[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 208 (Friday, October 25, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55356-55357]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-27487]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA)


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 Department of 
Transportation, Room 2230, 400 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, DC 
20590.
    On November 6, 1996, at 10:00 a.m., the THLPSSC will meet. Agenda 
items include:

1. Emergency Flow Restriction Devices
2. API Risk Based Approach to Hydrostatic Testing
3. Breakout Tanks and Tank Standards
4. Lines Operating below 20% of SMYS
5. OPA Status Update
6. Progress in Defining Unusually Sensitive Areas

    On November 6, 1996, at 1:00 p.m., the THLPSSC will be joined by 
members of the TPSSC for a joint session which will include:

1. Welcome by the OPS Associate Administrator
2. Panel on Reauthorization and the Budget
3. Regulatory Reform Phase II
4. Compliance Policy Task Force
5. General Regulatory Update
6. Preparation for Risk Management Demonstration Project
7. Strategy for Improving Access to Pipeline Data and Meeting the 
Government Performance Results Act

    On November 7, 1996, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:00 noon, the joint TPSSC-
THLPSSC session will include:

1. OPS Rulemakings Update
2. Report on National Pipeline Mapping Project and Follow-up Strategy
3. Non-Destructive Evaluation Project
4. Offshore Update
5. Proposed Damage Prevention Quality Action Team
6. Operator Qualification Negotiated Rulemaking

    At 1:00 p.m. on November 7, the TPSSC will meet. Agenda items 
include:

1. Welcome by the OPS Associate Administrator
2. Definition of Gas Gathering Lines
3. Liquid Natural Gas Regulatory Updates
4. Excess Flow Valve Performance Standards Customer Notification

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5. Determining the Extent of Corrosion on Exposed Gas Lines
6. Passage of Instrumented Internal Inspection Devices
7. Plastic Pipe Issues

    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 
Mary Jo Cooney, Room 2335, Department of Transportation Building, 400 
Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, DC 20590, telephone (202) 366-4774, 
not later than October 31, 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 October 21, 1996.
Richard B. Felder,
Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 96-27487 Filed 10-24-96; 8:45 am]
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