PHMSA-09-17

PHMSA to Hold Public Meeting of the Voluntary Information-Sharing System Working Group. The U.S. Department of Transportation's (DOT) Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) announced today it will hold a public meeting of the recently created Voluntary Information-Sharing System (VIS) Working Group on June 29 and 30, 2017 in Arlington, Virginia to continue the discussion on the need for, and identification of, a voluntary information-sharing system for pipeline owners and operators. The meeting will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. EDT on June 29, 2017, and 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on June 30, 2017 at the Hilton Arlington, 950 North Stafford Street, Arlington, VA 22203. See PHMSA's VIS Working Group page and the meeting registration page for additional details. Contact for media: Mark Sanborn 202-366-4831

The mission of the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration is to protect people and the environment by advancing the safe transportation of energy and other hazardous materials that are essential to our daily lives. PHMSA develops and enforces regulations for the safe operation of the nation's 2.7 million- mile pipeline transportation system and the nearly 1 million daily shipments of hazardous materials by land, sea, and air. Please visit http://phmsa.dot.gov or https://twitter.com/PHMSA_DOT for more information.