[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 65 (Friday, April 4, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16212-16213]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-8699]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA)


Meetings of Pipeline Safety Advisory Committees

    Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 
(Pub. L. 92-463, 5 U.S.C. App. 1) notice is hereby given of the 
following meetings of the Technical Pipeline Safety Standards Committee 
(TPSSC) and the Technical Hazardous Liquid Pipeline Safety Standards 
Committee (THLPSSC). Each Committee meeting, as well as a joint session 
of the two Committees, will be held at the Department of 
Transportation, Room 6332-36, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 
20590.
    On May 6, 1997, at 9:30 a.m., the TPSSC will meet. Agenda items 
include: discussion of the National Association of Pipeline Safety 
Representatives--Industry Petition for changes to 49 CFR Part 192; 
Update on Gas Gathering Lines; Office of Pipeline Safety formation of a 
Liquid Distribution Company Risk Assessment Quality Team (RAQT) with 
the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners; Liquefied 
Natural Gas Regulatory Updates; and Excess Flow Valve Performance 
Standards and Customer Notification: Final Rule.
    On May 7, 1997, at 1:30 p.m., the TPSSC will be joined by members 
of the THLPSSC for a joint session which will include:

1. Panel on One Call Legislation
2. Report on the Damage Prevention Quality Action Team
3. Metrication
4. General Regulatory Update
5. Risk Management Demonstration Program: Framework, Standard and 
Performance Measures
6. Risk Management Communications Framework and Orientation Program

    On May 7, 1997, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, the joint TPSSC-
THLPSSC session will include:

1. Briefing on Strategic Goals
2. OPS Rulemakings Update
3. National Pipeline Mapping Project and Development of Data Standards
4. Non-Destructive Evaluation Project
5. Offshore Update
6. Operator Qualification Negotiated Rulemaking

    At 1:30 p.m., the THLPSSC will meet. Agenda items include: 
Unusually Sensitive Areas; Breakout Tanks and Tank Standards; Lines 
Operating below 20% of SMYS; Update on Oil Pollution Act of 1990; Leak 
Detection and Emergency Flow Restriction Devices; and Risk-Based 
Alternative to Pressure Testing of Hazardous Liquid Pipelines.
    Each meeting will be open to the public. Members of the public may 
present oral statements on the topics. Due to the limited time 
available, each person who wants to make an oral statement must notify 
Peggy Thompson, Room 2335, Department of Transportation Building, 400 
Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 366-4595, 
not later than April 30, 1997, on the topics to be addressed and the 
time requested to address each topic. The presiding officer may deny 
any request to present an oral

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statement and may limit the time of any oral presentation. Members of 
the public may present written statements to the Committee before or 
after any meeting.

    Issued in Washington, DC on April 1, 1997.
Richard B. Felder,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 97-8699 Filed 4-3-97; 8:45 am]
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