatial data; the name and address of 

the person with primary operational 

control (to be known as its operator); 

and a means for a member of the public 

to contact the operator for additional 

information about the pipeline facilities 

it operates. Operators would submit the 

requested data elements once and make 

annual updates to the data if necessary. 

These data elements strengthen the 

effectiveness of PHMSA’s risk rankings 

and evaluations, which are used as a 

factor in determining pipeline 

inspection priority and frequency; allow 

for more effective assistance to 

emergency responders by providing 

them with a more reliable, complete 

data set of pipelines and facilities; and 

provide better support to PHMSA’s 

inspectors by providing more accurate 

pipeline locations and additional 

pipeline-related geospatial data that can 

be linked to tabular data in PHMSA’s 

inspection database. 

This proposed revision would require 

operators to submit geospatial data for 

MCAs, as defined in 49 CFR part 192, 

and data based on the applicability of 

§ 192.710 assessments outside of HCAs. 

This revision would also require 

operators to submit the data element 

‘‘SMYS’’ in psig in place of submitting 

data on pipe grade. PHMSA does not 

expect operators to incur additional 

burden due to the inclusion of these 

new and revised elements. PHMSA 

believes that the annual burden allotted 

for this information collection is 

sufficient for operators to include the 

newly requested data elements. A 

detailed breakdown of the estimated 

burden for this information collection 

can be found at www.regulations.gov. 

Respondents: Operators of gas 

transmission, hazardous liquid, or 

liquefied natural gas pipeline facilities. 

Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Burden: 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

1,346 responses. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden: 

162,208 hours. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Comments are invited on: 

(a) The need for the renewal and 

revision of this collection of information 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; 

(b) The accuracy of the Agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information, 

(c) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(d) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are required to respond, including 

the use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as 

amended; and 49 CFR 1.48. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on March 7, 

2022, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 

1.97. 

Alan K. Mayberry, 

Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. 

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United States Mint 

Establish Price for United States Mint 

Numismatic Product 

AGENCY: United States Mint, Department 

of the Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The United States Mint is 

announcing pricing for the following 

new United States Mint numismatic 

product in accordance with the table 

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