[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 34 (Wednesday, February 20, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Page 7668]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4223]


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CHEMICAL SAFETY AND HAZARD INVESTIGATION BOARD


Sunshine Act Meeting

    The United States Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board 
announces that it will convene a Public Meeting beginning at 10:00 a.m. 
local time on February 27, 2002, at 2175 K Street, Suite 400 Conference 
Room. Topics will include:

Performance Goal #1: Produce Timely, High Quality Investigation 
Reports, Recommendations, and Other Technical Reports

    1. Initiation of CSB's investigation into the January 16 fatal 
toxic gas release that occurred at the Georgia-Pacific Corporation's 
Naheola Mill.
    2. Update on CSB investigation into the July 17, 2001 catastrophic 
failure of a storage tank containing spent sulfuric acid at Motiva 
Enterprise's Delaware City (Del.) refinery.
    3. Update on CSB investigation into a fatal explosion at the BP 
Amoco Polymers plant in Augusta, Georgia on March 13, 2001, that killed 
three workers.
    4. Results of the CSB investigation into the fatal incident that 
occurred on February 2, 2001, at the Bethlehem Steel Burns Harbor Mill 
in Chesterton, Indiana that killed two workers and injured four others.
    5. CSB case study of a destructive explosion that occurred at the 
plant of Concept Sciences Inc., near Allentown, PA, on February 19, 
1999.
    6. Update on reactive chemical hazard investigation.

Performance Goal #2: Develop Effective Outreach and Partnerships 
With Stakeholders

    7. Creation of CSB's Office of Prevention, Outreach, and Policy 
(OPOP).
    8. CSB/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) 
Spring Workshop.
    9. Participation in American Institute for Chemical Engineers' 
(AIChE) Center for Chemical Process Safety (CCPS) Activities.

Performance Goal #3: Implement a System for Chemical Accident Data 
Collection and Analysis That Can Be Used to Measure Prevention 
Effectiveness

    10. CSB Data initiatives.

Enabling Goal: Enhance Management of CSB and Establish a Diverse, 
Highly Skilled, Productive Workforce

    11. Chief Operating Officer position filling process.
    12. Tentative date for next Board meeting.
    The meeting will be open to the public. Please notify CSB if a 
translator or interpreter is needed, 10 business days prior to the 
public meeting. For more information, please contact the Chemical 
Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's Office of Congressional and 
Public Affairs, (202)-261-7600, or visit our Web site at: www.csb.gov.

Christopher W. Warner,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 02-4223 Filed 2-15-02; 3:54 pm]
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