[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 131 (Monday, July 10, 1995)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 35549]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-16811]
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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Research and Special Programs Administration
49 CFR Part 195
[Docket PS-140, Notice 2]
RIN 2137-AC34
Areas Unusually Sensitive to Environmental Damage
AGENCY: Research and Special Programs Administration (RSPA), DOT.
ACTION: Extension of comment period.
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SUMMARY: This notice extends the comment period for the public workshop
notice on areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage which RSPA
published May 26, 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments by August 25,
1995.
ADDRESSES: Written comments must be submitted in duplicate and mailed
or hand delivered to the Dockets Unit, Room 8421, U.S. Department of
Transportation, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590-0001.
Please refer to the docket and notice numbers stated in the heading of
this notice. All comments and materials cited in this document will be
available for inspection and copying in Room 8421 between 8:30 a.m. and
4:30 p.m. each business day. Non-federal employee visitors are admitted
into the DOT headquarters building through the southwest entrance at
Seventh and E Streets, SW.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Christina Sames, (202) 366-4561, about
this document, or the Dockets Unit, (202) 366-5046, for copies of this
document or other materials in the docket.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 15 and 16, 1995, RSPA held a public
workshop on unusually sensitive environmental areas. The workshop's
purpose was to openly discuss the criteria being considered by RSPA to
determine areas unusually sensitive to environmental damage from a
hazardous liquid pipeline release. The criteria are needed to carry out
statutory requirements. RSPA requested that persons unable to attend
the workshop submit written comments by June 26, 1995.
The American Petroleum Institute (API) sent a letter to the docket
requesting a 60 day extension be granted for comment to the notice
announcing the public workshop on areas unusually sensitive to
environmental damage (60 FR 27948). API stated that an extension was
necessary to allow its members time to review the information in the
notice, to evaluate the potential value of the approach, and to prepare
comments for RSPA's consideration.
RSPA has decided the 60 day extension to the public comment period
is reasonable to allow API and others to evaluate and respond to the
information presented in the public workshop notice. The comment period
will therefore be extended to close on August 25, 1995.
Authority: 49 U.S.C. 60102, 60108, 60109; 49 CFR 1.53 and
Appendix A to part 106.
Issued in Washington, DC on July 3, 1995.
Cesar De Leon,
Acting Associate Administrator for Pipeline Safety.
[FR Doc. 95-16811 Filed 7-7-95; 8:45 am]
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