[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 166 (Monday, August 29, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 52842-52843]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-18514]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration
[Docket No. PHMSA-2022-0043; Notice No. 2022-06]
Hazardous Materials: Request for Information on Electronic Hazard
Communication Alternatives; Extension of Comment Period
AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA),
Department of Transportation (DOT).
ACTION: Request for information; extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: On July 11, 2022, PHMSA announced a request for information
seeking input on the potential use of electronic communication as an
alternative to current, physical documentation requirements for hazard
communication. In this notice, PHMSA is extending the comment period
from September 9, 2022, until October 24, 2022.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
October 24, 2022. Comments received after that date will be considered
to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments identified by the Docket Number
PHMSA-2022-0043 by any of the following methods:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: https://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
Mail: Docket Management System; U.S. Department of
Transportation, West Building, Ground Floor, Room W12-140, Routing
Symbol M-30, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590.
Hand Delivery: Docket Management System; Room W12-140 on
the ground floor of the West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except Federal holidays.
Instructions: All submissions must include the agency name and
Docket Number (PHMSA-2022-0043) for this notice. To avoid duplication,
please use only one of these four methods. All comments received will
be posted without change to the Federal Docket Management System (FDMS)
and will include any personal information you provide.
Docket: For access to the dockets to read background documents or
comments received, go to https://www.regulations.gov or DOT's Docket
Operations Office (see ADDRESSES).
Privacy Act: In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 553(c), DOT solicits
comments from the public. DOT posts these comments, without edit,
including any personal information the commenter provides, to http://www.regulations.gov, as described in the system of records notice (DOT/
ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at https://www.dot.gov/privacy.
Confidential Business Information (CBI): CBI is commercial or
financial information that is both customarily and actually treated as
private by its owner. Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) (5
U.S.C. 552), CBI is exempt from public disclosure. If your comments
responsive to this notice contain commercial or financial information
that is customarily treated as private, that you actually treat as
private, and that is relevant or responsive to this notice, it is
important that you clearly designate the submitted comments as CBI.
Please mark each page of your submission containing CBI as ``PROPIN.''
PHMSA will treat such marked submissions as confidential under FOIA.
Submissions containing CBI should be sent to Eamonn Patrick, Standards
and Rulemaking Division,
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(202) 366-8553, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration,
U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE,
Washington, DC 20590-0001. PHMSA will place any commentary not
specifically designated as CBI into the public docket for this notice.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eamonn Patrick, Standards and
Rulemaking Division, (202) 366-8553, Pipeline and Hazardous Materials
Safety Administration, U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 New
Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC 20590-0001.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PHMSA recently published a notice requesting
information \1\ on the subject of electronic hazard communication. The
notice informed the public that the agency is considering revisions to
the Hazardous Materials Regulations and requested information to
support development of performance-based standards for electronic
communication alternatives to the existing physical, paper-based hazard
communication requirements.\2\ PHMSA received a request to extend the
comment period to allow for additional time for interested persons to
respond more fully to the questions presented in the notice. In
response to that request, PHMSA is granting the request for an
extension and is extending the comment period of the notice by forty-
five (45) days, until October 24, 2022. This extension provides the
public additional time to provide extensive comments on the request for
information.
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\1\ 87 FR 41179 (Jul. 11, 2022).
\2\ See https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2022-07-11/pdf/2022-14655.pdf.
Signed in Washington, DC, on August 23, 2022, under authority
delegated in 49 CFR 1.97.
William S. Schoonover,
Associate Administrator of Hazardous Materials Safety, Pipeline and
Hazardous Materials Safety Administration.
[FR Doc. 2022-18514 Filed 8-26-22; 8:45 am]
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