[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 78 (Monday, April 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17750-17751]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9736]



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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research and Special Programs Administration


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

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Department of Transportation, Room 2230, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., 
Washington, DC 20590.
    On May 7, 1996, at 9 a.m., the TPSSC will meet. Agenda items 
include discussion of the Mail Ballot on Docket PS-143, Periodic 
Updates to Pipeline Safety Regulations (61 FR 8231), published March 4, 
1996.
    On May 7, 1996, at 1 p.m., the TPSSC will be joined by members of 
the THLPSSC for a joint session which will include:

1. Welcome by the RSPA Administrator
2. Budget and Reauthorization
3. Regulatory Reinvention Initiative
4. Risk Management
5. State Programs and Grants
6. Damage Prevention Quality Action Team
    On May 8, 1996, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, the joint TPSSC-
THLPSSC session will include:
1. Briefing on Research and Development Contracts
2. Regulatory Reinvention Initiative
3. Regulatory Updates, including
    --Environmentally Sensitive Areas,
    --Excess Flow Valves,
    --Mapping Projects,
    --Increased Inspection Requirements, and
    --Emergency Flow Restricting Devices
    At 1 p.m., the THLPSSC will meet. Agenda items include discussion 
of Mail Ballot on Docket PS-143.
    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 
Eben Wyman, Room 2335, Department of Transportation Building, 400 
Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 366-0918, 
not later than April 30, 1996, 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 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 16, 1996.
Richard B. Felder.
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 96-9736 Filed 4-19-96; 8:45 am]
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