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2158). Regulations governing is 

Agreement appear at 44 CFR Part 332 

and are reflected at 49 CFR Subtitle A. 

The applicant, if selected, hereby 

acknowledges and agrees to the 

incorporation by reference into this 

Application and Agreement of the entire 

text of the Voluntary Tanker Agreement 

published in 72 FR 41099, July 26, 2007, 

as though said text were physically 

recited herein. 

The applicant, as Participant, agrees 

to comply with the provisions of 

Section 708 of the Defense Production 

Act of 1950, as amended, the regulations 

of 44 CFR Part 332 and as reflected at 

49 CFR Subtitle A, and the terms of the 

Voluntary Tanker Agreement. Further, 

the applicant, if selected as a 

Participant, hereby agrees to 

contractually commit to make vessels or 

capacity available for use by the 

Department of Defense and to other 

Participants for the purpose of meeting 

national defense requirements. 

By order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Dated: August 25, 2008. 

Leonard Sutter, 

Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

[FR Doc. E8–20392 Filed 9–3–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–81–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2008–0211] 

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, the 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA) invites 

comments on its intention to revise 

forms PHMSA F 7100.2—Incident 

Report For Gas Transmission and 

Gathering Systems; PHMSA F 7100.1—

Incident Report for Gas Distribution 

Systems; and PHMSA F 7000–1—

Accident Report for Hazardous Liquid 

Pipeline Systems, and its intention to 

request approval from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

revised information collection burdens. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 3, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by the docket number 

PHMSA–2008–0211 by any of the 

following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management System, 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 

Docket Operations, M–30, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

• Hand Delivery: Docket Operations, 

M–30, West Building Ground Floor, 

Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590, 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number or Regulation Identification 

Number (RIN) for this notice. Internet 

users may access comments received by 

DOT at: http://www.regulations.gov. 

Note that comments received will be 

posted without change to: http:// 

www.regulations.gov including any 

personal information provided. 

Requests for a copy of an information 

collection should be directed to Roger 

Little by telephone at 202–366–4569, by 

fax at 202–366–4566, or by mail at U.S. 

Department of Transportation, Pipeline 

and Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., PHP–10, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Roger Little by telephone at 202–366–

4569, by fax at 202–366–4566, or by 

mail at U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., PHP–10, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 revised information collection 

requests that PHMSA will be submitting 

to OMB for renewal and extension. The 

information collected pertaining to 

reportable natural gas transmission 

incidents provides an important tool for 

identifying safety trends in the gas 

pipeline industry. The National 

Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), 

and the Government Accountability 

Office (GAO) have urged PHMSA to 

revise the information collected on the 

natural gas pipeline operator incident 

and hazardous liquid pipeline operator 

accident report forms. NTSB Safety 

Recommendation P–05–04 recommends 

that PHMSA take action to change the 

liquid accident reporting form (PHMSA 

F 7000–1) and require operators to 

provide data related to controller 

fatigue. Additionally, section 20 of the 

Pipeline Inspection, Protection, 

Enforcement, and Safety Act of 2006 

(PIPES Act) requires PHMSA to ‘‘amend 

accident reporting forms to require 

operators of gas and hazardous liquid 

pipelines to provide data related to 

controller fatigue.’’ GAO recommended 

in its report, GAO–06–946 titled 

‘‘Integrity Management Benefits Public 

Safety, but Consistency of Performance 

Measures Should Be Improved’’ that 

‘‘To improve the consistency and 

usefulness of the integrity management 

performance measures, we are 

recommending that the Secretary of 

Transportation direct the Administrator 

for the Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration to take 

the following two actions: 

(1) Revising the definition of a 

reportable incident to consider changes 

in the price of natural gas; and 

(2) Establish consistent categories of 

causes for incidents and leaks on all gas 

pipeline reports.’’ Recommendation 

number (1) is to be addressed by a 

future rulemaking and recommendation 

number (2) is addressed through 

improvements in incident forms 

addressed through this information 

collection request (ICR). 

PHMSA consulted industry and trade 

association representatives of the 

Interstate Natural Gas Association of 

America, the American Gas Association, 

the American Petroleum Institute, and 

state pipeline safety office 

representatives through the National 

Association of Pipeline Safety 

Representatives, in considering 

revisions to the natural gas pipeline 

operator incident and hazardous liquid 

pipeline operator accident report forms 

to make the information collected more 

useful to industry, government, and the 

public. 

PHMSA has revised burden estimates, 

where appropriate, to reflect revisions to 

the accident and incident reporting 

forms since the information collections 

were last approved. The following 

information is provided for each 

information collection: (1) Abstract for 

affected accident and incident reporting 

forms; (2) title of the information 

collection; (3) OMB control number; (4) 

affected accident or incident form; (5) 

description of affected public; (6) 

estimate of total annual reporting and 

recordkeeping burden; and (7) 

frequency of collection. PHMSA will 

request a three-year term of approval for 

each information collection activity and, 


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1Effective July 18, 2008, the filing fee for an OFA 

increased to $1,500. See Regulations Governing 

Fees for Services Performed in Connection with 

Licensing and Related Services—2008 Update, STB 

Ex Parte No. 542 (Sub-No. 15) (STB served June 18, 

2008). 

when approved by OMB, publish notice 

of the approval in the Federal Register. 

