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The Department of Transportation is exploring the need to adopt additional regulations for the transportation modes it regulates to prevent employees from performing sensitive safety- and security-related functions while under the influence of alcohol. This ANPRM solicits public comment on the...
OPS is proposing to make changes in the procedures and policy by which it addresses deficiencies in procedures and plans. As proposed, OPS would move to part 190 the substance of current § 195.402(b), relating to the process for amending an operator's procedures for conducting normal operations...
The Department of Transportation is adopting a final rule concerning testing procedures applicable to drug testing programs the Department requires in six transportation industries. The final rule incorporates modifications in response to comments on the Department's November 21, 1988, interim...
Correction In proposed rule document 89-28793 beginning on page 50780 in the issue of Monday, December 11, 1989, make the following correction: On page 50780, in the second column, under DATES, in the third line, "March 12,1989" should read "March 12, 1990".
This action responds to petitions for reconsideration, of the final rule, published in the Federal Register on November 21, 1988 (53 FR 47084), requiring operators of pipeline facilities for the transportation of natural gas or hazardous liquids and operators of liquefied natural gas facilities...
Correction
In rule document 88-26610, beginning on page 47084 in the issue of Monday, November 21, 1988, make the following correction: § 199.17 (Corrected] On page 47098, in the second column, in paragraph (b) of § 199.17, the second sentence should read "The employee may specify...
This notice gives the disposition of 18 proposals for new or amended standards for the safety of gas or hazardous liquid pipelines put forth in a February 1987 advance notice of proposed rulemaking. Many of the proposals were affected by the Pipeline Safety Reauthorization Act of 1988 and are...
Congress has directed the Secretary of Transportation to issue regulations that require each State to adopt or seek to adopt a one-call damage prevention program under State law as a condition to receiving a full grant-in-aid for the State's pipeline safety compliance program. The one-call...
This notice proposes to require that gas compressor buildings with 50 percent or more of wall area enclosed be equipped with gas detection and alarm systems. The history of reported incidents at compressor stations indicates a potential for leaking gas to accumulate undetected inside certain...
This final rule sets forth regulations that require each State to adopt or seek to adopt a one-call damage prevention program as a condition to receiving a full grant-in-aid for the State's pipeline safety compliance program. The final rule implements section 303(a) of the Pipeline Safety...