[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 90 (Monday, May 11, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25896-25897]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-12345]
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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 Programs 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 fifteenth session of the United Nation's Sub-Committee of Experts
on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (UNSCOE) to be held June 29 through
July 10, 1998 in Geneva, Switzerland.
DATES: June 18, 1998, 9:30 AM-1:00 PM; July 16, 1988, 9:30 AM-1:00 PM.
ADDRESSES: Both meetings will be held in room 6244, Nassif Building,
400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 20590.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Frist 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 fifteenth session of the UNSCOE and to
discuss U.S. positions on UNSCOE 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 Twentieth Session of the Committee of
Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods which is scheduled for
December 7-18, 1998 in Geneva, Switzerland. Topics to be covered during
the public meeting include matters related to restructuring the UN
Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods into a model rule
including development of packing instructions prescribed the types of
packagings for specific materials, international harmonization of
classification criteria and labeling, review of intermodal portable
tank requirements including requirements for multi-element gas
containers, review of the requirements applicable to small quantities
of hazardous materials in
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transport (limited quantities), classification of individual
substances, requirements for toxic-by-inhalation substances and
requirements applicable to the classification and transportation of
explosives.
The public is invited to attend without prior notification.
Documents
Copies of documents submitted to the fifteenth session of the
UNSCOE 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/intstandards.htm.
Issued in Washington, DC, on May 5, 1988.
Robert A. McGuire,
Deputy Associate Administrator for Hazardous Materials Safety.
[FR Doc. 98-12345 Filed 5-8-98; 8:45 am]
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