PHMSA requests comments on the 

following information collections: 

Abstract: To ensure adequate public 

protection from exposure to potential 

natural gas and hazardous liquid 

pipeline failures, PHMSA collects 

information on reportable natural gas 

pipeline incidents and hazardous liquid 

pipeline accidents. Additional 

information is also obtained concerning 

the characteristics of an operator’s 

pipeline system. This information is 

needed for normalizing the incident 

information in order to provide for 

adequate safety trending. The 

requirements for reporting natural gas 

incidents are found in 49 CFR Part 191 

and for reporting hazardous liquid 

pipeline accidents are found in 49 CFR 

Part 195. The regulations require 

submission of these reports within 30 

days of the incident or accident 

occurrence. The information is used to 

assist Federal and state pipeline safety 

programs for accident trending and by 

industry, trade associations and other 

interested stakeholders, and to provide 

a background for accident 

investigations. 

Title: Transportation of Hazardous 

Liquids by Pipeline: Recordkeeping and 

Accident Reporting. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0047. 

Form: Accident Report—Hazardous 

Liquid Pipeline Systems (Form No. 

PHMSA–7000–1). 

Affected Public: Hazardous liquid 

pipeline operators. 

Recordkeeping: 

Number of Respondents: 200. 

Total Annual Responses: 130 long 

form, 200 short form. 

Long form is for spills of five or more 

barrels; short form is for spills of 5 

gallons to less than 5 barrels. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 1332. 

Frequency of collection: 

Short form: 200 reports/200 operators 

per year = 1 short form per operator 

annually; 

130 reports/200 operators per year = 

.65 long forms per operator annually. 

Title: Incident and Annual Reports for 

Gas Pipeline Operators. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0522. 

Form: Incident Report—Gas 

Distribution System (Form PHMSA F 

7100.1). 

Affected Public: Natural gas 

distribution pipeline operators. 

Recordkeeping: 

Number of Respondents: 1200. 

Total Annual Responses: 155. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 1210. 

Frequency of collection: 155 incidents 

per year /1200 operators = 0.14. 

Title: Incident and Annual Reports for 

Gas Pipeline Operators. 

OMB Control Number: 2137–0522. 

Form: Incident Report—Gas 

Transmission and Gathering Systems 

(Form PHMSA F 7100.2). 

Affected Public: Natural gas 

transmission pipeline operators. 

Recordkeeping: 

Number of Respondents: 900. 

Total Annual Responses: 153. 

Total Annual Burden Hours: 1,102. 

Frequency of collection: 153 incidents 

per year/900 operators = 0.17. 

Comments are invited on: (a) The 

need for the proposed 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 

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. 

Issued in Washington, DC on August 28, 

2008. 

Joy O. Kadnar, 

Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline 

Safety. 

[FR Doc. E8–20440 Filed 9–3–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–60–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Surface Transportation Board 

[STB Docket No. AB–497 (Sub-No. 4X)] 

Minnesota Northern Railroad, Inc.—

Abandonment Exemption—in Norman 

County, MN 

On August 15, 2008, Minnesota 

Northern Railroad, Inc. (MNN) filed 

with the Board a petition under 49 

U.S.C. 10502 for exemption from the 

provisions of 49 U.S.C. 10903 to 

abandon a 19.2-mile portion of its ‘‘P 

Line’’ subdivision between milepost 

21.0, at or near Perley, and milepost 

40.2, at the north end of the Marsh River 

Bridge south of Shelly, in Norman 

County, MN. The line traverses United 

States Postal Service Zip Codes 56548, 

56550, 56574, and 56581, and includes 

the stations of Perley (milepost 21.0), 

Hendrum (milepost 27.4), and Halstad 

(milepost 33.5). 

The line does not contain federally 

granted rights-of-way. Any 

documentation in MNN’s possession 

will be made available promptly to 

those requesting it. 

The interest of railroad employees 

will be protected by the conditions set 

forth in Oregon Short Line R. Co.—

Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C. 91 

(1979). 

By issuing this notice, the Board is 

instituting an exemption proceeding 

pursuant to 49 U.S.C. 10502(b). A final 

decision will be issued by December 3, 

2008. 

Any offer of financial assistance 

(OFA) under 49 CFR 1152.27(b)(2) will 

be due no later than 10 days after 

service of a decision granting the 

petition for exemption. Each OFA must 

be accompanied by a $1,500 filing fee. 

See 49 CFR 1002.2(f)(25).1

All interested persons should be 

aware that, following abandonment of 

rail service and salvage of the line, the 

line may be suitable for other public 

use, including interim trail use. Any 

request for a public use condition under 

49 CFR 1152.28 or for trail use/rail 

banking under 49 CFR 1152.29 will be 

due no later than September 24, 2008. 

Each trail use request must be 

accompanied by a $200 filing fee. See 49 

CFR 1002.2(f)(27). 

All filings in response to this notice 

must refer to STB Docket No. AB–497 

(Sub-No. 4X), and must be sent to: (1) 

Surface Transportation Board, 395 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20423–

0001; and (2) Thomas F. McFarland, 208 

South LaSalle Street, Suite 1890, 

Chicago, IL 60604–1112. Replies to the 

petition are due on or before September 

24, 2008. 

Persons seeking further information 

concerning abandonment procedures 

may contact the Board’s Office of Public 

Assistance, Governmental Affairs, and 

Compliance at (202) 245–0238 or refer 

to the full abandonment or 

discontinuance regulations at 49 CFR 

part 1152. Questions concerning 

environmental issues may be directed to 

the Board’s Section of Environmental 

Analysis (SEA) at (202) 245–0305. 

[Assistance for the hearing impaired is 

available through the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–

800–877–8339.] 

An environmental assessment (EA) (or 

environmental impact statement (EIS), if 

necessary) prepared by SEA will be 

served upon all parties of record and 

upon any agencies or other persons who 

commented during its preparation. 

Other interested persons may contact 

SEA to obtain a copy of the EA (or EIS). 

EAs in these abandonment proceedings 


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