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vehicle manufacturers report wheelbase, 

track width and footprint measurements 

for each vehicle configuration in their 

annual CAFE reports starting in model 

year (MY) 2008 for light trucks and MY 

2011 for passenger cars. 

To validate manufacturer’s reported 

vehicle wheelbase, track width and 

footprint information, NHTSA issued a 

TP indicating the methods that will be 

used to physically measure these 

corresponding dimensions. 

Workshops: To enable interested 

parties and NHTSA personnel to discuss 

the questions concerning TP–216a and 

TP–537, NHTSA believes that it would 

be desirable to hold two technical 

workshops and demonstrations on these 

test procedures. The scope of these 

workshops is strictly limited to issues 

surrounding implementation of OVSC 

Laboratory Test Procedure TP–216a and 

TP–537. TP–216a and 537 are posted on 

the NHTSA Web site at http:// 

www.dot.gov (under ‘‘Test Procedures’’ 

on the ‘‘Vehicles and Equipment’’ page). 

Agenda for the workshops and 

demonstrations: The workshops will be 

held one or two days during the week 

of June 22, 2009. The agenda includes 

technical discussions about the 

execution of the compliance tests, lunch 

(to be paid for by each participant), and 

physical test demonstrations. The 

following is a preliminary agenda for 

the workshops. 

FMVSS No. 216a Workshop and 

Demonstration 

I. Check-In 

II. Welcome and Introductory Remarks 

III. FMVSS No. 216a Final Rule 

Highlights 

IV. OVSC Test Procedure TP–216a 

Content 

V. Discussion of Technical Issues With 

Test Procedure 

VI. Physical Demonstration of Roof 

Crush Test 

VII. Questions & Answers 

Part 537 Workshop and Demonstration 

I. Check-In 

II. Welcome and Introductory Remarks 

III. CAFE Program Highlights 

IV. OVSC Test Procedure TP–537 

Content 

V. Discussion of Technical Issues With 

Test Procedure 

VI. Physical Demonstration of Foot Print 

Determination 

VII. Questions & Answers 

Submission of Agenda Items: Written 

suggestions regarding test procedure 

technical issues to be included in the 

agenda(s) should be submitted to the 

address below and must be received by 

the agency on or before June 8, 2009. 

You may submit comments identified 

by DOT DMS Docket Number NHTSA 

2009–0068 by any of the following 

methods: 

• Web site: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

on the DOT electronic docket site. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility; 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Ave., SE., West Building, 

Room W12–140, Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery: Room W12–140 on 

the Ground Level of the West Building, 

1200 New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, 

DC, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the Online 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this technical workshop 

notice. Note that all comments received 

will be posted without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read comments received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov at any time or to 

Room W12–140 on the ground level of 

the West Building, 1200 New Jersey 

Ave., SE., Washington, DC, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

To Register for this Workshop: Each 

person wishing to participate in one or 

both of the workshops must register 

with NHTSA by June 8, 2009. You can 

register by contacting Mr. Rae Tyson (for 

media representatives), Will Otero (for 

Congressional members), Ms. Maritza 

Marshall or Ms. Elena Sonsev (for all 

other interested parties) on or before 

June 8, 2009; contact information for 

Mr. Rae Tyson, Mr. Otero, Ms. Marshall 

and Ms. Sonsev is listed above. To 

register, you must provide NHTSA with 

the name, title, organizational affiliation 

(if applicable), contact information 

(mailing address, phone numbers (Voice 

and fax), and email address), and 

specify if available lunch will be 

purchased. Food options on site are 

limited. Participants may purchase 

lunch in cash upon check-in each day. 

Ms. Marshall or Ms. Sonsev will have 

information about the lunch options and 

associated costs at time of registration. 

Due to space limitations, NHTSA may 

have to limit the number of participants 

per organization. 

You will be contacted only if this 

meeting is postponed or cancelled. 

Issued: May 15, 2009. 

