[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 90 (Monday, May 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25896-25897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12345]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Research and Special Programs Administration


International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods; 
Public Meetings

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

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise interested persons that RSPA will 
conduct public meetings in preparation for and to report the results of 
the fifteenth session of the United Nation's Sub-Committee of Experts 
on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE) to be held June 29 through 
July 10, 1998 in Geneva, Switzerland.

DATES: June 18, 1998, 9:30 AM-1:00 PM; July 16, 1988, 9:30 AM-1:00 PM.

ADDRESSES: Both meetings will be held in room 6244, Nassif Building, 
400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of the first meeting 
will be to prepare for the fifteenth session of the UNSCOE and to 
discuss U.S. positions on UNSCOE proposals. The primary purpose of the 
second meeting will be to provide a briefing on the outcome of the 
session and to prepare for the Twentieth Session of the Committee of 
Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods which is scheduled for 
December 7-18, 1998 in Geneva, Switzerland. Topics to be covered during 
the public meeting include matters related to restructuring the UN 
Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods into a model rule 
including development of packing instructions prescribed the types of 
packagings for specific materials, international harmonization of 
classification criteria and labeling, review of intermodal portable 
tank requirements including requirements for multi-element gas 
containers, review of the requirements applicable to small quantities 
of hazardous materials in

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transport (limited quantities), classification of individual 
substances, requirements for toxic-by-inhalation substances and 
requirements applicable to the classification and transportation of 
explosives.
    The public is invited to attend without prior notification.

Documents

    Copies of documents submitted to the fifteenth session of the 
UNSCOE meeting may be obtained from the RSPA Dockets Division (202-366-
5046) or by downloading them from the United Nations Transport 
Division's web site at http://www.itu.int/itudoc/un/editrans/dgdb/
dgscomm.html. This site may also be accessed through RSPA's Hazardous 
Materials Safety Homepage at http://hazmat.dot.gov/intstandards.htm.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on May 5, 1988.
Robert A. McGuire,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 98-12345 Filed 5-8-98; 8:45 am]
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