[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 220 (Friday, November 14, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61163-61164]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-30025]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration


International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods; 
Public Meeting

AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), Department 
of Transportation.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise interested persons that RSPA will 
conduct a public meeting to report on the results of the fourteenth 
session of the United Nation's Sub-Committee of Experts on the 
Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE) and to discuss the work program 
for U.S. participation in future meetings of the UN Sub-Committee of 
Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods during the 1997-1998 
biennium.

DATES: January 6, 1998 at 9:30 a.m.

ADDRESSES: Room 8236-8240 Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frits Wybenga, International Standards 
Coordinator, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Department of 
Transportation, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 366-0656.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of this meeting will be 
to (1) review the outcome of the fourteenth session of the UNSCOE held 
from December 8-18, 1997 in Geneva Switzerland and to begin preparation 
for U.S. participation in the fifteenth session of the UNSCOE. Topics 
to be covered during the public meeting include matters related to 
reformatting the UN Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods 
into a model rule, criteria for environmentally hazardous substances, 
review of

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intermodal portable tank requirements, review of the requirements 
applicable to small quantities of hazardous materials in transport 
(limited quantities), classification of individual substances, 
requirements for bulk and non-bulk packagings used to transport 
hazardous material, requirements for inhalation toxicity materials, 
requirements and international harmonization of classification criteria 
and labeling.
    The public is invited to attend without prior notification.

Documents

    Copies of documents submitted to the fourteenth session of the 
UNSCOE may be obtained from RSPA or may be downloaded from the Internet 
at http://www.itu.int/itudoc/un/editrans/dgdb/dgscomm/scdocsnw,html.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on November 7, 1997.
Alan I. Roberts,
Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 97-30025 Filed 11-13-97; 8:45 am]
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