[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 131 (Monday, July 10, 1995)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 35549]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16811]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration

49 CFR Part 195

[Docket PS-140, Notice 2]
RIN 2137-AC34


Areas Unusually Sensitive to Environmental Damage

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), DOT.

ACTION: Extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: This notice extends the comment period for the public workshop 
notice on areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage which RSPA 
published May 26, 1995.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments by August 25, 
1995.

ADDRESSES: Written comments must be submitted in duplicate and mailed 
or hand delivered to the Dockets Unit, Room 8421, U.S. Department of 
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001. 
Please refer to the docket and notice numbers stated in the heading of 
this notice. All comments and materials cited in this document will be 
available for inspection and copying in Room 8421 between 8:30 a.m. and 
4:30 p.m. each business day. Non-federal employee visitors are admitted 
into the DOT headquarters building through the southwest entrance at 
Seventh and E Streets, SW.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina Sames, (202) 366-4561, about 
this document, or the Dockets Unit, (202) 366-5046, for copies of this 
document or other materials in the docket.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 15 and 16, 1995, RSPA held a public 
workshop on unusually sensitive environmental areas. The workshop's 
purpose was to openly discuss the criteria being considered by RSPA to 
determine areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage from a 
hazardous liquid pipeline release. The criteria are needed to carry out 
statutory requirements. RSPA requested that persons unable to attend 
the workshop submit written comments by June 26, 1995.
    The American Petroleum Institute (API) sent a letter to the docket 
requesting a 60 day extension be granted for comment to the notice 
announcing the public workshop on areas unusually sensitive to 
environmental damage (60 FR 27948). API stated that an extension was 
necessary to allow its members time to review the information in the 
notice, to evaluate the potential value of the approach, and to prepare 
comments for RSPA's consideration.
    RSPA has decided the 60 day extension to the public comment period 
is reasonable to allow API and others to evaluate and respond to the 
information presented in the public workshop notice. The comment period 
will therefore be extended to close on August 25, 1995.

    Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60102, 60108, 60109; 49 CFR 1.53 and 
Appendix A to part 106.

    Issued in Washington, DC on July 3, 1995.
Cesar De Leon,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 95-16811 Filed 7-7-95; 8:45 am]
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