[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 228 (Friday, November 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Page 65634]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-31600]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research and Special Programs Administration
International Standards on the Transport of Dangerous Goods;
Public Meetings
AGENCY: Research and Special Administration (RSPA), Department of
Transportation.
ACTION: Notice of public meetings.
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SUMMARY: This notice is to advise interested persons that RSPA will
conduct public meetings in preparation for and to report the results of
the twentieth session of the United Nation's Committee of Experts on
the Transport of Dangerous Goods (COE) to be held December 7-16, 1998
in Geneva, Switzerland.
DATES: December 3, 1998, 9:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.; January 12, 1999, 9:30
a.m.-1:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting on December 3, 1998 will be held in room 2230-
2232, Nassif Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.
The meeting on January 12, 1998 will be held in room 8236-8240, Nassif
Building, 400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Frits Wybenga, International Standards
Coordinator, Office of Hazardous Materials Safety, Department of
Transportation, Washington, DC 20590; (202) 366-0656.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The primary purpose of the first meeting
will be to prepare for the twentieth session of the COE and to discuss
U.S. positions on COE proposals. The primary purpose of the second
meeting will be to provide a briefing on the outcome of the session and
to prepare for the sixteenth session of the Sub-Committee of Experts on
the Transport of Dangerous Goods which is scheduled for July 5-16, 1999
in Geneva, Switzerland. Optics to be covered during the public meetings
include matters related to restructuring the UN Recommendations on the
Transport of Dangerous Goods into a model rule including development of
packing instructions prescribing the types of packagings for specific
materials, international harmonization of classification criteria and
labeling, review of intermodal portable tank requirements, review of
the requirements applicable to small quantities of hazardous materials
in transport (limited quantities), classification of individual
substances, primary and subsidiary labeling requirements, restructuring
the COE to address future global harmonization of classification
criteria and labeling requirements and the future work program for the
COE during its 1999-2000 biennium.
The public is invited to attend without prior notification.
Documents
Copies of documents submitted to the twentieth session of the COE
meeting may be obtained from the RSPA Dockets Division (202-366-5046)
or by downloading them from the United Nations Transport Division's web
site at http://www.itu.int/itudoc/un/editrans/dgdb/dgscomm.html. This
site may also be accessed through RSPA's Hazardous Materials Safety
Homepage at http://hazmat.dot.gov/uncomtdg.htm. A summary of the papers
and the US positions will be provided at the meetings.
Issued in Washington, DC, on November 20, 1998.
Alan I. Roberts,
Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 98-31600 Filed 11-25-98; 8:45 am]
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