Harry Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Vehicle Safety 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. E9–11839 Filed 5–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement (Final 

EIS) and the ANILCA Section 810 

Analysis of Impacts to Subsistence 

Resources for Proposed Improvement 

Activities at the Sitka Rocky Gutierrez 

Airport, Sitka, AK 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation (DOT). The Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM), U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers (USACE), and 

National Marine Fisheries Services 

(NMFS) are cooperating agencies, by 

virtue of their jurisdictional authority 

and/or resource management 

responsibilities. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations (40 CFR part 1500–1508) the 

Federal Aviation Administration is 

issuing this notice to advise the public 

that the Final ElS for Proposed 

Improvement Activities at the Sitka 

Rocky Gutierrez Airport (SIT) has been 

prepared and is available for public 

review. Written requests for copies of 

the Final EIS can be submitted to the 

individual listed in the section, FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Final EIS Availability and Review 

Copies of the Final EIS may be viewed 

during regular business hours at the 

following locations: 

1. Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue 

#14, Anchorage, AK 99513–7504. (907) 

271–5454 or (907) 271–5438. 

2. Kettleson Memorial Library, 320 

Harbor Drive, Sitka, AK 99835. (907) 

747–8708. 

3. Alaska Department of 

Transportation and Public Facilities, 

6860 Glacier Highway, Juneau, AK 

99811. 

4. Downtown Juneau Public Library, 

292 Marine Way, Juneau, AK 99801. 

(907) 586–5249. 

The Federal Aviation Administration, 

Airports Division has a limited number 

of CDs of the entire Final EIS and the 

Executive Summary available for public 


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distribution. Please contact the Federal 

Aviation Administration at (907) 271– 

5438 for a copy. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Sitka 

Rocky Gutierrez Airport Master Plan 

outlined development goals and projects 

that are anticipated to be necessary over 

the next 20 or more years at the Airport. 

This Final EIS discusses the proposed 

improvements recommended at the 

Airport over the next five years, which 

have the potential to result in significant 

adverse environmental impacts. The 

FAA and the State of Alaska Department 

of Transportation and Public Facilities 

(DOT & PF) propose the following 

projects recommended over the next 

five years at the Airport to meet the 

identified needs. The major actions 

assessed in this Final EIS include: 

b Improvements to the Runway 

Safety Area. 

b Extension of the Parallel Taxiway. 

b Relocation of the Airport Seaplane 

Pullout. 

b Installation of an Approach 

Lighting System. 

b Repairs and Improvements to the 

Airport Seawall. 

b Acquisition of Sufficient Property 

Rights to Lands Needed for Existing and 

Future Aviation and Airport Uses. 

The proposed Airport improvements 

would be completed during the 2010– 

2015 time period and, depending on the 

alternatives implemented, may result in 

temporary or long-term impacts to the 

coastal resources, marine environment 

and wildlife (including species 

protected under the Endangered Species 

Act), water quality, wetlands, historical, 

architectural, archaeological, and 

cultural resources, terrestrial wildlife 

and vegetation, and subsistence. 

Section 810 of the Alaska National 

Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) 

requires an evaluation on the effects of 

alternatives presented in this Final EIS 

on subsistence activities occurring on 

public lands in the planning area. The 

evaluation in the Final EIS indicates 

that none of the alternatives 

significantly restrict subsistence 

activities. 

If the transfer of title option is 

selected for the acquisition of property 

rights, the lands would change from 

Federal to State ownership. This would 

result in the loss of Federal subsistence 

regulations applying on those lands and 

the irreversible loss of opportunities for 

a subsistence priority for rural residents 

from loss of Federal public lands. A 

long-term lease or easement would 

preserve opportunities for a subsistence 

priority for rural residents by retaining 

Federal ownership of public lands. 

The FAA conducted a public hearing 

on the Draft EIS October 2, 2008 and 

received comments on the Draft EIS 

through October 14, 2008. The FAA has 

reviewed and responded to the 

comments received during the Draft EIS 

comment period and made revisions to 

the EIS as appropriate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Patricia Sullivan. Environmental 

Specialist, Federal Aviation 

Administration, Alaskan Region, 

Airports Division, 222 W. 7th Avenue 

#14, Anchorage, AK 99513–7504. Ms. 

