Meeting of the Voluntary Information-Sharing System Working Group
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Meeting Details and Agenda
The VIS Working Group agenda will include briefings on topics such as mandate requirements, existing integrity management regulations, data types and tools, ILI repair methods, geographic information system pipeline data and operator implementation, potential subcommittee needs, past integrity management lessons learned, examples of existing information-sharing systems, safety management systems, subcommittee needs, and the potential need for additional expertise with committee membership. As part of committee work, the committee will ultimately provide recommendations to the Secretary as required and specifically outlined in section 10 of Public Law 114-183:
(a) The need for, and the identification of, a system to ensure that dig verification data are shared with in-line inspection operators to the extent consistent with the need to maintain proprietary and security-sensitive data in a confidential manner to improve pipeline safety and inspection technology;
(b) Ways to encourage the exchange of pipeline inspection information and the development of advanced pipeline inspection technologies and enhanced risk analysis;
(c) Opportunities to share data, including dig verification data between operators of pipeline facilities and in-line inspector vendors to expand knowledge of the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of in-line inspection technology and methodologies;
(d) Options to create a secure system that protects proprietary data while encouraging the exchange of pipeline inspection information and the development of advanced pipeline inspection technologies and enhanced risk analysis;
(e) Means and best practices for the protection of safety- and security-sensitive information and proprietary information; and
(f) Regulatory, funding, and legal barriers to sharing the information described in paragraphs (a) through (d).
The Secretary will publish the VIS Working Group's recommendations on a publicly available Department of Transportation website. The VIS Working Group will fulfill its purpose once its recommendations are published online.
The agenda will be published on this PHMSA meeting page, once it is finalized.
Hotel & Reservations
The meeting notice will soon be published in the Federal Register announcing the Voluntary Information–Sharing Working Group (VIS WG) Committee meeting scheduled for June 29 and 30, 2017. The meeting will be held at the Hilton Arlington.
Hotel Name: Hilton Arlington
Hotel Address: 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, Virginia 22203
Phone Number: 703-528-6000
The Hilton reservation room block is closed.
Additional Information
The meeting will not be web cast; however, any documents presented, will be available on the meeting website and posted on the E-Gov website: http://www.regulations.gov under docket number PHMSA-2016-0128 within 30 days following the meeting.
Public Participation
This meeting will be open to the public. Members of the public who wish to attend in person are asked to register at this web page now, in order to facilitate entry and guarantee seating. Members of the public who attend in person will also be provided an opportunity to make a statement during the meeting.
Written Comments
Persons who wish to submit written comments on the meeting may be submitted to the docket in the following ways:
E-Gov Web site: http:// www.regulations.gov. This site allows the public to enter 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 the DOT West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except on Federal holidays.
Instructions: Identify the docket number PHMSA–2016–0128 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 view the Privacy Notice at 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 the DOT West Building, 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., Washington, DC, between 9:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., 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– 2016-0128.'' The Docket Clerk will date stamp the postcard prior to returning it to you via the U.S. mail.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For information about the meeting, contact Cheryl Whetsel by phone at 202-366-4431 or by e-mail at cheryl.whetsel @ dot.gov.