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Major topic areas addressed in the 

guidance document include: 

• Establishing Safety Performance 

Goals. 

• Identifying Required Metrics. 

• Selecting Additional Meaningful 

Metrics. 

• Metric Monitoring and Data 

Collection. 

• Program Evaluation Using Metrics. 

The guidance document includes 

tables listing regulation-required metrics 

and other programmatic and threatspecific metrics that operators could 

include in their documented IM 

program evaluations. 

• Table 1 lists the IM-related metrics 

documented in pipeline operators’ 

annual reports. 

• Table 2 lists the threat-specific 

metrics required by § 192.945 for gas 

transmission and required by 

§ 192.1007(g) for gas distribution 

systems. 

• Table 3 provides guidance for 

operators and inspectors to identify 

meaningful metrics to help understand 

and measure the effectiveness of the 

individual program elements and 

processes used in an IM program. 

• Table 4 provides guidance for 

operators and inspectors to identify 

meaningful threat-specific metrics that 

may be required to effectively measure 

the performance of gas transmission, 

hazardous liquid transmission and gas 

distribution pipeline IM programs. 

II. Advisory Bulletin (ADB–2014–05) 

To: Owners and Operators of Natural 

Gas and Hazardous Liquid Pipelines. 

Subject: Guidance for Strengthening 

Pipeline Safety Through Rigorous 

Program Evaluation and Meaningful 

Metrics. 

Advisory: The Pipeline and 

Hazardous Materials Safety 

Administration (PHMSA) is issuing this 

Advisory Bulletin to inform owners and 

operators of natural gas and hazardous 

liquid pipelines that PHMSA has 

developed guidance on the elements 

and characteristics of a mature IM 

program evaluation process using 

meaningful metrics. This guidance 

document titled ‘‘Guidance for 

Strengthening Pipeline Safety Through 

Rigorous Program Evaluation and 

Meaningful Metrics,’’ is available on 

PHMSA’s public Web site at http://

phmsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/PHMSA/

DownloadableFiles/Pipeline/

Regulations/IMPEG.pdf, and should be 

used when operators develop and 

perform IM program evaluations. This 

guidance document provides additional 

specificity to several of the topics 

detailed in a previously issued Advisory 

Bulletin, ADB–2012–10, ‘‘Using 

Meaningful Metrics in Conducting 

Integrity Management Program 

Evaluations.’’ 

Operators under the current 

regulations are required to perform 

program evaluations and use 

meaningful metrics. PHMSA’s 

‘‘Guidance for Strengthening Pipeline 

Safety Through Rigorous Program 

Evaluation and Meaningful Metrics’’ 

builds on existing standards and 

regulations to provide a more detailed 

and comprehensive description of the 

steps involved in program evaluations 

as well as the selection of meaningful 

performance metrics to support these 

evaluations. The guidance expands and 

clarifies PHMSA’s expectations for 

operator processes when measuring IM 

program effectiveness. 

PHMSA inspectors will use the 

program evaluation guidance within 

‘‘Guidance for Strengthening Pipeline 

Safety Through Rigorous Program 

Evaluation and Meaningful Metrics’’ as 

criteria when evaluating the 

effectiveness of operator IM program 

evaluations to assure operators are 

developing sound program evaluation 

processes and are developing and 

applying a robust and meaningful set of 

performance metrics in their program 

evaluations. 

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

CFR 1.97. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on October 09, 

2014. 

Jeffrey D. Wiese, 

Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety. 

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Pietrangeli, Director for Office of Debt 

Management (202) 622–1876. 

Dated: October 7, 2014. 

Matthew S. Rutherford, 

Acting Under Secretary (for Domestic 

Finance). 

[FR Doc. 2014–24411 Filed 10–14–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade 

Bureau 

[Docket No. TTB–2014–0002] 

Proposed Information Collections; 

Comment Request (No. 49) 

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 December 15, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: As described below, you 

may send comments on the information 

collections listed in this document 

using the ‘‘Regulations.gov’’ online 

comment form for this document, or you 

may send written comments via U.S. 

mail or hand delivery. TTB no longer 

accepts public comments via email or 

fax. 

