[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 85 (Tuesday, May 4, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23897-23898]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-11107]


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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 sixteenth session of the United Nation's Sub-Committee of Experts 
on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE) to be held July 5 through 
July 16, 1999 in Geneva, Switzerland.

DATES: June 24, 1999, 10:00 AM-1:00 PM; July 20, 1999, 10:00 AM-1:00 
PM.

ADDRESSES: Both meetings will be held in room 6332-36, Nassif Building, 
400 Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC 20590.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frits Wybenga, International Standards Coordinator, Office of Hazardous 
Materials Safety, or Bob Richard, Assistant 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 sixteenth 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 seventeenth session of the UNSCOE and to 
discuss U.S. positions on UNSCOEwhich is scheduled for December 6-17, 
1999 in Geneva, Switzerland. Topics to be covered during the public 
meeting include: (1) Global harmonization of classification criteria, 
(2) Reformatting the UN Recommendations into a model rule, (3) Criteria 
for Environmentally Hazardous Substances, (4) Intermodal portable tank 
requirements, (5) Requirements applicable to small quantities of 
hazardous materials in transport (limited quantities), (6) Harmonized 
requirements for compressed gas cylinders, (7) Classification of 
individual substances, (8) Requirements for bulk and non-bulk 
packagings used to transport hazardous materials, (9) Requirements for 
Toxic by Inhalation (TIH) substances, (10) Hazard communication 
requirements including harmonized shipping papers, (11)

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Segregation in freight containers and (12) Requirements for infectious 
substances.
    The public is invited to attend without prior notification.

Documents

    Copies of documents submitted to the sixteenth session of the 
UNSCOE meeting may be obtained by downloading them from the United 
Nations Transport Division's web site at http://www.unece.org/trans/
main/dgdb/dgsubc/dgscomm.html. Information concerning UN dangerous 
goods meetings including agendas can be downloaded at http://
www.unece.org/trans/danger/meetings.htm#ST/SG. These sites may also be 
accessed through RSPA's Hazardous Materials Safety Homepage at http://
hazmat.dot.gov/intstandards.htm.

    Issued in Washington, DC, on April 28, 1999.
Robert A. McGuire,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 99-11107 Filed 5-3-99; 8:45 am]
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