Sullivan may be contacted during 

business hours at (907) 271–5454 

(phone) and (907) 271–2851 (facsimile). 

Issued in Anchorage, Alaska on May 14, 

2009. 

Byron K. Huffman, 

Mananger, Airports Division, Alaskan Region. 

[FR Doc. E9–11764 Filed 5–20–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–13–M 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2009–0148] 

Pipeline Safety: Potential Low and 

Variable Yield and Tensile Strength 

and Chemical Composition Properties 

in High Strength Line Pipe 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA); DOT. 

ACTION: Notice; Issuance of Advisory 

Bulletin. 

SUMMARY: PHMSA is issuing an advisory 

bulletin to owners and operators of 

natural gas pipeline and hazardous 

liquid pipeline systems. This bulletin 

advises pipeline system owners and 

operators of the potential for high grade 

line pipe installed on projects to exhibit 

inconsistent chemical and mechanical 

properties. Yield strength and tensile 

strength properties that do not meet the 

line pipe specification minimums have 

been reported. This advisory bulletin 

pertains to microalloyed high strength 

line pipe grades, generally Grade X–70 

and above. PHMSA recently reviewed 

metallurgical testing results from several 

recent projects indicating pipe joints 

produced from plate or coil from the 

same heat may exhibit variable chemical 

and mechanical properties by as much 

as 15% lower than the strength values 

specified by the pipe manufacturer. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alan Mayberry by phone at (202) 366– 

5124 or by e-mail at 

alan.mayberry@dot.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Federal pipeline safety 

regulations in 49 CFR Parts 192 and 195 

require operators of natural gas 

transmission, distribution pipeline 

systems, and hazardous liquids pipeline 

systems to use pipe manufactured by a 

listed specification in the design of 

pipelines in accordance with §§ 192.7, 

192.55(a), 192.105, and §§ 195.3, 

195.106, and 195.112. 

During pipeline construction in the 

late-fall of 2008, several recently 

installed natural gas transmission 

pipeline systems experienced field 

hydrostatic test failures or excessively 

expanded pipe joints of large diameter, 

microalloyed high grade line pipe. 

Metallurgical, mechanical and chemical 

composition tests of the line pipe in 

these cases have shown pipe to have 

yield strengths, tensile strengths and/or 

chemical compositions that did not 

meet the requirements of the American 

Petroleum Institute, Specification for 

Line Pipe—5L, (API 5L), 43rd edition 

for the specified pipe grade. API 5L, 

product specification level (PSL 2), 

specifies material requirements in 

Section 6 and inspection and testing 

standards in Section 9. Even though the 

pipe supplier provided the pipeline 

owner or operator with documentation 

that the pipe that was delivered to the 

owner met these minimum standards, 

substandard pipe properties were found 

in some pipe joints. Specifically, 

PHMSA was made aware that some of 

the line pipe that was installed in these 

projects had yield strengths that were 

up to 15% below the listed API 5L 

specification requirements for the 

specific pipe grade. 

Pipeline owners and operators should 

closely review the manufacturing 

procedure specifications for the 

production and rolling of the steel plate 

or coil that is to be used in the 

production of new microalloyed high 

strength line pipe to ensure that pipe 

steel was properly rolled into steel plate 

or coil prior to the pipe mill rolling 

process. Pipeline owners and operators 

should request detailed manufacturing 

procedure specifications (MPS) from the 

pipe manufacturer as a basis for 

ensuring critical steel processing 

parameters such as the detailed rolling 

schedule, including, but not limited to 

rolling temperature, heating temperature 

and temperature uniformity, are 

controlled throughout the steel rolling 

process. 

Mechanical property and chemical 

composition tests should be conducted 

throughout the steel making, steel 

rolling and pipe manufacturing process 

to ensure uniformity of chemical and 


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