[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 87 (Wednesday, May 7, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19369-19370]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-07918]


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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration

[Docket No. PHMSA-2025-0012]


Pipeline Safety: Information Collection Activities

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA), 
DOT.

ACTION: Notice and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public 
Law 104-13, PHMSA invites public comments on PHMSA's intent to request 
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) approval to renew two information 
collection requests that are scheduled to expire this year. PHMSA has 
reviewed each information collection and considers them vital to 
maintaining pipeline safety. As such, PHMSA will request renewal from 
OMB, without change, for the information collections.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before 
July 7, 2025.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be submitted in the following ways:
    E-Gov Website: http://www.regulations.gov. This site allows the 
public to submit comments on any Federal Register notice issued by any 
agency.
    Fax: 1-202-493-2251.
    Mail: Docket Management Facility; U.S. Department of Transportation 
(DOT), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, West Building, Room W12-140, 
Washington, DC 20590-0001.
    Hand Delivery: Room W12-140 on the ground level of DOT, West 
Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. 
and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays.
    Instructions: Identify the docket number, PHMSA-2025-0012, at the 
beginning of your comments. Note that all comments received will be 
posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any 
personal information provided. You should know that anyone is able to 
search the electronic form of all comments received into any of our 
dockets by the name of the individual submitting the comment (or 
signing the comment, if submitted on behalf of an association, 
business, labor union, etc.). Therefore, you may want to review DOT's 
complete Privacy Act Statement in the Federal Register published on 
April 11, 2000, (65 FR 19477) or visit http://www.regulations.gov 
before submitting any such comments.
    Docket: For access to the docket or to read background documents or 
comments, go to http://www.regulations.gov at any time or to Room W12-
140 on the ground level of DOT, West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue 
SE, Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. ET, Monday through 
Friday, except Federal holidays. If you wish to receive confirmation of 
receipt of your written comments, please include a self-addressed, 
stamped postcard with the following statement: ``Comments on: PHMSA-
2025-0012.'' The Docket Clerk will date stamp the postcard prior to 
returning it to you via the U.S. mail. Please note that due to delays 
in the delivery of U.S. mail to Federal offices in Washington, DC, we 
recommend that persons consider an alternative method (internet, fax, 
or professional delivery service) of submitting comments to the docket 
and ensuring their timely receipt at DOT.
    Privacy Act Statement: DOT may solicit comments from the public 
regarding certain general notices. DOT posts these comments, without 
edit, including any personal information the commenter provides, to 
www.regulations.gov, as described in the system of records notice (DOT/
ALL-14 FDMS), which can be reviewed at www.dot.gov/privacy.
    Confidential Business Information: Confidential Business 
Information (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. Pursuant to 49 CFR 190.343, you may ask 
PHMSA to give confidential treatment to information you give to the 
Agency by taking the following steps: (1) mark each page of the 
original document submission containing CBI as ``Confidential''; (2) 
send PHMSA, along with the original document, a second copy of the 
original document with the CBI deleted; and (3) explain why the 
information you are submitting is CBI. Unless you are notified 
otherwise, PHMSA will treat such marked submissions as confidential 
under the FOIA, and they will not be placed in the public docket of 
this notice.

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Submissions containing CBI should be sent to Angela Hill, DOT, PHMSA, 
1200 New Jersey Avenue SE, PHP-30, Washington, DC 20590-0001. Any 
commentary PHMSA receives that is not specifically designated as CBI 
will be placed in the public docket for this matter.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Angela Hill by telephone at 202-366-
1246 or by email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title 5, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 
section 1320.8(d), requires PHMSA to provide interested members of the 
public and affected agencies the opportunity to comment on information 
collection and recordkeeping requests before they are submitted to OMB 
for approval. This notice identifies two information collection 
requests that PHMSA will submit to OMB for renewal and requests comment 
from interested parties.
    The following information is provided for each information 
collection request: (1) Title of the information collection; (2) OMB 
control number; (3) Current expiration date; (4) Type of request; (5) 
Abstract of the information collection activity; (6) Description of 
affected public; (7) Estimate of total annual reporting and 
recordkeeping burden; and (8) Frequency of collection.
    PHMSA will request a three-year term of approval for these 
information collection activities. PHMSA requests comments on the 
following information:
    1. Title: ``Rupture Mitigation Valve Recordkeeping Requirements''.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0637.
    Current Expiration Date: 11/30/2025.
    Abstract: Operators who have experienced a rupture or rupture-
mitigation valve shut-off are required to complete a post-incident 
review. The post-incident summary, all investigation and analysis 
documents used to prepare it, and records of lessons learned must be 
kept for the life of the pipeline.
    Operators must also develop written rupture identification 
procedures to evaluate and identify whether a notification of potential 
rupture is an actual rupture event or non-rupture event as soon as 
practicable. These procedures must, at a minimum, specify the sources 
of information, operational factors, and other criteria that operator 
personnel use to evaluate a notification of potential rupture. 
Operators are also required to maintain certain records if they 
experience certain circumstances involving their rupture-mitigation 
valve operations.
    Affected Public: Operators of PHMSA-regulated pipelines.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Total Annual Responses: 4,213.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 85,724.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    2. Title: ``Rupture Mitigation Valve Notification Requirements''.
    OMB Control Number: 2137-0638.
    Current Expiration Date: 11/30/2025.
    Abstract: 49 CFR 192.634 and 49 CFR 195.418 require operators who 
elect to use alternative equivalent technology to notify the Office of 
Pipeline Safety at least 90 days in advance of use. An operator 
choosing this option must include a technical and safety evaluation, 
including design, construction, and operating procedures for the 
alternative equivalent technology with the notification.
    Operators must notify PHMSA if a rupture-mitigation valve cannot be 
made operational within 14 days of installation. Operators must also 
notify PHMSA if a valve cannot be repaired or replaced within 12 
months.
    An operator may seek exemption from certain regulatory requirements 
by notifying PHMSA in certain instances. An operator may plan to leave 
a rupture-mitigation valve open for more than 30 minutes following a 
rupture identification if the operator demonstrates to PHMSA, that 
closing a rupture mitigation valve, or alternative equivalent 
technology, would be detrimental to public safety. Likewise, for 
hazardous liquid pipeline segments in a non-high consequence area (HCA) 
or a non-HCA could-affect segment, an operator may request exemption 
from certain requirements if it can demonstrate to PHMSA that 
installing an otherwise-required rupture-mitigation valve, or 
alternative equivalent technology, would be economically, technically, 
or operationally infeasible.
    Affected Public: Operators of PHMSA-regulated pipelines.
    Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping Burden:
    Total Annual Responses: 598.
    Total Annual Burden Hours: 2,378.
    Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
    Comments are invited on:
    (a) The need for the renewal and revision of these collections of 
information for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency, 
including whether the information will have practical utility;
    (b) The accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of the 
proposed collection of information, including the validity of the 
methodology and assumptions used;
    (c) Ways to enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the 
information to be collected; and
    (d) Ways to minimize the burden of the collection of information on 
those who are to respond, including the use of appropriate automated, 
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques.
    Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995; 44 U.S.C. Chapter 
35, as amended; and 49 CFR 1.48.

    Issued in Washington, DC, under authority delegated in 49 CFR 
1.97.
John A. Gale,
Director, Standards and Rulemaking Division.
[FR Doc. 2025-07918 Filed 5-6-25; 8:45 am]
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