• http://www.regulations.gov: Use the 

comment form for this document posted 

within Docket No. TTB–2014–0002 on 

‘‘Regulations.gov,’’ the Federal erulemaking portal, to submit comments 

via the Internet; 

• U.S. Mail: Michael Hoover, 

Regulations and Rulings Division, 

Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade 

Bureau, 1310 G Street NW., Box 12, 

Washington, DC 20005. 

• Hand Delivery/Courier in Lieu of 

Mail: Michael Hoover, Alcohol and 

Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G 

Street NW., Suite 200–E, Washington, 

DC 20005. 

Please submit separate comments for 

each specific information collection 

listed in this document. You must 

reference the information collection’s 

title, form or recordkeeping requirement 

number, and OMB number (if any) in 

your comment. 

You may view copies of this 

document, the information collections 

listed in it and any associated 

instructions, and all comments received 

in response to this document within 

Docket No. TTB–2014–0002 at http://

www.regulations.gov. A link to that 

docket is posted on the TTB Web site at 

http://www.ttb.gov/forms/c comment-onform.shtml. You may also obtain paper 

copies of this document, the 

information collections described in it 

and any associated instructions, and any 

comments received in response to this 

document by contacting Michael Hoover 

at the addresses or telephone number 

shown below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Hoover, Alcohol and Tobacco 

Tax and Trade Bureau, 1310 G Street 

NW., Box 12, Washington, DC 20005; 

telephone 202–453–1039, ext. 135; or 

email informationcollections@ttb.gov 

(please do not submit comments on this 

notice to this email address). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Request for Comments 

The Department of the Treasury and 

its Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade 

Bureau (TTB), as part of their 

continuing effort to reduce paperwork 

and respondent burden, invite the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies to comment on the proposed or 

continuing information collections 

listed below in this notice, as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be included or 

summarized in our request for Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 

approval of the relevant information 

collection. All comments are part of the 

public record and subject to disclosure. 

Please do not include any confidential 

or inappropriate material in your 

comments. 

We invite comments on: (a) Whether 

this information collection is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

agency’s functions, including whether 

the information has practical utility; (b) 

the accuracy of the agency’s estimate of 

the information collection’s burden; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information collected; (d) 

ways to minimize the information 

collection’s burden on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology; and (e) 

estimates of capital or start-up costs and 

costs of operation, maintenance, and 

purchase of services to provide the 

requested information. 

Information Collections Open for 

Comment 

Currently, we are seeking comments 

on the following forms, recordkeeping 

requirements, or questionnaires: 

Title: Registration of Volatile FruitFlavor Concentrate Plants; REC 5520/2. 

OMB Control Number: 1513–0006. 

TTB Form Number: 5520.3. 

TTB Recordkeeping Requirement 

Number: 5520/2. 

Abstract: Under provisions of the 

Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as 

amended (IRC), at 26 U.S.C. 5511, 

persons who wish to establish premises 

to manufacture volatile fruit-flavor 

concentrates are required by regulation 

to file an application to do so using TTB 

F 5520.3. TTB uses the application 

information to identify persons engaging 

in such manufacture since these 

products contain ethyl alcohol and have 

potential for use as alcohol beverages, 

which would have Federal excise tax 

implications. The application 

constitutes registry of a still, which is a 

statutory requirement of the IRC at 26 

U.S.C. 5179. Subsequent to the original 

application, manufacturers are required 

to use TTB F 5520.3 to report any 

changes that affect the accuracy of the 

form, such as a change in name, plant 

location, or ownership. Records to 

support the information provided on 

TTB F 5520.3 must be retained for 3 

years. 

Current Actions: We are submitting 

this information collection for extension 

purposes only. The information 

collection, estimated number of 

respondents, and estimated total annual 

burden hours remain unchanged. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

80. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 160. 

Title: Annual Report of Concentrate 

Manufacturer; and Usual and Customary 

Business Records—Volatile Fruit-Flavor 

Concentrate, TTB REC 5520/1. 

OMB Number: 1513–0022. 

TTB Form Number: 5520.2. 

TTB Recordkeeping Requirement 

Number: 5520/1. 

Abstract: As authorized by the IRC at 

26 U.S.C. 5511, manufacturers of 

volatile fruit-flavor concentrate must 

provide reports as necessary to ensure 

the protection of the revenue. The 

report, TTB F 5520.2, accounts for all 

concentrates manufactured, removed, or 

treated so as to be unfit for beverage use. 

This information is required to verify 

that alcohol is not being diverted, 


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